@tinamarie1974 The first time I got into my late husband’s car, I saw he had this sticky with only 2 words on it - “gas” & “milk.” Because he was the classic absent-minded professor and he was always forgetting to get those things.
I use a great free app called ToMarket. You can keep multiple lists for different stores and if you check an item it goes to a matching Need list so you don’t have to search for the checked ones.
We have a dry erase board in the kitchen that we write stuff on when we run out, and I do all of our grocery shopping online for delivery. I usually just browse until I get ideas for meals.
@chienfou@Pony This is the way. I do a mix of delivery and instore shopping. I like the convience of delivery, but Wegman’s is my zen spot. It’s also where I did a lot of physical therapy when I was learning how to walk again. I’d leave my walker in the car and grab the closest cart and just stroll through the aisles. One of my bucket list items is to shop there in full Stormtrooper armor. Mando could work too
I tried the Note pad on the Phone & other electronic devices ect. What I do is use the app of my Fav store select pretty much 90% of their Coupons. Then use a piece of scrape paper ripped up into to size to do my shopping list. then once I finished with the list I just recycle the note!
@mycya4me Yeah, I use the grocery store apps for the clicked digital coupons, too.
But then I use the “Out of Milk” app for non-coupon stuff. I know the grocery stores have shopping lists too but OoM lets me keep lists for many different stores.
The first decade of my adult life I’d keep the list in my head (and often forget things), the second decade I’d make a list on my phone, and now during the third decade I usually use Amazon Fresh or order for pickup at my local grocery store ('cause people are obnoxious and the less time out amongst them the better lol).
@FightingMongoos When you get to the sixth adult decade, the challenge becomes remembering what’s needed long enough to find whatever thing is used for that list. I’ve closed the door of the fridge, pulled out my phone, opened the app, scrolled to the grocery list, and had to open the door of the fridge again to see what I had forgotten already.
I just sing out “Alexa, add corn starch to my shopping list.” This works well, mostly. Sometimes one has to interpret what Alexa puts down, e.g. “corn starts” for Corn starch. I usually try to proceed the item with the store I’m most likely to purchase said item so that when I sort the list alphabetically all of those items appear together.
Another vote for dry erase board.
I have one that is attached to the front of the fridge with permanently titled spaces for the four most common places we shop locally and in the ‘big city’. As things become needed they are added onto the board. I will generally transfer that list to a piece of paper that I take shopping (which I find I promptly let fall on the floor somewhere way too often). I have now resorted to taking a picture of the board before I leave the house “just in case”!
@chienfou I had to do some financial shuffling to buy a property and despite having computer spreadsheets and pads of paper, item of choice was a dry-erase board.
I have thought about using the small one in the kitchen but haven’t done yet. Not as much for a shopping list but to remind me of stuff in the refrigerator that I need to use.
@pmarin
I use dry erase markers to write on the plastic lids for home-canning-jar products that I open. When I’m done I can use an alcohol prep to remove the writing before I throw it in the dishwasher. Works like a charm!
My daddy used to go through the newspaper (remember those?) every week to determine where he was shopping and what he was going to buy. My mother gave him a basic list, but he looked for sales on high ticket items like meat. Then he would make his route, often going to 2 or 3 stores to get everything. (It was likely every 2 weeks, but 60 years ago, the memory fades). He would bring it all home and then cut up and repackage the meat for freezing (he had worked for a butcher (his uncle) in his teens).
When I was new on my own out of the dorms with a partner we had some ups and downs. When she went to work as a teacher and was paid monthly, we did our main shopping monthly. We went up and down every isle, working from a list and our heads to get what we needed. Extra trips for perishables when I got paid
When I was single and older, I had a routine. Farmer’s market every Sat AM, followed by grocery store after for the other stuff. What I bought depended upon what I got a the FM. Almost always the same store.
