In The Mood To Shop

It's like this - there are times when we are very capable of impulse shopping (our friends can attest to this) but for other times we need to get into the correct mindset before we actually would think of buying anything. Come to think of it, even impulse shopping might not be really impulse shopping, but just because we happen to be in the right mood and the right place at the right time.

What do we mean by correct mindset? Take shoes for example. There was the time when we already started considering new gym shoes because the old pair were giving way already, and when they finally did, we'd the incentive to get new ones (also, since we were already at The Curve / Ikano / Cineleisure, after gym it was just a matter of a casual jalan-jalan and a quick look-see mah). And we were rather lucky that we found a pair that we like.

Then just the other week mum wanted to go about Tangs at Pavilion and so we became her driver for the day, with no definite objectives save following mum about as she shopped. Halfway through she suggested that we go look for new leather shoes, since our current ones are in terrible condition (which we have to agree, since we'd never touched a tub of polish ever) and since Tangs were having a sale. Never mind that she casually threw out the fact that by spending some RM200 we could get a membership card or something for extra discounts.

But we hadn't hyped ourselves to look for shoes at that time. No gung-ho to look about, no idea what kind we're after (except that they don't have shoelaces to deal with - we still have a good pair with shoelaces that we just are too lazy to wear), and a general feeling of "Shoes. Bleh.".

Strange yet true.

Thankfully, after some 20 rounds around that small section for men's shoes in Tangs we still couldn't compromise over any pair. It just wouldn't have done to buy a pair of shoes that we feel indifferent towards just because it was on sale or as a matter of convenience since we were there. When mum met up with us after her shopping she couldn't believe that we couldn't find anything, and so the both of us went another round looking, with mum asking which ones we actually showed even minute interest in.

Out of those few, none had a size that fitted us. So no shoes. Phew. And since we hadn't the mood for shoes we didn't even consider walking about the rest of Pavilion for shoes. Maybe another time, when we're willing.

This time the parents are both trying their best to get us to swap the 10 year old Kembara for a new Myvi. The past couple of weeks mum was already making mention while dad queried about our finances. True enough, a Myvi (or probably the new Saga) would save us on fuel, and is a new car, and wouldn't burn our pockets aside from minor scalding, and is quite comfy, but we aren't showing that sense of keeness that would have otherwise already clinched the deal.

We are so not. In. The. Mood. Right. Now. :S