During the holidays, I do try and take a few days to wind down. Wine and beer glasses are enjoyed, bellies are full, and lounging and laughing in every home I’m welcomed into are full on. It’s very, very nice. But it’s a new day: Hello Boxing Day. 

Because I come from a blended (attempting to be modern-ish) family come the 26th I’m still Christmas-ing. There’s still family and friends and festivities to ensure I get to see everyone I can. The commercial awesomeness of Boxing Day is a bit foreign to me. I hate to miss out on a retail holiday so I find comfort in pretending and making up a version of what I suspect it might be.

Do you get out your gloves? Is it time to get into the ropes and fight? Or perhaps just workout?

Do you pop the corn, get on the couch, and watch the Rocky franchise start to finish? Adrianne

Do you put unwanted items in boxes? Release your Marie Kondo - why don’t you - and start getting rid of stuff you’re no longer into. That would make room for the deals and head out shopping. Is that what the boxes are for?

Perhaps you use the left-over boxes from your opened gifts and make costumes or forts or cars or new age moon shoes?

Or do you box up your pent-up feelings from being with your family, including that one prickly person, for six days straight? 

Hey, I don’t know what people actually do on Boxing Day. That said, for the record, I’d love to do all of these. Except dodging the creepy aunt or uncle or whomever.

Enjoy your day and the rest of the holidays and I’ll see you, fashion friends, in the new year