Posted by Racer on August 27, 2005, at 0:06:01
In reply to Re: Impulse buying » sleepygirl, posted by ClearSkies on August 24, 2005, at 6:52:27
I'm a terrible impulse buyer -- note, please, that I mention Costco often on this board? I can't walk through there without checking the books tables, and usually giving several books a good home...
And in bookstores? It's terrible -- I'd walk out with half the store, if I didn't have someone with me to stop that. (Way back, the first time my ex-before-last met my aunt, we walking into a bookstore and I bought a sack full of books. This was about 18 years ago, for price references, and I spent something over $100 on paperback books. I could hear the two of them whispering about it: Him: "Doesn't it scare you that she can spend over $100 on paperbacks?" Her: "No, what really scares me is that she'll read ALL of them." This was before he saw my bookcases at home...)
I'm not sure if I'm worse in store or online, though. At Amazon, with that "free shipping over $25" thing, I tend to load up a bit to get the free shipping. That means that, if I have been assigned a book by my therapist, for example, that costs, say, $10, well, I'll just have to buy something else, to get the free shipping -- and that's why the total is $82.43... Hey, my husband doesn't quite believe me, either...
Then again, I've made some of my very favorite discoveries that way! It was in Borders, in Emeryville, CA, that I discovered a true gem: "B*mbos of the Death Sun" Truly one of the best ever written. Loved it, and through it discovered one of my favorite contemporary writers.
OK. I'll stop now. Hubby has been in to see what I am typing so feverishly about, which means that he wants equal attention.
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