I have a confession to make I really don' t like shopping. I can get quite stressed when I have to think about embarking on a shopping expedition and that is what it is for me. I actually love adventure but not when it comes to shopping.
Shopping is my nemesis, it's one of those things that I have to do but I tend to put it off til the very last moment. I cannot understand why anyone would go shopping as a hobby.
I find it terribly depressing to go round stores looking at things I can't afford. When someone goes to the shop for the fun of it, the idea does just not compute to me.
Frankly I have always thought of shopping as a complete waste of time. Ironically though I married someone who loves shopping. In fact recently went to a DIY and it was like he was in heaven. Now I have to admit he has made shopping more enjoyable.
For me the most enjoyable part of a shopping trip is going for coffee and looking at the shopping conquests I have made.
I could write a book on the frustrating trips when I has planned to get a bunch of stuff only to be ending the day with only half my purchases because I couldn't find what I had been looking for which invariably happens
Gosh I could write so much about my shopping trips and the emotions I go through of utter desperation and disappointment when it doesn't go the way I had hoped.
Before Lockdown I would find even grocery shopping stressful and a waste of time. However it was one of those things that we all have to do. Then there is all the bags I would need to carry which were always so heavy because I always seem to buy too much. For me one of the perks of getting married is a hubby who carries my shopping bags, in fact I almost had it written into my vows but well its one of those unwritten vows that I will write about sometime in another blog.
Before I drove I really struggled to carry shopping even since I got married because by the time I took the car to the supermarket down the road and I parked. Oh my word there is another one of my struggles parking. I have been driving now for 18 months but well I find parking so stressful I think that will be another blog parking and driving. So back to shopping I dread the carpark being packed because that will mean even more time shopping. Or I would spend more time parking and then I would have no time to shop.
Now remember my value is shopping is pointless so I would not want to waste time shopping so I squeeze it in my work day, which would make it even more stressful lol
Now Lockdown has been difficult for all of us. However for me not having to go to the shops has been such a blessing. I have become an expert at online shopping. Ironically I probably buy more things now than I did before because having discovered online shopping it has been just what I needed. Nevertheless at the beginning of Lockdown online shopping was an unbelievable nightmare. There were moments when I thought we wouldn't be able to get anything at all. There were no delivery slots and we had to use a supermarket which I would now rate the worst out of all of them. All the veg went off fast and it wasn't even cheap.
I have actually now become an expert on which supermarket is the best and which is the worst. I have nailed getting anything we need delivered to our home. Now I know that this is possible I will probably not go back into shops much.
With Coronavirus it also seems that shops are a dangerous place to go, along with gyms, pubs, cafes and anywhere public.
There is one place I miss going to and that is the trafford centre perhaps because Reggie and I spent some of our date days there. We have a couple of retail parks near us but with coronavirus we have not gone there much. The last time was when we bought a bed and then we went for coffee and snack in an little italian cafe there.
I suppose its in general like many of us I miss being able to do normal things like seeing friends and just being out and about and not having to be concerned with this new phenomena of social distance. I will save the rest of my thoughts about lockdown for another blog.
Back to the subject of shopping, with Christmas fast approaching I need to start to thinking about Christmas shopping but to be honest this post is the first time I have thought about it lol
I usually wait until the day before, no wonder I get so stressed. Sometimes I wish that I could wait until after Christmas to get presents because then everything is so much cheaper. If I was smart and forward planned in lots of ways in planning and finances I would get my christmas shopping for next year just after Christmas when everything is on sale. You never know maybe I will try that this year.
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