Shopping and Clothing
The beginning of trading can be found many years ago, in stone ages. People traded foot, weapons, flints etc. Nowadays we also trade, but there are some differences. We have money today, so we trade goods for money and back. We also have shops, where we can buy everything we want. A couple of years back in time, it was hard to find some special, exotic goods in shops, but today the globalization is so far, that it isn't any problem to transport things round the world.
What kinds of shops do we have? I will start with shops where I go to or where I've been. The main kind of shops for people is the shop, where is food and meals. We can go into a small shop or into a huge supermarket. If you prefer contact with people, you can visit a market, where you can negotiate. If you need specialized shop, just visit bakery for rolls and breads, butcher for meat, greengrocery for vegetables or fruits or candy shop for some sweets. Another shop, where I often go is PC shop, but this shop isn't so important, lets talk for example about a drug store. In this shop you can buy almost everything, what is situated in your bathroom. Then I can name stationeries, DIY shop, bookshop, pharmacy, shoe shop, toy shop, jewellery store and more.
The main difference between a supermarket and a small shop is in their size. The smaller one can be placed almost everywhere and this is a big advantage, because it is some kind of a local shop, where people go not only for goods, but they meet there each other. Every advantage has got also some disadvantage, a small shop is more expensive than super or hypermarket. A phenomenon of these days is travelling to the cheapest supermarket in the town. You can watch it especially in buses in the morning, when normal working people are going to work, pensioners are going across the whole town to supermarkets.
Now I am going to describe you, how to buy goods in a supermarket. I will suppose, that you are going shopping by car. So first park your car on the parking place in front our supermarket. Then try to find a shopping basket and let's go in. Drive the shopping basket safely, because I think, that the supermarket will be crowded. Try to search and take the things you need. If you need something really cheap? Look around, the place where you see a crowd of people is the right place, use kicks and punches to grab the stuff and quickly to the cash desk. Check out your money and pay the bill or run very fast from the market with your first stolen shopping.
My attitude to shopping is the same as the attitude of most men, we just simply hate shopping. Only, when I really need something I get over some long shopping. And except buying computer components, this kind of shopping is the best king of shopping for me.
In our family is the most important person, who cares about shopping, is my mother. She must buy foodstuff for whole family every single day, because we eat a lot. She likes buying new clothes and about clothes is the second part of this work.
The basic clothes are trousers, shirt, T-shirt, socks, underpants or knickers and some kind of shoes. Then we must wear different clothes in different seasons. For example we must protect from cold in winter, that's why we wear jackets, anoraks, caps, gloves, scarves, boots, jumpers, pullovers, simply we can call it warm clothes. Upside down it is in summer, typical clothes are shorts, T-shirts, shirts, sandals and in extreme hot weather we can wear only a swimsuit or we can be half naked, that means we don't wear shirts. When we go to the theatre and we need to look good, men wear tuxedo and women wear dresses or skirts. I can name here also “special” equipment like rings, hand bags, ear rings, necklaces.
I don't know, if it is important to name here some materials and patterns, but I will try it. Examples of some materials: silk, cotton, wool, skin, man-made skin, polyester and special anti-rain, anti-wind etc. Now some patterns: striped, dotted, checked etc.
The last thing is about fashion, I don't like fashion, I simply wear what I want and what is comfortable for me.