What stores do you go crazy in?
 

OK. I after being couped up for about a week I went out for a bit on this nice warm (34F) sunny day. :)

I went to this local shopping area and I went to Office Max to get some ink for my new printer. I love to go there. I go crazy! :distress: I got my ink and I bought some photo paper both 4x6 and 8x10 and some labels. I get so excited in there. They have blank CDs and DVDs, digital cameras and printers, all kinds of fun stuff to make with your photo printer. I could spend my whole pay in there and then some. I love computers and gadgets.

Circuit City is also down the street in this shopping area and I rarely go there. I get high blood pressure in there because they never have what I want and the help is SOOO clueless!


I also went to Borders books. I like to go in there, too. I bought some photography magazines because I like to pretend that I am a photographer. :lol:


I also like Staples and CompUSA. Best Buy is another noisy, useless store that I don't go to that much. I used to like it but they just seemed to go down hill with service. I did buy my computer there last spring, however. :nod: I also have a gift card that I need to use and what I want is not in the store and I can't use the card online. :mad:

I won't even get into clothes and shoes. :lol:

Um, any store? :laugh:

I go ape**** in all of them! More specifically, though, I go nuts in music shops and bookstores. Usually the little hole-in-the-wall type shops. I also go batty in vintage clothing shops. I have an obsession with those stores. :nod:

Joseph-Beth Booksellers. :blob1:

Pier 1. :blob2:

Same here! I loove food! You should see all the crap that I bought last Saturday before the blizzard. :rolleyes:
Don't send me to the bakery cause I could by the whole store out.

I found this one vintage shop about three weeks ago and I've been there every other day since. :laugh:

I must have bought 30 belts from them; they have the most amazing belts. I got a pink and white striped one that has a tongue for a clasp. :thumbsup:

Those are the best! You can find lots of goodies. Nothing like the Mom and Pop shops!

I would like to concur with everyone - :laugh:
bookstore, clothes store, and food being on the top of my list. And, jewelry store - I tend to go pretty ape**** in a jewelry store.. my palms get sweaty and I start shaking slightly from excitement... :laugh:

Yeah, I used to pretty crazy myself. Not so much now but when I was younger. That and any kind of bath or beauty product like cosmetics and stuff.

Currently...
 

Physical being in a store to shop:
Best Buy

Online:
www.cdinzane.com
www.Rightstuf.com
www.Musiciansfriend.com
www.cduniverse.com
www.bmgmusicservice.com

ps-Deb went nuts at Bath & Body Works yesterday since they had the 75% off sale

I think I am seriously going to be doing more online shopping. I am looking for a place that has some good prices on DVDs. I can't find that Golden Girls DVD anywhere in a store and it is a bit too much $ at Amazon.

Try...
 

www.pricegrabber.com were you can shop & compare prices online.

Borders, Best Buy, FYE....You can never get me out of there, once I go in. :nod:

Hmm...
 

http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com :wavey:

Pier One

Goodwill

FYE

Bob Evans General Store (I stoke up on their dressings)

How can you afford to buy ANYTHING at FYE?! :laugh: I feel like farting in their general direction every time I'm near one.

I've only been in one of those once and was horrified. $150 for a flimsy throw imported from Ireland. Buying those types of things for a living, I was truly aghast at the absurd mark-up they force onto the general public. :shocked:

I hate shopping...
 

at mall music stores like Sam Goody's, FYE, etc., They never carry anything I listen to and their clerks are brainless late teen/early twenty-something twits:

Example-Sam Goody's Early May 2001-

Me-"Do you have the new Stevie Nicks release "Trouble In Shangri-La?"

Clueless Clerk-"Stevie Nicks? Isnt he dead?"

Me-(I said nuthin'...Just turned for the entrance/exit and left laughin' at this brainf**ked asstard!)

Thus one of the many reason's why I do more online shopping than shopping at a store in the physical being...

I.Love.It. and Kirklands. :D

I hate mall Cd/DVD stores. I never even go in them. High blood pressure alert! :eek:

Tell me about it. A few years ago (at FYE), I went in looking for a Jazz Passengers CD and the dimbulb went looking for it in the country section. :rolleyes:

Eh. I'll even take IKEA over those stores. :laugh:

Sak's Fifth Ave. (esp. the MOTHERSHIP in New York :laugh: )

Neiman Marcus - esp. at Last Call, which was about two weeks ago - I got Prada, RL Purple Label, etc. (all well over $500 EACH :eek: ) - for way less than than $100 each - some less than $50 - CHA CHING!!!!!!!!! :laugh:

Marshall's - but why go through that barn frenzy when Last Call is cheaper :laugh: and I can bring a Scottie shopping with me :laugh:

I also LOVE Tower Records - though pricey - they have almost everything you want and they are essentially next door to my house :laugh:

Pier One is also WAY cool - and even better when they have a sale :nod:

I despise Ikea - though I have not been in well over five years, when I did go I was like this is not very well made and they are charging too a price for particle board :eek: Having said that, their sales are supposed to be great :cool:

None of it is well-made and it's all made of ****ty MDF. But given the choice of IKEA over the likes of outrageous Pier One? Sign me up! :nod:

Kirkland's has great basic lamps at VERY reasonable prices. I have two in my house. They were like $59 each and they look almost exactly like the ones I saw in a designer shop for $500 + each. The only diff. is the cheaper ones were not made of stone while the more expensive ones were - but I cannot tell the diff. so who cares AND I actually liked the cheaper ones more because they were a little smaller, which fit my needs :cool:

IKEA is also a modern look (or at least it was when I was there) and that look is not really me. I am more of a safari look. I love tans and other earth tones. IKEA was very white and modern, which is fine, but just not me :cool:

I don't like Ikea colors either. um, orange? no! :laugh:

We are such opposites. :laugh:

I know :laugh: But, I like modern stuff. I like Barbara Barry from Baker - it has a modern flair to it. I just am not wild too much modern. I am WAY more eccectic (sp.?) I know you will cringe, but Art Deco is prob. my fav. Cedric Gibbons was a GENIUS!!!!!!!

I am going shopping with YOU! :lol:

*cringes*

:laugh:

Child - I can find a bargain from three rows over :laugh:

I am piled up at the Ritz in Atlanta due to the ice storm (you know The Ritz :wink: ) - and they wanted to give me the rack rate - I balked and pulled out all of my organization cards like AAA, ABA, etc. I would up getting the room for WAY less (about $200 less) than the rack rate AND they cut the pet fee in half becuase I laughed out loud when they told me the original price - I also explained that no Ritz in the world has ever chraged me that much :laugh: So, yes, if you want a bargain, come shopping with me as I rarely pay retail - I will if it is to die for, but that is a rareity :cool:

There's not an IKEA in WV. :shrug:

Well, there aren't many in the US, so don't feel left out. :laugh:

We don't have any in RI either, so I don't know what it is like.

Interestingly, it was Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts, then Art Deco then modern - it is all a progression to the steamline of modern. I LOVE the Chrysler Building in NYC - I think it is a nice hamony of all three :cool:

Also, I truly believe we have Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright to thank for that progression. I think his work was WAY ahead of its time and was brilliant in its simplicity and HUGE tiny detailing :cool:

We sure the hell get commericals for them, though. :confused:

Actual physical stores:

Virgin Records :blob2:

Tower Records :blob2:

Barnes & Noble :blob2:

Online, I want to buy everything there every time I visit:

www.evolvefish.com
www.progressivecatalog.com
HRC :blob2:

overstock.com is great as is domestications.com