Widow shopping 

When you've been married so long that you've transitioned from being worried about your spouse when they're late getting home to fantasizing what you'd do with the insurance money.

Anna waited an hour before putting the oven on low to keep dinner warm for Bob, then logged onto Zillow to Do some Widow shopping for vacation homes she buy with his life insurance money.

Widow shopping by Bearsfan314 January 12, 2018

Windows shopping 

Online shopping.

See also Windows shopper

Amazon.com is great for Windows shopping

Windows shopping by Mewchu11 April 12, 2004

Windows shopping 

Creating an account on a shopping website solely to add items to your wish list, with no intention of actually buying anything.

Person 1: Did you make an account on forever21.com?
Person 2: Nah. I'd only use it for Windows shopping anyway.

Windows shopping by SummonDinosaur July 14, 2011

Windows-shopping 

Spending time looking at items on on-line shopping sites but ultimately buying nothing.

A: Last night I was looking at Amazon, EBay, a whole bunch of sites....

B: Wow, how much did you buy?

A: Oh, nothing, I was just Windows-shopping.

Windows-shopping by Doro's Mama January 21, 2016

Windows Shopping 

When you go on a shopping website and add a bunch of items to your shopping cart but don't buy anything.

*on clothing website*
Friend 1: Wow that top looks cute you should buy it.
Friend 2: Nah I'm broke so I'm just windows shopping.

Windows Shopping by Fattem January 18, 2023