BOXING DAY SALE!!!!

Boxing day is a nice day off work for most people. So how to spend that well-earned free time? Go relax shopping!!! As if the Christmas stress built up the weeks before Christmas hasn’t been enough yet, Boxing Day is used for the biggest sale of the year. Almost all stores participate in it, offering discounts of up to 50%, but ONLY TODAY!! So people, by all means spend your nice day off rushing through stores! The more you buy, the more you pay save!

Boxing Day sale is a real workout for the mind as well as for the body. To not miss any deals, you have to visit as many stores as possible as early as possible, because stocks are limited. Heaven forbid some other scumbag may just have taken the last item of the equipment you wanted to get. If you want to make a major purchase you only have a short time to decide, because tomorrow the deal will be gone forever. There’s money enough in the bank to pay for it all too: just before Christmas many people here receive a few extra weeks of salary in advance. The fact that this money is also needed to buy food in January is conveniently being forgotten by many…

Boxing Day received its name because in the early days poor people brought boxes to the doors of the rich to collect the Christmas dinner leftovers. In NZ the name is as applicable today as it was then… on no other day as many boxes are being dragged out of stores as on this day.

Since we are moving into a new house on January 4, we need a fridge and a washing machine anyway. Therefore we happily took part in the shopping frenzy. Boy was it crowded. No parking space in sight (again…). The salesperson-client-ratio was about 1:2, and each and every one of the salespersons asked us if we were being served… sigh :-) Oh well, in the end we scored a pretty good deal, and happy we left the store. Without boxes even, because the stuff will be delivered at our door.

Outrageous deals to be had or not, this was once and never again. The next time we will have a nice and QUIET Boxing Day. We will, won’t we? Well, as long as we don’t miss any good deals, we might… ;-)