Shopping

I am not an impulse shopper, not in any great way. I will grab the odd chocolate bar when doing the groceries but that's about it. Suffice it to say I'm not one of those people who can walk into a plaza armed only with a credit card and walk again several hours later with bags and bags of goodies. Admittedly this is partly due to a distinct lack of funding option, but even if it weren't for that I probably still wouldn't do it. It's just not my type.

When I walk into a plaza I generally have an idea of what I want. Recently I knew I wanted a lemon yellow tshirt. I went to a shop, found one I liked, bought it and left. Often the picture in my head is so madenly specifc that it can take a while to find something that I like and matches my mental picture.

Lately, I've been doing a lot of shopping online, particularly on ebay. The problem with using is that I am too impatient to wait for auctions to end and often only use the "buy it now" feature. My problem of having madenly specific ideas of what I want comes into play here too.

This morning I'm looking for a christmas tree for Pop, to sparkle up his hospital room a little. It has to be small (no more than 40cm or so high), be light and easilly portable, have twinkly lights( since he is nearly 85% blind with macular degeneration -- something I can look forward to myself, no pun intended) and be battery powered if possible. I would have thought this to be a fairly reasonable request! But alas, while many came close to fulfilling the above criteria, I couldn't find any I liked. They're either too tall, USB powered (what the fuck is that about!?) or just downright ugly.

I'm thinking I might have to trawl the $2 shops and pray.