Shopping
The Watchmeister watches watches!
Shopping, to some, the most fun they can have, to others, the worst word they can hear. Personally, I hate to shop, pushing a cart all over a store just “browsing” till you see something you like. Then you pick it up, examine it from every possible angle, look at the price and either put it back or toss it in the cart. More often than not, the item you just picked out is an item that at the moment, you don’t even need! You just bought it because it was a good price and you will “probably” use it in the near future, but will you? I am a man, which I hope is obvious to all by now, and to me, the absolute worst shopping is with the wife, and her mother! Luckily now, I don’t have to put up with either. My ex wife was a penny pincher, she absolutely hated to spend money, and it didn’t matter what she was shopping for, food or clothes. Which was why I (a) did not bother to go with them, or (b) brought a book, stayed in the car and read, or (c) went inside to the food court where I would still read but this time either with a cup of coffee or a Coke. I firmly believe, that about 75% of the women you see shopping in any kind of store have absolutely no idea what they are looking for. In a grocery store, they have no list to tell them what they needed after a careful examination of the pantry, the refrigerator and the freezer as well as under the sink. Don’t miss anyplace where you keep perishable or usable items that you might need to get more of. And the worst grocery shopper is the one that looks at two sizes of something, lets say ketchup as an example. A small bottle might be $0.75, while a large, which might be 3 times more than the small, goes for $1.25. Which is the better value here? Obviously the large, my ex wife would invariably buy the small, her argument? It was cheaper at that time. So the next shopping trip, same circumstance, same bottles of ketchup. Again, she buys the small, so now she has spent $1.50 on ketchup in two weeks while the large bottle that would have been $1.25 two weeks ago, would still have one more week of ketchup in it, she ignored again. So the next week, when she went shopping again, there goes another $0.75 on bottle number three when three weeks ago, she could have spent $1.25, instead, she spent $2.25 over three weeks when she could have bought the large bottle and saved a buck plus tax over the three week time frame, no logic there at all. When I go shopping, I have a list for groceries and if I need any kind of clothing, I know what I want, I go grab my size, I’m done once I pay. I am an easy shopper. BUT, shopping still involves going out, driving somewhere, gassing up the car, surviving the idiot drivers that were what I like to call gumball machine drivers license recipients on the first penny because they do not know how to drive, especially on snow. Have you ever been stuck driving behind the little old man or little old lady doing 5 miles an hour on a speed limit 45 street? I have. And the worst part of that is you can’t pass them because you are right behind them and all the cars and trucks behind you are swerving into the passing lane to pass both of you! This is why I prefer to shop on line, which I generally do for everything except groceries. Now as a watch collector of note amongst my friends, with boxes of 20 watches each stacked up on a five shelf unit in my bedroom, I do tend to buy my watces on line. Easier, no gas, no crowds, I can make my own coffee, no little old folks who can barely see over the steering wheel doing 5 miles an hour, Just me, sitting at my computer desk, maybe some music playing, and I am browsing watches. But not just at any old site. No way, my watches come from a special site for the most part. Oh once in a while I may find a good deal on Amazon, or Ebay, but I usually log on, and go to www.KenmarWatches.com to find what I want. They carry over 125 brands of watches with thousands of watches to choose from among all those brands. I can look at each watch, the specifications, battery life, what kind of tricks if any that it can do, stuff like that. Kenmar is an excellent site. Not only do they sell watches of all kinds, they offer forums where you can ask questions about watches before you buy! I mean, not every shopper is a horologist, or a person that actually studies watches. I am sort of an amateur horologist in my own right owning several hundred watches, reading about them, what they can do, how long the battery will last, and many times, I have set the time and date and everything else on a watch without needing the instruction book! So, if you need to go shopping for someone’s birthday, anniversary, or just to show someone you care. It doesn’t have to be a holiday or a special day to buy someone a gift. And in my mind, there is no finer gift than a gift of time. A watch after all, is not just a device that tells time, it is also an investment as it is also considered a piece of jewelry, and as you may well know, jewelry generally increases in value over time. So to give a gift, make it an investment, make it a watch from www.KenmarWatches.com. It will absolutely not be something that you will regret.
Heed the Watchmeister, he watches watches!