Remember When.........

entire week without toilet paper (used every damned tissue and wet-wipe in the house) because I kept forgetting to pick it up at the store - even when that was the ONLY thing I went to the store for!!! As I remember, I spent a fortune at the grocery store that week, too.

And my memory has continued to deteriorate. At least twice a day I will walk into a room only to forget why I went in there. Actually, I get quite a bit of exercise this way - walking from room to room, wondering what the hell I'm supposed to be doing. LOL!

Sassys
Next time she's around march right up to her and ask in a loud voice "Just who the hell do I have to screw around here to get your job?" Tah Dah!!!

I hate shopping for groceries. I never make a list and go in for just a "few" things and $300.00 later I'm done.

You think you've got problems! I've got a Chinese friend who goes into sensory overload every time we go to the supermarket. She is from a poor farming family who scrimped and saved to put her through university. They didn't have much money for shopping and when they got her to university she had to study instead of hitting the big city shops like the rich kids did. Now she's got a foreigner as an uncle and a job of her own she can experience every Chinese woman's dream - Shopping! - but when we go to the Supermarket and she wants to buy a bottle of shampoo she looks at the shelves and there a fifty kinds to choose from and she just stops dead and stares into space until I take her by the arm and move her out of the way of all the other customers trying to get past. It's really quite amazing.

The most incredible case was when we went to shop for stuff for my birthday party. As I can't read Chinese I was going to ask her advice on what was in the packets that looked interesting to me. After I asked about a few things and recieved no response whatever as she drifted on appearing to look at everything purposefully but picking nothing at all up I just started grabbing things that looked as if they might be good to eat and guided her to the checkout and paid. As we left the building she 'woke up' again and we laughed about it. 'Supermarket mode' is now a standard joke between us and she is improving. I explained the concept of sensory overload to her and she agrees it is just all too much because of her limited life experience of shopping.

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after years of relying on poor old memory and getting everything but the one thing that I absolutely need writing a list, and sticking to it, is the only way to get the better of the supermarkets' psycholological tricks department. Large supermarket chains do hire psychologists to tell them how they can part us from more of our money than we intend. I know that in one supermarket in UK the smell of cinnamon was wafted through the store quite deliberately in order to lull shoppers into supermarket mode. That's why fresh bakery departments were introduced into UK, the smell of fresh bread and cakes makes shoppers hungry, hungry shoppers buy more.

the main thing I went for, but I have, on occasion, had to make 2 or 3 more trips to get everything I was supposed to. When it's important enough, I make a list in my Palm and take it with me. It's just not always as important, and it's way more fun to roam.

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