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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:
pigletmania · 06/03/2011 09:41

that at the weekend, sometimes that is the oNLY time they can do shopping, and that people have emergencies that they need to go to the shops for, no life is perfect.

MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 06/03/2011 09:42

I can't understand why anyone takes their DC shopping ever!(But then I hate shopping, see it as a chore to be go thru as quickly as possible..defintiely not a 'leisure' activity)

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 09:42

But NinkyNonker the OP implies that if you take your kids shopping on a Sunday or Bank Holiday then you don't take them to the beach or the park.

The OP works on a Bank Holiday, according to her original post, therefore on these wonderful mythical family bank holidays she isn't sitting at home with her child and obviously isn't taking that child to the park, or beach.

Hoist by your own petard m'dear OP.

"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."

Maybe people, like you, work the hours their jobs require?

ilovemylife · 06/03/2011 09:43

enormasnob..............you are now doing exactly whay everyone here is moaning that the OP has done.

My son gets homework fri night to hand in mon morn it has to be done sat or sun.

Sorry im off this forum is not for me.

Vallhala · 06/03/2011 09:44

Erm... you haven't read the whole thread then, MrsGuyOfGisbourne.

straightbat · 06/03/2011 09:45

YABU and judgy

I have 3 hours between getting home from Mass and going to work.

I don't want to drive 2 hours to the beach in March.

I want to go out for lunch with my DH and dcs and mil and bils and sils and dns then wonder around the shops for an hour. Why the fuck shouldn't I?

You think because I am in a shop on Sundays then my dcs are deprived and never go anywhere outdoorsy?

1000s of people don't get home from church until lunchtime so perhaps would rather go to the beach on Saturdays. Not that its anything to do with anyone else.

ENormaSnob · 06/03/2011 09:45

Yeah, but I'm not a sanctimonious prick going on about other peoples choices.

pigletmania · 06/03/2011 09:46

Well ilovemylife it does get very heated in AIBU dont let it put you off MN if you look at the other forums there are some interesting topics and great advice Smile

onceamai · 06/03/2011 09:47

Goodness, people shop on Sundays because the shops are open and perhaps that's the only time they can fit it in. dd needed new shoes last week and Sunday, after church, was the only time we could fit it in.

pigletmania · 06/03/2011 09:47

On that note we are going to Mass in a moment, then going to the shops Grin

howlonguntiltheweekend · 06/03/2011 09:47

ilovemylife If you are still here please look in chat. Just as fun but without the aggression of some AIBU threads. Although this one is very tame - just lots of people disagreeing.

ben5 · 06/03/2011 09:47

most shops in western australia are shut on a sunday bar during school holidays. i like shops open on a sunday as dh is often away and the only day we have to go shopping is a sunday.
also found it hard when ds2 had his pacemaker changed last year. i would of liked the shops open on a sunday so i could get something to eat for the rest of the family. the wonderful doctors, nurses and everyone else involved in the care for my child had to work a sunday so maybe the following week the only day they have of is a sunday. would be a shame to deprive these wonderful hospital staff to miss out on a day of retail theorpy!

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 09:48

Actually ilovemylife that's a good point.

If I have the kids on the weekend, they are out at cubs/scouts on a Friday night, so homework doesn't get done.

Then on a Saturday they go horseriding most of the day and by the time we get home, do tea, showers/baths, they're knackered and we do a bit of family TV/DVD watching. So homework doesn't get done.

Other than Sunday, when should my DC's be doing weekend homework?

According to the OP we should be doing "family" stuff on a Sunday, I should have my pinny on cooking a roast - oh I have no DH to take them out for a few hours, what do I do Hmm - but glossing over that, if we do a few hours of walking ont'moors and beaches and then roast and family dinner, when do they do homework?

SpringchickenGoldBrass · 06/03/2011 09:49

OH come on, the OP is a mad twat looking for a reaction. 'She' probably hasn't even got any kids.

thefirstMrsDeVere · 06/03/2011 09:50

The moor and the beach Hahahaha.

Bit short of them in East London Hmm

Why shouldnt people go shopping on a Sunday? I dont understand the issue at all.

I avoid if I can because the supermarkets are really busy but you can do more than one thing in a day.

Admittedly I would be a stretch to fit in the moors and shopping but I could do the park and Tescos.

I missed the thread about shopping in the evenings - are we not allowed to do that either?

NinkyNonker · 06/03/2011 09:50

Fair point Itsnotgoingwelltoday.

Jenski · 06/03/2011 09:51

OP is now reading through the last bit of the thread desparate to post, but knowing that she is supposed to have gone 'swimming'. She is now not able to come back on the thread until the children have gone to sleep, otherwise her poor child/children will be mortified that their mother is not 'keeping Sunday Special'! Grin Grin

Tuppence2 · 06/03/2011 09:52

I'm a lone parent of an 11mo dd... I do not take her to the beach or park or wherever every sunday, just like I don't take her shopping every sunday. But sometimes, shopping needs to be done on a Sunday... I'm sure she doesn't always appreciate me trailing round shops while she's in a pram, but I often don't have the option of not doing it! I also work 4 days a week, and my mum looks after her, so I don't want to palm her off on a weekend or ask my mum to do my shopping. Surely that makes me a worse parent? I am spending time with my dd, granted it may not be focussed on her, but she is with me! I don't want to miss out on 4 days a week with her and then take her to my mum's while I go shopping and miss out on yet another day?!

This op is hilarious! I hope if you work every bank hol, that your dh gets the day off, because that would be serious child neglect! Grin

foreverondiet · 06/03/2011 09:53

Some people work all week and don't have childcare at the weekend so have no choice but to take their children shopping. Personally I try to do as much as possible online as I don't think its particularly fun for the DC....

VeronicaCake · 06/03/2011 09:55

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

We live in the country and do not own a car. Public transport stops at 7pm. If we want to travel to the city 18 miles away we can do this at weekends only. Which means we can go on Sat or Sun. Since we aren't religious Sat or Sun are equally good days to go, there isn't something magic about Sun which means that is country walk day and Sat is shopping day.

Ooh you are smug. It is possible that other people do things differently to you because their circumstances are different, rather than because they are bad parents who are indifferent to their children's happiness.

onceamai · 06/03/2011 09:55

I haven't read all the thread but Sainsbury's (alone) Friday night, shopping centre with dd yesterday to buy Pokemon black (very exciting)and today Sunday, will be ironing and cooking the roast when we get back from church. Tonight - will it be OK if I have a glass of wine or is that on banned on Sunday list too? Lent starts on Wednesday - it will be easier to give up shopping on Sundays than wine (have cheated in the past and restricted it to no wine at home). I have just decided I love the OP.

myhouseisnotamess · 06/03/2011 09:57

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noddyholder · 06/03/2011 09:58

I yearn for the old days when the shops were closed and every street was like a ghost town!Eerie silence and people trotting about with newspapers and hangover cures

thefirstMrsDeVere · 06/03/2011 09:58

I dont get why Sunday is special but Saturday is fine for dragging the kids round the shops. Eh?

And the eveing thing - but we shouldnt be doing that either according to the other mad thread.

Who knew it was such a complicated issue?

Personally I go when I feel like it because OH is at home in the day and all weekend. I dont have to take the children at all. Ironically I feel guilty about this because I think they should be with me. Sigh.

Gemsy83 · 06/03/2011 10:01

I am currently wi-fi'ing as we are taking a little jaunt across the great wall of china, after this we will be jetting to Singapore for a cultural lunch and then later on to the Sistine chapel to see my mate Benny (dict). Do I pass the wonderful parent test by your strenuous standards?