Monday, July 26, 2010

An Obsession of Mine: Online Shopping

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While shopping for new sheets online during Macy's Home Sale, I decided I have to confess on PK how much I love online shopping. It's kind of like a drug, it soothes me. Sometimes I will just browse for hours for thing I don't even really need but may someday like to purchase. I like to feel in control of my choices and my OCD tendencies can make this hard since I obsess before I buy. Shopping tends to overwhelm me. I can spend hours (well not quite but seems like it) at Walgreen's wondering which type of drugstore hair straightening product I should buy.

Online shopping changes the game though. No longer do I have to pace back and forth in a Walgreens aisle contemplating my consumer fate. I don't need to become frazzled over prices and choices and feel pressured to buy something. I can shop online anywhere I have my computer or Itouch and an internet connection.  Ususally for me this means in bed at any possible time of day watching a favorite tv program or listening to iTunes, or sometimes both. Plus I can search a product on multiple sites and find the best deals. Reading other customer's reviews also helps me a great deal whenever I am contemplating a purchase. I've also yet to run across a website with a time limit so I can take hours, days, weeks, even months to decide if I want to spend money on something. Even if the town I'm in doesn't have a favorite store of mine I can still shop it online. Basically if online shopping is something you haven't yet considered useful I recommend you give it a try; I find it great.

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