Shopping for Summer
Jun 27th 2010adminUncategorized
With the holidays looming, and pay day arriving last week, I’ve decided to do a bit of window shopping online.
Is it “window” shopping when there are no windows involved? Well, in any case, I have been doing some online shopping and not actually buying anything – yet.
Mostly, it has been books, I suppose. I think it’s quite important to get some good books piled up for a vacation; books that you can lose yourself in, books that you can dip in and out of while sitting by the pool.
When I shop online, I seem to make mental notes and lists of things that look nice, or that I’m sure I’d like, and then weighing up their pros and cons over a few days, before ultimately deciding whether or not to pull the trigger on the purchase.
Most of the time it happens with books — but I don’t want to buy something just for the sake of it: I want to be sure I’m going to enjoy it. Or as sure as it’s possible to be, because most of the time you can’t really be sure about such things.
One book I’m almost certainly going to get is STORIES, a compilation of short stories edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. It has received rave reviews, and sounds brilliant. And perfect to dip in and out of, while abroad.
But there are other, less well known places to shop online, not necessarily for books, but certainly for interesting and often unusual goods. Shiny Shack is particularly interesting, especially when you don’t necessarily know what it is you’re after, or you’re looking to buy particularly unusual gift ideas. Or you can do the more traditional Kelkoo search: search for a product you know, and let it find the best price for you.