To avoid any confusion when my wife and I go shopping we usually separate and meet up later.

Case-in-point, over our vacation we stopped at the Twin Cities Premium Outlets in Eagan, MN on our way to Wisconsin.  She had her list of stores to shop and specific items.  For me I just looked at the store guide and chose the ones that appealed to me.

And yes, I found exactly what I was looking for.  Overall I did real well.

There’s a shopping app called Budget Sense that just polled 1,000 people, and found that MEN spend more time shopping than WOMEN do.  And we spend more money.  The average guy spends three hours a week shopping, and $85 a month on clothing.  For women, it’s two-and-a-half hours, and $75.

That doesn’t mean guys secretly love shopping though.  It might just take them longer to pick stuff out, because they don’t know what they want.  In other words, they’re just BAD at it.

Here are four more stats from the survey:

1.  80% of us shop online at least once a week, spend an average of 36 minutes doing it and search prices on three different sites before we buy something.  Guys are twice as likely to do their shopping online.

2.  58% spend at least an hour shopping in actual stores every week.
 
3.  67% of us have a shopping budget, but 75% of us don’t always stick to it.
 
4.  And 62% of women say they prefer shopping ALONE.  So you don’t need to let your wife or girlfriend drag you around the mall anymore.
By no means will I ever try o compete with my wife when it comes to shopping.  The real reason is because I don’t want to lose my Man Card!

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