Riding the recession the shopaholic way

The title explains itself. Shopaholic. Addiction to shopping. And during this dire times, the thought of parting money may not be that appealing to shopaholic.

But sometimes people don’t understand us. Spending money makes us happy, makes us walk on air but what do they know? They don’t understand that our obsession is therapy, our yoga, pilates, meditation and how we socialize.

I understand the difficulty of having to keep the purse to oneself when one is constantly being reminded to ‘save’, ‘careful with the money’, ‘buy what we need’ and so on and so forth. And there is the answer to end all shopaholic miseries. Buy what we need.

Admit it, we need food. Without food, we can’t exist (but careful not to turn it around to we exist because of food). If usually we are more comfortable with buying shoes and clothes, maybe it’s time to change our shopping habits. And believe me, mom will be happy with the change too.

Secret is? Buy groceries instead. Take it as another form of choosing for clothes. It offers us with much more choices in multiple colour and sizes, we will find ourselves dizzy having to make the decision. And there were endless shelves of such products and they can extend to luxury brands too. The economical brand for soap will be along Lux and Johnson&Johnson, luxury will be Crabtree & Evelyn (kindly correct me if this is wrong).

Need to buy something? Pick up the cooking oil. Need something healthy and green? Pick the organic products. Need to buy something and also donate? Pick something from TLC, a Malaysian company that will also contribute their income to those in need.

See? The possibilities are endless. Just don’t stop at cooking oil because you can really help your mum with other things like fridge deodorant (or something), biscuits (I love McTivities), fruits, healthy snacks (can’t get enough of baby carrot), shampoo, toothbrush (I have this addiction of walking up and down the shelf just to see how advanced they have become) and so on. See? You‘ll need it sometime so it’s like insurance. And mum or anyone may not say anything much because it’s groceries, it’s essential.

So, have fun tiding the recession waves. The chip demand in Singapore is increasing and this may be the sign of recovery. Manufacturing industry will be hit the hardest during the recession to chip demand = manufacturing demand. See the connection?

OK. Got to get ready for a brand new day. Have a nice day people!