Confess if you're guilty of this!

I once went out for some mushroom for Mum and came back with a coat for her. I did buy the mushrooms too.

DS has shown me how to use the list-making app on my phone. So where is the phone when I go out shopping? You have guessed it - on the coffee table/bedside table/kitchen worktop...

I'm so bad at it that when we had a competition at WI for a funny poem I wrote the following. And it won!

Mrs Frances Morrison went out to buy some bread
But left her shopping list at home- and bought a cake instead.
Mrs Frances Morrison went out to buy some ham
But forgot to take her glasses- and ended up with jam
Mr Samuel Morrison was watching the TV
He'd finished watching Countdown and was waiting for his tea
He didn't get his new fresh bread
And he didn't get his ham
But as a consolation, there was cake with extra jam.

Think it must have struck a chord with most people, including the judge

A couple of weeks ago, I went to the garden centre for plants and came out with a handbag - plus plants, of course.

No time to read all posts so hope I don't repeat. Have to have a list but it has to be in a certain order. Fridge/freezer top right, veg underneath. Bread, cake, biscuits etc top left (not that I buy them often you understand). Sundries under that. Wine etc biottom left. Sounds a bit mad - anyone else have list phobia? Am not ocd but lists just have to look like that.

It wasn't food, but my DH went to the chandlers to get a new oil filter for our boat and came back with an ANCHOR! In his defence we need one for when we venture onto the Thames this summer, it was priced up at £45 so he offered £40 and got it! But he still can't change that oil filter.

Is your boat your main home narrow?

Fished the list out of my pocket and more or less stuck to it. Slightly puzzled by some things, but assumed I had good reasons for them being on my list.
when I got home to find this week's list on the table. I have no idea how old the list I had used had been

Yes Bananagran , my list is usually in a certain order - with gaps in case I forgot to write something down so I can add it later.
It's usually in the order in which I go round the supermarket so it's quite logical!

I can still remember some of the list in my DM's 'order book' which I used to have to take over to the Co-op - "and can you bring back the sugar/tea (or whatever) as we've nearly run out". The rest would be delivered.

It's all those 'special offers' minimo - the psychology of supermarket shopping!

My wife writes a list which I take to the supermarket - and I buy what is on the list. Nothing more, nothing less. Inevitably when I get home we have a conversation which goes something like this:
"Did you buy (for example) washing-up liquid".
"Was it on the list?"
"No."
"Then I didn't buy it.
"Why not? You know we need washing-up liquid".
"Then why wasn't it on the list?"

Some things will never change.

At least she makes the list. My next door neighbour's husband used to go shopping every Saturday and bought what he wanted for the whole week- and she had to cook whatever he had bought. Often sausages for her and the kids and steak for him. She also had a very tight weekly allowance and had to ask specifically if the kids needed shoes or school stuff, etc. I always found it mind boggling as my parents were totally different.

Mind you next door but one's husband used to make her a list of the chores to be done for that day- with very clear instructions (younger than me)!!! Incredible- she did divorce him, surprise, surprise.

A bit off the topic, but this made me laugh

www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/receipt-found-tesco-car-park-8061781

Well- I did it today- nothing less and nothing more! As said, much much easier having switched to a small supermarket instead of the big HyperMarché full of temptations.

Mind you next door but one's husband used to make her a list of the chores to be done for that day- with very clear instructions (younger than me)!!!
That reminded me of a story from many years ago before I was married; my landlady's daughter had married a Marine and they were posted overseas. My landlady said that each day he posted a list of 'Daily Orders' - for his wife to complete!!
If the daughter was as feisty as her mother then I hope she would have ripped them up and dropped them on the floor for him to pick up.

If I send hubby off with a list we always get a 'bargain'.

He is so lucky every time he goes shopping alone he tells me "that lovely lady on the tills gave me a free bottle of whisky with the loaf of bread again". Hmm

I have never lost a list ( weird, or what?) But anyway, I never stick to it, just use it as a rough guide.

I find that if I 'pop' into Poundland, B&M etc just for a few items or just to look I seem to spend £50.00 on bits!!! with no problem!

Pogs sounds like my OH ?