I ABHOR shopping. Who else is with me??!11!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Books and music are one thing, and quite tolerable if I don't have to go far, but I just despise shopping for clothes/shoes/nearlyanythingelse. So, so, so...weird? Annoying? Uncomfortable? Mindless? Stupid?

:argh:

:evilgrin:

[Ekirh]

1. Books/DVDS

I can take forever with.. especially if I'm just browsing to see if anything catches my interest

Anything else.. it's in and out as fast as possible. . I fucking hate it.

[SeattleGirl]

2. I'm like you.

Books and music: fine.

Clothing, etc.: Yuck!

[Fox Mulder]

3. I like shopping only if I have money.

So I should say I hate shopping most of the time.

I love book shopping, though. I could spend hours in a bookstore.

[Sugar Smack]

4. ME. Except for books.

:D I DO like running around the grocery store if I'm hungry & happen to have money.

[SPKrazy]

5. I hate clothes shopping

in fact I think I need a professional clothes shopper, or a clone

either that or heavy medications :P

[hippywife]

6. Me.

I enjoy shopping for books and music, too. But that's about the extent of it. Altho, once I'm in a store, keep me away from the kitchen equipment section. :rofl:

[Greyskye]

7. what you said

:thumbsup:

I LOATHE shopping!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear WIMR!

I hate shopping too...

I do as much as I can online, or over the phone with catalogs!

I don't mind shopping for shoes in stores...

But clothing?

I get museum fatigue very quickly...

:hi:

[Flaxbee]

9. If I have something in mind, like a pair of shoes, or a side table,

or whatever, I don't mind. I'll look on-line first to see what's out there, and then might go shopping (or might just bail and order whatever I need online). But dragging the mall, aimlessly wandering - drives me nuts. I have pretty limited tolerance for crowds and being jostled around, though, so I don't do it frequently. I decide what I want, go get it, and get out. The process of looking at the material, trying something on, etc. -- that I kind of like. But then again, I like textiles & good design - which means I usually stay away from big chain stores - so it can be interesting to me when I do decide to go out for something. I also am not exactly flush these days, so I don't enjoy it as much - because I usually like what I can't afford. x(

[FloridaJudy]

10. Except books. And fabric.

Otherwise I hate doing it in person. The driving/bus, the crowds, the hovering sales staff, the cretins chatting on their cellphones. I don't know why I don't mind them at museums and other attractions, but they drive me batspit when I'm trying to decide whether these pants match that shirt.

I've gotten to the point that I buy 90% of my clothes and household stuff on line. I can take my time, there's no pressure, and my feet don't hurt. I can compare prices without having to schlep from store to store and earn the evil eye from clerks when I leave without buying anything. Oh, and the restroom's right across the hall. But I suspect my mail carrier is starting to hate me.

Now, if I can only figure out how to get groceries this way....

[BarenakedLady]

11. I like shopping for books and shoes.

Not much else.

[Sugar Smack]

12. I'm just giggling because-

ok, giggling because of your username and the shoe thing. Don't hate me!:hi: :hug: :loveya:

[BarenakedLady]

13. Well...

I do have to walk outside sometimes and the gravel hurts my feets! :P

:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

14. *eeeeeeeee!*

You know, people sometimes GIVE me shoes & boots? It's like they see my torn-up sneakers and they feel sorry for me. I don't feel like I do "waif" really well; I'm 38. My own boss and my other own next-door neighbor were like, "Oh, HERE. I thought you could use these".

I do. I love the shoes and boots. I also go to the thrift shop for jeans because they've already been stretched out. I don't know if you've ever done the "horizontal bop" with a pair of jeans, but it's not pretty.:D :hug:

[Gormy Cuss]

15. Pfft. The word in your school is that this is your favorite spot:

http://www.mainemall.com/html/index20.asp

:evilgrin:

[Sugar Smack]

21. OH, Gossip!

:spank: Gossip!

[Gormy Cuss]

24. Note that WIMR hasn't denied it.

:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

25. That's because WIMR was being a jazzer for two hours.

:P

I HATE the Maine Mall. :D

[Gormy Cuss]

26. I know, WIMR.

That's one of the things that I like about you.;)

[Swede]

16. I abhor a vacuum.

[Skittles]

17. I am absolutely with you

and I really dislike women who love to shop because I find that materialistic stereotype very demeaning

[zanne]

18. I don't mind if I only have to go to two stores..,

I know people who can shop for one item all day, going to five or six stores for a shower curtain or something. AGH! I'm too impatient for that. If I don't find what I want at the first store, I buy the best thing I can find at the second store. I'm a dream wife.

[YankeyMCC]

19. Why do you hate America?

Don't you know shopping is what we're all about and how we fend off the terrorists?

[buzzard]

20. Garden centres are the exception for me.n/t

[stuntcat]

33. oooo true that..

Much as I can't stand to shop I am looking forward to shopping for dirt and annuals :headbang:

[bridgit]

22. Checking In!! hubby made me buy some sweaters cause he's tired of hearing...

me gripe about not having any, so I picked up 4 at The Nord Rack valued at nearly $400...for 65 bucks; so now a have sweaters :) but yeah I hate shopping :rant:

[Jade Fox]

23. Shopping malls.....

are particularly creepy. I'm convinced that subliminal messages, toxic fumes, or SOMETHING weird is going on at most shopping malls. I want to leave them almost as soon as I get inside.

