Shopping day

Since most, if not all, of the shops are closed at 8pm on weekdays and the whole day on Sunday, Saturday has become the official day for everyone to go shopping. Every Saturday people of all ages, sex and race turn up in the thousands at the shopping districts for their weekly financial decrement. This day is the perfect day for families to get together and get to know the spending habits of members of their family. And it is also a good day for girls to put a hole in their boyfriends wallet.

Besides restaurants, clothes stores and shoe stores, there is one kind of shop that often escapes the sights of the usual shopper. Enter "The 1 Euro Shop". Yes, as the name would suggest, all the products are sold at a price of 1 Euro, and as u might probobly suspect, most of them are made in China. There are 2 "1 Euro shops" i found near my area. 1 is beside a big "erotic shop" (that happens to be the biggest one in town) and another one is not beside a big "erotic shop". So, you all can guess which one i went to (hint : it doesn't have an "erotic shop" beside it). At the beginning, my main objective was to find insoles for my shoes, but as i ended up in the 1 Euro Shop, i became a little more inspired. i took different kinds of kitchen utensils one after another that ended up costing 5 euros in total. Not bad considering that i had to stop myself from adding 326 more items to my impromptu shopping list. 5 euros is quite a big deal for students and people posing as a student, like me. With 5 euros you can buy a box of 10 eggs and 2 KG of chicken leg that usually consists of 8 pieces of whole chicken leg. That is a supply for more than one week of self cooking. In the end. In the end, i didn't get the shoe insoles after all..

but i cant help to think that the shopping districts are gender bias. For example, Most of the shoe shops sells 90% womans shoes and sometimes i feel a bit awkward to enter the shop due to the unsuspected number of females as compared to males in the shop. But this is not a bad thing. It shows that girls make a huge contribution to the economy and having superior buying power than men, in terms of clothing i mean.

At the end of the day, it was surprisingly fun to go shopping. Besides getting the stuff you need, u can check out the prices and plan your shopping list for next month. It is also good exercise by the way...