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.
The inconveniences will be all worth it when your renovation is over.
Are you still exercising at the senior center? What kind of exercises do y’all do?
I'm glad you have the lower level to hide in. I had the main and second floors done and not so much in the basement except the bathroom so I lived there for several months but at one point had to run up two flights to the upstairs bathroom. Never again!!!
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Because of my crooked spine, I wasn’t allowed to carry a school bag in my teens, and to take books home for homework I had to pull a shopping trolley behind me, two handed. The Versa Cart is just a better version of that. Very familiar!
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.