Now that I am old and retired, I have 3 places other than the FM I usually pattern between and I go when I need something or when I’m bored and I want to get out. I rarely buy stuff I don’t need. I have no list. I go to the butcher counter (Yep, Stater Bros for the win) and look at the meat to decide what I want. I like buying only what I need and not having to live off the freezer. I buy usually fresh veggies at the FM and other stuff where the mood takes. If I only need veggies between Saturdays I go to Sprouts. It’s just a bit better than most grocery stores. If I need a lot of bulk type stuff I go to Vons (Alberstons/Safeway) because it’s usually a bit cheaper for those things that “I” Buy.
Once in a blue moon, I go to Traders and buy a few packs of their frozen meals. Rarer yet I make the 40 mile drive to Whole Paycheck. I miss the one I had in Monterey, this one is just not as nice. Also rare, I hit one of the other options because of convenience.
I love not having to care that it is 10 cents more one place than another. I love shopping local when I can. And I love not wasting food,
@Star2236 I thought I was the only one here who used paper. I find apps to be a pain in the a**. I can scribble on a piece of paper faster than I can open an app and type on the on-screen keypad.
@pakopako@Star2236 Mine is on my desk along with lots of other pieces of papers with notes about things to do, checklists, telephone call notes, and who knows what else. My shopping list sometimes gets lost for a while.
@ItalianScallion@Star2236 yeah I’m not a fan of that. I used post-its for decades, and while initially they were good, they belong in a book and not on a desk or board. Not when any gentle breeze sends them to the four corners of the earth and I can’t remember which ones are missing.
(The alternative is to tattoo everything into the palm of my hand, but I’ve resorted to texting myself or creating alarms with really long names.)
@ItalianScallion@Star2236 Paper never locks up and crashes, it doesn’t have battery life issues, and it’s much thinner than any cell phone. (But it’s really hard to play Doom on it.)
I use a free app (with ads) called “Our Groceries” It allows access to multiple people to add and cross off items. It will automatically classify products by their genre, such as produce, dairy, etc. I typically don’t use the category function. You can also create multiple lists for different stores. You can also create recipes which when you select your recipe it generates a shopping list of all the ingredients.
@cbatte@ItalianScallion@yakkoTDI Half-brother, different father, previous marriage, Harris. (No relation to the Harris that was part of early Houston history.)
List in my head but then again I walk the length of the store looking at the aisle labels to remind myself if I need something down that aisle. If I do I go down that aisle. If not I skip it. I need to shop when I am hungry or I don’t buy much (including things I need).
Full of food for some strange reason.
@yakkoTDI mine, too. (by food you mean listerine and cigarettes, right?)
Listonic app is great!
A gallon of milk, a loaf of bread and a stick of butter.
IYKYK
@tinamarie1974 The first time I got into my late husband’s car, I saw he had this sticky with only 2 words on it - “gas” & “milk.” Because he was the classic absent-minded professor and he was always forgetting to get those things.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 I have a similar note in my car, but mine says “What did you forget?”.
@macromeh @tinamarie1974
Does it work?
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 I forget…
Saved on Kroger’s website so I can access it via their app while shopping.
@MrGoodGuy hate the app;it keeps clearing my info and making me reset my PW again just so I can get an extra 0.50 off a bar of soap or something.
@MrGoodGuy my krogers has shit reception, and their wifi is sketch so no workee for me
Anylist app ftw. My partner and I have a shared list that syncs automagically.
@curtise
I love that term and find it is woefully underused!
I use a great free app called ToMarket. You can keep multiple lists for different stores and if you check an item it goes to a matching Need list so you don’t have to search for the checked ones.
I’ve been using an app called Out of Milk; it works pretty well.
We have a dry erase board in the kitchen that we write stuff on when we run out, and I do all of our grocery shopping online for delivery. I usually just browse until I get ideas for meals.
