Who's with me on this?....re: shopping

StarSong said:
I now enter grocery and other shopping lists on my phone.
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Did that for awhile (after forgetting my list)
Learned to hate packing that phone around.
So.....I have this booklet;
Write everything I need throughout the week in that booklet
Go to the store;
rip out the page
I keep that booklet in my truck
Learned to do that when living at the cabin.....50 mi to town

My lady?
She has a mental fix....no list
Just gets what she knows to be good buys, and bases her meals around them.
(I quiz her on the foods I want (eggs, milk, cheese, etc......it'll be on my list)
 
@Kika had to chuckle at your 'wow' reaction to my post #13. When i was in my mid 40s working on a BA in psych, we were doing a unit on brain functions and how we process info and the prof asked if anyone could say the alphabet backwards. I raised my hand. And i did it, almost as smoothly as most of us can say it forward. Most of my classmates were surprised.

The prof asked how i did it. I told her when i was in first grade they had the alphabet up above the blackboard, as examples for writing the letters. I just closed my eyes and pictured that, but read it right to left starting at Z. Most of my classmates had a 'wow' exression on their faces.
 
When I shop I make lists, I follow what I wrote down so that I'm in buy what is on the list & leave.

When my wife shops with me that's a whole different animal. In get what is on the list & out doesn't apply. 1st. it's lets see what else there is to see at the mall before shopping for food. A couple of hours later it's time to get the food on the list.

That turns into what store managers love. Spur of the moment try this it's new. Try this to go along with whatever was right beside it. 10 items has babies or so it seems since we walk out with way more than on the list.
 
PamfromTx said:
🤐 Even with a list, I forget some items.
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Same here. My husband usually makes the shopping lists and there has been times that I forgot to get something. Even though I cross off stuff while I'm in the store, this still sometimes happens.

A couple of times I forgot the list at home, but was able to call my husband on the cell phone and write it down. I never used a notepad app on the phone, Like with officerripley, I don't have much luck with phones and likely would lose a listing on it.

Today, before I headed home from the park with the dog, I looked at the time on my phone......it was an hour earlier than I thought it was. I looked at the clock in my car, and it was the time I thought it was. For awhile I thought I was in the Twilight Zone and had unknowingly left the house an hour earlier than I realized. Alzheimer's crossed my mind. :(

Seems for some odd reason, my phone is showing an hour early today. Just got my covid booster shot on Friday and looked at my phone in the store to see what time I got there, everything was normal. It's on the charger now, will try and figure out how to change the time on the display clock. I went to the clock app and it showed the right time under Home, and an hour earlier on the display. o_O This is a Motorola android phone that always kept good time and changed reliably for daylight savings.
 
feywon said:
I just closed my eyes and pictured that, but read it right to left starting at Z. Most of my classmates had a 'wow' exression on their faces.
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@feywon - I was so amazed that you could, now, visualize your shopping list. I had that ability when I was younger, but now (at 75) it has been gone for quite a few years.

I first noticed it when I had a part time job while still in high school. I was an office assistant in a small office where the owner ran 3 businesses out of that office. Each business had its own checkbook and I would write out the checks to pay the invoices that the bookkeeper had processed.

One day the bookkeeper was out and the owner asked me if I knew how to find the paid bills. He wanted to know if a particular item was paid. I closed my eyes and said, it was a yellow check, recited the check number, date and amount.

It was then that I realized I was not a good student, I just had some kind of special memory. I did not tell anyone because I did not want them to think I was weird. It stayed with me for quite a while, but It began to fade when I was probably in my late 50s to early 60s.
 
Kika said:
@feywon - I was so amazed that you could, now, visualize your shopping list. I had that ability when I was younger, but now (at 75) it has been gone for quite a few years.

I first noticed it when I had a part time job while still in high school. I was an office assistant in a small office where the owner ran 3 businesses out of that office. Each business had its own checkbook and I would write out the checks to pay the invoices that the bookkeeper had processed.

One day the bookkeeper was out and the owner asked me if I knew how to find the paid bills. He wanted to know if a particular item was paid. I closed my eyes and said, it was a yellow check, recited the check number, date and amount.

It was then that I realized I was not a good student, I just had some kind of special memory. I did not tell anyone because I did not want them to think I was weird. It stayed with me for quite a while, but It began to fade when I was probably in my late 50s to early 60s.
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I am also 75. My memory does falter sometimes but usually only briefly, between being a meditator over half my life and my readings in neuroscience and psychology i have some ways of jumpstarting it.
My Dad taught me to read at age 4, and i think having a good memory helped because once i read something it stuck. The first thing i remember trying to memorize was a monologue for a Church pageant, at age 5, then the times tables because Dad was teaching me Math.

The weird thing was he never stressed memorization. He said it was more important to know how find accurate info, ask the right questions and/or figure things out. Yet he also had a reliable memory till his terminal illness.
 
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Rather than the Notes App on the iPhone, I use the Reminders App. I have a variety of lists such as Grocery, Drug Store, Makeup (if I read a suggestion somewhere), USA (items I will purchase in the US), Measurements, etc. My phone links to my Apple Watch and one of the icons I put on the face is the Reminders app. I just touch the appropriate list and I can see my list and mark items off as I purchase them.
 
