My wife has made me go to the store so many times, I'm starting to like it!

[Blue Bill]

All joking aside, who ever said shopping has to be a bummer? I'll admit, I like shopping. At this point, I do most of the grocery shopping for Mrs BB and myself. I find it relaxing, and, I get to have everything I want in the fridge.

I'm not sure whether I should admit this...when we would have a big argument, and I needed to cool down for a bit, I found that going to a supermarket and wandering up and down the isles had a nice calming effect on me.

My theory is that being in a place where there's enough stuff to feed an army somehow overcomes whatever subconscious thoughts and feelings of not-enoughness that a heated argument can trigger. I think it might be related to whatever soothing effect drives some people to become hoarders and fill up room after room with wall-to-wall junk.

Go ahead and judge, but it works for me.

 

[staxman]

This thread made me think of what I used to call “guy shopping”. Screaming into the parking with a list from the wife. Grabbing a cart to use as a battering ram to charge through the store if anyone dared get in your way. Grab ONLY what was on said list with laser focus and go through self check out like a fiend. Back home in front of the TV in record time!

 

[Toto'sDad]

This thread made me think of what I used to call “guy shopping”. Screaming into the parking with a list from the wife. Grabbing a cart to use as a battering ram to charge through the store if anyone dared get in your way. Grab ONLY what was on said list with laser focus and go through self check out like a fiend. Back home in front of the TV in record time!

Yeah, but the Bills were playing!

 

[jackinjax]

Okay, I gotta come clean. Mrs injax will occasionally send me to the store by myself to pick up something she needs or forgot, but won't let me near the grocery store by myself on Thursdays. BOGO DAY! FREE STUFF! I can't resist. Stuff we'll probably never use or will go bad before just the two of us could realistically consume.

 

[Knows3Chords]

Not laughing at you, but with you. That curbside pickup deal is notoriously messed up in our area. It’s like they’re messing with you!

It's becoming the equivalent to going thru the drive thru at a fast food place. Check your bag before you start heading home.

 

[Twofingerlou]

As a guy I used to love grocery shopping until this inflation hit the last year plus and now I dread it! Your hundred dollar bill hardly gets you a darn thing now.

 

[guitarsophist]

I went to the bank and paid all the bills, I could through them, because we're just now recovering from someone getting into our funds. (Thankfully everything is working out, but I'm done with mailing checks)

You were mailing checks? And now you go to the bank to pay bills? You do know that you can do all of that online, right? You can even set it up so that the bills are paid automagically every month. I write about two checks a year, maybe, and only if absolutely necessary.

Grocery shopping is cool. Costco is cool. Department stores, on the other hand . . .

 

[Toto'sDad]

You were mailing checks? And now you go to the bank to pay bills? You do know that you can do all of that online, right? You can even set it up so that the bills are paid automagically every month. I write about two checks a year, maybe, and only if absolutely necessary.

Grocery shopping is cool. Costco is cool. Department stores, on the other hand . . .

Actually, I mailed a check to one of my granddaughters when she graduated high school. Someone intercepted the check, and that's when the problems began. As they say no good deed goes unpunished.

 

[Toto'sDad]

As a guy I used to love grocery shopping until this inflation hit the last year plus and now I dread it! Your hundred dollar bill hardly gets you a darn thing now.

With inflation, one of my dear departed sister-in-law's favorite sayings has never been truer. To wit: Money ain't no good 'til you spend it. Inflation fighting is spending the money while it's still worth anything at all!

 

[Toto'sDad]

Okay, I gotta come clean. Mrs injax will occasionally send me to the store by myself to pick up something she needs or forgot, but won't let me near the grocery store by myself on Thursdays. BOGO DAY! FREE STUFF! I can't resist. Stuff we'll probably never use or will go bad before just the two of us could realistically consume.

Only a very few times has my wife actually allowed me to go to the store by myself. Then it was under strict supervision by phone!

 

[Twofingerlou]

With inflation, one of my dear departed sister-in-law's favorite sayings has never been truer. To wit: Money ain't no good 'til you spend it. Inflation fighting is spending the money while it's still worth anything at all!

