On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:43:14 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>"Janet B" > wrote in message
.. .
>> I don't understand how you can shop so many places and schlep to and
>> fro when your feet are so painful and you are so handicapped. I know
>> that my challenged leg wears me out with just one trip to Costco or
>> Winco and yet you manage more than one store. I'm pleased for you.
>> Janet US
>
>When did I say that my feet were painful? What would they be painful with?
>I don't remember saying this.

LOL, just unreal.

>Yes, I am disabled. Does this mean I should
>never go to the store? Disabled people need exercise too you know and
>shopping is my main form as I can hang on to the shopping cart for balance.
>
>I did not say that I go to all stores in one day. I also have to take my
>now nearly totally blind mom shopping.
>
>I'm not stupid. I know how to plan things. I generally plan my shopping
>trips. Last time at Winco we hit the produce and dairy sections only. In
>this particular store they are on opposite ends of the store. For some odd
>reason, the bread that I buy is not with the other bread but on a floor
>display near the dairy. I needed that and also cottage cheese.
>
>I will sometimes go up and down almost every aisle but I have been getting
>plenty of exercise with the Spring cleaning and prom stuff so I only went
>where I needed to go.
>
>I also try to buy what I can online, mainly at Walmart, Boxed, Drugstore,
>etc. Things like nuts, some canned goods, beef jerky and other shelf stable
>things. I recently placed an order at HEB. But there are some things that
>are cheaper to get in the brick and mortar stores and some I just have to
>like produce. So most of the time when I do go grocery shopping, I have one
>or two bags of things. If doing a stock up at Winco, I may have as many as
>6 bags.
>
>I have to go to so many stores because... Some have cheaper prices for some
>things. Some carry specific things that I can't get elsewhere. And my mom
>is fond of a store that I don't particularly like. I have to take her
>there. I will go in and if I need a thing or two that they sell, then I
>might buy them there to save a trip elsewhere. It isn't always all about
>the cheapest price for me.
>
>That's my shopping now. When I was at my worst and before they had figured
>out why I was so crippled, I went to the store every day. I could do two
>aisles in one shopping trip. Two close together aisles. I was that
>crippled. I really had to plan my shopping carefully making the most of it.
>We all ate more produce than anything in those days because the produce
>section was just inside the door. And if things were really bad for me, I
>could always just go to the drugstore. It was smaller and I didn't have to
>walk far to get frozen sausage, boxed mac and cheese, butter, milk, canned
>green beans or a few other things. Wasn't my first choice but I could still
>make a meal.

I, I, I. Me me me.

>There are those who sit around and whine and those who manage to do. I
>prefer to manage to do. I find ways.

LOL.