In the past, shopping was a routine domestic task. Many people nowadays regard it as a hobby. To what extent do you think this is a positive trend? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Past times have witnessed shopping -be it of a small paper clip or a large washing machine as a mandatory routine domestic task. But the people during
last few decades
have changed to a big lot of obsessed shopping freaks. People today regard not reading or Suggestion
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opinion, this
this
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than done as Suggestion
more beneficial
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a hobby
this
changed scenario shopping at large reputed malls has become a status symbol making people to spend a lot more than they have ,
to buy the things they Accept space
,
don’t
actually need and to impress the people they don’t
even know. They hardly bother much about their monetary conditions .
People today Accept space
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tend to buy not
because they need something but just because they are allured and tempted by the glory and glamour of the shopping stores and malls.
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this
trend
is much common in youngsters and especially the females. Younger minds are easily swayed away by the advertisements of the beauty products, electronics, clothing and alot
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halt their academic performances and hamper their minds to understand the importance of money. They force their parents to buy them expensive items they see and Suggestion
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I
don’t
take this
trend
to be a productive one
. I from my personal experiences can strongly say that people with shopping as a hobby are really poor decision makers, don’t
value money and are often so obsessed that they act impulsive at times. In nutshell
, shopping as a leisure activity just takes away the time Suggestion
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one
could use more productively performing variety of physical activities or talking to a dear one
so undoubtedly is not at all a positive trend
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