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I didn't know whether to put this and will pull if you think it unsuitable but today is Mothering Sunday and I love it.

For the seventeenth year running I will not have to spend my money on chocolates that will be necked, apart from one or two, in an evening with perhaps two being grudgingly given away to those who deserve them less than she.

I won't have to buy the trousers that, despite being sold with the promise to change for a different size if they didn't fit, were taken apart to be altered (she didn't know how to) and hung about on the sofa for a couple of years in pieces while I was daily berated for my lack of gratitude.

I won't have to watch her take a day of rest when she did exactly as little as on every other day whilst reaffirming my ingratitude. The kitchen floor was scrubbed one Christmas Day to illustrate the grinding drudgery of her very existence (probably the first clean it had had in a year or eighteen months)

I love Mothering Sunday now. It reminds me of what I no longer have to endure.

Ah go on Sharron, buy yourself a huge box of chocs and wave it at the neighbours shouting 'MINE ALL MINE' :-D :-D :-D

Share the joy Sharron.
No more hints a week before the event.
No more comments about flowers being a waste of money.
No more prim refusals to go out for lunch because she can´t eat very much these days........unless it´s a cream cake or three!!!!
All over. ;-) ;-)

I think you should pick another day and call it Un-Mothering Sunday, Sharron, and leave today for those who, luckily for us, had loving mothers and wonderful memories.

I did not report this thread.

Maybe I should, I was not sure, which was why I said I would pull it if asked.

It is worth considering that there are many unfortunate children still being bewildered by the hype surrounding the event even now.

Who the heck did that? What a cheek, why not ask?

Quite agree Sharron.
The day is overhyped & very emotional for those of us who are not lucky enough to have happy memories.
A friend told me yesterday that she hasn´t heard from either of her daughters for 20 years.
Hardly a happy mothers´day for her & I know she´s not alone.

Reporting Sharron's thread, in my opinion was an unnecessary action, as she clearly said she would delete it if asked.

I think she showed a lot of courage in posting it, she seems to have had a tough time as a child, and she still does by caring for Fred her elderly dad.

Whoever reported her thread should hang their head in shame, Sharron showed guts in making her post, obviously something the reporter does not have :-|

Sharron <3

Oh dear if asked I am sure Sharon would of deleted no need to report .....however I agree that mothering Sunday or Mothers day is "overhypred" for the proffit of card companies and florist but I make no excuse of being brought up by a loving caring Mother I do feel sorry for those that havent or don't feel loved as I do for being a doting mother , maybe gives little whiff of jealously for those that dont feel the same with their negitive vibes :-D

I feel that is something that is the right of every child and that no child should have cause to feel jealous about the love being shown to others.

I missed the opening post; but I can get a gist of what the thread is about from the other posts.
I think mothers day is quite important. But it isn't necessary to spend a lot of money in order to show your mum what you think of her.
Mothers day isn't the only occassion that is overly commercialised now though. Why are we encouraged to spend so much at easter or christmas?

Absolutely 100% agree Graham :-D

It is because we have gradually allowed our lives to be ruled by advertisers.

McDonalds is pretty much something and nothing food, as are all the other fast food outlets, yet they make enormous profits and are everywhere.

I read Sharon's post. Sure memories of hard times ... but absolutely nothing for anybody to complain about.

Some folks’ lives roll easy as a breeze
Drifting through a summer night
Heading for a sunny day
But most folks’ lives
Oh, they stumble, Lord, they fall
Through no fault of their own
Most folks never catch their stars
(Paul Simon)

Goodness me! Sharron reported!

I wonder what she said, but picking up on some of the other comments : we don't send Valentine cards 'cos Post Office was on strike our first Valentines. Nor, when we could, would we have sent grandparents day cards - they'd already had Mother & Fathers day cards. We don't do Easter cards either.

When our children were toddlers we didn't do mothers day as it came only a month or two after my birthday.

It was about how pleased I am to not have to go through the farce of buying a present for a mother who made no effort to actually behave as a mother an who I loathed.

Which of the terms & conditions did Sharron break???
She said in her heading that the subject was contentious-
Did somebody deliberately read it with the intention of complaining?

Thank you Sharron, some of us are grateful that we had a better time and whoever reported you should be ashamed.

I actually came back to say that I think Sharron is amazing and I am hoping that one day she will write a book about Fred and his antics. It's on my wish list :-)

There is too much hype over 'certain' days - as a child there never was a Father's Day. As when they began a Grandparents Day I laughed and agreed with my lot as it is in September and our birthdays are 8th and 16th of that month

The advertisers try to make one feel guilty unless spending lots. Every thing and every where prices jump including Sunday lunch.