Do You Remember When Stores Were Closed On Weekends?

I do not remember stores being closed on Saturdays but I remember when everything was closed on Sunday. I grew up in Boston and we had very strict blue laws when i was growing up. I guess it goes back to the days of the Puritans but no retail businesses could be open on a Sunday. My parents had a small mom and pop business. They worked day break to night 6 days a week. They would have been open on Sundays if they could have been. So Sunday, we ate at home as a family or went out to eat. It was the one and only meal that we got to eat together. Sometimes we went to a family event or on an outing. Many Sunday evenings, my parents liked to have friends or relatives over to play cards. They had to close the windows, lower the blinds and shut the drapes. It was illegal to play cards on Sunday. If caught, they would have been fined.

Hiya ML, Most things were closed in England on a Sunday so Sunday was the main Day for other things you could not get done in the Week. I don´t know really as I had to do so many things every Day of the Week. I think only the Newsagents were open on a Sunday to deliver the Papers and they closed about Dinner Time. I was always so busy did not have much time to notice anything else really.xxx

Awe, the good ole days. Way back before Computers, and all the hustle and bustle where kids got to be kids. We never had to worry about anything, and everyone knew everyone and was friendly. I remember back when you could never find anything open especially on Sundays, so you made sure to do your Grocery shopping etc. for Sunday dinner earlier in the week. Matter of fact a lot of gas stations were closed then too. I remember Church service on Sundays and then a nice Hot meal at home or a friends and the occassional going out to eat. Those were the days.

Oh I remember those days, I was very young but gee I am not sure I would cope these days, I prefer to go even late at night when there is hardly anyone else there, oh I hope they never go back to those days.

I can't really say that I'm part of the people who remembers stores being closed on weekends. I remember them pretty much always being opened on weekends. Maybe I'm too young to remember them being closed on weekends.

Maybe public awareness would bring those days back if the desire was there and people could see advantage. Sort of a volunteer movement might change commerce to close. What does it matter anyway, people only have so much money anyway and it go back to what it was before. When people shopped they actually had the money to do so?

I remember stores being closed on Sundays, but not Saturdays. Unless there was something going on, Sunday's tended to be really low key, and the time would drag along. Finish homework and maybe go visit one of the grandparents. We did not go a lot of places.

I don't really remember many stores being closed on Saturday, but I sure remember when they were closed on Sunday. I would like to see more stores do these same things again as it would give families more time together and it would help the economy as people would invest in ways to entertain themselves on Sundays. I remember how we used to always either visit relatives on Sunday or they came to visit us. Those were the good days!

I definately remember that.....well when they were closed on Sundays. We would go to town on Sat. and get what we needed.......which wasn't much as we lived on a farm and grew most of our own food. Sundays we would go to church then go visiting grandparents or other family. If we stayed home it's because we were the ones getting company.

We have blue Sunday law, similar or maybe even copied from the U.S., as kids we did our school homeworks when we get home on Friday, so we could enjoy watching cartoons on black and white television the whole Saturday morning. I also remember this was the time when my mom and aunts would do their special home cooked dishes. Sunday was reserved for church, going to the park, the beach or the movies as a family and ends with Dad watching he's favorite movies on T.V. and promising us kids a gallon or 2 of ice cream if we promise to sleep early cause there would be school the following day. Stores no longer close at weekends cause business people learned that these are the most profitable days and life is getting harder, business is still close during Christmas, New year, holy Thursday and Good Friday and I think all souls and all saints day in our country.