I go to shop something but always come back with something else. what about you?

Singapore
February 28, 2009 1:13pm CST
Does this also happens to you? When I go some promotions/discounts always going on, I get attracted and spend on something which didn't need urgently and come back home with different. At home I remember which important things I forget to buy.
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@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
28 Feb 09
I can usually remember what I went in to buy, but I will often come back with extra items as well. And sometimes I can't find what I actually went shopping for, and then I will buy something else sometimes just so it wasn't a wasted trip. For example, I recently went out bathing suit shopping and found nothing that looked good. So I bought chocolate. Because that will definitely help me fit into a swimsuit, lol!
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• Singapore
28 Feb 09
thats really funny ! lol
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@moneymommy (3418)
• United States
28 Feb 09
When I go to the grocery store to get just a few items. I will always end up grabbing something I didnt plan to get.
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• Singapore
28 Feb 09
Oh really.. I think i must be happening with all of us. Its happens more when my wife is with me.
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@AnythngArt (3302)
• United States
28 Feb 09
Shopping will do that (distract you from your real goals). Unless I really need something and am going for that specific item, then I always end up with something I hadn't planned on and never find the thing I think I'll buy. It's the "law of shopping," wouldn't you say? Or how about when you need a specific item (like black shoes), and you can find everything you don't need: brown sandals, a cute new top, the perfect handbag, a scarf your sister would love? Anything and everything but those black shoes. That's how it always feels to me, anyway. Good luck shopping...and MyLotting!
• Singapore
28 Feb 09
Its more interesting when my wife is with me.. I literally have to get her eyes quicckly away from shops.. always afraid if she likes something.. my pocket gets cut :-) now a days I prefer to go to beach than shopping maul..she likes both.. but I am saved when we go to beach.
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• United States
28 Feb 09
Oh, if I had the choice, I'd choose the beach as well. Unfortunately for me, there aren't any around where I live, so shopping happens a lot more than beach visits. In the good weather, I do enjoy going to parks and gardens, and would do that first before shopping. Shopping is always there; nature is more fickle.
@MinruWind (194)
• United States
28 Feb 09
That happens to me too many times. ._. Although I do remember to get some of the things that I planned to buy, some items just slip my mind. Then I have to go to the store a second time. ._. When I plan on buying an item, I come back with five items. xD It's somewhat annoying to go back to buy the forgotten things, but it's fun in a way. Although the chain repeats and I forget to buy more items. ._.
@krupesh (2608)
• India
28 Feb 09
Yes it happens when you find a better product or some discounts going on around.Always you cant get what you wish.Its the nature of the human beings that make us to react like that.Whenever there is a good offer we defenitely go for that plus the intended product we thought of buying before we went to the store.Its a human tendency.It happens to everyone.Those who tell no are telling lies...lol.
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• United States
28 Feb 09
I can;t go into Wal Mart with out spending $100, and thats when I just go in for bread and milk. I end up buying more groceries. I wish I could do that with my other shopping but unfortunatly that is the only spurging I get.
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• United States
1 Mar 09
It does happen to me sometimes but not always. Today for instance, I was very tempted into buying something that I'm saving up for because the store had a nice surplus of them and I do have the cash, it's just that I'm saving up for it rather than impulse buying. Well, when I saw the store had several in stock, I was tempted to go ahead and buy it but I walked away and didn't. Usually, I can be suckered into buying some purchases, but my willpower often takes over and I can resist, especially when it comes to the larger purchases. However, when it comes to the smaller things, I usually do get suckered into buying them rather easily.
@Archie0 (5636)
28 Feb 09
I too go for shopping with some plans but always end up with getting something else but i guess good stuffs only, not that i just see a discount but i never find what i had decided. because even if i decide to buy something i have seen the other day it just goes away and then makes me to buy something else, but yes as i just love to shop i cn just do it in any ways its just what i love