Why can't my husband follow a simple grocery list?

[Ragnrok23]

Getting married in 18 months- then I NEVER have to go to the grocery store again!!!!!!!!!

FYI- I have to rearrange all the dishes after my fiance puts them in. She doesn't understand that some of the plates are too big to put in upright, you have to angle them in on the sides

 

[agnes!]

slightly ot, but this reminds me of the time i got into a fight with the person at customer service at the grocery store becaus ehe insisted cheese whiz was that spray cheese in a can. finally i just gave up and asked where the velveeta was. go figure - the cheese whiz was right next to it.

How old was the customer service person? I seem to remember (years ago, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Walt Disney was living) that "Cheese Whiz" *was* the "spray cheese in a can", not the stuff we now have that's in a jar.

agnes!

 

[jbdreamer]

How old was the customer service person? I seem to remember (years ago, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Walt Disney was living) that "Cheese Whiz" *was* the "spray cheese in a can", not the stuff we now have that's in a jar.

agnes!

Yes, I have always thought of Cheese Whiz as the "Spray cheese" too. I have never seen it any other way. And I'm only 25.


To the OP: At least your husband brings home the stuff on your list. My DH ALWAYS forgets something. Last time I was making soup for company and he didn't bring home the Chicken Stock. How can I make soup without broth?

 

[ktpool]

The problem with this thread is your DH's are whipped. Its woman's work to shop and your DH's should refuse to do it and send you on your way to do the shopping after you make him a sandwich!!

Ummm...no sandwhich fixins' ..someone forgot to go to the grocery store

 

[Mari annie]

You should be happy that your dh goes shopping!

Mine goes all the time and if he gets something I didn't say to*, it's so trite, let it go! By the nagging of thinking you are always right he just may decide to tell you, go yourself.

Focus on more important things, like your next trip to WDW!!!!
LOL!!!!


2 1/2 more weeks to see the Mickey!!!!
yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[thegales]

tina - we have little magnets that say clean and dirty that we put on the fridge for exactly that reason.

Hey, at least us men know that dishes go in the dishwasher, and not the fridge.

 

[thegales]

DH just returned from the grocery store with a very simple list. One item on the list was a 24 roll pack of Charmin toilet tissue. He returned home with a pack of six MEGA rolls instead. I pointed out his mistake and he pointed the the writing on the package - "6 MEGA rolls = 24 regular rolls." Shall I challenge him to try to fit one of these huge MEGA rolls onto the little tissue dispenser in the bathroom? They're as big as a roll of paper towels!!!

It's working! It's working! You are slowly figuring out our plan. You ask us to do something simple. We get it partially right, but we are sure to make some kind of mistake. You ask us to do it again, and we mess up again. After a few more tries, you stop asking and you do it yourself.

 

[delilah]

It's working! It's working! You are slowly figuring out our plan. You ask us to do something simple. We get it partially right, but we are sure to make some kind of mistake. You ask us to do it again, and we mess up again. After a few more tries, you stop asking and you do it yourself.

I knew it all along. That's what I tell my husband, and he looks at me as if I've totally hurt his feelings, though. I know he has to be smarter than to make some of the mistakes he does, since he works at a chemist at a major pharmaceutical firm, and if he made the same type of errors there, he would be jobless.

 

[grlpwrd]

I consider it collateral damage.

I'd rather he come home with the wrong brand of toilet paper which we will use regardless rather than me hauling all 5 of our kids with me.

He usually calls me on his cell to reconfirm things if he gets confused, though, but what really gets to me is when he can leisurely prance in and get some distilled water since that is what he only drinks and then not even ask what I wanted.... like when I really wanted some milk or something. Ack! lol

 

[drakethib]

Ok all of you man-bashers.

Be happy your DH is shopping.

After all, that is womans work !!! (ducking and running as fast as I can out of this thread)..


I will admit I suffer from this as well. I usually call my wife many times while at the grocery store to ask a question or two on the list.

With that being said, we (men) aren't mind readers either. Just because you write down kleenex and we bring home a box that "doesn't go with the room color" isn't always our fault. We try !!!!

Zipping up the fame suit.

 

[dsanner106]

Several of the big chain grocery stores will let you fax them a list and have it ready for you to pick up. If one near you does this it solves the problem

Drew

 

[delilah]

Ok all of you man-bashers.

Be happy your DH is shopping.

After all, that is womans work !!! (ducking and running as fast as I can out of this thread)..


I will admit I suffer from this as well. I usually call my wife many times while at the grocery store to ask a question or two on the list.

With that being said, we (men) aren't mind readers either. Just because you write down kleenex and we bring home a box that "doesn't go with the room color" isn't always our fault. We try !!!!

Zipping up the fame suit.

How funny! I usually know that I will save alot of time in the long run if just go to the store myself. I usually only send him if it is something very specific. Even at that, he will come home with two bags of chips and other snacks that weren't on the list. As a matter of fact, last Sunday, after church, we stopped by the grocery for sushi for lunch. I had the sushi selection in my hand, and my son needed to go to the bathroom. (Taking our son the the restroom is women's work, too, you see, even though he is eight years old, and won't go into the ladies' room). In the two minutes it took to go, my husband had loaded up with an armful of salty snacks. Actually, we get all of our toilet paper and facial tissue at Sam's Club, which only has white.

As far as it being "women's work". Well, I suppose so, along with everything else around the house. My husband actually doesn't "own" any household chores, except lawn mowing and removing cat excrement from the cat box. My job with respect to those is mopping the floor around the cat box where the cat misses (at least once a day, and usually more), and trimming the edges, pulling weeds, planting new plants, trimming trees, and mulching. I work, too, and my salary is more than twice his base salary (his company does profit sharing, and some years he does get a nice bonus).

I just know his strengths and weaknesses, and try to adapt to them.

 

[castleview]

That is too funny!! It's the same here. Actually it's not that he'll mess up the list I give him. He'll get everything on the list exactly as asked for, but then he'll some back with a whole bunch more!! He'll take a list with 5 items on it and come back with 5 bags of groceries!!!

That's my husband. I won't even bring him WITH me because I know we'll have at least $50 more to pay. Can you imagine what it was like when we belonged to Costco?

 

[MICKEY88]

this thread is so amusing, has anyone else noticed that men are wrong no matter what they do,

if they buy a larger size because it was cheaper, that is wrong,

if they buy something they want, that is wrong,

so if they save money they are wrong, if they spend money without authorization they are wrong..


it amazes me the number of dictatorship households,

the women decide what products and the husbands have no say on how the family money is spent

 

[delilah]

My husband is more than welcome to do all the grocery shopping when he decides to plan and cook all the meals. It is really frustrating to send an adult with a graduate degree to the grocery store for something like "1 red and 1 green bell pepper", and he comes home 2 hrs later with two loaves of french bread, two bags of Doritos, a 12 pk of beer. and a shaker of cayenne. Particularly since at the store we use, you need to walk right by the bell peppers to buy bread. If he wants to eat french bread, doritos and beer, that is his choice, but, I was planning to cook fajitas for dinner. This really happened. I can't really feed my 5yo son beer and doritos for dinner. CPS might get involved.