To wonder if Sundays in the 80s were restful or boring

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Large stores were closed on Sundays. Eating out was a rare treat. No Deliveroo. 3 TV channels to choose from. People got their exercise from a walk or cycling rather than the gym. Children played out rather than being taken to organised activities.

Just pondering ... were Sundays more relaxing or a bit of a drag?

As a kid in the 80s very boring. Sunday evenings went in forever.

I was a child in the 80s and found Sundays so dull. It felt like the world contracted on that day.

I think Morrissey was right in his description in the song "Everyday is like Sunday".

Not only was everything shut, there was nothing good on TV (just black and white films) and my friends never seemed to be around on to play with. Not sure why!

Dull as fuck in the 60s. Wasn't allowed to meet up with friends who were spending equally dull Sundays at home. Westerns on tv, tinned salmon sandwiches for tea and nana round every week

Definitely.

We always went to church. Afterwards we would go to the church hall for a glass of orange juice and club biscuit. When we got home we’d watch telly or play out and then have a roast about 1.30. I had a lot of siblings and kids on the street so was never bored By high school I had homework to do or would meet up with friends at the park. It was definitely more relaxed and special compared to now.

I didn't hate it because older people were in it.
I hate it to this day couldn't stand the characters and found it unfunny dross.
Porridge on the other hand was ace.

i was a teenager, there were no trains
it was all we knew so i dont remember being bored
until i left home and went to london
then that was tough on a sunday

Dad would take us to the pub with him to give mum an hour of peace. She’d make the Sunday roast while we were all out. We weren’t allowed inside the pub back then so we’d be in the garden with loads of other children. If we didn’t do that we might go and see a relative or if just at home I would usually read or write stories.

On tv there was usually an old black and white movie or series like little house on the prairie, Walton’s or lost in space.

Sunday mornings were ok. After lunch I always felt a sense of doom which reached a peak by the time I heard the theme music for last of the summer wine. I really hated school so I always found Sunday afternoon/evening really hard.

I remember a big fundraiser at the Newcastle Guildhall for food parcels for miners’ families in Northumberland. It would have been in the winter of 1984, I think.

There was a colliery brass band on the programme, the Poison Girls and Department S.

I loved an 80s Sunday!

Everything is too fast and available now. It’s good for people to slow down and be ‘bored’. Packaged as being mindful nowadays.

Are you me??

You're the only one I've seen who's ever remembered Suzy magazine! Don't forget Girl and Dreamer, too!

It was the longest day of the week by far. Church in the morning (which was pretty boring in itself) than the endless expanse of hours in the afternoon, where nothing happened. I was an only child and my parents hated each other so Sundays spent together were extra miserable.

The only light in that particularly boring tunnel was Ski Sunday, which I adored.

As a teen I was working in a restaurant on Sundays - eating out was very popular back then!

A bit boring but also calming. Sunday was a day for walking, gardening, visiting family, doing sports/hobbies.

I loved having a day when towns were quiet.

Usually church/sunday school. Then to my grandparents house. I have lots of cousins so usually there was a few of us there.
Nana would make lentil soup with a ham shank, and make melba toast. Pudding would be pink jelly (milk instead of water ti melt) or a homemade pavlova. Haven't a clue about the main course, probably a chicken skinned to the bone.
We'd Then play cards, usually trumps, in pairs or domino's.
Grandad would put a video on of episodes of steptoe and son or a marx brother film.

I loved it but yes was sometimes bored. Boredom makes you invent your own fun though, and get out and explore!

I ran feral on parks and waste ground but home for roast, then maybe another play out before weekly bath time and antiques roadshow, that’s life, all creatures great and small, the two ronnies, even songs of praise!. Miss us only having one TV to watch and all watching the same thing!

Stifling and suffocating. I absolutely hated them.
We didn’t go anywhere. We didn’t do anything.
I used to sit on the front step hoping to see some life and activity going past.

Boring AF

Boring when I was a child, but I had parents that didn’t prioritise the children like we do nowadays. We’d have gone to mass at 10am. Had a big roast at 3pm, supper at 7. And that was it. Now, it’s all about making sure children are entertained and have something nice to do.

As a child they were good. Sunday school, Sunday dinner, then playing out. Bath and hair wash then buttered toast and That's Life.
As an early teen they were dull. Mooching about until the charts were on the radio then trying to record tracks without the DJ coming in and ruining the end.
As an older teen/early 20s they were recovery from Saturday night. In bed under guise of homework (No ID in those days so clubbing at age 15) Dad regularly shouting up the stairs that I was 'wasting the day'.
As a young mum they were respite. Parents for Sunday dinner then sat reading Sunday tabloids while they entertained DC.

Sundays in winter were difficult, though lack of shops opening was not the reason. Early winter darkness when there was little choice of home based entertainment.

I don't ever remember finding them that boring even though they were quite formulaic. We generally went to church, then to either set of grandparents for a roast and the rest of the afternoon, or if at home, watching TV while the lunch was cooked. Went for a walk, to the park, etc. My dad also used to take us swimming late afternoon for a period of time, then it would back home for tea and getting ready for bed with the usual Songs of Praise/Antiques Roadshow lineup on TV.

Boring for me. We would always go to my grandparents for Sunday dinner. Had to sit at the table until we had finished everything (including peas yuk!) - sometimes this felt like hours. Similar to a pp the highlight was the chart show on radio 1, excited to listen and see what was number 1. We would listen to this whilst the adults were watching Antiques Roadshow/Last of the Summer Wine.

My parents has their worst arguments every Sunday. We never played out due to cars and HMOs. The shops were shut there were no play dates and no one dropped in on us. It was dire.