Its been very long, I have been in this place, was having crazy weeks just before the so called "Peak". And just now relaxing keeping all those crazy stuffs behind and watching to see the Peak getting ready. Sorry guys, this "Peak" is an IT terminology, which means the company will get it highest sales in this period. So today I thought to take a peek ;) out of my normal schedule and put up something here, which would make my readers think a bit or give them some good laugh.
Just that I am talking about sales and profits, one thing came to my mind is about my spending trends in shopping. I don't have much to advice or anything, but just to share my thoughts. Everyone calls me shopaholic, am I really? No I don't think so, coz I spend only if its worth :D
My shopping trend has evolved into different forms over years, over ages I would say..from mere clothing to home designs, to kitchen stuffs now. Now I am balancing between all these which is rather different than my college days. So whatever I buy I treasure it like a diamond. I am under opinion that where ever you invest money, you should make it completely useful, and worthy. My interests has also undergone a great deal of evolution from the time I was in college. Why I am taking college as starting point is because, since then it is our parents choice, rather than ours. So college is when we started buying things our own, not sure about others, but that was my experience ;)
There was a funny thing happened related to my shopping freakishness. One day I was filing for Income tax returns and it had a secret question, my favorite pass time, and I was unable to recollect the answer I gave before. I was just reading it out loud, out of my disappointment, and from a distance my friend Sandeep called out "shopping" and said what else would it be :D You don't believe, it was the right answer and I got my ITR account unlocked ;) Thanks a lot Sandeep, even if you were trying to pull my legs.
So going back to the trends in shopping, old times shopping was like getting ready and sparing an entire day out wandering through different shops to find out our favorite things. Its usually thought about as a one day event and we plan for it a month ago. Now its been very much different by having online shopping available anytime. So shopping happens through normal browsing and would help us save lot of time. But I do love the old traditional way of shopping still and for most of my clothes shopping I prefer that. For something, we really don't want to waste time on, and we get in good deals, I opt online. Mostly with kitchen accessories, the things we don't even see in shops here. So we should sensibly choose online and traditional shopping to see which suits what. I usually do a trade off between these two before planning to buy something. The key points being quality and price. As I said, I would buy things only if its worth for the price.
There was another funny talk about me spending time on retail sites. I was put in a research project for ecom sites where our primary responsibility was to find out new shopping features from sites. I was coming up with lot of new ideas and features everyday, but something was happening behind the scenes. My team has come to know, I was getting called for couriers almost twice in a week then. When they asked, I told , what can I do, I am asked to do research and it was so tempting that I couldn't stop myself from ordering. Also we need to see how the post order process would be ;) Then they were saying, Swathy is so generous doing all these for the sake of her work ;) and if her husband comes to know about the this, he will sue the managers who has put her in this project.
Now its your turn to decide, I am shopaholic or a smart buyer? ;)
Just that I am talking about sales and profits, one thing came to my mind is about my spending trends in shopping. I don't have much to advice or anything, but just to share my thoughts. Everyone calls me shopaholic, am I really? No I don't think so, coz I spend only if its worth :D
My shopping trend has evolved into different forms over years, over ages I would say..from mere clothing to home designs, to kitchen stuffs now. Now I am balancing between all these which is rather different than my college days. So whatever I buy I treasure it like a diamond. I am under opinion that where ever you invest money, you should make it completely useful, and worthy. My interests has also undergone a great deal of evolution from the time I was in college. Why I am taking college as starting point is because, since then it is our parents choice, rather than ours. So college is when we started buying things our own, not sure about others, but that was my experience ;)
There was a funny thing happened related to my shopping freakishness. One day I was filing for Income tax returns and it had a secret question, my favorite pass time, and I was unable to recollect the answer I gave before. I was just reading it out loud, out of my disappointment, and from a distance my friend Sandeep called out "shopping" and said what else would it be :D You don't believe, it was the right answer and I got my ITR account unlocked ;) Thanks a lot Sandeep, even if you were trying to pull my legs.
So going back to the trends in shopping, old times shopping was like getting ready and sparing an entire day out wandering through different shops to find out our favorite things. Its usually thought about as a one day event and we plan for it a month ago. Now its been very much different by having online shopping available anytime. So shopping happens through normal browsing and would help us save lot of time. But I do love the old traditional way of shopping still and for most of my clothes shopping I prefer that. For something, we really don't want to waste time on, and we get in good deals, I opt online. Mostly with kitchen accessories, the things we don't even see in shops here. So we should sensibly choose online and traditional shopping to see which suits what. I usually do a trade off between these two before planning to buy something. The key points being quality and price. As I said, I would buy things only if its worth for the price.
There was another funny talk about me spending time on retail sites. I was put in a research project for ecom sites where our primary responsibility was to find out new shopping features from sites. I was coming up with lot of new ideas and features everyday, but something was happening behind the scenes. My team has come to know, I was getting called for couriers almost twice in a week then. When they asked, I told , what can I do, I am asked to do research and it was so tempting that I couldn't stop myself from ordering. Also we need to see how the post order process would be ;) Then they were saying, Swathy is so generous doing all these for the sake of her work ;) and if her husband comes to know about the this, he will sue the managers who has put her in this project.
Now its your turn to decide, I am shopaholic or a smart buyer? ;)
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