Guilty Shopping

I love shopping, no doubt. Whether it is window shopping, going to a mall, street side shopping or even online. Just going through the products available makes me feel awesome. Can say a stress buster. It’s great that we are in the era where we have different means to buy things and much more variety. We no more need a group to shop with or a fix a time for the same. I and my mom are best buddies to shop, we go insane in a Mall or shopping area. We do go by our shopping list but list can be extended the very moment as well. Online shopping is getting on the head now days, it gives crazy discounts and one can get really confused which online service to use.

My experience with online so far has been good. I bought clothes cosmetics, footwear, cook ware and what not. Download 2-3 shopping app and here you go, compared and toggled for all the things I was shopping. The delivery guy also got friendly with us as he just kept coming our house to deliver goodies we bought. My mom used to utilize the WiFi the most she shortlisting things for me and show me in the evening when we finally order them. And if we find some off or discounts we tend to buy more.

I believe every women’s eyes twinkle with just the name of sale. Without really understanding the rationale behind the sale we tend to attack on it. Recently I have also seen the same reaction from males as well. They enjoy the discount time be it online or physical store.

Sometimes physical store is better than the online one as you can try and feel the stuff yourself. So the online stores have also enabled easy return policy. And hence the worst part is the wait time of a product ordered and if it is not what you wanted another few days to return and get the replaced one. We enjoy the doorstep delivery of about everything and anything along with COD- cash on delivery, we get so many variety to choose from. So if we try to compare the two types of shopping we are privileged each will have its own pros and cons.

Be it any type of shopping I always remember buying too many stuffs and once all gathered I lay them on the floor of my house and check out what all stuffs I bought. Think of a situation- you are to buy clothes to gift someone and your eyes are stuck at a dress worn by the mannequin nearby, it seems that this is the dress you wanted forever, what can be done buy it of course. So on return we discuss which is better the purchasing done. Going through the stuffs lying on the floor staring at us with hopes of hugs and broad smile we start calculating the money spent on them and finally we end thinking why did we spend money on a particular thing, or is this a good deal or simply I spent so much for only these 2 stuff. The best one is “Do I really need this?” There develops a guilty shopping situation. We try to console ourselves, “no issues these are useful”; “well I can gift it to a friend on birthday”; this is indeed the best deal we could get, don’t compare the other store/ online site”.

One fine day I finally decided to reduce shopping, the best thing I did was to uninstall all shopping apps from my phone and reduce rounds to mall. Necessities are to be bought but for self I have already collected enough for next 4 months. The courier boy notices it saying ‘not many parcels now days madam’ errr it irritates me. I am trying to control my shopping spree and he is teasing me here.

Although I have uninstalled the applications, it was and will always be fun to shop in shopping area or using the app. I know soon I will empty my phone to make storage space for the apps J