I HATE CLOTHES SHOPPING. That includes shoes. Yes, I am female. No, I do not like clothes shopping. No, I do not have a closet full of shoes I never wear. But I am oddly proportioned so I can’t do online clothes shopping, and I don’t trust it for shoes. I just don’t go very often.
I absolutely adore book shopping, and grocery shopping is all right. Pretty much anything but clothes is at least okay.
I have the Surgical Strike Shopping Plan.
Make a list of what I want, figure out what shops to go to, find item, pay for item, go home. If I can not find item, I just go to the next place on my list of possible places to find item, and go from there. I love it when retailers are like Can i help you find something else, or here is something you might like. No I came for the item I wanted to buy, and how do you know what I might like, you just met me 2 seconds ago.
Sometimes I go to the Mall, but I have a purpose in mind, like trying to find the item I am looking for. I do window shop, but like many people, I only have so much disposable income, so whatever I buy as a Splurge has got to be Worth It.
I’m female and I flat out detest shopping. For anything! Regardless of the holiday/occasion.
I do most of my shopping on-line.
Then proceed to donate/give to friends/throw out most of what I have purchased on-line, because it is easier that go to post office to send it back.
Then I go to the mall to buy the exact same product in a size that fits me.
Amen
I’m 27 years old, and I still have, and wear, shirts that I wore in high school. If I got rid of them, I’d have to buy new ones to replace them.
I needed some shorts this summer - the two pair I had weren’t cutting it any more. So I looked at the tags, noted where I’d bought them, the style, and the size, and went out and purchased three more pairs that were identical to what I already had. Saved me a lot of hassle.
That should give you an idea of my attitude.
I think my problem is that my body is never right for the clothes. Therefor, it takes me hours to find a pair of pants that fit me properly. I do it (clothes shopping) maybe once a year, if that. Shoes are even worse. I am girl and I will never understand the shoe thing. Plus I don’t wear leather so I’m limited mainly to converse all stars.
I love shopping, all kinds. Food, clothing, books, electronics, a new car, a new house, a new husband. Maybe it’s because I’m gay (though yes, I’ve known gay guys who hated shopping).
hate it, too.
I buy stuff in threes and fours.
Any piece of clothing i have that I like, and fits, I usually have 3 or 4 of.
Kinda like smeghead.
it works, saves you hassle, you don’t need to go and fit them on cos you know they’ll fit.
Plus you never have to think about what you’re going to wear.
It’s all pretty much the same, anyway.
aaaaaahhh…bliss
(now shoes is a completely different story. But let’s not go there 
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Love grocery shopping. There are so many interesting things to see !
But I hate, hate, hate clothes shopping. My feet are too big for any shoes they sell (or so I’ve been told), and my legs are too long for most pants, and I am neither “small”, “medium” nor “large” on top so either the sleeves are too short or too long or it won’t button around my boobs or tuck into my pants, and there is not a pair of shorts in the world that is flattering for my figure, and plus I’m broke, so yah, hate it. Grr. And I’m terrified of online shopping for the above reasons. If only we could all go naked all the time.
I don’t like shopping as much as I used to. It isn’t so much having to buy some particular item that I don’t like. It’s the overall experience itself, regardless of what I am looking for. As I have gotten older (I’m 33 now) I’m finding myself becoming less tolerant of crowds. Other reasons I avoid shopping:
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[li]I don’t like being tempted to spend money on something I may not really need at that time[/li][li]Screaming kids[/li][li]Waiting in lines, especially when stuck behind slow or otherwise difficult customers[/li][li]Traffic and parking[/li][li]Dealing with unknowledegable/unhelpful salespeople[/li][/ul]
As for shopping for certain items, I don’t really mind. Going to the supermarket isn’t really “shopping” to me. It’s just a weekly routine activity. If I happen to be at the mall I like to look at music CDs, DVDs and books, but most of the time I go there it’s to make a specific purchase from a specific store and then leave. I’m not big on shopping for clothes or shoes. I just like to find something that fits and looks good, and then pay for it and get out of there. Being a typical guy, I’m not one to try on a dozen different styles to see which one I think looks the best on me. Most of my clothing buying decisions are made within five to ten minutes.
Several years ago I used to enjoy shopping. I worked weekends about 95% of the time then, so going out on a rare Saturday or Sunday off was quite a treat. I’d go with my sister, who then liked going to the mall. The mall we have here didn’t open until 1988, so at that time it was still somewhat of a novelty, but now it’s not realy much different than going to, say, Wal-Mart.
I like shopping on the Internet.
BLASPHEMERS!!! 
I LOVE to go shopping. I work about 5 minutes from the mall and I could spend every day during lunch shopping and walking around.
I love to go grocery shopping. I can spend hours in a bookstore. I can drop money like crazy in Target, Walmart or any card shop like Hallmark. I love going to the nursery and buying plants and things for my yard.
Now if my finances could just be increased a little to support this love of mine I would be very happy and believe me, so would Sauron
I hate shopping for clothes (yes I am a girl). I own and wear clothing I bought in Junior High School, and I’m 28 (beat ya, Smehead)
I’m rather short so finding clothes that fit me is quite a struggle. I once left the mall in tears after trying to buy a pair of dressy slacks. When my mom sent me a pair that fit, I wept again, this time in relief.
