Rambling ramblings

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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We all do it.
My head swims upstream all the time.

I can feel it kicking and splashing, even asleep.
Occasionally it treads water long enough to pull a coherant thought out of. Kinda like Harry Potter put his wand near my temple and a stream of sparkly stuff came away.
Some are more sparkly than others.

Generally entertaining.

Today I was thinking about shopping. How women, men and youths shop so differently.

I’m a wanderer. I may have a list usually floating around in my head, somewhere. But I like to amble about, “just looking”. (God, I’ve made that statement frequently)
The more I walk the more my brain swims.
Sometimes I forget where I am, the list? Poof. Gone.

I was always able to get what I “needed”.
Just sometimes, going back in happened.

Kicking myself. But secure in the knowledge, I can’t be the only person like this.

Now that we have online shopping and deliveries directly to the house(uhh, remember Sears and other catalogs would send stuff right to you) the ambling shopper is probably rarer now.

I feel like eyes are on me. I was in TJMaxx just looking. Needing nothing.
I did buy jammie bottoms with white stars on a heather grey body. Very cute and just long enough.
I swear a 12yo, with an employee badge followed me all over.
I don’t think I have a shop lifter countenance. But, who knows what they’re telling these kids they hire.

Anyway. I paid for my jammies and left. I felt cheated. Not the price of the pants.(cause they were cheap) I didn’t get my fix.

So…we went down to Walgreens. I ambled those aisles, with reckless abandon. I was fixin’ to, waiting on dropping a couple hundred $$ in the pharmacy. So I felt entitlement.

Yeah…they owed me that one.

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Ugh, I absolutely abhor shopping, I dislike going to stores, so it’s as though on line was made for me. Of course, then, I sometimes have to deal with unpleasant surprises like, this isn’t exactly what I expected. I guess I need to take the time & really read the descriptions and the reviews better.

Now, something I do like is going to thrift stores, Maybe it’s because we have a couple of very good ones not too far from us, but for some reason, it’s different, I love going through the stuff to find something I like.

3

Yes. Thrift stores are the best.

So much to see. Lots of cheap prices. For junk I do not need.
When the flutter in the heart happens tho’, nothing you can do.

4

Just went to Dollar General with Ivy.
I have reasons I like to go there. Usually not to walk those aisles. Kinda boring.

But, today it was 70% off of stuff already marked down.
So 30 cents or less.

That stuff was flying out the door.
So I go in.

Ivy says “don’t walk around like zombie”
Wow, that was hurtful.
I gravitate to the sale aisles.

Seemed unsafe to fight through the crowd. So I waited, zombie-like. Someone asked me was a certain cake pan marked correctly.
Ivy caught my elbow and told the man “She don’t work here!” And shot me a dirty look.

I did buy some small hardbound memo pads. Mainly cause they were just cute.

Dollar General just don’t vibe for that just “looking” thang.
It seems to me.

5

My daughter finds the best stuff at $1.25 stores. Do we even remember when they were a $1?

Honestly, she can make it a trip. She finds the stuff her friends agree with me, but dollar stores are so hit or miss.

Fun to walk the aisles sometimes though, ya never know what might show up.

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Yep. Dollar Tree was a hoot.
My kids loved it when they were young.

In fact the Lil’wrekker still likes it for girly stuff. Make-up, hair things.
She wants to go in get what shes looking for and leave.