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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:
itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 10:01

Can somebody link to the other thread?

muminthecity · 06/03/2011 10:04

I work on a Sunday and bring DD to work with me, terrible selfish single parent that I am. Wonder what the OP would make of me? (In fairness, while at work with me DD gets to play table tennis, do arts and crafts and bake cakes, so I don't think she minds too much.)

Also, we live miles and miles away from any beaches or moors but we do go swimming and to the park every week, just not on a Sunday!

pointydog · 06/03/2011 10:06

I don't think this thread has anything to do with SUnday.

Many people shop as their hobby. That's all they can think of doing.

Why do so many people shop every Saturday? They can't think of anything better to do.

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 10:08

Pointydog - the OP specifically made it about Sunday and Bank Holidays.

pointydog · 06/03/2011 10:10

Yes she did. But I think she's missing the point if she just sees this as a Sunday issue. Some people shop at every opportunity. The day of the week makes no difference.

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 10:12

But the OP's point was about Sundays and Bank Holidays being her version of happy family time.

ragged · 06/03/2011 10:12

I don't think OP is talking at all about supermarkets. She's talking about family groups trawling around the city centre shops, malls and superstores, often "just looking". Their DC sometimes kicking off because they are bored to tears. It's indoctrinating the love of consumerism, I don't feel totally comfortable with that, either.

See how many threads there are on here about the stress of managing one's DC in busy urban or other shopping districts, and then universal replies of "WHY do you bring your DC with you?!" Almost the exact opposite of the reactions here.

StealthPolarBear · 06/03/2011 10:14

"Why don't people [some] take their kids to the beach or moors or park anymore."
Well they might do that as well Hmm
We regularly go shopping on Sunday. Park outside town and walk in, looking at the river and through the castle and cathedral grounds. Wander round the bookshop, stopping to admire the fish, go for a cake or some lunch. Buy a few bits that we need, at Christmas DS goes on the rides in the market square then wander back. It is lovely.

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 10:16

I don't think it matters if it's the supermarket or not.

Most of the big shopping centres have a food supermarket within them, so it could be.

But I don't think it matters.

Some weeks, if I need to get items for the DC's (as last weekend joggers for DD2 which she needed for PE as she had ripped the only other pair she has) I have to go on a Sunday afternoon.

I don't live somewhere with shops open 24/7 we have late night shopping only one night of the week til 9pm.

As I have already said, we do stuff the kids want to be doing in the evenings and on a Saturday.

Which meant that Sunday was the only day I had time to go to the shops to get her joggers. And I had to take her with me so she could try them on.

So we didn't do the family version of Sunday that the OP suggests.

In fact, as I am a single parent, we NEVER do that version of Sunday.

Obviously I am a crap mother then??

Laquitar · 06/03/2011 10:23

No, we never shop on Sunday. Thats because we stay in our pjs.

Online shopping, then bread and milk on our way home in the evenings.

Right now, dcs are fighting, dh is trying to fix the fence, and i pretend to work on my laptop Wink. Why waste the sunday in tesco?

SardineQueen · 06/03/2011 10:23

Am amazed that people are trying to find reasonable views from an OP who said that if people didn't do everything exactly the same as her they were doing it wrong, that Sunday has to be a family day (irrespective of what religion you are or what else you do in the week) and that if people have too many children to eg take them swimming by themselves then they shouldn't have had so many children.

An obvious windup I think.

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 10:32

I have a feeling the OP won't be back.

She's off doing her perfect life Sunday Biscuit

Laquitar · 06/03/2011 10:35

She is in the beach. Her dcs are freezing cold Grin

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 10:37

Making them have FUN whether they want to or not

Grin
usualsuspect · 06/03/2011 10:40

I live about 100 miles away from the nearest beach

goodbyemrschips · 06/03/2011 10:41

She has gone swimming have you nor read all the thread, and good luck to her too.

Better than sitting indoors watching mum on the laptop for hours on end.

I am resting as OH has took the kids out to see his mum, i am catching up with stuff while the roast is cooking.

Goodness I sound like the Op SHE MUST BE RIGHT THEN,,,[GRIN]

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 10:43

She's gone swimming with her one child - I have read the thread.

My kids are with their dad this weekend which means I have time to be on here.

When I've asked the OP some questions she has decreed that she won't be answering them

goodbyemrschips · 06/03/2011 10:45

That is because she is not here.

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 10:47

Goodbyemrschips that's not what she said to me

"mrsgetonwithit Sun 06-Mar-11 09:02:17

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."

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 10:47

I have asked her other questions and she has said there that she won't be answering them

usualsuspect · 06/03/2011 10:49

'That is because she is not here'

I think she possible is Wink

usualsuspect · 06/03/2011 10:50

possibly*

happybubblebrain · 06/03/2011 10:54

Some Sundays we go to the cinema or theatre and we have a bit of time wait before the film or show starts so we pop into the shops of cafes.

Sometimes we've been so busy on Saturday at the park/swimming/activities/events that the only time to do some shopping is Sunday.

Why are you so bothered about how other families spend their time???

itisnotgoingwelltoday · 06/03/2011 10:55

I am actually grossly offended by the implication in the OP's posts that I am a bad mother who should not have had my children because I do not fit her notion of a happy family life.

How dare anyone imply that because I may occasionally take my kids shopping on a Sunday and I don't do roast dinner, time out with dad in the morning and then games around the kitchen table in the afternoon, that I am not a good parent.

FWIW we played Jenga the other night and had a great time - wasn't a Sunday evening though. Just because I'm not doing family life the way the OP thinks I should does NOT mean I am a bad mother.

alemci · 06/03/2011 11:06

i don't like shopping on a Sunday. I am a christian and usually go to church except didn't quite get there today.

i think it is another day that has become busy and crowded. My husband does have to work some Sundays.

I think the glittering malls have replaced the church and people are busy worshipping manon and material wealth. I think people are shopping to fulfill a deep need.

that does sound a bit sermony doesn't it (i think it may have been one i heard) but i do think people are obsessed with buying things,