My least favorite aspect of shopping is shopping. —A.J. Mendez

Usually, it’s bacon but today is was greeting cards.

Turns out while I have a million and one thank you, birthday, happy graduation and Chrismas cards in the home office, what I didn’t have were wedding cards. Who knew? So, I did what anyone else would do in my situation—I hotfooted it over to Dollar Tree and bought more than my fair share. Not just wedding cards, but blank all occassion cards, too, because you’re not going to catch me lacking. And why not, this is America, right?

My behavior has been lovingly dubbed by my family as “rage shopping.” Used in a sentence: “We’re out of (insert item here) and Mom bought a thousand of them so she NEVER has to do it again.” Pretty straightforward.

I’m not sure when it happened, but I fell out of love with shopping and not just for groceries, but for anything. I don’t want to buy shoes or clothes. I don’t want to shop for home decor. I’m not into jewelry or other fancy things. We can blame Amazon Prime for it, but the reality is my anti-shopping attitude has been decades in the making. I’m a pretty simple girl and I would just rather spend my time doing other things, like listening to podcasts. If I had my way, we would order absolutely EVERYTHING. I’m trying to decide, does that make me crazy, lazy or both?

Recently, I’ve added a new dimension to my rage shopping. It’s the rage I experience when they don’t let you pick up something from an online shopping order. Have you experienced this? For example, there are certain more popular coffee brands that you can only purchase INSIDE THE STORE. Excuse me? Sometimes when I am trying to order a product I’ve purchased a thousand times over it suddenly is removed from my online cart, only to find out that they have rows of the product INSIDE THE STORE. Pardon? While some stores will tell you upfront that the item is available in store only, other establishments make you think that they’ve been out of an item for months only to find out that there’s plenty, but it’s a privilege for in store shoppers only. What?

Let’s be honest, I’m not the person in the house who does the bulk of the shopping but recently I have been a little more adventurous, especially with the kids home from college. I’ve been everywhere…Walmart, Target, Kohls, Trader Joe’s, Marshalls, Michaels, Ulta, HomeGoods, Sephora, Academy, Old Navy…honestly the list goes on and on, it’s too long in fact. And I can confirm, I am reallly, REALLY not into shopping.

Still, since the kids are dragging me to all these places you better believe I’ll be stocking up on EVERYTHING. Rage shopping for the win.