No, you don't hear this very often. Shopping is often attributed to women, because only they can visit 10 stores to buy a handbag, find good ones in at least 5 of those stores but still walk out without buying one to the 11th store. Men are often known to dread shopping. It is even considered 'unmanly' to admit that we like shopping.
But I am more and more convinced now-a-days that men are not too behind in this artform. It is true that we men don't visit too many shops, nor are we very good at window shopping. Ours is more of a targeted attack - we know what we need before we enter the store, we find the shortest way to reach the counter in question and just go for the kill. We men consider ourselves especially knowledgeable about electronics stuff. We pretend to make wise and informed decisions about buying high-tech stuff. (Oh boy, this toaster is both firewire and bluetooth enabled. I must buy it). But ask a man to buy non-electronics stuff like handbags, jewelry or beauty care products and see him be as clueless as Lalu after recent elections.
So in essence, I think both men and women spend equal amount of money on buying things we don't need, but we men do it much more efficiently without wasting a lot of time visiting tens of stores ;-)
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