Apr
The Missing Gene
Okay, I have a confession to make. 
I don’t like to shop.
I don’t know if it’s a lack of fashion sense (if it’s not put together on the mannequin, I’m at a loss), a worry about finances (I don’t really need that shirt…), or a flashback to the days of being dragged from store to store by a mother who got the shopping gene (or at least the kind that made her pick through every rack in the store) in spades. But, whatever the reason, I’m most definitely not a shopper.
While this little fact probably made my ex-husband a happy man for the seventeen years we were married, it makes things a bit tricky when the need to shop collides with my distaste for the process. It’s not that I don’t like new clothes, because I do. I’m just not a fan of the picking-them-out-process.
And therein lies my dilemma.
You see, over the next several weeks, I have a lot of professional engagements–a face-to-face with my agent, dinner with the publisher, another dinner/banquet with the publisher, reader events, lots of signings, and my launch party for DEATH THREADS. And my closet (or, rather, the clothes in it) is (are) pathetic at best.
Which means I need to shop.
Need. To.
*shudder*
So, while I’m dragging myself in and out of stores in search of clothes, I figured I’d pose this question to all of you…
What’s a have-to you wish could be permanently moved to the never-have-to column of your life?
~Elizabeth
April 28th, 2010 at 6:53 am
Cleaning the house. I guess it’s worse since I put that AFTER I write on the weekends… And grocery shopping… I always buy like I’m going to cook then have nothing to eat because I don’t.
April 28th, 2010 at 7:38 am
Mowing the lawn. The damn stuff keeps growing back week after week.
(and you may want to look for a personal shopper. Consider it a tax on your specific DNA)
April 28th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Yeah, cleaning isn’t much fun, either.
Chris, if you guys would stop putting that stuff on that MAKES it grow, you’d have less work.
And I may have to look into that personal shopper thing…
April 28th, 2010 at 10:54 am
I’m an OK housekeeper, but dusting is the chore I despise the most, and would be willing to pay someone to do for me (it’s a budget buster right now). I like the end result, but not the work getting there!
*on the clothes, buy things that mix/match–a blouse that will go w/ khaki or black, add a scarf—3 outfits could turn in to 6 if you get mixables!!
April 28th, 2010 at 11:05 am
Grocery and clothes shopping – dislike doing them both.
April 28th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Kellie, dusting can certainly kill an entire day. Not a fan, either. Mixables sound good…just not sure how good I am at mixing. :/
Dru, sounds like we both missed the gene, huh?
April 28th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Visits to the dentist. I’d almost take a full day at the mall over a half-hour in the chair.