Delivering door-to-door

I love Taobao, that all-encompassing online marketplace in China that sells everything from organic vegetables to boyfriends-for-rent-to-take-home during the Spring Festival.

It has saved me distress when I am at a loss to find carpet cleaners, quality ink for pens, organic dog food, curtain hooks, UHU glue and all the tiny necessities that oil the wheels of a two-person household.

Buying online is convenient, allows me the luxury of browsing without apathetic shop girls looking sideways as if I were a creature from another planet, and then immediately looking away if I actually do show any signs of needing help.