to expect DH to take a shopping list to the shops ?

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We just need dozen or so items from the shops to keep us going until Monday.
Left on his own devices DH will remember the majority of the items but miss a few and I end up having to make another trip to the corner shop, which defeats the idea of him going in the first place...grrr.

I wrote a shopping list for him as he refused to and he acted like I had cut his balls off. Gave it to toddler DD who is going with him to hold, sigh. Bet he forgetting at least one essential item, prob his mothers birthday card. Well, I am not going out later, sod it.

What is it with men and shopping lists or is it just mine.

dh does his own list for the big saturday shop as he does the cooking (he likes to cook and I dont!). I get odds and ends during the week but still do a list or I forget what I am going for.

No, YANBU.

Mine loves to take a list to the shop but he expects me to make it for him! I think that half the point of offering to do the shopping is that it's up to him to decide what we're going to need to eat/drink/clean the house with for the next few days etc. Especially because when I do the shopping somehow it magically all appears in the cupboards without me needing a list from DH. But when the tables are turned he basically refuses to go until provided with an idiot proof list, so I have to get up and poke around the kitchen/bathroom etc to see what we're running low on and think of meals to make etc, and then I feel like I might as well just go myself.

And then when I do give him a list, he still manages not to be able to find things and comes back with strange substitutes.

If he forgets something-send him back!

Text it to him?

I think this reluctant to use lists is linked to the inability to ask for directions when driving

I reckon this anti list thing, gives him a reason to buy crap things on offer whilst he shops.

YANBU and IMHO men don't do lists. A text is a good idea though

I don't use lists and neither does my husband

DH came back with all the items on the list plus chocolate cake, which is acceptable to me being a hormonal pregnant wife at the moment.

He read out to the list to me and said truimphfully that he had got everything on it and hence he didn't need it.

I turned to our toddler daughter and asked if daddy read the list in the shop "Yes mummy" she chirped innocently.

DH laughed, busted by a three year old

My DH will take a list; usually loose it or it ends up staining his shirt breast pocket 'cos it was a yellow post it and he didn't take it out when doing the wash!

yanbu
Bit odd, maybe a palm pilot would be more macho?
My dh writes lists, shops and cooks.

I write a list, ask my family for input on the list, and then leave the list at home. Every single week.

But grocery shopping is a family affair here. Because we are tragic and enjoy it. So we are both to blame if we forget things.

(It is my problem to menu plan, etc., though)