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?

[barry1010]

eleanor, I agree shopping online is very easy, especially for fiddly little parts that would have meant contacting 30 or more shops by telephone back in the Yellow Pages days. Let your fingers do the walking? No thanks, I'll let Google do it :D

[Vagus]

I’ve never impulse bought on line. My impulse buys were clothes and shoes, and I’ve not bought any of them for over a year now. It’s made me realise just how much I bought and didn’t need, can’t see me going back to my old ways.
We too have saved a fortune, and that’s even with on line treat buying for family we’ve not seen, and clothes and things for little grandson.

[barry1010]

Vagus, our household has only bought clothing essentials this past year - new underwear and slippers.

[barry1010]

I bet a lot of people are saving a lot money by not spending money in those overpriced coffee shops.
I have never seen the appeal in drinking coffee out of oversized, thick cups with teeny handles I can't get my finger through. Whenever I have had no choice but to visit Starbucks or similar I have been tempted to ask for a Nescafe. I have no idea what all those different coffees are, give me a coffee from a greasy joe's caff any day

[Bobbisox1]

Me and my friend enjoy a coffee break if we’re out and about shopping , but I agree, the prices are extortionate, the turnover must be huge

[eleanor2]

My latest buy has been a stackable food tin organiser. Trying to make the most out of our tiny kitchen space.

[douglas9401]

Just went into a local Co-op for a bacon roll and coffee and left with them and 2 x 70 packs of Finish Quantum dishwasher tablets at six quid each.
Much cheapness. :-)

[barry1010]

The only tins in my cupboard are tinned tomatoes and peaches.

[barry1010]

That is cheap, douglas.

[lankeela]

I've been impulse buying online - lots of little things that I wouldn't have gone out to buy, such as a plastic peg bag that hangs on the line and the rainwater drops through holes in it. Unfortunately it is not very deep so every time it is windy the pegs end up all over the garden!

[barry1010]

Just checked Tesco and I can buy 88 (2 packs of 44) for £7 - £6 each clubcard card plus £5 off with a voucher code.

[barry1010]

You leave your pegs outside, Lankeela? Well, I never

[bednobs]

i have managed to save 1k a month. When i say "save" what i actually mean is put it in an account at the beginning of the month, then think "ohh i need a new fence/turf/greenhouse" i'll use that money ive saved. So even though i've "saved" i have bought stuff i wouldnt usually have bought, because i wouldnt have had the money (if that makes any sense at all)

[bednobs]

ps who DOESN'T leave their pegs outside?

[pastafreak]

I do most of my food shopping in-store as I prefer to see what I'm getting. I also like getting things half price when I time my visit just right. I can fill a freezer drawer quite happily doing that.
I'll order from Sainsbury's when I need bulky items such as bottled water, loo rolls, or items my local doesn't stock such as trout fillets or Affine cheese. But sometimes, even the £40 minimum is more than I need. There should be a lower cut off for oldies/those of us on our own.

[Vagus]

I don’t leave my pegs outside. I have two retractable washing lines so only hook them up when I need them.
Even when I had one of those whirly things I didn’t leave my pegs outside.
Barry, we too have only bought undies and slippers, M&S click and collect undies from the local M&S food, and slippers from our one and only trip into Sainsburys.