Anyone else's DH do the post food shop 'parade'?

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Most of the time, with two small children, I will organise the food shop. Either go and get it or do a click and collect order. We have a system of writing on a whiteboard everything we need. It's not too onerous and sort of just happens in the background

Today my DH has physically gone to the shops. And I've just had the post shop 'parade' as I call it

DH reached into bag and pulls out a cucumber 'look at this! We've not been able to get salad for weeks and I found one!!' (Beaming)

Pulls out loo roll. 'Now this is more expensive but is a bigger roll! Look how much fatter it is! So I reckon I've saved us some money here'. Me 'yes, we've had them for ages'

Reveals a dozen eggs 'AND I was able to find twelve eggs, but they're white! WHITE!! Amazing!'

Pulls out a couple of bottles of bleach. 'Now, I know you said bleach but you didn't say scent so I decided to go for lemon as thought it would make the loos smell a bit nicer! Good idea, right?'

...and on it goes. Each product has some story to it or money saving.

The food shop takes an hour but I reckon the post shop parade takes just as long 😆

Anyone else's other half do this or just mine? I do remind him that when I do it, it just happens but he seems to enjoy going over his haul for some reason

Oh dear. I think I might be the parader 😳

We do it online but I really like getting stuff that’s slightly different or adding little surprises then revealing them on arrival! It does sound a bit sad now I say it out loud 😂

Hahaha OH NO I have learnt from this thread that I am guilty of post food shop parade 😂 my poor DH

I get a silent parade. He leaves the shopping for me to put away so I 'know what's in there'. I could figure it out by looking in the fridge, but hey 😄

Omg this is so funny OP!!!

MY DH DOES THIS TOO. Every. Week.

I do this too.

'And guess what I've got .... FOR LUNCHBOXES' pulls out exotic cheese with a flurry.

Obviously have to present the dog with a purchased treat too.

I'm imagining him wrestling a lasagne into submission in aisle 5 of Tesco

Mine does this. I love it, and find it totally endearing. He also likes to lay everything out, so I can go and look at it all, when he’s veered away from our standard shop.

Enjoying this thread 😂

Both me and DH do this

I used to do this myself bc it was easier & more fun for me than facing twenty questions about what food was in, or worse having long-dated food scoffed first & short-dated stuff thrown out.

in my own head I’d also play the generation game music to accompany the ‘parade’

didn’t work perfectly but definitely helped the men in the family to remember what had been bought/needed used first

and amused me at least more than once thinking up a ‘story’ for each item that might make it more visible to those of the male persuasion easily remembered aa being in the cupboard/fridge/wherever

Haha, yes! My DH does this too, bless him. He's always so excited to show me what bargains he's found and how well he's done 🤣

Or bearing a 2 dozen pack of loo rolls across his manly shoulders like a deer hunter

This thread is pure fun and joy, I love it. Thank you 😊 🥰

My dp piles up all of the exciting* purchases on the kitchen counter for me to fawn over 🤣

*by exciting I mean a larger than normal camembert, my fave bread, chocolate buttons

This is so endearing. I love it 😍

😂😂

Just realised me and my husband both do this 🤣🤣🤣

My DH does this, but he also keeps it all in bags in the kitchen and expects me to go through to see his purchases, and also put it away...under the guise of this sort of parade! I've cottoned on now so no longer fall for this.

When I do a shop, it's just assumed I get everything needed or a useful replacement!

My DH doesn't realise that I do at least one shop a week, thinks all the food and cleaning products just magically appear. Then when he does do a shop makes a big deal of "doing a shop" - needs half a day, goes on about how expensive it was etc.

I thought it was just mine! He shops, puts it away but leaves out the interesting things on the table for me to …approve / praise / critique? I think it stems back to our cave dwelling ancestors who who go out and hunt and gather and display their goods when they came back to the cave.

It’s not called a parade, it’s called Show and Tell. I make my husband watch mine 😂

My dog gets involved too and has a right good rummage through the shopping bags , as often he will have remembered something for her too.😃

Don't spoil his enjoyment, it must be a new thing for him - how refreshing. Hope he keeps it up, at least he's not moaning or refusing to do it! Bear with him! Life's little pleasures!

I do this for myself, but only for good yellow sticker discounts. Love a yellow sticker.

Mine does it a bit. Especially with reductions. I find it quite endearing.

I’m with your fella but I like to put all the purchases on the worktop in a ‘harvest festival’ style arrangement. Usually it’s only me that sees it but omg if there’s someone else home they better come take a look and if they make an appreciative ‘oooh’ noise that’s me secretly happy. I don’t do a speech to go with it, the visuals tell the story well enough.