Target strikes again
Aug 28th, 2005 by Accidental Thinker
Target is without question my favorite store. I could get lost in there for hours. That’s dangerous, because what happened today happens entirely too often. I went in with a small list and came out spending $117.51. That’s expensive shampoo and toothpaste! How, I ask you, does that happen, every single time I walk in the door? I have said many times before that I might as well direct deposit a percentage of my paycheck to Target because they get it anyway. What maddening techniques do they use to draw me in, weaken my resistance, and cause me to so willingly spend more money? It’s a conspiracy, I tell you! I’m going to figure it out and expose them someday. In the meantime I’ll continue my “research” into the matter. Entirely against my will, of course.
Also in Target today, I overheard a couple of high school girls as they were parting ways. “E-mail me,” one said to the other. “You e-mail me first,” the second girl said. It made me think once again about the effect of technology on our lives. Whatever happened to “call me”? I wonder sometimes if our world is getting too impersonal. Like I should talk, because I’m always checking my e-mail. But too much of that without the personal interaction would eventually make me start to feel pretty darn antisocial!
You call ME first.. hehe.I
have your ‘Target’ issue at Sam’s Club.. go for a few things, come out
with a cart full of bulk items I will not use even if we get nuked back
to the stone age…
I used to have that same problem in the liquor store.
that happens to me ALLLLL the time!! There are times when I save money
by not going to Target, because I’ll spend too much on other things
when I’m in there, lol.About
the teens and their email’s, IM’s, Xanga websites… etc. I think
they’ve just created a whole different generation than ours.I have a friend who wanted to shut her daughter’s website down, and also get rid of her screen name on aol.
I actually talked her out of it, because every other kid really does
seem to have a screen name these days,and they’re often more web savvy
than we were. I just felt this is their culture, their way of life
today. When they’re older, those are the things they will look back on
and remember.Her daughter is 13. Instead, I showed her mom how
to get into Xanga so she could keep an eye on her daughter’s site, how
to use aol’s instant messaging system, and how to keep an eye on her
daughter while she was online. First thing to go, was the
computer in the kids room. It’s now out in their family room where she
can keep an eye on her daughter. I couldnt believe she had first let
her go online all by herself with the bedroom door closed.I
think you’re right, they do have to watch that in the process of using
so much technology to keep in touch, they don’t lose their ability for
social interaction of the more personal kind!
If I go into Home Depot, I’m like a kid in a candy store. I’ll nickel
and dime myself to death with gadgets. Frye Electronics is another
store I have to avoid, too.
Kachink – kachink! Do they call you by your first name? 😉
Apparently, someone let slip to Target the nickname I sometimes
(rarely, but still) called you when we were kids….Money-Q. 🙂
Well it sure seems like everyone has a Target in their lives. I’m glad it’s not just me!Mike,
they do not call me by my first name. And you’d think that with all the
money I spend there, by now they would know that no, I do NOT want to
save 10% by applying for the Target red card. If one more person asks
me that, I’m gonna…. think real hard at ’em. On the bright side, I
know their spiel so well that I could work there!Chepin, you’re not the only one who called me that. It’s been abbreviated to $Q too. Ha ha. How clever and original.
My hubby laughs when I refer to my “blog friends.”I told him I think of them all as pen pals.I’m a Wal-mart junkie. Target has better stuff, but we’d be broke if I shopped there on a regular basis.
I’ve recently discovered “Dollar Stores” and I go in for 10 of something and come out with 50 of others……..lolI
don’t shop at Targets, not since they stopped the Bell-ringers/Red
buckets for the Salvation Army outside at Christmas….Thanks ACLU
Target, or Tar-Shay as my sister always said, is too far for me to go to.For me it’s any place with, well, junk. I like little cute things. I give most of it away. It’s so much fun to buy, but I don’t want more stuff you know?