I hate shopping

Both you and me bags cant see the point in wasting time shopping when you could be doing something more interesting. Internet shopping for me is the best thing since sliced bread, of course that's after DD who loves to shop and will happily wander off with a list from me and she like wrapping

Are you renting her out for the festive season?

let me know when you need a hand bez and I am sure we can come to some arrangement

I like shopping when it's just a potter round the shops looking at nice stuff without anything particular in mind, having a cup of coffee and maybe lunch. But most of the real stuff I do online - I agree with you glass!

I hate it with a passion rare in a woman of my age. What is more, I have a horrible tendency to faint, keeling over like a felled tree, if I have to spend more than about 15 minutes in a supermarket or department store.

I'm off to a real live shop at a swanky garden centre in Christchurch this morning. I'll probably get a few faffy bits, but mostly I shop online. I agree with you glass, it's the best thing since sliced bread!

I enjoy being on a mission, knowing exactly what I am after. It's the aimless wandering around the shops that gets me. DH expression when doing this is - looking for inspiration!

I'm with Ariadne. Shopping is usually a time-limited chore, but occasionally when I just have time to wander, drift or potter I can enjoy it. Time ti investigate all those little shops or the unusual ingredients in the supermarket.

Is that white bread or brown?

Crusty Tiger absent

Bags you were actually going round the shops while Mr Bags was surfing. I love looking at stuff but hate trailing round in person, especially with equally reluctant family members. Shopping malls and department stores give me claustrophobia and I have to find the nearest cafe to recover. Supermarkets aren't as bad but I don't like them either. Whoever decided that shopping was a pleasurable leisure activity needed to widen their horizons!

Notso You can buy sliced tigers?

No absent but you can ask for the tiger to be sliced.

At last I have found others who dislike shopping as much as I do. Whether I am looking for a specific item (can never find it) or just wandering around hoping for inspiration it is a chore I really dislike. My friends all think I am a bit strange - they can shop for hours - whereas I go to the shops, get what I need and get out again as quickly as possible

True, lily, but I hate surf shopping as well! Have found a few online shops that tend to have the kind of things I want, and I just go back to them.

I too can come out, I hate shopping, unless in a foreign country when it is a good way of getting a feel for how people live and has novelty value.

On the rare, very rare times I visit a shopping mall, the moment my feet are placed on the marble effect floor they immediately begin to ache, I feel hot and sticky and just cant wait to get outside and get some fresh air.

Have returned very cold & wet from a real shop. I bought some lovely Christmas decorations and saw Father Christmas's real reindeers ...... and you don't get to see them shopping online!

Peruvian connection Bags?

Oh lovely - but pain in the wallet area..........................

I wish, jeni! Nice to go and look but actually buying from them is a rare event.

Barrow.I also hate shopping.Maybe we could have a non-shopping trip to Bristol sometime soon.

I dread trailing round shops with anyone else. If I go shopping it needs to be on my own agenda. Sounds selfish but it's a matter of keeping my sanity. If I go with GD, it's also a serious matter of my bank balance.

Notso That reminds me, we have real reindeer parading through the town today too. I'd better go and shower.

If you both don't mind a rush thro' Harvey Nicks, looking neither left nor right, until you reach the top floor, how about tea and scones?????? ( and maybe a prosecco while we wait for the tea to brew!)
Jeni too.