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Scope the place out. What do they have an excess of? When does new stock show up? Like a restaurant, study their menu. These are places where itโs pretty easy to feel overwhelmed. โ๏ธโจ
Feb 4, 2024
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Always go on a full stomach. And also go on the โoff-hoursโโlike late weekday nights instead of Saturday.
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May 7, 2025
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When I was in my hometown for the holidays, my sister and I were very bored and very broke. So, we started just walking into random stores and just looking around. Just lallygagging. It was actually way more fulfilling and relaxing than actually buying anything. Because we couldn't get anything, there was way less pressure and we could just enjoy looking at things. We started noticing things that normally we would pass by, driven by the purpose of a purchase.
One day, we spent like 20 minutes smelling every single candle in the candle aisle at HomeGoods. Another day, we looked at the weird silverware and cups at TJ Maxx. We also frequented Half Price Books and skimmed old Microsoft Excel books from 2009 and Child Development books.
Don't limit yourself to Target.
Store recs:
- TJ Maxx
- Ross
- Half Price Books
- HomeGoods
- Bed, Bath & Beyond
- Dollar Tree
- DSW
- Tuesday Morning
- Antique stores
- Semi-abandoned malls
Jan 26, 2024
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Have a full meal before hand. Being hungry and overstimulated is the worst combination in the world. Being hydrated would be even better but food is easy to measure and essential I think. Also grocery shopping while hungry is disasterous.
Make sure your list is in order of the aisles. Or at least the sections. This makes it so much easier because you don't have to scan your list in crowded areas. You just have to grab the items in their predetermined order.
Also you're probably trying to do one big run to avoid having to go again and again which is respectable. But if you can talk yourself into it, a few smaller runs are much easier to get through in my opinion. I live near a grocery store rn and I go to get the ingredients or snacks that I need as I need them. I pick up 5-10 things and I'm in and out. The added bonus to this is that I can use a hand basket instead of a cart. I can slip around and past people. It's so freeing.
If it's possible to go to a different grocery store, it might be worth seeing if the vibes are better elsewhere.
Opposite to @BEE1000's rec, I'm also not a morning person. But I often go later at night. It's much quieter.
Noise canceling earbuds.
Jun 21, 2025
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it's totally cool to age and society still isn't equipped to deal with that.
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Sometimes you try your best and everything seems to hit the fan no matter how much you try, so you take that raincheck and take yourself out for a day.
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This is what I call it hahahah made by mums everywhere but the greased up version is sold along stalls in Mumbai. Two regular slices of white bread, buttered, and the middle filling is cream cheese with red onions, coriander/cilantro, tomatoes and some minced chillis. All veggies chopped mini cube size so they blend with the cheese. Toasted crispy.
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