Why can't I abandon paper shopping lists... WAILS

[BlingLoving]

I am about 99% paper free in my work - I take notes using Microsoft One Note, use PDFs and a stylus on my IPAD if i need to review documents in "writing". I have all my devices synced.

I also have an Alexa which I use to build shopping lists. It is painless to send that list to my phone. And yet.... I am about to go shopping and, as always, I'm about to start writing the list down. Why? Why? How do I stop?

Yeah, yeah, but your phone switches off and you're continually having to stuff around switching it on again in the middle of the shop. Also, I've stopped taking my phone with me when I'm shopping due to CV - don't want to be touching stuff, then touching phone. Paper lists are great and really far simpler than electronic versions.

I have an app on my phone for making a shopping list. It is simply that. A shopping list. It is simply called Shopping List too.

I like it and will never use paper ones again.

Meh....I like a paper list.

The closest we've got to paper free on this is a whiteboard on the fridge. We add as we go (half is a list of what we need the other half is a list of meals I can make with what we already have. I shop when the grocery list is long and the meal list is short).

I take a picture of it before I go to the shops.

Pre Covid did you use the clip some supermarkets have on trolley to hold the list- easier than taking out phone. I use a list on my phone and find it easier. I presume you still get some letters so if use the back of an envelope you are re-using

Dictaphone?

Recite your list and play it back to yourself when you need it.

I write a paper list for shopping because it sticks in my head better through the act of physically writing it, I rarely even refer to it on my way round the shop but writing it down on paper makes it stick in a way my phone shopping list app / notes don't
I always do it on something from the recycling box and it goes back in so I am happy

I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's true - the hassle of getting my phone out, waking it up, holding it to see etc... After I did this thread I decided to stop being pathetic and I used my phone. But yes, it is not as convenient as a paper list when wandering around the store....

Also I know you can share lists on apps but it’s a faff, we haves paper one lying round at home that anyone can add to.

I still use paper lists because I CBA with faffing around with my phone in a supermarket.

I have always used paper , it's easier I write the list throughout the week on a post it note.
A mate of mine got his phone swiped while looking at a shopping list on it , fortunately he caught up with the scrote in the car park and had a quiet word with him in the only way he knows how as a rugby foward !