On Jul 5, 10:24*am, Lou Decruss > wrote:

> I don't like shopping either. *I like grocery shopping but that's it.
> Louise doesn't like malls but loves thrift/resale stores and any other
> place she can get a good deal. *The last time I bought a fridge I had
> a backup. *This time I didn't and being summer with 4 coolers with
> melting ice in them there was pressure and I didn't like it. *


I am the same as not only you but also your wife. I don't
necessarily enjoy shopping in thrift stores, but I've been using them
for close to 50 years. If you go to a thrift store looking for
something specific, you might come away disappointed. But if you go
once a month or whenever and just buy what you like whether you need
it now or not, that's when it's good. I am like you in the sense that
I also don't mind grocery shopping. So I suppose what I hate most is
not the shopping per se, but the hunt, like the one that happens when
you buy a pair of athletic shoes that are the best you've ever had,
then when you back for another pair you find out they've discontinued
them. Now it has gone beyond shopping into the hunt. Now you have to
search all over again for shoes that fit. This applies not only to
shoes but many things that are relentlessly changed by marketing.
Yes, I do not put shopping for food into the same category as hunting
for clothes or other items you have not bought in some time and know
very little about it. It's an adventure I don't like.

TJ