Making the Time to Go Shopping for Clothes
Going shopping for clothes can be a big hassle for some of us. There are those whose objection to clothing-shopping arises out of the fact that shopping for clothes calls for a lot of care – with regard to what feel like mundane things like sizes and colors – if you are to ensure that you get clothes that convey the right messages about you. There are also those whose hatred for the process of shopping for clothes arises out of a subconscious aversion to the often domineering clothing salespeople who are to be found in most clothing stores. Then there are those of us who simply hate going shopping for clothing because of a subconscious feeling that shopping for clothes is financially wasteful – and in this group are those of us who will only go shopping for clothing when it becomes clear to us that we are absolutely running out of usable clothing items. For all these groups of people going shopping for clothes feels like a hassle that we would rather do as fast as possible, and get done with it.
Yet there is a strong case for setting aside adequate time to go shopping for clothing, and against shopping for clothes in a hurry. Unless you can set aside adequate time to go shopping for clothing, you are likely to end up in a situation where you will perpetually be wearing either oversized, undersized or mismatched clothing items, making you look rather awkward. And if you go on wearing these kinds of clothing for long enough, you could end up in a situation where that kind of dressing becomes a part of your identity to others, that is, the way other people identify you – namely, as a person who is not image conscious. Such identification can, by the way, be injurious to both your social and professional lives.
Most of the psychological barriers that make it difficult for us to make time to go shopping for clothing take the form of procrastination. And the way to beat it is by finding ways of making the shopping trips fun even when we feel subconsciously inclined to hate the task. Motivation tricks we can use to this end include things like changing your ‘pep talk’ (so that you don’t feel irritated by the clothes salespeople) and rewarding yourself for every cloth-shopping trip you make successfully, with the success here being judged by things like the quality of items you manage to come out with, the deals you manage to hammer out and so on. And properly employed, these motivation tricks can turn a person who was apathetic to the task of shopping for clothes into a real ‘shopaholic,’ at least as far as shopping for clothes goes.