Impulse Buying

[barry1010]

Are you more likely to impulse buy online or instore?
As I have done all my shopping online for the past 12 months I have saved a small fortune, no impulse buying in the supermarket because something is on offer or smells good.
I still look at the offers online but it is much easier not to buy when I can't handle them so I only take advantage if it is something I really need.

Far easier to stick to my shopping list and check that I actually do need it before ordering - I can't look in the cupboard when I'm at Tesco.

Aldi is just down the road from Tesco, on the way home, and I'd often pop in and buy everything I never knew I needed from the middle aisle. I have a router (for woodwork), a paint sprayer, a knife sharpener still in their boxes never used. What possessed me to buy them I will never know.

So lockdown means I'm quids in. How about you?

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, we saved a fortune on the weekly shop when we switched to home delivery. We just go to the farm shop now and spend £50 every Saturday ;-)

[pastafreak]

I don't know that I'm richer, but I'm certainly safer. I almost dread going into tkmaxx again, as I'm constantly tempted by little kitchen gadgets, cushions, weird spices, and other odds and ends. For the next few months, I can't buy a thing, as I'm paying off my share of the new roof on my block of flats. Oh joy.

[barry1010]

I'm sticking with home delivery.

[tiggerblue10]

My impulse buying is on Amazon :o(

However, since I started shopping in Lidl instead of Tesco, I've discovered I can have my cake and eat it :o(

[Bobbisox1]

We’ve saved enough ( I’m a spender) to have our bathroom and kitchen remodelled

[barry1010]

Sorry to hear about your roof problems, pasta.
I can't abide TKMaxx but maybe some branches are better than others. My local one is huge and resembles a jumble sale after a bomb dropped on it.

[barry1010]

That's fab, Bobbi. Will you be sticking with home delivery?

[Bobbisox1]

I don’t like TKMax either, we have a massive one in the MC I think I’ve only gone in twice

[tiggerblue10]

I've only ever been into a TKMaxx once. And that was enough.

[Bobbisox1]

Now and again we have a Morrison’s delivery when stuff is getting low but we mainly eat fresh from scratch and either one of us will go out daily for milk,eggs cheese etc , meat and such in the freezer x

[emmie]

i have been shopping on line for a long while - it saves schlepping around to waitrose for the weekly shop, and i find that sainburys mostly deliver what i ordered. The odd slip up, but nothing that i worry about.

[barry1010]

tigger, I have learned my lesson with Amazon and all non-food online shopping.
I put whatever it is that takes my fancy in to the basket and leave it for at least 24 hours. More often than not I decide I don't really want it after all.

[woofgang]

no change here.

[barry1010]

Bobbi, we eat fresh from scratch in this house and find the food stays fresh for a week. Milk and eggs stays fresh for at least 10 days and cheese has a long life. Even the veg and salad stuffs keeps fresh in the fridge.
I make our bread but do keep a shop bought sliced loaf in the freezer for emergencies. That keeps well, too, and only takes 10 minutes or so to defrost (no defrost necessary for toast).

[tiggerblue10]

I've got a Lego City kit in my Amazon basket. It's been there for a while.

[barry1010]

Buy, buy, buy, tigger - you know you want it :D

[Bobbisox1]

Best way to live Barry, can’t be doing with ready meals and stuff , bleughhh

[tiggerblue10]

I'll hit the order button when I move into my house otherwise my mum will have a fit! Lol

[eleanor2]

Hi barry, I reckon it's easier to impulse but online. As well as neccesities, I've bought many other things too. It's just much easier & a much bigger choice to choose from.

[barry1010]

Bobbi, I've used a pressure cooker all my life as well as a slow cooker. The old fashioned stove top pressure cooker which I had to replace because I could not get a replacement gasket for it.
I invested in a very expensive electric pressure cooker/slow cooker because it was half price and I must say it is the best kitchen gadget I have ever bought. So much easier to use than the old pressure cooker and very easy to wash up. If I am doing a large brisket it turns out beautiful after a few hours slow cooking followed by a 20 minute pressure cook - all in the same gadget, no faffing.
I made a suet pudding in it for the family and it was the best yet.