Grocery shopping without a list - could be risky

I always shop with a list.First of all, if you just wander in market to see whats needed its highly possible you will forget to take a couple of those you do need. Secondly, noone can resist a temptation to buy sweet or snacks or drinks, but this temptation isnt that strong when there is a list on your hands.There have been times when i had spare money and wanted to shop without list, i would visit market and buy whatever i see that i would like to have.That doesnt happen all the time though, its kinda like a rule i got, "always shop with list, if you wanna roam the place you can do it another day, and only if you got spare money" :)

Half the times I go with a list other times I don't. And the times I don't I do fine. Plus I think of things while shopping or other things on the list get changed because something is available.

I know Ive that many of times and ending up going back for the stuff I forgot. So now I always make a list. I go through my refrigerator and my cabinets because I really hate grocery shopping.

I prefer a list only when i go for purchasing many goods,for a few number of items we ,i suppose there is no need for it

I shop without a list and do find I’m buying things I do not need and spending a small fortune. I think this year for my New Year’s resolution that is one of my goals. Thank you for the tip =) Have a great day and Happy posting Stacy

For me, it would be shopping with a list, at least for the groceries. It is because it tend to overshop if i just roam around the store and get whatever i see at the spur of the moment. I always buy items not necessarily needed like junk foods and new products that caught my fancy. Lately, i've put myself into the habit of having a notepad wherein i jot down any item needed soon as i remember them and follow the list religiously when going shopping. This way i only stick in buying those items which i consider "needs" rather than just "wants". And i get to spare a few bucks for my savings.

I always make a list ...... but, I never remember to take it with me, and I walk the aisles looking for what I can remember and there is always something, I forget, and always more than what I went for... guess this happens to everyone..

That sounds just like us. I'm a list person and my husband isn't. I usually have my list when we go grocery shopping and I tick things off as I get them. Besides that, if my husband buys anything he fancies, no worries..as long as I have everything on my list, he can get anything he thinks we might need.

I prefer to go shopping with a list so that I know what I need I find if I go without I forget half the Shopping

Since I don't drive I keep a list that way I don't have to bug ppl to go out all the time or have to keep going back. Also when I have a list I get through the store alot faster. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

We always shop with a list, if we are planning on go shopping say in the afternoon, we start a list that morning, leave it on the kitchen counter to add to it as we think of things. If we didn't, we would come in with a lot of what we want, and not what we were out of or needed. And we usually have a 'plan' of where we are going first, we usually start at the store furtherest away and work our way back to the house, that is if we are going to be doing shopping at several different stores.

well it's not only grocery shopping that needs to have a list, anything that you need to buy could be messy if you don't have a list. Just recently my friends went to a mall to buy cristmas gifts, well i did have a list but it was too messed up because there are too many things that i think i wanted to buy so if during that time i did not even have any list i think it would be more of disastrous because i would pick everything not knowing that i over spend for many gifts that i am not sure my friends and family would even like me buying them for. The list could be altered, but i think it's more practical that you have a slight idea of what are important and needed, so a list would do just great for shopping.

Oh, actually, I haven't done any grocery shopping with a list in ages. It's actually not that bad, my memory usually covers everything I need and more often than not, I get everything. Though, there are times where I forget and go, "Darn! I should have made a list!" But I don't know, I'm kind of too lazy to sit down every week and think of everything I need and put it on a list, because after all, I can pause and think at the supermarket too. Well, maybe it's because I don't usually buy that many things when I go grocery shopping so I don't really need a list.

I never shop with a list, I do better without. I make sure I'm not hungry before going to the supermarket, otherwise I buy way to much junkfood. They only things I have with me are the coupons i use so that will be sure to be bought, but all the rest is a surprise

I always make a list. I did not at first, but now that I find that it is easier especially if there is something that I do not normally get. Like there is stuff that we get around Christmas and there is stuff that we run out of and that is on sale. It also makes it easier to budget. If we 'wing it' we find that we buy stuff that we really do not need, although sometimes I wish we could buy something crazy once in a while. I want to get a Christmas cake or mincemeat pie, but my husband does not want to. Now he wants to buy stuff to make this Mennonite dish that his mother made, but I do not like it. I feel it is just a fruit soup. I wish I had enough money to buy what I want, but I do not.

Yet again I understand why I am not marriage material. I would not go shopping and "wing" it. If I don't have a list to work from, I wouldn't go.If I " winged" it, I would forget something and i would have to go back to the store again. that is why I use a list.That is why I shouldn't get married, if he wanted to " wing" it and I didn't, we would have this argument and we would never get to the store.

I prefer to take a list when I go to a supermarket. Then I can tick up the items as I get them. If the shop does not have one of the things that I wish to get I write this one down when I get home. That way I can try to get it from a different store later in the week. If I have not got a list I try to remember as many things as I want. Then I get them but sometimes forget a few of the things. If I go shopping for food when I am hungry then I tend to buy extra things that were not on my list.

Can go both ways. If you make a list of specific things you need, do you just pass up the sales and bargins on items that you just dont' need this week? Or do you buy them while on sale to save money, knowing htat you will need them next week and they might not be on sale? Or do you just go and buy what is on sale and put together your menus once home, based on what you bought? I usually did the later when I had the kids at home. Money is money and no matter how much you do or don't want to do something a certain way, money is the deciding factor, whether you like it or not.

I think that shopping with a list is better. When you go without a list you end up missing the really important items that you need. Its also easier to spend more money without a list, because you don't a set amount of items that you need. My fiance refuses to go the grocery store unless i have a list at least started. I think having a list is the best way to go.

i think i'd prefer shopping with list... its just that it would buy you time just by searching what else you need...