Do you conform to conventional life ?

[Billyoceanscar]

Working 9-5
Sunday roasts
Annual holiday
Saturday night tv
3 meals a day

I'm really interested to hear about people who do life differently

As soon as I left home at 15 most convention was left behind.
Happily unconventional

None except Sunday roast. I love Sunday roast.

Working 9-5. -sort of , technically flex but generally work this
Sunday roasts - no, just now and again
Annual holiday - no
Saturday night tv / definitely not!
3 meals a day - sometimes just two - brunch and dinner, sometimes more

Saturday night tv I mean the ant & dec/BGT type of family shows.i cannot stand them or Any of the similar regular sat night tv shows. Sounds like most people on this thread agree! Who is watching them and how are they getting lots of ratings still ??? (I realise this thread is not the entire population of the UK lol)

Working 9-5
I would love to work so few hours! Most people are horrified by my working hours, and even more so when they learn that I work every other weekend, too.

Sunday roasts
No, but I might have been put off Sunday roasts after a lifetime of them as a child... and the resulting mountain of washing up. Being female, I was expected to enjoy cleaning. I do not!

Annual holiday
Ha! I do not have time to go on holiday. Quite frankly, after being at work so much, it is a blessed relief just to spend a whole day at home, let alone anywhere else.

Saturday night TV
I don't own a television. If I do find something to watch online, it's usually a documentary or perhaps a film, rather than whatever the equivalent of the X Factor, Strictly or BGT is these days.

3 meals a day
Considering that I usually have two breakfasts, three meals a day is nothing! However, on days off, I might just have two meals a day if I'm not very hungry.

1. No. Retired now but never had a 9-5 job in my life.
2. Sometimes do a roast dinner but more likely a weekday evening than Sunday lunch. We're usually out doing stuff at weekends.
3. Haven't had a proper holiday since before Covid for a variety of reasons. We did have a week away most Summers when our children were young but these days we're more likely to have a few long weekends away.
4. Rarely watch tv on any night.
5. I never eat breakfast unless we're in a hotel and it's included, so no.

I feel like these are conventions that died out when I was a child - or at least I don't know people who still do them.

I don't eat British food, and I only watch streaming services/occasionally something I've downloaded from Sky Q. The idea of being beholden to a TV schedule seems so anachronistic.

I do go on holiday several times a year so yes to the annual holiday I suppose.

I think I live a conventional life, married with kids etc.
Yes I work 9-5 ish-have flexitime.
Love Sunday roasts in winter but don't have one every week (we did growing up)
Annual holiday - yes and sometimes a smaller second break.
Saturday night TV, not particularly, don't really like Saturday night telly more likely to watch a film or box set, more choice now but as a kid yes Saturday night telly, Dr Who, wurzel gumidge, generation game.
3 meals a day - no I rarely have breakfast.

Work 8.30 - 5
no Sunday roast - single, I get a too good to go carvery if I fancy one!
no holiday as can’t afford
watch TV most days
meals either 2 or 3 a day - on work days I tend to skip my evening meal, on weekends I skip breakfast

More likely to have East Asian food in my house as I am half East Asian and half white though white Mum did teach me how to make a good roast.

I had some flexible working and DH had amazing flexible working. He also spent a decade popping off to meetings and doing research overseas a lot so would be away maybe 3 to 4 months of the year.

There was a time a long time ago where we watched Strictly on Saturday nights but we are more box set or film for tv.

We have always gone away quite a lot. We do really like European city breaks we have relatives on my side in America, Hong Kong and Singapore on DH side it’s Norway, France and Spain. Due to our career flexibility and 35 days holiday per year plus extensive overseas family we have been able to spend a month overseas on holiday most years.

We are a 3 meals a day household, I rarely touch take aways. We eat out most weeks.

