No fear, Amit. The urge to shop will always win over the urge to ‘enable the terrorists’, unless of course, you don’t have much money to shop with in the first place.
Sujatha, hope you “read” my comment correctly, given my history here. :)
I didn’t want to place an emoticon as that would’ve given it away. But just to be clear, I was kidding. :)
Sujatha:
As a parent of young children, I am sure you are still saddled with a lot of shopping duties.
I was never much of a shopaholic. I can travel to a distant land and come back with nary a souvenir. (Memories of sights, sounds, gastronomic delights and a handful of photos are the yardsticks by which I chalk up a travel experience). But it used to be fun to shop for the kids when they were young – school supplies, clothes, sporting goods, toys, books. With them out of the house, my already limited urge to shop has reduced drastically. The only items I still like to shop for are food and books. But with Amazon being only a click away, the latter is mostly a “do-it-at-home” enterprise now. (As is shopping for clothes – via catalogs) I do not set foot inside a mall unless I have to and then too it is a targeted trip with no time wasted window shopping. Either I have become one of those “mythical” people who has “everything” or I am slipping into an ascetic mode.
But even the most shopping averse among us have our vulnerable spots. When I am back in Delhi and in the company of my sister, the perfect shopping companion of my youth, we both go into a high buying gear. (She too has mostly given up shopping.) We go out together and hit the sari stores with gusto and come back with armloads of exquisite creations which we both know, neither of us is going to make much use of. But even then it is a peculiar comfort to have rows of shimmering saris uselessly hanging in my closet within protective plastic.
I used to be a non-shopper shopper-meaning that I could walk in with a friend or two for an hour of shopping and come out without flashing my creditcard, while my friends would be carrying two bags each.
Now, it’s primarily to check prices that I wander in the stores (barring book or craft stores, though I seem to have become immune to these of late- figuring out that I could always borrow from the library, or visualizing the gazillion barrels of oil needed to make all those polysilk flowers and craft supplies ;). I usually pounce at end of season clearance sales for my kids, who thankfully don’t mind wearing the previous season’s fashions (yet!!). Then I can walk out with bags of $50 dollars priced down from $125 or so of regular prices.
As for sari shopping in India- my mother swears that getting me to commit to purchasing any is like pulling teeth there – both painful and protracted.
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6 responses to “Pass the T(of?)urkey (Sujatha)”
Sujatha, how unpatriotic!!! Clearly, you’re against us and enabling the terrorists.
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No fear, Amit. The urge to shop will always win over the urge to ‘enable the terrorists’, unless of course, you don’t have much money to shop with in the first place.
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Sujatha, hope you “read” my comment correctly, given my history here. :)
I didn’t want to place an emoticon as that would’ve given it away. But just to be clear, I was kidding. :)
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Sujatha:
As a parent of young children, I am sure you are still saddled with a lot of shopping duties.
I was never much of a shopaholic. I can travel to a distant land and come back with nary a souvenir. (Memories of sights, sounds, gastronomic delights and a handful of photos are the yardsticks by which I chalk up a travel experience). But it used to be fun to shop for the kids when they were young – school supplies, clothes, sporting goods, toys, books. With them out of the house, my already limited urge to shop has reduced drastically. The only items I still like to shop for are food and books. But with Amazon being only a click away, the latter is mostly a “do-it-at-home” enterprise now. (As is shopping for clothes – via catalogs) I do not set foot inside a mall unless I have to and then too it is a targeted trip with no time wasted window shopping. Either I have become one of those “mythical” people who has “everything” or I am slipping into an ascetic mode.
But even the most shopping averse among us have our vulnerable spots. When I am back in Delhi and in the company of my sister, the perfect shopping companion of my youth, we both go into a high buying gear. (She too has mostly given up shopping.) We go out together and hit the sari stores with gusto and come back with armloads of exquisite creations which we both know, neither of us is going to make much use of. But even then it is a peculiar comfort to have rows of shimmering saris uselessly hanging in my closet within protective plastic.
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I used to be a non-shopper shopper-meaning that I could walk in with a friend or two for an hour of shopping and come out without flashing my creditcard, while my friends would be carrying two bags each.
Now, it’s primarily to check prices that I wander in the stores (barring book or craft stores, though I seem to have become immune to these of late- figuring out that I could always borrow from the library, or visualizing the gazillion barrels of oil needed to make all those polysilk flowers and craft supplies ;). I usually pounce at end of season clearance sales for my kids, who thankfully don’t mind wearing the previous season’s fashions (yet!!). Then I can walk out with bags of $50 dollars priced down from $125 or so of regular prices.
As for sari shopping in India- my mother swears that getting me to commit to purchasing any is like pulling teeth there – both painful and protracted.
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Amit, given your history here, I did read your comment correctly ;)
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