Do we have taco seasoning?

[cdrn1]

My hubby does most of the groc shopping. Overall he's pretty good, but there are a few things that he buys EVERY TIME he goes: taco seasoning, BBQ sauce, and Ziploc bags...I don't have enough room to store them all!
I just sent him to the store for lettuce and tomatoes for tacos, and what does he say on his way out? "DO WE HAVE ANY TACO SEASONING?"!!!!
I pulled a giant Ziploc bag out of the cupboard and asked him, "What do you think?" and for curiosity's sake I counted out 32 packets!!!
Anyone else do this? Or have a SO that does? If so, what is his or her obsession???

Also, EVERY month he asks me if I paid the TV cable bill. I have not missed it once in 31 years; he has not missed asking me once in 31 years! The mortgage be da***d, who cares, but the CABLE is another story!

 

[Lachesis00]

I do that too!

I have enough taco seasoning to last a lifetime. It's fajita seasoning I always think I have and never do LOL

 

[sweetspicy]

That's kind of like me, and with a similar product too! I always think we need taco shells, so there's like a ton of boxes of them in the cabinet. I think we're set on those for a while.

 

[SDFgirl]

I always accidentally buy too much cream of chicken soup. I pick up a can or two every time I go to the grocery because I use it in so many "Tuesday night" kind of recipes.

I was looking the other day - I think I have 10 to 12 cans in there!

 

[lalijack]

My best friend and I laugh about this all the time. My personal grocery obsessions are paper towels and boxes of pasta. Hers are frozen peas and dish soap. At first, we attributed the odd buying habits to pregnancy, since we were both pregnant w/our 2nd children when we noticed these quirks. But, since that was almost 6 years ago, that may be a little much.

DH teases me, but darnit, in the event of an emergency, we'll have lint-free quicker picker-uppers and penne enough to last until the Red Cross can get to us!!!!!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Dh does this with hamburgers from Costco. We have 3 pkgs in the freezer and everytime he stops by there he picks another one up. I keep saying we need to have a BBQ to get rid of all the hamburgers.

 

[rascalmom]

DH is obsessed with cinnamon, tea bags & ink pens. No ideas what the deal is with cinnamon - it's not like the man cooks! I think he puts in his tea occassionally - but he has cinnamon flavored tea...and lemon...and mango...and raspberry...and Earl Grey..and orange pekoe..and on and on and on!

He has a passion for pens too - not the plain ones either. He uses a PalmPilot & he buys the pens with the little stylus built into them. He must have dozens - I find them stashed everywhere!

I have a thing with powdered sugar. I guess I like to have it on hand for those emergency cake-icing needs. DD cleaned out the pantry yesterday & found six boxes stashed in there. I refuse to talk about apricot Jello....

 

[RNMOM]

Brown sugar here....I kept putting Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts on the grocery list and kept getting bags of brown sugar. Six of them. We finally got it straightened out now. I gave a couple to my sister and guess what? Yep, ran out of brown sugar over the holidays. DH just rolled his eyes. I never did get the pop tarts.

I am also a dish detergent hoarder. TP too. I have to have a stash of a dozen rolls or more or I feel nervous about it. Never know when the GI flu bug could hit.

 

[PeterPanette]

Too funny!

My husband's shopping fixation is on his deodorant. He buys one every single time he goes shopping. One day he came in with a bag of groceries, and as I pulled out yet another deodorant, I told him that he just bought one, like, day before yesterday. He denied it.

So, I discreetly slipped into our bathroom, dug out the 5 other SpeedSticks under his sink, and arranged them in a perky little store display on top of our bathroom counter for him to marvel over on his next trip to the toilet.

So, now, it's a running joke that each time he buys another deodorant, I always say, "Oh? Re-stocking the shelves, are we?"

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Chicken stock in a box is my thing. In my defense though, it will get used

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

My husband always ALWAYS buys trash bags and toilet paper. I can send him for milk and he'll come home with one or the other.

