Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 30, 2018

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    sappha58  over 6 years ago

    I keep my grocery list on my phone in a note. I also have a folder in my photo albums called, “Buy This” so that if there’s something special we need, or something we particularly like, I’ll buy that item.

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    desvarzil  over 6 years ago

    There is an app out there called “Out of milk”. You can send lists from one phone to another using your email address.

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    robertniemi643  over 6 years ago

    The term is Bird brain

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    ShortStraw  over 6 years ago

    Wunderlist, careful with autocorrect, is another good app which you can share amongst users and check off as you go

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    jarvisloop  over 6 years ago

    I’ve seen that look on Janis’ face. It’s the look of a wife rethinking her vow of “til death do us part.”

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    Lantern Premium Member over 6 years ago

    I keep a notepad on the fridge so everyone can add to it and tear off the sheet and take it with me to the store. Been doing it that way for the past 30 years since I took over grocery shopping. If it ain’t broke…

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    Walkdad2 Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Nice balance between her “…again” comment and his, uh, flight of fancy.

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    nosirrom  over 6 years ago

    5 or less, need no list. More than 5, I must scribe. One item never needs a note. Ice Cream!!!

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    cabalonrye  over 6 years ago

    I have a notebook with special paper you can write on and erase with a magic pen. Have been using it for years. No risk of failing battery, phone, or dead zone.

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    danedsmith55  over 6 years ago

    Good Job Arlo. Way to get that eye roll from Janis. I could almost hear it from here!

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    Dani Rice  over 6 years ago

    Shopping without a list is a fool’s errand. And unless you grab a $5 bill and leave your purse in the trunk, you’ll never get in and out with a gallon of milk without a full cart!

    When Hubby and I were both working, I made up a menu for two weeks on a legal pad, and listed the ingredients along the side. When we went to the store, I stuck my coupons into the pad, and I had everything I needed right there.

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    Dixie Lee  over 6 years ago

    I am always forgetting my list. I put it on my phone and forget to look at it. Our son is a strict list follower. He never forgets anything.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Don’t give us that look!

    You married him!

    :D

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 6 years ago

     

    The whole point is that Arlo HAD a list on paper….

    But he left it home.

    I admire those of you who remember your lists…

    You say it’s so simple.

     

    Hey, I make plenty of lists on paper, too.

    In fact, they’re all over the place…..

    One on the fridge, on a magnetic pad….. one in my purse….

    One by my chair, of stuff I think i forgot to put on the other lists…. hoping to remember to bring it too…..

    So I stuff it in my pocket… and then I change jackets.

    Oops, I forgot to copy the mayonnaise from the fridge pad to the list on my phone…

     

    Scraps of paper everywhere…

    Backs of envelopes on which I scribbled a new list, sitting in the car, trying to remember what it said on the one I can’t find….

     

    I’m more likely to remember to bring my phone, and not lose it,

    and I can’t have tucked the notes app into the pocket of the jacket I wore yesterday…

    I may not have remembered to put everything on it,

    at least I have it with me in the store… and in the next store, if I couldn’t get something that time.

    Though… sigh….. I sometimes forget to look at it.

     

    And when I get home maybe I’ll read the list on the fridge,

    and finally remember to put the mayonnaise on my phone list, for next time.

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    edge2edge  over 6 years ago

    In the last panel: a graphic of what exasperation looks like.

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    Tyge  over 6 years ago

    The never-ending story of The Pragmatist and The Philosopher. Chapter 27, The List.

    I love how Jimmy has Janis leaning against the wall in panel 4. The epitome of exasperation mixed with wonder. :o)

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    BobbyFarley  over 6 years ago

    Heaven forbid that she makes the list on her phone in the first place.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 6 years ago

    The good news is that Arlo recognized the flaw in his solution.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 6 years ago

    Send the list to the store and tell them you will be there to load it into the car in 20 minutes.

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    whenlifewassimpler  over 6 years ago

    We have lists of all the stuff we buy by category and store. We make up our grocery lists and I also have a check list before we go to be sure we have everything we need. Yeah yeah I hear OMG she’s an organization NUT JOB….Yup I am and proud of it!

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    Snolep  over 6 years ago

    This is where Alexa comes in handy. I tell her what to put on my shopping list and retrieve it from my phone as needed. That’s about the ONLY thing I use her for, though, unfortunately.

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member over 6 years ago

    In this particular case, I am Arlo and my wife is Janis.

    Except, she would also be saying, “Why me Lord, why me?”

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