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AIBU?

to really really really HATE with a capital H ..........

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2shoes · 25/02/2008 11:49

mothers day?

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cory · 26/02/2008 11:32

What's so commercial about a piece of burnt toast and a cup of water slopped over the bed? I love it! But will be hinting very strongly to ds this year that he is allowed to use the kettle

Naturally, if you have a bad relationship with your mum, you are going to hate it. But then lots of people hate their birthdays for various reasons.

Kbear · 26/02/2008 00:01

Buy yourself some flowers on Mother's Day to remember your mum - my mum does this to remember her mum. She buys them for herself on her mum's birthday too. Just a little bunch but a nice comforting thing that helps her.

Christywhisty · 25/02/2008 23:53

We always go to church for mothering sunday and it is a lovely service. The scouts and brownies are at the service and the church has little bunches of daffodils for the children (and grown ups) to give to their mums. It is always a lovely service

GodzillasRockinRollinBumcheek · 25/02/2008 22:11

I am with you on this one 2shoes. Dh is always upset as his mum died when he was 19.

I have never got on particularly well with my own mum, and now she is very ill with dementia, it's unlikely she will realise why she's getting cards/presents, let alone respond in any nice way (i do see her nearly every week, btw, although i won't say i want to).

I also think know it's too commercialised, but it doesn't have to be.

2shoes · 25/02/2008 22:03

will go have a look see

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lottiejenkins · 25/02/2008 19:47

2shoes i know arent i lucky...... just to be cheeky have you seen my question re dla on the sn thread? I could do with your advice please..................

2shoes · 25/02/2008 18:57

lottiejenkins now thats what i call a present
lovely

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captainmummy · 25/02/2008 18:08

Why do we need a gift? Surely being a mother is gift enough. I like a bunch of flowers but not if they've had to be co-erced into buying me one. And Valentines day - don't make me laugh.
As for fathers day, and grandparents day....

VictorianSqualor · 25/02/2008 18:00

Another one here who hates all the commercialism, my 7yr old DD was going on about buying me a card and I told her I didn;t want one, I'd prefer hand picked daffs and a note saying she cares with a big cuddle.

Just like I told her valentines day was a sham she knows mothers day and father day is pretty much too, but being a mother I do know that sometimes having one day a year when we can be spoilt is absolutely desperately needed!

I don't speak to my own mother so I don't think about her on mothers day but I do think about DP's mum, she works hard and does everything for her family, I think mothers day is a good excuse for me to say to her boys 'Get off your arse and look after her today' and know they'll take noticve because they have to iyswim, would still personally prefer to be appreciated because I'm appreciated ratehr than because it's a day on the calendar that, just like Valentines day ahs lost all it's traditional meaning and been grabbed by the card/present manufacturers.

lottiejenkins · 25/02/2008 17:42

My lovely ds(learning difficulties and profoundly deaf) asked me to buy him a bear for him to give me which said i love you mum on it........ reminds me also of the time in the shop when he vanished and came back with a card wheich he'd taken and written in which said i love you mum happy birthday,, this was in november and my birthday is in april! I had to undo it and pay for it much to the amusement of the people in the shop queue

DeeRiguer · 25/02/2008 17:39

lol janni
am hoping for a decent malt! that would make my day
hate all the twee cards and find it difficult to wade through the sickly gross ones to find a suitable one for my mum
its such a load of tosh and seems to be early this year, no?

JossStick · 25/02/2008 17:31

Janni

Janni · 25/02/2008 17:29

In our local shop they're flogging teddy bears for Mother's Day. I mean, is there a mother on here who does not have enough teddy bears in her house already FFS?

2shoes · 25/02/2008 17:13

lol

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idlingabout · 25/02/2008 17:00

The worst of the bunch at the moment is a selection of '80's music. I am not a big fan of that decade's music but there is some great stuff - unfortunately none of it on this particular selection. DP and I were watching the ad for it and turned to each other with ''all the worst of the '80's'' on bith our lips, only for the immortal line''perfect for Mothers' Day'' to be next. DP found that hilarious; I will not be amused if he encourages dd to buy it.

2shoes · 25/02/2008 16:54

well if ds was to choose it will be slayer or mettalica

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JossStick · 25/02/2008 16:52

I got the best of the Grateful Dead last year .

I think DSs are old enough to choose for themselves now - Eeek!

2shoes · 25/02/2008 16:45

omg the look on horror on my face is they got me some shitty mothers day cd.
hang they won't ds has taste in music.....phew

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idlingabout · 25/02/2008 16:35

Agreed JossStick - can't stand twee cards. I usually buy a blank card I know my mum would like and write in the Happy Mothers' Day bit.
I am finding myself increasingly irritated with all those ads for nauseatingly awful cd's - 'the perfect gift for Mothers' Day' being the final insult.

JossStick · 25/02/2008 16:24

I saw the Ann Summers poster today too - who is that aimed at exactly? DC for mum, us for our mums, DH/DP for wife !!!!

You know what i hate having been out and about today........that i can't get my mum a single card that reflects her personality - they're all pink, pale green and yellow and have flowers or worse on. Bleurgh!!! Wrapping paper also just as bad.

Mumcentreplus · 25/02/2008 16:19

I used to really look forward to Mothers Day as a child...Special hand-made crap card ..and Brekkie in bed for Mum.. me and my sisters loved making her feel special...but now it is way too commercialised as others have said.

cheeset · 25/02/2008 16:11

I hate it too. I hate having to conform to stuff like this and valentines day as I conform for most of the bloody year! Mortgages, schooling, blah, blah, blah...

Having to smile sweetly to the family knowing they have conformed, makes me so cross.

It's so blooming predictable, gosh I'm pissed just thinking about it.

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edam · 25/02/2008 15:54

lol at Anne Summers - I wish I had the effrontery to give my mother something from there as a joke...

Katiekitty · 25/02/2008 15:53

On my high street, the ann summers shop has a 'an ideal gift for mothers day' poster in their window... ummm, really? I think it's all gone a bit too commercial when a dildo or pair of nylon crotchless panties is an ideal gift for one's mother... or maybe I've just not moved with the times?

bigbumhole · 25/02/2008 14:45

I feel for you 2shoes, i cant imagine how upsetting and awful it must be for you. Its all comertial bull poo in this day in age.

As DP always says "i bet clinton cards invented valentines day for a cash in" fair point!

Hope YOU get spoilt on sunday

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