I Heart Shopping

Last Friday, I had an outing with Mei Zhi, Sandra and Daphne, whom I just met. The outing was pretty much dedicated to shopping. Yes, we were taking advantage of the Malaysian Mega Sales. So upon arrival at Queensbay Mall, we immediately hit it off and began our shopping spree.

You should have see the people in MNG who had to get in line just to make their way into the changing room. Pure madness. I don't recall having to queue up to get into the changing room. Sad. Okay, so we did more shopping and covered the entire mall which i'm no going to elaborate on.

The girls felt pretty bad coz they felt I was being dragged down along their shopping extravaganza. But I was like "Drag me down...drag me down!" If you haven't figured it out already from my previous posts, I LOVE SHOPPING. So when I told them that, they were like "Really? Great!"

I like shopping. That's the truth! I mainly shop for clothes because let's face it, most of the outlets in a mall are fashion stores. But I also look for books, tech gadgets, magazines, cds, shoes (I think that counts as fashion as well) and food....if there's such a thing as shopping for food.....but I guess you call that grocery shopping. Oh what the heck, I live to eat. So if there's ever such a thing as food shopping, i'm in!

Okay, so I think i've made it pretty clear that I like shopping. It's more than a past time. But I don't always end up with something in hand like last Friday when I only literaly only spent RM1 in Queensbay Mall for the parking fee. Yeah, I really wanted to buy the Summer issue of Nylon Guys magazine but they ran out of it. Why didn't I buy it the other day when I saw it...grrr.

As I was saying, I like shopping. I always try to shop only during promotions, sales or best-buy periods because, why pay retail when you can get the item at half-off? But more often than not I end up not purchasing anything because:

• Most things are way too expensive.
• I wanna save my money.
• I don't need the item even if it's like super cheap (i've learnt my lesson from this one coz in the past, i've bought things which I didn't really really like or need but I only got coz it's cheap. And in the end it's like I don't even use it, making it a complete waste of money)
• I wanna save my money ( I know i've said that before but...you gotta save money!)
• The sales only apply to the crappy items.
• There are no sales at all!
• Sometimes, i'll start to think something like this: "Wah, the cost of this shirt can buy me a plate of Char Koay Teow everyday for one whole year!!!"

So that's why I don't buy that many things. I know you're probably thinking in a sarcastic tone: "Riiight..." But it's quite true. I don't shop a lot. I window shop a lot. I guess it's the illusion that whenever I go to a mall, I shop, which it completely untrue.

A penny saved is a penny earned.