1. Do you participate in Black Friday shopping?
2. What is your favorite thing to shop for?
3. What store do you have a weakness for?
4. What's the biggest purchase you've ever made?
5. If you had $1000 to do with as you pleased, what would you spend it on?
1. Maybe if there are online deals to take advantage of on things I already need, but other than that-- no. I don't understand the craze that surrounds saving a few bucks. It's just not worth getting up at the crack of dawn and dealing with unruly mobs. I also feel sorry for the poor retail workers that have to give up their Thanksgiving to come in at midnight (or other ungodly early morning hours) and deal with the mad crowds. They already deal with enough sucky customers as is, I know that Black Friday multiplies that number tenfold... even more.
2. Books! I can spend hours in a bookstore, browsing and browsing.
3. The 99-cent store :-) Usually I'm good about not buying things unless I absolutely need them (and even then I scour out the best price), but in a dollar store, that impulse control goes right out the window. Likely because I figure "it's only $1!" Thankfully, it's usually on items we need, anyway. I'll never need to buy glue sticks for Todd again, but he uses them plenty at school!
4. Well, aside from the house (which doesn't really fall under the realm of "shopping" anyway) and things for the house (such as flooring), I'd say our big-screen TV. It was a luxury gift to ourselves now that we finally have the room for it :-)
5. I'd probably first stick in savings to earn a little interest while I figured out what to do with it! Honestly, I can't think of anything that I really need other than things around the house: new memory foam mattress, probably. Or else paying a gardener to remove the plants bordering our house and a neighbor's, replacing it with a fence instead.
How about you?
Finally, I leave you with a funny little shopping cart fail:
1. Do you participate in Black Friday shopping? Nope--there is nothing I need so badly that I have to stand in line at 4 in the morning for!
ReplyDelete2. What is your favorite thing to shop for? Lately my weaknesses have been new foods--I have found new love for cooking and I've been trying new things the past couple months as much as I can afford to!
3. What store do you have a weakness for? Same as you, the everything is a dollar store. I am physically incapable of leaving that store without spending at least $20 because hey, everything is $1! lol
4. What's the biggest purchase you've ever made? Definitely a car for me....most expensive one I bought was about $9,000 for a 1995 Ford Taurus in 1998 or so.
5. If you had $1000 to do with as you pleased, what would you spend it on? Ok, this may sound ridiculous, but since this is just $1000 that I have no obligation to do anything with, I think I would go to a casino! Goofy I know, but I would love to walk into a casino one day and have enough money to play a few table games and buy a few nice drinks rather than just go hover around a penny slot and fret about losing $5 on it, LOL.
Cooking adventures are fun and exciting! I started a cooking blog last year to jot down some recipes I'd experimented with. Don't seem to have the time for it these days, but I miss it. It's so healthful and so much more cost effective to cook at home. Glad you're enjoying it :-)
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