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[kaydee50]

I still do--LOL!! Don't have a smartphone or a tablet!

[ScrapHappy]

Yes!  And I'd go food shopping with my Mom just so I can pick a good cereal box, meaning cereal I liked that hopefully had a prize inside and some kind of game on the back.  I'd have multiple types of cereal in the house..

[Imaoldhippie]

@ScrapHappy ............My brother and I did the same thing and so did my kids.

[MoJoV]

Ha!  I do remember doing that. And I also remember when there were only 5 or 6 cereal choices at the store when I was a kid.  Now they have entire aisles full of choices.

[wagirl]

Ha!!! both my kids would do that EVERY morning------good memories

[on the bay]

So true! I remember doing that.

It always was interesting and I don't remember why.😄

[Carmie]

I remember when I  was in 3rd grade. ( 1963)   We moved for one year to renovate our house.  There was a small grocery store accross the street.  My mother would give me quarter to buy a box of cereal.  I could get any kind I wanted.

The  truly good ones with prizes in the box or cut out features on the back of the box  were twenty- seven cents.

My mother would not give me two cents more.  We had to live within our means, I was told.  Oh, how times changed.

[Love my grandkids]

We were allowed to read books at the breakfast table. Later on, the newspaper. Our whole family loves to read.

[Annabellethecat66]

@ScrapHappy @Your post made me laugh.

I always took my 3 daughters with me almost everywhere I went.  I just really loved being their mom and they were a lot of company.

Anyway, I also took them to the grocery store.  While I knew it wasn't their favorite place, it was only when they became adults that I learned how much they HATED it...supposedly...they loathe it!  Ha!

My oldest daughter says that's the reason she won't set foot in a grocery store.  I wonder if she'd starve to death if she didn't have an amazing husband.  He loves to grocery shop.

To the person who said they got to choose what they wanted hit a cord with me too.  This same daughter complains because my son in law has a sweet tooth.  She's always saying that he brings home too much junk food.  I said "If it bothers you go to the store".  It doesn't bother her that much.

The middle daughter (she lives in Florida, I live in Va); always finds time to call me on her few trips to the store.(How does she get food to eat?).  She orders it and it's delivered.

The youngest actually does the same thing as daughter number 2, but she will set foot in a store if her boyfriend won't go.

All of this is funny because you could count on one hand the number of times my late husband went to the store with me.  Without me...never!

When he went it was as if the man was in a place similar to a museum combined with Disney World.

The poor guys behind the meat/fish counter.  He'd stand there asking them things like, "Where does the meat come from"?  Answer, "Who knows".  "Is the shrimp from around here?"  Answer, "I'm pretty sure they aren't from around here".

I just spoke to my daughter number 3.  I told her I was reminiscing about the grocery store.  Wow!  She came to life and said, "Well, it just took a long time."

I told her I still walk up and down all aisles.  I don't necessarily enjoying, but it does still take a long time because I walk up and down every aisle and...I still talk to strangers.

She wasn't surprised.