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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
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Anyone else's DH do the post food shop 'parade'?
CraneBoysMysteries · 18/03/2023 10:34
Softsoftsleep · 18/03/2023 11:03
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 😄
Sierra26 · 18/03/2023 11:34
Hahaha no, but loving this thread.
I can relate to some others with the high performance packing.
we usually shop together and he doesn’t let me pack, he loves fitting everything in neatly. Then anything which doesn’t fit will get chucked to me and I finish the job by shoving all the reject items in to a final bag 😂
Chilloutsnow · 18/03/2023 10:49
Oh my GOD I also get the parade. He will often hide things behind his back too like “guess what the treat is?” 😂🤦♀️. Usually something with copious amounts of sugar in. I am laughing a lot at this thread.
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