 

[Tazicket]

I do that with canned corn, canned green beans, baked beans, and refried beans. I must have a thing for beans, huh? We go to the store and I can never remember (even though I just looked) whether we have any canned veggies, so I pick up a can of corn and a can of greenbeans- they're on the small list of veggies that DH and I will both eat. Whenever we have a Mexican food night, we can never remember whether we have refried beans, so we pick up a can to add to the collection. And on bbq nights, we get a can of baked beans and also a can of german potato salad just in case.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Too funny!

My husband's shopping fixation is on his deodorant. He buys one every single time he goes shopping. One day he came in with a bag of groceries, and as I pulled out yet another deodorant, I told him that he just bought one, like, day before yesterday. He denied it.

So, I discreetly slipped into our bathroom, dug out the 5 other SpeedSticks under his sink, and arranged them in a perky little store display on top of our bathroom counter for him to marvel over on his next trip to the toilet.

So, now, it's a running joke that each time he buys another deodorant, I always say, "Oh? Re-stocking the shelves, are we?"

Oh my word, my husband does this too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kami2199]

Toilet paper here - I think as a kid they must have ran out a lot. He buys the huge 24 packs that are double rolls...twice a week . He gets annoyed with me at a store if I tell him to put it back because we have plenty. I kid you not, we probably have over 100 rolls right now!

 

[my3kids]

My DH drives me crazy when he grocery shops. Not even getting into the cubboards full of junk stuff he buys and a refrigerator full of meat and cheese. It is the LIMES that get me! Limes?? He brings a big bag home every time. I don't cook with them, they aren't key limes for a pie. He only uses them in Corona beer but he doesn't bring that home with the limes. I send about a lime a day down the disposal. What possesses him once he goes through that automatic door I have yet to figure out.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

Toilet paper. I buy it everytime I shop, whether we need it or not.

Also, tuna fish. I once had my entire cupboard FULL of cans of tuna.

 

[GoofyBaseballMom26]

I buy bananas! And never eat them... my DH tells me I should go ahead and throw them away as I'm leaving the grocery store instead of bringing them home to throw away. Oh well.. I have good intentions.

 

[DMickey28]

This is Awesome! My DH hardly ever shops so we don't have the issue with him. I go through phases. For a while there I had so much chicken broth I didn't know what to do. Now I still think I have a ton of Chicken Broth but I actually have NONE. Right now though (and you can tell I am pregnant) we have five different containers of ice cream in the freezer along with a box of popsicles!! Our meat and other frozen goods are in a chest freezer so when you open up the freezer in the kitchen you see three different kinds of Edy's, two different Breyers, a huge box of popsicles from BJ's, a new tub of cool whip and then a bag of green beans!!!!

I also went through a forgetful phase a while ago. We had run out of paper towels but I kept forgetting and buying a case of toliet paper. I finally realized that when I walked out of BJ's and went to put the TP In the car and opened the bag to see TWO other big cases there. So now there is TP stocked in the bathrooms, one case in the foyer and another in the car!! I did remember to get paper towels though!

 

[FayeW]

My DH drives me crazy when he grocery shops. Not even getting into the cubboards full of junk stuff he buys and a refrigerator full of meat and cheese. It is the LIMES that get me! Limes?? He brings a big bag home every time. I don't cook with them, they aren't key limes for a pie. He only uses them in Corona beer but he doesn't bring that home with the limes. I send about a lime a day down the disposal. What possesses him once he goes through that automatic door I have yet to figure out.

That's funny! I have a related story: A few days before Christmas, my husband kept telling me we needed lemons. Off I go to the store, and I finally remembered to buy lemons. On Christmas Eve, an hour or so before our guests were to arrive, he opened the fridge door and said "Oh Dear". I asked what was wrong and he said "When I said we needed lemons, you were supposed to know I really meant limes!"

He needed it for his Corona, too. Guess what...he drank it with lemons!

 

[Cindy's Mom]

For DH its eye drops, he has about 10 bottles in the linen closet.

For me, its Uncle Ben's Chicken Flavored rice and Lipton Alfredo Noodles. I have NO IDEA why I must buy them every single time I go to the store. After I do inventory of the pantry and notice that I have too many of rice and noodles, I change my compulsion to boxes of Barilla Pasta.

Yea, I like starches....