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why do people take small children shoping on saturdays/

115 replies

codswallop · 23/10/2004 15:12

why?

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suedonim · 23/10/2004 17:57

I've spawned a family of shopaholics, that's why we go shopping!! Not on a Sat am, though, we're never up in time. Dd2 has been nagging me for two weeks to go to Ikea but it's a 250 mile round trip from here and dh doesn't want to go.

CountessDracula · 23/10/2004 17:57

I take my dd with me because I don't see her much in the week and I like hanging out with her as much as I can at weekends, plus she loves it.

Not food shopping though as I do ocado

dinosaur · 23/10/2004 17:57

GeorginaA - that's BRILLIANT!!! Will keep it in reserve for the next time (cos I'm sure there will be one...).

captainCOD · 23/10/2004 17:57

no dino its just you
I have never had that!

dinosaur · 23/10/2004 17:57

Coddy - ROFL!

dinosaur · 23/10/2004 17:58

Coddy you probably look too scary...

captainCOD · 23/10/2004 17:59

dont htink girls would be a good dino idea

captainCOD · 23/10/2004 18:00

cd does poor dd have to say " oh mummy your bum looks miniscule in t his"?

marialuisa · 23/10/2004 18:00

Just to prove we are a family of freaks-have dbro (9) staying with me. He has requested a trip to the TRafford Centre, DD chorused her enthusiasm.

If yournkids don't like shopping it's because you didn't get them trained early enough

captainCOD · 23/10/2004 18:01

BUT MY POINT IS THAT DOY OU TAKE THEM CLOTHES SHOPPING FOR YOU?
thats it! nto fannyingaround on escalators or whatever

marthamoo · 23/10/2004 18:28

marialuisa, I have been training them since birth (I love to shop!) - they still don't like it. Though they do like the big dolphin fountain in the Trafford Centre - but can I drag them away from it to shop????

bay · 23/10/2004 19:01

cod, does your kids watch cramp twins by any chance?
I take my kids clothes shopping for me, clothes shopping for them, clothes shopping for who ever, if not I would never have any new clothes!! And they would be in new born gear still.

captainCOD · 23/10/2004 19:04

lol yes girl pants

bay · 23/10/2004 19:07
Grin
woodpops · 23/10/2004 20:26

Codwallop, sometimes we have no choice but to take the kids into town with us on a Saturday. But if we do we're in by 8:15 so we can window shop what we want before the shops open so when they do open we can just wizz round and out. 99% of the time we're out by 10:30 just as the crowds start. But my real gripe is old people that go and do their shopping in Sainsburys on a Saturday. For Gods sake they've got all bloody week!!!!

MarmaladeSun · 23/10/2004 21:58

Maybe the old people spend all week feeling really lonely, and want the 'company' of being around crowds?

woodpops · 23/10/2004 22:27

I know I should be more tollerent of them but they really wind me up when I'm trying to wizz round the shop.

Caligula · 23/10/2004 22:51

I'm involved with a charity which befriends old people who don't get visits from family members or friends.

You may laugh, but Marmalade Sun is right - there are unbelievable numbers of old people who literally feel so lonely that they go out in order to experience the feeling of being in company.

Please don't feel impatient with them. One of the reasons that they chat to the check-out girl and spin out the handing over the money and collecting the change is because they have literally nothing to go home to.

Sorry for being holier than thou, but I think people aren't always aware of this.

handlemecarefully · 23/10/2004 23:37

Well I think old people should be able to shop where and when they damn well like without being censured and judged by others.

Back to the main subject - I think it's mistaken to always assume that a toddler mid tantrum in a shopping centre is screaming his / her head off because they are tired, bored and don't want to be there. My toddler tantrums all the time for no apparent reason - she has it down to an art form. She tantrums when engaged in her favourite activities...and just because she can!(This afternoon at home she tantrummed because she wanted to paint with red paint - and this was despite me offering the red paint to her and saying "here, take the red paint"). She quite likes shopping, shes's a people watcher and enjoys the hustle and bustle of it. Despite this she sometimes throws a fit when we are roaming around West Quay. We do occasionally go shopping on a Saturday and we take the kids with us when we are buying something which needs both my and dh's input (nobody to fob the kids off onto and tbh I don't want to, I like being with them)

KristinaM · 23/10/2004 23:53

I take my children shopping on a Saturday because its the nanny and the butler's day off.

Caligula · 23/10/2004 23:53

Couldn't you leave them with the gardener? !

nikkim · 23/10/2004 23:54

lol Kristina!

nikkim · 23/10/2004 23:54

Was she joking - on here you never know!!

KristinaM · 24/10/2004 00:05

No, the gardener doesn't like children. But I could ask the chauffeur.Thanks for the suggestion Nikkim.

KateandtheGirls · 24/10/2004 02:10

Handlemecarefully, your toddler sounds just like mine!

I sometimes take my two shopping at the weekend because:

a) the weather's lousy so we can't go anywhere outdoors,
b) the three of us are bored and want to get out of the house,
c) the change of scenery keeps them entertained for a while,
d) we'll usually eat lunch or have ice cream or something while we're out,
e) there are fun little play centres at the shopping centres,
f) I can occasionally do some actual serious shopping when they're with me.

On the other hand, I don't expect to be able to do very much in the way of shopping when they're with me, and given the choice I would rather leave them home with a sitter (which I do sometimes).

On yet another hand, if the shopping centres were like in England in that they still allowed smoking inside, I wouldn't take the kids.