FRIDAY FOOD THING
Grocery lists only work when you remember to take them shopping with you. Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done. That’s why I’ve begun using “Super Sticky” Post-it pads. The glue is so strong that half a pad can be adhered directly to my refrigerator door, or any smooth surface. Stuck right next to my refrigerator door Post-it pad is a pencil clamped in one of those magnet clips. 
When my second-to-last box of pasta gets dumped into a pot of boiling water, right over to the fridge I march, and “spaghetti pasta” gets written down on the Post-it pad.
Form follows function. Poetry in motion.
When I go shopping, all I have to do is peel off the top sheet before heading off to the store. As a matter of fact, I have two different pads stuck on my refrigerator. Two different colors — one for the grocery store, and one for the hardware store or other serious in-town shopping.
When I get to the store, I stick that super sticky grocery list right on my shopping cart’s handle, where I use a pen to scratch off items while I fill up my cart. How cool is that?
I even have a Super Sticky Post-it pad adhered to the inside of my front door, along with an accompanying pencil-on-a-string:
“Take out the trash!”
“Don’t forget the SHOPPING LIST!”
Sometimes I’m so clever it hurts.
And the older we get, the more useful those written reminders get! (sometimes, I’m too busy that second in the kitchen to walk three steps to my list, thinking “Oh, I’ll put that on the list as soon as I …..” Yeah, I get so angry with me sometimes!)
hahaha. I’ve learned you gotta do it right then and there!
Love them super stickies!
I love the “don’t forget the shopping list!” one.
I enter my shopping lists in the Notes app on my iPhone. Super easy to have SIRI “write” what I dictate, and the phone is always on my belt. Nonna