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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.

OP posts:
Lulumama · 06/03/2011 08:57

where did I say I don't??

we might have to go to the shops, but as i posted earlier, we go to the park etc too !

you're just too interested in being right to actually pay attention

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 08:58

Mrsgetonwithit could you please answer the questions I have asked.

lockets · 06/03/2011 08:59

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YouCantTeuchThis · 06/03/2011 08:59

Okay look...

Your life works out great for you, but I don't get why you are quite so aggressive with the world.

So people make different choices from you? So some people don't have the same choices as you?

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 08:59

Oh and anyone who can persuade teenagers to go to the park and go to the beach when they would rather be lurking in their bedrooms on the laptop can you please tell me because I can't fecking well get mine to do it. On a Sunday or indeed on any other day.

Missymorrison87 · 06/03/2011 09:00

You are obviously a troll.

No one is this closed minded surely? Saturday OR Sunday, it really actually doesn't matter when you choose your family time..

I guess you waited until you were about 50 to have kids. Very very old fashioned and judgemental.

lockets · 06/03/2011 09:00

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NinkyNonker · 06/03/2011 09:01

I don't think Yabu to be honest, we avoid shopping at the weekend full stop, internet all the way. Weekends are for fun, seeing friends, going to the beach, walking dogs in the forest, eating, playing with the baby. And house/garden stuff obviously. Sometimes the odd trip to a DIY store or nursery.

Original poster
mrsgetonwithit · 06/03/2011 09:02

Mrsgetonwithit could you please answer the questions I have asked.

I have one child.

If you cant manage three dont have three..

no more questions 50 answers on one topic is quite enough I get bored reading the same stuff being repeated.

OP posts:
itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 09:02

I have to own up and say I live in a part of the UK where a number of people would NOT go shopping on a Sunday and would consider that the shops should be closed.

The family of my XH would never ever go shopping on a Sunday. Would not buy a Sunday paper. Do not watch television on a Sunday and only listen to religious music.

Still doesn't stop them going out to a hotel for lunch though Confused

I don't get the judgemental-ness

VivaLeBeaver · 06/03/2011 09:02

How have the answers proved you correct? From where I am it looks like the total opposite.

Why post in AIBU if you're not asking if you're being unreasonable? Why don't you post in chat?

Looks like another AIBU post where the OP doesn't get the replies that she wants, refuses to listen to anyone else and has a flounce. Grin

ScroobiousPip · 06/03/2011 09:02

OP - you'd really hate me. Not only do I take 2yo DS shopping on a Sunday (usually on the way to or from the beach/park/museum/zoo) but I also take him out to said beach/park etc in the evening after work. Often until 8 or 9 pm. Shock Wink

Lulumama · 06/03/2011 09:03

you're hilarious ! you just want us all to say, you're right, and bow before your superior parenting

loon

if you're that happy with your life, why do you care what everyone else does?

pigletmania · 06/03/2011 09:03

YABVVVVU to dictate when families should shop. You have no idea of the circumstances of that family, and they may well be planning a trip to the park or whatever after the shops. My dd goes to nursery and its only a few hous a day during the week, by the time I wait for a bus, sit on it arrive at my destination it will be time to go home so I cant complete my chores. The weekend therefore is the only time that I can go shopping and not worry about time. If my dh or dd godmother can look after dd I would rather go on my own, if not I have to take her. My dh works odd hours so if I cannot find anyone to look after dd I have to take her with me, would you rather I left my 4 year old at home then on her own!!!! Now that would be real abuse.

Original poster
mrsgetonwithit · 06/03/2011 09:03

ninkynonker.

thank you.

OP posts:
YouCantTeuchThis · 06/03/2011 09:04

Also, my children go to the beach almost every day...

would I be allowed to take them shopping on a Sunday?

Confused
BoysAreLikeDogs · 06/03/2011 09:04

oooh OP is one of them Mummy Martyrs, methinks

ziva · 06/03/2011 09:04

thats cause you posted an idiotic thread.

Jaydles · 06/03/2011 09:05

When are working parents meant to go shopping then? Not allowed after work due to messing about with bedtimes, not allowed on a Sunday as they should be skipping down the beach in all weathers. Not everyone has internet access or a payment method to use online so when would you suggest they go to the supermarket?

pigletmania · 06/03/2011 09:05

People have jobs lives they cannot always go within the hours you dictate. Gosh what would you think of people on the continent, whereby children are often in restaurants at 9-10pm or out with their parents in the evening, its the norm there.

Original poster
mrsgetonwithit · 06/03/2011 09:05

I posted it here cause this is the only place you get any real traffic..........

now really I am out....well going swimming actually........

OP posts:
NinkyNonker · 06/03/2011 09:05

Oh, but Yabu to be all judgy about it, we're all different.

howlonguntiltheweekend · 06/03/2011 09:05

Yay a fellow DLS V SP fan I take it scroobiuspip :)

I really dislike when an op doesn't acknowledge what I say. I still don't understand why as a non religious person I have to spend sunday not visiting the open shops if I need to!

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 09:05

x-posts.

If you have one child, Mrsgetonwithit, then it is easier for you to spend time with that child in the evenings. If you have more than one, and they all have different activities to go to, then your evenings are not so low key.

Depends how old your DC is as well - once they are big teenagers it's almost impossible to persuade them to go to the beach or the park.

I have more than three children and I manage very well thank you. My children are well fed, well clothed and each get individual time with me. I deeply resent your implication that I cannot cope with the number of children I have.

Shopping on a Sunday is really irrelevant to how I chose to bring up my children. If it's raining on a Sunday I won't take them to the beach, the park, the zoo.

We might go on a Saturday and then spend the Sunday doing groceries and washing and ironing school uniform.

What's the issue here?

pigletmania · 06/03/2011 09:06

Online shopping is not always convenient, I would rather see whats on offer and look at items not just one picure and a brief description of it. No i dont go shopping every weekend but need to at times. how judgy op.

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