I don’t usually feel this way about my body, but there’s something about shopping that makes me feel like a lumpen troll.
I enjoy grocery shopping though.
I loathe shopping. School starts in a week and I have yet to do school clothes shopping. Shopping with teenage boys is far worse then teenage girls.
I’m thinking of just giving him the money and drop him off at the mall by himself and let him call me when he is done.
Everything in the mall is overpriced and woulnd’t you know that is the ONLY place the kids will shop <sigh>
I love shopping. It’s actually something my mom and I bond over. When we get together, we always have to find time to shop. We mostly do clothes shopping now. It was pretty bad when I used to live close to them - every weekend was shopping - got a lot of stuff from that in my kitchen from Mikasa/Lenox outlets. Now that I live further away, we get together every 1 to 3 months. Downside is, the number of times we go may be lower, but the money spent is higher.
If mom and I don’t get to shop together often enough, things get ugly. One memorable trip, mom and I hadn’t been shopping in a while (I had been at college). We went to Macy’s, and the first department we hit was socks, of all things. We ended up spending $200 on socks!
Of course, then there was the time when mom was working in San Francisco, and we spent so much the credit card company called my dad, because they thought it was fraudulent charges!
If I don’t shop with my mom, I actually don’t shop at all - it’s so tied in my mind with her.
Susan
I HATE shopping. ALL of it. Even if its stuff I want (electronics) I hate it.
I have a particular problem in that I outright will not go out to stores to buy things. Even if I need them. That’s how much I hate shopping. I NEVER make explicit trips to stores. The only time I ever buy something from a store is if by occurrence alone I’m walking past it on the way home from school/friend’s house, whatever.
When I get my own place I will do all my shopping online. Even the groceries.
I detest shopping, but paradoxically, love the malls.
Why my hatred of shopping? I think a large part of it stems from an absolute inability to find what I need. I’m 6’7" and weigh about 180 lbs (a rather uncommon body type admitedly). For pants, I wear a 36w 34l. To find a pair I will go through an entire rack (probably 50-100 pairs), during which I will find 17 pair of 32w 38l and a dozen 46w 28l. WHO THE FUCK WEARS THOSE PANTS? Someone whose 7’1" and clocking in at a buck ten? A six hundred pound midget?
God bless the internet!
Why my love for the malls? I’m a straight male in southern California. Girls like shopping. Do the math.
If we’re just talking about clothes shopping, I hate it too.
For me, it’s an ordeal. First of all, anything I wear has to be natural fibers. This is not for psychological or political reasons, but simply because I live in southern California, and if I wear anything synthetic, I will be miserable between April and November. I envy the Pakistani women in my community, who are always so serene and smiley in their silk trouser suits and scarves. But they tell me they mostly make their own stuff. One of These Days, I will get a sewing machine and make my own stuff, too.
But in the meantime, mall shops are mostly out of the question, because everything they have is either synthetic or way out of my price range. So it’s off to the secondhand stores. But then I have to carry a purse, because I’m not going to wrestle in and out of jeans every time I go into the dressing room, and I get paranoid having to guard my purse in places where so many of the patrons are likely to be sticky-fingered. And it’s unlikely that I’ll find what I want at just one store, so it’s drive…park…walk…walk…drive…park…walk…walk…walk…meter…walk…drive…park…It can take the whole day. Argh!
However, I do like the net results. I never buy anything I’m uncertain about; whatever I get, I plan on wearing indefinitely.
Gotta save up for that sewing machine…
I, too, hate clothes shopping. I especially hate trying on clothing in a store. There’s something about the process of finding things that might fit, going into one of those teensy cubicles with the greenish lighting, and changing clothes that just makes me exhausted before I even get to the store. Most of my family feels the same way, so the only way any of us but the youngest child gets any clothing at all is by me going to a discount store, picking out something that looks approximately the right size and style, buying it, and taking it home to be tried on later, often much later. If it doesn’t fit or the person doesn’t like it, I take it back later (or, if it was intended for the older child, her younger sister, the clothes horse of the family, appropriates it to “grow into”).
I tolerate grocery shopping, but I resist going to large stores until we absolutely have to have whatever product I can find only there. I’ve been to Super Wal-Mart three times now, and I’ve vowed never to go back, just because there’s too much there and the whole process is just too daunting.
I cannot handle shopping, after about 10 minutes i get tired and bored. It is especially bad if I am just required to “come with”. The SO seems to have no problem shopping but doesn’t like to go alone for some unknown reason, so… i am forced against my will to wander aimlessly around stores trying to amuse myself. And btw, there is absolutly nothing amusing to do in a the womens clothing section. The only saving grace is the little chair they sometimes have near the changeroom, thank god for the chair.
I can handle grocery shopping, but again only if i am on my own. Then there is no screwing around… 30 minutes and the shopping is done. A list is helpful to ensure i have not forgotten anything and the cell phone will save me if I am unsure of which size/brand of something to get.