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On the night two cartons of milk lined up in our fridge, I realized our shared shopping list wasn't working. Here's what my wife and I quit, and what we've kept doing for six months.
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Finding a bare cardboard tube at midnight is a tiny disaster. Here is the simple, three-month-tested approach I use to keep it from happening — without turning my apartment into a warehouse.
Last December I rushed to use up my furusato nozei tax allocation. By June, the wagyu was still sitting at the back of the freezer. Here are the habits that finally got me to actually eat the gifts I ordered.
On the day I threw out seven expired bottles from the back of the cabinet, and the quiet, imperfect routine I've kept since.
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.
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.
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.
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On the night two cartons of milk lined up in our fridge, I realized our shared shopping list wasn't working. Here's what my wife and I quit, and what we've kept doing for six months.
Finding a bare cardboard tube at midnight is a tiny disaster. Here is the simple, three-month-tested approach I use to keep it from happening — without turning my apartment into a warehouse.
Last December I rushed to use up my furusato nozei tax allocation. By June, the wagyu was still sitting at the back of the freezer. Here are the habits that finally got me to actually eat the gifts I ordered.
19 posts
On the night two cartons of milk lined up in our fridge, I realized our shared shopping list wasn't working. Here's what my wife and I quit, and what we've kept doing for six months.
Finding a bare cardboard tube at midnight is a tiny disaster. Here is the simple, three-month-tested approach I use to keep it from happening — without turning my apartment into a warehouse.
Last December I rushed to use up my furusato nozei tax allocation. By June, the wagyu was still sitting at the back of the freezer. Here are the habits that finally got me to actually eat the gifts I ordered.
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