No interest in shopping

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Most people (mostly women) who I know seem to be quite obsessed with bargains. Each time I am with my friend, she always stopped dead outside a shop window and cries, ''ohh look, 30 percent off everything in there!'' And I don't even notice any signs in shop windows, no matter how big and bright and colourful they are, and I don't know percentages anyway so I wouldn't be able to work out how much something costs anyway.

Now a lot of people are talking about ''January sales'', and I have no interest whatsoever. I feel so boring and non-conformist when it comes to this, because I think nearly everyone has some sort of interest in bargains and offers and deals, etc. I just pick the nearest thing to me and don't care about the price (unless it's TOO expensive). But if something goes up a few pence, I don't stop buying it.

And I feel that I should like shopping, because it's what most people (especially women) do. My best friend lives right near a shopping centre, and so she automatically likes to go around the shops every time we go out, and I don't really have the heart to say, ''no, I find shopping really boring.'' I am just not interested. Anyone else feel like this? Do you take notice of the bargains, or are you just not interested, like me?

(Now I ''feel sorry'' for the bargains! )

I can't stand shopping.

My NT mom isn't interested in it either. Not only aspies don't like shopping. (My dad on the other hand... is frustrating in how much he likes bargain hunting)

Joe90, your life will be a whole lot better when you realize that just because everyone else likes something doesn't mean you have to. The word "should" is a dirty word in my vocabulary. There are any number of things society says I should do but if I don't want to and don't have to by law or something they can stuff it. See, much happier. And I don't have to go shopping if I don't want to. Thank goodness for the internet.

I love buying thing related to my special interests (some of which are clothing-related, like shoes, or shirts of the bands I like), but I can't stand the general way of "shopping." If I see something, I know immediately whether or not I want it, I don't need to "browse" and think about/look at things and "decide." So in general I don't like "shopping" either. I'm not a girl though so there's less societal expectation in that area.

I hate shopping too!! I feel strange in confined spaces with lots of people to begin with. I find all the signs and the music and the posters, all to be very overstimulating
I find that I can wander around a store and almost always leave empty-handed. They just don't seem to sell stuff that I am interested in. I look through all the clothing stores, but it is rare to find something that is so ME that I have to have it. I buy most of my stuff second-hand anyway. I like basics because my appearance is really not a huge concern for me. Maybe that's why I don't like shopping...because it's driven by this shallow instinct to appear a certain way. As if nobody will take you seriously unless you look like everybody else. "Express your individuality...as long as it's the same individuality as everyone else." I don't have the patience!

Well, I don't like shopping either.

I buy my food on Leclerc drive, computer stuff on the internet.
As for my clothes, last time my sister forced me to go with her and made me buy clothes.

I'm a girl and, as you see, I don't like shopping at all!
I don't think it has anything to do with asperger.

I don't like shopping, either. It's so boring wandering around many different shops.

I enjoy shopping in thrift stores, etc where it's more like an adventure. But even then, I only go to stores when I need a specific item that I don't have and can't find something adequate online.
I find it difficult to just "shop", and usually if I do that it's because I'm being impulsive and buying a lot of crap I don't need just because the store shone some pretty lights on it. Usually crazy-people shopping is my impulsive reaction to "oh dear get me out of here right now, if I hear another stylized Xmas carol or one more person tries to spray perfume on me I will go psycho right here".
Plus malls and things like that bother me to shop in. You go to a store and see thirty identical dresses and I just think, "why would I want to wear that? It has absolutely no story behind it." It just seems really cheap and contrived to me, when I can go to Goodwill and find a dress no one else will be wearing for five dollars. Also, I find clothes from there to be so much more comfortable than the dye and starch filled clothes in department stores as someone has already worn and washed them...might gross a lot of people out but I can't help but wonder what the tales are behind secondhand items.
Or, that could be my rationalization of hating all things mass-produced.

I hate shopping. What a waste of life. Artificial lights, s**t stuff in shops, stuff nobodys needs. Its mass hysteria.
Its so boring and mind-numbing, its torture. While everybody is out shopping, the merchant (and other) bankers get organised.

I'm an NT female. I liked shopping when I was 16 for a short while, and then it started to drive me crazy with the idea everyone is wasting their precious lives in such ugly places. I need tp be climbing mountains, rolling backwards down sand dunes, hugging and kissing trees, swimming with dolphins, laughing at penguins, talking to humpback whales, doing somersaults underwater.

I'd rather boil my head than go shopping to a mall.

I'd like to Occupy Christmas, a tent city in those ugly malls would bring some life into such sterile and s**t backdrops.

Do you have a specialist interest that requires shopping at regular intervals? How do you get on with those?

When you talk about shopping, are you referring to grocery shopping or just shopping for tat that you probably will never use anyway?

I usually only notice bargins on things that I want...so anything related to my hobbies etc lol.

Yeah I don't like shopping either , I hate materialistic consuming ambitions typical of the american dream , all due to social status anxiety. Down with shopping!

I do not like to shop just for the sake of shopping. If I need something, I don't mind going and looking at several places to get an idea of something, and I am fairly into bargains.

I do love yard sales. I will stop at a yard sale or a thrift store and spend a long time looking around. I get so excited when I find something that I like, really cheap. I like really unusual things, so those places are really the only places I can count on finding something. Finding it at a price I can afford is great too.

When I was a teenager I used to love going to the mall with my mother and shopping for clothes and makeup for myself. It wasn't so much that I liked the new clothes as it was that I was looking for that one magic item that would turn me into a regular girl, not a wierd girl. I remember spending all day back in the late 70s browsing shops looking at disco clothes. My mother bought me so many wrap dresses and leotard tops and wrap skirts and precariously high heels and designer jeans. Then we would go to the makeup counters in the department stores. I'd get a makeover and my mother would buy me the makeup. Then we would go to the beauty shop and I might get a haircut or a perm. None of that ever looked right on me. No matter what style we tried, it didn't work. I wasn't shopping to find something I liked, I was shopping to find something that would turn me into something the other kids would like.

Frances

I love shopping. I am obsessive about clothes shopping and bargain shopping (maybe that's my special interest?) But I prefer to shop alone, because I am serious about it and I want to be free to come and go as I please. I don't like to go shopping for the sake of hanging out with someone.

I like shopping. :] There's something so wonderful about finding nice clothes amid the crap, picking up school supplies to kick off the new year, stacking one book on top of the other, occasionally hearing your favorite song on the speakers--it's fun for me. I went on Black Friday and it was frickin' awesome.

I can't go into Abercrombie or Old Navy, though. Gives me a migraine.

There's nothing wrong with you if you don't like shopping, though. Some people just don't care for it, which is totally fine.