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I've got this

YorkieonmyPillow — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:21:37 GMT

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Bird mama — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:40:11 GMT

@YorkieonmyPillow

OMG, I do that all of the time. Mind you, I'm parked in a garage that is attached to my house so it's not necessary.

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Allegheny — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:52:12 GMT

Oh I can't believe they have a cartoon for that. So I am not so strange after all!

I have a garage, but have 13 steps to walk up from garage to main floor. I try and bring up all I can in one trip.

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happycat — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:58:29 GMT

LOL, I do the same thing!

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GCR18 — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:03:41 GMT

Yep, I do this all the time. One step from the garage into the house, then a straight shot into the kitchen. It's actually pretty sad since I'm supposed to be working on increasing my steps.

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Bird mama — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:05:40 GMT

@GCR18

I know - the entrance to my garage is off the kitchen. I think it's habit from when I parked on the street and didn't have an attached garage.

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Burnsite — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:07:49 GMT

I just shopped Costco for the first time since May--last Thursday evening I think.

Oh, my. I really needed four arms. And then opening the Olay cosmetics and supplements/vitamins? It was like breaking into Fort Knox to get through that tough plastic-clam barrier.

If I had had some geliignite (a/k/a plastic dynamite) around the house it would have worked to open some of those smaller items, maybe. Took a long time with mere scissors.

The whole time, the 2 cats were circling my legs. They must have thought I also was bearing catnip.

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GCR18 — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:10:30 GMT

@Bird mama wrote:
@GCR18

I know - the entrance to my garage is off the kitchen. I think it's habit from when I parked on the street and didn't have an attached garage.

@Bird mama

The garage in the last house went into the cellar, then I went up stairs to get to the main floor. I have no excuse now. 😀

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Tinkrbl44 — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:19:57 GMT

@Burnsite wrote:
I just shopped Costco for the first time since May--last Thursday evening I think.

Oh, my. I really needed four arms. And then opening the Olay cosmetics and supplements/vitamins? It was like breaking into Fort Knox to get through that tough plastic-clam barrier.

If I had had some geliignite (a/k/a plastic dynamite) around the house it would have worked to open some of those smaller items, maybe. Took a long time with mere scissors.

The whole time, the 2 cats were circling my legs. They must have thought I also was bearing catnip.

@Burnsite

Are you talking about those heavy duty plastic moulded enclosures? I haven't tried it yet, but read somewhere that you can open the edge of those with your can opener!

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Tinkrbl44 — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:24:01 GMT

@Allegheny wrote:
Oh I can't believe they have a cartoon for that. So I am not so strange after all!

I have a garage, but have 13 steps to walk up from garage to main floor. I try and bring up all I can in one trip.

@Allegheny

I've always thought that any home that doesn't have the garage and house level with each other should have one of those old fashioned dumbwaiters ... just because!

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Jacie — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:25:25 GMT

Absolutely 100% on point, LMAO

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SunValley — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:27:45 GMT

Just got home from grocery shopping and that's me! Hate to pack in and unload, but the feeling of a full pantry and frig is priceless (to borrow a phrase). When my kids were little and so was the money, it just gave me a thrill to know I was providing. It has stayed with me always.

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MarieIG — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:30:34 GMT

This thread is so funny! That is what DH did this morning when he came back from shopping. He looked like a moving blob of plastic packages bouncing it's way up the stairs. (I'm the opposite, I seem to make one trip per package. I think the truth is I like like to move and it's an excuse for me to make an extra trip up and down the stairs.)

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spix — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:47:58 GMT

Love the graphic, my garage is off the alley, walk to the house, then 4 steps up & into kitchen, so I always try to get as many bags as possible in one trip, then "plop" into the kitchen

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Kalli — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:19:52 GMT

When I went back to work after being a SAHM, I gave the cooking and grocery shopping job to my husband. I just retired. Thankfully he hasn't realized he should be handing it back to me....yet......

(keeping my fingers crossed he never does.)

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sidsmom — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:29:15 GMT

@YorkieonmyPillow

So true!

But I bring my own bags which have shoulder straps.

A little easier, but add in two 4-gallon refillable water containers

up a flight a stairs & I look like a pack mule.

Grocery Goal = One Trip

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qualitygal — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:43:44 GMT

now that's really multi-tasking! I remember when we were house shopping, one house had an entrance to it with a million steps to get up to the kitchen. First thought: groceries!! Funny how we do that!

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Jacie — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:45:29 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
@Allegheny wrote:
Oh I can't believe they have a cartoon for that. So I am not so strange after all!

I have a garage, but have 13 steps to walk up from garage to main floor. I try and bring up all I can in one trip.
@Allegheny

I've always thought that any home that doesn't have the garage and house level with each other should have one of those old fashioned dumbwaiters ... just because!

@Tinkrbl44 When my Mom remodeled her home 15 years ago, she put in a motorized dumbwaiter! Best thing she ever did! She is 85 now and boy, is she glad she has that thing!

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Buck-i-Nana — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:00:53 GMT

That's me too. I've got it down to a science too in that I have to be able to lift one arm high enough to lower the tailgate and pull down the door handle. I actually chose my door handle over a door knob because I could manage it with my hands full. lol

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Bird mama — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:12:39 GMT

@Buck-i-Nana

I hear ya. I usually go through U-scan and since I know how I am going to pile on the bags, I know how to pack 'em. The wrinkle comes in when I buy 40 pound bags of bird seed. I have to bring one in at a time. Never had the arm strength to pick up one in each hand - never, not even when I was a teenager.

As I kid my sisters called my arms, her feeble fists of fury, rofl. If I could walk on my hands and use my legs, then that's another story - he he he.