Do you go shopping in these days before Christmas with your husband and all your kids?

[ToomanyMilesAway]

I ask out of curiosity after a trip into John Lewis yesterday. Why would you do this? Men standing about blocking aisles with prams 🤷‍♀️ crying children? Why don't you leave him at home with the kids and you get time alone at the shops? Is it to do with that he has to play his part in all the organisation etc? Genuine question.

Yanbu

I’m a woman on a mission. I shop alone and I shop fast. Nobody is coming along to slow me down or derail my plan of attack.

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This

I'm with you

No, one of us wouldn't come out alive

Why the rush?

It’s enjoyable if you allow it to be. Our children were always involved in what we bought and had an input. I can’t understand the charging in and grabbing.

Maybe they'd been out somewhere as a family and decided to buy something while they were out? It's a free country and people can do what they please for the most part even if it inconveniences you.

Queuing to get to the potatoes in Waitrose this afternoon wasn’t fun. Ditto the gammon, the cheese, the beers, the Pringles…

Whatever it was, it was not enjoyable and it took me nearly two hours to pick up my last minute bits.

For the people who jumped and accused me of it interfering with my shopping - did I say that? No - I asked why you do this when you look like you are having a horrible time.

I said this on a thread earlier, it made absolutely no sense to me whole families trying to navigate the supermarket while hundreds of people were battling the big food shops yesterday.

i think if your out on the high street or in a shopping centre just out to browse, enjoy a bit of atmosphere or maybe last minute or extra purchases then that’s different, but cramming the whole family in the supermarket or shops when it’s heaving is different.

We are a family who love to shop together but there was no way I was negotiating the supermarkets with kids at this time of year. My DH took the DCs to clip and clim while I shopped and he picked me up afterwards.