Our grocery list is a hybrid of analog and digital. As we think of things, we write them on the chalkboard in the kitchen. Whenever someone goes to the store, we take a picture of it to take with us. (Or, if we are already out, someone snaps a pics and sends it.)
It’s really pretty much only for stuff we run out of, or will soon be. ATM, there is aluminum foil, cumin and almond milk on the list.
We are at the store probably 5-6 times a week, so shopping trips are usually small. Though I still go up each aisle (except pet supplies and bay aisles) every time I go to the store.
We used to keep a grocery list on the fridge. As it turns out, I cannot be trusted to remember to bring said list with me when I go shopping. And I’m doing the grocery shopping ~70% of the time.
So I’d annoy my wife by asking her to text me a pic, or she wouldn’t be home and I’d either have to go back to the house, or just wing it.
We put an Alexa thing in the kitchen and use that for the shopping list. Now it’s habit to ask her to add things to the shopping list, and said list is always with me on my phone.
We don’t bother with a joint shopping list. I often keep a list of things on my phone as I think of them, and I just ask my wife if she needs anything when I go.
We have an Alexa gadget in our kitchen too so I suppose we could start using that.
Are you using a specific app? We just started using Bring (I think that’s what it is called). I haven’t started talking to our speakers yet to add stuff (other than to test it to verify it works).
We use an app called Shopping List and sync it between our phones. We have separate lists for each store we need a list for. So we have 2 grocery stores and the local farm stand. We also do regular grocery shopping twice a week so we split that list into to separate ones.
Things we use Alexa a lot for:
Kitchen timer. It’s handy to be able to set timers for cooking verbally when your hands are busy/messy. You can even set a bunch of timers with different names.
Music. We have a nicer speaker in the kitchen that gets used for music and radio
White noise machine. The former kitchen dot is now mostly used for white noise in the bedroom.
Reminders. For example, Alexa reminds me when to give the dog her monthly medication.
What are you packing? I can travel indefinitely with a carry-on and a personal item (small backpack), and I’m almost at the point where I’ll just use one carry-on size backpack for my two-week trips.
Well, you are accomplishing something that is a unreasonable standard for others to follow.
I think that it would be a marketing coup for some company to come out and make a suitcase that that is advertised as “the biggest that is allowed” on airplanes, and a carry-on that is “the biggest that is allowed” to be carried on. Those are or should be, de facto, a standard sizing.
I would love it if a) all airlines had the same standards, and b) bags were standardized accordingly. But hell, even for a giveback airline a regional jet, a 737, and a 787 are very different in terms of storage.
We went to Europe once with a bunch of big, heavy checked bags. It just felt like a lot of energy was spent unpacking, repacking, and hauling crap around. I’m not terribly minimalist but I don’t care to travel heavy.
I bring roughly five changes of clothing in my carry on. And do laundry, mostly we rent a flat with a washing machine and I throw a load in the wash at night. Or we find a full service laundromat.
Thanks for the reminder.