Went to the Store today, I said I was going to get some triple AAA batt;eries bu

Like the last couple of Tuesdays, our dining room lights were getting low and my husband said that we needed them, but did we remember to pick any up? No way. Then there was the dishwashing detergent, but I forgot to pick that up as well. I was trying to remember to get things without resorting to a list. At least I remembered everything else. And I got a few things that I forgot the week before.

Sounds normal. Maybe we should say what we want out loud and make people think we are crazy or talk into one of those digital recorder things. We forget getting the chandalier bulbs for our dining room three times already and it is getting frustrating. Maybe I should go back to writing lists.

I sometimes take a list, and then when I get to the store, I find that I forgot to put something on it that I really needed. Or when I get home from the store, I look in the cupboard and see that there was something i had to put on the list, and believe it or not it was something that I was telling myself that I had to get it before. I have to write it down when I think of it first or else it slips my mind.

A list would have been no good. I'd have forgotten to take it with me or forgotten to look at it! lol. Maybe I should set up MSN for my mobile, and have an instant message sent by my computer every 5 mins until I do remember to buy what i was supposed to be getting.

I should try that as well. We use the AA the most, but now where do I put the butter and cheese?

Have not tried it but our fridge is always full. Where could I put them?

I put them in the door, where the butter usually goes. I just assume every fridge has a little 'nook' with a cover, in the door, but a lot of them probably don't. I always find a way to put them somewhere in the door of the fridge.

I thought I was the only one and I was worried about it. You know all those commercials talking about forgetfulness and associating it with Alzheimer's. And I was trying to rely on my memory because I did not want to depend on a list. Oh well, I suppose I will have to go back to the list.

I have never actually bought the wrong batteries, but I have gone into a shop and then realised that I was uncertain which type of battery the appliance took. This is equally annoying because I am left with a choice of buying several types or none.

I guess you do not want your friends and neighbors thinking you are getting senile, especially if you are over sixty. We do not have that much to do any extra shopping, and it is usually something that we do not get that much often. The things that we get most of the time, we get them by automation.

That sounds bad. I can imagine me or you forgetting, but a handyman? Now that is rather strange. I suppose with needing the one with exact measurements, then he does have to make sure he gets it the first time. But to go back to Home Depot again and again, is rather frustrating. It's a good thing that he did not also need to go to Roma.

Wow you have it bad. I have been there, done that. One time I went to the store and then I stopped to talk to the lady that only knows me as my sons's mom, and I notice that i did not have on my anniversary ring. Well I had been losing weight, and I thought I had dropped it in the grass, and maybe someone had picked it up, so I went all the way back home, and found that I had not put it on. But that is not as bad as when I went to the store and left my wedding ring at home. I was trying to hide my left hand so no one thought I was still single.

I guess that way you do not miss. We often make a list, and then forget to put in the one item we need. And since we only shop once a week. we cannot just leave it u until next week. Usually we wind up getting it during the week, if we actually need it.

I find it kind of frustrating, because the stuff that we forget is the stuff that we really need. Like for the last two shopping days, we noticed that there were just two lights in our chandelier, and I need all the light I need, but did we pick a couple of packages of bulbs up. No we did not.

That sounds like a good idea, only my purse is so full, that I cannot put anything else in it. I do think a list helps, or having no one talk to you about something else so you do not forget what you have to get. Usually it is those interruptions that get me. And the worrying about something else.

We always need AA batteries, but the only thing we need the triple As is before my digital recorder players and one of the remotes. The other two remotes need the double As. We do not have that many small things about, and my cellphone is rechargable. So there is hardly any use for triple As. But I do a lot of singing practice and i use my digital recorder to check my progress.

It does get so frustrating. The worse thing was that less than a week later after I picked up a package of Triple As, my husband buys a whole 12 pack size. I could have just waited but then I needed to use the digital recorder for my music practice. So I had to have them. I guess I really should make a list, but sometimes I even do not buy everything on the list either.