I'm volunteering with children and family Rides are in the Master plans

largely...i believe not there is no 'sunday' drives anymore many work on sundays now and shops are open all day, every day Edited 06-Nov-23 23:46pm

not really. The excitement of a car journey for its own sake has passed

I don’t think I’ve ever gone with my kids for a Sunday drive. Might have to start

young families yes, IN OUR AREA, Families with older member go Sunday walking, We have lots of bushland around us, creeks and walking paths.

Back in the early days of marriage, before the kids went to school. Before the price of petrol rose ever higher, then it all got too much, including the amount of traffic.

I don’t think so.

I wish I could do this. Saving up for Christmas and ain't got no cash for those kinds of shenanigans at the moment.

not anymore but did in the past=1

Going to park was great but I hate going shop weekend as a child

Driving on a Sunday just for the fun of it adds simply more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and causes more global warming.

What a joy brings to me remembering a Sunday drive.Yes ,I remember my dad taking the family on Sunday drive years ago.

When I was a child drinking and driving was encouraged. You could only buy an alcoholic drink if you had driven a certain distance so my parents would take a drive to get a drink. When my children were young we had no money, and I do mean NONE but every Sunday we drove to the dump to get rid of our rubbish and if we happened to have any change left we bought the kids an ice-cream. This wasn't unusual in our area as we would meet many of our neighbours and friends doing the same thing. We laugh about it now because we can't imagine any of our children doing such a thing.

If I had a car sure would be

Yes remember well. Not sure about these days.

Not me petrol is too expensivr

Now that we are retired we do this a lot but not at the weekend. Weekend traffic is mayhem

Yes my son and his family do they did it last fortnight

Did this in the late 60s/70s as a family on Sundays. Roast lunch then an outing. If we were going into town like Adelaide we always wore our Sunday best clothes.

We did it when I was a kid but petrol wasn't the price it is now!

When I was a kid we used to but not anymore.

I remember this as a child, going to Outer Harbour for an ice cream with my parents. Going for drives to the Country. This was fun

Carbon footprints actually matter now. If you go for a long walk, it’s amazing what you’ll see that’s right out your front door. Plus, economically, it is too much money to turn on a car these days 🤷‍♀️

Won't someone take me for a Sunday drive? I promise to be quiet and drink...

We usually do this every weekend or every other weekend. We drive somewhere we haven't been to, usually, or somewhere that my son really likes to go (the beach, waterfall, etc). We usually bring a picnic and just randomly find a place that looks interesting.

Fuel is far to expensive

Yep still go to the country or beach for an outing. Not for any particular reason. Our kids do the same with their kids. Sometimes we catch up.

not affordable for most

Love Sunday drives or any day. I miss it. Need a loved one to share it with.

Used to when the kids were little

I work 7 days a week so no I don't go for Sunday Drives.

We used to as kids, jumping in the rear of a stationwagon,(when it was legal to do so) in the UK and go on country drives. Great fun.

I did when my kids were small...it was fun

Who can afford the petrol these days?

We always took our two daughters for a Sunday drive & then end up at a pub that had a Beer Garden so the girls could have a soft drink. Couldn't do that with our three grandsons as they all grew up in Alice Springs.

I know that if I still had my license, I would still be going on drives during weekends, even though I still don't have it. I know that when we were younger, with a young family we always looked foreword to a drive in the country which everyone enjoyed.

I wish I still had my children at home now. I’m sitting at home thinking what can I do. Would love to be doing this again.

Loved it Especially a nice cafe stop

did when my kids were little but life gets busy with other things now

No, it's very expensive and not the best for the environment

My husband bc and I often go for a ride through the country side just to relax.

Used too when the girls were little, then they started fighting and now we have no contact with any of them at all. Once some one has said some thing horrible about where you live you certainly are not going to be inviting them to the next place you live no matter who they are. Plus we both got we never put in enough even though they grew up on a nice more than an acre of land and the place is now worth over a million dollars when where you live is further away and costs only half that much. Just glad we don't have to do any thing like that any more. All over, never to return. Besides after seeing Australia for 4 years I really have had enough of trying to find some where new to go. I did love Cram's Farm out the back of the Gold Coast with the view of Mount Warning which no one is allowed to climb any more, sacred lands apparently. Saying no more.

People are too busy now and the price of fuel is expensive

I do sometimes. Not so much in the winter, but in the spring, summer and fall. When the weather is nice I put the top down on the convertible, go to a hard ice cream vendor and a walk in the park, then just enjoy the wind in my hair and the sun on my skin.

