I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
But it was a pain to walk the trolley all the way back & so lazier housemates kept bringing trolleys home but not retuned them! I remember 3 of us wheeling 3 trolleys back to the supermarket along a busy road - oh the shame!
After that we just took a trolley to the bus stop loaded up with backpacks, caught the bus & left the trolley there. A lesser crime.
Awwwww, the kiddie shopping carts sound precious!
It cracks me up when I see a tiny dog in the shopping cart! Many people take their dogs everywhere with them!
We also have the cutest little carts for kids to push around at one grocery store . They have a flag that sticks up at eye level ( so you see them coming and don’t run them over ) that says shopper in training .
Not much, either a quarter or fifty cents. You drop the coins in to release the cart.
It is supposed to be a deterrent, you’re right.
How much money to use the cart ? If you don’t bring it back , and you don’t get the money back , it’s still cheaper than buying a cart . Charging rent money to use the cart isn’t really a deterrent from stealing it .
We just got rid of our old luggage without wheels. I have seen people convert them into custom dog and cat beds.
Key in ‘shopping carts’ and look at what pops up on Amazon. Very interesting products!
I see people using the foldable carts all over town.
I have seen the carts that you pay money to get them out and you get the money back when you return them to the parking lot.
I haven’t seen the ones that have brakes, interesting 🤔…
I am not a grandmother so I don’t know the prices of baby items nowadays.
I really feel for young people who are building their lives in these days. Everything is incredibly expensive.
School tuition is so much more than it used to be. Most leave college owing money.
Cars are expensive, rent is high.
They can’t afford to buy homes with today’s housing costs.
If you had bought an expensive shopping cart I hope you had a shed or garage to lock it up , or my guess it would be stolen if left outside.
Yeah , a baby stroller design may be better than some walkers as well .
Seriously though those little folding shopping carts they market to seniors are terrible - short handles, flimsy baskets and cheap plastic wheels only fit for apartment hallways. I've noticed there are finally a few being made similar to baby strollers, it's about time there was some innovation there.
I know absolutely nothing about hockey! I live in New Orleans. I can’t even roller skate! LOL 😆
Swimming is excellent exercise. Walking is too.
Do you watch the Olympic Games? I love watching it. It’s amazing to see the best athletes competing.
Wow! Expensive.
They have the cutest shopping carts now for kids. When my kids were younger they didn’t have the shopping carts with steering wheels. My girls would have loved those!
I would have loved having a shopping cart with a steering wheel to keep them busy.
My oldest daughter was fine in the grocery or anywhere else but my youngest daughter was challenging! She is the child who caused me to have gray hair! LOL 😆
Years ago I heard that the all metal shopping carts were $400-$500 each . But I don’t know what they cost now .
Look at the homeless people. They use shopping carts to carry their few possessions in. They are weak and frail and need the cart to keep them stable while walking the streets. It’s so sad.
I don’t know what shopping carts costs but they are occasionally taken from stores and used by the homeless.
I am sorry about your knees and I hope that your surgery will provide relief for you.
I’ve seen other people put walkers or canes in shopping carts too and there is nothing else in the cart .
Down the road , shopping cart is my plan while in the store .
I switched to hockey because it is low impact. I swim too. Walk a lot.
“Be active!”
”Not THAT active. You’ve blown through the joint!”
Where is the sweet spot?
Knee issues and a pain. Are you a candidate for knee replacement surgery?
My mom had the bone on bone situation and struggled with pain. Unfortunately, she wasn’t a candidate for surgery.
My youngest daughter blew out her knee from years of dancing. She’s had knee surgery.
My girls were involved in gymnastics and dance and were on dance and gymnastics teams.
Kids love dance, gymnastics and sports, it’s fun for them but injuries occur and they end up seeing an orthopedic surgeon!
My girls still exercise but they have switched over to yoga!
I bet it cost your mom a fortune to do her kitchen repair work done! Kitchen and bathroom renovations are so expensive.
Whenever I took my husband’s grandmother shopping she would walk fine with the shopping cart.
I was happier when I took her shopping where carts were available because she refused to use a walker or a cane.
Lord knows, she wasn’t about to wear sensible shoes which she referred to as “old lady” shoes!
She was in her 80’s and never thought of herself as an older woman! 🤣
They do make those walkers now that a person isn’t hunched over. The upright walkers where a person can walk in an upright position are a lot more expensive! It’s sad that they cost more.
One time my dad told my mom to use the scooter that the store provided for elderly customers. My mom looked at my father like he had two heads and said, “Honey, I am not using that thing!” She used a cane for years and later on switched over to a walker.
Ovens should be stock sizes in the US.
MIL won’t let a walker in the house . She is stubborn but I believe still competent to make decisions . Therefore, I won’t feel responsible when something bad happens .
Need,
you are right about them using shopping carts as walkers . Why not ? They aren’t walking as stooped over . It’s probably more comfortable . Why don’t they just make walkers like the smaller shopping carts that aren’t long in the front ? Nobody walks inside those walkers like they are supposed to anyway , they all have them out too far in front .
It’s interesting to see some older people shopping. They use their shopping carts as walkers.
That’s why they shop in Walmart and Target.
They no longer shop in stores that don’t have shopping carts.
I like that ! So far MIL hasn’t used us as her walking stick. But I’m glad you taught me to say “ I am not a …..…”. She clings on to furniture and wall surfs inside the house .
She uses a cane when she goes out but only because she absolutely could not walk without it in an open space with nothing to hold on to . I can tell she couldn’t walk without it because she is putting almost all her weight on it. (Her left leg can’t seem to carry much weight anymore). A cane is not meant for that ( hence the many falls when she doesn’t keep the cane perfectly upright causing it to give way to one side and it and her fall over like a tree). She is also very hunched over at the waist . She needs Tiny Tim’s crutch , or a good walker . We assume that once she gets upstairs she crawls over to the bed to use that to stand up .
It’s very sad how stubborn she is despite all the times she faceplants on the sidewalk .
Start practicing now for the next visit 'I am not a stair lifter'.
l've had to add 'I am not a walking stick' to my collection now that BOTH Mothers need one. One refuses to consider getting one, the other has one but often refuses/forgets to use it.
"I don't need one!" as they clutch at furtniture or cling onto somebody else.
Hmm, maybe I will suggest they CRAWL everywhere 🤣🤣🤣