Shopping for Myself
What a boring topic for a long winded post, and yet here I type. I am not a shop for entertainment person and never have been. My teen years were the glory days of the shopping mall rise. Some of my friends would have easily planted themselves at Burnsville Center or Maplewood Mall ( these are barely retail venues anymore- not much shopping there) all day, browsing, some buying, hanging at the food court stretching an over priced sofa and fries for an hour to people watch. That's the only reason I joined, and their company. None of us had a lot of money to spend, but my friends would bounce from store to store, trying things on, putting looks together, before making a few purchases. Even then, I was a practical shopper and my fashion sense was non-existent. My older kids were very young when The Mall of America was built. That became their school shopping destination of choice. Before they drove, but when old enough (and fairl...