Shopping trolley

Black, £30 from John Lewis. There was a purple version but I decided against it.

I have the purple version, Elegran. It was a birthday present from DD and the DGSs.

Couldn't do without it.

I am looking forward to a funky one (maybe IKEA?) from DD and SIL as a belated birthday present so that I can really shop till I drop at the local weekly market. AND I can also perhaps get my own back on all those thoughtless wheelie briefcase users who cause me to trip up or bark my shins whenever I am in London Euston station concourse - look out!

Mine is flouresent pink with black spots which I bought from my friendly local store near my home,when I first used it it brought shrieks of laughter from my DCs,but I don't care it saves me carrying shopping up from the car-park,all for £9.99.

Wouldn't be seen dead with a conventional one! I do, however, confess to owning a turquoise rucksack with hidden handle and wheels for when I buy a lot at fruit and veg at Thame market. It was a joke present when I retired.

I was wondering whether to risk saying that I would never, ever use a shopping trolley, but as you have been brave enough, shysal, I will!

To me, they are little old lady accessories, like rain hoods and galoshes.

Ooops. I bloomin love mine.

I can push along 1 ton of shopping with my little finger. Yeah

I'm such a poor old soul.

I bought a very good one for £3.50 at a jumble sale. I use it occasionally if I know I buying something really heavy.

When I was in Paris several years ago a shop near our hotel had an amazing selection of interestingly patterned trolleys.

As there are so many apartment dwellers there is little alternative to getting one if you want to get your shopping home.

The ones we saw were used by some very smart women of all ages.

TBH if you don't have a car and/or cannot park it near your house it seems like the ideal solution. We need to change the perception of them.

I got a good one for £5.50 in a jumble sale.
I don't shop with it, I keep it in the car and use it to transfer the heavy bags.....or to take heavy stuff TO the car. Very useful.

I was about to post that those who would never use a shopping trolley must be car-drivers, but I was beaten to it.

I have a rucksack for small quantities of shopping, but the trolley holds a vast amount and saves me carrying several bags as well as the rucksack on the bus and then up a steep hill home. It also carries a load of books to the charity shop when I have a turn-out.

If you were unable to use a car, I suspect you would be converted to a trolley after a few backbreaking, shoulder-aching shopping trips. Who cares if it is an old-lady thing? I don't.

I wouldn't be converted. I am a car driver, but until my late 40s travelled by public transport.

As the nearest food shop is about 4 miles away I wouldn't be walking to do my shopping, so I expect I'd do what I used to do and carry whatever I could manage in bags and get the bus.

BTW I have actually used one of those trolleys to transport some of MIL's stuff to FIL's car once. How on earth do you control them?

If I tried pulling it behind me it caught me on the ankle or shin, and if I pushed it in front of me it just went where it wanted to go, not where I was directing it!

Mine is white with red and blue flowers - from Lakeland. It isn't huge but big enough to take down to the corner shop (Waitrose) and for collecting books for our book group from the library.

Ana

Are you talking about the 2 wheeled pull alongs?.

The 4 wheeled shoppers are a piece of cake and carry loads of weight without effort.

Mine is shocking pink! My sister's friend gave it to me, she said her Mum wasn't brave enough to use it. Being me, I bought a raincoat to match. DS then used to pretend she wasn't with me. It only gets used if we go into the market on a Saturday, when it is extremely useful for carting home bulk purchases of fruit and veg and M&S's reject ham. Or plants.

I never thought I would have one of those 'old lady things' but I wasn't thinking I'd get arthritis and not be able to carry the nice fruit and veg back from the market either so now love mine and as I say its good and funky. Trolley world has some wonderful ones on line and p.s umbrellaworld has some fabulous umbrellas.

I had a wonderful old lady one in my thirties when I couldn't carry much but had too much shopping. It was a wicker basket on wheels and I loved it. When I got a car I found that full it was too heavy to lift over into the boot so it went to wicker basket heaven. They have some very cheerful ones in Switzerland and I'm always tempted but I think I'll just go on line now.

I was in my 40s when I got mine. I don't care, I can take advantage of all the bargains. I make loads of onion marmalade and once I bought 15kilos of red onions for £2.

It's brilliant for keeping a barrier between me and pushy people in the queue behind me. If they try to plan a pincer movement, I simply put the trolley to that side.

The Style section of the ST goes straight in the bin unread when we "fillet" the paper each Sunday. It is full of the most ridiculous unnecessary items designed for people with more money than sense. It makes it hard to take anything else in the paper seriously when they include such rubbish - but, find me a Sunday paper that does not have this nonsense in it. At least the ST "Culture" section is good - and the crossword.

Culture is the only thing that makes ST worth buying,[ we have bought the coupons]

Rest is regurgitated cr** nonsense

How do you manage a shopping trolley and a walking stick? I can't. However, since most of the heavy shop is done on line, and delivered, it's not a problem.

And I am still able to drive everywhere, thank goodness!

I don't own one - no use with a car anyway but I do have an ex-wicker one sans wheels which I use as a log basket! When I lived in Paris about 100 years ago, we had a big 4 wheeled version which I used to drag up the Avenue de l'Opera with gay abandon after doing the shop in Monoprix and stocking up on plonk in Nicolas - but I was only about 21 then . If I could do my shopping locally I think I would invest in a little shopping cart (and a plastic rain hat to go with it......)

I love my shopping trolley. I asked my DD to get me one last Christmas but NOT a tartan one

I walk to the shops and drag it home filled to the brim.

The problem is managing both it and a supermarket trolley around the shop, especially if you get one of those ones that wants to go round in circles. I sort of progress down the aisles, a trolley in each hand, scattering other shoppers in my wake. Those I miss with the supermarket trolley I usually manage to sideswipe with my shopper.

Then I like to go through the self service tills but I'll leave that to your imagination.