My wife says it is a “guy thing”. I don’t make two trips, ONE and done! I’ll hang grocery bags from every finger, hell I’d hang one (or more) around my neck if I could. Same with after work and my gym bag, mail, and maybe a few things from the liquor store or quickie mart. One trip baby! I find it a challenge sometimes. My wife rolls her eyes and says “Oh for God’s sake, I’ll make another trip”. Nope, I WILL succeed!
Who is really wrong? The person wanting to get it all done at once or the person who has all day to go from one spot to another?
Efficiency, even with overload, rules baby!
Paper not plastic.
Double the paper bags up, they’ll hold three times as much as plastic and you can carry four paper bags in one trip pretty easily. Bag your own groceries, kids don’t know anything about loading paper bags. Essentially you’ve got the contents of twelve plastic bags in four doubled paper bags.
Just as a side note plastic bags suck for pretty much everything, it takes forever for them to break down and if you’ve ever broken some beers 'cause the plastic bag took a dump, well there’s your solution.
Save your doubled paper bags and reuse them, they last forever.
My wife attempts to get it all in one trip, then can’t get the door open and gets pissed when I don’t hear her needing help when her plan flops.
Oh yeah. One trip. Even if I have to stand there for five minutes and figure out how to get it all done in one trip. If I wear both jackets, put the back pack on, all four hats on my head, carry the 35 pound bag of dog food and the dog on leash in one hand, all my other stuff in the other hand, but first I have to put the house key in my mouth because I won’t have a free hand to retrieve it once I pick up all this other stuff, then I can shut the car door with my foot, and push the car’s door lock/alarm button once I’m in the house and have a free hand… Yeah. Its a daily puzzle to solve.
Sounds like life when I was stationed at Fort Campbell, or the days at the Pentagon and Fort Meade when going to the PX or Wal-Mart. I’d carry as many bags as I can in each hand, cutting circulation off to the fingers. Now since we live @ 70 miles one-way to the nearest Supermarket or Wal-Mart, we buy a one month supply in a single trip, usually filling the entire pickup truck bed. The days of running to the store for a gallon of milk are long gone.
Bingo.
Can I subscribe to your newsletter? That sounds like someone I know…:rolleyes:
Oh every time!
When I built our current house, the entrance is at ground level. No steps, just a 4x6 concrete flat area that is level with the driveway. I just back the wife’s mini-van up to the door as close as I can and still try and make one trip the 20’ to the kitchen. Next house is getting a covered drive up door to the kitchen where the pantries, freezer and refrigerator are close to the door.
I’m a one trip guy like the OP. I liked the flimsy plastic bags better… You could get more than one on each finger.
Oh Hell yeah.
If you don’t carry a bag from each finger you are probably gay, or female.
Ha. Yep, I’m the same way. I hate multiple trips to the car.
I don’t really bother too much with the ‘one trip’ from the car trunk in the garage to the fridge as far as groceries go as it’s pretty short, but when I’m at the outdoor range and have to get my guns and ammo to the shooting bench from the car, that’s when it kicks in. I’ll have 3 rifle cases slung over my shoulders including my range bag or gear bag, ammo cans etc in an effort to get everything in one trip.
That’s the word I was going to post. This weekend I had a shop vac on one shoulder and two gallons of milk in my other hand kicking the door telling her to open it. I got yelled at for carrying “too many things.” Meanwhile she will take six trips for six small plastic grocery bags, then go back get her purse then go back because she forgot her glasses, etc.
EVERY
DAMN
TIME
Yesterday’s groceries included a mixed case of wine. There is no way that two trips would be necessary.
I got better things to do, than fart around with 40 bags of groceries all day. I may get a hernia, and lose circulation in my fingertips the rest of the day, but ONE trip is WORTH it!
Less trips = less “window of exposure.” Granted, that doesn’t mean crap when I have to haul the groceries upstairs, haul a chair back down for the Old Crab to roost on since she can’t walk all the way from the parking space to the door or even stand upright for more than about 30 seconds without doubling over, haul her overloaded purse back for her, then go back and get her chair… rolls eyes
I used to be a one trip guy but access to a truly private range fixed my shooting issue and old enough kids fixed the groceries issue. Now I just head for my easy chair and supervise from comfort!
Dennis.
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