Online shopping is a god-send for me.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. If it's not books, music or movies, I'm not interested.

[karmaqueen]

28. I hate to shop, except for yard sales

And thrift shops. My family never buys anything new except underwear. My daughter was raised this way and thanks us all the time.

[femmocrat]

29. I hate Christmas shopping. Don't mind it otherwise.

I enjoy finding a good deal on a clearance rack!

[AlCzervik]

30. i detest shopping, all shopping.

[stuntcat]

31. I gave it up

Aside from groceries, I order books and cd's online & most of my clothes are gifts, or they're 10 years old. I get some new undies from Marshall's every few months :)

[harmonicon]

32. same here

I can't stand it - any shopping, even for groceries. I used to really like going to record stores and book stores, but not anymore. I guess the one exception may be for guitars and other instruments - that is SOMETIMES ok, but usually those shops are mind-numbing, and deafening if you're in a place that sells electric guitars on a weekend.... 10 teenagers all playing their most awesome metallica licks through a marshall stack.... ugh.

[IzaSparrow]

34. Why hasn't Sallymander posted in here?

You wanna see something funny? Go shopping with Sally at a MegaMall during Christmas! :mad: that's a real photo of her.

hahahah :rofl:

[SallyMander]

35. NOT FUNNY!!!

Yup, shopping hater here! :hi:

[ThomCat]

36. I LOVE to shop, even if it's only window shopping.

Which is weird because I'm definitely not a materialistic person. I like to shop with other people, and I don't even need to be getting anything for myself.
:)

[fizzgig]

42. i'm like you, thom

i just like to wander around the stores and pet the soft/pretty/shiny/whatever things

i can spend an hour ogling the appliances at best buy

of course, tell me i have to actually go by clothes or something and i've mysteriously got a cold :)

[DarkTirade]

37. I hate clothes shopping

mostly because it's damn near impossible to find clothes that fit me and don't suck. :P

[Chovexani]

43. If I were a man in this day and age

I'd be in drag 24/7. Modern men's clothes are so...boring. Uninspired. Say what you will about Ye Olden Days, but dudes knew how to dress back then. Baroque's my favorite fashion period, followed closely by the Victorian era. My theory is that men's fashion is so boring today because people are still embarrassed about that whole Rococo thing. :P

...I mean really that was some serious pouf-ery.

[DarkTirade]

47. I don't mind boring.

But they've become boring, ugly, and nonfunctional.

The main advantage to being a guy is that we have pockets so we don't need purses. Then all of a sudden they're expecting us to wear tight pants with practially no pockets. WTF?

And to top it off, I didn't own a car for the first 5 years of my adult life. I walked EVERYWHERE. And right when I finally got a car I ended up getting a job at a warehouse. Where I lifted heavy stuff. And I was smart and lifted with my legs. So I've actually got some MUSCLE there. My legs can't FIT into those tight jeans. 99% of jeans manufacturers just DON'T make them in such a way that will fit me. If the waist is the right size, I can't pull them up past my thighs. And if the thighs are big enough, they assume anyone with thighs that big will be obese, so the waist is far too big for me.

Old Navy is the only place I've found that has actual loose-cut jeans that work for me. I hate that store. All of their clothes are hideous. Their ads are some of the most annoying ones I've ever seen. And yet I have to shop there... because nothing else works for me.

:grr:

I should become a fashion designer, seriously.

[struggle4progress]

38. but ... but ... i thought it was patriotic

[Lorien]

39. Can't stand it. I try to order everything online

the only thing that's rough is when you've got a friend to buy a gift for and you end up going shopping just to get ideas. Ugh!

[last_texas_dem]

40. Amen

I can waste time browsing used book and music stores forever, though, without buying much of anything or even anything at all. But grocery shopping is just a hassle, although I actually kind of enjoy accompanying others on their grocery trips; I'm not sure why that is. And shoes and clothes shopping I completely dread, because nothing ever fits me like I think I should and I hate trying things on anyway. But unless I'm working in a job with a stricter dress code, I'm usually just going to go the t-shirt, jeans, tennis shoes (and even baseball cap if I can get away with it!) route anyway.

[Callalily]

41. I truly hate shopping

too. Even for things that I must get. I try to shop as much on-line as possible.

Now books? That's a different story. There's a wonderful bookstore just 1/2 block from my office. Such a temptation!

Oh, and kitchen gadget stores. Must stay out of them!

[kwassa]

44. "I've got a mind to give up living, and go shopping instead ......."

here is a theme song for you:

I Got A Mind To Give Up Living

Paul Butterfield Blues Band

I've got a mind to give up living,
And go shopping instead
I've got a mind to give up living,
And go shopping instead
Pick me up a tombstone,
And be pronounced dead


(sorry, no youtube clip)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

45. love shopping for make up but not clothes. actually its being in stores that i really dont like

i am fine with online shopping.

[raccoon]

46. Same here. Jeez, wouldn't it be nice if we all lived in the same neighborhood?

:grouphug:

It's so hard to find like-minded people in RL.