I go to the store with a list of things I “need”, but then walk up and down most of the isles also buying things I spontaneously “want”.
You have an underdeveloped parsimoniousness.
“I go to the store with a list of things I “need”, but then walk up and down most of the isles also buying things I spontaneously “want”.”
But don’t we all. The other thing you should not do is go to the grocery store hungry. And at Costco, they abet your hunger with people preparing “snacks” all over the store, in an attempt to get you to buy stuff you didn’t intend to buy.
I wish I could get a “want.” I always go with a list, mostly left over from the time before and the time before but never come home with anywhere close to half the list checked off because my sorry HEB has empty shelves and doesn’t stock even the bare basics. I had to go out of town to buy flour this week because mine hasn’t had it for a couple of months. The day of Harvey, I went shopping because I’d heard they finally got in canned tomatoes so I loaded the cart with them and the guy behind me laughed saying Harvey wouldn’t get this far north. No, nothing to do with Harvey but something is wrong when a Central Texas HEB can’t stock it’s shelves any better than Venezuela.