To find Boxing Day Shopping a Bit Sad?

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Just that really!

I remember growing up, EVERYWHERE shut over the Christmas period. The roads were dead. It was very peaceful.

Now, it seems that the January sales have become the 'Boxing Day Sales'! I was chatting to some of my mum's friends and they were planning on going out shopping on Boxing Day!?! How can anyone be bothered?

Each to their own.

What about those children who desperately want a particular toy that is too expensive for anyone to individually buy them, so they save up and use their Christmas money to get it. I’m sure they would much rather have whatever it is they are aced on Boxing Day than waiting a week.

I’m going out, just to a couple of sales. Wouldn’t have done it a couple of years ago, but now it’s a good opportunity to buy DS’s winter clothes for next year for 50% off.

Someone recently posted on a thread that shopping in Boxing Day ought to be socially unacceptable and I'm inclined to agree.

I love shopping but really can't we (and the staff that facilitate) have two days without the shops open?!

I don't generally as I love having an extra day off! Most of Europe are back at work on Boxing Day so can't see the issue with it really.

If you've been shut in all Christmas watching Eastenders, and being force fed endless food and gin like a foi gras goose, with Chas and Dave Christmas album on repeat like I will be at FIL's this year, a trip to Westfield Stratford on Boxing Day will seem almost appealing

I grew up in the 60s & Boxing Day Sales were a thing then - it's not new.

I won't be this year, but that is mainly due to the fact that we are moving soon (sold, just need to find somewhere) and I don't want to be taking any more things with us - we have enough as it is.

I went last year mainly because I wanted to get out of the house a bit.

Yes, I love shopping too!

However, as someone who worked in retail as a student, I feel very bad for the staff! Many will have to work late on Xmas eve to prepare for this! And for no more than their usual wage! That's not the spirit of Chrismats.

I can’t face a shop for the whole of January.

Yanbu. Boxing day is for a family walk.

I hate it.

Wish people wouldnt shop on boxing day. I would then have more than one day off to spend time with my family

I don't know if YABU or not. It would be a long frosty Friday in Hell before I went shopping on Boxing Day but I can't get worked up about people who find that kind of thing fun.

A bummer for the staff and why does it have to be at 6am or whatever it is when Next opens? What's wrong with 10am?

I won't be hitting the sales this year because I'm having a whole year of buying no clothes or shoes. The contents of my wardrobe will out see me, so not one item will be bought in 2018. Possibly 2019 too.

Meh it's my son's birthday on boxing day (poor sod) we normally have a long walk and a family tea party complete with birthday cake .

People go to the Boxing Day sales because they want the pick of the bargains. If they 'did the right thing' and went a day or two later, there would only be the crap that no-one wants left.

If the shops closed for 2 days not one, people wouldn't mind, they'd just go out the next day instead.

One particularly fraught Christmas I went to Tesco on Boxing Day, it was awful but SO much better than the tension at home!!

I don't understand it but each to their own. It does make country parks, beaches and other beauty spots really quiet which I quite like!

I think it's wrong. But I'm a miserable old gimmer.

I love boxing day sales. It's become a tradition that me and SIL leave the DC with dh and bil and go to the sales. Then all meet up at pil's at lunchtime for Christmas leftovers.

It’s not for me. I’ve been in healthcare for 12 years and worked my fair share. I won’t go to the shops on Boxing Day - healthcare staff have no choice but to work! I leave well alone. Boxing Day for us is a trip to the park, leftovers and playing with new toys

The next sale started online yesterday anyway so doubt there will be much left worth queueing for on Boxing Day. Not that there was much in the first place!

It can all be done online
No need for retailers to enforce workers to give up their holiday time away from family

Emergency services etc do it but this obsession with shopping isn’t healthy

people working in retail know that boxing day happens, its not new, it happens every year - its been the Boxing Sales for ages!

n the UK, Canada, Australia,[ and New Zealand, Boxing Day is primarily known as a shopping holiday, much like Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) in the United States. Boxing Day sales are common in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It is a time when shops hold sales, often with dramatic price reductions. For many merchants, Boxing Day has become the day of the year with the greatest revenue. In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales (a rise of almost 20% compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT was about to revert to 17.5% from 1 January, following the temporary reduction to 15%).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day