what is your favourite type of shop?

Question

shoe?
sweet?
HOME DECOR/DIY?
CLOTHES.....................???

I LOVE charity shops,you get some amazing stuff in them.
also love food shops.

Merry christmas and a Happy New year,everybody!

Answer 1

Record shops of old! Nothing like spending a Sunday afternoon flicking through good old vinyl LPs. I used to take day trips to London just for it, go to Notting Hill to the Record, Tape & Video exchanges. Had to love the 80's ;-)

Answer 2

Well I love shopping.

I love clothing stores, but it depends on which type of clothing store it is. Shoes, because I have a big shoe fetish, especially if there's some nice stilettos. And I do like craft stores like Pat Catan's, where I can make stuff with my hands.

Have a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!!!!!
~blondie~

Answer 3

This may not be the type of Shop you are looking for, but for me it's always been a combined home wood & metal working shop. I grew up on the farm, as did most of my ancestors, and a good deal of my kin today, and it seemed that when the men were not working stock, or in the fields, we gravitated to the shop. The shop was built in 1806 by a hearty bunch of Norweigans who knew how to build. There was always something to mend or make, and a good deal of the time it involved both woodworking and metal working, and some degree of blacksmithing. The shop was kind of a "Man Kitchen".

In backwoods rural areas, there are not an abundance of general stores or Smitty's or Carpentry shops, so a farmer or Rancher had to make do with his own ingenuity and skills to jury-rig a broken Axel, or Rue-Goldberg a solution to an automatic waterer for livestock at a remote site.

So many creative and functional creations sprung from need, and many a farmer and rancher became a self taught welder & brazier due to necessity. Someone has to make a new oxen yoke when the old one breaks, side cutter mower heads don't sharpen themselves, worn down cornpicker drive sprockets have to be built up and reshaped, new boards need to be milled for hay bunks and feed bunks and fences. Horse shoes have to be fashioned from flat bar stock, and tractor parts welded when cracked or broken, or new ones made if possible. And then there is the more aesthetic work to be done - new kitchen cabinents for Mom, new doors for the parlor, a new dining room table & chairs, a new crib as a present for the neighbor couple. And desks for the one room school house.

When cash money was short, the shop was a place to make things to sell to the towns folk, or to repair things for the "townies", along with the produce, honey, eggs, and chickens that Ma raised for sale. We made rocking chairs, bed steds, Adirondak style porch chairs, wood ladles, rolling pins, wooden toys like carved ducks & cats and bears; trains, building blocks, and corn-husk dolls.

A lot of dreams and wishes came to life in that dirty old cluttered shop, that smelled of wood, sawdust, welding ozone, grease, electricity, burnt wood on saw blades, the old pot bellied stove & forge coals, the oily scent of steel and the copperish / metallic smell of sheet metal, the rich sweet scent of leather, and the musty peppery aroma of burlap, and the salty, gluey odor of canvas.

This was a place of men and boys, or male bonding, and certain boyhood rites of passage. I smoked my first cigarette in the back or the shop, (a non-filtered Pall Mall), it was terrible, I got sick, my head spun, and I threw up; I did not feel cool or grow-up. I almost cut my thumb off using the bandsaw; I do not know who was scared more - me or Mom. I built Dad a Black Walnut & bow front glass Gun Cabinet when I was 16, ( I worked on that for almost 6 months), - that Mom he cherished until he died in 2006. I stole mt first kiss in that shop from a neighboring farm girl when I was 13 - she was a blue-eyed, freckle nosed 12 year old beauty with the blondest hair and brightest smile I'd ever seen. After I kissed her she punched me in the stomach and ran home. So much for budding romance. But the old shop remains - even until today it is a gathering place, and pair of old couches and an ancient Packard Bell black & white TV with rabbit ears still brings in 4 channels and the game on the week ends, the old amana rounf top fridge shill keeps Grain Belt Long Necks icy cold year round, and also hold a gallon jar of pickled pigs feet too.

I'm 55 now, and I'm just starting to really understand how much that old building has played a part in so many lives, and has provided solace for so many, and if I get my wish, how it will continue to do so for another 100 years.

Answer 4

I like ' The works'. You always find reduce price books there, and also,plenty of art materials and stationery's. I also like charity shops especially Oxfam , British Heart Foundation where if you spend some times, you always find unexpected good stuffs in low prices.

Answer 5

A shop that has everything I want or need at really low prices and it is far away so i can make a really good day of it and they have to have a restaurant that serves anything you fancy and you only wait 5 minutes. something like the cafe in "a town called ureka"

Answer 6

The shop Hot Topic.

Answer 7

Candy Shop!

Answer 8

Charity

Answer 9

Actually i have four favorite types. J.C. Pennys for clothes ( But for my kids its like the kids place and Ltd.2) Linnins and things Rooms to go, and Eathen Allen for Furiture bye

Answer 10

Ebay for everything - if not there then anything online. I'm not a fan of high street shopping at all...
I like gadgets best, anything that requires an instruction manual will keep me entertained.
:o)