At the moment I rely on memory. When I need to start taking a list with me, I'll know old age is setting in.
 
Remy said:
I saw a lady at WINCO Foods and she seemed to have some sort of printed out spread sheet for shopping.

I do make lists or I will forget items especially when I'm buying staple items or going to walmart. I keep the list next to my purse so I don't forget it. Because if I forget the list, I'll forget items.
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On the Kroger website you can print out your list of electronic coupons. I do that sometimes when I have a long list of coupon items to buy, so I don't forget what to get. The lady at WINCO may have had something similar.

I also like an idea posted here about taking a picture of your list before going to the store. Forgotten or lost lists are on your phone...ingenious!
 
caroln said:
On the Kroger website you can print out your list of electronic coupons. I do that sometimes when I have a long list of coupon items to buy, so I don't forget what to get. The lady at WINCO may have had something similar.

I also like an idea posted here about taking a picture of your list before going to the store. Forgotten or lost lists are on your phone...ingenious!
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Ask at the courtesy desk for a Kroger Plus card. If you sign up for Kroger Plus, you don't need to bother with printing out the coupons. Simply go to the digital coupon page on the website and click on the ones you want. When you get to the checkout and scan your Kroger Plus tab or key in your alternate ID (it's your phone number on your Kroger Plus card), the digital coupons are automatic. Sometimes they offer two or three or more times the fuel points on products.

And...for every $100 you spend , you get 10cents/gallon off at Kroger's gas pumps. Between my DS and me, we easily get a dollar off at least once a month from the offers of more fuel points on specific items, especially from buying gift cards. Home Depot and Lowe's, for instance, are always twice the points and often more. So...you're not actually having to spend $100 when you factor in the extra points.
 
I tell you what I forget most and that's the shopping bags...

I have 3 largish trolley bags and even if I remember to take them out of the shed.. which I don't always... I will almost always forget to take them out of the car, and I'll be just approaching the checkout when I realise I've forgotten them, and have to pay mega dosh for carrier bags... *arrghhh* :eek:
 
hollydolly said:
I tell you what I forget most and that's the shopping bags...

I have 3 largish trolley bags and even if I remember to take them out of the shed.. which I don't always... I will almost always forget to take them out of the car, and I'll be just approaching the checkout when I realise I've forgotten them, and have to pay mega dosh for carrier bags... *arrghhh* :eek:
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I stopped taking bags to the store. For about 30 years I've kept three laundry baskets lined up in the back of my vehicles. When the pandemic hit and stores didn't want people bringing in their own bags, I started just loading groceries back into the cart, then unloading the cart into the baskets. One basket is half filled with a light blanket, sweatshirt and change of clothes - perfect for nestling cartons of eggs and other fragile items.

When I get home I bring the baskets into the garage or house, unload them, then return the baskets to the back of the car. No need for bags.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Ask at the courtesy desk for a Kroger Plus card. If you sign up for Kroger Plus, you don't need to bother with printing out the coupons. Simply go to the digital coupon page on the website and click on the ones you want. When you get to the checkout and scan your Kroger Plus tab or key in your alternate ID (it's your phone number on your Kroger Plus card), the digital coupons are automatic. Sometimes they offer two or three or more times the fuel points on products.

And...for every $100 you spend , you get 10cents/gallon off at Kroger's gas pumps. Between my DS and me, we easily get a dollar off at least once a month from the offers of more fuel points on specific items, especially from buying gift cards. Home Depot and Lowe's, for instance, are always twice the points and often more. So...you're not actually having to spend $100 when you factor in the extra points.
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Thanks for the info, but I already do all that. I just print out the coupons so when I go to the store I remember what coupon items I want to buy. :giggle:
 
caroln said:
On the Kroger website you can print out your list of electronic coupons. I do that sometimes when I have a long list of coupon items to buy, so I don't forget what to get. The lady at WINCO may have had something similar.

I also like an idea posted here about taking a picture of your list before going to the store. Forgotten or lost lists are on your phone...ingenious!
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Winco Foods doesn't have adds or coupons. I think I'm correct on this. Their prices do fluctuate on some items. I've especially noticed this with the cat litter I get there. They however have good prices and you can get things cheaper there than many other stores.
 
I always take my list with me along with the keys to get back into the apartment. I figure there is "danger" in any grocery store that I enter. There are just too many things on sale, sometimes too many people around and tons of distractions to make me forget what the hack it was that I came into the store in the first place. With 2 years plus of Covid19 and 80% plus of the locals stiff wearing masks I have learned to hate shopping and I have learned to hate stores. Haven't been in a mall for over 2 years. Anyway, I must eat and the food needs to be bought. So, my list guarantees that I buy whatever I really need quickly and then I can escape that store ASAP. My approach ensure my sanity.
 
officerripley said:
I finally got it to work, thanks, Diva (probaby "operator error" 😁); this is going to be so convenient, thanks for suggesting! :)
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I've gotta say again, Diva, thanks so much for cluing me into doing my lists this way; went to the groc. store for a big shop for the first time using it and it made the shopping so much easier and faster! :) (Plus, I don't have to worry about dropping the pen and paper list somewhere in the store. :ROFLMAO: )
 

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