Many people who know me think I am not the best manager of time, in fact a bit of a dawdler. However, when it comes to doing the Saturday morning shopping, I am highly motivated to spend as little time as possible in the exhausting and stressful environment of shopping.
This is what leads me to write about the delights of trip chaining. Even though the link is American, there are 10 useful tips to organising yourself to try and do all the weekend shopping in one trip, rather than multiple trips.
We are fortunate in that where we live there is a good public transport-based shopping centre that contains supermarkets, specialty food stores and specialised businesses that we don't use all the time, but are nice to have. Today we needed to go to all three to do our weekly shop, get some special foods from the delicatessen and drop some clothes off for alterations and finally, pick up our bikes from the bike shop.
It only took about 2 and a half hours to do all the shopping, drop the clothes off at the tailors, pick up our bikes and still have time left over for a coffee and some cake for morning tea. Trip chaining is great, and the 'tasting plate' of cheese, dolmades, marinated mushrooms, Sicilian green olives and tzatziki we made for lunch was delicious!
LS
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That's cool. Welcome to the car-less life. Have you invested in a robust shopping jeep yet? It's a must
ReplyDeleteNo. Have not invested in a jeep. The magic of supermarket home delivery does most of the heavy lifting for us. We can usually carry the rest home.
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