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To think that people go luxury shopping every weekend?

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FuryFowler · 26/08/2015 21:43

I'm just watching Anne robin sons spending programme and there's a family who go shopping every weekend as their hobby, buying £150 hand bags.

I don't enjoy shopping so do it as little as possible, I can't afford to and it gives me a headache. But we are on the same income as the family on this programme.

Aibu to wonder if shopping is a big hobby for a lot of people on here? Do you like to shop for
Luxuries? How much a week do you spend?

I'm thinking bags, clothes, electronics, jewellery etc....

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FuryFowler · 26/08/2015 22:16

Lol anandale

Yup shopping with children is tiring, and unfair to them imo, but I know some will disagree as children need to do the less fun stuff too.... But I'm thinking mindless shopping for the sake of it. Not essentials, like last week I had to take da to town to buy school shoes, he was bored, we both wanted to be somewhere else, but it needed to be done. We did our job and left.

wips im dreading the teenage years and hope it don't yield to the pester pressure :/

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bakingaddict · 26/08/2015 22:20

Look as long as they are not getting into debt then shopping as a past-time is no better or worse than the multitude of other hobbies that people participate in. Sneering at people because they live their lives differently to you is a little mean-spirited imo

nicestrongtea · 26/08/2015 22:23

I probably shop like that a once a year ,not on Radley thoughHmm
I couldn't really see either of the couples points were valid, one family bought expensive crap, the other tons of cheap crap.
Both filling their houses with -CRAP!Grin

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FuryFowler · 26/08/2015 22:27

I'm not sneering baking I'm merely interested!

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LynetteScavo · 26/08/2015 22:28

Well, the iPhone 6 will be on contract, so the parents won't have paid that out initially.

But if I bought my teenagers an iPhone or £190 sunglasses, they'd probably lose them by next Monday.

I really liked the lady in London (can't remember her name) who had rules for everything. I could get like that. I'm probably halfway there --Apart from the Apple product rule. Grin

ihatethecold · 26/08/2015 22:28

We have the same household income, I have no idea how they can spend that sort of cash all the time on treats.

Maybe they only pay the interest on their mortgage?Hmm

MiddleAgeMiddleEngland · 26/08/2015 22:28

Town centre, no thanks, unless there's a really good reason.

Garden centre, yes please, especially if there's a cafe with nice cakes.

LynetteScavo · 26/08/2015 22:30

I suspect that there are self esteem issues coming into play with those people

Yep. They may as well have screamed "I have ishoos!"

HamaTime · 26/08/2015 22:30

DP loves shopping. I don't get it but I did used to like mooching about town as a teen with my pals.

CaptainSwan · 26/08/2015 22:31

I LOVE shopping, probably to a slightly unhealthy degree... But I have plenty of hobbies too and I pay all my bills and save too so it can't be all that bad.

A day wandering round the shops by myself is my idea of heaven

LynetteScavo · 26/08/2015 22:31

ihatethecold - that's what I thought. Or maybe they have a really low mortgage for some reason. It didn't add up to me.

Desertedislander · 26/08/2015 22:31

Before I was a mum, yes. Now, only online. I can't imagine taking my toddler on a "day out" shopping but hopefully I will do that on special occasions in my child(ren)'s teenage years. A day near Christmas and then a birthday treat maybe. Depends what they're into.

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FuryFowler · 26/08/2015 22:33

Or the 2 grand curtains lynette I liked her too and agreed with a lot she said!

I reckon so ihatethecold... By what she was saying!

