Boxing Day. Pyjama day or hit the sales?

[SouthernOne]

I work in retail.

Christmas rota has just gone up.

So the poor folk that are working Boxing Day are starting work at 5am.

Really, why the heck would you need to be shopping at 6am on Boxing Day morning.

Pyjama day for me this year:)

I really judge people who go to the Boxing Day sales. I see them as grabby and greedy with nothing better to do.

Feel really sorry for anyone who has to work. You can't even have a drink the night before if you have to drive early the next day, so it spoils Christmas Day too.

My sister used to have to stay late on Christmas Eve to get all of the sale stock out and onto the shelves. She had no chance to spend time with her DC once she got home as he'd be in bed and asleep, ChristmasPresence . It pretty much spoils all of Christmas.

Christmas presence, I know where you're coming from.

I refuse to go shopping on Boxing Day because of the people who work in retail. Many of my students are, and they have to work awful hours over the Christmas period. It must ruin Christmas for them. However, it's not just students who work in retail - so many mums with young families do too. Why can't people just spend a couple of days away from the shops?

I like getting out on Boxing Day, to get away from the extended family pressure-cooker. But there is no way in hell I'd be even THINKING about going shopping at 6am, that really does seem ridiculous. 11am would be the earliest I would contemplate leaving the house.

Here in France 'Boxing Day' is just another day, everyone goes back to work unless they have specifically used annual leave to take the day off.

But if it was a public holiday, I'm pretty sure everything would be closed. Shops don't even open on Sundays here.

We have been shopping on Boxing Day before but only in the for an hour or so in the afternoon. Both cd have birthdays in the week leading to christmas so it's a good chance to get some last minutes pressies.

I would think there's something seriously wrong with a person who gets up at 5 am for any shopping activity, let alone Boxing Day.

Every year I thank my lucky stars I don't work in retail.

I used to work in retail. It was grim at Christmas. As someone else said, you work late on Christmas Eve and have to be in early in Boxing Day. People were animals! Pushing, shoving and even swapping price tickets to save an extra pound.

I vowed I would never set foot in a shop on Boxing Day in silent solidarity of all the poor souls that have to work. Sounds wanky but you know what I mean.

I think there needs to be a mass boycott of Boxing Day shopping. If no one shops, it won't be worth the cost of opening. 2 days off for shop staff isn't a lot. I know the nurses/emergency services have to work, but it's not a 'like for like' comparison (I started a thread about this a couple of years ago and was told this).

well i'm a sad fucker then. don't get up at six though next doesn't do it for me, though i did get a very nice sofa from them a year or so ago. have to also get to supermarket to get stuff in for mil to take home.

I lasted one year of working in retail. An absolutely soul destroying experience. People are just so incredibly rude to shop assistants. It really opened my eyes.

I went to the Trafford centre on Boxing Day once. Never ever again.
Anyway you can shop the sales on line these days so there's no need.

I have never been shopping on Boxing Day and I'm not about to start anytime soon. We'll probably go to the rugby club for the annual president's XVI v chairman's XVI match and a few drinks afterwards before going home for some more chocolate and leftovers.

It hasn't occured to me to go shopping and drag the dc along. We will get up when we like, do what we like, go for a walk, watch a film, play games, argue:)

But I don't go shopping sundays either. Sundays when small were for doing nothing, massive lunch, long walk for firewood and home for tea bath bed.

And with the Internet, it's even more fabulous as I can shop for food etc anytime, anything I want, and the dc and I have lots of free time not to wander round shops.

I'm glad I work in a library, we close Xmas eve and Boxing Day. Shut early NYE and closed on Jan 1st.

No, not for me either. I felt really guilty last year as I did go to the supermarket on Boxing Day as I was cooking a 3 course dinner and forgot the cream which was a key ingredient.

I think Sunday opening hours should be relaxed but in exchange Boxing Day opening should be banned, other than for a few shops/pharmacies which sell the types of goods one could need in an 'emergency' situation.

I'm fighting the urge to go. I love the fat face sale 50% off and always current stock

Mostly a pj day here too. I can't think of anything worse than sales on any day Boxing Day! We will stay in pjs eating chocolate and watching rubbish on TV until about 1 as we've booked a table to go out for a meal. I have visitors Christmas Eve and Christmas Day so it will be lovely not to have to cook! Then it will probably be back home to watch more rubbish

I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than go shopping on Boxing Day.