Right own up!! There must be one or two gulity

[Greedo]

people on here.

Every year on Boxing day when you see the news on the TV there is footage of people in droves queuing outside shops waiting on the sales to start.

Some even start at 6 in the morning like Next apparantly.

How sad must you be to get up and go and fight your way around shops to save a few quid on stuff. It's all a bit materialistic is it not.

Are people that pissed off with their families that the only way to get away from them is to go to the sales??

Okay I might forgive a major purchase like a sofa or something that you are going to save hundereds on, but still it's a concept I can't get my head round.

 

[PaulB]

Good shout, Greedo. How sad would you have to be to get up early on Boxing Day to get to a shop? Now I normally go to a football match on Boxing Day but I've heard horror stories of appalling behaviour at these sales that were they to occur at a football stadium, would have the ground closed or at the least see many arrests.

 

[ChrisKH]

My sister-in-law is outside Next at 5.00am on Boxing Day. Every Boxing Day.

I always said my brother was mad to marry her. Mind you she's so tight she squeaks when she walks.

 

[tyred]

Not me. I don't understand why people feel the need to do so much shopping. Many of these "bargain hunters" will proudly explain about the massive discount they got on something they probably didn't even need...

 

[Maz]

Years ago (when sales were proper sales) my neighbour camped outside a furniture shop for 2 days to get a brand new 3-piece suite for £1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[PaulB]

Not me. I don't understand why people feel the need to do so much shopping. Many of these "bargain hunters" will proudly explain about the massive discount they got on something they probably didn't even need...

Exactly. They'll openly boast about how much they saved as though it were some sort of competition between the shop and themselves. Funny how they never say how much they unsaved by buying something they don't need and will maybe never use or wear.

 

[PaulB]

Years ago (when sales were proper sales) my neighbour camped outside a furniture shop for 2 days to get a brand new 3-piece suit for £1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now there's absolutely nowt wrong with that!

 

[snakehips]

I was in the Bentall's Centre Kingston a few days ago and I noticed an unseemly gathering.
It seemed that people were queueing to get in to a shop called Pier which is apparently closing down. Staff were having to regulate the numbers allowed in!
Unbelievable behaviour

 

[Chromatic]

I was in the Bentall's Centre Kingston a few days ago and I noticed an unseemly gathering.
It seemed that people were queueing to get in to a shop called Pier which is apparently closing down. Staff were having to regulate the numbers allowed in!
Unbelievable behaviour

Same in Bournemouth at the weekend according to daughter.

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

Can't understand it meself. Mrs-LC likes a look round after a week or two to see if there's anything she fancies, but as for queuing up outside ..

She tends to go when it's quietened down a bit and she doesn't have to take me or the Little-LCs 'cos we get bored and whingy and playing on the escalators only amuses us for a little while.

 

[spandex]

I never have and I hope I never will one thing I love doing is going out say around 7 or 8am on xmas day for a bike ride it is just like you are the only one in the world.

 

[Landslide]

I'll have better things to do...

 

[Fnaar]

We had a teacher at school called Mr Sales. His nickname was 'January' :-)

 

[tdr1nka]

You can get some practice in at Woolworths tomorrow morning.

 

[snakehips]

We had a teacher at school called Mr Sales. His nickname was 'January' :-)

That must have been a while ago. These days his nickname would be all-year-round