Buying online is best!

Buying online has huge advantages to buying in the shops, there is no hassle of driving there (or even worse, getting the bus) only to find there is nothing you want anyway, or such a huge queue it’s not worth the effort. Online, you can browse through the stock, free of pushy sales assistants forcing the store card on you or telling you that top looks great on you when you later realise it really doesn’t. Impulse buys are much easier to avoid when you don’t have to make a snap decision.

There are downsides to online shopping. Shopping at home, alone, misses out on the fun social side of meeting up with friends for a coffee and a look round the shops. Additional postage fees are annoying, even more so when you have to spend up to a certain amount to get free postage (so you end up buying more than you intended to get the discount). The thrill of snapping up a bargain is gone too. It’s also harder to know if clothes will fit, although I have found that my size in a certain few high street shops always fits. Shopping online doesn’t have to mean buying from the shops official website though. Ebay is a great source of bargains, and is fun to bid on.