Who hates shopping?

[lizbids]

Well, I think a lot of us do. I hate hate hate shopping. I find stores increasingly seem to cater to 45-pound women who have no curves. Salespeople often don't know the product that they're selling...but, I had a great shopping experience just now:

I went to a get a haircut on Orchard street in Manhattan. Being the garment district, there are many little shops, leather coats, etc. filling the street. Well, I passed by maybe 5 of them, got my hair cut, then looked across the street to this one store. I walk in, and I ask the woman, "Where are your women's leather coats?" She walks over to a section, takes one look at me and picks out the exact jacket I had envisioned in my head It was weird! But now I have a nice new jacket (my old coat is over 10 years old and looks horrible)!

This may not be the most exciting of posts, but if you knew how much I hated to shop (Denise Goldberg already knows I'd rather lose weight than buy a new wardrobe), then you'd understand how I feel now!

[FreshNewbie]

Don't hate shopping for cycling clothes

[Eden]

Trust me it always seems greener....
I would really love to know who exactly these clothes do fit since at 5'0" and about 103 lbs it always seems like absolutely NOTHING is made in my size and that a size 2 just keeps getting bigger every year.... I hate shopping because I can almost never find pants that fit and the slevees on just about every shirt I own are too long.
On the other hand *shoes*, I can wear anything from girls size 3/3.5 to some womens 5's so I have a great selection and often times I get great deals (like my $30 Sidi Genuis )

[lizbids]

Of course buying bike stuff is ALWAYS FUN!!

I know, I hear you on the sizing thing. I'm only about 133lbs at 5'4'' (gained some weight since beginning grad school), but I do find that clothes are just too tight these days...

and as for shoes, so many styles I wear are "unisex," which means, "mens sizes"! very frustrating!!

[Kathi]

Trust me it always seems greener....
I would really love to know who exactly these clothes do fit since at 5'0" and about 103 lbs it always seems like absolutely NOTHING is made in my size and that a size 2 just keeps getting bigger every year.... I hate shopping because I can almost never find pants that fit and the slevees on just about every shirt I own are too long.
On the other hand *shoes*, I can wear anything from girls size 3/3.5 to some womens 5's so I have a great selection and often times I get great deals (like my $30 Sidi Genuis )

+1

and it's hard to find small cycling clothes, which is good, I already have more than I need!

[pooks]

I HATE SHOPPING.

And I want to see a picture of your jacket!

[teigyr]

I love the idea of shopping. I love new things and I LOVE LOVE LOVE presents received in the mail. Cycling clothes are always good too. I love the idea of going to stores and sometimes I find things I like. I'm at that awkward stage where I'm not young and not old as in Old (and I don't like mainstream things really) so it's difficult to find things I like. That and at 5'11", there are things that don't FIT!!

Isn't it great when you find It though? Like the leather jacket? When I was shopping for wedding gowns (got married in Nov), I was not finding anything. I saw a designer I liked and found a store that carried that design. When I tried them on though, they looked horrible on me! The shop owner brought me this dress and said "this is you". We both thought "no...." (dh went with me which goes against etiquette but he wanted to do the girl thing with me ) but when I tried it on, it was perfect and I got more compliments on how it was just the ultimate dress for our wedding.

Strange. Anyway, a good salesperson can enhance the shopping experience!

[Tater]

*raises hand* My name is Tater and I hate shopping as well! If I find pants that fit in the waist, they don't fit in the legs because 1) the leg length is too long and 2) I have muscular legs (thanks to cycling) and cannot get them past my quads. So many times I have had to go up a size just to get the legs to fit, then have my mother, the seamstress, alter the waist for me. Short sleeved shirts I do okay, but like Eden, almost every long sleeved shirt I own goes past my fingertips. Grr!

Oh, and what lights my fuse is the sizing differences. What a size four is for one company, is totally different for another. And yes, the sizes do seem to be getting bigger each year.

Cycling goodies, on the other hand, I love shopping for!

[spokewench]

Yep I'm in the shopping haters club! The only thing I like to buy is cycling stuff, tennis stuff, and gardening stuff. A good Farmer's Market is a must also, but clothes shopping - I'm running the opposite way!

[colby]

I am a meticulous shopper. I must try things on. I must try different sizes on. I must try different brands on. Then I think. I think and try other things on. I carry things around. This makes shopping for clothes hard. I do the same thing for gadgets, toys, equipment, cars, bikes, you name it. I think about my choices. I debate my choices. I mull my choices over. I look at my choices. I read everything I can on the internet. Usually I end up going with my gut feel anyway, but sometimes if it's expensive it takes a kick in the rear.

I still have a good 20+ pounds I could stand to lose, and I'm already starting to buy things in a size S, some things in XS. WTF comes after XS? I am seriously afraid. I may have to actually learn to fix things myself. I wish my grandma was nearby, we call her Phyllis Stewart. If you have a cooking/sewing/cleaning question, you ask her (I guess stay at home mom to 6 kids will do that to you). She deserves the 'domestic goddess' title (and I envy the rest of you domestic goddesses, if I had only paid attention when she tried to teach me...).

I hate inconsistent sizing. I am afraid to buy things online because of it. When things are unisex, I just go to the smallest size. When things are womens' specific sizes... I freak.

[Mr. Bloom]

Let's see, which would I prefer

Root Canal ?

Shopping ?

Definitely a Root Canal

Unless it's shopping for electronics!

[lizbids]

I would love to include a file within this posting, but every time I try to upload a file from my computer, it says it "failed." Anyone know what's going on? I wonder, since I don't have Photoshop, I'm guessing I have to make the image smaller? I'm clueless!!

[Bikingmomof3]

I absolutely detest shopping, I find no pleasure in it at all.

[LBTC]

Colby, are you a Libra? You shop like I shop. And thus, since it takes so long, and, especially right now when we have precious little money to spend even on clothes that I need, I will put off shopping for as long as possible!

Sadly, my body seems to be the frumpy size. 5' 1" and 130+ pounds. I like *fun* clothes, but at 39 I'm not really supposed to wear a lot of them anymore. When I try things on, they always seem to look bad. Lately most of my clothes have come from a consignment store. But I only want to shop there when my friend, the owner, is working because she makes shopping so much more fun. She'll suggest items, let me know if they look awful or good, make more suggestions, joke around, etc. And the clothes there are so much less expensive than new ones!!!

But I still hate it!

Bike clothes I even have trouble shopping for. I rarely find what I like as the women's choices always seem so lame. Once in awhile I can find a junior item that fits, but that seems to get rarer and rarer.

Good gravy. I really am chatty today, aren't I? hahahah

Like Jennifer says. I hate shopping.

H&B
~T~

[Aggie_Ama]

I hate shopping as well! Nothing fits my build. When I was the weight I want to get to I had trouble wearing any shirts. The only place I didn't lose much weight was my chest. I was trying to find a shirt to fit a size 6 waist area and a 34d chest. If it fit my chest, the waist looked like my clothes were a size too big. I am trying to lose the 20 lbs I gained recently and I know I will be back on the no fit roller coaster. Oh yeah and at 5'2" with long legs and the bulk of my weight in my quads, pants are another maddening adventure!!