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Originally Posted by Shades67
LOL I totally understand having enough shopping. I really dislike shopping. We have to go 45 miles to a Walmart, yes I am a walmart shopper. We only try to go to town every couple of weeks so I carry a list of needed items, hit the places we need to go= walmart , dollar store, grocery store and if I am holding up the thrift store and home. If I am feeling really energetic I also stop at home depot for more pavers for the yard. I am working on patio pathway and another row wide under the clothesline. I can only carry 10 in the car at a time.
Sadly craft store for me is Joanns or 80 miles one way to I think it is Michaels. BUT Michaels is close to my small store I get glass. Unfortunately I need big bucks in hand when I go to buy glass cause I just can not resist buying this sheet or that.
I do the driving when we get into the cities. Hubby just not up to it now.
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We live in the inner city, so most stuff I can get easily. I do hate clothes shopping with a vengeance. I get my most of my t-shirts, sweat/yoga pants and undies online, unfortunately for regular pants/jeans and bras I have to go to shops to try them on. This I try to limit to three of four trips a year. My local proper craft store is about a 20 bike ride away, the cheap craft store is a 5 minute walk and the proper art supply store is less than a minute on foot.
My sister loves clothes shopping, she can go from one shop to another. Luckily she has learned that I hate it. On Wednesday she witnessed how I shop for clothes. I needed a new summer cardigan, we walked past the store that sells nice men's cardigans (I have long arms). In this particular store there were two floors with men's clothes. I quickly walked around the first floor, which didn't have any cardigans, on the second floor there were several. A bunch of them were white, which isn't practical for me and others were made of a scratchy type of fabric. That left one cardigan, which looked nice, was made of a nice light fabric and was on sale for €20. I tried it on and it fitted nicely. We exited the store in less than 15 minutes and most of that time we spend waiting in line to pay.
What I hate most is that when shopping my sister is even if she has though about what she needs and what shops she wants/needs to visit she doesn't think about what the most effective route is between the shops. I don't mind going shopping with her a couple of times a year, but not much more. It's also the reason I usually plan our itinerary when we go on vacation.