how often do you go to the shop?

danih

For anything and everything - groceries, petrol / deisel, lunch, coffee, just for a look, cos you are bored and have nothing else to do.

I go most days - no need. I just really like shops. Its a v bad habit, that I'm trying to break.

balletshoes

only when i need to - so once a week for petrol (and I don't buy anything in the shop when I'm paying), once a week to the supermarket (or I order online and get it delivered), and every 3 days or so to the local shops, for milk or bread if we're running low.

I rarely go window-shopping these days, rarely go into the city centre at all unless I have something specific to go for, but on those occasions I might browse and have a posh coffee .

I was at the retail park today, but thats a once-a month or less often outing.

GwylimT

I fill up my wifes car with petrol about once a week, she can't do it on her own and they only have disabled assistance on Tuesday and Thursday from 10 - 11 am which isn't any use to her.

Food shopping, I do a big shop once a week but I go into town on the days needed if a meal requires vegetables or salad as we prefer them fresh. We tend to do our shopping on a Saturday morning, we do most of it at the market and we sometimes have a look around town first, on pay day we have some lunch out on Saturday and our daughter gets a big bag of sweets.

pukkamum

I have had to put a stop to shop surfing for my purses sake.
My trouble is that as a stay at home mum I often go into town to take the little one to the museum and library.
Then I'll just pop into the pound shop and buy some tat I don't need, pop into primark and buy ramdom kids underwear etc, oh and perhaps just a glimpse in river island, oh and a coffee, then perhaps some lunch.
Before you know it BOOM £50 gone!
Now I self limit to our local high street and the charity shops where buying 6 booksfor £2 satifies my shopping urges.

gingin_2

I live footsteps from amazing shops but I am not a compulsive shopper. Saying that, I go every day but it's not big spends, this morning it was a hole punch and folder for DD and then a coffee on the way back, which is a once or twice a week treat. There are times when we can be going out 3-4 times a day if we forget something.

fluffnutter

Most days. I find you're less likely to waste food if you plan and shop daily.

nearlyrich

Usually do a supermarket and or market shop on a weekend call in for diesel as I need it sometimes three fill ups a week but find it easy to just pay for the diesel and not be distracted/attracted by the stuff in the service station shop. I shop for clothes as I need them, but I can go to the Trafford Centre or other shopping Malls and not spend anything sometimes.

balletshoes

pukkamum wrote: »

I have had to put a stop to shop surfing for my purses sake.
My trouble is that as a stay at home mum I often go into town to take the little one to the museum and library.
Then I'll just pop into the pound shop and buy some tat I don't need, pop into primark and buy ramdom kids underwear etc, oh and perhaps just a glimpse in river island, oh and a coffee, then perhaps some lunch.
Before you know it BOOM £50 gone!
Now I self limit to our local high street and the charity shops where buying 6 booksfor £2 satifies my shopping urges.

that was me when my daughter used to have dance class in the city centre on a Saturday morning - sooo easy to spend money in that couple of hours in town. She doesn't have that class anymore, but to stop me spending I used to drop her off then head out of the centre, to the retail park. I'd buy myself a nice coffee (or a McDonalds one if I really wanted to cut the spends) and take a book to read.
I tried it in the city, doing the same, but the temptation just to pop into the shops and have a look was difficult to resist, and did usually end up with me spending money on stuff I really didn't need, from the poundshops, or Wilkos, or Primark etc.

poet123

Very, very, rarely and I work in town!! Too busy at lunchtimes, can't be bothered on my day off or at weekends. I shop almost exclusively online unless it is a big purchase such as furniture.

pukkamum

balletshoes wrote: »

that was me when my daughter used to have dance class in the city centre on a Saturday morning - sooo easy to spend money in that couple of hours in town. She doesn't have that class anymore, but to stop me spending I used to drop her off then head out of the centre, to the retail park. I'd buy myself a nice coffee (or a McDonalds one if I really wanted to cut the spends) and take a book to read.
I tried it in the city, doing the same, but the temptation just to pop into the shops and have a look was difficult to resist, and did usually end up with me spending money on stuff I really didn't need, from the poundshops, or Wilkos, or Primark etc.

I hear you!
We are lucky to have a morrisons with cafe so i can get my 6 books for £2 and a cheepish coffee and cake in one trip.
Bring back the high st!

PasturesNew

It tends to be once every 8-10 days when I've run out of any food that needs using up and I'm fed up with the food I've got and I'm urgently in need of something.

Then I try to go when it's not going to be manic, I go in, grab what I need, then get the hell out.... hate shopping.