What the Hell Did I Buy?
Yesterday, I spent about 3 to 4 hours in Target.
I hate to shop. If I have to buy something, I shop online.
Maybe that’s why being in an actual store jazzed me up-- I seemed to want or need, everything I saw in Target. I was store-starved. I needed to see and touch, in person, every single thingTarget was selling and I wanted it all.
Crap I’d never even think of buying looked marvelous to me.
I love those damned dollar bins. I must have spent an hour fingering every item in the dollar bins.
I bought what I wanted; what I thought I might want and what I know I’ll never use. I bought things for people I don’t know. I bought two of the same thing, in different colors.
I wandered around the store and didn’t miss an aisle or a department.
I put things in my cart. I took things out of my cart. I went back and put things I’d removed from my cart –back into my cart.
Target carts are big.
They deceive you.
You think you only have a few items – no budget busting stuff -- until your items start to be scanned. Beep, beep, beep. (Times 50)
Then you see that all those dollar items can add up…and upper…and uppest.
Target must pipe something into the air which makes normally sane people, turn into super-shoppers. Maybe they have subliminal messages scattered throughout the store. I don't know what it was.
But yesterday, I wanted it all…
Now, back at home after some sustenance and some sleep --with my breathing back to normal and my blood pressure stable – I look at the sales receipt and the slew of Target bags, and I wonder. What happened to me yesterday?
And,what the hell did I buy?
Yesterday, I spent about 3 to 4 hours in Target.
I hate to shop. If I have to buy something, I shop online.
Maybe that’s why being in an actual store jazzed me up-- I seemed to want or need, everything I saw in Target. I was store-starved. I needed to see and touch, in person, every single thingTarget was selling and I wanted it all.
Crap I’d never even think of buying looked marvelous to me.
I love those damned dollar bins. I must have spent an hour fingering every item in the dollar bins.
I bought what I wanted; what I thought I might want and what I know I’ll never use. I bought things for people I don’t know. I bought two of the same thing, in different colors.
I wandered around the store and didn’t miss an aisle or a department.
I put things in my cart. I took things out of my cart. I went back and put things I’d removed from my cart –back into my cart.
Target carts are big.
They deceive you.
You think you only have a few items – no budget busting stuff -- until your items start to be scanned. Beep, beep, beep. (Times 50)
Then you see that all those dollar items can add up…and upper…and uppest.
Target must pipe something into the air which makes normally sane people, turn into super-shoppers. Maybe they have subliminal messages scattered throughout the store. I don't know what it was.
But yesterday, I wanted it all…
Now, back at home after some sustenance and some sleep --with my breathing back to normal and my blood pressure stable – I look at the sales receipt and the slew of Target bags, and I wonder. What happened to me yesterday?
And,what the hell did I buy?
posted by mary bishop | 9:05 PM
11 Comments:
Target has a hundred dollar cover charge if you use a cart. It is only fifty if you carry a little basket.
Target has a way of bringing out your 'inner shopper'. I just love that store, but I dislike shopping in general. Go figure.
I feel the same way in stores like Walgreen's and Long's. I think it is just that each individual item is so cheap and, well, innocuous. As you say, it's only after you choose a few hundred of them that the amount spent starts to add up!
Metro - so true...next time if I dare to go again, I'm just grabbing a basket and that's it..no cart!
Lawbrat..yessirree...that inner shopper was tapped into big time..I'm with you..hate to shop but love Target...
kimananda...I found that some of the items were tremendous bargains...if only I'd stuck with them..but because you're there and they have everything...I bought items I know are much cheaper at other stores: ex: bought b'day and Easter cards for friends and family - spent about $38 in Target and it would have been way cheaper at the Hallmark store!
Yeah, I've encountered the exact same phenomenon when I go in there. And I'm habitually the safe shopper. Grocery stores, I've got the list. I might go up and down nearly every aisle, but I'm on a mission. I get into Target and my mission turns into "Wow, I should really get this... ooo... and this... and surely this is useful!" And a lot of it is.. but... I know my budget. My list is for my budget. Whatever that minor amnesiatic airborne stuff is, it's lethal to my pocketbook. :)
I heart Target, I truly do. I was banned from Target for the month of January, because I like too much there. So now I'm better but still. Target factors large for my contribution this week for self-portrait Tuesday.
Echrai - so you too are affected by the Target buy-buy-buy syndrome! Good I'm not alone.
Oh my AMK - I haven't yet gotten to the point of being banned. But that could come...I'm popping over your place to see why Target is a focus of your slef portrait...hmmmmm
OMG, you COULD not have said it better! I read it out loud to my hubby and he's cracking up because it's so "me"!
I've learned to resist the urge, but it's still comes over me once in a while, and I go crazy with Target shopping. What IS it about that store? LOL!
Welcome Shari! There is something - don't know what, but something about that store that isn't quite of this world. A supernatural phenomenon -- a high pitched sound that humans can't hear? A colorless odorless gas that causes people to grab useless items off shelves --only because they are cheap.
I'm sure one day someone will do a scientific study to prove me right -- what other excuse do we all have for Target-gluttony?
Ps Shari - I love your kitty picture....! I lost one of my babies a little while ago and have been "shopping" online at Petfinders.com for another one...
Aww, I can't bear the thought of losing my baby. It will be the first pet death that I've experienced. I hope you find a new one soon! :-)
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