STUFF FROM SPREE! I always has been a shopping Queen. I gain this title when I travelled with my colleagues years ago. I love the feeling of buying load of stuff. Even buying grocery makes me happy! I believed in shopping therapy, is a way for me to unwind other then the other method, baking therapy. Before I was married, I love to travel and shop. I could get thing that is not avaliable here. There is alway excuse to get another pair of shoes and another blouse.. But as the more I buy, I realise that I do not have so much storage space. Soon, I don't even bother to buy things when I travel. Maybe just a magnet to put on the fridge for remembrance. So I find buying grocery is a better way out. At least the whole family can eat away the stuff I bought :) No need to worry about storage space.
After I get married and have a house, I tend to buy lots of thing to decorate the house. My husband and I even bought a elephant craving from ChiangMai during our honeymoon. Is kind of crazy coz is so heavy and huge. After I have kid, I started buying for my son. I learned to shop online for stuff or join bulk purchase and spree from oversea. In that way, I can get unique clothing, books and toys for my son at lower cost. I don't even need to spend time going out to shop. Well I do agree being able to feel and choose the stuff you like is a total different experience from shopping online. But you get another kind of thrilled when you received your parcel and opening it! Just like getting your birthday present. Is great for SAHM. All mummies should know how tough is to shop when u bring your kids along. They need to eat, need to pee, need to nap, even need some time to throw tantrum! For mummies, when comes to sales, food and tiredness is the last thing in the mind. I am very paronoid that someone might kidnap my son who love to run about when we go off guard.
There is even a point of time my husband suggest maybe I could organised spree or bulk purchase full time when I don't work! He offer to write up a program to do that. Ha ! is a crazy idea. Is so tough to organise spree and the return is not much. There is so much coordination involved and when thing goes OSS (Out Of Stock) u have to inform people and get replacement item. Some people may delay payment and ask you on hold. Sometime suppliers will send the wrong things and we have to absorb it or sell it at the forum. So much problem involved and too much of a hassle. What's the fun of doing shopping for people when I have to keep worrying that i cannot deliver the stuff and got scolded by people.
I do buy second hand stuff from forum too. No one can denied that time is getting tough now. All prices form stuff goes up and if we can save a bit why not? Anyway some of the thing like bumbo chair and stroller is not for long term usage. We can get quite a reasonable condition one from the WTS (want to sell) site in the forum. I do get to meet some nice mummies. Of course, I manage to sell off thing I need to clear from my store room to other mummies in the forum too :)
For mummies who come across my blog and interested in shopping, here are some of the website which I visited often to do my shopping and selling :)
I do buy second hand stuff from forum too. No one can denied that time is getting tough now. All prices form stuff goes up and if we can save a bit why not? Anyway some of the thing like bumbo chair and stroller is not for long term usage. We can get quite a reasonable condition one from the WTS (want to sell) site in the forum. I do get to meet some nice mummies. Of course, I manage to sell off thing I need to clear from my store room to other mummies in the forum too :)
For mummies who come across my blog and interested in shopping, here are some of the website which I visited often to do my shopping and selling :)
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