Dear Internet

[geminigirl]

Yesterday I gave my dear husband a choice...

go to the grocery store with Miriam who initially didn't want to take a nap but then ate and fell asleep just before they left (he tucked her into the car seat and took her along) and a well thought out, very specific list and buy groceries for the week or clean toilets.

He chose the grocery store.

Imagine my surprise when I went to prepare tonight's dinner and one of the ingredients was missing. One of the ingredients that had been on yesterday's grocery list. This is of course after a second trip to the store to get the things that I noticed had been forgotten while unpacking the groceries yesterday.

Would someone explain to me what the point of a well thought out, totally organized list is? I broke the whole thing down...deli, meat, canned goods, dairy, produce and even organized it in the order that one would travel through the store-and I know the path he takes through the store.

So how is it that every week when he does the shopping, something important on the list gets forgotten? Even when it's something we buy every week like bananas (gotta support Naomi's one banana a day habit at least until she's out of diapers.) It doesn't seem to happen when I have a list and do the shopping (sometimes when I shop without a list it does happen, but shopping without a list is different.)

Signed...

Very Hungry

P.S. In much happier news, Miriam is officially a sitting up baby. I'll try and get some pictures soon cause all that baby chub sitting up is kind of cute.

Comments

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

how is it that every week when he does the shopping, something important on the list gets forgotten?

Pardon me for answering a probably rhetorical question, but perhaps he never learned to compensate for his acknowledged memory problem by taking a pen and crossing items off the list as he puts them in the cart?

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

That's my solution. There are two rules: the first rule is 'three things'. If there are three things, I can go to the store and remember three things. If there are more than three things, you will write it down, or be prepared to answer the question "...wait: what was the middle one?" The second rule is that I always have a pen. Everything is either crossed off of the list, or I can explain why it wasn't.

[emperor]

I use this approach.

[aliki.livejournal.com]

This is a great suggestion.

[messyjessy.livejournal.com]

I think he's officially lost the privilege of having a choice. His punishment is to clean the toilets for several weeks in a row!

:-D

[geminigirl]

Oooh, I like that.

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

It's not a punishment. If he's not competent to shop, he does different jobs.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

I have the opposite problem: When I send Tim to the grocery store with a list, he invariably gets everything on the list, and about 20 other things *not* on the list. Also not on sale, the wrong brand, and OOOOH SHINY!!!!

[aliki.livejournal.com]

Mine too! He'll pick up things we already have, like the 3rd jar of pickles, because OOH I LIKE PICKLES AND IT'S ON SALE.

[deza.livejournal.com]

I can sympathize. I've been asking my husband to pick up eggs for 5 days now. He's made multiple trips to the store for other things, but still no eggs.