I'm a "Putter-Backer!"

[Thousandsunny]

I am a putter-backer. I put things back. I am the one in the grocery store who carries the chips around in the cart until .5 seconds before I check out where I then put them back. I put back Doritos, I put back Pretzels... I put back white potatoes if I feel like it! I always put them back where they belong (I worked Retail long enough back in the day to understand the pain it inflicts on the staff when you jam a bag of chips behind the cereal...) but I put it back! I wanted to post this to see if I am the only putter-backer around. Anyone else carry around their vice in the cart until they conquer the craving?!

[JennyG]

Omy! Thanks for posting this. I thought I was the only one! I do it allll the time, like everytime I grocery shop! Too funny! I also used to work retail so I Return everything to where I got it, and sometimes I go back for it again and then end up leaving it at the check out with the clerk! So I guess I am a "putter backer" too!! (And we get our exercise too, by going back and forth more than once!)

[sotypical]

I do it too!
But so not often enough.

[Paja]

I'm not quite a "putter-backer" but more of a "holder." I pick things up and hold them in my hands until I have the willpower to set them back down again and move on. Glad to know other people handle things and then buck up and don't buy them. ^_^

[shelbell]

I'm not good as a putter-backer; anything I get into my cart usually stays there. I am a walker-byer though. I will walk past the Oreos 5 times and stare while the devil and the angel on my shoulders battle it out, haha!

[shortandfluffy]

I do it too! I did the same thing with Cadbury eggs.. i wanted them SOOO bad. But went and put them back before I checked out. i was sad but I did it anyways.

[kaplods]

Yes, and it drives hubby absolutely insane. "Just buy it," he says (he's no help).

In general, my indecisiveness drives him insane. He doesn't at all understand being torn between several choices.

To him you do what you want to do, or have decided to do - and it's an instantaneous decision.

He gets antsy when I take more than a nanosecond to make a choice. He'll ask me whether I want A or B, and I've barely even considered the question when he's already making impatient noises - and asking the question again.

I don't know how many times I have to say "I heard you he first time, can you give me a chance to think about it a second?" Then I get flustered because he's now rolling his eyes....

Yet he absolutely hates when I say "I don't care whichever you want is fine."

His idea of shopping is to go in with a list, and shop like it's a military operation, and we'll be killed by a sniper, if we don't compete the mission within 10 minutes.

I'm a bargain hunter, which means I take a list, but I keep an eye out for sales. If I have one meat or vegetable on the list, but something else is on sale for a better price, I'll buy what's on sale. After 8 years of marriage, this still stumps my husband. He'll see me putting chicken breasts in the cart, and he'll say "I thought you wanted chicken thighs?"

[Thousandsunny]

Originally Posted by kaplods

His idea of shopping is to go in with a list, and shop like it's a military operation, and we'll be killed by a sniper, if we don't compete the mission within 10 minutes.

Hahahaha! As a player of Call of Duty, Modern Warfare, this comment had me rolling. Thanks for the laugh, it was a loud and long one!

Also, hooray for so many of us! Now next time I hear "You're going to put those back?!" I'll say "Yeah! And so are a lot of more of us!"

[Pinkberrry]

If I want some sort of cookie Ill pick up the item..look at the calories and put it away. I feel like a weirdo looking at all the labels of the foods I buy so I pretty much will wait till im alone in the aisle to do it

[HaleyisLove]

I do it too... I also pick up all kinds of stuff and read labels and hold it for awhile then put it back... I just cant commit to stuff haha

[shortandfluffy]

Originally Posted by kaplods

He gets antsy when I take more than a nanosecond to make a choice. He'll ask me whether I want A or B, and I've barely even considered the question when he's already making impatient noises - and asking the question again.

I don't know how many times I have to say "I heard you he first time, can you give me a chance to think about it a second?" Then I get flustered because he's now rolling his eyes....

Yet he absolutely hates when I say "I don't care whichever you want is fine."

His idea of shopping is to go in with a list, and shop like it's a military operation, and we'll be killed by a sniper, if we don't compete the mission within 10 minutes.

Same here! My DH hates to go shopping with me.. I need time to think darn it!

Originally Posted by Pinkberrry

If I want some sort of cookie Ill pick up the item..look at the calories and put it away. I feel like a weirdo looking at all the labels of the foods I buy so I pretty much will wait till im alone in the aisle to do it

Oh me too... I went shopping and was reading ALL the labels. I know I was bothering people, but oh well. I would read one and be like oh my gosh! thats a lot! and put it back..

I'm not a putter backer, I more look at something, go to grab it, retract my hand...then change my mind to go and get it, then change my mind again and walk away. People must think that I'm insane cause usually I'm talking to myself about it too. Hahah

[utgirl09]

LOL. I do this, but not necessarily just with food. At Target, I will walk around with, say, a shirt until I talk myself out of buying it.

[stellarosa27]

Oh my do I do this. I'm also that person who rolls the cart from the front to the back changing her mind 20 billion times. And yeah, I read the labels more than once as well.

[JennyG]

lol - Stella me too!! I could grocery shop for like 2 hours and end up buying 6 items haha...no one will grocery shop with me anymore haha