@Pony
/image This is the way
@chienfou @Pony This is the way. I do a mix of delivery and instore shopping. I like the convience of delivery, but Wegman’s is my zen spot. It’s also where I did a lot of physical therapy when I was learning how to walk again. I’d leave my walker in the car and grab the closest cart and just stroll through the aisles. One of my bucket list items is to shop there in full Stormtrooper armor. Mando could work too
@capnjb @Pony
Hope you live in an open carry state!!
I tried the Note pad on the Phone & other electronic devices ect. What I do is use the app of my Fav store select pretty much 90% of their Coupons. Then use a piece of scrape paper ripped up into to size to do my shopping list. then once I finished with the list I just recycle the note!
@mycya4me Yeah, I use the grocery store apps for the clicked digital coupons, too.
But then I use the “Out of Milk” app for non-coupon stuff. I know the grocery stores have shopping lists too but OoM lets me keep lists for many different stores.
The first decade of my adult life I’d keep the list in my head (and often forget things), the second decade I’d make a list on my phone, and now during the third decade I usually use Amazon Fresh or order for pickup at my local grocery store ('cause people are obnoxious and the less time out amongst them the better lol).
@FightingMongoos When you get to the sixth adult decade, the challenge becomes remembering what’s needed long enough to find whatever thing is used for that list. I’ve closed the door of the fridge, pulled out my phone, opened the app, scrolled to the grocery list, and had to open the door of the fridge again to see what I had forgotten already.
I just sing out “Alexa, add corn starch to my shopping list.” This works well, mostly. Sometimes one has to interpret what Alexa puts down, e.g. “corn starts” for Corn starch. I usually try to proceed the item with the store I’m most likely to purchase said item so that when I sort the list alphabetically all of those items appear together.
@Jackinga I never trust it (or Siri) because I’m going to get a large delivery of something billed to my card.
How is the cornfield coming along?
/youtube Wish it into the cornfield, Johnny
Another vote for dry erase board.
I have one that is attached to the front of the fridge with permanently titled spaces for the four most common places we shop locally and in the ‘big city’. As things become needed they are added onto the board. I will generally transfer that list to a piece of paper that I take shopping (which I find I promptly let fall on the floor somewhere way too often). I have now resorted to taking a picture of the board before I leave the house “just in case”!
@chienfou I had to do some financial shuffling to buy a property and despite having computer spreadsheets and pads of paper, item of choice was a dry-erase board.
I have thought about using the small one in the kitchen but haven’t done yet. Not as much for a shopping list but to remind me of stuff in the refrigerator that I need to use.
@pmarin
I use dry erase markers to write on the plastic lids for home-canning-jar products that I open. When I’m done I can use an alcohol prep to remove the writing before I throw it in the dishwasher. Works like a charm!
@chienfou @pmarin you can also write on a stainless steel fridge w/ dry erase markers
I live next to a grocery store so I kind of just go over whenever I get hungry and see what things are on sale.
@brennyn I have one an easy walk away but I have to remember if I walk not to buy too much to carry back.
@brennyn That is the European way. In fact when I lived there the fridge was one of those counter top mini fridges.
Whatever my wife puts in a text message to me.
My daddy used to go through the newspaper (remember those?) every week to determine where he was shopping and what he was going to buy. My mother gave him a basic list, but he looked for sales on high ticket items like meat. Then he would make his route, often going to 2 or 3 stores to get everything. (It was likely every 2 weeks, but 60 years ago, the memory fades). He would bring it all home and then cut up and repackage the meat for freezing (he had worked for a butcher (his uncle) in his teens).
When I was new on my own out of the dorms with a partner we had some ups and downs. When she went to work as a teacher and was paid monthly, we did our main shopping monthly. We went up and down every isle, working from a list and our heads to get what we needed. Extra trips for perishables when I got paid
When I was single and older, I had a routine. Farmer’s market every Sat AM, followed by grocery store after for the other stuff. What I bought depended upon what I got a the FM. Almost always the same store.
