Lured shopping under false pretences...

[Arch]

I love shopping for clothes and shoes, for myself, on my own. My wife prefers doing hers on her own too. Can't see why we'd want to mess it up by trying to force it together...

Us too. I do my own. She does hers.

You should mix it up one time - you do hers, she does yours.

With a bit of luck, you'll be speaking again within a month...

Heck, I annoy myself when I shop. Today I stood in M and S vacillating over which twinpack of bras to buy, overheating because I was dressed for the icy cold outside. Mostly when that happens, I get into a bad mood, give up and go home, but today I pulled through and went on to make several other purchases, with the grand finale of a pair of steel toecapped work boots. (not in M and S, obviously).

 

[Norm]

Heck, I annoy myself when I shop. Today I stood in M and S vacillating over which twinpack of bras to buy

Whilst bras don't feature too frequently in my shopping basket, I can spent 10 minutes pondering on which bar of soap to buy, because the one I want is 5p more expensive.

Then I'll go and blow a fiver in a coffee shop without thinking about it.

And, if anyone thinks that sounds bad, you should try living it!

 

[Arch]

Whilst bras don't feature too frequently in my shopping basket, I can spent 10 minutes pondering on which bar of soap to buy, because the one I want is 5p more expensive.

Then I'll go and blow a fiver in a coffee shop without thinking about it.

And, if anyone thinks that sounds bad, you should try living it!

Yes, that just like me. My weakness is a Saturday lunch pack of sushi. I eat 10p noodles for lunch during the week, and then blow £4 on sushi.

Also, I'm terribly prone to blowing money on tat in the poundshop - but it's only a pound!

 

[fossyant]

Did the dash and shop today for some Xmas pressies........

Boots offer on No7 Perfect and Protect 'better than half price' deal - missus sent me to get it for her xmas pressie.... then I dived into Game to pick up Fifa 11 Xbox 360 for my son, reduced to £27 and got another £15 off rewards, so only £12.

 

[ianrauk]

Neither of us are particularly into shopping, but when we go, we go seperately - I like to go with my girl friends or my mum. The other half won't actually buy clothes until the ones he has are literally falling apart.

A normal bloke thing...

 

[fossyant]

A normal bloke thing...

+1.............

 

[dellzeqq]

well, today went like a skyrocket. After spending four hours at the hairdressers (I'd been to work and then spent time in a church for some reason or other) she picked up speed. Lunch at Peter Jones, followed by a scoot round the ladies underwear department (how can tights and knickers be that expensive!!) and then up to the fifth floor to order a leather sofa - all spur of the moment stuff. Then off to Agnes B (by which time I'm reduced to sitting in a chair and reading a book) where, miraculously, she didn't buy a thing. This is a seriously class act, chaps, and I was both terrified and honoured to play a small part in it.

 

[yello]

This is a seriously class act, chaps, and I was both terrified and honoured to play a small part in it.

I see you and raise my misses buying DIY bits from the local quincaillerie. She's taught me all I know about rawl plugs.

 

[Globalti]

I've been wearing the same casual slip-ons now for 15 years and they've got a hole in them. So during last week's enforced trog around Manchester I kept an eye open and spotted some Timberland shoes that looked OK, but the problem was that they were £75! That's a lot of money to spend on something not at all bike-related so I walked away. Now I've seen them on the web at similar prices so I suppose I shall eventually make the decision to buy them. The purchase will be handled like a Commando operation; I will drive into town, park, dash to the shop, grab, pay and dash out as fast as possible, the whole thing might even be achieved within the first free 20 minutes at the car park if I'm lucky.

 

[ufkacbln]

Not sure if I am confessing a little too much here, but Laura Ashley in Windsor used to have just such a corner.

I nearly got arrested in a Laura Ashley in Southampton!

I had (quelle horreur) stopped off at a book shop whilst wife went to Laura Ashley. My instructions were taht I was to go to LA and wait, because if she was not in the shop she would be in the changing rooms.

So I get book, and patiently sit outside changing room reading and an occasional glance at the changing rooms in case my opinion is needed and I can then look suitably attentive..... and after about 20 minutes start getting dirty looks from shop staff. Eventually an assistant comes across with a security guard. and asks "Can we help?" So I explain that I am waiting for my wife who is in the changing rooms. Assistant checks and she isn't.

So I am now a single male sat outside a ladies changing room with no solid alibi!

I am asked to leave... so adjourn to bench outside, still getting meaningful glances from security as they walk by


40 minutes later up comes wife who had been distracted by a sale in Debenhams. Made a point of taking her in to LA and explaining to the assistant that I was not a pervert!

 

[Globalti]

They didn't spot the bras and knickers stuffed in your pockets then?

 

[ELL]

I think the man corner is a cracking idea but think it could be even better with one addition. Internet. This could connect to the shops website so if the better half finds something she really wants but can't warrant spending the money on it at the moment (I know this is a fantasy that will never happen) you could then order it on line for a present for her and get it delivered home and she will be amazed you remembered and went out a bought it. After all she knows how much you hate going into women's shops.
Also they could give access to selected other retailers shops so whilst she is doing the shopping her way you can do it the man way.

 

[Norm]

40 minutes later up comes wife who had been distracted by a sale in Debenhams. Made a point of taking her in to LA and explaining to the assistant that I was not a pervert!

I hear you, chap.

I get around that by asking the wife to come and meet me. I can always lose hours in Hooters music, Game etc and she knows that, the longer she takes, the more I'll have bought when she gets there.

Although, as I said earlier, she's usually finished before me anyway.

 

[craigwend]

Luckily today Mrs craigwend has this yeargone (full day) xmas shopping without me .

In exchange I have to look after the children, which has involved watching kids TV, going out & playing in the snow (I may have to resort to the turbo if the white stuff keeps up, or put knobblies on my MTB!) I have had a fab 'lunch' of fish-finger sandwiches / quorn sausages, now the children are watching a scooby doo DVD, this may be the way forward for shopping

To be fair when have had to do 'extended shopping' in the past, she has realised I need an initial cake stop on arrival, then regular cake stops during the long painful ascent, sorry I meant shopping.
The early learning centre has a good area to relax in, though I dont know if its me, the other people in there look very young

 

[Archie_tect]

You know, I think shops are missing out on a trick here. What they need is a small corner with a table and a few chairs, maybe even a complimentary coffee dispenser and a few news papers. In other words a man corner.

After about fifteen minutes in any shop I get fed up and start moaning at the missus to hurry up. For a small outlay the shop could keep the miserable sods like me happy and give the women folk longer to spend the cash. Result everybody is happy.

You'd never get a seat.... all the shopping ladies would be taking rest breaks and nattering...