Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for October 24, 2020

I thought it was only me. I print off my shopping list… and leave it in the printer.

Let’s see… Chocolate, Doughnuts, Soda…

Oh! And none of that Fruits and Veggies stuff! It all spoiles in the fridge! ;)

I am happy if I remember why I am in the Frikking store..

I only shop for 2 or three items at a time, so I don’t need a list…until I enter the store and completely forget what I need.

Well, that’s why I make my list on my phone. Use either the store’s app, if they have one, or something like Notepad Free (Android).

There’s an app for that

Huh. My REAL problem is: who the hell do I will those thousand and one yellow sticky notes that are all over my desk/books/etc.

I’ve done that many a time and sometimes I actually got all that I had written down on the forgotten list. I just have to remember that I don’t go shopping while hungry.

I sometimes use the “hole method.” As I cruise up and down the aisles and see items, I try to imagine how the place in the pantry or refrigerator looks for that object. Do I have a hole there?

Just keep your shopping list on your phone. Mostly my trips to the store are planned as are other trips. I try to get as many errands done on an outing as I can. I try to use my car as little as possible. But if I have an impromptu stop anywhere. I will contact my wife to see if she needs anything while I am there.

In general, if I write it down it remains impressed into my memory. At age 65 I wonder how much longer this will last.

She also likes to make lists of lists to make…

That’s kind of like one of the administrations where I worked. They would have meetings to plan meetings.

I wish I had a million dollars for every time I’ve done that.

Been there, done that.

When I was younger, just writing something on the list was enough to commit it to memory, didn’t need the paper.

we usually remember to bring our shopping list and usually forget to pick up many of the items on the list…

I have my grocery list on my phone.

Yet, when I’m IN the grocery store, I never remember to take the phone out and look at the list.

Yep, been there. I give myself 5 points for every item I remember, but only deduct 3 points for the ones I forget. Unless they were going to be dinner, in which case I evict myself from the house.

I write the list, hubby & Dad go shopping. Sometimes hubby forgets to grab the list and I get a call, unless he forgot to grab his phone as well. If he has his phone, which is most of the time, I get a call if he forgot the list and I read it to him. He’s decidedly not stupid.