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 that when you buy something and it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, keep track of y so you don't
Speaker 1: repeat your mistake. In the last few years, many people
Speaker 1: have started ordering a lot more items Online. Delivery can
Speaker 1: be a win for efficiency, and it can save you
Speaker 1: from errands you don't enjoy. I know each year I
Speaker 1: prefer shopping holiday sales from the couch rather than in
Speaker 1: crowded stores, so I am a big fan. But there
Speaker 1: are also the inevitable order fails. Maybe it's the container
Speaker 1: of kitty litter that's so heavy that the kid in
Speaker 1: charge of changing the litter box can't lift it. Or
Speaker 1: there's the hamburger that was so delicious when you ordered
Speaker 1: it at the restaurant, but when delivered to your home
Speaker 1: it is cold and saggy. Or maybe it's the shirt
Speaker 1: that supposedly fits true to size but that is actually enormous,
Speaker 1: or the bottle of olive oil that's weirdly tall and
Speaker 1: won't fit in your cabinet, or that the most popular
Speaker 1: order of hot glue gun sticks on Amazon turns out
Speaker 1: to be bigger than your particular glue gun. I bet
Speaker 1: some of your own delivery fails come to mind. The
Speaker 1: occasional delivery fail is inevitable. It is kind of the
Speaker 1: price we pay for convenience. What you can do is
Speaker 1: aimed to avoid repeating the fail and falling again for
Speaker 1: the same dream that your favorite hamburger won't suffer in
Speaker 1: delivery from a far away restaurant, or that you are
Speaker 1: size ten when you are not. For clothes and shoes
Speaker 1: and other occasional purchases, if something doesn't work out, you
Speaker 1: could just forward the order confirmation to yourself with notes
Speaker 1: about each item you returned and why. Then the next
Speaker 1: time you are purchasing from that retailer, you can search
Speaker 1: in your emails to find your notes and remind yourself
Speaker 1: what was quirky in their size NG or which cut
Speaker 1: of pants didn't work for you, or anything else that
Speaker 1: will help you have a more successful order. For places
Speaker 1: you order from more frequently, a note on your phone
Speaker 1: or a page in your planner can list dues and
Speaker 1: don't For instance, for your go to grub hub restaurant,
Speaker 1: you might have chicken caesar salad in their club sandwich
Speaker 1: on the do list, and French fries on the don't
Speaker 1: list because they are always a giant disappointment. For grocery delivery,
Speaker 1: you might have bananas and avocados on the don't list
Speaker 1: because no one else is going to get them at
Speaker 1: exactly the moment of firmness that you like. For your
Speaker 1: chewy order, you might have fifty pound bags of dog
Speaker 1: food on the don't list because they take up too
Speaker 1: much space in your pantry, or the brand that your
Speaker 1: dog ate once and then didn't eat again, but you
Speaker 1: can't ever really remember what it was when it's ordering time.
Speaker 1: You might also have a list of dudes and don'ts
Speaker 1: for places to order from for food delivery. After a
Speaker 1: few orders, you can probably get a sense of how
Speaker 1: likely it is that the restaurant's food will make it
Speaker 1: to you hot and appealing, even with restaurants you plan
Speaker 1: to eat in in person. This can be helpful, as
Speaker 1: the human brain isn't always good I remembering why we
Speaker 1: remember a place. My husband and I keep remarking on
Speaker 1: a Mexican restaurant that we pass every time we take
Speaker 1: a certain trip and think maybe we should stop there sometime.
Speaker 1: Then it takes a minute to remember that Actually, the
Speaker 1: reason we are remembering the restaurant is that it really
Speaker 1: wasn't all that good. A delivery fail here, and there
Speaker 1: is no reason to decide you have to do all
Speaker 1: your shopping and pick up all your food in person.
Speaker 1: A fail also doesn't mean you need to avoid a
Speaker 1: retailer entirely, but you don't need to repeat fails when
Speaker 1: you can avoid them, make notes to yourself and you
Speaker 1: can improve your success rate over time. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to
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