All right if he did not want things added to the list this would not have happnd
By suspenseful
@suspenseful (40192)
Canada
February 19, 2009 9:12am CST
I was wondering if you have the same problem that I have. You decide what you need, so you put it down on the list and then your husband says do we have enough, etc. so eventually what you really needed you wind up not getting. I mean we had a big list on Saturday, mostly of the "do we have enough of" or "be sure to get some" *the week before it was cottage cheese because he wanted Lasagna and it had to be dry curd cottage cheese, not Ricotta and I had to use Ragu tomato sauce not the Hunts one I like. Anyway it did taste all right," but on Friday I saw that the juice was low, and since it is so automatic, I did not put it on the list, but there were so much extras, that now I have to go to the store today to pick it up.
Yesterday when I went to get some specialty bread and the mousewash, I kept saying that there is something I forgot, and I had no idea what it was. Do you have the same problem?
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@twistedangellinda (174)
• United States
21 Feb 09
There are loads of time I forget things even when I have them on my lists. I will go to one store and think the price is too high thinking I will pick it up at the other store that is cheaper. Then I get in the other store and forget about it totally! lol I guess when this happens I should write that item down on my other store shopping lists and then maybe I'll remember it! I have a horrible memory and need to write absolutely everything down. I've also gotten into the habit of sitting down with my partner and asking if there is anything he knows that we need. This way it's on the list before I set out and I have less of a tendency to forget what I need.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
19 Feb 09
Looks about that. He is always telling me we cannot afford this cannot afford that.
@SusanLee (1920)
• United States
19 Feb 09
I thought that's what you were saying. You might need to just come out and tell him with the economy being what it is that you are going to have to have more money to cover the families food needs and his wants.
It sounds like the problem isn't with the list; it's with his selfish wants over what his family needs.
Tell him he can have his lasagna but he'll have to wipe his butt with newspaper, it's one or the other, he can't afford both at this time.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
20 Feb 09
I do love lasagna, but we cannot have it all the time, and certainly cannot have it two days in a row. He wanted fried chicken so ordered it last month and he wanted it finished in three days.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
20 Feb 09
That has happened and with me having to walk to get the groceries, I plan to go to the Mall for a walk, and then I have to drop off at the Superstore to get something that we forgot.
@blackbriar (9076)
• United States
19 Feb 09
This used to happen to us but not any more. I have an ongoing list on the fridge. Whenever someone notices we are low or out of something, it's put on the list so I know what sales to look for in the coming weeks for I'll wait a few weeks till an item goes on sale instead of buying full price. Usually by the time we actually run out of something, it was already bought on sale. I try to buy alot of something as well being never know when the next time it will be on sale.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
26 Feb 09
Oh we have a list all right, but he decides to tell me "we need this and that" just as I am about to go out or an hour before and then there is not enough room less on the list and the insurance company has not left us any more pads in the last while.
@stacyv81 (5903)
• United States
19 Feb 09
well, I usually go thru the kitchen make the list when he isnt home, and HE goes to the store and gets what is on the list and if he wants something, and It works out great for us. I have three kids, so its easier for one of us to go and its his credit card, so he goes.. That way I know exactly what we need and he gets it! =)
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
26 Feb 09
Sounds like a good idea. It is just that my husband keeps adding things to the list. And I cannot get everything.
@cortypants (604)
• United States
20 Feb 09
My parents do that all the time, LOL!! She'll be making a list, he'll start with .. well do we need this? and this? and this? and this? And they end up forgetting the milk they were originally going out to get! Me, I go to the trouble of making the list and leave it on the table or counter and get to the store and DAMMIT! lolol :D
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@wildcat48 (779)
• United States
20 Feb 09
my problem is when i go to the store is that my husband and my7 yr.old daugher goes with me by the time i get what they want ,neither eats the same things i dont have the money to bye what we really need ,the good food
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@Yestheypayme2dothis (7874)
• United States
19 Feb 09
No, I just make straight list of what we really need. I check the cupboards to make sure we don't already have it. Off I go with the list.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
19 Feb 09
I usually make the list on Monday after the weekends, because we used to shop on Tuesdays, but not anymore. So by the time Wednesday comes around, then I have to either add to the list or make a new one since we now shop on Saturday. Only now the Superstore flier comes on Friday or on Saturday morning so now we have a big rush to add on all the sale items.
@HomeFlower (987)
• Canada
20 Feb 09
We have a running list on the fridge and we're always adding stuff as we run out -- but you know what? We end up missing stuff anyways. It's always the stuff we're almost our of, or have been out of for awhile but forgot to put it on the list - those are the things we end up going back to the store for.
Don't you hate it when you forget something you really need and by the time you remember the stores are closed, ? Arghhhh!
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
19 Feb 09
I do that, too. I get distracted at the store, I see something I usually use and wonder if I have enough. I will buy it and come home to find I had plenty! Then my eyes will skip an item on the list. Sometimes I can be very firm with myself and not get distracted, others I get messed up like in the example.
I haven't seen dry curd cottage cheese for ages! I have to put it in a colander and drain the milk out of it when I use cottage cheese (no fat) in lasagna.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
22 Feb 09
We have dry curd cottage cheese here in the Superstore. That is because we have a lot of Mennonites up here and they use it.
@fifileigh (3615)
• United States
21 Feb 09
what is mousewash? do u wash ur pet mice?
i usually forget something i need to buy at the grocery store. i dont always make a list.
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@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
20 Feb 09
That is the main reason I do not bring my husband grocery shopping with me. When I was working before I got laid off, when my husband picked me up from work on a Friday evening we would go to the grocery store.
I would make a list, and try to follow it without buying extras. When it is time to check out, I will find things in the cart that I did not put in it.
Now, that the money is so tight, I go to the store alone and buy off brand items. My husband claims he doesn't like off brands, but what he don't see won't hurt him, he doesn't know the difference.
Actually, I made lasagna last week end, he loved it and wants me to make it again, but I am three noodles short, so that will have to wait until I have the extra money to buy more lasagna noodles.
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@suzzy3 (8341)
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23 Feb 09
We went into the supermarket for a loaf of bread .tissues and soap.We came out with everything but the bread and soap.So my husband nipped out to the village shop when we got in doors and realised.So I know exactly what you mean,it is awful but it is a senior moment syndrome that is our excuse anyway.
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@misskyla (40)
• United States
20 Feb 09
I have a continually ongoing list and am always out of something.The list has for certain been gradually altered to what is better for the family than individuals and what can we afford this week. I have 4 stores I like to hit, 2 are near our home and the other two are not too far and on the same street as one another. My husband always has a reason why we can't go to all four or or even 2 of the four. So I come home rewrite the list over and over and things disappear from the rewrites or he loses the list. I do add one or two items I know are favorites of my husband and ask everyone in the house and consider it, but if I have to do the cooking, I decide what we're getting mostly. I typically do not get at least one of the key items I went for to begin with.
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
19 Feb 09
I always have to write it down on a list, If I didn't I would forget half the stuff I went for and come home with stuff I didn't need. My hubby doesn't go shopping with me but he always tells me to get coffee,chips, He goes through 6 or more jars of coffee Maxwell House a month. But I know what you mean..cause I tell my sister to not let me forget something that I think of at the last minute and sometimes I don't get it because we both forget.lol
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