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For getting one's things, one to some shopping. Sometimes shopping undertaken for fun as shopping on special occasions exciting. For example, when one goes shopping on the eve of Hari Raya Puasa, Deepavali, Chinese New Year, or Christmas, the experience exhilarating.

Shopping not simply buying things for our needs. It much more than that. First of all, one must know what one wants to buy. He must know where those things available. In fact, this not a problem in a small place, but in a big city, one must know where different items sold. There may be chain stores selling things at a higher price. The same things may be at a lower price at a grocery. Then there the genuine goods and the spurious ones. Unless one knows one likely to be deceived. This reminds one of the famous chapters in the "Vicar of Wakefield." Moses went to the fair to sell his mare. He deceived by a sharper, who exchanged the mare for a gross of silver spectacles. When Moses returned home, he found they not at all silver. This may happen to anybody unless one the wit and wisdom. Shopping requires some experience of the market.

Shopping requires bargaining ability. It not always fixed prices in all markets. So, one must be able to bargain. It requires a particular ability to choose the right stuff. For instance, if one goes into a big cloth shop, one finds it easy, one must made up his mind as to what things to get. He must be careful to see whether correct weights and measures used. It here that very often, people deceived.

Shopping during the weekend also exciting. One to wend through a stream of shoppers. There will be a crowd of roadside vendors crying their wares. One must not be tempted to buy all and sundry. Otherwise, he will find he wasted his money. In fact, shopping a good school, where one can learn about men, moods, and manners.

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