[andysandmikesmom]

I have to agree with you about hauling groceries in the city...before we had a car, we had to walk several blocks to the grocery store, and then use one of those old lady shopping carts to haul everything home in...

Later on, once we got a car, we could at least drive to the store...but we lived on the second floor, even tho we owned our own house, but we owned it with my aunt and uncle and they lived on the first floor, and we lived on the second floor, so we had to haul groceries up those stairs...

When Bigdom and I got married, we first lived on the second floor of an apart. bldg...then we moved to a bigger flat when I got pregnant, but that was on the third floor...

You are right, we had big muscles from hauling that food up those flights of stairs...

But once in N.C., and then in Washington, we can just bring the food from the car to the house...very convenient...

[palo verde]

exactly andysmom
the trick is not to overbuy in supermarket cause we have to lug it all home
but everyone always overbuys
when I'd walk Clio, the playground was next to KeyFood (a big supermarket)
so when old ladies were struggling with those heavy shopping bags, I'd offer to take one for them, and Clio and I would walk them to their apt building
since apts were walks-up, most people did not use shopping cart
the old ladies always said, ''thank you, my husband would kill me if he knew, I'm not sposed to be carrying heavy things, I have a heart condition, but I couldn't resist the sales''