People who use the word family as an adjective

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Family weekend
Family time
Family day

I have a family but I don't feel the need to refer to family supermarket trip, family visit to great aunt Elsie, family evening. Especially when you see your family every day, it's not like you have to make weekends special because you're away a month at a time.

It irks me.

And I'm also in a bad mood so needed an outlet 😡

You have my full backing. It's so insufferably smug.

Totally agree with you, loathe the expression, as Given says, it also implies that other people are excluded.

My 'little' family is even worse. And yes, the 'special traditions' comments which usually are the same as 90% of the population of families with young children.

Total smugness.

(I am probably being equally grumpy as my idea of a lovely weekend is being on my own without my family ).

I really feel sorry for you OP. Are you jealous of these people?

Can we stand around the adjectives 'girly' and 'boozy' and stomp them to death?

Oh lordy..... Famalam....
I think this is an appropriate thread to add my pet peeves (predominantly derived from Fakebook):
Me time
Mummy time
Wine o' clock
Pimms o' clock
(Actually, probably anything o' clock)
FEELING BLESSED....... (BIG PEEVE)
Thanking dh/dp for amazing gift/weekend/date night/million pound yacht - when dh/dp isn't even on Fakebook and will never see post!?
I think that is it for now 😃

We have what one may call "family" time.

And we definitely have special traditions. Especially around Christmas...

Ha, Ragwort, I was about to post about the "family traditions" which are always spoken about as something weird and wacky but are along the lines of "we're allowed to eat chocolate for breakfast at Easter!" and "we always watch Elf on Christmas Eve!"

Don't feel sorry for me hotpinkangel and no im not jealous in the slightest. I have a very happy life but I do find overt smugness irritating. That's all.

Everyone with a family has family time! Hence why it's pointless to say it!

As a family annoys me. Altogether used to suffice.

Hmm, I generally hate anything done for FB likes but I think this is different. I don't say it out loud but I do think of days we're all together as family time. Due to our work patterns we get about one day every three weeks as a family so we do make an effort to do something different, it's not just like any other weekend for us. Most weekends involve work and childminders, so it is important for us to put those days aside for nothing but us.

I had a friend who used to say "We went to the dentist as a family"

Yes! To "our little family" being mainly used by those with a suddenly appeared "new daddy".
Actually, really hurtful as a friend of someone who died less than a year ago and we now have to put up with pics of her, her and my friends boy and her new man......

Technically agree its annoying bit I do use it, albeit not to outsiders but just to our nuclear unit. The reason I use it is that every weekend gets booked up with friends and other family. The only way to have time as just us is to prioritise it in my diary as family time. I find saying no to others hard so if I have this in my diary it's easier to say I have something on. I think its a result of busy life syndrome! I also have date night, again not said to others but it just means my dh and I prioritise that commitment.

Oh dear. We have a "family day".
It's all my siblings, their partners and all our kids. We all meet somewhere and spend the day together. Is calling it a "day out with my extended family" preferable?

What would you suggest we call it?

"Having a mother-daughter day with this one". I hate "this one". Ugh.

I have a FB friend who often posts pics of her family snuggled on the sofa, captioned "Family time with DVD. #feeling blessed".
In my day that was just called "We're all watching telly together and we're wearing blankets 'cos it's fucking cold".
Times change but the action is the same.

I hate politicians banging on about "hard-working families" - don't single people work hard or matter?
And, as a single parent, I have the lurking suspicion that the DC and I somehow aren't counted as a proper family.
So YANBU.

I don't know, I would use "family weekend" for just that.. a weekend with family, meaning just mine or having one my sisters staying over.

Most weekends include sport things and parties for the kids, friends over, so they are not family weekends.

I completely fail to see how the term could be irritating, but hey ho.

Yes to all of these. And anything involving #mumlife #mummylife #mama. Also hate the word hubby. Ugh.

Ick! It's the way people use 'family' to mean the bits of their family that they like (their husband and kids only usually) excluding their parents, adult siblings, uncles, cousins.... If 'family day' is used to mean the whole extended family I think it's fine!

I'm not sure I would begrudge a widow happiness with a new partner, even if I were less than keen on her hashtags.

On here it is "as a family" that irrationally sets my teeth on edge.

if you have a problem with using family as an adjective dont say it simple, i personally dont use it but it dosnt annoy me

Yes I roll my eyes too.
Family time is always since family continues in the absence of family members.
Me time is always unless you've been forced into captivity.
Just ghastly.

I don't say it, yet it still irritates me. I think differently to you.