Before Amazon I had a small whiteboard on the side of the 'fridge. Then just before shopping, I would take a photo of the list and use the photo as my shopping list.
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I save every envelope that comes into the house, I have quite a pile of them. The larger ones form an almost permanent feature under the magnets, but the rarer longish ones are for shopping lists. These can be thrown about at will without damage but also can be forgotten as we have seen above. I still think the whirlwind style I have developed is best though, for me.
Envelopes!
When I quit smoking (over 40yrs ago) I no longer had fag packets to write odd addresses and notes on.
You obviously didn’t have American fags then. My first tentative steps at lung ruination involved Peter Stuyvesent which came in bendy paper packets. That was at school and one packet would be shared by several out of sight in the spinney, but I have no idea how we afforded it, my pocket money was a shilling a week, well actually 1 and 6, but the 6 had to go in the Trustee Savings Bank, the last dregs of which were spirited to India in 1965 ish to allow me to get a plane ticket to Darwin. 
The local Tesco (indeed I think all UK supermarkets) moves things seemingly at random on a weekly basis such that we regularly have to play the “where have they put … this week” game.
AIUI it is deliberate, the longer you spend searching for things on the shelf, the more likely you are to make impulse purchases.
I hate it with a vengeance 
, and worry that it must be murder for anyone with memory problems. I honestly wish someone would wake up and make the blonking practice illegal
Pretty sure that is the idea.
But I wonder if anyone has done any good research to show if it is a genuine effect or not? Big retailers do spend lots on maximising sales, and probably do have good reason to spend staff time on rearranging stuff, but I am curious to know how strong any effect is.
After all since they do a lot of research in designing the perfect store layout, why change it from what they believe to be the optimal one?
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Because - as noted, making you walk around the store looking for what you wanted to buy in the first place means you are more likely to spot other products and buy on impulse.
It is fairly well established.
I just put things I need to buy on IPhone messages , that I can look at in the shops and most times stick to it. Luckily I am not an impulse buyer.
I tried setting up Google Home first. Took me and her 15 minutes of frustration to put 3 items on the shopping list, but it did show up in Google Keep on my phone. I think it will get easier.
I can totally relate to this, we have to soldier on!!
I think the thing I would most miss in France is the Tesco home delivery service…
It has been decided by a committee (of one, me) that the title of this thread is, after all, totally correct, the lone apostrophe refers to the missing word (over). Apologies to those, like @Welshgirl , for any confusion caused.
Also, as it may be intended to refer to and include those over the age of 80, it can also be correct in reference to those of us who eventually pass out of this decade and become 90.
Judging by the increased confusion noted in SF, that is probably a soon to be experience. 
Must admit I’ve been itching to change it to “Memory in one’s 80’s”
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I keep thinking SODIMM.
Not in the (19)80’s you wouldn’t.