Hello, my name is Anissa, I am a total shopping whore.
I’m pretty sure my sick addiction bought the owner of the Internet a pool. Dude got some killer deck chairs. With silk covers.
Made by orphans.
Blind ones.
With no hands.
That have to work nineteen hours a day.
Listening to Jonas Brothers music.
TORTURE.
So what I have learned is, I can just go to a site, shop like a fiend, fill the “shopping cart” into the tens of thousands….and then go to bed.
I do it all the time.
I do it with different kinds of store.
William and Sonoma. White House, Black Market. ITunes. EBay. Etsy. Amazon.
It’s ridiculously fun.
AND?
When I’m on a really bad mood, I pretend there’s someone just watching me add to my “cart” and just when they get crazy excited at how much money they’ll make, I.WALK.AWAY.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
But that’s only when the day is really bad.
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Love it! I also do this in real stores, fill up the cart and then end up putting it all back. It’s like exercise, all that walking around the store! Or not.
Twitter Name: prCarrS
I’m too lazy to ever put anything back so I would feel all guilty and actually BUY something.
You are much stronger than me.
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
I love doing this! Usually I do it at night when my husband is snoring and I can’t sleep. Basically it goes like this: the louder his snoring, the more pissed off I get because of my lack of sleep so I put all kinds of things in the cart, even some things I would never even want just because I think it’s funny.
But once I forgot to close the window of the site before finally going to bed and in the morning when my hubby went online to check the weather, he saw my amazon cart filled with a crazy dollar amount of things.
He’s a pretty calm guy, thankfully, but it took me days to convince him that I just do it for fun but never plan on actually buying any of these things (like I would really buy a gallon of milk and a three wolf moon shirt from amazon). He thought if I never intented to buy anything, I should just put it on my wish list. He totally doesn’t get my whole pretend online shopping. It took me a few days to convince him but now I always remember to close the damn window of the site. ;)
Twitter Name: thisismommyhood
My husband would crap his pants if he ever saw the shopping carts I came up with.
He might ban my Internet.
The router’s upstairs, he’s mean like that.
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
ROFL, that’s awesome. I am a serious online-shopping-cart-abandoner myself. It’s way fun.
Twitter Name: mommygeekology
We can shop together with extra cords!
YSY!
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
I don’t even feel guilty about it. It’s something I’ve done for years. Probably since my oldest child was born. So much fun.
Twitter Name: Issascrazyworld
Issa, I knew I loved you for a reason!!
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
:) My current favorite is to design whole rooms at Pottery Barn and then shut it down.
Twitter Name: Issascrazyworld
I do that with the Ikea site!!
Tease Shopping FTW!
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
I do the exact same thing! I didn’t realize it was such a popular way to shop without spending money. However, it has put a substantial cramp in my actual online shopping ways by adding crazy amounts of time to the process. You’d think it was the opposite, like exercise helping you run a race faster, but no. I add so much stuff to my cart (a la my no cost virtual shopping sprees) that I am then forced to make painful decisions to whittle the total price down to something close to affordable. I should just stick to abandoning the virtual carts and shopping in real stores, it might save me some time. Thanks for letting me know I am not alone, and keep filling those virtual shopping carts, we have to keep “them” on their toes!
It satisfies some part of me to shop til I’m dizzy then buy a pack of gum at Target.
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
I do this all the time. Z Gallerie, Crate and Barrel, even the other day for some reason I was browsing Pottery Barn TEEN and saw so many cute things I would totally buy for myself, and I don’t have any teenagers in my house. I left it all in the cart. That’s stuff’s cute, but really, I’m not spending 200 dollars on a lamp. come on pb. shopping cart full, actual purchases 0. :)
the only downside is now they will send you emails…come back to your cart! you left stuff in your cart!
I picture them begging “but how can you abandon $300 candle stick in the shape of a carrot?”
Just walk away!
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
OMG, I do this ALL THE TIME.
We are just like twins! Accept I’m not Asian. Or as funny. Or as cool. Or you know, as hot as you. But we’re just alike!
Twitter Name: juliaroberts1
Um, feel free to read my post over at FreeAnissa before I have to lick you!
xoxo
Twin
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
I can’t believe I have never even thought of this! Of course, knowing me I’d probably forget what the hell I was doing and purchase $5,000 worth of crap. I can see it now…
“Hey, what’s this box of 500 copies of The Princess Bride and 300 copies of Grease 2 … is that a Llama???”
Twitter Name: christine_9774
Try it! I swear you’ll be hooked.
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
That’s ingenious! It never would have occurred to me. And I can’t believe so many others are doing it too. I’m going to suggest it to my wife. Actually, I’ll bet she already does it.
You forgot to add that those blind, handless orphans are not only forced to listen to Jonas brothers all day long they are forced to have Bieber haircuts done by Bieber himself, who is singing, while they are listening to Jonas brothers in the background.
Those poor orphans.
Twitter Name: DExtraordinaire
Fabulous! I have left full carts online before now but I always have a nagging fear the stuff is going to arrive on my doorstep complete with an angry security guy and a bill.
Twitter Name: penbleth