Comments on: Missing: One Shop-Till-You-Drop Gene

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:11:52 +0000

I think you nailed it, Melissa. As authors we have a special place in our hearts for books and would rather shop for them than anything else. I cannot pass by a bookstore without going in to browse, I seldom leave empty-handed and I’ve never returned a purchase. I should note that there is an additional benefit to buying books instead of clothes. Books don’t make us look fat. 🙂

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:00:25 +0000

I believe my fashionista baby sister inherited my missing shopping gene. Whenever we’re together, she drags me off to go shopping. She also shops solo for me–she buys me frilly tops–because she thinks most of the T-shirts I like to wear are unfeminine. I don’t get it. What’s unfeminine about a sequined NASA T-shirt?

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:49:03 +0000

My feet have always been wide. I started out with C-width feet. I advanced to D (aka W) after Firstborn and to WW after Little Brother was born. My favorite shoe style of all time was the square toe design. It was the only style that didn’t squash the little toes. 🙂

Once I drag myself out of bed on Black Friday morning, I’ll be plugging away on my ms to get done by the NaNoWriMo and the MMRWA I Will Write a Book Deadlines!

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:34:26 +0000

Way to go, Sister Anti-shopper! IMHO, the only good things about malls are that most have bookstores and Auntie Anne Pretzel kiosks. 🙂

By: Melissa Keir

Melissa Keir — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:49:44 +0000

It sounds like you could be talking about so many of us. Do you think that as author’s we are not interested in shopping for things other than books? Do we find more value in them than a pair of shoes? I know I do!

By: Diane Burton

Diane Burton — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:20:31 +0000

Looks like we’re in good company, Lana. I, too, am missing that gene. My 2 sisters must have added it to their own. Do they like to shop!!! Not me. Bores me to death.

By: Patricia Kiyono

Patricia Kiyono — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:49:34 +0000

I thought I was reading my bio! I hate to shop for clothes, partly because I’m cheap, but mostly because on me they never look as good as they do on the mannequin. I can’t wear much jewelry because I have a metal allergy. I have wide feet, thanks to two pregnancies (I used to wear AA width but now I’ve blossomed into B and C width!). So I too shall celebrate Black Friday at home with a good book. Don’t know if I’ll be reading it or writing it, though.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:50:22 +0000

I absolutely love your straight-faced delivery – you crack me up! And I completely identify with the anti-shopping! My reasons are the same as the ones you listed, plus the fact that I’ve become insanely cheap. Give me $100 and I will happily go buckwild in a Salvation Army, outfitting my entire family for the season, but I haven’t set foot in a mall in probably a decade. 🙂