Window shopping-----is it typical of females?

It's ok if you already know what you want to buy and where to buy it...you can really do it fast but if not then give yourself enough time to window shop to get the best buy...

Zed you can try window shopping you'll love it hahahaha!

masfranscisco .
Zed! There is a unique joy in looking at different things and coming back with insignificant expenditure[ poor shopkeepers.]
I do agree.
Males are pretty businesslike in choosing their things.Thanks for the participation.

I'll try it sometime, friends..

That's right; I'm very much the touch-and-go type..

Hi Joy,

...a typical kind of window shopper. I do the same thing too. My husband is so amaze when he's with me doing my window shopping--he admired how patient i am to be so meticulous and detailed in my shopping.

Hahaha. You must read the email about the difference of man and woman on shopping. The fellow put an illustration of the difference. He lay-out the floor plan of a mall and put a woman's and man's track on it. You will see that woman will tend to visit each stall/boutique before heading the exit door while man only visit 2 stalls. Quite hilarious but very good interpretation of our behaviour.

Joy evaldez; there was also another email thatlisted out a number of things and the last statement in this was that " man invented money;woman invented shopping.' After that woman has stopped inventing because she is still shopping.

LOL. Funny!

My boyfriend is a bit different from other guys because he likes shopping too. Whenever he goes shopping, he mostly buys shoes or clothes. But he is not that different from other guys because although he likes shopping, he still doesn't like shopping as much as women do. When I take him with me when I'm shopping, although he's very patient he still gets bored sometimes. He doesn't tell me this, but I could tell that he's tired of shopping when he just points randomly at stuff and tells me that they look good. I think he does this to convince me to buy already so that we can go home.

Very true.Now I dont take my husband along at all for shopping.I can just not look at things in peace because there would be sense of guilt within me thatI have dragged him along for something thta he hates.In fact to put it correctly, he flatly refuses to come out.

Yes indeed. I am more comfortable shopping with my female friends rather than my husband. He tends to get bored and always advised me to buy already the first one I see. It's not my way as I want to survey first few stalls before deciding which to buy. Though there are some guys who loves shopping like us women, it is very seldom and their patience is not that long.

which woman would feel happy choosing the first thing thta she likes? AS I had written in Visaseetharaman's response, we may finally end up doing it but unless we look at a few items the feeling of fulfilled shopping is missing isn't it?

You are very right Kalav! For us, we want to get the best bargain we can get and that will fulfill our shopping experience.

yes.My husband flatly refuses to come out with me .He does not like to keep buying htings first of all.I too do not buy unwanted uselss items but I just look around when I go out.

Let them not appreciate us; they will also give us their 'ever ' practical statements. [em]lol[/em
And Sudipta these guys whom you have mentioned are those poor lovestruck youngsters.You can see them once they get married.

My boyfriend and I are like this. He accompanies me when I go shopping. I always appreciate having him with me because I want his opinion when I can't decide what to buy or if I simply don't know what to buy.

you do have a sweet boyfriend angela joy.

Men are very focused and businesslike when it comes to shopping.It si any day better to seek female company for shopping.This is my observation.

That is precisely what I too do sometimes abbypringles. Only when I go to a distant place and it is troublesome to get back again I would make a firm decision and buy things.

Or a better way to put it would be, whether I should buy that particular thing I am considering or not. Sometimes, I have the tendency to impulse buy too. So, window shopping is a great thing to compare and see whether there is something out there that is more buy-worthy, if I may coin a word.

'buy worthy' --you have made the point very clearly.True, we do feel bad if we buy some junk and it is lying useless at home and collecting dust.It would have been an impulse buy.That is why I think so hard before buying [but still would look around and frustrate those poor things. The saving grace and redeeming feature in my own self is thta I wont keep asking them too many questions.

Indeed. you have some excellent points that i need to consider the next time i go out and do some window shopping of my own

Well I too do not compare prices all the time .It is not always possible.And it is commendable that you are satisfied with window shopping when you cannot afford them.I feel window shopping is equal fun.

Three cheers for window shopping franscisco.I guess you love shopping, be it window shopping or fruitful shopping.
Men are definitely smart buyers; my son is an excellent buyer and one can be sure that eh would rarely make a mistake.

I told you...sometimes they are more up and have the best taste. Your son must be good with fashion. THanks!

Spot on Paula! Now I too do the same thing; it is much more peaceful this way.If we have time in our hands we can browse around as long as we want without feeling fettered and sometimes guilty for dragging an uninterested person along.

I learnt that one fairly early on in the relationship! He stresses me out whenever he comes shopping with me, he huffs and puffs and always advises me to buy the first thing I come across so that we can leave and inevitably there is almost always a fight!

AHHHHHHH-- how can people be so similar! I would also find it a bit stressful and in fact ehre will be a niggling feeling of discomfort within me when he comes along and I linger too long ina shop.On rare occasions my husband used to come along and I would prepare him well beforehand thta I would take one hr in a particular shop.THere are occasions when I promised to pick upa saree in 5 min and I have fulfilled it too. Now I find it simpler to go alone or with sisinlaw.

Alone is best!

Oh THea what a response.WHy dont you write the second lost half also for my sake/ I loved reading this 'half' a response too.But, I am not good at this thea.I am very scared and I feel it is wrong to cut the price by half but once agian I feel such a fool when the shopkeeper has pawned off something on me.See for eg, yesterday I got one small cute looking bangle and soap box for rs 120+75The woman who came after me was arguing with the same fellow saying thta he had promised the soapbox[ there were similar other ones]for 100 the previous day.this man quoted me saying that "this sister'[me,the idiot] just bought it for 120
I took hiom to task but of course the bill had already been paid.He looked such a nice good person and I didnt have hte heart to bargain withhim earlier and believed him when he said that his margins were low in those small items.The argument looked so feasible.

Maybe it's a bit different there but I've shopped in countries where it's a way of life and they are most excellent at getting much more than they ever expected from from foreign travellers. It's the sort of thing you spend a half hour at least over and one feels when the price is too insultingly low. But I start low 5-100 they come down to 90 - up to 7.
I once bought a beautifu wooden chess set which had inlaid drawers in the board, many years ago in Tunisia for some ridiculous price like 10, then taking it back into the hotel another foreigner approached me as he too had bought one and wanted to tell me what a bargain he'd got for 100. He thought he'd done well.

So yes I window shop in town, I sometimes even enter the window althoug with a strict policy of not being allowed to buy as other more essential thhings are needed that that cute dress, but some shops have now employed rather irritating assistants who have been trained in some new method of latching onto your arm as if a shop lifter and following one round straightening all the items one has touched, most off putting.

What you have written in the last para must have been quite irritating.
And it is sad that thta other foreigner had been ripped off like that.Thanks for the elaborate response thea.

Yes, it is indeed irritating when shop attendants hound me when I'm looking at items for sale. It makes me feel like a thief. Whenever a shop assistant does this to me, I tell him or her to stop following me and I'll just ask for his or her help when I need it. Shop managers put them up to this. I don't know why managers want sales clerks to do this. For me, it doesn't help boost sales, and it even tends to drive customers away.

Agreed. THey are doing it to safeguard themselves but they have to use their discretion if they have to retain good cutomers.

Oh it's a very new thing out here, I don't think for a minute they are thinking you are up to no good but have been told to do it as some kind of training policy but it only makes them surly and not at all helpful, they were much better before.