Shopping

Shopping is an activity in which a customer browses the available goods or services presented by one or more retailers with the intent to purchase a suitable selection of them. In some contexts it may be considered a leisure activity as well as an economic one (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping)

Shopping is very synonym with us and it is very popular during festive seasons due to our culture to buy new items during this season. Most of us been thinking that shopping is something ended-up with buying. This is especially those never had experience window shopping. For those who had experienced window shopping might be more confident when telling that shopping not necessarily ended with buying goods. Even window shopping sometime not really a good practice because ended-up with buying the interested items sooner or later.

I define shopping for my own use as evaluation process before purchasing any interested items so that we are getting the best of the best in the market. It could not be the real best of the best but at least the best of the best among we evaluated. Hence, we'll have some confident when making judgement to purchase it whether in term of price or quality. So far I'm been writing about shopping normally done by us as human being.

Come into real picture about shopping for me actually is about getting the best deal which lead us to achieve our goal financial freedom slowly but consistently. I've been writing about increase our financial knowledge by reading books, attending courses, attending seminars, etc. So, how we can apply the concept of shopping in this field? You may go shopping for books available in the market about financial education to educate us about how to succeed or at least to prevent for losing our hard-earned monies. When you start reading, you may know later how to go shopping on money related courses and seminars. Knowledge is actually preparing us shopping for better choices mainly related to good shopping; namely shopping for credit cards, shopping for lawyers, shopping for loans/mortgage, shopping for real estates, etc.