Hitting the sales with your bored family members

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Was in M&S. shopping on my break. Can’t get to the rails in the women’s sections as bored husbands/adults sons are standing in front of all the granny pants and leggings, blocking the aisles, blocking doorways, walking slowly through shops with no awareness of anyone else around them. One zombie husband holding the bags wandered aimlessly into at least 2 women and didn’t even apologise to them. Women were holding up knitted items for husbands opinion - one made a kind of grunt in approval. Some of them managed to escape by yelling IM GOING TO COSTA DO YOU WANT A LATTE and as I walked back to work, all the coffee shops are inhabited by lone men with bags on the seat next to them. I went upstairs to the home/men’s section - home was packed, men’s was deserted.

AIBU to think it would be a good idea to have like a holding pen area in shops with peg hooks in shops where men/your bored teenagers can stand? Or am I jealous as I am single and I have no one to hold my bags?

The only bargain I got was some £10 leggings which I managed to carry myself

I loved reading your, bored men at the sales , analysis op. very funny. I never go to any sales events, its usually mayhem and stressful I believe. But to trudge around with a man and small children,or any children,must be a total nightmare..

I fucking hated the compulsory Family Shopping Trips with the ex. Apparently, it was 'What Families Do'. I'd rather have been going swimming with the kids, personally, but that wasn't acceptable.

I hate essential shopping trips with DP, too, but for different reasons.

I'd happily be sat in the Man Creche if I had my way, but DP doesn't do decisions that involve money, especially if it's technically money I've earned. So I have to go along and try and get it out of the way as quickly as possible.

I go clothes shopping alone, me & DP aren't joined at the hip, we don't need to shop together in that respect. I know what I want in the shops, I find it pay for it then leave. Wandering around shopping centres/sales is my idea of a nightmare. Heat, noise, crowds. No thank you.

DP is at the shops now, I'm home under the duvet relaxing and don't intend to move for hours. I've done some sales shopping online today.

We're going out for a meal later on. We spend lots of quality time together, shops-traipsing doesn't have to be included.

I went to the supermarket on Monday and the amount of families that were there doing their big Christmas food shop was infuriating. The supermarket was absolutely packed and there were so many bored children getting in the way of the people trying to get their shopping done. I can totally understand that some people have to take their kids shopping (single parents etc) but I saw so many full families of 2 adults plus children, why on earth can't one parent stay with the kids while the other does the shopping?

There is no way I would take my kids anywhere near a supermarket, or an actual shop of any kind at all, this week. And dh is working every day until NYD now so that means no sale shopping for me even though I'd love to go bargain hunting

Why can't people go on their own? those men need to stand up for themselves and say no

Whole families accompanying 15-16yos to 6th form Open evening. Including toddlers & grandies. I mean... why ?

I want to ask MNers what they have bought in the sales... then again, I can't be arsed. I never go to sales. I have slight FOMO wondering what I'm missing, though. What is the appeal?

I read a few years ago of a German shopping centre that did create a Mancreche. Comfy chairs, coffee, soft drinks, sport on TV, pool table, car and fishing magazines, etc.

Making a mental note to frequently remind my DH to slap on a smile when we’re shopping together 😄
We are freaks who love to shop together, although we don’t follow each other into every single store mind you.

@TooManyPaws we have those in the UK too, they’re called ‘pubs’