Same thing every week...

[willman 10]

Do you do the same thing every week even though you don't have to?

 

I don't mean the gym or work, which usually have constraints set both on them and your life.

 

Like queueing at the post office every Tuesday or in my parents case - the weekly shop every Thursday.

They've been retired for 25 years almost,there has been no family at home for the past 15 years - yet they still insist on shopping every week on Thursday. So much so that they won't do anything else on that day.

Is it an age thing ? Or is it organisational ?

 

I shop when we need sufficient stuff to warrant it, we might do things on certain days - such as retail outlets at weekends when you have more time but thats a choice we make.

 

[Top Cats Hat 10]

2 hours ago, willman said:

- yet they still insist on shopping every week on Thursday.

Insist is a very strong word. They do their shopping on a Thursday because they've always done it then. Is there any pressing reason why they should shop on another day?

[Guest makapaka]

2 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:

Insist is a very strong word. They do their shopping on a Thursday because they've always done it then. Is there any pressing reason why they should shop on another day?

What a strange contribution-are you trying to tell them what their own parents do or don’t do and why?

 

i think the answer is more to do with routine and i think as you get older a sense of order can  be comforting.

 

People can prepare and plan for activities and reduce stresses / physical exertions associated with certain things which can be less appealing as you get older.

 

just my opinion.

[Top Cats Hat 10]

9 minutes ago, makapaka said:

What a strange contribution-are you trying to tell them what their own parents do or don’t do and why?

No.

 

What I am saying is acually the opposite. 🙄

[lectrolove 10]

A lot of elderly people shop on Thursdays, it seems to be a "thing" for that age group. Sainsburys is always rammed with elderly shoppers on Thursdays. This mystifies me.

[Mister M 1,625]

8 minutes ago, lectrolove said:

A lot of elderly people shop on Thursdays, it seems to be a "thing" for that age group. Sainsburys is always rammed with elderly shoppers on Thursdays. This mystifies me.

I remember going to the supermarket a lot with my Dad on a Thursday after work in the 1970s, and it being really busy. I think that Thursday must've been pay day.

[Top Cats Hat 10]

9 minutes ago, lectrolove said:

A lot of elderly people shop on Thursdays, it seems to be a "thing" for that age group.

No great mystery.

 

Before people were paid monthly by bank transfer most working and lower middle class employees were paid with cash on a Thursday. 😀

 

 

[Guest makapaka]

1 hour ago, Top Cats Hat said:

No.

 

What I am saying is acually the opposite. 🙄

What - not to tell his parents what to do?

[Dreb48 35]

Thursday was always the main day for people collecting their pension from the Post Office.

The routine of shopping on that day stems from this even though today virtually  all pensioners have it paid into a bank account.

[apelike 10]

10 minutes ago, Dreb48 said:

Thursday was always the main day for people collecting their pension from the Post Office.

The routine of shopping on that day stems from this even though today virtually  all pensioners have it paid into a bank account.

Actually that's a bit wrong as plenty of able bodied OAP's still prefer to get it from the PO as attested by those in the PO queues. I get mine on a Wednesday from the PO in Wilkinsons, pay my bills that are not DD and then do my main shopping after that. As you say its a bit of a routine.

[willman 10]

2 hours ago, Top Cats Hat said:

Insist is a very strong word. They do their shopping on a Thursday because they've always done it then. Is there any pressing reason why they should shop on another day?

No insist is THE word.  Unless its to collect a lottery jackpot win my father will do nothing else on Thursday until he has done a supermarket shop and had a cafe lunch.

 

52 minutes ago, Dreb48 said:

Thursday was always the main day for people collecting their pension from the Post Office.

The routine of shopping on that day stems from this even though today virtually  all pensioners have it paid into a bank account.

I think my mums reasoning originally stems from the old pay packet on aThursday every week when we were children. She then always shopped on Thursdays in town as that was where she worked and brought it home on the bus.Then when they both retired it still carried on but he drives them to do it,which as i say has been for decades now. 

[willman 10]

1 hour ago, Top Cats Hat said:

No great mystery.

 

Before people were paid monthly by bank transfer most working and lower middle class employees were paid with cash on a Thursday. 😀

 

 

But as per the original question - do you do the same thing for no real reason week in and week out ?

 

If someone came to visit on your shopping day would you accomodate them or make them go shopping with you?

 

Once upon a time i had to fetch my shopping religiously before 5.30 closing time, now i regularly shop at all times of the day or night. For  decades i couldn't shop on a Sunday and was forced to domesticated for day , i now shop with great relish on a Sunday.

 

Don't get me wrong i have no issue with whatever makes them happy. I just wondered if anyone under pension age behaved that way.

Edited May 17, 2019 by willman