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Deary me, you do get tetchy, dont you!

Is it my age or my ish-ness that I no longer even contemplate fashion shopping, but get excited if I find a decent hardware store

My only exception to "normal" shops at all is Selfridges (Birmingham) food hall - strangely enough I can't afford to do that often

My local Sally Army charity shop is great too - but there again, I have no sense of smell so what do I know

I shop for pleasure - in the garden centre! I'm a kid in a sweetie shop, even if I don't buy anything, I have to look at everything and it still gives me pleasure 'window shopping' in there.

Most times the thought of shopping in clothes shops is abhorent and I feel so frumpy/fashionless just walking into any type of boutique and I always feel people are staring at me and I'm too old/frumpy and shouldn't be there. Nearly everything in 'boutiques' looks like something I wouldn't be seen dead in anyway

However on the rare occasions I am in England I turn into a complete shopaholic in places like M&S and you can't keep me out of there it's totally anonymous, I spend a fortune, I have a great time and then that's me done for the next year or two! Plus they have LONG jeans - something not really known in France!!!!!!!

Don't have charity shops here but I'm not surprised - everyone's like me and wears clothes they've possessed for 20 years anyway and when they're done with they are used as rags. (Actually no choice since they took away the clothes recycling bins )

Yep - why not? Just don't do it very often.

Yes I do shop for pleasure,but thats only because I go shopping once maybe every 6 mths!My OH works for a supermarket warehouse so he does the grocery shop when we need stuff.Our nearest city is Bath and its a beautiful place,so on the odd occasion we do go shopping,I do really enjoy the experience.We usually have lunch out somewhere to break it up abit which helps.I usually take a week off sometime in November to Xmas shop,then wrap the presents,buy and write the cards and what not so I don't have to do it rushing around trying to fit it in with work.

noplasticbags wrote:Is it my age or my ish-ness that I no longer even contemplate fashion shopping, but get excited if I find a decent hardware store

Me too! We have two old-fashioned hardware stores in Aberystwyth - two!

snapdragon wrote: just now gathering courage to go buy milk from the soopermkt and i so don't want to go but I want a cuppa tea.

Buy a goat!
If we run out of milk, we just pop out to Geraldine & have a quick squeeze in exchange for a bit of grub!!

On the shopping front ... I dislike clothes shopping, and loathe buying shoes.
Charity shops, DIY and places that sell stuff for livestock are much more my line!
But I refuse to buy at Oxfam - too expensive!

And I dont like it when its busy, or the supermarket moves stuff round

Zech wrote:

noplasticbags wrote:Is it my age or my ish-ness that I no longer even contemplate fashion shopping, but get excited if I find a decent hardware store

Me too! We have two old-fashioned hardware stores in Aberystwyth - two!

And from what I recall you have decent health food shops That plus the sea - I'm very jealous

I work in the centre of Manchester, going round the shops in my lunch break is bad enough during the week, let alone going round them at weekends! I don't mind the shops, I just hate people...

I like to do most of my clothes shopping online or looking through catalogues

I hit the ace "Mary's Meals" in Oban at lunch and got 4 books (in great condition and in no way smelling of urine - 2 for me and 2 for a workmate in hospital) and a new cat basket (wicker and very cute) for £4!

Yeah!

Books are exempt from Wee issue!

I generally agree with all of the above (not the wee smell bit) but it was not always so. I rememeber many a day spent in the Oracle in Reading, feeling a bubble of delight spring up in my stomach at a lovely pretty new outfit or sexy pair of sunglasses and of feeling like a fashionable, sexy presentable person wearing it - the pleasure in taking it out of the uncreased glossy carrier bag at home, when I would lie my purchases out on my bed and enjoy 'bonding' with them...

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to go back to being a worshipper of consummerism, but lets be honest, being 'ish' and wearing a pair of cutoff wellies all the time, jeans covered in soil and my hair up in a scruffy topknot (as there is not much point when I am going to be mucking out chickens all day) isn't exactly sexy is it? Maybe it is in a kind of Barbara Good way, but I don't feel much like a vixen these days, whereas I did once, in a new dress and earrings and a gorgeous unscuffed pair of shoes.

Remember, even Barbara Good needed a new dress and dinner at a resteraunt, just once.....

Bonnie........

Denim

Tied Back Hair

Feathery Wellies.........................

Twinge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* Sorry.

I LOVE the Oracle and Reading - it has two whole department stores (no such thing where I live) and I get to go browse through knitting wool and kitchen gadgets and shiney new expensive saucepans ..... oh it is sheer heaven! Plus loads of great restaurants there too!

boboff wrote:Bonnie........

Denim

Tied Back Hair

Feathery Wellies.........................

Twinge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* Sorry.

God bless you Boboff