Thursday, July 30, 2009

Networking sites - a pain sometimes!

I found this friend request on FB early this week:

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Heaven HELP ME!!

Monday, July 20, 2009

Compulsive and Impulsive Shopping



Shopping is a fact of life - something that none of us can do without! Though how much we shop is entirely up to us.
You go to the mall, department store, grocery store, or a retail store. Before leaving the house, had you made out a plan for what you were going to shop for? Did you already have an amount of money planned and set aside for purchases, an amount not to go past? Was your mind already made up not to buy anything but exactly what you planned upon?
Well for those of you who don't step out of the house keeping the above points in mind, you're just about to burn your pockets completely!!

There are two different shopping mindsets that would define what kind of a shopper you actually are.
These are my inferences based on all that I have read...

Compulsive Shopping:
A compulsive shopper and a shopaholic are synonymous with one another.
Shopping for this category of people would bring happiness, content, satisfaction and relief! ...It removes distress and eradicates the feeling of having nothing. However, this state of mind is transient.
People obsessed with shopping only tend to alleviate their compulsion for that moment. Its only a matter of time when they would get back into the compulsive shopping-spree once again.

Traits
Get your monthly pay cheque - GO SHOP,
Saved up some cash in the last 10 days - GO SHOP
Haven't shopped in the last 24 hrs - Reward yourself - GO SHOP
You're bored of your furniture- GO ShOP!
Had a dream last night that you were shopping - Well, make it true - GO SHOP
Whoops, its raining - run to the nearest store, which means - GO SHOP!
Havent done your laundry, having nothing in your wardrobe - GO SHOP! :-s
Your BRAND NEW brown shoes don't go too well with your pink dress - GO SHOP!
You're reading this blog...feeling tempted - GO SHOP! :-p

Impulsive Shopping:
An impulsive shopper is one who shops without any specific idea of what to buy. Its more to do with an impetus - a forceful need to shop,...But for what? There's no answer to that.
Traits
Say, you're an impulsive shopper who plans to visit a departmental store. On the way, you stop by at the mall just to do some "window" shopping. Every dress on the mannequins catches your eye instantly, and there starts the temptation. Off you walk into the store,.... and land up picking stuff which you thinks might be of some use, though at that point of time you really can manage without it. In about 2 hrs, you walk out just to find yourself down 4000bucks.
And yes, back to the plan of buying groceries. No real list in place, you get to the departmental store. Excitedly you walk down the isle...along the crockery section. Whoops....and your're down another 2000bucks...after looking at all the fancy and colorful dinner sets.
Now you're hungry, having been gone hours longer than you anticipated. So you go to a food court to buy yourself some SIMPLE stuff to munch on. And there it is...you're down by another 350 bucks.

Not sure if its just me, but don't you think a compulsive shopper could also be an impulsive shopper....and not vice versa.
Tell me what you think....and yes, what kind of category do you think you fall under?

Man, all this is making me want to go shopping.....it's almost past 21:00hrs! ARGHHH! :-p