Kamie26

I cannot abide shopping. I tend to have little patience with crowds and those people that are so ignorant that they stop dead in front of you, leaving you to make contact with them in such a way you would be considered married in some parts of the world.

If I have to go shopping, I usually research whats about on line and then go on a Monday morning. I like to be able to try the clothes on because I'm a bit of a tween size, other wise I would never get of the couch to buy clothes.

I hate shopping in Australia because of the super helpful shop assistants. I don't want to be asked if I need any help the minute I have walked through the door. I just want to be left alone to browse at my own pace and I defiantly don't want the assistant to strike up a conversation with me so I feel like a tool when I don't want to buy anything. I much prefer to be completely ignored until I actually need something.

scottishcelts

Yes, agree with the last paragraph actually. I always reply with a "just browsing" and use no eye contact and then walk away. They tend to get the message. The pushy ones cause me to leave immediately, losing the custom.

Pollyana

Same here, its one of many things that means I only venture into shops here when I absolutely have to, and like you if they keep on with they "can I help" thing then I just walk out.

Bernieboy

In yer case they should just get to the point and say "something in purple madam"

Pollyana

You know me too well

Cheetah7

I hate shopping, seriously hate it. The only things I like shopping for are electrical gadgets as in cameras/computers etc and haircare products.

I hate seeing women gathering round clothes rails hunting for bargains, I hate the changing rooms and having to look at myself in the mirror spotting flaws in my body that I never normally see, I frigging hate trying stuff on and it doesn't fit, and I do not like the way that if you have big tits you can often struggle to find nice pretty tops that don't look as though they belong on a sumo wrestler.

If I need to buy clothes, I either buy them online from M&S in the UK, or I go on my own, see exactly what I want and get it and come home. I see no point in looking for bargains and no point in prolonging the agony.

Honestly, I would rather suffer period pain than go shopping for clothes.

Now on the other hand, if you put me in a Dick Smiths store or some camera shop and gave me a few grand to spend I would be happy as a pig in muck.

Hebe

Love it but hate sale time. The shops usually resemble a jumble sale. I like my shops to be neat and tidy and items easy to find/see.

Off to Singapore in July for a week of retail therapy with a girlfriend. Shopping, champagne, spa treatments and a bit of sun - what more could a girl want (apart from a good ................!!!!)

Dreamy

I hate shopping.

TheVileEx was a great lover of shopping, when it came to choosing his apparel for pulling, he could have been the person Slaphead described in the first post.

(Obviously I didn't know he was choosing his apparel for pulling at the time )

On the rare occasions I buy clothes, I buy the first things I see that I think might vaguely suit me and then leg it.

Turban Explorer

I enjoy internet shopping with a bottle of wine, bowl of olives, feet up in the cockpit when I fancy some new togs. Asos and lucky brand have literally hundreds of pages of really cheap posh gear which I appreciate far more given the absence of anything worthy of acquisition in FNQ. You can put it all in your 'basket' with gay abandon and then remove it as and when. I tend to spend a few hundred quid and then allow 'him indoors' to choose a little low value item for himself.

I also like haggling in Asia and the Middle East. In fact I was renamed 'Xiaou Ping' by HI - he was so amazed at my negotiating talents when we were in Vietnam and Cambodia last year. Utterly hopeless he would take a photo of the required item and then exit scene. Then I would come along with the calculator for half an hour of frenzied haggling.

Kooky.

I can spend a whole day in a decent department store

Far less here, obviously.

slapphead_otool

PP you are my idea woman. Any hope of you being asiatic?

Merseygirl

I used to love shopping when I was younger and lived in the UK, having access to some good shops and decent quality clothes. That all changed when I moved to Australia. I find shopping for clothes here a frustrating and uninspiring experience.
I shall look forward to M & S when I visit the UK in September

sonlymewalter

slapphead_otool

There is pulling apparel?

This is where I have been going wrong.

Bermudashorts

Mr BS loves shopping, all the more so if it is for me. I am very decisive, I usually know what I want and when I see it I buy it, I feel no need to traipse round for hours comparing and contrasting. I also don't need his opinion, whereas if he is shopping and I have dared to wander from outside the changing rooms he will get upset that I am not there to offer an opinion on the new t-shirt he is considering.