On the theme of boxes....

[Cherrysoup]

My mum always says that a present will be 'part of your Christmas box'. I don't think she ever got her presents put together in a box. She's northern: is it a northern expression? I've never heard anyone else use it, either up north or down south. Does anyone else say it? It's not recent, she's always said it.

I'm a Northerner and it was always said by neighbours etc.

I heard it for the first time in Norfolk nearly 20 years ago. Not phrase I'd heard in the East Midlands.

Northern here, my older relatives would say Christmas Box to mean present. Nothing to do with putting things in a box I don't think.

Much further north here (very north Scotland) and my family say it - but I don't know if it is common here or if it is due to my mum staying in the north of England for a few years a long time ago.

Christmas box was traditionally from master to servant day after Christmas hence Boxing Day

My Grandmother used to say it, she was from Sussex but it wasn't a regional thing.

She was from the Victorian era which is when giving a box of gifts started for New Year. it then became a Christmas tradition for the working class to collect a box of gifts given by the richer people.

My Nan says it. She's from Yorkshire