Shopping - I'm a freak, right?

[2ManyPimms]

I must either be:

a) a freak of nature
b) approaching middle age

but I'd rather eat my own eyeballs than go to the Harrods sale!

I'd rather shovel shit w/a teaspoon than go shopping this time of year.

really I thought that was normal behaviour (from my position on normal anyway).

I mean why would you want to do that to yourself - go shopping unless you really really had to?

Oh blimey - no - I'm with you on that one. I'm not against sales, and will happily wander round plenty of shops, but why would anyone want to go to Harrods full stop, let alone the sale?

I just find Sales (yeah right) so cynical. I find myself looking at people who leave their families on Christmas night to queue in the cold to save a few hundred ££££'s.

I find myself questioning their family values and their sense of family.

I love to shop in the sales. I only ever buy clothes for myslef or the Ds's in the sale. All of Dh's clothes are sale purchases too.

I love getting bargain so sale shopping is all I do.

I never leave the house to do it though. It's eith over the phone or online.

I just cannot understand why poeple queue for hours to get into a shop!!
Nutters!!

I don't know about Harrods, but when i worked in a well known record store, the shop bought the sale stock cheaper from the suppliers so the shop was still making more or less the same amount of money on each product. So the shop can only gain in increased sales. I bet the Harrods tat is vastly marked up anyway, and the sale is only any good if you want to buy a gold plated fish tank for £20,000 instead of £40,000 or something.
I love a bargain as much as anyone, but there is no shop ON EARTH that could make me queue up in anticipation.

yeah every shop I've ever worked in has done that as well.

As the goods have to have been on sale in one branch for at least 28 days at some point before they are marked down, they have one store usually that sells the goods for 28 days at the higher price. Then they can mark it as 'half-price' or whatever.

i love second hand shopping best actually. The thrill of finding something fabulous is fantastic. like my 3 lary 70s patterned Worcester cups and saucers I got for about $2 the other day in the Christian Mission shop. Or the lovely wooden pullalong horse for DDs stocking at $3 in the same trip. marvellous

I can not stand going shopping in the sales. Too many people!!
I never find anything in my size anyway ..
My sis queued up for the Next sale last year .. some ridiculous time .. 4-5am .. and all she bought was 2 pairs of shoes and 2 pairs of fluffy boots for the kids .. madness she didn't do it again

I'm still decluttering madly here to make room for all the stuff we got for Xmas - giving hordes to charities and textile recycling - can't imagine buying even MORE.

I like them because I love getting a bargain, but hate the crowds.

I went today and did get Ds a top and lightweight jacket from Next, and then got Dd1 to tracksuit thingies and a pink gilet all for £27. It would have been £60 at original prices

Dd1 though needs lessons in bargain hunting. She had £5 to spend and so got a necklace for £3 and some lip balm for £2. I was horrified as she could have got both for £1 had she tried harder LOL.

I never buy clothes at full price thinking about it. It's way more fun to find a bargain.

I went to the sales for the first time this year, I had money saved and like many people I know have no children/family to keep me at home. My DF was at work on boxing day. It was sit watching telly all day or buy a duvet for half price - i got my duvet

I went early though (well 8am) and left by lunchtime, hate shopping in the sales when it is heaving.

I'm a real bargain hunter too but I normally avoid the sales as I've had enough of shopping come Christmas. However, this year I went to Primark the day after Boxing Day with my sister and neice, and got 2 pairs of combats, a blouse, 2 belts and 2 pairs of socks for £7.50.

My best buy for Christmas was a My First Leappad for dd which I got with 2 games for £1.50 in a charity shop.

dp wants me to go shopping in 4 hours time..i said i didn't fancy it again this weeek

I really cannot be bothered to go shopping.

Most shops bring out all the tat they haven't sold in all the other sales.

If i see something that i know we'd definately use, then i'll get it, but no way will i go out standing in huge queues and being pushed around.

Nothings worth that, surely???

You're sane Pimms. I hate shopping at any time, never mind the sales. Always find it depressing to see hundreds and hundreds of people schlepping around the shops when all teh beautiful bits of the world are elsewhere.

Agree. HATE sales. I like a nice calm, relaxing shopping experience, with the clothes/ homewares/ whatever laid out in nice displays for me to peruse at leisure.

Would eat my own feet before queuing to get into a shop.

Oh and I think some shops guarantee to sell things in sale that have been on sale at a higher price in last 6 mths (Oasis for example.) However, I once saw on a sale rack in Warehouse (when shopping under duress), a top which I had purchased a full THREE YEARS previously. I kid you not!

Glad I'm not the only one!

I spent the afternoon yesterday in the Science Museum whilst DH hit Harrods to buy a pillow. A PILLOW!!!

In my youth I liked a sale. Now that I am fat, nearly forty and not earning my own dosh, I don't really bother shopping.

The kiddos clothes come from the NCT sales and DH buys his own. Tesco supplies my jeans.

I am so NOT a clothes horse!