It was a common outing years ago when I was growing up, especially on Sundays. However, I doubt many families to this now. For one thing, fuel is so outrageously expensive the average family could no longer afford to do it even if they wanted to. Everyone is thinking twice these days before using their car. Family values have also changed. Most kids these days are probably more inclined to have their noses stuck in their phones or tablets than be looking out the windows or getting involved in any activities.

No we did not when we had kids because I worked six days a week the seven was for rest.

We used to do this when our children were small as there was plenty of places that were free to go to. Now it is to expensive with the high cost of fuel and parking.

I doubt it, and kids just have their heads buried in their ipads etc. No child looks out the window to see the bush, play spotto, have any idea of history of areas etc. It is a great shame.

Yes

used to in the good old days

hi Hanno, have fun on site...

Have just started again with my new partner and occasionally we take an elderly friend who doesn't get out much. Price of petrol is a bit limiting but is much better than sitting inside glued to the idiot box!!

No we only have great grand children now & it's too much responsibility.Our grandchildren are all adults

My parents used to do it a lot. But I only liked it if we stopped somewhere to get ice cream.

My parents used to do it and most times it was the beach. It was always with grandmother but those days are long gone

Who can afford it now adays!

They really where the good days

Adds to traffic and pollution and costs money in fuel. May as well go for bike rides or walks instead.

we did that when I was a child and also mum and dad used to get us to go for a walk anywhere for half a day

haven't done that for years. really miss it

I have very fond memories of this happening when I was a child but with the price of petrol now it must surely be a rare occurrence these days.

We did when I was a kid, and even when I was an adult, but I don't know if families still do this anymore. I'm anxious to see how people reply to this question! I'm hoping they still do!?! ;-D

Its tough now with people working multiple jobs to make ends meet.

We used to take our two kids to the drive thru live nativity scene, & drive around the neighborhoods to see the Christmas lights. It was fun, we all enjoyed it. Sometimes stop at McDonald's for fries & a drink on the way back home. That was in the 1980's & 1990's.

Oh wonderful memories Cynthia and thanks for that. Yes, we did go on a Sunday for the family drive. It was good fun. I would read much to everyone's dismay. The other 3 sisters would fight a little bit. Mum and Dad did a great job of keeping peace in the car I must say. We would go usually to the beach which was quite a way from us. Then, to top it off on the way home Dad would get a beer and Mum a Shandy (mix of beer and lemonade) and bring it out to the ute. I cannot remember us getting anything. Then we would stop and get fish and chips to share. Oh those were the days!!!

Yes but not on a Sunday as such and sometimes its an evening drive but sadly not as often as I would like as life is too busy

I do not own an auto. So no not at all. But my parents did back in 1960s and 1970s.

Occasionally i'll do this but the roads are getting more congested, drivers have forgotten what common sense, curtesy are and some don't drive within the law which makes a relaxing day out quite stressful and worrying at times.

I try to do with grandkids

It’s too expensive now a days. We have to make plans a head of time to deal with the cost.

Yes. In Pennsylvania, in the fall, the trees are very colorful. I like to just drive around to look at them. Maybe stop to buy apples or cider.

By coincidence, my neighbor was talking about that the other day. She said when she was growing up, her family used to go for a drive on Sundays, not anywhere in particular, it was just quality family time. When she mentioned that to some kids recently, they thought it was weird, just to drive around the neighborhood and then back home, without going anywhere. (I'll bet they don't think it's weird to be addicted to a phone.)

I don't drive, nor have children. though I'm sure my friend goes on Saturday Family drives.

First off gotta have a station wagon for that n hardly anyone even owns one of those ... I think when traveling 50 miles or so to a fiea market twice or three times a year is considered Sunday drives Edited 06-Nov-23 08:03am

