Remembering to check the tins

Yes, I constantly need to keep reminding myself of this each time I go grocery shopping. As they come, most tins feel alike and it is only with constant practice that I am able to keep tabs on them whenever I buy them and whenever I pack them away in my pantry.

Of course, you will always find that some tins are smaller than others and are shaped a bit differently to others but on the whole and in general, many tins feel alike to the touch. As a blind person, I need to keep these points in mind on a daily basis.

Tins of tuna are different in shape to tins of beans and tins of soup are also a bit different as well. When you shake a tin of soup it sounds a bit different to a tin of beans but the challenge comes when I have to distinguish between different types of soup, different types of beans, and so on.

So how do I deal with this? I take my roll of masking tape with me to the supermarket and use it to help mark the tins. Sometimes I use my house key to make slight rips in the labels on tins to help me to decipher differences.

I am still working on a bar code reader to help make my life simpler and easier but this will come later. Meanwhile, all in a day's work for me.

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