Shopping at the moment drives me crazy. All the stores are filled to the brim with beautiful leather jackets, cashmere coats, sheepskin vests and boots (and I love boots). I still am unable to completely understand why the stores all carry the latest of the European winter fahions in such bulk and for so many months. In a wrodl where the temperature rarely sinks below 30 degrees C its rather depressing. Not to mention that if one did WANT to spend her money, there is nothing suitable to buy... well not AND wear anyway.