When we arrived in, at the time very primitive, South Australia there was no such thing as Wholemeal, Rye, Mixed Grain Bread or Rolls, lioke the population, it was White Only. Thankfully things have changed. We lived, if you could call it that, in a shack at the back of an Adelaide suburban house, yes, there was a Housing Crisis then too! Five of us in a One bedroom thing with a sort of kitchen, for Bathroom and Toilet we had to go up to the house. It was horrible. Every Sunday Mum would make sandwiches, usually Cheese and Tomato, back then the very idea of Wholemeal, Rye, Mixed Grain Breads was the stuff of Scinece Fiction and Real Tasty Cheese was almost unknown with the local Serv-Wel Grocery store, no supermarkets then, only stocking Kraft Plastic Cheese and, no, it wasn't sliced but came in a block, you can still buy it. We would get in the car and drive as far away from Adelaide as possible, usually to some beach, Mum would have the Sandwiches and thermos of Tea, there was no Instant Coffee and the only place you could get what was passed off as Real Coffee was at the very few better class hotels. Sunday was our Escape Time, a bit of Normality. How things have changed. Now we all have nice homes, cars and, thanks to the influx of Italians, Greeks, Vietnamese, Germans, French, Lebanese and so many other cultures the food, the coffee is wonderful. We had relatives in Adelaide and when we asked them where to go to eat they told us to go to Any Hotel but that we should avoid a street in Adelaide called Hindley Street, not because it was dangerous or the hideous place it is now but, and I quote "Because it is full of Wogs and other foreigners and their weird food. We ate there every night!

No such thing as a Sunday drive any more as Sunday road traffic is just as bad as every other day since everything is open 7 days a week.

That is a childhood memory of mine too! An outing and an ice-cream treat.

Nope. No-one goes anywhere. Cost of living has crippled our lives.

Sunday drives are too expensive these days - with two or three grandchildren - $70 or more for gas, $10-20 for parking, another $20 for Ice Creams. They all want to be fed, so another $100 for that - even at McDonalds, and if we happen to pass something like a quad bike track or flying fox the sky can be the limit. We tend to take them to a local park with free BBQ's, and cook up a load of chicken nibbles and sausages for the kids to munch on after they have tested out all the playground equipment and paddled in the kids pool.

WE DID THIS WHEN WE WERE KIDS DAD WOULD ASK THE 6 OF US WHO WANTED TO GO FOR A DRIVE USUALLY SUNDAYS AND WE WOULD FIGHT OVER WHO WAS GOING TO SIT IN THE FRONT

No

I sometimes do it with my nieces especially in summertime and they always look forward to an outing and it gives a break to their parents.

I dont know we never went on sunday drives Dad was always working on our farm and I did not take my kids on drives either

My husband and I still do on occasion or at least we did before gas got expensive and I remember drives with my siblings and parents especially to see the Christmas lights

Yes I can remember Sunday drives, living in northland NZ, we’d usually end up at a beach, one of our fav’s was Cable Bay, Doubtless Bay coastline, they had the best ice creams in a cone, delicious. Living in west Auckland we have the West Coast beaches and the waitakere’s, great for kids, dogs, families…

FAMILY THING. HELATHY FOR YA. BONDING.

In the 50’s as a kid in the country mum and dad would take us for drives in an old fj Holden on sundays.No where in particular just a trip in the bush.I am now 77 and have great memories, please bring back the 50’s

Sunday drives family time. Now too much traffic depending on where you live. Drivers are too impatient always in a hurry. The Sunday drive was fun and relaxing. Can't say driving is relaxing at all now.

maybe suometimes

The "Climate Changers" will love you.

As we are retired, we go for Sunday drives on week days. Less traffic.

Could never afford to do it, we made do with picnics within walking distance

now and then these days

we still do it sometimes. Hubby and I will jump in the car and go for a drive. Particularly after lock down

All grown up now, but used to be fun and drive past all the places we'd lived in ... rented in those days so there were many destinations to see what had changed.

Not anymore all of my kids have grown up. But I still have two young grandchildren, I don't have a car anymore. So, I sometimes take my little ones out in a taxi which is cheap with a discount card. we use the taxis on weekends. During the week we can catch our MyWay vans which are mostly paid for by our taxes after 9.0clock in the mornings we just show our gold card the ride is free until 3.0clock in the afternoon. Thats when we have to use our B card we have to put money into that card.But the rides only $2.These rides are only for the Hawkes Bay area only. We are so lucky in Hawkes Bay of New Zealand

When I grew up that is what my dad would do. Now it may be an outing if they can afford it.

No children to load up, mine are way past that lol. No Sunday drives for me as a kid either. We didn't have a car till I was about 16. Edited 06-Nov-23 05:39am

Those family outings are long gone with the cost of living most families can’t afford to go anywhere. Most children are glued to their iPads, phones or PlayStation games these days. I loved those outings when I was a kid.

No more. Kids grown and doing their own thing.