Stock Pot
Senior Cook
I like to think my wife and I are pretty efficient shoppers, but things come up. Living in a rural area, we tend to buy for a week at a time. I put our dial at about 70% "use up the fridge".
Hi Stock Pot, We were a working family until a month ago and now DH is retired. We are trying to re-vamp our shopping now. So we would like to go out once a week and shop and yet we are people with lots of freezer space and pantry in the basement and we are trying to shop less. It's quite a transition really.
We are currently snowed in, and yet we need to leave so we don't drive each other crazy. So shopping is now an activity that we do to get out of each other's hair, not that we can afford it either. We used to shop JUST once a week to save money on gas, now we shop every few days wasting more money on gas than on food. It's ridiculous. 'What? we need a cucumber or 4 gallons of milk, I'll go to the grocery store.' Crazy people live here.
Your folks could be my folks in a way, except that mine aren't around to amuse me anymore. When Dad needed a break, he would head out to the garage in the decent weather, since he had a little workshop out there. He'd putter in the basement during cold weather. And when he really needed to get away, he'd head over to this old-school discount store (a very small chain worth of stores in the Cleveland area) called Silverman's. Dad could ALWAYS find a reason to make a run to Silverman's!My 85-year-old dad can't sit still for five minutes. He goes to the store at least once a day. Kroger, Target, Lowe's... there is always a reason for him to go somewhere -- just to go somewhere. Mom sews, reads and watches FoxNews all day. Dad spends all day finding "work" to do. ...
Your folks could be my folks in a way, except that mine aren't around to amuse me anymore. When Dad needed a break, he would head out to the garage in the decent weather, since he had a little workshop out there. He'd putter in the basement during cold weather. And when he really needed to get away, he'd head over to this old-school discount store (a very small chain worth of stores in the Cleveland area) called Silverman's. Dad could ALWAYS find a reason to make a run to Silverman's!
So this wasn't you then?We had about a week's notice pending the snow-storm that hit us last weekend...Ran out of bread and milk, but neither are crucial...