"It all seems very stressful for you." IT IS! Thanks for acknowledging that I'm actually near in tears over this! I'm housebound and RELY on deliveries!
"Do you have a carer could this be one of their tasks" don't have a carer (I wish! Currently have zero support at all due to local Nhs cock ups!) but actually even if I did it would STILL be a palava as I have very specific ways I put my shopping away. Partly due to the ocd but partly because the limited space I have means I HAVE to in order to fit everything in!
"Do you have any other supermarket options that deliver?" Where I live only a few deliver, Tesco Asda and Sainsburys. I tried Tesco and Asda and had LOADS of issues with ridiculous and numerous subs, double charges etc (I'm on a tight budget I cannot manage double charges and having to wait up to 3 weeks for it to be refunded!)
"How much do you spend?" 2 deliveries not an option, I find it hard enough managing one! It's an exhausting day for me and leaves me buggered for next few days.
"or would you let them into your flat and then you can unload straight onto your worktops" already pointed out CANNOT unload straight onto worktops as only have ONE sized 0.75m X 0.75m - not even one crate worth would fit on it!
"I know you said you had nowhere to keep lots of bags for life" I really don't! If you're stood at the cooker if you step back rather than side ways you bump into the cupboards and knock the toaster and kettle on the HALF width counter there that the toaster and kettle BARELY fit onto! If I were to hang bags onto cupboards/door handles they would cause trips and accidents (in the kitchen while handling hot pans and sharp knives!) I TRIED having one of those bag storage things for the carrier bags but not matter where I put it, it caused problems.
DEFINITELY no room for ikea bags! Not even collapsed!
Ocd means I am limited in where I can store bags and quite honestly once they've been folded I don't trust them any more, because I don't know if the bit that has been on the floor has touched a "clean" bit.
"If you have nowhere to store bags for life, where do you store the bags from the delivery?" I re-use them as bin bags for my small bins so they are stored on the floor under a cupboard next to the kitchen bin. I could NOT store other bags here and re-use them for new clean groceries (I'm also now going to have to buy bin bags for the small bins so arguably not really using less plastic AND I'd only be using these ONCE)
"Could you get the delivery for when your dd is home so she can help?" She is also disabled and struggles with lifting heavy items and bending and stretching. She also works shifts and these often are changed last minute and so could not plan around her.
"will slide down the side of an appliance or something similar"
With the OCD these areas to me are "dirty" I would not use bags stored there EVER again for "clean" jobs.
"Sounds like you need to move house! Surely the council could help...if your kitchen is that small for you both then you must be overcrowded?" I'm already in social housing, ALL the kitchens are this size in 2 bed properties here. DEFINITELY designed by a bloody man!!
"I decant at the door into a hard plastic laundry basket - do you already have something like this that you can use?"
I have a VERY small plastic crate I use for laundry that I would NOT use for anything else, it is stored on a very specific clean place outside the kitchen. It would not hold more than half a crates worth anyway and I usually get 4 crates worth delivered.
"Also, perhaps use a cloth with antibacterial spray to wipe things off before putting away." I already go through around a dozen cans of disinfectant a week. This is not cheap and only works so far in making me feel things are "clean".
"Have a sheet down on the floor, put the shopping on that then put it away at your leisure and then wash the sheet?" Even if I used a new sheet each time I wouldn't touch those groceries again. It just doesn't feel enough of a barrier between groceries and floor. I only ever put dirty things on the floor.
Quite honestly I'm seriously pissed off! I understand the need to stop using plastic BUT why can they not move to biodegradable cellulose bags or paper ones?!