Shopping with hubby

Standing joke in our family when AC and GC thank Mr.Gravy for their Birthday/Christmas gifts his response is "Oh did I get you that".

If mine insists on coming to the supermarket I leave him in the coffee bar - I hate him hovering. He actually enjoys wandering around other sorts of shops more than I d. I buy mostly online these days.

I often pop out on my own though and would hate not to be able to drive. I even prefer going to hospital appointments on my own but he does insist on coming.

Just tell him you find shopping easier on your own. DH knows I prefer to shop alone so doesn't ask to come with me.

Equally he goes into a nearby town once a week and is much happier on his own. I had to be with him this summer because his driving licence was suspended for 2 months for medical reasons and I had to drive him there and back. He just stopped going.

I go with hubby sometimes he goes a walk and we meet up for lunch. Christmas he has to come because I need someone to carry the bags . granddad 1943 I was in that electrical store in Cribbs this week and there was so much noise with tv radios and pc games going on I had to get out ,why do they need to have it all so load.

Its when mine wanders off that I get really annoyed. He was wandering off the other day. ( I keep the car keys .) I have often thought to tell him to get the bus home but by then I have no idea where he is.

I was invited to go shopping, but only once!.

Now I do most of the shopping and my main gripe is couples blocking the aisle when they are dithering, discussing the merits of this over that.

Magpie I could have written your post!?

My husband is good at shopping for clothes, presents, household stuff etc but hopeless doing a supermarket shop.

The reason I wondered about the op being somewhere other than Britain is the fact she used the word "Mall'.

I hate 'hubby' too, Iam.

No Phoenix I most certainly would not want to be wifey. Hadn't thought of it like that.

Gagajo mine is the same. I suspect many are.
Magpie you paint such a vivid picture ?

My bloke is a total pain in the arse, when shopping. When HE'S shopping, he wants me there to comment on what he likes, is trying on etc.

My I'M shopping he has about a 5 minute tolerance before he starts complaining.

I loathe shopping, my husband absolutely loves it but he won't go anywhere on his own!
I have to be dragged into the shops and will only go when absolutely necessary. I dash around and grab the things I need then dash out.
He wants to browse in every shop no matter what it sells and he will happily spend hours mooching around flea markets and car boot sales. Yuk.
When we go food shopping to the likes of Asda, he has to check out all the TV's, clothing, sportswear etc etc.
My heart sinks when we have to go to a DIY store such as B&Q as its almost impossible to get him out.
I have a shopping tolerance of approximately 20minutes after which I slowly lose the will to live.

Just say not this time thanks !

Can’t drive ? Get a bus/taxi/Uber .

Shopping with hubby - wow - you are brave.

Not something I have ever done!

Hubby ? NO NO NO!

Dreadful, awful, just bleurgh!

Would you want to be "Wifey"???? I think not!

Iam64

Agree!

annepl, I can't stand the use of the word. I find it patronising and all round awful. I can understand (and indeed have a) husband, partner, life partner etc but hubby - aaaarrrgh.

Iam64 what's wrong with hubby?

I wish my husband would shop with me - not all the time obviously but when I want him to.
Just tell him when you want to go alone. It's ok to do that Flutterby

My wife and I always go shopping together but when we arrive at the Mall we part for she loves clothes shopping while I hate it.

I always head for the large electrical stores with the huge Currys store at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol being a joy to my eyes, and I can well spend hours in there losing all concept of time.

My wife usually has to fish me out of there when she has completed her "rig out shop" or rings me to say she will meet me in some restaurant or pub etc.

So that is how we maintain "married bliss" on our shopping trips. ?

Oh forgot, for Christmas shopping, we always make it a weekend away. Last year we went to St Ives Cornwall. There are some wonderfull little gift shops in that town and the other small resort towns of cornwall where you really can get something different to the same run of the mill stuff you find in the big chain outlets.

The above makes for a lovely trip and hotel weekend and shopping together a pleasure.

Shopping together, key is, think outside the box. ??

I hate shopping. My husband is so much better than I am so I tend to let him go.

Ha ha! Coincidentally I asked my husband earlier today if he'd like to go shopping in Liverpool with me tomorrow. His reply? "I'd rather cut off both my arms and legs"!
As I'm much happier shopping alone, I'm fine with that. (Him staying at home, not dismembering himself!)

I leave mine in a book shop and know he will still be there when I am ready.

I do wonder why some women go shopping with their other half if it's a problem. I must admit I'd hate not to drive, I'm a terribly ponderous shopper, I wouldn't want to shop with me, I'm better on my own really. If we go together, I say to my husband "oh buy the paper and read it in the car, you know what I'm like especially round the bananas" don't want them too green or too small!

Kittylester I am in UK.
Thanks to all for your comments. I will have to just tell him exactly how I feel. Don’t think he will be pleased.

There is a pub next to the station in Liverpool with a blackboard outside instructing wives to leave their husbands in the creche.

My husband is a liability at the shops. He stands outside the shop telling me to 'take my time'. I prefer to leave him at home.

Just asking - are you in America?