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To take an empty buggy to Lidl?

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Hopemore · 24/09/2013 22:33

Every time I go to Lidl I get a taxi back home and pay £10.
Sometimes I pop into Asda beforehand if I need to get something from there such as school uniform, etc..
Anyway, last time I had to wait nearly 1 hour for the taxi, and now I don't want to repeat the experience again. When I go to Sainsbury's, I wait for around 45 minutes too and from Asda the taxi is £15.

I am thinking of taking my old buggy to the supermarket tomorrow, so I can get on the bus and come back home with everything I need and still save the taxi money.

Would this be absolutely ludicrous?
I used to have a shopping stroller but can't fit much in there and is more difficult to pull than push a buggy...

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MisselthwaiteManor · 25/09/2013 07:09

I am quite shocked that you have to wait an hour for a taxi, round here it's about 5 minutes or there are taxi ranks all over town.

Crowler · 25/09/2013 07:16

I always WANTED to do this, but didn't. My husband told me people would think I was a loon, like the ladies who had the life-like dolls made and treated them like real babies. We had a good laugh over that show.

jchocchip · 25/09/2013 07:17

Use the buggy and save the taxi fare. Alternatively, if you don't have far to walk to a bus, do you have a large wheeled suitcase? Holds lots of shopping and takes up less room on bus.

PirateJelly · 25/09/2013 07:23

I do it Blush
since the car broke down an I can't afford a new one. Refuse to do an online shop as I save a fortune shopping at Farmfoods and Aldi. I can actually get almost a full shop on my Mclaren if I pack carefully. Then I push it the two miles home, saves £5 on a taxi. I am embarrassed by it, more so now DS has started school so I can't even bring him along as an excuse but no ones battered an eyelid tbh. I am also considering a pull along trolley and I'm 29 Grin

Therealamandaclarke · 25/09/2013 07:30

YWNBU.
Do it.

shrinkingnora · 25/09/2013 07:31

My dad takes a wheelbarrow to sainsburys. He does it so he can go to the local one without driving. I once overheard two women talking about the poor man who takes his wheelbarrow everywhere and how he is a bit mental. A pushchair is normal by comparison.

elfycat · 25/09/2013 10:18

I took my double buggy Xmas shopping a couple of years ago. I just explained that I'd dropped the DDs off at nursery and then popped in to get my shopping done. I was complimented on what a good idea that was and it was all working well.

Until I bumped into someone I knew, who knew that while my story was true that my DDs were in a nursery in another town...

We're back to a single buggy and I'm going to miss it. I can get a fairly good shop in the basket and a proper shop in there if I turf the toddler out. I might have to look at shopping trolley options as I never want to carry bags again.

nurseneedshelp · 25/09/2013 10:23

Another one voting for the buggy!
You could treat yourself to a bottle of wine with the taxi money you saved!

MadBusLady · 25/09/2013 10:25

I wouldn't think twice about it if I saw someone doing that. And if anyone does there are definite advantages to being considered a loon on public transport, you tend to get given a lot of space. Win win.

VenusDeWillendorf · 25/09/2013 10:27

I always do this.
I use a big muslin to cover my shopping!

jeanmiguelfangio · 25/09/2013 10:36

Do it!! Im sometimes a little cross my DD is too little and she takes up room in mine lol!! I am however queen of fitting a ridiculous amount of stuff on it!
Who cares what people think, do it and watch them all carrying their bags and look smug!!!!

WeeHelena · 25/09/2013 10:44

Yes definitely you should use your buggy and eventually get a trolley,no one will look twice,any one who does have too much time on their hands.

My dd is 3 and I'm going to miss my buggy for carrying the shopping.
I used to turf her out and get her to walk back or sit her on the hood/bar since she is generally lighter than the shopping would be it wouldn't tip over,I'm going to milk it til next summer though as she only has little legs anyway.Wink

Jellybeanz1 · 25/09/2013 11:08

I've got a couple of trolley bags I used to use them at school, to move heavy text books across a split site (teachers would call me bag lady but all good spirited). My favourite one I bought in a trendy design boutique in Amsterdam, 12 years ago made of nylon mesh, pink and orange. The wheels collapsed in an it could then be folded 3 times and put in a bag. The acid test was discerning yr 10 art students thought it trendy and took turns pulling it when we went around the Tate Modern.

Chattymummyhere · 25/09/2013 11:25

Sorry but round here you would be looked at like you had two heads..

The only people here who use buggys as trolleys are the erm less desirable type, who are trundling about talking to themselfs, with clothes that don't fit and a strong smell of stale beer and fags.

SpockSmashesScissors · 25/09/2013 11:41

but chatty how would they know, if I saw someone with their shopping in a pram I would assume they'd dropped their child at nursery and were doing some shopping on the way home.

Hope you're out shopping with your empty buggy op, Argos have shopping trolleys reduced to £14.24 here if you do want a new one.

ShakeRattleNRoll · 25/09/2013 11:48

Why don't you get a massive great rucksack while your at it so you can transport lots more goods home at the same time HTH all the best. Happy transporting!

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Hopemore · 25/09/2013 21:21

lololol at the wheel barrel and double buggy!

turned out I had to go opposite direction today, to solve a problem, so I left the buggy at home and had to go to Sainsburys with 2 carriers bags in my back pack just to buy few bits and pieces.

but next time it will be buggy for everything or delivery for heavy stuff.

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Hopemore · 25/09/2013 21:22

Thanks MNetters for the reassurance!

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FreshLeticia · 25/09/2013 21:30

I have a fab trolley I got in our local town made from recycled cement bags from India. Really sturdy, it has two pram wheels and will stand upright. I have two long-handled deep bags made from the same stuff, brilliant for carrying wine bottles Grin. TBH, I don't care what people think, it saves my poor back.

Seriously2712 · 25/09/2013 21:37

I used DDs pushchair the other day to drop several bags of clothes at a charity shop in town. (I'd left her at home with DH). As if it I didn't look odd enough wheeling round a buggy of carrier bags, I then looked like a very forgetful mother on way back to car with empty pushchair! ;-)

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Hopemore · 25/09/2013 21:42

Oh I hate pushing empty pushchairs.
I would happily buy one of those real look alike babies, if I found them cheap enough in a charity shop!

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idiuntno57 · 25/09/2013 21:48

as an aside I believe Lidl are selling shopping trolleys this week

jchocchip · 25/09/2013 22:22

Just remembered how I used to take the washing to the driers at the laundrette when we lived in a flat... And why not? Either that or use the car for a few hundred yards or live with airers full of damp washing all winter.

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Hopemore · 25/09/2013 22:35

Last time i went to the laundrette, a lady advised me: "don't use that one, I just dried my dog's bed in it"

I.never.went.there.again.

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