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 2nd floor ,
quickly scanned around , checked the prices and picked up a couple of sarees
and gave it to the lady. The same at the 3rd and the 4th 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.
