To find Bank Holiday Monday annoying!

[Aquarius1234]

Who else finds bank Holiday Mondays annoying!!

Ive completely wasted the day...

I haven't done much housework today. On a positive note i have finished the 10th deptq book. I have pre ordered the 11th deptq book which will be released in September. At least i will get something that i actually want for my birthday.

I won't get paid because I'm an agency worker (supply staff in a school) and have no control over whether to work or not, since the school is closed. But it's been good to have a 3 day weekend. I spent Saturday and Sunday doing nice shopping, going out for cocktails and lunch, so today I've been catching up on housework and food shopping and am now watching a film. The extra day means less pressure to get essential house stuff done over the weekend.

If you wasted your day, that's not the fault of it being a bank holiday!

Yes I do - because my husband has been at home all day so I can't get on with things.

This is precisely why I don’t work Mondays. Well that and I like having the long weekend.

Hate bank holidays.
Get forced to use a precious day of hols (I only get 28 per year, including bank hols, and work 6 days a week), and then the following day is unbearable. Will probably have to work till at least 9 tomorrow, and 8ish on Weds to catch up. How is that time off?

I used to dislike them when I worked in education as I would use the bank holiday for my hobby but then as it was bank holiday no one would respond to my emails so I couldn't get things done for my hobby. Today has been ok, I spent some quality time with my son earlier and then later this afternoon/ early evening I've done a couple of hours on writing part of an assignment.

I’ve done absolutely nothing productive but I absolutely do not see that as a waste!

Bank holiday weekends in my 20s had a specific purpose, these days it’s just another day I need to entertain DD. Yawn.

I’ve just finished a 12 hour shift at work. We were fully staffed for a change because we get paid time and a half for bank holidays 🤣🤣

just got home and had a chocolate orange baileys then I am going to read in bed. 4 days off back in work on Saturday.

Sort of agree Op. Whilst it’s nice to have the day off it’s a weird non day.
Shops are Sunday hours but everywhere to visit is packed. Hard to know what to do.

I too have had a great day.

Coffee in bed
2 loads of laundry done
Huge pile of ironing sorted (including 15 pillowcases!)
3 new plants sorted
Long hot shower, hair wash, body scrub, body lotion.
Took time to do my make up, listening to Tony Blackburn Soul Show on R2
Headed to work for 3 hours and got paid very well for my Bank Holiday ‘pain’
Heading home now, will put pjs on and watch an hour or so of telly before bed by 11.

Lovely day.

I don't know anywhere that was closed today. Had a rotten week last week and boiler was condemned so went swimming with my son, mainly so that I could have a hot shower.

I wouldn’t have considered it wasted even if I’d done nothing but lie on the sofa with cups of tea, reading my book.

Why don’t you do something with the day then?! I went on a run, went shopping, had lunch out, went to a National Trust place, did some knitting, watched a film, walked my dog, had a nap. Now I’m going to bed early with a book!

Monday is my non working day so I'm always off but it does mean that I get the hours off to take at another time so that's a bonus!
What made it better than any normal Monday is I got to spend it with my husband and 2 lovely children instead. Nothing exciting but we had a chilled out Morning, visit to a Historic House and Gardens with lunch, back home to build Lego, then burgers and a movie. Nothing exciting but just time spent with my favourite people.

I find it annoying as it’s my usual day off and now I feel like I’ve been short changed of my quiet day

I had a lovely day, my partner was off work so we took our two children to the transport museum, went for a lovely walk in the park in the afternoon and then a takeaway for dinner. Perfect!

It's a day off work, what's not to like. I've played padel for 2.5 hours, come home knackered so had a snooze on the sofa. Watched a film. Nothing major but nice. Definitely better than working

I would much prefer to work and take a day off in lieu when every Tom, Dick and Harry isn't off, and everywhere isn't full of children. I just hate Bank Holiday crowds... Everyone is off so everywhere is rammed, and prices are ramped up, plus they introduce minimum stay rules on campsites etc.

I tend to enjoy doing nothing much to make the most of enforced time off at an unsuitable time. I have listened to my audiobook, taken part in a solitary hobby, been to a gym class I love, but don't usually get to do as I work on a Monday, plus done some things in the garden that needed doing. I batch cooked both a lunch and dinner meal. It's about making the most of the cards we are dealt and even though it's not what I would choose, I have had a lovely balanced day.

I didn't like this one because I was to ill to enjoy it so spent nearly all day in bed.

I usually love a bank holiday because if the weather's good we'd have a BBQ and have all of our 5 grown up DC and our DIL around(only 2 still at home)that or we'd go out somewhere nice.

I took Friday as my bank holiday and worked today. A decision based entirely on the weather.

I love them. I only get Sundays off work so an extra day is mint. I don't care if it's productive or not. It's just off work.

Some of us don’t get bank holidays off and it’s a normal work day, enjoying complaining about your wasted time to spend how you want.

I don't find bank holidays annoying. I find my attitude annoying. I start with great intentions, end up staying too late on Sunday nights because I can, and then waking up too late. Then thinking "well, I've wasted half the morning now so I may as well stay in bed even longer and watch crap on my phone".

Then I get up and think "well, I've got to have something to eat soon, I've missed breakfast, so I can't think about going out clothes shopping right now."

I have something to eat, then think "oh, I'm full of food, I'll sit down with a cuppa and let my lunch/brunch digest". End up doom scrolling or falling asleep. Then I think "well it's getting late now, shops will be closing soon and I haven't cleaned the bathroom like I was meant to." Wander about the house putting off cleaning the bathroom "because it's a bank holiday and I don't want to waste it cleaning the bathroom!".

And repeat until now.
I haven't done absoLUTELY nothing this weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, I have done a couple of loads of washing, done some cleaning in the kitchen, done a food shop, been to see my mum yesterday.

But I always have plans to be productive with the extra day, deep cleaning everywhere or decluttering or doing n loads of work in the garden and instead I self-sabotage, watching travel vlogs most of the day. At least the result of that is that I think DH and I have decide to plan a bucket list trip to Alaska next year, so not all bad. 😆

Bank holidays are more guilt-inducing when you're middle-aged and no longer filling the day to keep the kids occupied. You feel you deserve to not feel obliged to do anything. So instead you do nothing.

I used to love staying up late but not crazy late and sleeping in more than I ever do during the week.
But for some reason ive been waking early and then as you say scrolling on the phone all morning and just being tired.

I woke up properly about 8pm today lol

BTW why is it called doom scrolling these days?