Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 30, 2018

I keep my grocery list on my phone in a note. I also have a folder in my photo albums called, “Buy This” so that if there’s something special we need, or something we particularly like, I’ll buy that item.

There is an app out there called “Out of milk”. You can send lists from one phone to another using your email address.

The term is Bird brain

Wunderlist, careful with autocorrect, is another good app which you can share amongst users and check off as you go

I’ve seen that look on Janis’ face. It’s the look of a wife rethinking her vow of “til death do us part.”

I keep a notepad on the fridge so everyone can add to it and tear off the sheet and take it with me to the store. Been doing it that way for the past 30 years since I took over grocery shopping. If it ain’t broke…

Nice balance between her “…again” comment and his, uh, flight of fancy.

5 or less, need no list. More than 5, I must scribe. One item never needs a note. Ice Cream!!!

I have a notebook with special paper you can write on and erase with a magic pen. Have been using it for years. No risk of failing battery, phone, or dead zone.

Good Job Arlo. Way to get that eye roll from Janis. I could almost hear it from here!

Shopping without a list is a fool’s errand. And unless you grab a $5 bill and leave your purse in the trunk, you’ll never get in and out with a gallon of milk without a full cart!

When Hubby and I were both working, I made up a menu for two weeks on a legal pad, and listed the ingredients along the side. When we went to the store, I stuck my coupons into the pad, and I had everything I needed right there.

I am always forgetting my list. I put it on my phone and forget to look at it. Our son is a strict list follower. He never forgets anything.

Don’t give us that look!

You married him!

:D

The whole point is that Arlo HAD a list on paper….

But he left it home.

I admire those of you who remember your lists…

You say it’s so simple.

Hey, I make plenty of lists on paper, too.

In fact, they’re all over the place…..

One on the fridge, on a magnetic pad….. one in my purse….

One by my chair, of stuff I think i forgot to put on the other lists…. hoping to remember to bring it too…..

So I stuff it in my pocket… and then I change jackets.

Oops, I forgot to copy the mayonnaise from the fridge pad to the list on my phone…

Scraps of paper everywhere…

Backs of envelopes on which I scribbled a new list, sitting in the car, trying to remember what it said on the one I can’t find….

I’m more likely to remember to bring my phone, and not lose it,

and I can’t have tucked the notes app into the pocket of the jacket I wore yesterday…

I may not have remembered to put everything on it,

at least I have it with me in the store… and in the next store, if I couldn’t get something that time.

Though… sigh….. I sometimes forget to look at it.

And when I get home maybe I’ll read the list on the fridge,

and finally remember to put the mayonnaise on my phone list, for next time.

In the last panel: a graphic of what exasperation looks like.

The never-ending story of The Pragmatist and The Philosopher. Chapter 27, The List.

I love how Jimmy has Janis leaning against the wall in panel 4. The epitome of exasperation mixed with wonder. :o)

Heaven forbid that she makes the list on her phone in the first place.

The good news is that Arlo recognized the flaw in his solution.

Send the list to the store and tell them you will be there to load it into the car in 20 minutes.

We have lists of all the stuff we buy by category and store. We make up our grocery lists and I also have a check list before we go to be sure we have everything we need. Yeah yeah I hear OMG she’s an organization NUT JOB….Yup I am and proud of it!

This is where Alexa comes in handy. I tell her what to put on my shopping list and retrieve it from my phone as needed. That’s about the ONLY thing I use her for, though, unfortunately.

In this particular case, I am Arlo and my wife is Janis.

Except, she would also be saying, “Why me Lord, why me?”