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People shopping on a Sunday.

284 replies

mrsgetonwithit · 06/03/2011 08:28

Another thread about kids in shops after 8pm got me thinking about this.

When I am out and about on a Sunday [or Bank hols] I am amazed at the amount of people taking their kids shopping on a Sunday.

I work every bank hol and when its a beautiful day there they are dragging their kids around the shops.

Why don't people [some] take their kids to the beach or moors or park anymore.

When I was young every Sunday my dad used to take my bro and I either swimming or fishing or the moors/beach for a few hours on a Sunday morn. My mum stayed home to cook the roast and then we palyed games in the garden or board games indoors after the meal.

This was a family day spent with the family.

So the question is What do you do on a Sunday?

Please don't say they shop on a Sunday because they work all week because shops are open late and on Saturdays.

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Awhiteelephantintheroom · 06/03/2011 08:49

SlackSally has taken the words right out of my mouth.

If griping at people that choose to shop in a day you believe they shouldn't shop on is the only thing you have to worry about OP you must have a very boring life!

Tsil · 06/03/2011 08:49

YABU and very judgemental.

This thread looks like you wanted to rub your 'perfect life' in peoples faces.

lockets · 06/03/2011 08:50

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WildhoodChunder · 06/03/2011 08:50

If it's a family day for spending with family, why are you on Mumsnet? Confused

Or are you wi-fi-ing from a park?

jenga079 · 06/03/2011 08:50

OP I am expecting my first child so I don't yet know these rules. Thank you so much for sharing them with me.

Now, what else should I include? I have worked out from MN that fruitshoots are the work of the devil & from Gina Ford that babies should only wear white, but there must be more to parenting that.

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mrsgetonwithit · 06/03/2011 08:51

Some other people may be spending a Tuesday evening reading with their child or swimming or whatever else.

I spend every evening doing something with my child.

The weekly shop only takes an hour.

We read, go swimming, take him football, take him tennis etc etc.

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ziva · 06/03/2011 08:52

well seeing as dh is a shift worker sometimes sunday is the only day we can go shopping,as he would have the car.
what a strange little cookie you are to be bothered by this.we could of course go on the next day dh gets off and loll around the park but the kids would starve.

Newgolddream · 06/03/2011 08:52

So suddenly people who take their kids omg..shopping on a Sunday are in the wrong and being neglectful by not taking them to a beach? ffs.

"Please don't say they shop on a Sunday because they work all week because shops are open late and on Saturdays."

...well sorry thats exactly what Im going to say - I stop at the supermarket every night after work for a few things, get in at 630 and then spend my night cooking dinner and relaxing - Im not going back to the shops thanks!!

DH watches the kids through the week and works from 9am on a Sat to 9am on a Sunday - so he has the car, there is no way on earth I would trail all of them on a bus and try and shop lol.

Let me think - that leaves Sundays! We generally do do something - last Sunday was an indoor play area still a bit miserable for the beach here in the West of Scotland you seeHmm) and today were going swimming - but get this...we will probably stop at the shops on the way back, theres a novel idea.

GlynisIsFixed · 06/03/2011 08:52

mrsgetonwithit...... do you sneer at parents who are late picking up kids from school as well? Hmm

howlonguntiltheweekend · 06/03/2011 08:53

But Sundays aren't special to me! I'm not religious - I believe in a God but am not a member of an organised religion. So why on earth should I put a ring round sunday as a 'special' day in which I chose to do things with my family?

If I lived in many muslim countries my weekend would be Friday and Saturday. Sunday would more than likely be a working day.

As it happens I don't have children yet. If I do I will spend various days of the week doing child orientated things but sometimes I expect my children would need to come to the shops with me.

Today DP and I will be at home. I will cook a nice meal for us this evening (probably not a roast today though) and we will have a lazy day, just the two of us.

lockets · 06/03/2011 08:53

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galletti · 06/03/2011 08:53

Not saying I don't think Sundays are special, just that you are being judgmental about other people's lives.

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 08:53

Mrsgetonwithit - Should you not be off brushing your hat and polishing your shoes for church?

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mrsgetonwithit · 06/03/2011 08:53

LOCKETS...I am not shopping I pass the shopping centre on the way to the beach......moors...swimming etc.......

My son is doing his homework so I am on the lap top.

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Lulumama · 06/03/2011 08:53

are you reading the posts???

My DH works every sunday.. shall i tell him to close his business so I can stay in the kitchen for hours cooking whilst he takes the kids out? and then when our house is repossessed, that;ll be fine, beacuse we;ll have had lots of nice sundays together

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mrsgetonwithit · 06/03/2011 08:54

do you sneer at parents who are late picking up kids from school as well

YES I DO IT IS IRRESPONSIBLE.

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WildhoodChunder · 06/03/2011 08:54

Well, why hasn't you son done his homework already? Sunday is a family day for family, he's had all week to do his homework, fgs...

Lulumama · 06/03/2011 08:54

my sabbath is saturday and I take teh DCs to worship, so yer know , think about that before you get all judgey re sunday's being special

howlonguntiltheweekend · 06/03/2011 08:54

mrsgetonwithit You missed my point. I was suggesting you neglect your child by doing your shopping on a weeknight - my point was that during that time when you are at the shops, you are not with your child, just as other people aren't! There is absolutely no difference to you spending time with your child on a sunday than there is someone else spending time with their child on an evening.

FrozenFlowers · 06/03/2011 08:54

If the weekly shop only takes an hour during the week then maybe it's only taking people an hour on Sunday and they are spending the rest of the day in an Enid Blytonesque fantasy world at the beach. And anyway it's none of your bloody business when other people go to the supermarket!

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 08:56

Oh and MrsGetonWithit - how many children do you have?

It's easier to do things with only one or two to see to, it's much easier to get time with only one child.

Once you have two, or three, or more, then it is much harder to get individual time with each child. Which means that you may be in the situation where the only day you have to go shopping is a Sunday.

Or Sunday is the day you spend with one of the children shopping for new shoes, or new clothes.

lockets · 06/03/2011 08:56

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GlynisIsFixed · 06/03/2011 08:56

i thought i recognised you mrsgetonwithit

yawn

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mrsgetonwithit · 06/03/2011 08:56

So LULU your DS works on sunday...............and???

you can still spend a day with the kids doing fun stuff.

I am out of this now I knew the answers would all be like this it just proved me correct.

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howlonguntiltheweekend · 06/03/2011 08:57

This has to be the strangest thread ever. I can't tell if it is genuine or not. It's all just weird! Confused

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