Well that’s one way to put it, that said it doesn’t help the sting at the checkout.

 

[Toto'sDad]

You were mailing checks? And now you go to the bank to pay bills? You do know that you can do all of that online, right? You can even set it up so that the bills are paid automagically every month. I write about two checks a year, maybe, and only if absolutely necessary.

Grocery shopping is cool. Costco is cool. Department stores, on the other hand . . .

You were mailing checks? And now you go to the bank to pay bills? You do know that you can do all of that online, right? You can even set it up so that the bills are paid automagically every month. I write about two checks a year, maybe, and only if absolutely necessary.

Grocery shopping is cool. Costco is cool. Department stores, on the other hand . . .

I am paying some of the bills online, but I have become a bit paranoid about paying online. I would rather if it's something I can pay through my bank I do. I have sidelined one credit card for a fuel company I had done business with since 1995 because I kept having problems on their end. They are in Texas, and I think may still be using the pony express for mail. I pay everything I can with my bank credit card, then pay them.

 

[Toto'sDad]

Well that’s one way to put it, that said it doesn’t help the sting at the checkout.

A small packet of dog food that I buy for my pups as a treat used to be 79 cents, now it's a dollar fifty-nine. I know what you're saying. If I buy meat now, I make someone from the store security walk out with me to the car. They say never risk more than you're willing to lose. A T-Bone steak cost more than I want to lose.

 

[kbold]

May be time to change your personal pronouns?

 

[ReverendRevolver]

I like the grocery.

Mrs. Floor loves to order curbside pickup. It’s ALWAYS messed up, there are always weird substitutes and whenever they don’t feel like looking for something or bending over they say it’s not available.

So about once a week she makes a pickup order online. Then we go together and she drives me to the front door and while she waits for the store worker to roll out her order I go in and get all the stuff they said they didn’t have.

I can assure you that as a retail manager I've frequently threatened to replace the online order pickers with, and I quote "someone who is better at looking on the shelf where the product is supposed to be. Someone like Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles would be much better than yall....."

Bear in mind, I'm not even in charge of that area, I just hate taking phone calls from justifiably angry people. It cuts into my time finding what the warehouse billed us for but left off the truck, or bagging shoplifters.

I've ordered from competitors, only to find they suck too. Mysteries of the universe and all....

 

[gimmeatele]

I have never minded the shopping experience, but then I lived alone for many years it had to be done by me.
Even now I don't mind going round the shops with Mrs Gimme, it avoids bad purchases which would be returned ( another trip) and totally wipes out any moans about the occasional visit to the guitar shop.

 

[glenlivet]

Money ain't no good 'til you spend it.

...on Guitars.

 

[Killing Floor]

I can assure you that as a retail manager I've frequently threatened to replace the online order pickers with, and I quote "someone who is better at looking on the shelf where the product is supposed to be. Someone like Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles would be much better than yall....."

Bear in mind, I'm not even in charge of that area, I just hate taking phone calls from justifiably angry people. It cuts into my time finding what the warehouse billed us for but left off the truck, or bagging shoplifters.

I've ordered from competitors, only to find they suck too. Mysteries of the universe and all....

Also the low slot items like the 40-50# bag of dog food. They simply won’t lift it.
I actually enjoy going to the market with a menu and picking the produce that appeals to me. It’s not even 100% a trust issue. I like it. I put on music in my earphones and go.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

I don't mind shopping and my wife doesn't mind shopping, but I don't like shopping together. We drive each other nuts. Let her go shopping on her own.

 

[NoTeleBob]

Also the low slot items like the 40-50# bag of dog food. They simply won’t lift it.
I actually enjoy going to the market with a menu and picking the produce that appeals to me. It’s not even 100% a trust issue. I like it. I put on music in my earphones and go.

That's one area that I would never let someone else shop for me: produce. I like my fruits and veggies fresh and crisp. Unripe.There's nothing worse than over-ripe fruit and veggies.