Confess if you're guilty of this!

Husband is the one who always comes back with totally different stuff to what is on the list- so that is no solution.

I've recently changed shopping habits to stop impulse buying- eg go to a much smaller supermarket instead of the massive ones full of temptations. It works.

I have solved the problem.Isend my husband and he only buys what is on the list.Pretty boring way to go shopping if you ask me.

loopylou I did the same except it was a birthday present I went out for and came back with a yes you guessed a settee and chair, leaving DH at home next time. But even when I do take a list there is always something that catches my eye ?

hi all, I am guilty of all the previous mentioned, losing lists, buying extras etc, but i am guilty of taking the shopping bags for a ride, They even sit on the front seat next to me, but somehow, i manage to leave them there, and end up either packing newly bought carriers or tossing food into the trolley and packing the bags once at the car, although this is weather dependent and much more hassle

Auntieflo My OH went to pay for our new glass dining table and purchased a completely different one I had never seen! Luckily I liked it as it was light wood with pale pink upholstery. Just a little different from glass and metal.

I always forget to take the list with me, and stand in the middle of shops gazing around looking for inspiration, coming home with bursting bags of stuff I don't really need. then look at the list of three things and find I only bought 1 of them. not good when there are no shops nearby and the bus is once an hour. so glad that I am not the only one......

I'm full of good intentions about writing lists and sometimes do but I don't think I've ever managed to only buy what's on the list ?
My freezer's full, and I'm really trying not to buy anything other than fresh foodstuffs for the next four weeks, starting on Monday.
I'm pretty certain I'll have failed by Thursday................?

I do shop online but now I have the time ......

I went underwear shopping came back with a piano!

I do this all the time! Go in for bread and milk and come out with a trolley full. I did try just taking a basket round, but end up with a REALLY heavy basket, so now I just go with the flow and resign myself to taking a trolley and breaking the bank!

minimo at least you get there with your list. If DH goes out I usually find the list on the kitchen table just as he disappears from view and shortly thereafter I get a plaintive phone call.

Online has proved to be the answer for us but if ever there is an item we suddenly 'need' and we just pop in to get it we come out with a trolley full of 'bargains' and things 'that would be nice for a change'!
Clearly their marketing strategies are working well!

Oh dear, I think I must be a bit OCD. I write my weekly menu plan and shopping list in Excel files and store them in Dropbox which I have on my phone and work from that in the shop. (provided I can get a signal)

If I buy more than what was on the list it's because I intended to get it but forgot to add it to the list.

When I've finished, I browse a bit round the DVD's and CD's, or bedlinen, clothes, or flowers and might sometimes put something unplanned from those departments in the trolley, but otherwise, I stick to the list entirely.

PS Writing a list has the opposite effect on me to miep. Once I write it down I forget that I ever needed it.

I too have a hopelessly overstocked larder, fridge and freezer, so even if I'm missing something I can usually find an alternative ingredient or meal.
I only make myself a list at Christmas, but I've solved the weekly shopping by doing it online (I suppose this is a list, albeit electronic). I add stuff to the list throughout the week if the senior moment fog lifts. Some supermarkets even produce a suggested list of things you normally buy. The best thing about it is that you can go through it the day before and take out BOGOF's, things you don't need and impulse buys.
Also The Old Man loves taking stuff to the tip so we pull ourselves together and get urgent stuff when he goes out. Shopping for him has to be precise, listing exact product, size etc. or he will come back with something weird - for example "tomatoes" could translates to tinned tomatoes, green beans to tinned broad beans, processed cheese triangles for cheddar.

I do make lists, but 99/100 I leave it sitting on the table at home. I know it sounds crazy, but having actually written down what we need, I find it easier to remember when I get to the shops. But I always seem to be sucked into buying something else...at the moment we have enough in the freezer to withstand a siege, yet I came home yesterday with two bits of steak and some sausages!

Guilty as charged

Just packed DH of to Sainsburys with a very modest list, he will not loose it but I have to admit that he will come back with more than is on the list usually a few little treats!
A few years ago he went food shopping and bought a car! I had no idea he was even thinking about a new one.

tubbygran - I like it!

Mardler123 - I've got one of those.

I look on a list as a very rough guide! A sort of vague suggestion of what I might come home with. I do always do it on my phone now as I will NOT go out without that but bits of paper never seemed to make it to the shop.

Tubbygran. That's sounds super-efficient to me!

Never mind the purses that eat cash, what about the wardrobes that shrink your clothes.

I think I lose my list 8 times out of 10!

Keep saying must use list pantry and cupboard s packed . We went for coffee and ended up buying car . My dd dil both use lists but their fridges always look empty !!

When the children were small, I went to buy farm eggs and came home with four hens. ????

Guilty as charged. I probably have enough shampoo, shower gel, soap, loo cleaner to last me for life.

GUILTY!
Does anyone have a purse that seems to eat cash?