Guest post written by my buddy Israel Fowler

Grocery shopping has always been a hassle for me. I have never liked grocery shopping and I find that it has gotten worse now that I am married. When you’re single, grocery shopping is not so bad. Once you get married grocery shopping takes a turn for the worst!

I love my partner but there are some things that just don’t work for us and grocery shopping is one of them. Our grocery shopping routines typically consists of going to Wal-Mart twice a month. Once every two weeks we will get in the car and go. We don’t put together a grocery list and we usually forget things. Countless times we have said we would make a grocery list and later forgotten. One thing we never forget to do before we go to the grocery store is set our home security alarm. Check out door alarm around Portland.

Once we get to Wal-Mart we go aisle by aisle, identifying things we need. Oddly enough it is usually the small things that I tend to remember. I forget the obvious things, once we even went as far as to forget toilet paper. Typically our shopping routine is interrupted and we have to return more than two times a week due to forgotten items. Other such small items that expire like bread and milk do require weekly visits to the supermarket. It’s always a pain to go shopping!