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I don't mind at all carrying the bags of groceries upstairs (I'm on the 2nd floor); EXCEPT during winter when we've had another of our lovely ice storms. I do all I can to schedule my trips around the worst of the weather; and now that I'm retired, I do have more options.
I used a cart. At my old place, they had about 4 shopping carts from the local Giant ( no idea how those shopping carts got there as they clearly were from Giant ) in the building that tenants could use to carry all kinds of items, they also had dollies, it was all on the first floor, so whenever you needed to carry something, you'd just stop by the first floor and borrow a cart or dolly, worked pretty well till someone leaves the cart on the 14th floor and you spend hours looking for it, stopping at each floor. I also remember when I lived close to a grocery store once and I could push my cart from the store to the building
I live on the third floor. I can carry 15 plastic grocery bags at one time. It's not a big deal and great for your arms.
Exactly.
One of the coolest things about the human body is that it adapts to the demand.
I lived four flights up and would go up and down. It was a real pain at first, but you body adapts pretty fast. So I'm in better physical shape than my first floor buddies. I can live with that
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Sometimes I will leave heavy things that can wait in the trunk and leave it for the next time I get out of the car from a trip, usually being water or cans of juice/soda.
This is not a dumb question at all. Currently the store is across the street, but in the past I would just make small trips every couple of days or use one of the large chains that delivers via the net, not sure we can name them here. Occassionally we've been known to taxi it too.
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Our complex had one of them thar new fangled inventions - an elevator. We used to carry our groceries into it from the parking garage, push a button and arrive on our floor, just like magic. What'll they think of next? Garbage chutes.
We tried a cart but always seemed to leave it in the apt. So just carry your stuff up. Sometimes it takes a couple of trips. It's not too bad. I admit I prefer my house with the 6 car driveway.
how do you guys do it? just go back and forth a few times?
for people in mega complexes that must be a pain.
its a dumb question, but ive never lived in an apartment before.
You could just have them delivered and let someone else go back and forth or up and down...easy solution...or...make several stops each week at the store and only buy what you need.
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hmm...
