…trust me when I tell you…
I look at shopping the same way I looked at social interactions: Formerly having had no interest for them, have since developed an interest and am looking to cultivate it. I went shopping last night with kung fu lola (“kung fu lola’s outfit is adorable” is one of the truths of the universe) and came away with three very nice pairs of jeans. It was a lot of fun.
I am looking at the “Code for Men” now and I see the following items where’in shopping is ok:
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[li]Alcohol[/li][li]Home Depot[/li][li]Video games[/li][li]fine wine or cheese (YMMV)[/li][li]cigars[/li][/ol]
Maybe you should roll #4 up as “food and booze”.
I’m not much of a shopper either, unless I’m in the aforementioned Best Buy, CompUSA, etc… OR somewhere like a grocery store/gourmet market. I can spend a couple of hours in one of the HEB Central Markets around here, and rarely make it out for less than $50.
I think this is mostly true. My SIL says shopping is female bonding with the added bonus of buying stuff. She recently spent 4 hours in Kohl’s with her sister, just yakking and looking and filling up the cart, then unfilling it, and walking out with a $20 purchase. She’s a pro.
Papa Tiger is a surprisingly good shopper, and has far more tolerance for it than I do. He does all the grocery shopping – I learned that one the hard way; right after we were married, we went grocery shopping together, and he decided he wanted to buy some bacon. He picked up a package that was priced well and looked really nice, and I said, “That looks good, let’s get that one.” He insisted on comparison pricing. Ten minutes later, after I’d given up and sat down on the floor of the grocery store to await his Mighty Hunter Shopper decision, and after he’d picked up and looked at every single package of bacon on the shelves (not just each brand, each individual package), he decided on the one he wanted…the very first one he’d looked at. :smack:
But I do like to have some input when he clothes shops because although he has excellent taste and is terrific at matching colors and picking things that look good on him, even after he’s tried it on he usually decides he doesn’t want to buy it, so it helps if I’m there to talk him into it. And also to instruct the store on tailoring for pants – he’s an odd inseam length, so slacks always need to be tailored, but they always want to give him cuffs for some reason. Men who are longer in the torso than the legs should never wear cuffs.
However, I utterly and completely refuse to go to Home Depot with him. He can stay there all day long, even if he doesn’t buy a thing. It’s crack for men!