I came in with a basket...

It sounds very familiar to me! I always go to the grocery store with the list of things were are out of or nearly out of. But I always manage to see things I had forgotten to put on the list! I rarely just buy randomly. What looks like it's going to be a small bill sometimes turns out to be a large one! I spent $184 on groceries before Christmas and didn't even have to buy the ham! I thought we wouldn't be back in the grocery store for a couple weeks. Well, forgot my grandsons were staying awhile after Christmas. I've already been back and spent almost $40 and we are about out of milk already! The list is building again. Seems we work to eat around here. Guess I had better get busy on mylot!

Yep, I have even tried to trick myself before Ms Saintly. I would tally up the items on my list, add a few bucks to that and put exactly that amount in my purse along with the list, and take off... then I would have to ask the cashier if I could leave my cart there while I ran home and got the rest of my money.

Sounds like me. I get so into the spirit of things that I see stuff and think, "oh that'll go over good" etc. It's all about making it a fun and festive time. It is so very easy to do. It has nothing to do with my own hunger or desires....tis the season to think of others and that is what gets me into trouble in the grocery store.

happens to me once in a while..when the budget is tight i tend to stick with what i needed to buy only but when i know i still have more extra i end up having a push cart and bought loads of goodies without even knowing

Hi anne! As always, my dear friend once again we are so much alike! I can never go into a grocery store, even with a list and come out with just what is on the list! It is for some unknown reason totally impossible! I wish I knew why! I just can not stick to anything when entering a grocery store! The food just calls to you from the shelves! I swear it talks to me! No matter how hard I try to stick to that list it just doesn't work! So I just give up and give in! I guess you do too!

I do that ALL the time!! I go in with a list and I make sure that I have eaten so that not everything looks good to me. I still always leave with double the items on my list. Something always looks good, or there is something there that I am sure I will need......Its hard to go and only buy what you have on your list.

Sounds very familiar to me, because i get tempted too, but then pause for a moment and decide against it. Maybe next time leave all your cards at home, take just a limited amount of money and try it.

oh yes Annie, sounds very familiar to me. On top of that, the shop which I visit every month end, does free home delivery so (un)fortunately, I don’t have to pay them then and there. So you can very well imagine the size of the pushcart I need. Well I had an idea (I thought it was brilliant) and tagged my son along with the list in his hand. He was supposed to read out and push me away from temptation! Heaven help me…I forgot that HE was MY SON! Temptation my foot…the last bar of imported chocolate just had to be a priority just like the huge tub of icecream (oh but they are giving 20% extra with that mommy…), a new cream maybe or an extra pack of meatballs! Oh boy!!! How I hate (love) monthly shopping PS: Hungry/depressed...do we really need an excuse for splurging!

I can relate to that Sisi! I think,there's hardly a few who would not. I just cannot stick to my list and fall prey to some glossy packaging fake merchandising! Stupid me!

When youu get home and taking it out of your cart, do you ask your self now couldn't I have lived with out that right now. I hate going to the grocery store, no matter if I take a list, I have at least 10 more items, if I'm lucky that is all, than what I went in there for. I watched my daughter yesterday at the grocery store, she put it in, took it out. When we got to the register, it was like %40. and she swore she never spent more than $20. If we could just once go in and come out with what is on our list and nothing else, I don't think I can do it, I think it is a set up, they know you can't get out of the store with out at least one more sack of stuff. Is it a disease or just stupidy on our part, I think we buy what we need and what we feel like we need at the time, won't have to go out again, oops I already had a couple of those after I got home. My problem is I'm always looking for something different, so I end up with a lot of junk I could of done without. I make a list and most of the time leave it at home. Hubby the same way send him for milk and he comes back with 10 additional items. It is just in our genes.

9 times out of 10 when I go to the grocery store I go hungry. I'll walk through the store and say that looks good. Wow that looks good. before I know it i'm leaving the store with an overflowing cart. I've tried eating before I go to the store but even when I eat I still come out with things I didn't intend to get when I went in!

I did that last night! I went in for a couple of things and had to get a cart. I was invited over to a friend's house and went to buy ingredients to make a dessert. Well, I decided to get some appetizers too, then I needed a couple of things for the house, and by them time I realized it, my cart was full too. Have a happy New Year!

Sounds very familar, I will even pass by both the cart and the basket, because I only come in here for one item and end up with a hand full, and they are falling all over the place, don't let me see a cart sitting somewhere and no one is using it. I wish I could go in the store and get just what I went in for and come out. Impossible thing are happening every day.

many people are like u only. goes to buy of small list .but after entering that shop , u wander here and there and picks more things . sometimes this over buying is worried by us only and everytimes thinks of buying less things , and comes outside with pushcarts with more things .this is not the problem of u only, me also like that only and me and my husband will argue about this only. he sees less things and wants to buy less things which i don;t like. i hope to change my attitude towards less shopping, but i can't control and sometimes my husband controls me . i have the attitude of we should enjoy all our life now, as we don;t know when we can leave this earth. so thinks to enjoy more now itself and do shopping more things. so u also control u;r wishes and save money for future. but i should control my wishes and should do the shopping less times .and i wish to save money now , which can be useful for tomarrow.

Not any more, because since retiring we travel too often to stock up on things that we might not have time to eat up before we take off again.

Sure does! That's why I leave the kids & hubby at home otherwise I'm always buying extras I had not intended or budgeted for. I'll be feeling that pain soon myself as we will have 4 house guests for a few days and I don't know what they like but I can't not have anything in the house they may like.... seeing they like junk it's not hard but still an expense I'm not looking fwd to. I'm also a sucker for a deal I see a deal I'll stock up and grab it even if I don't need it at the minute usually it works out well til I run out of that item again ;)

This always happens to me at the grocery store. I run in to grab something and come out with half the shop. I really do not no why I do it as I do not really need half of the things I buy, but sometimes they are on offers and I cannot refuse a bargin.