Shopping Lists

The Simplest Shopping List. By Robert Lett.

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I've tried many different shopping lists within the last four years. Some have so many whistles & bells that you almost have to read the manual to operate them! Some people really like these programs, many have good points, but those good points sometimes make the program a little more difficult to operate.

The whistle & bells. Well, they got some programs that actually allow you to enter the price of what you picking, so as you run through the store, you know approximately how much it's going to cost for what you have so far. "I only go shopping once every other month, if I used that program, instead of taking me an hour, I'd probably still be there when the lights turned off."

Other programs allow you to enter stuff in that you normally get every time you go shopping, that's a nice feature. This way milk, butter, eggs, etc. are always on the list and you don't need to worry about adding them. Of course for me, it would look more like, beer, pizza, cheese, milk, cookies, beer, etc., just kidding!? Did I mention beer?

Some of these programs even have alarms that will go off when it's time for you to go shopping! Hmmm, I usually just go shopping when there is nothing else in the house to eat. That's an alarm within itself!

The most difficult one I found had some really great ideas, maybe too many great ideas. It allowed you to enter in prices for items you buy. This would automatically put the price in when you entered the item at home. Then it would ask where the item was located in the store. "This IS a great thing for guys, most of us aren't very good at finding things in store. Well, we do know how to find the beer section!" After you have used the program for about four or five times and entered all the data it asks for, it actually is nice to use. At home, when you realize you need something and you enter it in on your list, the program enters the price next to the item and puts it in an order where you can walk from one side of the store to the other, and be done with your shopping! Now that is nice, mainly for us guys. But it's a pain to get setup. And all your work comes crashing down on you when you go to different store! Just hope, if you spent all that time setting the program up, you don't move to another location. And of course, that's goes for the store closing and moving either. I figured by the time I could get that program completely setup running, the store would go and rearrange the whole thing on me because some marketing guru company told them that nothing was in the right order.

With all that's out there, I like to just use the KISS method, Keep It Simple Stupid method. I just use the Memo Pad! I keep all that stuff I get every time right at the top of the file. You know, the beer, pizza... I mean the milk, eggs, and so on. Since I've always got the phone with me, I just pull it out, write it down right when I think of it, and forget about it. The next time I'm at the store, I just take a look at the file. And everything is there. You know, I think some people really like making life harder than it was ever meant to be! Everybody knows a person like that, don't you?

The Memo Pad has no whistles & bells, but seems to be the best thing that works every time! It's also one of the quickest programs to load since it's in ROM. And I don't have to start reading through a manual to figure out how to operate the software just to access the file every two months. "I buy a lot of stuff!"

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