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Some things only announce themselves the moment they're gone — shampoo, detergent, toothpaste. Here's what actually stuck for me, after months of trying to make those late-night moments rarer.
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When you have a kid, running out of essentials almost always happens on a weeknight. Here are the three habits that actually stuck in our house, after three months.
An unopened block of tofu, three days past its date, in the back of the fridge. I stopped fighting food waste with guilt, and started treating it as a visibility problem. Here is what I gave up, and what stuck.
Every time I find a bag of liquefied spinach in the back of the crisper, my self-image takes a small hit. Meal planning never stuck for me. These are the small habits that did.
Twenty bagels, 2.4kg of chicken breast, industrial-size condiments. The bargain is real, but only if you finish them. Here are the small habits that kept our freezer from becoming a graveyard.
Opening the suitcase in a hotel room and realizing the charger is still on my desk at home. Here is what I stopped doing, and the three small habits that actually stuck.
On the day I threw out seven expired bottles from the back of the cabinet, and the quiet, imperfect routine I've kept since.
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Some things only announce themselves the moment they're gone — shampoo, detergent, toothpaste. Here's what actually stuck for me, after months of trying to make those late-night moments rarer.
When you have a kid, running out of essentials almost always happens on a weeknight. Here are the three habits that actually stuck in our house, after three months.
An unopened block of tofu, three days past its date, in the back of the fridge. I stopped fighting food waste with guilt, and started treating it as a visibility problem. Here is what I gave up, and what stuck.
19 posts
Some things only announce themselves the moment they're gone — shampoo, detergent, toothpaste. Here's what actually stuck for me, after months of trying to make those late-night moments rarer.
When you have a kid, running out of essentials almost always happens on a weeknight. Here are the three habits that actually stuck in our house, after three months.
An unopened block of tofu, three days past its date, in the back of the fridge. I stopped fighting food waste with guilt, and started treating it as a visibility problem. Here is what I gave up, and what stuck.
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