how often do you go to the shop?

thehappybutterfly

It used to be the supermarket every day but this has stopped as I go to Costco every couple of months to stock up on meat, loo rolls, water, laundry detergent etc. This keeps me out the sm all week where I stock up on fresh food, bread etc. Let's face it, who hasn't gone to the sm for "milk and bread" and spent £60 on stuff you didn't need?

Clothes shopping/homeware shopping - used to be once a week but I stopped this too. Now I go into town every couple of months to treat myself and that's only because my daughter wants to go!

I just can't seem to bring myself to spend money on what I see as luxuries these days. I don't need any more clothes or cups or bathtowels or place mats etc.!

Changed days indeed!!

badly_dubbed

Just totted up what i spent last month at the shop down the road (30secs walk from my front door...not always a good thing!) and was stunned at the transactions....totalling £188!! this is on top of the monthly spend at the supermarket. one day had 5 transactions over over a tenner each. nuts!

have made an active effort the past few weeks not to go there unless its for utter essentials such as milk etc

Catti

I hate shopping unless it's for food - especially at farm shops and other strange shops where you can find unusual items! We spend quite a lot of time at the weekend pottering around looking for different places and rarely shop in the same place twice. Milk is delivered so no need to 'pop out' and waste precious time the rest of the week.
Sunday sees us preparing food for the week's lunches and baking bread for the week to come.

FatVonD

I loathe and detest clothes shopping so don't really do it for fun, in fact I work in central London and have every shop imaginable on my doorstep and never go into them!

I buy most of my own clothes second-hand on ebay. We do however have a mid-sized shopping centre near home that doesn't get as busy as the massive one and we visit there once or twice a month because it has a few chain stores if I need to buy stuff for DS, a WHSmith for magazines and a few charity shops (including a furniture one!)

The only thing it doesn't have which would be useful is a Primark and an HMV but if we need those we have to go to the big town but we take the cab and park for free on a little used cab rank and get in and out as quickly as possible! Occasionally we might go to a retail park to Matalan if I need something like, say, leggings.

Food shopping I love but its so easy to spend too much when you're there (especially with kids in tow!) so I get the groceries delivered on a Sunday evening which includes lunches for the week for me and DS. I have a small Sainsbugs near work to replenish midweek if I need to but I'm quite disciplined and don't impulse buy in there. My downfall though is nipping to the supermarket for breakfast things for the weekend while we're awaiting the Sunday night shop and buying more than I intend to. We're also quite partial to nipping to the Sainsbugs superstore in the evenings for stuff like school shirts and coming back with cakes

lushlifesaver

I help bf fill the car up a couple of times a week, or just before he goes away to a camp as it's a joke trying to get disabled assistance at fuel stations near us! I rarely buy anything in the shop whilst paying, try and pay at the pump more often that not.

I work just a short walk from our city centre and I go in everyday, most days I buy nothing just browse round various stores. It's easy enough to pick up bits we need or little things either of us want but I tend to try and do one medium-large shop a fortnight (usually delivered when possible)

Most days I don't buy anything at all!

I am another one who would love for the traditional high street to make a come back. I loved that BBC series where they went through the ages of the high street. Our little town centre near home isn't bad but the stores are quickly pricing themselves out for many people.
If we had a decent greengrocer, grocers and butchers in our town I would exclusively use those. Sadly the prices they think they can ask for because they are small independents are often extortionate (especially the butchers!)

onlyroz

I get most of my food staples from Aldi around once a week, and then go occasionally to Tesco to get the few things that Aldi doesn't stock. We get our meat every month or two from the butcher in the next village, and I try to buy most of our fruit and veg from the market stall in the town where I work.

I hardly ever buy clothes or shoes (I usually have an annual clothes shopping trip to M&S) and I get most of the Christmas presents from Amazon, delivered to work. I rarely go shopping just for the sake of it. At the weekend we might go, as a family, to one of the larger towns, but that's usually because we need something specific or fancy a meal out. None of us want to spend any length of time wandering aimlessly from shop to shop.

As for fuel, my new car only needs filling up every 3 weeks or so and I go to the pay-at-the-pump on my way into work, so no temptation to stock up with choccies and crisps from the kiosk.

For lunches I either take in a packed lunch or get some soup or salad from the work cafeteria, unless it's a fasting day and then I make do with porridge. I might treat myself to a lunch out once a fortnight, but that's usually something like the £4.99 chinese buffet, or some crap-in-a-box from KFC.

Gillyx

I do a weekly shop and tend to do Aldi and either Tesco or Asda in the one trip, I then go once midweek to top up with fruit (market) milk and bread.

Clothes shopping is as and when, I sometimes will go have a browse once a fortnight or so.

This is a big change from before though, we lived in the city center, so it was more like 4-5 times a week, I'd have a browse around the shops, and with a Tesco Express on our doorstep, I'd be in there at least 5 times a week :eek: Dread to think how much money I wasted :eek:

I do quite enjoy shopping and window shopping, but I have a 20 month old, and he hates it, so I don't go as often as I used to as it's not fair dragging him around making him miserable if there isn't a purpose or a need.

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74jax wrote: »

I live 10mins from the Metro Centre.

*shudder* I probably live even closer and avoid the place as much as possible! 74jax, please do my share of browsing for me?

HBS x

SallyEddis

far too often some days!! think im going to do the shop online!!!

yvonne13_2

I go Monday to Friday as I'm passing for work. I only ever get a 33p bottle of water but I just love going in the shop more so out of habit.