For the ask game for ppl in their thirties:
1. What was the first piece of furniture you bought?
15. Do you go down each aisle when you grocery shop, or only the ones you know you need stuff from?
42. What's an unjustifiably expensive appliance that you really want?
64. Last time you visited a farmer's market?
or any subset you feel like answering <3
oh hey i am a people* in my thirties!
1 um. a kallax from the scandinavian labyrinth i believe? the thing is besides a number** of kallaxes and various kallax accessories, a tiny desk that's theoretically for crafting, my computer desk chair and one shoe cupboard all my furniture is gifted, inherited, or saved from the dump. look, i don't like spending money i don't have on replacing things that are functional (if not always aesthetically coherent).
15 grocery stores and also most other stores are a level of hell*** as far as i'm concerned so i limit my time in them as much as possible. so: unless i am in a store i'm not familiar with OR my neighbourhood stores have changed their layout i only go directly from Thing On My List to Thing Also On My List and then leave immediately. i do always check the non-food aisle though because i am a compulsive hunter-gatherer**** of dubiously useful bargains.
42 hm. while i am short on money° the limiting factor of my appliance purchases tends to be space more than that. my flat is small and has weird angles and all the outside walls are in fact the inside of the roof which all adds up to not a lot of wall space or just... space in general. the first thing i will buy once these things are no longer problematic is probably a tumble dryer.
would also love a bathtub, tbh, but i don't think that counts as an appliance.
64 unfortunately i don't really do this?°° so probably when i was about 12 and tagged along with my mother during the holidays. or something.
*allegedly
**three, to be precise
***dante would probably say gluttony, which is the third circle, but i am a simple woman and class it as sensory hell instead.
****see also: https://www.tumblr.com/aimofdestiny/tagged/shopping
°don't worry, i'm not starving or anything. it's just that i'm on an educational allowance at the moment, kinda, until i finish the program i'm doing. that will be june or july next year. then it's off to gainful employment again for me
°°not only am i a classic kellerkind or homebody for you monolingual english speakers, but i am also deeply uninterested in interacting with strangers. this means that the shopping experience that gives me minimum interaction requirements (neighbourhood supermarkets) is generally preferred.
