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Bogus or not, I like these ideas for guys to avoid accompanying their spouses on shopping trips. (It's like the age-old trick of breaking the vacuum cleaner every time one is asked to use it). This is from Mostly Safe for Work:

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 10:23 | Comments (15) | Trackbacks (0)

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Funny stuff!

#1 Dr X on 2009-07-02 11:18 (Reply)

I've lately fallen into the habit of turning all the books on/about/by Obama that I can find in the local Borders with the spine facing in, or obscuring the magazines with The One or His Wife on the cover behind the recent copy of Shooting Sportsman. It takes too long, though, owing to the proliferation of same.

#2 The Distributist on 2009-07-02 11:24 (Reply)

I've done that at Costco. It's a little childish I suppose but it gives me a good feeling. I'm just sick of seeing his face absolutely everywhere.

#2.1 Luther on 2009-07-02 11:49 (Reply)

ha ha. I love that. I can't stand to shop with women, and I think it's a crime to ask a man to go shopping. Women who insist on it are not thinking. Neither are men who agree to go.

Hey, Luther - tell what you really do when you go shopping with your wife. :)

Also love that turning books/magazines about Obama around. That's great! Just take a black magic marker and paint a Hitler moustache on him. hahaha.....
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#3 Meta on 2009-07-02 12:05 (Reply)

I have seen the same thing a couple of times circulating around the Internet via email - except it is an American at Walmart. Funny, nevertheless.

#4 Sam on 2009-07-02 12:07 (Reply)

On anther note, I do most of the grocery shopping in our household, and my wife is fine with it. No only does she not have to go to the store, but we save money as well. She is more of an impulse shopper and buys the name brands, while I stick to store brand items and only buy on impulse if it is a big, big bargain (as Dave Ramsay would say). My father is the same way, so I wonder how common this is?

#5 Sam on 2009-07-02 12:12 (Reply)

My father did all the grocery shopping, and my former husband did all of it. I'm like your wife - I want out so badly, I don't 'shop', I buy. It's a fair trade-off if the wife does the cooking.
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#5.1 Meta on 2009-07-02 14:02 (Reply)

Only if the wife is a good cook. Powered donuts and coke don't count,and stay off that stuff if you want to keep that size 6. : )

#5.1.1 jappy on 2009-07-02 18:08 (Reply)

haha. Size 4. God knows, because I have to do a line of donuts or die. :)

I am a great cook, though. I also clean as I cook so there is nothing to clean up after eating. I let Fergus lick the plates and put them back on the shelf.
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#5.1.1.1 Meta on 2009-07-02 18:46 (Reply)

My wife has pretty good radar about this shopping stuff - after about 10 minutes, she'll say "well, I can see you are going bonkers..."

#6 Skookumchuk on 2009-07-02 13:31 (Reply)

Not yet have I found a woman who could out shop me.

My daughter can keep up and we have a ball, though.

#7 Leag on 2009-07-02 17:21 (Reply)

The only time I can be bribed to venture out to the mall is when
Victoria Secrets is having a Big blow out sale.

It's something about the way that place smells.

#8 ron on 2009-07-02 21:59 (Reply)

The guy in that article is really creative. I'm fascinated. My husband loathes shopping, except for grocery shopping, where he can wander around and contemplate the free enterprise system in all of its glory of detail -- and also the cute girls, who are also shopping, in all their glory of detail. But the buy in the article is a real havoc-wreaker with an unusual imagination.

And Ron, the way the Victoria's Secret store smells is the scent of Women getting ready to Go To War.

Marianne

#9 Marianne Matthews on 2009-07-03 00:05 (Reply)

heh. That gave me a chuckle, Marianne. But don't you think it's more the scent of a woman ready to go on R & R?

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#9.1 Meta on 2009-07-03 14:07 (Reply)

I beg your pardon, friends. An oopsie in the last sentence of the first para above. Should be "But the guy in the article is a real havoc-wreaker with an unusual imagination."

Little rascal.

Marianne

#10 Marianne Matthews on 2009-07-03 09:55 (Reply)

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