To be annoyed about the lack Mothering Sunday cards?

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They're all festooned with "Mother's Day"

It's not mother's day, it's Mothering Sunday!

Mother's day is about the female human being who brought you up - and yes, it is a modern commercial invention, whether you cobble it onto an archaic church tradition or give it it's own day and admit it is made up to sell cards.

Either celebrate Mothering Sunday (by going to your church and having lunch at home with your ma) or celebrate Mothers Day (by buying a card in a shop) but don't complain you can't do the latter in aid of the former.

When I was at school in the 70's we always made Mothering Sunday cards, and you could buy them everywhere with Mothering Sunday on the front. At some point 'Mother's Day' Cards started to creep in and have now taken over, I assumed it was Hallmark wanting to grab a slice of the market but could not be bothered to produce different cards for the UK, so just used the same cards as for the US with Mother's Day on them. So it was never a case of Mothering Sunday not being about cards, they are not a recent invention which came over with Mother's Day.

And I do celebrate at church, I am a regular attendee and at my church and most of the others I know of Mothering Sunday is celebrated, flowers are given out and motherhood is celebrated in the service. I would love to have lunch with my Mum but sadly she died two years ago. I am no more lecturing others than you are, we are both equally entitled to post on this thread!

When my mum was alive i really had to look that much harder for the mothering sunday cards - I found that somewhere such as clinton were more prone to stocking them than the supermarkets or cheaper card shops. She was a church goer and was upset how commercial the whole thing became when it was a religious celebration, the Mother the church.

Card factory had a good selection of mothering Sunday cards the other day, which I was pleased to see.

They also had ones "from the cat"

YABU - are you my mother reincarnated?

Spent years looking for fecking mothering sunday cards to appease my mother - mothers day was never good enough.

Chill out and get a card with some flowers on it.

And another thing, why are there so few cards with "mummy" on them that are suitable for an adult daughter to send? My mother has always been "mummy" to me ( similar with most of my friends) she would have an apoplectic fit if I referred to her as "mum"

Mine is from PaperChase and says "Mothering Sundae" and has a nice ice cream on the front.

cards are getting silly, ones from pets is a new one on me.

The big tesco yesterday had one whole aisle full of mothers day cards and then another little stand on its own next to a special selection of wine, chocs etc. Not to mention the flowers. i bet most of the cards will end up 'out the back' ready to be rolled out again next year of course.
must be a storage nightmare.

I think you just have to accept that the whole meaning of Mother's Day (or is it Mothers'Day) has now changed. The vast majority of people see it as an occasion to treat their mum, they won't give a shiny shite about it being based on an ancient tradition of visiting their mother church on the fourth Sunday of Lent or whatever the heck the silly religious thing used to stipulate.

I have a work friend who always goes smugly on and on about "it's actually Mothering Sunday not Mothers'Day" blah de blah. She sounds like a tit.

It's the greatest travesty of our time! Continue roaming around card shops and supermarkets photographing this hellish perversion of our fine and glorious traditions!

When they come for me, when they frogmarch me to purchase each more ridiculous than the other card I will rise up in your name. My purse shall remain in my pocket! FOR ZERO ZERO ONE ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO ONE I WILL DO THIS!

I always thought Mothering Sunday was a day celebrated many years ago when those 'in service' at the big houses would have a sunday off to go and visit their mothers! It was always connected to Easter so the 3rd sunday in Lent (or whenever it is) and they took a posy of flowers too. We always celebrated it at our C of E Primary School and so did my children as they grew up (coincidentally at the same C of E Primary school). Never knew it was to visit the Mother Church or anything like that!

Mothers Day is the US/Canadian version which is celebrated in May (or June I can't remember).

Glad to read that I'm not the only one to have always searched for the Mothering Sunday cards rather than Mothers Day which grates on me.

Whatever we call it, I'm just so thankful that I'm lucky enough to still have my own mum there for me and also to be blessed with 3 awesome children of my own!

I found one in WHSmiths.

Wasn't particularly fussy about what it said, but was trying to find one that wasn't quite as pink and sparkly. I do not have a pink and sparkly mother.

Puppy, depends if you are a church goer i guess - my mum was old school and it was what it represented for her. She was very sniffy at one card i got her as child because it had the wrong wording on it, hence the trawl around the shops for the right sort of card.
Most people dont care - but i, personally, hate how its been hi jacked from by every shop and restaurant in order to make even more profit. I am happy with a card and i used to prefer the home made ones from school! ( miss that now they are adults)

serra i'm glad you see this for the travesty it is!!

Sorry to burst your bubbles but it is a religious traditional holiday. Just like Christmas and Easter.

And sorry to burst your bubble but Christmas and Easter were both originally pagan festivals that were later commandeered by Christianity. They even pilfered the name Easter from the pagan goddess Eostre.

So where are the pagan cards? That's what you should be moaning about.

80s, if she was that bothered about cards with the wrong wording, I wouldn't get her a card at all nor even acknowledge the "treat mum" aspect - and let her stick to the boring old actual tradition.

I see no one has intervened on the more important point - is it Mother's Day or Mothers' Day?

She was just a bit funny about her religion sometimes - she was a such a lovely great mum in so many other areas, but some things used to just wind her up at times, things that wouldnt really bother me to be honest, but then i'm not a church goer.
I'm not sure about the apostrophe thing - i would have thought after the S as there are loads of Mothers, but i really dont know.

squoosh is right also about the religious festivals being hi jacked over the centuries from the pagans. if i were a pagan i'd be a bit fed up with it all! we need the shops to do pagan cards - could be another money spinner for them, surprised they havent thought of it already..

Who is sending Easter cards 😂 In 40 years I have never received an Easter card

Sainsbury's had some nice Mother's Day cards in although not a huge selection or ordering online is good

i have had an easter card in the past from sil and brother - not sure why , just a random small card one year. I do not go down this route , its bad enough with birthday and christmas, mothers day for MIL ( one for nan on mothers day from the boys, which cracks me up , but i do it for some reason. ) fathers day etc etc. bloody pita, all of it.

I've never received an Easter card but my aunt used to always give me a Bronnley soap (as well as a chocolate egg) every Easter. I still love them.

My MIL used to send us Easter Cards when she was alive - the biggest celebration in the catholic year - my husband always says - bigger than Xmas!

Easter is definitely of more religious significance than Christmas. The whole 'died for our sins and rose again thing' v plain old 'born'.

that is sweet squoosh, at least you can use that - cards are lovely to receive but then just clog up the drawer for such items..

Easter for the C/E church is a lot more significant than christmas is.

Plain old born versus the whole back from the dead in 3 days - no contest really.