...To Think There Is Male Shopping Brain...?

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Spouse said he'd do the shoppipng we needed yesterday, to stock up after the holiday break.

He went to the local High Street a few minutes away, and spent an hour shopping. On his return he said he'd been to two supermarkets, the two Asian run grocery shops and the chemists.

What he came back with
400 g cumin seed
1 jar mango pickle
4 bottles beer
2 toothbrush heads in contrasting colours - because the old ones were the same colour
Fancy little tomatoes
Sliced white sourdough

What he didn't get
Butter
Bananas
Frozen Peas
Bacon
Cheese
Milk

Thoughts?

Ohhh what's the app? Sounds great. I forget to write things on the list and DC not always around to ask what they want.

DH? I didn’t know you were on MN!

What there's another like me! You poor woman! Mind you I bet he doesn't whinge as much as me even though I know I should I put it on the list.

the app we use is called Bring! and it has been working out pretty well for us - we've used it about 3 months so far.

It is american though so you have to remember to write "garbage bags" or "laundry detergent" if you want the cute little icons to show. Or you can just add your own things (and in some cases change the icon too)

Plenty of men like this about.

I think some men just can't shop, my husband does the majority of the shopping and we both forget things we haven't put on the list.

It's quite basic, really. I've no idea why "some men can't shop".
If you have a list, tick the items off as you buy them.
Before you leave the house, check the cupboards and fridge for what you need.

It's like that Fast Show sketch where the husband goes shopping and returns with completely random items. Except that was a comedy sketch and meant to be funny.

This behaviour is not endearing or "ooh what's he like".

You need to give him a list. I use an app called listonic, I make the list then share it with my husband. He has been trained to shopping by himself.

You've married a boy. There's a lot of it about. Sorry.

You learn to work round it, or you retrain your spouse, or you make alternative life arrangements. (sigh)

My DP does the food shopping and the monthly Tesco online shop. Yours is just not attuned to what’s in the fridge or not.

Hey, I’m not complaining. Methodical is good!

It's your DH...
I'm a top notch shopper 👌😀 Never run short of essentials, cupboards highly organised 👍 I'm great at clothes shopping too 😂 (but I'm rubbish at DIY)

But I'm dressing you in tweed, jeans pearls and a big hat..

Mine keeps buying multiples of the same thing. Next week he’ll buy the same and I’ll open the cupboard with 3 tins of Quality Street and 4 large bags of Doritos still unopened wtf!

Before we were distracted by children-wrangling, I loved going clothes-shopping with dh. He approached it with objective methodicality. As long as we had a clear objective. Dh is not a random browser. 90% of the time we returned home with exactly what I needed.

Anyway, I like tweed, pearls, jeans and big hats. And I wear them (well, I would, if I had any tweed) - though not all at the same time!

You get it, the classic look. But once buy for life. Charity shops are the best bet my wife got a lovely jacket for £10 last week simple top jeans and she looks like a winner at Ascot

Not the horse?

Seems like a your DH issue. Mine does all the food shopping, plans the meals, cooks the meals.
Now if I was doing the shopping I can safely say it would take multiple trips out to get the things I forget because I’m distracted by all the offers and shiny packets, I’m basically a magpie in human form.

Yes, DH does all the grocery shopping here. I have a bad habit of not buying anything if I go food shopping when I'm not hungry.

Same. My contribution is adding yummy snacks to the list 🤣

Now you’re over-egging the pudding.

Male shopping brain is the same as female driving brain.

A lazy stereotype.

Christ that’s very combative for the crime of forgetting the bananas

Blown your stack? He must be shit scared of you