Shopping

Had a day in Barcelona on Saturday. A group of 4 ladies (about my age) returned to the coach loaded down with Zara and Primark bags!

I’m another who dislikes shopping although I will happily spend ages in a good art or craft shop. I certainly would not be looking for shop while on holiday or on a day out.

Georgesgran

Had a day in Barcelona on Saturday. A group of 4 ladies (about my age) returned to the coach loaded down with Zara and Primark bags!

Oh heavens! There is so much to see in Barcelona! What a waste!

Exactly Luckygirl3 - one of my favourite cities - we walked 9.8 miles!

I too hate shopping. When I was young and slim I couldn't wait to get my weekly wage packet and head to the shops. Now it's a chore. I made an exception in April in Seville. No shopping, I wouldn't in that lovely city. However, I love espadrilles. They are the only shoes I find comfortable. We passed a shop with hundreds of pairs and I succumbed to a lovely red pair for 9 euro. Made in Spain too.

I very much dislike shops and shopping.

Online and Amazon are my sources.

I'd rather be out in the garden digging and planting, or in the kitchen cooking, or walking the dog or childminding. Anything else, really.

I am back from Lakeside.

I purchased the skincare products I needed (wanted) along with two pairs of sandals.

Rather disappointed on the clothes front, but then again I was only there three weeks and purchased things then.

Nannylovesshopping

My username says it all😀

Good for you - I also love clothes shopping and part of the experience is coffee and lunch. I live rurally and get plenty of exercise and fresh air so I enjoy the change of scenery and fashionable clothes. My late mum and mil always dressed really well. I can wear my gardening clothes any day. I like spending my money - I earned it over a long career.

I used to absolutely love clothes shopping and often went to two different towns in one day. Now, I can’t stand it, being in a shop full of clothes gives me sensory overload and I can’t wait to get home to my iPad.

I like shopping if I’m on my own and have time for a meander - I could very happily spend an hour or two in the John Lewis in Cardiff. What I don’t like is the travelling time and the traffic in the city, so I don’t go often. I don’t mind food shopping, as long as I vary the supermarket, as they are all only good in some areas.

I can’t get any enjoyment from trailing round the shops, unless it’s a fabric shop when I can add to my stash of unused fabric just waiting for a project or a yarn shop as I’m teaching myself to crochet, I’ve enough handbags, shoes, clothes make up to last me if I live another 20 years.

i hate the big towns and shops and supermarkets, but i love going around little antique shops and charity shops in small towns and villages and i love an open air carboot.

primark, really

I dislike shopping with a vengeance, although happy to browse the little, independent shops in the side street. Zara & Primark in Barcelona? Why?

That's exactly why I like to go to charity shops - never know what you're going to find and generally at a reasonable price.

I think the female population is probably fairly evenly divided on this question.

I used to love going round department stores, even in the days where I certainly had no money to spare for impulse shopping.

I would still love to do so, if there were any department stores left. The small boutiques that only cater either for the very young women, or for what that marvellous creation of Andrew McAll Smith¨s, Mma Ramotswe calls "the traditionally built woman" cannot attract me who weighs only 55 kg and is 75.

Some of my friends come back from holiday and say they went shopping in M&S!!!

Same as lot of posters here I used to really enjoy shopping and could happily spend a day mooching around.
I live near a big shopping mall in Essex but have no interest in going there at all now.
Although I have a good friend who still enjoys it especially London’s west end so glad it’s not just me then.

Sarnia

Some of my friends come back from holiday and say they went shopping in M&S!!!

We went in M&S in Malta just to see if it was different!

I went to Lidl with a friend. She spent half an hour examining things and bought nothing. Never again!

I love any sort of shopping. I love the charity shops especially and hunting for bargains.

I like a mooch.
Charity shops, punctuated by lots of coffee breaks, and sitting on benches, watching the world go by

Luckygirl3

Nannylovesshopping

My username says it all😀

Indeed! - tell me what you like about it ......

It’s a feeling thinking I might just find the perfect item I didn’t even know I wanted…. 😀

I don’t like shopping with anybody I like it totally on my own I haven’t got to worry I m boring them with the things I m looking at and I certainly don’t have to be bored by them going to shops I m not interested in
So it’s solo shopping for me

Allira

Sarnia

Some of my friends come back from holiday and say they went shopping in M&S!!!

We went in M&S in Malta just to see if it was different!

M&S in Gibraltar is very different to the uk. You are spoilt for choice.
I asked one of the assistants why it was so much better than the uk.
She said the buyers had free range from the whole M&S range whereas uk shops have to take what they are given.