Yesterday, I had to go to the grocery store. Yuck. I had my list, so I was prepared. It wasn't going to take me 4 hours just to get a few basics. I usually start with non-perishables first. So I go get toothpaste, shampoo, deo, etc., and start to head on over to the food. I know I need to get tissues. So I start there.
I'm standing in the tissue aisle for over 20 minutes. Why? Because there's like, 200 options to choose from. Name brand, generic. 1 ply, 2 ply, 3 ply. Lotion, no lotion. Not to mention, now there's like, 200 different designs. So I have to decide between economical and boring, or cute and sassy. But even then, I gotta find the right one that matches my decor at home. So I'm not only trying to find the best option budget-wise, but now I've got to decide if that color or design will look good in my living room/bedroom/kitchen/bathroom. Ugh.
So I'm interested to know what eats up YOUR time at the supermarket?
9 comments:
Hey I have the pink box for Sophy's bathroom! I just got it.
Seriously what eats up my time:
A toddler who starts sreaming for juice and flapping her arms like a bird till people stare while I tr to explain that mommy forgot to bring juice to no avail until it gets so load that my 3 month old starts yelling because she woke up and realized that suddenly she wasn't sitting in her home but is now in walmart being screamed at for juice and she doesn't even know what juice is!
Ack!
No wonder I love shopping alone!
i, too am enamored with the selection of tissues!
Feminine products. Coupon no coupon? Pads, plugs, panty-liners? Wings, no wings, wipes? One month supply....giant mondo 6 month supply? Did I like the ones I used last month? Will my kids ask me for the thousanth time what those are for? Loudly and in front of the old men strolling toward dog food and the pharmacy? And I always do it last so I'm not going around the whole store with them in front of me, but that also means that I have a bulging cart with three kids hanging off of it, with THOSE THINGS topping off the mountain as I push over to the closest checkout line.
Yeah...they get me every time...
Hmm... interesting one. Um.... produce I think is my time consumer. I am SO picky about my apples. Or..... the constant, "no" "get back to the cart" "no running in the store" "stop" "not right now." Yeah, it's a challenge shopping with children. Or husbands. :D
Love,
Sissy
maybe i don't trust the bagging people, or maybe i'm jsut a freak. but i tend to make sure that all the soft and breakable stuff (i.e. eggs, bread, chips, tomatoes) are on the top or in the front part of te basket, and then when i go to check out, i have to make sure that all of those fragile things r at the back of the conveyer belt of food. that way they will again be put on the top of all of the other things and the baggers won't lump them into bags with things that may damage them. also, i like to make a point of the cold things going into the car last, so that they will be the first to go into the house.
First let me say that i admire you're being able to faithfully blog. I could not do it...but I love checking yours to see if you've added anything.
My time eater - not being prepared when I go to the store, so then I have to go back to the store to buy the one thing I forgot, but then I see a hundred other things that now all of a sudden I have to decide if I need - then I forget the one thing I came in for that I had forgotten in the first place - so I have to go back ...and the vicious cycle continues!!
:) P.M.
Paper towels are my time consumer. I don't like any designs on them and I want them to tear at the same size, none of this 3 different sizes. I don't like them too soft either or on too big of a roll. Why is this important to me? I really don't know. But when I settle for the wrong kind, I am always sorry.
Marsue -- WELCOME!! How funny!
Ness -- I'm in total agreement with the feminine needs aisle. I mean seriously. When you finally find the kind that works right for you, they go and change the way their product looks. So it takes forever to find the old kind in the new packaging.
Oh, and Anon -- That's actually some pretty cool "advice" on how to organize the shopping basket. I too am wary of the baggers.
And beware the generic version feminine product in the name brand look alike packaging. *shiver*
Hugs,
Melinda
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