WFMW: Running Errands
June 30, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under money saving idea, time management, time saving
Since we live in a very rural area, going shopping usually requires a 30 minute drive. A 30 minute drive may not seem like much to some of you, but to me this is a long way to go. At our last house, there was a local grocery store less than 1 mile from our house and there was a Food Lion only 2 1/2 miles away. If I was in the middle of cooking and needed something, it was easy just to drive up to the store to get the item.
Today my husband and I tried something a bit different. I wanted to get a few more groceries from Harris Teeter before the Super Double sale ended and he needed to get some things from Lowe’s Home Improvement and some other places. We decided to do our errands together. Actually, he dropped me off at Harris Teeter so that I could shop while he did his errands. This saved us gas and time and also avoided me having three kids in the grocery store.
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I’m in the exact same situation! Used to live 5 minutes from Food Lion, now live at least 30 minutes from everything, an hour if I want to get to “bigger” stores. Planning the errands out has become a total necessity, not only to save gas and time, but my sanity! LOL