We’ve all been doing some amount of online shopping for many years, but since 2020, online shopping has become a necessity for some and a pastime for others. Either way, we are less likely to walk into a shop – if those are even available in the area we live – than we are to randomly browsing the internet and choosing things we like the look of.

While there is nothing intrinsically wrong with online shopping, in some ways it exacerbates tendencies you may have already had before it became as simple as click and pay…

The other day I found myself in a quandary, wondering if I was procrastinating or not. Sounds odd, but that’s exactly what has happened.

I was on my way back from the hardware store carrying a toilet seat and a new showerhead when it suddenly hit me: “am I only doing this because I am fed up with doing research, and wanted to put that research to the side for a while? But let’s step back a couple of weeks…