Online Shopping (but unfortunately it's virtual)

This week, my lecturer said the she's giving each one of us $500 to go online shopping! Now how exciting is that?! Imagine all the things I could buy with that amount of money! *swoons*

Well, there is a catch to all this free money. Online shopping is a virtual activity, no matter how real you want it to be. But, normally, after you've confirmed your purchase and transacted the money, your item gets delivered to you. The catch for this week's activity is that our virtual shopping stays virtual. Meaning our "item" that we "bought" online stays virtual and non-real. FOREVER (at least until we've earned enough money to really buy the item ourselves).

The first item that came to mind when I knew I was going to shop online was "GRAHPIC TEES!". It costs around $18 to $25 a piece and is avaible in different sizes for men and ladies. At threadless.com, they offer not only tees for men and ladies, but also hoodies and sizes for kids, onesies and infant tees.

Notice how the designer cleverly inserted I :love: you into a simple design


Geeky :)

I found that bustedtees.com offer a wide variety of very creative graphic tees...my eyes went all gaga because there were so many pieces that are so special and eye-catching. Here are some of my favourites.

I wouldn't want to get that note in my fortune cookie.

It reads: Facebook, where everyone knows your name. Even my high school teachers are my "friend" on facebook. Hm.

Which direction to the wilderness? Point to a zoo.

If people think you're hot, it's probably because Mother Earth is hot too.

After some fast calculations, I am left with $380 and 6 cool tees. I decided to shop more and the next thing that came to mind was to buy an acoustic guitar. I owned a classical guitar but I've wanted an acoustic guitar for some time now (but unfortunately it's still NOT going to materialise after this online shopping). I searched Amazon for a glitter acoustic that I've seen Taylor Swift used during some of her performances and yes! It has been found!

Amazon allows me to type in my search words easily and I can select whether to search in all departments or narrow it down to a group such as musical instruments. On the result page, they offer more results with links to related searches such as electric acoustic guitars and electric guitars. On the top of the result page, they also offer links to different categories related to my search. So I can easily narrow down my search to strictly on acoustic guitars or beginner's kits or bags and cases or even just strings.


On the page of the product selected, the product prices, stock details, delivery details and product description are displayed. Once I've decided on this item, I can add it into my shopping cart and go on shopping. On that same page, there are links to customer reviews, other related products and more guitar accessories. Basically, I can find infos on the item I want and so much more.

Now that my shopping activity is done, I'm very happy with my purchases and experience doing this experimental online shopping. Amazon is certainly a very good website to do easy searches on common products and to find more specific products from specific companies, I prefer to go online shopping directly on their page, but only for items such as the graphic tees.

I'm a happy shopper. Only thing not fun, I will never own those items I "bought". YET.