Shopping with DH is a nightmare!!

Old boots

Don’t get from h but gd have to curb her.

You should try shopping with a DH, who has dementia, in tow, who keeps disappearing, selects stuff and then puts it back somewhere else, Puts things in and takes things out of other people's trolleys, usually requires a couple of toilet visits, usually when we are next in the Q at the check out and has been known to swan off outside, looking for the car, when I am half way through the checkout - nightmare. It can take nearly 2 hours to do the weekly shop, only to arrive home and discover that he has 'put back' essential items when my back was turned.

My (sort of) OH likes choosing clothes for me but we sometimes do food shopping in the same place but with separate trolleys. He eats 'lo fat' stuff, I have full fat everything. I love butter, he prefers olive oil spread. Neither of us drink and that's about the only common denominator in our lives. We don't live together but, when we go up to town or he's abroad with work, he won't do High Street stuff, (my thing) but will pay for bespoke shirts for both of us and I did get a very nice pencil skirt from VB, a D&G trench coat and evening trousers and silk/ lace cami from Versace.
I prefer Mango, H&M, Oasis, M&S, Zara and Primark.
The other day he complimented me on a top I was wearing.
I smiled. It cost £8 in last years H&M sale and my jeans were £10 from Primark. My £25 bag from Oasis was more than all the rest of my outfit put together as my 4 yr old F&F boots were £4 in a charity shop.

My dh only used to go shopping at Christmas, and oh is he such a spendthrift! We spend way too much money together - Dangerous to the budget, but it's so much fun!

....Until we truly couldn't afford it and I had to be scrooge.
I tried to get all the shopping done beforehand, lol

Now that the kids are grown, we don't spend near as much, but on a whim (and a ridiculous British Airlines sale) we bought tickets to Italy for 11 days next Easter!
No kids!

I told him no Christmas gifts to each other this year!
And he said, fine, don't get him anything, but I'll get you a gift after all....oy!
Time to go shopping.

enjoyed reading these,but I wish my husband was still here to go shopping with

My husband has done the ‘big’ food shopping, once a week since he retired. I tend to pop out and get the things that I like. He’s better than me about not buying cakes! ?

Oldwoman70,

My mistake sorry.

I love shopping for groceries with my wife.

It's another world! We go round the supermarket together, with a list. There are extra or impulse buys always but never of sweeties.

I hate “going shopping” for non food, and especially at this time of year. I feel overwhelmed with too much choice, or stuff I just don’t want or like or see the need for.

I have to say in defence of mine, (partner) he is the sensible one, fruit and veg ECT, it's me who likes the cakes, chocolate and biscuits.

My DH never came shopping with me - the very thought of it would horrify him!

Grampie I think the OP was referring to grocery shopping rather than clothes shopping.

Rolls from the baker, not tools.!

We never shop together now.
In the past, he would grab the trolley and disappear for items he wanted, leaving me with an armful of goods. No way.
Since we retired, DH chooses to do the shopping: daily for the paper and milk, weekly for the meatfrom the butcher, tools from the baker, veg from the greengrocer and anything else from co-op. He seems to enjoy it, or maybe he considers it his way of getting what he wants to eat.

We top up from Aldi as required, separately again. About once every six weeks I go to Morrison’s for a big stock up of non- perishables plus fresh fish.

Us men don’t shop. We figure out what we want and then we buy it and the chances are we will not return it.

Shopping means returning unwanted purchases, lots of browsing, nearly putting things back, gathering an armful of goodies, checking out with a few smart carrier bags and taking the items home (Hubbie May Help with this).

Then the shopper tries on these items creating a pile to return on the next shopping trip.

Not a delight for buyers (or sellers).

Apart from a few trips when we first married, as I didn’t drive, I don’t think my OH has ever been grocery shopping with me!

Just wondering what a thread called ‘Shopping with DW is a nightmare’ would look like.....??

evianers this would be my husband he always says if ever i couldn,t do the weekly shop he would be able to, i chuckled and he said yes, i would just buy bananas, biscuits teabags and milk what more do you want!!!

What about other shopping? I get "what do you want to buy in here"? Obviously, I don't know until I've looked.
We are fruit and berry pickers they are mammoth killers.

I’d give the world for my late DH to be sneaking goodies into my trolley. Just smile to yourself and edit the store cupboard when you return home.

Aw, evianers, sounds just like my dad. Before he became ill, he always went shopping with my mum and was forever adding chocolates and sweets to the trolly!
At one stage, my mother broke her knee and Dad took over the shopping for about six or eight weeks. He would take her shopping list, and buy everything on it, religiously - and add about 50 % extra stuff in the shape of what he called "little treats". As my mother said, he was an absolute star during her period of being chair bound - but boy did he increase the grocery bills!!!

My husband does all our food shopping so no complaints here, and he brings home my favourite chocolate.

I cannot remember the last time I went shopping with my OH; it was so long ago. It was a nightmare for both of us so we stopped doing it.

Not to mention the cost of such things.

I make sure I do the shopping when DH is involved with one of his various clubs/hobbies! If he does ever come with me we get two trolleys and he goes off with a list of wine/soft drinks/fruit juice requirements while I do the "proper" stuff. We pay separately but from our joint household account and meet up back at the car ready for a quick get-away. It works for us.