To have no idea what people do on Boxing Day?

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For the first time, ever, I have no Boxing Day plans. Boxing Day was always seeing my grandparents (now they have died) and in the last 20 years, seeing my inlaws. Sadly they have both recently passed away.
I have two kids 8 and 12, and no idea what people do on Boxing Day! Any ideas gratefully received.

I like to get up before Dh and Dd and sit with a coffee and start whichever book my mum buys me
Dh and Dd make their Boxing Day pie which is all the leftovers from Christmas Day but in a pie it’s is our favourite part of Christmas and is so tasty
We always go the see Dh’s dad and stepmum in the evening to swap gifts and have buffet food
We watch tv / nap / take the dog for a good walk

With all our older family gone, Boxing day is just chill out day.

Late up, breakfast of bubble & squeak, nice long walk with Ddogs, slob out & snooze in front of the fire.
Bliss!

This sounds just perfect. Wish i lived by the sea!

I love Boxing Day, just a total decompress of the mental previous few weeks

this is a lovely way of putting it, we watch dvds that the children get for Christmas, eat leftovers, buffet food and sweets, play all the games they got

mine are adult and this year there are at least 13 games 😳

more recently dh dad who is by himself comes round to sit in our garden pub with us all for a few hours.

We always went to the panto on boxing day

My lovely late MIL was like that too. She always cooked a massive Christmas dinner. One year we (her children and their partners) saw that she had bought a smaller than usual Christmas turkey and expressed our relief that we should be able to manage most of it.

Then she showed us the identical bird she planned to cook the next day! 😂

Eat eat eat, play games, watch stuff, don't get dressed 😍

Watch the football, will probably go for brunch. I might suggest the cinema to DS. My family will go to football and we are seeing them on Xmas Day, in laws are abroad for the whole two weeks so no other family to see.

I find it can feel a bit flat after Xmas Eve/Xmas Day so I like to have a plan to do something even if it’s to go for a walk and a coffee.

spend about 6 hours doing a car journey that normally takes 4

Nothing. Hang around the house recovering from the hangover. I didn't know people actually went anywhere on Boxing Day? I could never leave the house being too hungover. Its just a day for sleeping as late as you want (often mid-morning to lunchtime) and just watching tv hanging around the house. Maybe hair of the dog... Nibblies, leftovers. Never thought anyone did anything on Boxing Day.

Go and watch football

Same as any weekend Sunday.

Housework!

Walk the dogs (now sadly only one dog) on the beach. Everyone is very jolly and there is a tradition of a Xmas tree decorated with flotsam and jetsam standing in the dunes. Might swim if it’s not raining.

Then all the leftovers and Xmas telly.

I hope you make some lovely new traditions, OP.

A friend goes to the races.
My son is going to a football match.
I am going to chill out and eat leftovers.

For years I worked. Now I am semi retired.

Go for a walk, swim and spa at my gym. If I am away I may walk up a mountain.

I only ever do Xmas day traditions. It is just another day after all.

This really - it’s the day you spend enjoying each other, setting up presents, leisurely watching family movies and decompressing after all the build up to christmas. Our ILs will be here as they travel down to stay, but it’s still a mellow day and the day I enjoy most, really.

Amazed at the amount of people who actually like to go for a walk. With me if I have to go anywhere more than half a km from my house I take the car. Never really got why people want to walk or what they get out of it. I think I'd rather clean the toilet to be honest.

I'll be out playing melodeon for Morris dancers.

The weeks before Christmas Day are so busy and then the day it’s self is also busy. We use Boxing Day for down time. Sometimes a walk, the kids will sleep in in the morning, might walk to town a look at sale bargains and then have a drink in the pub or get some lunch out. Eat leftovers. So nice because you can do anything you want, there is no expected format.

We relax! Christmas Day is quite hectic in the sense there's the presents to open and the meal takes a lot of prep (and a long time to eat and a long time to clear up). Boxing Day is my favourite as it's the first day of proper relaxation after the full on hectic Christmas period (all the prep, the present buying and wrapping, the cards, the cooking and baking, fitting in additional socialising lovely as it is, which all comes at the busiest time of the year for me at work). So to me Boxing Day is completely blissful - get up whenever we want, laze around, drink coffee in bed reading a good book (usually get a new book for Christmas), go for a walk, watch Christmas TV or a film, and all the lovely leftovers to eat without needing to prepare much or do any cooking.

Completely this.

DH often goes out to the football ( the eldest DC will go too this year) other than that its a chill out day playing with the dcs Xmas gifts and usually involves a trip to the park dc are 5 and 8. Lunch is usually something like baguette and crackers with cheese pate and leftover meats if we've done xmas dinner, tea is always a buffet but sometimes we host my in-laws (parents plus sister and kids) and sometimes sister in law hosts.
DH and I go out on the evening with a group of friends some of which we only see on boxing Day its such a long standing tradition that there's not even any pre planning, we all just turn up around 730/8

We leave presents from friends/extended family u til Boxing Day. So it’s another round of presents and then usually a games and film day.
this year we are doing a second Christmas lunch with my FIL as he didn’t want to do breakfast on Christmas Day. Then my family are joining for games in the evening

Boxing Day is now the most relaxing day, read the book(s) I was given, graze the leftovers and sip nice wine (Cremant) through the day.

Ice skating, hot chocolate and café lunch, home to play with Christmas presents, board games, film and snacky snacks.