No
work 3 or 4 days, sometimes none in a week, never earlier than 10.30 start, finish by 4
Don't own a mobile phone
Don't drive

Working 9-5 - Yes, with occasional on calls
Sunday roasts - Nope
Annual holiday - more than one most years
Saturday night tv - Strictly in autumn/winter
3 meals a day - yes, weekdays only. 2 @ weekends

Working 9-5 - yes
Sunday roasts - often but only because its quite economical
Annual holiday - not for a long time but now committing to a short one
Saturday night tv - absolutely not
3 meals a day - yes, I suffer with migraines if I don't have breakfast. I tend to eat my dinner at 7/8 o'clock usually then not much else

Working 9-5 I work hours I want to but f/t
Sunday roasts - Sometimes but not every week and not always a Sunday
Annual holiday - have loads of holidays (camping, festivals, visiting friends, eurocsmp, etc spend all our cash on this)
Saturday night tv - no thanks
3 meals a day - more like 4 as can't seem to get from lunch to dinner with out another one.
I do some things very conventional and others quite chaotic. I like change, new things, the odd drug, partying but also enjoy walking in the hills, gardening, singing and going to the gym.

Working 9-5 : Sort of.
Sunday roasts : Only occasionally.
Annual holiday : We take several holidays every year.
Saturday night TV : No. Don’t watch much TV, apart from sport.
3 meals a day : No, usually just 2.

Married : No. And no plans to. Together 25+ years.
Children : None. We are happily childfree by choice.

Saturday evening telly is not what it used to be, I'll say that much.

Oh interesting topic OP, I like!

Working 9-5 - Kind of. I WFH and do flexible hours but only Monday to Friday. 5am starts are possible as are 1pm finishes. I'm lucky to have the flexibility. I have a little business of my own that I focus on anytime, including weekends.
Sunday roasts - I will cook or eat (there's always extra in the freezer as I'm a single parent) a roast on any day I get time. But I think I get a big tick in the conventional box as I visit my parents every Sunday.
Annual holiday - no but it's lack of funds more than anything else at the moment. All my money is tied up sending DC to private school and paying my massive mortgage.
Saturday night tv - no. I don't have a TV licence.
3 meals a day - no I just eat when I'm hungry. I try to make my DC eat 3 conventional meals but can see he would rather flex the same way I do.

Working 9-5 - Currently off work, but I did one 9-5 shift a week and the rest were a little different
Sunday roasts - rarely
Annual holiday - no- can't afford it often. I went on holiday last year and I am going away this year, but I have had many years where I didn't go on holiday at all, and I probably won't go again for another few years after this one
Saturday night tv -no
3 meals a day- no, one meal a day for me as a rule and the odd biscuit during the day

Nope to all of the above.
I only work 2 days a week (that's plenty enough!).
Only have a roast on Christmas
Hate holidays.
Prefer streaming shows to regular nights.
Tend to eat 5 small meals a day.

I'm also ace and vegan neither of which are statistically normal!😀

I don’t work due to disability and illness.
No Sunday roasts.
Holidays don’t happen every year.
I watch TV most nights including Saturday.
I always eat 3 meals a day.

That's what's conventional?

How about getting married before having children?

No to all of the above! Still relatively conventional but some of this is very 80’s britishcore to me.

Weirdly did this one, married my childhood sweetheart, not because we wanted to do things ‘properly’ or anything just how it worked out.

Working 9-5 - no, I'm semi retired, but do a variety of paid for casual jobs to keep busy.

Sunday roasts - never have

Annual holiday - no holidays as I don't like leaving my pets or the house for longer than overnight. We do have daytrips occasionally.

Saturday night tv - don't have a TV and don't bother with popular culture or current films.

3 meals a day - don't have set mealtimes and we eat what we feel we need, when we need it. I don't really eat cooked food, apart from vegetables and halloumi and I'm vegetarian. I generally eat twice a day and fast from 6pm until 11am the next day.

I would think most of those things are fairly normal for families and not so normal for people who don’t have children

I don’t have kids / partner so I don’t cook Sunday roasts, don’t watch sat night TV, don’t have 3 meals a day.
I do work 9-6 and I do have an annual holiday