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Online Shopping - A little too easy?, Updated

SlinkyMalinki View Member Profile	05/12/2012, 05:17 PM Post #1
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Has anyone else found that online shopping makes it a little too easy to keep buying 'just one more' present to put under the tree. For one, there's so much more choice, and it's so exciting to have parcels arriving at the door. I keep finding things that the kids just must have under the tree. At least I've been restrained and buying things for everyone else, and not myself This post has been edited by SlinkyMalinki: 06/12/2012, 02:22 PM

Ianthe View Member Profile	05/12/2012, 05:18 PM Post #2
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I find it easier to keep buying for sure because I don't have to carry it. I haven't gone OTT though but I have done the majority of my shopping online and I am so unstressed about Christmas.

Frau Farbissina View Member Profile	05/12/2012, 05:21 PM Post #3
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I find it restricts me a bit. When I am in the shops I find it a lot easier to just buy one more. When shopping online I umm and ahh over things, check prices between RRP in shops here and also usually have to think of postage costs. By the time I hit the final key to make the transaction I've made sure I only have what I really want to get! This post has been edited by Frau Farbissina: 05/12/2012, 05:22 PM

Swahili View Member Profile	05/12/2012, 05:22 PM Post #4
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Absolutely! My spare room in the garage is slowly filling up with the many bits and pieces I have been accumulating for Christmas. It's just so easy to buy and I know I'm probably going to be a little horrified once I have it all out on Christmas Eve. Oh well, some can be put away for birthdays...

Foogle View Member Profile	05/12/2012, 05:29 PM Post #5
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I actually find the opposite. I was at the shopping centre today for the first time in a couple of weeks and I found myself purchasing opportunistically. A whole lot more than I do on the Net.

MotherClucker View Member Profile	05/12/2012, 06:29 PM Post #6
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I agree OP. Amazon is evil lol. Id say 90% of my Christmas money has been spent there. PS: They are still saying delivery from the 18-24th today..,

AvadaKedavra View Member Profile	05/12/2012, 06:33 PM Post #7
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I love online shopping. DH an I did ALL our shopping last night while drinking cups of tea and the kids slept. It was bliss. And we bought heaps less because there was no real opportunistic buying, just what was on the list.

whale-woman View Member Profile	05/12/2012, 06:38 PM Post #8
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I think I'm equally bad at the shops or on-line...

Riotproof View Member Profile	05/12/2012, 07:27 PM Post #9
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I find it much easier to say that I'm done when doing online shopping. I also plan and work out exactly what to get, whereas it can be very hard to browse and consider things when you have a toddler with you. I have no idea how my mother survived without online shopping, although, I think she used to go to Kmart a lot which was open late.

Kay1 View Member Profile	05/12/2012, 07:30 PM Post #10
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Yep I have caught myself out with the 'set and forget' mentality. Order some gifts for one child, they take a few weeks to arrive and in the meantime I forget and get them something else. My kids did rather well out of this phenomena last year.

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