Get Him Out Of Here

I like to take my husband along with me when I go shopping. We both like to get what we need, get out and get home.

Truthfully? I can't stand bringing my other half shopping. It's much the same as bringing a 5 year old down the cereal aisle. I guess that's why God invented sports. To give us time to shop in peace...

I thought I had rather good taste when shopping until I met my hubs. The first time we went clothes shopping together, he picked out everything I tried on and it better have a good label! The man has expensive tastes! lol And he loves to see me in dresses. When we were furnishing our house I couldn't believe that this 'truck driver' I'd married had such a good eye for real quality and style. But food shopping?.....Definitely get him outta there! He's impossible. Worse than a child. When I food shop, I have a list tailored to suit the menus for the week I have planned and therefore a budget. But if the hubs is with me, the budget goes out the window and the menu is reduced to sweets, more sweets and items I wouldn't normally touch with a ten foot pole. lol So we now have a pact......he can shop with me for anything BUT food! lol

I take a good book and a good supply of baccy, and sometimes a soft cushion. Lash

I am a solitary shopper, although my other half would go without complaining, especially if we went to Wal-Mart! LOL.

Usually I shop on my own, especially for clothes although I do like shopping with Mum whenever I see her, because it's fun to do so and we give each other girly advice, etc, etc. However, John (hubby) does have his uses because he's much taller than me. So, on the rare occasions we go shopping together he is able to reach the taller racks that I have absolutely no way of reaching by myself (and I can't be arsed asking an "assistant") lol. It also works the other way too; a few years ago we were in York and he tried on a few things in their Debenhams store. He's not really into clothes but he still walked out of the dressing-room so I could give my opinion. I like to think of things like that (the good times) to help me cope with the fact we CAN'T do that anymore. Good memories are so precious in times of strife!

I hate shopping. I usually take my middle daughter if I have to shop. We go, find or don't find what we want and come home. Mr Croc would shop all day so he goes alone.

Well shopping for girls clothes always takes such a long time that I always shop on my own. We go into town together and then split up. He goes off to do as much shopping as he wants to on his own while I explore I or 2 shops at most, usually only one. Things take me a long time even if I cannot find anything and decisions take me ages. So this way he does not get bored and I do not feel pressured to make a decision. Its a system that works for us. Not sure about fashion shows. I do show him anything I have bought but only because I want to. I am not at all sure he is interested.

my partner likes to come along if he can, then he gets to see what i want to get. But i'm not sure about buying clothes for him yet, i don't really know his size expect he likes his t-shirts bigger. He's not fussed long as i like it, even better when we're looking in the bra n undie section. But he's not gotten game to buy me something on his own yet.

What other half? Sometimes I used to drag him along, sometimes not, depended on the occasion...

My other half hates shopping as much as I do. We tend to go shopping once in a blue moon and buy everything we'll need until it's absolutely necessary that we do it again. We'll both hit the supermarket (it takes two of us to cope with two or three trolleys) then take it in turns to race into shops whilst the other sits in the car for everything else. I never go clothes shopping, so he's spared that horror. The only thing that's good about shopping day is that I get to read my book whilst it's his turn to nip into shops.

I know this is addressed to the ladies, but being one of the husbands in question, I have known guys to complain, but several like to shop. The only store I HATE going to with my wife is good will. There is so many options, it takes her forever. She will get a cart full of stuff, but by the time shes done, she has 2 items. Overall I like shopping with her unless i'm tired of having a bad day. I hate window shopping because see all the things I can't get, but if we are there for a purpose, its not too bad. I love it when she is organized and we are not pressured for time.

Hi p1key! My bf hatesgoing shopping with me! He hates going grocery shopping with me and if he does he picks out magazines and pays no attention to me and doesn't even know when it's time to go to the next aisle (he's pushing the shopping cart). As for clothing shopping, no way! He likes to go himself and the likes me to go with the girls. If we need things for the apartment once in awhile we will go together, but usually I go for some things or he goes for other things. And once in awhile he will look at a short fashion show. The man has no patience whatsoever if it isn't about him! If he buys new clothes he will prance around in front of the mirror for hours!

I bring him with me when I do shop specially in the past few years like Christmas shopping. He hates when we go to the store then jump on the other store and get back to the first store. He has problem in his knee that's why he hates walking a lot. Sometimes I hate it when he's there, I really don't enjoy shopping cause he always wants me to do it quick. I just want him for a companion and someone who will carry all the stuff I've shopped.

As I despise shopping with a passion, this is definitely not the case for me! I especially hate shopping with my other half, whether for groceries, clothes or anything else! He's the one more likely to look in every shop in the city and end up getting the first thing he saw. Saying that, on the very rare occasions when I have looked for new outfits for myself and he has tagged along, he is totally useless. He either gives me the kind of "no way would I be seen with you in that" kind of look or he just ignores me. Other times, he suggests things but I wonder if he's trying to make me look older or something because the stuff he suggests is always horrible. Even when I tell him exactly what I'm looking for, he'll find the exact opposite! And, as for getting stuff home to show him, the last time I got dressed up, he laughed. But mostly, if I ask if I look OK, he's too busy staring at the computer to even look up so I just get a grunt.

Usually for grocery shopping our whole family goes. Since we shop at Walmart I sometimes will walk through and browse the clothes and if I see something I like I'll hold it up and ask him what he thinks. The bad thing is, he usually is afraid to tell me it won't look right on me. So I usually save my clothes shopping to do with a friend or my sister so that I can try things on without kids screaming fighting and being silly in the dressing room. Then I know I'll get an honest opinion on how things look too.

ya know im a huge couponer and shop weekly with a huge list and all business. while i find it fun to have my spouse and if im having social anxiety he can check out for me but he SLOWS ME DOWN! i have to explain what im doing, how i am getting something for free, how the coupon policy is, where things are etc. if i really wanted to improve the experience of bringing him along i would make two copies of my lists and fliers but that would just be more time wasted. at the end of the day its better to just go alone

Hi pIke, I think ladies will not like to be a solitary shopper. Who will follow her to carry the things purchased and who will remain with her from shop to shop? Definitely husbands are the proper persons whom the ladies will prefer. After all they are the obedient sweet honey.

follow me back to the first store that I visited over an hour ago to look again. Impossible. It happens but I don't drag him to that sort of trouble. Earlier in the relationship, I swear he'd go miles with me during shopping but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Groceries, however, is a different story. Because he knows I need someone to carry all the items for me.

My boyfriend enjoys shopping much more then me. He is such a passive and patient guy, I guess I hit the jackpot. lol But the ex, erm well he is an ex and would never have an ounce of patience. If ever he wanted me to grab the first thing I saw and would not even have the patience for me to try anything on. Nor did he care what it looked like when I got home with the new outfits. Which is why I shopped alone when we were together. But the present is what I am grateful and blessed with.