When I was little, I really used to hate going to the store for my mother. Its not like I didn’t want to help her, buy she would often send me to get feminine things that are very personal to women ( like stockings, tampons, deush bottles ect). that I found extremely embarrasing to shop for. I would often wait till no one was looking before picking these things out, and then would be forced to bear the humiliation of standing in line while waiting to pay for these things. I would ask / telll my mom ( Ma, do you know how embassasing it is to have to go to the clerk and ask for assistance while trying to finding these blasted items?) Why she wouldn’t send my older sister for these things to this day is a still a mystery.
Is there any certain items you hate shopping for while in the store? :o
Yes. All of them. I hate going grocery shopping. Luckily, I am a student, and it is acceptable, and almost expected of me, to get take out food every night. Pretty much the only times I go grocery shopping is when I’m too hungover to care. Then I just wander around the store in a haze and buy whatever strikes my fancy. (Usually lots of chips and soda. And bread. Not quite sure why, but I tend to end up with lots of bread when I go shopping. ) I did actually go shopping yesterday though (when I wasn’t hung over) and was quite impressed with myself - I think I actually managed to buy food that I can make maybe 3 or 4 decent meals with. That might be the first time that has happened.
As for you having to buy these feminine products for your mom, that seems a little bit insensitive on her part to send you to buy these even after you told her that you feel uncomfortable doing it.
I may get flamed here, but, WHO IN THEIR RIGHT FREAKIN MIND sends a kid to buy personal items?
I never had to buy any products for my mother, I will never send my KID to buy products for me.
I haven’t ever even asked my husband to pick up items for me. We have been shopping together when I made these perchases. A box of tampons isn’t that scary. The check out person is always old enough to know that having a period is something that happens to almost every woman. I plan ahead and stock up-- if there is a sale I buy a lot.
Oh, man, do I hate shopping for stuff I can’t eat!
That includes cookies, crunchy cheese curls, regular bread, regular ice cream, TastyKake pies, candy bars… you get the idea. It’s really tough sometimes to have that stuff at home and not eat it. I do Atkins, so the aforementioned is for my boyfriend, who is big and tall and has a much faster metabolism, apparently.
I hate shopping for things that are not fun. You know, like trash bags, dish soap, etc. I have a hard time parting with money for things that don’t either entertain me or are edible.
I can’t stand shopping for things that don’t have an obvious logical grocery store location, or things that might be in different places in different grocery stores. Why exactly are sundried tomatoes so damned hard to find? Usually they’re somewhere in produce, but not always. Ditto pickled garlic. And I hate playing the olive game - with the salad dressing or the vegetables? I hate that, it ruins my grocery shopping experience.
I hate going to get stuff for decorating if it’s not my room. I had to go tonight with my mom. If boring the pants off someone was possible, my pants were completly off and away a few miles. On the bright side I got my friend a prezzie, and I got a new book. So issall good
Greeting cards. The tasteful/serious greeting cards are boring and cheesy, but the tasteless/funny greeting cards are usually not all that funny and sometimes downright offensive. And they’re damn expensive. And I always forget to get the special custom-sized envelope. Plus, I think the whole idea of preprinted greeting cards is silly, but certain older members of my family feel that if I don’t send a greeting card, it means I don’t love them any more.
Anything that:
[ul][li]comes in different sizes[/li][li]has expire dates[/li][li]might be going out of style[/li][li]costs too much[/li][li]costs too little[/li][li]that I’m not sure how much it should cost[/li][li]my wife might not want[/li][li]might not fit[/li][li]doesn’t match[/li][li]is the wrong color[/li][li]Martha doesn’t suggest[/li][li]my neighbor already has[/li][li]isn’t on my diet[/li][li]isn’t kosher (despite the fact that I’m Methodist)[/li][/ul]
I hate shopping, unless it’s for books or rocks. Period. And even then, I’m usually done before whoever I went with.
See, I shop like a guy. I go to the store with a particular purpose, I buy the item, and then I leave. No fuss, no muss, no browsing; just in and out.
Alas, my finace shops like a cross between my 15 year-old sister and a senior citizen on a fixed income. He looks at EVERYTHING in the store, and then ends up leaving with nothing because he doesn’t want to spend the money on it. This makes me cranky. I’ve tried to explain that I don’t really mind going to, say, the video game store (I don’t play videogames); I just mind that it takes an hour to go to the video game store, during which time I have nothing to do or look at. 10 minutes I can handle; 30 I get cranky; 60 and I get pissed. And that HAS happened before.
Aside from that, the only thing I don’t like shopping for is sex-related stuff. That’s because it DOES usually take me a little bit to find what I want, and during that time I’m surrounded by pictures of naked men and women that I don’t find attractive (my tastes are DEFINATELY not mainstream in that department), so I wind up just wanting to get the hell out of there. Plus they kept the handcuffs behind the counter, so I had to ask for them. . .but I’m oversharing. Sorry.
I’ve bought tampons and such for my mom a few times…but then, I’m a girl too. We haven’t ever made my brother go and buy such things, though in an emergency I probably would. But we’re both adults, and he knows about periods. I had to explain them to him way back int eh day, we were sharing a bathroom, and he came across some evidence and was worried about me. Awww.
I love grocery shopping.
I HATE clothes shopping. Hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE it.
I hate having to buy KY Jelly. I have to buy it more often than most people would need to for any reason. You’re probably laughing too, but I’m not buying it for the reason you think. Keep laughing. I don’t use it for that. I can just imagine the lady at the store thinking, “You again? Didn’t you just get a tube a few weeks ago?” Not fun at all.
I hate shopping for specifically vegetarian products. With the ever-growing Cult of Atkins ™ I’ve found that stores are pushing out veggie products in favor of giving more and more shelf space to laboratory created carrot cake mixes with no carrots in them, low-carb pancake syrup and carb-free tortillas. One of the stores in my neighborhood doesn’t even carry tofu anymore. It’s sickening.
I mostly like shopping, but there are a few things that always get me:
-I’m planning to bake a cake; the flour is in the home baking aisle, but where the hell is the sugar? Every single time, it takes me ten minutes to remember that they keep it in the tea and coffee aisle, which I’ve already passed.
-Items where there is too much choice - olive oil, for example; there are three dozen brands, each offering many different grades and varieties, each of these is available in several different sizes, and all I want is some cheap olive oil for cooking - the shelf-edge labelling would be useful in determining the best value, except that it is not consistent - some of them just have the price per bottle, others have this plus the supposedly helpful price in pence per 100ml, others have the price per bottle and the price in pence per litre - Oh, I know, it is easy to convert the units, but when you’re juggling sixty other prices for sixty other olive oil products, it becomes a little harder.
and carb-free tortillas. One of the stores in my neighborhood doesn’t even carry tofu anymore. It’s sickening.