Impulsive Or Compulsive Buying

Impulsive Or Compulsive Buying

It is only off late ( a few years back) that  I have realized that I have become a Compulsive or an Impulsive  shopper. Do not know what to define myself one as?  Maybe you can help me on this.  Do not know how it has started and I am never the kind of person who buys things unless and until it is required – quite practical I have been. This compulsive shopping urge is on particularly with clothes that I purchase but not always only on few occasions I think so.  But it happens only when I am there with my close friends on all occasions.

And it more so happens when I decide that I will not waste any more money unnecessarily. One occasion that I remember and get amused is when I went with my friend as he had to buy sarees for his wife. He suggested Pothy’s in Majestic as it was a festival time and offered discounts and he wanted my help in selection. So I said yes and accompanied him. Pothy’s is some 3-4 floor building and each floor has various & beautiful selection of sarees and dress materials. Since we reached the place after finishing office we reached almost 7.30 pm. We decided to first loom around and started with the Ground floor. I was busy helping my friend with the selection but seeing the beautiful colors and prices could not resist and I ended up selecting a couple of sarees for myself and told the lady to keep it aside as we had to check the next floor as well. It was then the lady told that the billing will end at 8- 8.30 and that she can hold it only for 20-30 minutes and we had to bill only in that floor.

If there was only one floor all this would not have happened.  It was then our comedy started. We realized we had only 30 minutes and we had 3 more floors to cover. We had only 10 minutes at each floor and our race against time started.

 We rushed to the first floor, quickly walked around the floor, picked up a couple of sarees, spoke to the lady at the counter, requested her to keep the saris aside as we will come back and pick up.

Our strategy was same at each floor. We then rushed to the 2^nd floor , quickly scanned around , checked the prices and picked up a couple of sarees and gave it to the lady. The same at the 3^rd and the 4^th floor. And each time before rushing to the next floor would check the time on the mobile. Finally, on all 4 floors we picked up totally 8 sarees. 

Now, came the final test. Out of the 8 sarees that we had picked we had to pick the final 2 as that it what we had a budget for only 2 sarees. There was only 1 thing we could do for that ie, go down to each floor where we had kept the sarees and make the final decision.   And this had to be quick as we had only last 10 minutes.  Our exercise started again. This time we had to rush down to each floor and pick up only the best among the 8. The decision was hard as all sarees were nice. In the last 10 minutes we had to struggle to pick the best. Our brains were working fast as we had to also pick the beats not just in color, quality, offer of buy 1 get 1 but, also the price. Finally, we both did it. My friend picked up 2 i.e. 4 because of Buy 1, Get 1  offer and me too . We were like “Yeah we made it “with our full beaming faces to the final billing counter.

When we both stepped out, we laughed it out thinking of the race we had just ended. We also realized, how hungry we both were. So, we bought some snacks and hogged like we had not eaten before. It was 9 pm already and I rushed home after bidding goodnight to my friend. But it was only when I reached home and opened my almirah to keep the sarees, I realized again. Why the hell did I buy it. I already have too many which I still have not worn and there was no place at all for anything new

Not that I regret buying it as definitely it was a good choice and I know I am going to wear it of course. 

But what do it term it as – Impulsive or Compulsive. But whatever it was I did enjoy it.