Now that I am old and retired, I have 3 places other than the FM I usually pattern between and I go when I need something or when I’m bored and I want to get out. I rarely buy stuff I don’t need. I have no list. I go to the butcher counter (Yep, Stater Bros for the win) and look at the meat to decide what I want. I like buying only what I need and not having to live off the freezer. I buy usually fresh veggies at the FM and other stuff where the mood takes. If I only need veggies between Saturdays I go to Sprouts. It’s just a bit better than most grocery stores. If I need a lot of bulk type stuff I go to Vons (Alberstons/Safeway) because it’s usually a bit cheaper for those things that “I” Buy.
Once in a blue moon, I go to Traders and buy a few packs of their frozen meals. Rarer yet I make the 40 mile drive to Whole Paycheck. I miss the one I had in Monterey, this one is just not as nice. Also rare, I hit one of the other options because of convenience.
I love not having to care that it is 10 cents more one place than another. I love shopping local when I can. And I love not wasting food,
Walmart+ or Instacart+ Aldi app for delivery!
Still a piece of paper, written on weekly until Sunday morning when it’s grocery shopping time.
@Star2236 I thought I was the only one here who used paper. I find apps to be a pain in the a**. I can scribble on a piece of paper faster than I can open an app and type on the on-screen keypad.
@ItalianScallion @Star2236 is it stuck to your refrigerator by a magnet?
@pakopako @Star2236 Mine is on my desk along with lots of other pieces of papers with notes about things to do, checklists, telephone call notes, and who knows what else. My shopping list sometimes gets lost for a while.
@ItalianScallion @Star2236 yeah I’m not a fan of that. I used post-its for decades, and while initially they were good, they belong in a book and not on a desk or board. Not when any gentle breeze sends them to the four corners of the earth and I can’t remember which ones are missing.
(The alternative is to tattoo everything into the palm of my hand, but I’ve resorted to texting myself or creating alarms with really long names.)
@ItalianScallion
Paper is the only way I remember this things.
@ItalianScallion @Star2236 Paper never locks up and crashes, it doesn’t have battery life issues, and it’s much thinner than any cell phone. (But it’s really hard to play Doom on it.)
Y entire local shopping list goes into the Walmart app
I keep in my head s list of stores. When I go to say Autozone or Aldi I open the Walmart all and get everything the store has in the Walmart cart.
Then move the item in the Walmart cart to either a Walmart shopping list or a “save for later” list.
Rarely actually purchase from Walmart. Except car batteries.
I use a free app (with ads) called “Our Groceries” It allows access to multiple people to add and cross off items. It will automatically classify products by their genre, such as produce, dairy, etc. I typically don’t use the category function. You can also create multiple lists for different stores. You can also create recipes which when you select your recipe it generates a shopping list of all the ingredients.
In the HEB app
@cbatte So you like Butts I see.
@cbatte @yakkoTDI But the first store was founded by his mother, Florence.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/butt-florence-thornton
@yakkoTDI Big ones!
@cbatte @yakkoTDI
Butt can you lie?
@f00l @yakkoTDI I cannot
@cbatte @werehatrack
But is was still a Butt. The C.C. Butt Grocery Store was named after her husband Charles.
@cbatte @werehatrack @yakkoTDI Didn’t Charles have a brother Seymour?
@cbatte @ItalianScallion @yakkoTDI Half-brother, different father, previous marriage, Harris. (No relation to the Harris that was part of early Houston history.)
@ItalianScallion
I’m currently at a grocery now, in the frozen section. I can confidently say…
My list is F’d
note pad on the phone, delete as I go.
List in my head but then again I walk the length of the store looking at the aisle labels to remind myself if I need something down that aisle. If I do I go down that aisle. If not I skip it. I need to shop when I am hungry or I don’t buy much (including things I need).
On a piece of paper that I forget to take at least 50% of the time.