Hello, list lovers.

Just came back from a little shopping walk to the local grocery store. Here’s my list of various items by which I will make it through the weekend.

- Sour cream á 0,69
- 400 g of Potato Chips á 1,79
- 0,5 l of Pear Cider á 1,82 x2
- Taco flavoured dip á 0,99
- 200 g of Veggie Mix á 0,45
- 400 g of Chicken Meat Balls á 2,10
- 1 kg of Macaroni’s á 1,45
- 370 g of Tomato Sauce á 0,73
- 185 g of Tuna Fish á 0,89 x2
- Smart cigarettes á 3,30

Total sum of 17.20 €
Now, wasn’t that interesting, folks?

To Shop Like A Man

For those of you that have missed it; I am a man. I’d like to think I’m a “real man” even though I’m fully aware that there are areas I need to improve on. Shopping, however, is not one of them.

When it comes to shopping, I shop like a man, though I think when it comes to shopping clothes I don’t shop like most men since I actually enjoy to shop for clothes.

Yesterday I head out to the Kamppi mall in search of a shirt. I already knew what I wanted; a black shirt. I went inside the mall and looked around for a good store; and the very first store I saw was my favorite chain of men’s ware; Dressmann.

Inside the store, the very first thing I saw was a package of a black shirt and a really beautiful silk tie. I couldn’t find the right size, so I asked one of the sales ladies if there were any bigger sizes of that same kind of package. She said no, so I asked to try on another shirt, and she went and got me one. I tried it on, it fit perfectly, and when I got out of the dressing room she informed me that they did have one of those packages I was looking for in the stockroom. Excellent, I thought, so I paid €19.90 for my stuff and went back home.

The whole thing, including the bus ride to and from the city centre took me a little less than a full hour.

Now, had I been accompanied by a woman I would have had to go to a dozen different shops, I would have been nagged on to get a bunch of stupid clothes I wouldn’t have wanted anyway, and to top it all off I would have been broke and upset.