When you go shopping for groceries do you bring a list?

[LaTashaS28]

Yes sometimes I do to make sure I don't forget anything that I need

[gramev64]

If I didn't bring a list, I would come home with too many things I did not need, and half of what I did need!

[Tresbn00]

Since reconciling the family checking account for the first time in twenty years (about six months ago) I realized that grocery shopping was one of the areas that I could completely cut back on from an expense standpoint. I have turned it into an art. I search for recipes for each night of the week (using the fusion cash search engine so that I make a nickel a day), plot out what I will need to make these dishes, clip coupons on Sunday, and shop for everything on Wednesday night after Dinner. After dinner so that I don't buy on impulse. Wednesday nights because(according to yahoo finance) it is the best night for deals at a grocery store. I have saved well over four thousand dollars in the last year alone!

[sak4kat]

This is an absolute must for me.  I didn't realize how dependent I was on having a grocery list till my husband and I were shopping for a couple of days with the kids gone.  I didn't have a list...hadn't planned a single meal and while standing in one of the aisles he says to me, "you're lost without a list aren't you?"  I truly was.  I couldn't focus... nor was I interested in shopping.  I usually make a menu for 1, 2 or sometimes even 3 weeks... on another sheet of paper I make the list of what I'll need.  I'm reading super brain now and one of the things it mentions is training your brain to not rely on lists.  Whoa now I'd rather make my list than forget 1/2 of what I need and end up spending more in gas to get the store to pick up everything I didn't account for.

[sgluckadoo]

Sometimes I do and sometimes I dont, but it goes much better and is a more organized trip if I have a list.