To HATE Easter Sunday!

[ElseaStars]

Sorry I know I'm probably being unreasonable but why is EVERYWHERE closed?! I really hate Easter. (To me it's a a day for kids and religious people)

YABU.

Every Sunday used to be like this.

Its probably a rare treat for some families to be together today and not have to work.

I appreciate the weather is not fab in some parts of the uk today but thinkits really sad that on one day people cannot tjonk of how to spend it other thsn dprnding money.
What happened to good old family time. Dig out the cards, board games, get creative and do something that takes time and not money for once.

It us so rare forshops to be closed I think its a bit sad to moan. This is wgat Sunday's used to be like just 20 orvso years ago and when pepple say they cannot cope on one of the 2 days a year shops are closed it makes me wonder if we should bring back Sundays as thry were so we can all get used to nit shopping and spending and doing other stuff.

It used to be a big deal for my family. Big lunch, extended family. A bit like Christmas but with chocolate eggs not presents.

We don't do the big family thing here, they are all across the world, probably together. So it feels different.

I don't mind it, the dc are putting on a concert with posters etc. so at least they are happy.

I now have an easter plan - I'm off to see my gran. Cake and tea for me

shops may be shut but still have people in working couple times a year big stores are closed public act lik world is going to end panic buying! crazy

That's what you need for Easter OP - a gran with a cake and a nice brew
(that last one is just so I can use the bunny ears on something!)

Our Easter egg hunt in the garden was absolutely fab BTW - it even stopped raining - probably the best one ever, at least since I was a kid at my Auntie's

Yabu, the shops are open 363 days a year. Seriously, them being closed 2 days a year is hardly a hardship, it's not even consecutive days. There are plenty of things you can do when shops are closed that don't involve religious observance or children.

"I know, how dare shop staff have a day off!"

I love this. Because they work 365 days a year every single one of them.

YABU, I'm from a country where shops are never open on a Sunday and while I do like to go for a ramble through town sometimes I still don't see how it can be such a necessity? There are loads of other things to do!

I love Easter Sunday: it's got the peacefulness of Christmas Day without the insane pressure.

wont be long before its all 24/7 tho

wrap up warm, go for a walk - parks, lanes, countryside, beaches are all open.
read a book. they are open.
play some games. They are open.

shopping is not a recreational activity!! The closed shops should make no difference at all to having fun.

bad enough getting sworn at cos we had sold out of easter eggs! and then moaned at cos we are closed for 1 day!

have been to Argos and Homebase. Both are at a retail park and it was quite busy. Everyone buying gardening stuff. We needed a refill for our gas tank for the BBQ which is why we went (having BBQ later).

shopping is not a recreational activity!! The closed shops should make no difference at all to having fun

the local nursery having to close makes a difference if gardening is your preferred form of recreation... the rule being by square footage rather than turnover is bizzare. If it wasn't for the anachronistic rules, I'm sure this would be a prime day for this small local business Humph. I shall listen to Gardener's Question time and sulk.

This sums up old school Sundays in the 70s for me:

     <span class="italic">“In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.”</span> - Douglas Adams

Pubs didn't do Sunday dinners then, coffee shops weren't open. Everything was shut.

Yep. I've just booked DH and I into a spa hotel for this afternoon tonight, simply so we can do swimming/jacuzzi/steam room/nice dinner and wine/cooked breakfast and sit with the papers.

If we were at home I'd be writing wills and dh would be in his shed. Going in 2 mins !!!!!

Am now tuned into Classic FM in my kitchen too Beautiful, peaceful Einaudi piece playing ATM

Am even quite liking being inside on a drizzily afternoon with my family now we've had the Easter egg hunt

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Well mine was a the typical boring day until.....

I was eating lunch and the phone rang, I ignored it until I had finished eating.

So about 1.30 I pick my phone up, it's my parents so I call back, say, "sorry I was in the middle of eating etc"

Now my parents are coming to take me out to lunch.
I have already had lunch.
I live 100 miles away from them.
They want to eat in a restaurant not a pub.
I live in Wolverhampton.
The only restaurants in Wolverhampton are Indian or closed on a Sunday or both.
My dad does not like Indian food and doesn't like the smell of curry so won't have a steak in one.

But............ they don't want to go to a pub.

Well i suppose it's not boring and at least the casino appears to be open.

We're loving the combination of everything being closed and rain.

Mini lie-in, followed by telly in bed with DS (3) then downstairs to see what the Easter Bunny had hidden around the house. After breakfast he had an extra long bath (we had to top it up twice). Then a Mickey Mouse movie for him while we watched Good Wife. Lazy late lunch and we will probably watch a family movie this afternoon.

If everything hadn't been shut and the weather was good, we would have felt compelled to go out for him. He is having a whale of a time playing by himself instead of having to do stuff all day (which is what we have done all week because the weather has been nice).

Well, at least there is less pressure than at Christmas to be doing the wonderful jolly family thing that is not a reality for many people.

I am spending the day alone. I have no family in the uk and dd is with her father. But I don't mind too much, because I know most people are just going about their normal life.

In scotland, sitting in the park in the sun, have done the shopping, rolled our eggs, had icecream, heading home soon to make dinner. Lovely day

Making the big shops close on Easter Sunday and limiting them to six hours on other Sundays might have been a reasonable compromise in 1994, although I thought then and think now that we should have taken the plunge and deregulated trading hours lock, stock and barrel - but it's 2014 now and the internet trading does not stop. Both the big and the small shops need the playing field to be levelled and that means abandoning all restrictions. And the sooner the better.

Still, at least we have got past the park-keepers (remember park-keepers?) chaining up the swings on Saturday evening. Progress of a sort.

Goodness knows workers rights have been eroded and eroded. This is one tiny protection for those in non essential services. Even if you aren't Christian it's nice that more families have the option to be together for a day.
It's sad that consumerism has become the new faith.