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Topic: Shopping time
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skdadl
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Babbler # 478
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posted 05 September 2003 11:14 AM
How much time do you spend per week shopping?I mean all the kinds of shopping: grocery shopping, trips to buy clothes, hardware, electronics. Do you reserve a special day for everything beyond groceries -- ie, is Saturday afternoon, eg, your time to head farther afield or to stroll a major centre? I'm not meaning either to encourage or to condemn consumerist orgies here. I'm seriously wondering how other people organize anything beyond groceries. I am m'self so totally disorganized, only run out to get things in a panic at the last minute, and am wondering whether some kind of shopping routine would be more sane.
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Lima Bean
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posted 05 September 2003 11:50 AM
I'm pretty lazy about shopping, and I hate going to malls. I generally shop for clothes really slowly and patiently--as in, over the course of weeks, if necessary. I have a lot of fairly strict rules for myself about how much I'm willing to spend on certain kinds of things, and exactly what they should be like etc., and sticking to them means I might not buy anything on any given day.I tend to do most of my food shopping in Kensington, or at the smaller fruit&veg markets on my way home from work. I go to the Dominion for stuff that the other shops don't have (or the stuff that's too heavy to carry so far). I'm not exactly a role model when it comes to grocery shoping, since I too do the dash-out style shopping, and often let the cupboards get right bare before replenishing my stores. And I probably just go out and get anything else I need when I need it. Sometimes I might plan a day of wandering around the city with a list of stuff to look for, but that's rare these days. There's just so much to do that's more fun than shopping. 
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DrConway
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posted 05 September 2003 09:15 PM
*giggle*Actually, my post was meant to point up the fact that I shop once in a blue moon if that.  Clothes shopping? Almost never - as I said I've got clothes I've had for years. Food shopping? I usually go once every few months and stock up on just a ton of stuff. Mostly the nonperishable stuff. Computer parts? Well, I usually know precisely what I want so I just go to the store, name the part and I get it, so I wouldn't really call that shopping per se. But yes, if I wanted to continue the joke I could say that my minions at Pseudofelinoids Anonymous do my shopping for me. PS. Michelle, I didn't ask for the shoes, she just went "here" when I got back and I was like, "um... thanks, I think. " [ 05 September 2003: Message edited by: DrConway ]
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Timebandit
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posted 06 September 2003 01:59 AM
Garage sales on Fridays, sometimes on Saturday. Farmer's market on Saturday morning. A couple of small trips a week to the grocery store, organic grocery and bakery. A larger grocery run every two weeks, before which I make a meal plan for about 2 weeks duration so I can plan what to buy. Milk and butter are delivered by the milkman.I can't really estimate shopping time... We live just off a street with little shops, consignment store, old-fashioned corner hardware/junk store, and I just stop in a lot on my way to and from places. Today was a good day for garage sales. I got a weight bench for a dollar, two brand-new shirts for myself (very funky ones, too) for $6.50, a sweater for Ms B and a skirt for Ms T for 25 cents apiece. And wound up running into my grade-school principal who also taught my dad -- he was having a sale. Great to see him, knew just who I was and asked, in detail, about the whole family. Wonderful, sweet man, in his 80s now.
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Laedifox
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posted 06 September 2003 06:52 PM
Shopping? I'm trying to avoid it - I spend way too much money. If I do shop, it's late at night or early in the morning, at the farmer's market, or through a catalogue.Latest finds - a pair of vintage jeans, some black cords, and a long silvery-grey skirt, purchased for about $15 from the Salvation Army. Oh, and for Montrealers or people travelling through - you can't beat La Maison Simons for great deals on stylish, good quality, reasonably priced clothes. [ 06 September 2003: Message edited by: Laedifox ]
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Anchoress
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posted 16 May 2004 09:12 PM
OK I'm just responding to the question so I can boast, lol!I spend about 1/2 hour a week grocery shopping. I do all my grocery shopping at one go, at one store, and it takes about 20 minutes. The store is a block away from my house and they deliver. Once a month or so I spend 20 minutes at London Drugs getting toiletries, and I also pop into the local deli for specialty cheeses and sundried tomatoes. Once every four months or so I do an all-day run to my favourite staples stores.
From: Vancouver babblers' meetup July 9 @ Cafe Deux Soleil! | Registered: Nov 2003
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