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?

The line of shoppers at 5am at Next makes me think people are insane and obsessive. Abnormal behaviour for a £4 discount

I always wish I'd gone shopping on Boxing Day to get some bargain clothes for the children for the following year. Never quite get round to it though! I think it must be amazing to be so organised.

I wouldn't go anywhere near next, though!

I remember going to New Zealand when retail shut on a Saturday morning at 12 and that was that till Monday - weekends were for sport and family time

I refuse to buy anything on Boxing Day. It's a day for family, or a long walk, or time to relax. I wonder how many retail staff actually want to work and how many have no choice.

Yanbu, I think it's bonkers!

I hate it. I wish all shops would stay shut. We as a society can cope without shopping for 2 bloody days at Christmas. People will still go shopping the next day anyway so the shops wouldn't lose out. I have only ever gone to a shop once on boxing day and that was for a prescription when my daughter was ill and I found the local duty chemist.

For a lot of people, it is a great day to buy clothing, winter jackets, socks, shoes etc for growing children for the following winter. Not everyone is loaded, and the post-Christmas clearances can save people a tremendous amount of money on basics that will get used.

I feel for those who have to work in retail that day.

We go into the city for a little drinkie in a very posh hotel and then have a cheapo meal somewhere after.

I know, I know the people serving us are working too. But it is never as frenzied as the sales are.

Was it only recently that everyone kills each other at the sales. I really feel for the staff. So I don't do it.

There is nothing I need that badly TBH!

I agree Boxing Day sales are crap and shops should be closed on the 26th. But I still go . I have 3 children and have saved lots going to the next sale and buying 3 coats and jumpers for the following year.

yanbu.

But if the shop were all closed Boxing Day the exact same bargains would be there the day after.....

Boxing Day is for eating leftovers, spending more time with family and relaxing the hell out. I find it weird to want to go shopping one day after you've just handed out presents.

Yes, I think it’s a bit sad and have never done it as I imagine the big piles of morons crashing over each other to get to the plastic junk of their dreams for $1/$500 and I am appalled.

But, my dc expressed a wish to engage in this after Christmas crazy shopping to experience first hand the supposed exhilaration. Ugh! I have failed as a parent haha.

Boxing day is for football. Nice hot chocolate at half time.

Meh.
I used to do it when I'd stay at exH's family's house v close to a big city I'd otherwise not go to.
A bunch of them would go and it'd get me out of the house. It was quiet though.

I wouldn't do it now. To each their own.

my dsis usd to hav work boxing day said it was lik a zoo

quite sad really

I shop the sales online whilst relaxing in my pj’s. I think it’s wrong for shops to open on Boxing Day.

if you dont like it - then dont go out in it! i hate shopping, so dont go out

i dont work in retail - and havent done for years, so i dont have to work in it - yes, its not easy for people who work in retail and dont want to work it, but thats life - i dont want to get up at 6.45 to go to work every weekday, but thats the job i chose and could get.

Like a poster says up thread, its a good day for people to stock up and buy things to get them through the next few months

i dont like football either

Most shops seem to have year-round sales nowadays, so it all seems a bit pointless. I would be surprised if there were any bargains that were unique to Boxing Day. I shall be making the most of the opportunity to relax at home, as I'm back at work on the 27th .

Yes I think it is sad

Hmmmm. I do feel for the people who work in retail but I also love boxing day shopping. I don't feel like it's a major deal breaker in a retail worker's life...it sucks but it's just another bank holiday they have to work (I have worked in retail and I know the horror that is christmas. That is just one of the reasons why I no longer work in that area!).
We are up early, (although nowhere near next-sale-early) off to the shops and then to my parents house for a big family lunch and afternoon get together. I love boxing day

Loads of sales have already started, I have picked up a few bargains already and kitted the dc’s out for winter/spring. Online sales start this week, some start Christmas Eve.

ivykaty44
I remember going to New Zealand when retail shut on a Saturday morning at 12 and that was that till Monday - weekends were for sport and family time

That must have been in the 70s! NZ is shut 2.5 days a year; Christmas Day, Good Friday and a half day (morning) for ANZAC Day to allow for Dawn Service

I’d be happy for retail to be shut on Boxing Day and New Years Day. The internet means those inclined can indulge themselves online...

I am sure when I was a child (in the late 70s and early 80s) we used to make our annual trip to Stirling on Boxing Day to spend the money my Grandparents had given us in the Boxing Day sales....