Consumerism, multiple car trips: tiring

[shootingstar]

We all have our fave shops and stops...occasional at least for me. Yes, REI, bike shops, bookstores. I only go several times / year.

I didn't mind she and I wandered through some different ethnic stores because we both found the goods interesting and what predominated. I had never seen a broad range of couscous as found in Middle Eastern shops and in sacks at reasonable prices. Or 10 different types of dill pickles at the Polish food store.

But she and I did buy stuff, that we normally would have not thought of. She said several times to herself, "here I'm buying stuff that I truly don't need".
Too bad fabric store didn't have neon coloured zipper for me to replace semi-broken on my bike jacket...

But for me, no not shopping every weekend for entertainment. It's only food shopping. Everything else is only a few times per year. Yea, I will be going to Seattle to shop (even if our Canadian dollar is weak) but also take in a local museum.

However, I think in our city if some people don't disappear off to the Rocky Mountains or aren't into the few cultural activities (pretty thin choices compared to Vancouver or Toronto), they go....to the shopping malls if it's cold outside. One signal would be the high volume of cars parked in the shopping mall parking lots.

And today, it was around 8 degrees C, sunny, very little wind. I hardly saw anyone on the bike paths either cycling or walking/jogging through our large parks system.