Do you have a shopping list when you go shopping?

You bet, you mother must be a very organized consumer.

My husband and I both are not good at this kind of thing. This morning we went to Sainsbury’s supermarket at 9:30. We thought we just needed a small shopping, but when we were there we found they had very good wine offer. It’s a lot cheaper than we can get in ordinary time and it will end tomorrow. So my husband and I both were very keen to buy wines. So we spent more money on food than we thought and came home happily.

If we have a shopping list and fellow it we can save more and also can be fitter.

You are right. shopping list does help us to save money and shop wisely. the problem is my husband and I both are not very keen on it.

at begining we had a shopping list in case we forgot what would buy, later we found we always buy similar things, so without shopping list we still can remember what we should buy. gradulately we have no shopping list.

now I found we spent too much money on food and we both put on weight. so I suggest my husband to have a shopping list then we can control ourselves.

next week we will back to life with shopping list. we will see if it works or not.


thanks for your response and happy mylotting.

we also need to drive long distance to shop. it's the one thing I feel uncomfortable with.

When I was in beijing,shopping food is very convinent. there are a few supermarkets around and you just need 5 minutes to walk there.

here in the UK we need drive 20 minutes to get there and another 20 minutes back. if the traffic is not bad. driving is also a cost. shopping on Sunday makes our sunday like a work day.

It happened to me too. Back to the time when we had our shopping list, we made it but we forgot it at home. then we came back to check the list we found we forgot something.

recently I find it happens so regularly that I forget something. I can not beilive it. before I thought i had very good memory and I can remember many things in detail. now maybe I'm getting older and I found my memory is getting worse.

I love your picture. It's really lovely.

Best regards.

Hi sblossom
I know when I say its my age then I get laughed at. Im 45 years old but sometimes I think Im 70.. .LOL..I don't know why we have the memory problems but I guess we just have to get use to it...Thanks for comment and you have a great day..Keep smiling..

I don’t feel very well today because I called the tax staff and they made a mistake about my tax return. Now I’m still waiting for it.

I have bad memory to remember good things or important thing. I always have good memory about bad things. It’s my selective memory.

I will go shopping tomorrow. Now by my suggestion we have half shopping list.

Oh sblossom Im sorry to hear that you are having so much problems going on right now. Try to keep a positive attitude and Im sure that things will work out for you. I know what you need, so Im sending this to you. I hope you have a better evening and a great tomorrow..

Thank you very much for your toy. This afternoon I went to local cinema called Odeon for new movie UP. I was half hour earlier than the show time. Surprisingly there was no ticket available. I was told all tickets were sold out. Your toy looks like the one I saw at the cinema. By the way have you seen UP yet? Is it worth watching or not?

Anyway today it’s not good day for me. Wish you have a good weekend.

Hi sblossom
No i haven't seen it,but I do want to. I like movies like that. Well it sounds like it might be a good day for you to just sit and relaxe. I hope that your day will end up real nice. Take care my friend and keep smiling. I promise it will make you feel better..

I wish I can do as you did. I agree it’s a good way to save money and time. My problem is I’m new to the UK. My husband always does more works on shopping than I do. I don’t think he’s a good shopper because he has no idea to save money. I always told him if I do shopping for our family we can spend less money and have higher life quality. However he doesn’t believe in me. It’s his power he doesn’t want give it up. Now I just bit by bit influence him with my shopping philosophy.

I think I also control myself very well when it involves money.

I bet my husband would not agree. one day I told him I think I'm a very frugal shoper and very economical.

he laughed and replied are you talking in English? I don't know what you are talking?

He always said I'm easily cheated by the ads or offers in supermarket because I don't know the prevous or original prices.

best regards.

I totally agree with you. I found an interesting thing connecting shopping list. People from Europe or North America prefer to have a shopping list, the reason is similar too. But to people from Asia most of them don’t have a shopping list. To them it’s very casual to shop grocery any time if they can. But to us doing weekly shopping is normal style.

It’s also the change in my life after I moved to the UK from Asia. Before I did shopping any day during a week. Now I just go to shopping on Sunday morning.