Near-Death!

It’s never a good thing after a near-death experience to travel to a shopping haven.

After such an experience, it’s normal to think that money doesn’t matter at all. That money is an object outside life.

With this mentality, coupled with the impending winter, I sought to buy a coat while in Hong Kong.

After a zeroing into one, I realised that it is actually more expensive than in Singapore. And Singapore is more expensive than Europe.

I have always been a believer that most things worth doing needs some effort.

That began a search. A search on which countries in Europe is the cheapest and correspondingly where I have a friend whom I can ship the item to so that he/she can send it back to Singapore where Someone can bring back for me.

UK, Italy, France, Germany…

Once I identified that UK is the cheapest, I then had to decide if I used Fedex, UPS, DHL.. my UK friend told me Royal Mail would be the cheapest. I even had to choose the fastest option to make sure it made it to Singapore before Someone left Singapore.

After some nail biting, which included the tracking site of Royal Mail being down for two days, it’s finally by my side. For all my efforts, including shipping costs, I saved S$800. YAY!