If those of you up the East Coast are getting the storms we had overnight, watch out. INCREDIBLE wind and rain and thunder. I think no hail.

We had a lot of rain and some thunder yesterday! I don't want any more, thank you.

Also, I used to make my grocery list more or less in order of the store, but my current store has two entrances, and I use both depending on where I'm coming from, so it doesn't work anymore.

I may have a short list of "do not forget!" items on my phone (which I usually forget to look at) but otherwise I just start in the produce and go aisle by aisle. I make a lot of my choices depending on what's on sale anyway.

I totally make my grocery list in the order of the store. It's so much faster and easier that way. (Once, they rearranged my Kroger. It was so traumatic!)

Half the city has power outages, and my coworker in the country reported hail. It was sooooo windy.

The SO does it one further and looks at the sales and stuff on the web first, and then makes the week's menu plan based on what's on sale.

Oh, I do that, too. I assumed everyone looks at the flyers. (Which, obviously not. I don't think I will ever reach an age where I stop making the dumbass assumption that everyone sees/does things the way I do. I try not to, and get all prideful that I've made so much progress, and then something else pops up, like Not Everyone Grocery Shops The Way You Do, Duh.)

I somehow missed the thunder -- damn, I like a good storm. It must have passed south of Somerville by a bit.

My aim for the Mobile Apps class is to create a Shopping List app that lets you input aisles for different stores easily, so that you can switch the order of items by which store you're visiting. Not to mention different lists for different stores, because there are some thing you can get in Stop & Shop that you can't in Whole Foods and vice versa.

Last night's storm let me know that I can hear the county's tornado sirens.

Also, I used to make my grocery list more or less in order of the store, but my current store has two entrances, and I use both depending on where I'm coming from, so it doesn't work anymore.

No, wait, this can still totally work. If you go in one entrance then you just use the list as normal, and if you go in the other entrance, then instead you use your list Memento style! By which, of course, I mean you tattoo "coffee" and "lentils" and such like on your torso.

I don't use the flyer. I pretty much buy what I buy, and don't swap brands much, or decide that this week is pot roast week because it's on sale. Food groceries is where I allow myself to have no budget. Which only works as long as I'm not eating out a lot.

I do, however, clip coupons from labels, use the coupons sent specifically to me, and check the "savings" total on each bill and give myself a mental high five the higher it is each time.

I wonder if using the flyer would make me hate it less. I pretty intensely despise getting it in the mail. Part of my paper thing.

I love a list! But they aren't very useful at TJ's or at the farmer's markets. I do use them at Whole Foods though or I'd be lost. I prefer to shop by myself because Bob doesn't really like to do it anyway and also it makes me way more efficient. I get kind of annoyed at people who shop in couples or with their kids (although I totally understand why they'd have to). They go way too slowly!