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TheArtfulDogger

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I have just been shopping in ED looking for those last few gifts and stocking fillers and love the fact that the shops are so packed and busy (good to hear the festive Ker Ching from the tills)


However can I make a requesgt to the Mums and ladies of East Dulwich to do everyone a simple favour.. ask your husbands / Boyfriends or Lovers* not to come shopping with you and to take the kids to the park / cafe or child friendly pub as I saw three poor partners who didn't get the idea of shopping "It's too expensive for Mimi" or "Why are't we getting that - sigh" and a few of them even standing awkwardly in the aisle with buggies making it hard for the other shoppers to get around.


Ladies - please remember that for Christmas most** men want one thing and one thing only (apart from socks) and that is to be left at home / in the pub whilst the Christmas shopping is happening.


So please make it a wonderful and stressful experience for everyone and have a happy Christmas***



Notes:

* Best not to bring Husband, Boyfriend and Lover at the same time as that may cause real arguments.

** most but not all men !

*** And keep on shopping locally to keep these fantastic businesses local too.

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Inkmaiden

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Wow, I'd love to be left at home/in the pub whilst the Christmas shopping is happening.

I wonder if you'd find that actually what most women want at Christmas is not to be expected to shoulder the entire burden of present shopping/ wrapping/ food buying/menu planning/ general Christmas organising whilst working/child rearing/cleaning/cooking/washing at the same time. Or maybe that's just me.

And just because my boyfriend is useless at Christmas shopping doesn't mean he doesn't have a vital role to play in carrying all the shopping bags.

OliviaDee

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artful i will be shopping tomorrow from 3 till 6. how kind of you of to say you would prefer to be left at home rather than encounter me out and about. i have three children between 6 and 18 months. i have pm'd you my address. they can sometimes be a bit feral with strangers but since it is all in a good cause i'm sure you'll manage. oh and i might stop by the pub on they way back - what a great idea of yours! - so we should probably make it 3 till 9 afterall. i have suggested you to some other friends of mine who still have some shopping to do and they are absolutely delighted and will be in touch. thank you so much - love this forum!
GrumpyGranny

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Calm down everyone - I suggest people go shopping on their own and leave their children with family / friends / neighbours - I went shopping in Lordship Lane today and so wanted to comfort the babies & children in prams/buggies who were shrieking their heads off. Listen - they are telling you THEY WANT TO GO HOME!!!!!
Gimme

Gimme

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Just spent afternoon on LL with wife and two kids in buggy. V pleasant, thankfully no shrieking and no obviously malign feeing from grumpy singletons in evidence, contrary to sentiment in this thread.


However, my word, Sainsburys was unpleasant! It wasn't buggies that were the issue, more the psychos in the cheese aisle with their overloaded trollies. Police in riot gear were sitting outside in their van waiting for it all to kick off!


Perhaps we are seeing in ED a microscopic case study of our overcrowded planet.

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