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woodhill · 26/08/2015 22:34

I like shopping but try to not buy too much. we all have too much stuff and I get fed up with the clutter and storing it. I try to buy only what I need.

however I do like bargains and bought sime stuff online the other day

mumofthemonsters808 · 26/08/2015 22:37

THe family with the two girls are nothing new to me, I know many families who regularly all go into town and shop until they drop. In my eyes, their purchases are not appropriate for 13 year olds, think Victoria Secrets underwear, Mack makeup, but I'm old fashioned and each to their own, they all work and how they choose to spend their money is none of my business

bugslife · 26/08/2015 22:40

We rarely, if ever go shopping for stuff. It seems now to be some kind of national pastime. Boxing day, shops full of people buying more stuff because the stuff they got the day before wasn't enough. Don't get it, probably because I can't afford it. Grin

Girlfriend36 · 26/08/2015 22:40

My 9.6 yr old hates shopping, groans loudly if I dare suggest we go and look at some clothes for her Grin she has no interest in clothes other than they must be comfortable and practical. Am hoping this will continue for a while yet...... she is very keen on horse riding so my plan is that she will spend all her wends helping out at the stables when she is a teenager Grin

That family were hideous and sum up all the worse of human traits imo, snobbyness, arrogance, greed, materialism plus a lack of empathy towards anyone with a different set of values to their own.

woodhill · 26/08/2015 22:41

I never get these people who say they can't say no to their dc and that women was nasty about the Nuneaton woman's birthday spend on her dc.

wafflyversatile · 26/08/2015 22:44

shopping is apparently britain's most popular past-time. It said so on the news. I can believe it too. Look how many shopping centres and streets are packed every weekend compared to sports centres and national trust homes and museums and parks.

Bragadocia · 26/08/2015 22:46

I have no interest in clothes shopping as an activity. When I was younger and had masses of spare time, it was one of many things I liked to do, but now that free time is restricted it has absolutely no appeal.

Shopping for me consists of a dash into H&M a few times a year, grabbing a few jersey tops and cotton cardis, and hoping DH will get me jeans and Converse at birthdays and Christmas. Very dull, but I just can't be arsed.

ExasperatedAlmostAlways · 26/08/2015 22:50

i have a ten, five and two year old so shopping isn't fun. I go get what I need when I need it. I also don't particularly like shopping either. if I'm going somewhere and need a new outfit il go, but usually look online first.

My sister in law goes shopping every weekend but her daughters are in their late teens now and they have more spare cash than us. Its more leisurely and she goes for lunch and stuff too but doesn't necessarily purchase stuff every week.

JeffsanArsehole · 26/08/2015 22:54

Yes, shopping is the number one leisure activity

That's depressing

Micah · 26/08/2015 22:54

It seems to be a mum/daughter activity.

Dad takes boys to football, girls go shopping with mum. Often getting nails done too.

I hate shopping.

ouryve · 26/08/2015 22:55

We go shopping quite a lot, but often it's to pick up a few cheap essentials, wander off and do something kid friendly for a while. Today I took the boys into Newcastle - we had a bit of lunch in the university grounds, wandered over to the museum to look at the stuffed animals and wotnot, popped into M&S to find DS1 some new pyjamas because the ones he has that aren't falling apart are rapidly getting too small for him and I'd had no luck finding anything in his size online, bought DS1 an icecream and wandered over to Monument where he sat and watched the buses go by as he ate it, while DS2 and I jiggled a bit to a Turkish(?) brass band who were busking. We then went to the bank, popped into Next to return a faulty t-shirt, popped into Waitrose for some bits for tea, as we hadn't done a proper food shop for ages and then chose an "interesting" bus to go home on. DS1 spent the journey both ways spotting buses on unusual routes and noted down their numbers.

Thanks to the pyjamas, the bus ticket wasn't the most money we spent today.

I actually did buy a new handbag at the weekend because my old one was falling apart and a bit stinky. The whole experience gave me a headache. Why the hell would you do that every week? Where the hell would you put them all (didn't watch the program)

mrsmeerkat · 26/08/2015 22:56

I love shopping for 'housey' things. Little quirky photoframes, that type of thing.

I have had to shop a lot recently to replace pregnancy and post pregnancy clothes and am on paid maternity and no childcare fees so I have splurged.

But ughhh.. trafford centre at the weekend - living hell for me.

I like going to random towns and villages to nosey in shops and go for a coffee. Sometimes I might just but a brandy glass in a charity shop or something