Tired.

[valis2]

Husband and I went shopping, and I bought lots of things for my crafty experiment. We also bought new planters for the veggies we want to plant, and we bought water filters and soil and stuff like that.

And, as usual, I am absolutely wiped out. What the hell is it about shopping that completely exhausts me? I have no problem walking places, and doing things, and hauling heavy stuff around, and even going up a flight of stairs, but shopping kills me ded.

I think it's the mental focus required. I scan all of the products in each aisle, looking not only for things on my list, but for things not on the list that I might need. And by the end, I'm so tired I could crawl in the cart and fall asleep. I yawned eleventy billion times on the way home. My brain gets completely absorbed in the looking and scanning--both the primary brain and the secondary--and I think it takes more energy.

I know, I know, first world problem. Still, it's weird. If I lie down at this moment I'll fall asleep.

Comments

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

I just learned about how our brains work during shopping so let me share my knowledge!

Our minds can really only keep 7(ish) variables in memory and shops offer us many, many more choices than that. We tend to get overwhelmed while shopping if we don't discount some of the possibilities. If you try to think of them all it leads to indecisiveness. Especially if you're naturally indecisive.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Dude, I am tremendously indecisive. Sometimes I spend so much time completely frozen in one spot trying to decide. And I do feel overwhelmed; I end up trying to focus on what I'm looking at, but there are just so many things.

Thank you for sharing!!

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

Some guy wrote a book about how our we make decisions and yapped about it on NPR. It was really interesting. Decisive people can discard choices more easily, but indecisive people try to consider everything and that's what trips them up.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

This makes so much sense. For me, it's hard to figure stuff out that seems evenly stacked--if there are two choices, A and B, and they both each have a pro and con, I will literally tear my brain to shreds trying to decide. It's awful. I torture my whole family and all of my friends with making the decision. lol.

[hardboiledbaby]

I get tired spending money, LOL!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

hee! Me too. Makes me a little crazy. *nodnod* I should be happy, but by the time I'm to the register, I'm just completely sapped. :(

[gypsyjolie.livejournal.com]

Shopping and all the options is one of my favorite things to do. All the possibilities energize me and inspire me, especially in grocery, craft, and plant places.

The only thing is that I get crabby because everything adds up and I cannot afford all my desires. That can be very defeating.

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

I love to shop, but then there are times when it is just too draining, trying to find the right thing at the best price.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Seriously? It just makes me waaay tired. I get absolutely exhausted. I mean, even when looking for stuff at shows, I just get a little crazy after awhile.

And I totally agree with getting crabby because I want everything. hee!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Absolutely--it can get so overwhelming!

[todayiamadaisy]

I find clothes shopping (or 'retail therapy' shopping) exhausting. Not fun at all. Supermarkets, on the other hand, I love. Wandering up and down aisles in a daze apparently is my idea of fun. :-)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Supermarkets that I've been to several times before are ideal. I can just get stuff and go, and it's not so exhausting. But hardware stores I've been to maybe once? ugh. I didn't know where anything was, and they're so alien to me anyway, and I didn't even know what the products I was looking for looked like...a recipe for snoozetime.

[verdenia.livejournal.com]

*HUGS* for the shopping!

Also, I may have seen a reference to "The House on the Rock" when I was researching visiting Wisconsin two years ago! We didn't get to go, sadly, the time I'd budgeted for WI was instead spend in upstate NY, saying goodbye to my guy's grandmother--of which, I'm very glad we had that time to see her; WI is still there. :P

xoxo

[valis2.livejournal.com]

House on the Rock is awesomesauce to the extreme. I hope you are able to check it out in the future! I've organized my pics and will be posting them soon. squee!