#i hate shopping

[weepingfoxfury]

The man on the radio is playing the Pink Panther theme by Henry Mancini ... then there's the 3 minutes of death, war, famine and pestilence, the newscaster's soft tones telling us how terrible the world is ... before we return to the man on the radio talking about the return of an old breed of goat on the Emerald Isle.

The sun is flitting in and out ... every so often adding extra oomph to the garishness that is the fields of rapeseed currently lighting up the surrounding land of next door's farm.

Bought some Broom as a bee treat. They're starting to get busy again. Gotta keep a close eye out for the bees that didn't make the cut ... so many dozy/wingless ones that crawl all around the yard. They all have to be collected up and moved to the other side of the gate so the dogs' paw pads don't fall foul of them.

The shiny metropolis awaits. Nice to see a different landscape but hate the noise and fumes. Amused myself with the idea of creating a perfume called 'Per-fumes', as per the fumes the town is awash with ... car fumes and people perfumes galore ... makes my head ache.

Once a week is enough, then it's back to the countryside smells ... a heady combination of flowers, animal poo and tractor fumes ... hmmmm ... (ponders) ... now what will I call that scent? ...

[navybrat817]

Found a pair of workout pants on sale for $4.

So, naturally, my daughter grabbed a pair of $35 pants for me because they were pretty and I deserve pretty things. 😂❤️

[faith--in-the-future]

me but unironically tbh

[vroomian]

🥳 it’s my bday I’m 29 and I get to spend the whole day shopping. Being an adult is the worst!!!

[i-may-be-an-emu]

I hate clothes so much

[choking-on-dandelions]

About to embark on a deadly mission: grocery shopping.

Wish me luck that I can stick to my list and not buy a bunch of junk.

[tripleyeeet]

i have to go dress shopping today i want to DIE

[mythgirlimagines]

Me: yeah I need a new pair of jeans, I can take 5 minutes at this one store-

The rest of my family: *drags me on a shopping trip that'll probably take at least an hour and three stores*

[dreadnoughtus]

had a 10/10 shopping day where i bought two pants of pants I don't hate, a courderoy puffy vest that reminds me of Paddington, and a mustard yellow trucker jacket

[mbrainspaz]

fumbled a jar of pickles in the krogers today and it shattered all over the aisle. A guy who was walking by went "oh noooo. You hate to see it happen to pickles." And I said "I knoooow :(" before leaving to find someone with a broom. May have been the deepest interpersonal connection I've felt in 5 years.

[glowingstardust]

ahhh i need new clothes because everything feels too gendery

[bomberqueen17]

i fucking hate coupons

as a bitch with Dumb Forgetful Bitch Who Can’t Do Math Disease* I personally resent coupon codes. Especially the ones where you have to type in the right one, and it’s up to you to figure out which one gives you the best deal.

Every fucking website has these, nowadays. Always. And you can always only choose one, or like, you have to know it’s there. Nobody has “this is the sale, buy now to get the sale” shit, it’s ALL “save X with coupon code Y” and if you don’t know and don’t put the coupon in at the right time you don’t get it. That’s that, no exchanges no returns, you have to have known about the coupon and applied it properly in the correct order in order to get that price.

Fucking-- it is hard ENOUGH to shop as it is when I have memory problems. it’s real fuckin hard for me to keep straight “ok there are 3 options for X, and they’re different in Y ways, and the one that is best for me is probably Z” long enough to actually get that shit into my shopping cart with all the right size color options etc applied. I know this is basic adulting, basic even living in the world kind of shit, but I have such a fucked-up relationship with money, AND who even knows what’s wrong with my attention span, but I can’t-- that is SO hard for me, to have to remember what were my options, what were the differences, which one did I choose and why-- and then at the end I have to remember and type in a coupon code? and there are like two different ones active? and i should pick which one saves me more money, which involves doing math, at which I am *astonishingly* bad-- again, no diagnosis here, I just have learned that this thing other people seem to find trivially easy is catastrophically difficult for me every time in every way no matter what I do, so that’s cool--

anyway then I have to remember to put it in, and check that it actually worked, and if not reread the terms and conditions and figure out why some of my options are eligible and some aren’t-- it’s not going to tell me why, I have to figure that out, which again is apparently trivially easy for most people I guess, but for me that’s like, ok, I need to bring my entire tiny intellect to bear on this to figure out what the fuck I’m looking at here and get it all to load into my working memory at the same time-- impossible-- maybe if I write it down for a minute-- IDK.

ANYWAY

I get it all in there and I pick the coupon code that seems to work the best and I place the order

and immediately I get a thanks email, a separate confirmation email, a separate “this’ll take us a week to two weeks to make” email which is fine, and

THEN i get an email with a NEW coupon code, for MORE than any of the other coupons I was previously offered

for a product I won’t get for 14 days to see if I like

and the coupon expires in a week

and like WHY at this point it’s really just a Fuck You For Buying Shit

I am going to go lie down.

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*(yeah I don’t have any diagnosis so I have made up a syndrome name for whatever the fuck is wrong with me, because there is definitely something wrong with me but my doctor said I’d know if I had ADHD and when I said I knew that I did she was like no so I guess this is what I have instead, then. The treatment for DFBWCDMD is apparently just to scream a lot, as that’s the only thing I’ve been able to come up with.)

[sailorbryant]

Dear Tumblr, what do I get my dad for Christmas 😭

[fracktastic]

That feeling when you find not one, but two underwires (from different bras) in the washing machine

😭😭😭😭😭

[shitiforgot]

Being desi is going to a hundred shops to find that one particular lehenga which both you and your mom like.

[teaboot]

Whoever needs to hear this. Please know.

"Closed at 6pm" does not mean "The entry door locks up at 6, but if you're already inside you can keep on shopping."

It means, "you should be finished and out of the store at 6pm."

This is not up for debate

This is just how things work