Shopping

What do people usually do during their weekends?

There can be many different things really, but very many love shopping.

In Sweden shopping is perhaps not that great as it is in New York, London or Paris, but here shopping has developed into something almost unique.

People travel from all over the country to a small village named Ullared, where they shop 'til they drop. It is a very affordable place to go to and people line up for hours.

There is a live TV that you can follow on Internet and people will do almost everything to get caught on that TV while lining up for hours before they can enter the big mall.
They even made a reality TV show out of this last fall where viewers could follow different families and their trips, vacations going shopping.

Shania Twain has a song about shopaholic. It goes like this:

We live in a greedy little world
That teaches every little boy and girl
To earn as much as they can possibly
Then turn around and
Spend it foolishly
We've created us a credit card mess
We spend the money we don't possess
Our religion is to go and blow it all
So it's shoppin' every Sunday at the mall

All we ever want is more
A lot more than we had before
So take me to the nearest store


Well hard words but in many ways true. We turned shopping into a new religion, a new comfort and sadly developed a new addiction.

It's time to re-evaluate our way to spend time, time to get a grip on ourselves and get back on the track.....