Men and women shop differently

Men, sooner or later you will have to go on a shopping trip with your woman; it’s inevitable.

It’s a widely believed myth that women enjoy shopping more than men. Shopping with your lady can be fun depending on what you are buying. My wife wants to plant flowers and build a rock garden. 

After locating my spear and torch, we spent the early evening hours evaluating different piles of rocks. There were mounds of big rocks and mounds of little rocks.

Shopping for rocks and plants was a relaxing trip for both of us so it was enjoyable.

The people who create myths and urban legends have it wrong about men and shopping. We enjoy shopping as long as it’s something we are interested in. Men typically enjoy selecting a new car, computer equipment or even rock piles while women enjoy shopping for makeup, purses and shoes.

Men and women shop differently.

If a man needs a new shirt, he will drive to any random store that sells men shirts. He will proceed to enter the store, finds the shirt and then buy the shirt. The entire process can be completed in five steps or less.

When a woman needs a shirt she may call her mother or a friend for assistance because women shop in herds. They have a unique shopping language. Women will refer to a shirt as either a blouse, pullover, or a top. Men never refer to a shirt as a blouse, pullover or a top. To us, it's just a shirt.

Furthermore, the herd may eventually settle down at a café for lunch or coffee because shopping can be so exhausting.

If there is no shirt at store A, the herd will migrate onto stores B and C. If there isn’t a prize at any of the stores, the shirt adventure is continued on another day. This is because a woman can easily shop for days without buying anything. Men don’t understand this concept.

If a man shops for three or four hours, he has to capture some kind of game because his time is valuable. If a man doesn’t find a shirt, he will improvise by treating himself to a nice pair of shorts or sunglasses because he refuses to leave empty-handed.

Although the man didn’t find a shirt, it was still successful hunting trip because he would have eventually needed sunglasses and shorts. When it comes to shopping trips, men buy, women shop.