Have you ever queued at Boxing Day sales?

I find it very sad that we are so full of AFLUENZA. Wanting things and more things. Then we cannot fit it all into our houses. It does benefit our economy, so I guess the citizens are helping out.

I wish that all shops were closed on Christmas and Boxing Day just to give people and families a chance to rest, relax and meet with family.

I feel sorry for lots of shop assistants working really long hours over Christmas, not the true meaning of Christmas. Guess they are getting overtime.

I would prefer to miss out on bargains rather than fight the crowds. Anyway you can get good bargains at the end of January.

Never queued at Boxing Day sales or indeed any other sales.

I have never believed that a company, shop or other retail unit

actually have genuine sales.

I have seen old shop soiled stock sold marginally cheaper in

some places, but I have never truly accepted that there is such

a thing as a bargain. Whatever is on sale must bring the seller

a profit or they would soon be out of business.

If you want something, you shop around and then pay what you

consider to be a fair price.

So many stores seem to have Sale notices in their windows which

last for months, others stick " Closing Down Sale " notices in their

window and a year later they still have not closed down!

If I really do want something I tend to look around one or two showrooms

and then once having seen the product, tried it, handled it, I will go

on line and purchase it there. It is invariably hassle free.

I've queued at a sale just once in my life. It was at a small children's clothing store in the town I lived and they had a lovely little boys suit in the window which was to be in the sale which started on a certain date (it wasn't Boxing day). When I arrived I was first in the queue and headed straight upstairs where I'd been told it would be taken from the window for me as I was first through the door. When I got there I was told that it was just being taken out of the window for someone else.

The other customer had gone to the downstairs department and should have been directed upstairs as I had been and would have been behind me but she got it. I was more upset than I can describe and I've never been interested in those kind of sales since that day. I'll go inside shops which are having a general stock clearance sale and just see if there is something I need but not go to the trouble of ensuring I'm first ever again.

I cannot think of anything at all I want so badly which would make me queue up at such a sale. I'll look around shops which are having a sale but not queue up to get in. Nothing can be so important surely.

On the other hand, I don't blame those who have the energy to do all that if they are reasonably certain that they will come away with a real bargain but I feel sorry for those who are so desperate for a particular item that they will actually sleep on the pavement to be first through the door when morning comes.

My first Christmas where I live now, I went into town on Boxing Day. Nothing was open! I think the gas station was, but, that was it. Not a single Boxing Day sale to be found!

I'm heading for the City today (to get my daughter from the airport), and if I get there early enough (6 hour drive), I might pop in. But, the "sales" are mostly a gimmick. Getting rid of the crap they'd ordered too much of - if it was crap before Christmas, it will be crap afterwards. And, now they have "Boxing Week" sales here in Canada. It's all about marketing - they may be a few bargains out there, but, really, not many.

The only queueing I ever do is at the checkout of a supermarket. I have no choice about that one but will not torture myself by standing outside a store waiting for it to open and then go through a mad dash inside the store. I've seen it happen on the T.V. news in the past and it looks absolutely horrendous. Can anything at all be so important?

No , I never go to the boxing day sales specially now that im fragile , they will tropped around me and i will fall and break some bones and that would be the end of me , so i wait until all is quite in a few days and then go and see if they have left anything that i want or need more likely.

We don't have Boxing Day here but it sounds a lot like the madness of Black Friday, the day after US Thanksgiving. I have stood in line a few times but it wouldn't have bothered me if I didn't get what I was in line for.

As far as the day after Christmas sales (Boxing Day, right?) I refuse to fight a crowd for anything on sale the day after Christmas. Usually I have no money left anyway.

When I was young and my kids were little, I used to hit the toy sales for an item or two for birthdays and to shop for half price wrapping paper and decorations.

Now, I do not. No need to drag more stuff into the house.

don't be fooled, stores buy in sub standard goods to sell at their sales, there are no bargains, look at goods before the sales do you see any of them in the sales? anyway, stores offer year round sales so no I wouldn't queue for anything labelled "sale" mugs game.