Life online

I started doing my "C" shopping online while I was working (actually had it delivered to school as I got home too late to collect it!) when I retired, I thought "Oh, I'll be able to potter round and do my "C" shopping in proper shops. Visions of wandering in and out of pretty little shops. It lasted one day (at Bluewater) and then I was back online.

And normally, I Like a potter round nice shops, but only when I actually fancy it!

FlicketyB, I also feel like you about food shopping, but have been relegated to doing all my food shopping online nowadays, cos hubby detests shopping, and jumped at the chance not to when Asda went online!
Just ordered a few things for you know when from Amazon, but most folk are getting money this year, so not too much to be done online.

Many bookshops etc have an online as well as an offline present and quite often the book I order through Amazon comes from a small specialist bookshop elsewhere in the country.

As a village dweller who hates shopping the internet is heaven, it leaves so much time to do the things I really want to do. The exceptions are food shopping, I like to finger the goods before I buy and when it comes to fruit and veg tend to decide what to buy in-shop and, to a greater extent I prefer to browse round a shop, select clothes from a range I can physically see and handle, to try on and make buying decisions.

I remember working for a very forward thinking company in the late 60s which had a computer room. The room was nearly as big as our house, no-one was allowed in unless they dressed in full 'forensics' type gear, including hairnets and shoe covers, and it was spoken of in really hushed tones. I don't know what it did but the company went bust in the early 70s.

Yes I feel guilty about book shops, corner shops etc but really can't stand the pre "C" rush. I used a telex machine when I first started work and was so excited when a reply started to come through while I watched!

Hurrah for Amazon! I have done most of my "C" shopping online this year as I haven't been very well and can't face the shops. I think I will always do it this way in the future but now I am feeling guilty and wondering about all the shops on the high street. I already feel guilty about my Amazon habit because I love browsing in bookshops and will be so sad if they all close!!! We, as a generation, have lived through so much change. I remember when we went on "the internet" at work. Great excitement. We had to sit for ages waiting for one page to download and I wondered whether it would ever catch on. I would never have believed I would be shopping, banking, chatting etc etc online.

All DS and his partners (c-word we can't mention yet!) presents have just arrived in a box from Amazon. Wonderful!

gracesmum the new autumn/winter Next book,i've got it open right now for next day delivery they can't even arrange that in the actual shops sometimes.lol

We pay tax on line, buy Premium Bonds etc on line, bank on line, pay bills on line, buy shares on line and talk to grandchildren (face to face) on line!! It's a boon.

Since my son's stroke and return to the UK, he lives a lot of his life on line. His world would be so much smaller if he couldn't use the internet!