Shopping & Temporary Insanity

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Whenever I go shopping for boring, mundane but essential items I find it so dull I have to get exotic stuff too to make it more interesting. So if I go to the supermarket for bread, milk, baked beans etc. I have to get expensive fresh cookies too. If I go to Boots for shampoo & toothpaste I have to get a new lipstick. If I go clothes shopping for something sensible for the office I have to also try on 5 sparkly tops. This is why I am not a size 10, I never have any money at the end of the month and I have a wardrobe full of ridiculously impractical items that don't go with anything.

Argh. Is it just me? Does anyone else do this? How can I stop? Help me. If it helps at all, this question was inspired by a fruitless quest for a new sensible bra which ended up in frivolous mayhem.

― Emma, Thursday, 13 March 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

i do this too, particularly with food and toiletries. the only solution i've found is not to go shopping, which isn't very helpful. i suspect that it'd be cheaper for me to shop for my groceries online and pay the delivery charge (except that the one time i've done that so far i ended up spending an insane amount on g+t, so maybe this isn't true either).

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 13 March 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

On two shopping trips to buy an outfit for a wedding I have spent over £300 on items completely unsuitable for said wedding.

I have begun to get so bored by the 9 minute motorway walk between my house and the tube station that I have to buy chocolate/crisps/trifle to keep self amused during the journey. This means that a. I had to cob together a wedding outfit from clothes I already own b. my pre-wedding healthy eating regime is being usurped by the boredom of the tube-house gap.

― nickie (nickie), Thursday, 13 March 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

If it helps at all, this question was inspired by a fruitless quest for a new sensible bra which ended up in frivolous mayhem.

Searching for a frivolous bra, ending up with sensible mayhem = best movie ever?

In my case, this sounds like me and record stores. "Okay, I just need some blank CDRs...ARGH! NO!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 March 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Whenever I'm in a record shop, I feel like I've not bought anything unless I buy at least 2 CD's, or made a selection that will baffle the counter staff (not that they care anyway!)

Only use cash?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 13 March 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

The way to avoid this is to go shopping w/ your significant other. The will 'tut tut' at any silly purchases you are about to make, and then get so impatient with the whole shopping process that shopping will soon become deviod of fun and you will dread any future shopping outings.

This only works until the significant other suddenly finds the fun and joy in shopping. Sometimes you still have lost the fun and find that you are now doing the tut-ing.

**This is not a personal account as I have never had problems controlling me spending**

― marianna, Friday, 14 March 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha I think we might just encourage each other to greater excesses. 'GO ON DO IT buy the 47 frilly bra & pant sets and 35 see thru tops' 'Oh OK but only if you buy 10000 more metres of shelving and 3 million vidjo games'.

― Emma, Friday, 14 March 2003 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

ha ha. i love shopping. mm, shelves. i have more video games than i can comfortably cope with this year, and that's before new zelda arrives, so ph34r not.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 14 March 2003 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes but if you had more shelves you could fit more games / comics / stuff on them.

I have decided to enlist the ruthless help of my mum who is a shopping demon. Also she sometimes buys me stuff when we are out cos she is lovely.

― Emma, Friday, 14 March 2003 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"more video games than i can comfortably cope with" in terms of TIME, not SPACE. whooo.

i mean i'm v close to finished Eternal Darkness for the 3rd and final time, and I've barely made a dent in Super Mario Sunshine (which is bloody grebt fun) and then I've got to go back to Pikmin and start again, then put in cheats to unlock the final levels on Rogue Leader (cos I'm arsed if I can get those last few gold medals properly) then there's the weird/rub (I can't decide) Lost Kingdom thing. AND THEN there's the new Zelda.

AND THEN there's going out, being sociable and enjoying the coming summer. something is going to have to give. optimistically, i'd say the games will have to wait. ho ho.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Should I get the new gameboy advance just coz it looks cool and has a back lighter? I think I probably will. And then there is new Pokemon very soon!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 March 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Cor Alan can I come over and envy yr Gamecube sometime?

Please tell me you are in no hurry for the N64 back cos Zelda is not yet finished and I nearly bought some more games for it the other day forgetting it was not my own lovely N64 although I wish it was....

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 14 March 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

And the answer is I am totally broke and can't indulge in temporary insanity as often as I'd like yah boo sx.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 14 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm very good at buying exactly what I put on my shopping list when going for food. Clothes, I'm fast and minimal. Records or books, that's where my discipline problems come, but I've been pretty good lately.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 March 2003 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I buy lots of crazy shirts and socks that I can't wear to work and often get lost in my closet and drawers. I buy SO many clothes but I always feel like I have NOTHING to wear. IN my frustration, I go out and buy more with my credit card = I am in major debt.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 14 March 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

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