MeanLaureen's Useless Poll of the Day - Monday

"what kind of shopper are you?"

  • I LOVE shopping! I am an equal opportunity shopper - I can shop anywhere! Even an auto parts store

  • I love to shop but I'm mainly a mall kind of person - my idea of a shopping trip is spending the day

  • I love to shop but I'm a bargain hunter so I head to discount stores mainly

  • I love shopping but I'm the king/queen of the outlets! That is the best kind of shopping!

  • I like to shop but I'm really just a window shopper - I don't spend time in the stores, just walk by

  • I love to shop but I won't go anywhere other than the finest boutiques and upscale department stores

  • Shopping is okay but I only do it when I definitely need something - not something I do just for fun

  • I'll shop the discount stores when I have to but I avoid malls like the plague!

  • A day of shopping is torture to me - I hate it, I avoid it at any cost, I break into hives just thin

  • I have turned to the internet for all my shopping

  • I have found the secret - send your spouse, S/O, child, parent, etc to the store for you!

  • What is this thing you call shopping? ;) :)


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MeanLaureen

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Happy Monday everyone!

I have decided something. I HATE SHOPPING!!

I had just a few things to buy this weekend for our bedroom remodel: 2 Duvet covers in either mossy green, gold or brick red (Matt and I are both cover hogs so we each have our own comforter) A slip cover for a loveseat for our bedroom in one of the above mentioned colors. A queen sized bed skirt in brick red and a full sized one in off white (for the guest room). And to top it off - curtains for 4 windows in the above color scheme.

As if the first couple of things weren't difficult enough - I never want to shop for bed skirts or curtains again. It seems like bed skirts come in 2 varieties - so cheesy that you can practically see through the fabric or so expensive that they cost more than all the rest of the bedding put together. I finally found a brick red one - originally $100 on sale for $20 at JC Penneys - but it's a king so I have to do a little sewing on it.

Then curtains - the worst thing in the world. HORRIBLE. I went EVERYWHERE! I don't want to have to special order them but trying to find 8 panels in the same color in ANY design?? Impossible!! :crazy: I was so fed up! I finally wandered into a fabric store and saw the exact same fabric (color too) that my duvet covers were made out of (Micro suede) and they had it in gold too so I bought 20 yds between the 2 and I'm going to make my own darn curtains before I pull my hair out!!!

Okay, enough ranting about shopping!

On to the poll!

On the theme of shopping... "what kind of shopper are you?"
 
good morning all, and I have to admit, I HATE to shop. I will go only when I know I need something and then I will try to find it at the cheapest price because along with hating to shop I hate to spend money too!!!
 
Lauri - this is probably too late, since you've ordered material for your curtains, but did you check out Country Curtains in River Road Shopping Center? They've got an awesome selection & aren't all that expensive.
 
I'll meet you at the mall!!! :teeth:

But I HATE shopping for bedding and curtains. Just did the curtain nightmare last month. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez are they expensive!! It didn't help to be buying for three windows and a set of french doors, two of them large windows. Ended up at JC Penney...again...and again to find something. And then to JCP the next town over because they ran out of what I finally decided on at the one in town. :( Found new sheets, too! :) On sale! Okay...now that I have 400 thread count, I'm not going back to anything else. :cloud9:
 

Annette - ACK! I completely forgot about Country Curtains and I pass them every day on the way to work!!!!!!!!!!

Sigh - oh well. At least this way I can get all fancy schmancy withe beaded trim and stuff on my curtains - good thing I can sew a straight line :p (and that's about it!!)
 
I hate to shop unless I know what I want. Christmas shopping is hell! But my buddies and I do have this secret fantasy of winning a shopping spree in Home Depot. You know, like that old Laverne and Shirley episode where they get a shooping spree in the grocery store and can keep whatever they get across some line in a certain amount of time. Woohoo! Power tools, here I come!
 
I shop when I need to buy something. I am not much of a recreational shopper.
 
I shop out of necessity and at times enjoy it, but when I have free time shopping is not what I do for enjoyment.
 
<font color=navy>I don't mind shopping, but I really like to shop when I actually have money to spend. ;)

I'm more of the - go in the store, get what I want, and get out - type of person.

But, every once in awhile, I just like to go in and browse, whether it be an outlet, mall, online, etc.
 














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