To remind people that the shops are only shut for one fucking day?!

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Please, give me strength. Why do so many people panic buy, pile their trollies Sky high and get rude and stroppy with retail staff at this time of year? No, Armageddon isn't coming, it's Christmas! The shops are shut for a grand of one day, 24 hours later they will open again on the morning of Boxing Day. Please consider this when you are filling you're trollies with about 17 pints of milk and 20 loaves of bread or having a go at a sales assistant for ruining your Xmas. I wonder how people coped back in the days when the shops shut for several days?!

My Facebook feed is full of stories of people fighting over sprouts and having fights in car parks because they are so busy. I went passed my local Morrisons earlier and the traffic was backed up around the car park and onto the road.

Quite frankly if you leave it all until the last minute to do your shopping you are a knob who needs to be more organised next year, and honestly the sky will not fall in if you don't have sprouts on your plate come xmas day.

People need to getting a sodding grip!

FFS - these "it's just a day" fucking threads - YABU OP.

Has it not occured to you that maybe, just maybe people aren't just buying lots of food because they think it needs to last a week or two, but because they need to feed a large number of people?

No, lots of people don't just eat left overs on Boxing Day, but they host again another large number of people, usually the other side of the family.

Plus, frankly, why would you want to go to the supermarket on Boxing day just because you can? Can people really not think of better things to do? Is Chrsitmas really "just a day" for some people, not a few days of celebration? Is it really back to business as usual on 26th? How depressing.

Gosh OP, you're so superior to the rest of us.
Maybe peopl stock up so that they can relax over Christmas, and spend time with their families rather than spend it shopping?

If it doesn't impact on you, why worry about it?

I was in asda today because I got paid today and it was my day off (in work tomorrow). I didn't actually see any fighting or rudeness, although it was busy with lots of trolleys. Hardly any queues at the tills either. Certainly not craziness described in the OP.

Like others have said, I don't really wanna have to go shopping again til at least Monday and ideally Tuesday! I haven't bought unreasonable quantities of anything.

And you can't judge what's unreasonable mostly because someone may be entertaining 15 people for five days, so actually needs a hell of a lot of milk, bread, loo roll etc

What a faff when you could have Turkey sandwiches, Turkey curry, Turkey salad etc instead

I don't want to feed my guests goose sandwiches, goose curry and goose salad. I want to make a nice lunch and evening meal. For 7.

Maybe some people do things differently from your family, OP?

I wonder why it doesn't balance out a bit more. I'm buying more food because I'm feeding my parents, parents in law and brother in law, but surely they should be buying less? It doesn't seem to work out that way though.

I don't understand.

If your Facebook feed is full of stories of people fighting over sprouts and having fights in car parks, why aren't you taking your anger out on them?

Why bring it up on Mumsnet?

goose curry sounds like a nice meal to me what is wrong with a curry?

when did boxing day become as big as christmas?

BTW, I'm not sure whats so "rude" about calling people who panic buy like the world is about to end, knobs?

No you were gloating about being organised without actually knowing why others are shopping last minute

when did boxing day become as big as christmas?

When people can't see family on Christmas Day or are working.

But even if you are feeding 15 people on Christmas Day, that doesnt explain why some people clear entire shelves on UHT milk in Lidl which was witnessed by someone who posted earlier on the thread?

Quite frankly if you leave it all until the last minute to do your shopping you are a knob

I'm not a knob, I'm skint. DH got paid today so will be going to get our food for the Christmas and Boxing Day dinners when he gets home from work. We're not panicking, we just didn't have money before.

Waitrose lost my custom today for being so busy at 10.30am that I could barely move. Just walked out with nothing and went to Tesco Metro which was fairly empty and v friendly.

Charlotte - we'll get through 3 loaves before DH is back to work on Tuesday, and we have helpfully got all our daytime guests staying overnight elsewhere, so I'm not doing breakfasts for them. If I had another 4 people for the long weekend, I might be tempted to buy a lot of bread now.

If you are only serving christmas dinner for your family, or maybe one extra guest, then it wouldn't need to be a big increase in food, if you are doubling/trippling the numbers being cooked for, then the quantities need to increase.

YABU I am feeding 20 tomorrow and 14 Christmas day (different people ) if I didn't have loads of milk etc we would run out. I only buy what I need and can't be bothered to go shopping between Christmas and new year.

It's not 'as big as Christmas', but it's a day when I and many others will have a houseful and will want to feed them! What is so hard to understand?

Anyway, a few years ago I had to go to Waitrose at about 3.30 on Christmas Eve, and it was a dream! Had my pick of parking spaces, could have bought a whole shop including a turkey, no queues.... if I dared run the gauntlet, I'd go then every year!

Have you the Xmas rage Op? YANBU, however.

but then they would put christmas day on boxing day not have two christmas days? maybe im scrooge or old? but when i was young i used to go out with my family boxing day have a walk in the woods and a buffet with the family afterwards we would all bring in bits and bobs no one went hungry it was all used up and we would take food parcels home and there was over 20 of us

YABU.

Some of us like to stock up at Christmas time so we don't have to go shopping on Boxing day or the days between this and New Year.

My fridge and freezer are both packed and I really don't intend going out for about a week, especially shopping.

Merry Christmas

oh and the people we have on Boxing Day are different to the people we have on Christmas day - I find the idea that you'd give the other side of the family (which is common with families hosting 2 days on the run) the left overs from the feast you made for the other set of grandparents/siblings the day before seems... cheap and rude.

My DH gets paid tomorrow

We're lucky we didn't have to rely on that wage packet for Christmas shopping.

I think everyone does what they need to do. If you need mountains of food for whatever reason you will need to go and buy it at some point and will be in the supermarket with others all doing the same, and therefore it will be busy.

If you don't need to go you can drive past completely unaffected.

YABU
What the fuck has it for to so with anyone else how and when people shop over Xmas. You don't know people's personal circumstances which requires them to have to do their shopping this late. Also consider the fact that perhaps people don't want to go shopping on Boxing Day

You are the one who sounds like a knob
HTH

Well, no we're not giving the other side of the family left overs because we alternate yearly between which side of the family you see at Xmas.

abbyismyhero years ago we used to my Nana's on Boxing Day for tea, it usually consisted of cold meats, sandwiches, salad, crackers, triffle or Christmas cake. No one expected a hot sit down meal. The whole point was to see family whilst chilling out after the madness and formality of the day before.

The UHT milk nabbers in Lidl could not have been Mumsnetters. UHT milk is a heinous crime on here.

Tesco delivery is a bit of a Godsend at this time of year.