Grocery Shopping Yuck!

Mom and I went grocery shopping today.  I usually try and take mom once a week to pick up things she needs.  We were talking about how much we really hate grocery shopping.  I was thinking that there isn’t one thing that we enjoy about it, other than the fact we get to spend time together.  Time together that we both dislike lol

I hate having to make a grocery list.  Trying to remember what we need, what we are running out of and what we can afford.  I also have a hard time trying to remember to grab that list before I leave.  Half the time it is left setting on the counter… duhhh lot of good it does me there!  Now I have to rely on my good old memory Ha Ha…

Then I get to the store, grab a cart and off I go trying to stay in budget which is pretty hard to do now a days.  It seems like everything is going up in price; and trying to get as much for as little money I find myself going to at least 2 different stores.  Mom and I usually go to Aldie and Costco.  We have also found a nice discount store Daily Deals.   Once in a while we will hit Big Lots too.   I try to have our journey all mapped out so we aren’t hopping all over the place.

After buying the groceries I hate having to load them up in the car.  When mom goes with me I have to try and keep everything separated.  I put hers in the back of the van with her walker and mine in the back seat.  Then we get back to mom’s apartment I try to pack everything on her walker so she doesn’t have to make more than one trip.  I have gotten pretty good at fitting everything in a box to put on her walker.  It is like putting a puzzle together.  Sometimes I have to put things in bags and hang them from the handles because the box is to full, but it works.  Then I head home with my stuff.

Now is the fun time of unloading and hauling it in the house.  I really hate it in the winter when it is so cold and you are tracking in snow as you go in and out.   Then after I get it all hauled into the house, I now have the joy of finding room to put everything.  Even though we have ran out of things for some reason the area’s that they came from have now filled up.  I am bad, after shopping I am either in a hurry or I am tired, so I just stuff things where ever it will fit without falling out of the cupboard or refrigerator.   It is no wonder I can never find anything when I need it.

The dislike of grocery shopping doesn’t stop there, oh no.. . I also hate cooking the food and cleaning it up.  It goes all the way from start to finish! lol

So that has been my day today.. the joys of grocery shopping.

Until tomorrow… take care