>Buying online is a terrible idea. While the rest of your post is on point, I strongly disagree with this. If you shop on a site with free shipping and returns

>Buying online is a terrible idea. While the rest of your post is on point, I strongly disagree with this. If you shop on a site with free shipping and returns, online can be a great choice. I recently bought 7 pairs of shoes from Amazon and returned all but one. Yes, I may have to float the cash (depending on my CC billing cycle), but it is worth it to me compared to: drive time, traffic/parking frustrations, toxic perfume air in malls and dept stores, and the hours it takes going store to store (and then maybe back again to buy the least bad option), salespeople who know nothing, etc... Thrift stores used to be great, but flipper mania has reduced them to last pick of the litter spots. Some people enjoy shopping (though I suspect "retail therapy" is a big factor in that), I do not. And judging from the state of brick and mortar and especially malls, I believe that I am no outlier. Again, I really appreciated the rest of your post.