URNotAlone

Hair Do Dilemma

May 2nd, 2007 7:09 pm MDT

Let me tell you something, especially you girls south of the ' great white north'. Having a supercentre south of the border does not make shopping easy for us northern girls. Here's why. First off, there are waaaaaaaaaay too many web sites selling hair do's of every shape and size in any color under the sun, which just might add a new color to some of them.  So here's how it goes:

A girl decides to get a new do. She clicks onto the most popular sites and is overwhelmed by all the choices, but she is on a mission. She decides after a couple of thousand hours of searching( yes she loves to shop) that she is getting nowhere with this so she finally breaks down and decides to pick 10 favorites. Just 10 to be narrowed down to 3. Then she compares prices and comes to find, some sites have lower prices on some do's, but higher on others. These companies have some weird ideas as to consistency. Shouldn't they be either higher on all the do's or lower on all the do's? Noooooooo, that would be too damn easy. Then there's the shipping thingy. Well, if you live south of the snow belt, this isn't an issue 'cause you get it shipped free( yeah right), but us igloo lovers have to pay shipping. Then there's the watchdogs at the Feds that need to grab their share in duties and excise taxes( never mentioned by the retailers). So now, instead of just doing a little shopping, this has become an exercise in financial planning!!!!! Did I mention the exchange rate on the dollar? Yep, gotta figure that one in too. So, I write down my 10 favorites, cross some out, add more, cross out more, add back some I crossed out, this shit goes on for days!!!!! I'm exhausted! So I figure, hey, how about I ask my gf if she would pick out 3 she thinks I would like. Oh great, she doesn't even hit one of my 10, so now I have 13! That won't work, so I cross out some more, find one I crossed out in a different color on another site, add it back to the list, find one in the same color that looks a different color on another site that I crossed out and add it back in wondering which color of the same color is really the right color, and on and on and on and on and on. I scrap the whole list to the trashcan, take a couple of days away from the search, and right back at it, just like before. Add, delete, add, delete, change the color, change the retailer, check out the shipping costs. FINALLY, I find a site where all the prices are lower than the others. Guess what! They don't ship outside the US!!!! Awwwwwww!!!!!!!! I freak out!!!!! I grab a banana, then a muffin, then a hip of beef, what am I doing? What am I eating for? I'm supposed to be shopping. I love shopping, don't I? Geezzz!!! Well, you say, why don't you just buy it in the 'land of the free'( free what exactly)? Well that would be too easy now wouldn't it. Dah, I might be blonde(some days), but I was born 'at night', not 'last night'. You see, the prices here for a cheap do, is about the same as a'mono' do in the US, so I really don't think I want to spend anymore here on do's than I already have. Then I figure, well maybe I should try using another search engine to see if that reveals anything. Oh yeah, it reveals alot alright. More sites with more of the same confusion. But hey, I love shopping right?, so I spend another couple million hours doing the same thing as before. Did I check out what buyers had to say about the sites you might ask? Yep, did that for all it's worth. One person loves them, another thinks they're Satan in the flesh.

 I have to make a decision, summers coming fast and I need a new do or two. So I have decided to just buy the damn things at the first site I find that has all the ones I want now( 3 max ), and the ones I want later too. To hell with the price and I'll take my chances on the color shown is the color I'll get, or damn close. I don't care anymore, I just want this shopping experience over with. It sort of feels like looking for your car in the parking lot, you know, the sexy red car in a parking lot of just 10,000 sexy red cars. Now if I can remember which site ships to snowmanland. Better check to see if they have dog sled teams for deliveries, might just be winter before I get this shopping trip over with. Better check to see if they deliver at night. The woods are so thick up here, they gotta pump daylight in through pipes!  Why can't they just open a store up here, just down the road from me. I'll make them wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. I wonder................

Hugs, JIll