to just not CARE about Mothering Sunday?

[Erniesmum]

Anybody else who just doesn't do days for the sake of days? I find it almost unbearable. I'm the same about birthdays, Christmas and Valentine's so maybe I'm just a miserable git :) Anybody agree?

DH said they never celebrated Mother's day at his home, he reckoned it was a money making scam. He thought that people should be nice to their mums all year round and not just on that day. I tend to agree, although I did buy a small gift for my mum. I just didn't limit myself to that day to buy her things!

YANBU

Load of shite. A homemade card and a cup of tea will do me.

mothers day & mothering sunday are 2 different things,mothering sunday which we have here in the uk was never about mothers but about the church.
i love it i dont expect a present but dh & kids make brekkie & dinner and i get the day off,my mum died when i was 10 so its important to me.

The whole thing makes me utterly miserable. DH is sh*te at this sort if thing, and Valentine's, birthdays, Christmas...

Me, sis and SiL make the effort though and its always quite nice to see mother and MiL looking slightly less miserable than usual!!

I love it - it coincides with the nicest spring flowers emerging, giving an excuse to buy/give lovely tulips, hyacinths, azaleas etc. it can be cold enough still for a full on roast, or 'springy' enough for salmon or lamb
(always at home - restaurant would be awful). To me it is part of the yearly cycle, ending winter and building to Easter. I'm not religious but it is a part of the church calendar and maybe I'm feeling

*maybe I'm feeling that.

I think it's nice.

Won't going out for lunch this Sunday be a complete nightmare? Everywhere will be packed. i wonder how many of the Mothers enjoy a heaving restaurant?

I am quickly turning into a Mother's Day hater.
I have to order and pay for my own gift via the school.
Brownies want me to get up at the crack of dawn and got to church parade.
I have to spend hours at MILs and at my DMum's.
This year I am taking DS to a party all morning.

As far as I can tell, it has nothing to do with me or what I want. It's just a list of chores to be got through while showing everyone how incredibly grateful I am for getting a "day off" WTAF. I would be happy with a bunch of daffs from the garden and a couple of hours when I get to choose what I do.

I have to take DS1 to his football match on Sunday.

I don't do it either, and neither does my mum. But I will be enjoying a peaceful hours ride on my own - but thats more as dh is off to the rugby on Saturday with a friend, and so I have ds plus friends dd from 7am Saturday till way past their bedtime.

My Mum set great store on it when she was alive, but frankly I couldn't give a flying fuck. An excuse for restaurants to increase their prices and serve sub-standard fare as no-one will feel inclined to complain.

I'm not bothered either my dd's m-i-l is though so she has the family attention that day. It is my birthday a couple of days after MD so I will enjoy that.

Yanbu, and trying to find a non-pink, non-smushy, non-glittery card for a 61 yr old woman is making me hate it even more!!

OP. I don't celebrate my birthday (viewing that I'm a grown woman and really cba with pressies, ice cream & jelly etc) which annoys DH who is a smushy git.

I was in Asda today and there was a whole Mother's Day Crap aisle. Dairy Box and Milk Tray? Is it the 70s again? Plus loads of pink stuff nobody would want.

We don't make a huge deal out of most of these 'Hallmark cards' days, either.

I don't even really go crazy about my birthday.

I do like all the booze at Christmas, though

To us, these 'Hallmark Holiday' days are just an excuse to spoil each other a bit. Maybe go out for a meal or take a day trip somewhere, give presents or spend money on ourselves as a couple. We don't have the money or time to do that sort of thing normally so it's nice to do it now and again, it kind of spaces it out for us (so the end of Feb might be a bit dull but never mind, we know on the 17th/18th March we will let our hair down)

Hallmark may have invented "mothers day", "Fathers day" etc, but they did NOT invent Valentines day, Mothering Sunday, Easter or Christmas. There is nothing wrong with being anti commercialism, but it annoys me when people dismiss traditional holidays for being commercial, when they only are if you let them be.
Don't buy into them, but do be thoughtful and kind on those days in particular if you aren't always as thoughtful and kind as you could be on other days.