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On 7/13/2014 4:56 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 7/13/2014 2:50 PM, janet wrote:
>> Any married man should be able to take a random list, draw up a
>> simple spread
>> sheet and print it out, colour coded onto a map of any local
>> supermarket layout.

>
> Surely you jest! I was ragged endlessly for using a spreadsheet to
> create a recurring grocery list. In fact, it was the subject of a
> long-ago rfc survey Chatty Cathy posted to the web site.
>
> This was before there were modifiable, printable shopping lists
> available on the supermarket web sites. Spreadsheet... sheesh!
>

Boasting perhaps but I can usually remember if I need anything if I walk
past it in a supermarket. This can have a minor financial penalty when I
go into a store and recall several things needed and thus have to buy a
plastic bag to contain them.

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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