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why do people take small children shoping on saturdays/

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codswallop · 23/10/2004 15:12

why?

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moomina · 23/10/2004 15:13

why do you think, coddy?

hercules · 23/10/2004 15:15

Perhaps because they are at work all week!

Lonelymum · 23/10/2004 15:15

Are we talking high street or supermarket here?

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codswallop · 23/10/2004 15:15

becasue they must be masochists!
the kids hate it
they hate it
its awful.
OR why od they take men clothes shopping?
t he men hate it they hate it

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codswallop · 23/10/2004 15:15

well shopping centres.

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marthamoo · 23/10/2004 15:15

Perhaps because their dh is at work and they have run out of bread and milk...says moo who will shortly be off to Tesco with two miserable kids in tow.

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codswallop · 23/10/2004 15:16

oh no I dont mean food
I mean to a chopping centre for clothes and stuff.

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marthamoo · 23/10/2004 15:16

Oh shop shopping, as opposed to food shopping! Because they don't have the imagination to do anything else with their kids and it's better than staying in all day?

Lonelymum · 23/10/2004 15:16

I can't remember the last time I went shopping with my kids on a Saturday morning. Perhaps you should avoid that time too, though in my experience, any time of any day is murder.

hercules · 23/10/2004 15:18

So just when are you meant to go clothes shopping etc if you work all week then?

hercules · 23/10/2004 15:19

so why do people who dont work go to shopping centres at the weekend then?

moomina · 23/10/2004 15:20

Marthamoo, are you saying that anything other than food shopping is inessential and the sign of a lazy mind, then?

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codswallop · 23/10/2004 15:22

I would nip out at lunctime or leave the kids at home with dh or friend or somthing
lots of hot and botheres kids today - IME parents always over dress them in shoppping centres.

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codswallop · 23/10/2004 15:23

hersules - I do work!

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hercules · 23/10/2004 15:27

I'm taking this too seriously.

Tbh I go on weds as I'm off then so i dont go on sats.

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codswallop · 23/10/2004 15:28

yes I try to go ( if I have to) on a saturdya morning as alt he teenagers go int he afternoon but blimey
poor kids in changing rooms

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MistressMary · 23/10/2004 15:29

I think they take them on Saturdays to annoy you.
Seriously they must work or consider it a day out and children alway want something, don't they?
Usually after an hour or so they want to go home!
such is life, eh?
I want to know why they think children actually like shopping and enjoy being stuck in queues etc?
I have to do it and I hate it.
But then perhaps thats why I hate it, I was being forced to go shopping on Saturdays with Mum! Swings and roundabouts I guess.

acer · 23/10/2004 15:35

Why not!

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codswallop · 23/10/2004 15:37

becasue they are tired bored and scream a lot

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moomina · 23/10/2004 15:38

I think I might be taking this thread a bit too seriously too?!

'They must work or consider it a day out'??? Or maybe 'they' don't have anyone else to look after the children and 'they' need to buy something other than bread or milk? Maybe?

Mo2 · 23/10/2004 15:38

We take kids shopping on Saturday mornings sometimes because:

  • we both work full time
  • sometimes you need to actually have them with you e.g. to get them new shoes
  • because it's part of 'ordinary life' and think they might as well get used to it
  • sometimes it's just before we all go for lunch or something
  • we haven't got any relatives/ friends who we'd feel able to foist them off on for Saturday morning

That said, we don't go clothes shopping for ourselves with them - mostly food shopping/ kids party presents etc

jampot · 23/10/2004 15:39

i tend to go shopping now on a Sunday morning with dd (ds prefers to stay at home with his daddy) and we have finish our trip off with a visit to a restaurant for drinks and cake. DD loves it - we look at clothes and have a laugh. When they were little I would avoid taking them whereever possible and haven't been to town on a Saturday (with or without them) for years

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codswallop · 23/10/2004 15:40

I can se that you may go to a kids clothes shop but really next changing rooms ?

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acer · 23/10/2004 15:41

I am just about to take my eldest, who is 6, with me because he has asked to come, basically if he has a tantrum around Waitrose because he wants something and I have said no then tough on everyone else, free country. My youngest who is 4 comes with me regularly, because he likes to sit in the trolley still.

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codswallop · 23/10/2004 15:41

oh yes supermarkets fine but woudl you really take them as fashion advsisors?!!

a dna s for Men!

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