Sorry if this sounds to most of you like a stupid question, but…
I’m doing all the shopping, as my wife has respiratory issues, and I’m doing everything I can to minimize her risk.
I have figured out a strategy for virtually everything we need, including:
Harmon’s eSHOP for most food items,
Online (to a level I’ve never engaged prior to COVID-19) shopping for anything non-perishable,
Curbside pickup, for items that I cannot find via 1, or 2, (lots of places are doing this now).
Masks - we’re sewing our own,
doing without, for items that I cannot manage by one of the above,
So far, that leaves only Clorox Wipes, of which I am about out. No one sells them online, Harmon’s never has then in stock, no one (that I have found) makes them available for curbside pickup.
I’ve heard through the grapevine on a few occasions, that, so-and-so has them in stock, dropped everything to go and pick some up, only to find that by the time I got there, the stock had recently disappeared. (As an aside, most stores will not answer the phone to give stock updates.)
I don’t need a lot, but having some to clean surfaces, like the interior of the car, etc. is critical to my overall safety plan.
I use these at home. They’re food service grade, same stuff used to clean your tables and sanitize EVERYTHING in a restaurant. There is a liquid version around, but it’s expensive. Keep a bucket of this handy, 1 or 2 tablets per gallon of water, safer than bleach, smells better too.
I took a empty disinfectant wipes container, bought a package of baby wipes, made a diluted solution of bleach (I’ve heard suggested about 5-10% bleach and the rest water) which I poured into the container, then put some baby wipes inside to soak in the solution.
My new mattress arrived! I love Costco. I have the membership that is a step up from the regular. The delivery and the set up are included. I don’t know how I managed to upgrade my membership, but I’m keepin’ it.
I love the mattress, by the way. My old one was approaching 10 years and it was starting to get a divot resembling a coffin on my side of the bed. I try to rotate it, but clearly not often enough. Oy vey.
Don’t ask why I only sleep on one side of the bed. I’m weird that way.
Looks like Amazon has them. Will that work for you?
During Covid, we ordered groceries from Smith’s, drove into a particular parking spot during an alphabetical time window, and employees brought the groceries out and put them in our car trunk or storage area. Is any service like that still available? I know it wouldn’t tell you that neither Harmon’s nor other stores in town have the product in stock. Just wondering if that might be a helpful option for other items.
Smith’s down the road from us still has that service. We used it a few times when our household had Covid. I usually prefer to shop in the store, in particular so I can select produce and meat products that look right.
