Wednesday, October 14, 2009

A new place for the shopping list

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I've been trying to find the best place to jot down grocery needs for years. It came to me the other day that my refrigerator might be just that place.

I did a bit of experimenting and I'm here to report that a dry erase marker wipes right off! I am so jazzed. Here's my current list. You can see a few gaps. Those are places where stuff I've picked up were listed. I just wiped them right off.

I think this might solve my years old problem of how to jot needs down as they come up without ending up with lots of miscellaneous notes. I took this picture with my phone. Now when I go to the store I'll just look at the picture of the list on my phone. How cool is that?

I don't know if all refrigerator surfaces are alike so I suggest you do a test. But I hope this works for you too!
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2 comments:

  1. One thing Daisy does is write the shopping list in the order she goes through the store. You could arrange your list in that order, snap a pic on your way out the door, and shop from that. Cool.

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  2. I've been using my refrigerator as a white board since I posted this. It's working like a top! Now I write stuff down whenever I think of it.
    And as Bruce suggested, I just take a picture as I go out the door and Viola! There's the list.

    Sorry to all who have been left out because they own black or stainless steel appliances.

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