Too bad being a SAHM doesn't actually mean . . .

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you stay at home.

I have to go to the grocery store today and I don't wanna.

Waaaaaah!

[pennysuedog]

I know what you mean.

[Deleted]

I absolutely hate grocery shopping, I'm pretty sure I act worse than my kid when we go.

[scattered]

I used to like it, when my kid was all sweet and well behaved and old people would ooooh and aaaaah over him.

Now I'm that mom with the screaming kid who is about to be bribed with a chocolate chip granola bar.

[whitepicketfence]

May 11, 2012 14:36:29 GMT -5 @tickledpickle said:

I absolutely hate grocery shopping, I'm pretty sure I act worse than my kid when we go.

You've totally just described me.

[adhdfashion]

My kid just threw a hell fit in the middle of Joann's. I'm seriously considering a leash.

I also hate grocery shopping. But not as much as dishes.

[keh2oblue]

Haha...seriously. DD is way too old to be eating snacks every time we go out, but really, how else am I going to keep her quiet.

Oh, and my closest grocery store just got these kids sized shopping carts, and DD loves them. She's like a nascar driver with those things. I finally told the cashier we would no longer be shopping there...the kids carts are the devil!

[statlerwaldorf]

I leave DD with DH when I go grocery shopping. There is something about the grocery store that makes her possessed. If it's been a really rough week, I milk that childfree time as much as I can.

[jenifairies]

May 11, 2012 19:00:32 GMT -5 adhdfashion said:

My kid just threw a hell fit in the middle of Joann's. I'm seriously considering a leash.

I also hate grocery shopping. But not as much as dishes.

I tried a leash once in Hancock fabrics when Alaina was 2ish. She was flailing like a fish on a hook and crashing into all sorts of shit. I wouldn't recommend it!

I hate running errands with that kid. I'm hoping for a solo grocery store trip for mothers day!

[humpty]

I make my H do the shopping. It is so much better on my sanity.

[regenab]

I am making my monthly trip to the Commissary (military grocery store) today. It takes me about 3 hours round trip, which is why I only do it once a month. Luckily I have a friend coming to watch my girls so I don't have to take them with me, they are a nightmare to take along. Just wish I could do something for myself during those 3 hours instead, but alas we need food for the next month so off I go.

[sawyerthedestroyer]

May 11, 2012 19:00:32 GMT -5 adhdfashion said:

My kid just threw a hell fit in the middle of Joann's. I'm seriously considering a leash.

I also hate grocery shopping. But not as much as dishes.

No no no, folding laundry is the absolute worst.

[wrathfulmom]

May 12, 2012 11:35:41 GMT -5 regenab said:

I am making my monthly trip to the Commissary (military grocery store) today. It takes me about 3 hours round trip, which is why I only do it once a month. Luckily I have a friend coming to watch my girls so I don't have to take them with me, they are a nightmare to take along. Just wish I could do something for myself during those 3 hours instead, but alas we need food for the next month so off I go.

See I just make my husband do the commissary run, he's already on base for work anyway, I just use the excuse that its a waste of gas for me to drive the 20 miles over there. Of course it means I don't always get what I want, but its totally worth it!

[wrathfulmom]

May 12, 2012 12:12:22 GMT -5 sawyerthedestroyer said:

No no no, folding laundry is the absolute worst.

[heightsyankee]

I will go to great lengths to be sure I can get to the store without my kids, even if it means going at 9 at night.

[agrippa]

Grocery shopping is my Sunday morning kid free time. :-)

[ttaplehcar]

May 12, 2012 17:56:31 GMT -5 heightsyankee said:

I will go to great lengths to be sure I can get to the store without my kids, even if it means going at 9 at night.

Going late is the best time to go! Less people standing in front of EXACTLY what you need.

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May 11, 2012 19:00:32 GMT -5 adhdfashion said:

My kid just threw a hell fit in the middle of Joann's. I'm seriously considering a leash.

I also hate grocery shopping. But not as much as dishes.

Oh hell no! No one comes between me and my Joanns.

[dragonfly08]

I actually like grocery shopping. I get my half-caff hazelnut vanilla coffee, and take my time browsing. Of course, it helps that my kids are old enough to be in school so I don't have to take them with me (and if for some reason I do need to shop when they're home, and during the summer if it's not a camp day, Wegmans has their WKids play area where I can check them in and everybody's happy). NOT looking forward to the fall when DD #1 ages out of that! Then again, she's actually quiet and helpful when I shop so having her along wouldn't be terrible assuming her little sister will go play without her.

Now cleaning bathrooms, that's my least favorite chore. I'd do a zillion loads of laundry or take my kids to every store in existence just to avoid that!

[ariel06]

Shopping without the kids is the best thing ever. DS2 isn't so bad if I go quick, but DS1 is a menace.

[blindyswife]

I didn't used to mind bringing L with me to the grocery store. Until recently, when he gets pissed when he sees me put bananas/yogurt/any-grocery-item in the cart, and not giving them to him.

[regenab]

May 12, 2012 17:51:02 GMT -5 wrathfulmom said:

May 12, 2012 11:35:41 GMT -5 regenab said:

I am making my monthly trip to the Commissary (military grocery store) today. It takes me about 3 hours round trip, which is why I only do it once a month. Luckily I have a friend coming to watch my girls so I don't have to take them with me, they are a nightmare to take along. Just wish I could do something for myself during those 3 hours instead, but alas we need food for the next month so off I go.

See I just make my husband do the commissary run, he's already on base for work anyway, I just use the excuse that its a waste of gas for me to drive the 20 miles over there. Of course it means I don't always get what I want, but its totally worth it!

Someday, someday! My DH is only home 3 days a month so I have to do it. But when he retires in 2 years and moves home he is hoping to get a job as a civilian on MacDill and that is when he will be doing the commissary shopping because it is 25 mile one way for us. Of course we will have to have a training session at first so he gets what he is supposed to. When I sent him to the commissary when we lived on Ft. Belvoir when the girls were 4 months old I asked him to pick me up a small beef roast that I could make. He did come home with a small 3lb. roast, but it cost $25. I didn't even know the Commissary sold pieces of meat that cost $25. I mean it was very tender, but still I have never spent over $7 on a piece of beef. But at least he tried, I know some husbands that won't even do that.

[SpartanGirl]

May 12, 2012 8:13:01 GMT -5 humpty said:

I make my H do the shopping. It is so much better on my sanity.

This is my strategy too.