Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to buy an extra if having an
Speaker 1: extra would make life easier. In a recent episode, we
Speaker 1: talked about knowing your burn rate. This is the speed
Speaker 1: at which you use up household items. By knowing how
Speaker 1: long a gallon of milk, a jar of peanut butter,
Speaker 1: or a bottle of laundry detergent lasts, you can make
Speaker 1: more efficient shopping trips. Of course, there's more to efficiency
Speaker 1: than just volume. Sometimes we choose to use or not
Speaker 1: use things based on how convenient they are. So rather
Speaker 1: than be penny wise and pound foolish, better to get
Speaker 1: us spare and make life a little easier. I think
Speaker 1: of this every summer as we load up on sunscreen. Theoretically,
Speaker 1: putting a giant, economy sized bottle in the mud room
Speaker 1: should be fine. That's generally where we exit the house,
Speaker 1: but not always, and so to increase the chances that
Speaker 1: people actually wear sunscreen, we buy copious bottles and stash
Speaker 1: them all over the place by the back door, for instance,
Speaker 1: to make it easier to go in the back yard
Speaker 1: pool on the back porch in case people got outside
Speaker 1: without seeing the bottle by the back door. In each
Speaker 1: car in case people get where they're going and remember
Speaker 1: that they need sunscreen, and of course in kid camp
Speaker 1: bags and my purse. I've been doing this with other
Speaker 1: things too. We could get by with fewer booster seats,
Speaker 1: but that would mean that we were always carrying them
Speaker 1: back and forth and hunting for them when we're trying
Speaker 1: to leave. My baby likes white noise while he sleeps.
Speaker 1: He sometimes sleeps in a crib in my bedroom and
Speaker 1: sometimes in his. We'd been moving the white noise machine
Speaker 1: back and forth. When I realized that this was massive
Speaker 1: headache to engineer with a sleepy, fuzzy baby, I bought
Speaker 1: a second machine. Problem solved. You might do this with
Speaker 1: favorite items of clothing too. If you find yourself wearing
Speaker 1: something over and over again, go ahead and get a
Speaker 1: second copy before the company stopped making it. If the
Speaker 1: company has stopped making it, you might be able to
Speaker 1: find a second hand version in good shape through a
Speaker 1: company like thread Up. And if you wear certain items
Speaker 1: of clothing in different places, you might want to buy
Speaker 1: a spare in that case too, having an extra pair
Speaker 1: of sneakers in your car means you can go for
Speaker 1: an impromptu walk. Having a fully stocked jim bag at
Speaker 1: your office means you can work out at lunch. It
Speaker 1: sounds like buying an extra might make life more cluttered,
Speaker 1: but sometimes the opposite happens. We bought an extra laundry
Speaker 1: hamper to put on the first floor of the house.
Speaker 1: Now people are marginally less inclined to leave dirty laundry
Speaker 1: lying all over the place when they're too lazy carry
Speaker 1: it up to the second floor laundry room. In any case,
Speaker 1: if you find yourself carrying something from room to room
Speaker 1: or car to car, from home to your office, or
Speaker 1: if you're constantly saying, hey, where's the consider buying an
Speaker 1: extra A little bit of money might save you a
Speaker 1: lot of hassle. In the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me
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