"I don't have that problem"

I once mused what it must be like to be royalty and have meals, clean clothes, clean & tidy living accommodation all magically being provided.
Then I realised that many men enjoy exactly that.

I think men are hard wired to think that food prep, cleaning, child care are done by women. What must it be like to drift through life with food just appearing when you need it.
Have to say DH likes easy prepared stuff, ready meals and icecream. No idea what healthy food is.
I think we have only just been the battle.

Saggi I hope he has a few redeeming points? He sounds a selfish a***!

We have always shopped together. Like many DHs on here mine is apt to wander, usually with the trolley. Since he is a little (!) deaf I often whistle at home to tell him tea is ready etc. Once in Sainsburys ,I lost him, and forgetting where I was whistled. Three men appeared!

Team work!

Shopping is definitely a 2-person job in our house. He gets the bags out of the boot while I collect the trolley. We take a side of the aisle each (OH leans on the trolley because of his knees). At the checkout I put items on the conveyor belt and he packs them into the trolley bags when they've been scanned. I turn the trolley towards the door while he pays, then we lift each bag into the boot together. I take the trolley back to the entrance while he drives the car round to pick me up. Fortnightly shop done in under an hour!

My DH always does the 'big' food shop. It takes him for ever as he likes to browse and compare products for value for money. When I do it I set off with the list and shop 'supermarket sweep' style. Any other sort of shopping - the sort that involves buying books, clothes or shoes - I prefer to do alone because he gets bored after the first five minutes and tuts and sighs.

Hi FarNorth, yes that's the thread I meant, I didn't realise that you could advertise so blatantly on GN but I now know that they own them both so I suppose that makes it all right.

I love shopping, even grocery shopping, so of course I always do it. DH loves mowing the lawns, I never offer to help. Occasionally things just work (not often- so make the most of it!)

Well maryhoffma37 .. my husband certainly thinks real shopping is 'women's work'. If for a couple of days I happen to be laid -up'... I suffer sometimes with my back. (2 prolapsed disks) which aggravate the sciatica.. he becomes very agitated when asked to fetch milk or bread. He does fetch the milk and bread along with ( and this is his idea of 'food' ) two chocolate bars.. for him as I can't stand the stuff.. tub of ice-cream, ditto can't stand the stuff... two packs of Bourbon biscuits... ( like eating cardboard)... two cream cakes....a railway magazine ( him)...and a bottle whiskey! This is his standard shopping list! I suppose the whiskey is his way of treating himself for the overpowering hardship of fetching the milk and bread. Oh... and to top it all, his idea of women being 'laid-up' is .... if you are well enough to eat it... you are well enough to cook it!! I know...should've dumped him years ago..hey-ho !!

OH and I go together to do weekly shop,,, and enjoy it ( mostly) although it takes a while what with checking all the labels, special offers etc! Mind we are both retired... we divide most tasks around the house but my problem is we married late and both used to do our own cleaning now we both "think" the other is doing it and so neither of us does ^ sneezzzzzes.. atttishoooo! :-)

Haven't a clue...I am happily single and do everything. Can't remember who did the shopping when I was married...

My husband was BORN to shop!
So he does it all......i go along now and again but generally I leave it up to him...i cook it and he buys it!

When my husband was alive, I did most of the shopping; he used to shop when he was cooking, and stuck rigidly to his list of ingredients. What we avoided - we both disliked it - was shopping together. We each shopped in completely different and incompatible ways.

I used to notice helpless-looking men standing in the aisles, holding on to the trolley like an overgrown child, and I would think, "What are you even doing there, getting in the way? Why don't you stay at home, or sit in the car and read the paper?"

For better, for worse, but not for Sainsbury's, that's what I used to say!

I HATE shopping of any kind and DH likes it. So, since he retired, he has done the food shopping. Apart from a "stocking up" tendency he does it really well and I have no complaints!

Rolande, glad you have been cheered up by this thread on what must be a difficult day for you

We shop together usually, since we both retired, but are both quite happy to do it individually if necessary. DH enjoys cooking and is good at it, neither of which applies to me. I enjoy washing and am even getting to enjoy ironing, now that there is not a constant need for work shirts. I usually clean the loos etc and we both do the odd bit of dusting and hoovering. I put out the bins. We both do the gardening.

The DH is busy at this moment ordering lightbulbs online. I do the main food shopping through Tesco's delivery service with a list and after consulting a shotbot for bargain prices. Anything on offer I go on a special trip and bulk buy. The DH and I often shop together though he gets waylaid in the booze aisle.

We each do whatever we want. I tend to do all the cooking except on a Monday when my H has to plan, shop and cook the meal. I do tend to do most of the shopping but that is out of choice. I want my H to be self sufficient around the home as I may pop off before him.

I do the big shop on line, as I can trawl through the website to my heart's content and we have it delivered midweek. Then we do a top-up shop on a Friday in case something wasn't available in the on-line shop or I might have forgotten something. We always make it an outing though, and have a coffee and cake, then go and have a swift drink at the pub afterwards.

We share jobs according to what we're each involved in at any given time or how busy we are. The Wonderful Man is doing everything at the moment because I'm on complete rest, but usually shopping is a chore that's shared. Mostly he does it on his way home from work and I tend to buy in extra bits and pieces such as milk.

Since retirement we shop together although I must say this took a bit of getting used to on my part. DH knows the prices of everything in every supermarket and so we often have to visit two or more supermarkets on one day to get the best value for our money. (I try hard not to mention the added cost of the extra petrol). He carefully cuts out coupons and saves vouchers to minimise bills but I refuse to keep these small wads of paper in my purse so he keeps them himself.

Like others, we divide most household tasks according to skills which means I am rarely involved with anything mechanical or technological, I'm pleased to say! I should also add that he is excellent at repelling house spiders - a big plus, in my view.

"Well, I'm married so I don't have that problem."
The man's comment implies that shopping is naturally a wife's responsibility.

His reply shows he is quite self-centred (amateur psychologist here!) as clearly the interviewer was asking about the uses of Google glasses, not about the man's own arrangements.

Surely, anyway, he does shopping for techy gadgets beloved of many males, especially ones who get interviewed about Google glasses.
makes rude comment about said man

NO it's not the woman's job! This is 2017!!!!!!!!!!

DH loves household shopping, which I regard as a boring chore. However, I shop more economically than he, so leaving it all to him is quite definitely NOT a good idea!

Right now he's a couch potato much against his will, be it said, due to a broken collar-bone that just will not mend, so shopping, housework, gardening is all mine

I have def done it wrong!! Always done the shopping cleaning ironing cooking gardening except cut the grass. All financial things. Pressie shopping etc etc. I also work full time 2 adult children still at home. While hubby is retired gets up at 11.00am to watch hogans heros!! and sits there all day. Until pub time. Keeping me young though running around while he is ageing badly.