Six Useful Ways You Can Save Time

I Need More Time!

It’s 6:15 in the morning and during the next hour and twenty minutes, you have to take a shower, get dressed, tweeze your eyebrows, trim your nose hair, put in your contacts, gargle, throw in a load of laundry, feed the dog, feed the kids (not necessarily in that order), take out the garbage, make your kids’ lunch, walk the dog, pick-up your dog’s mess from the neighbor’s front lawn, argue with your neighbor because your dog did his business on their front lawn, drop the kids off at the bus stop, drop your wife off at the train station, drop off the dry cleaning, run by Starbucks and get to work yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just have an extra half hour? Well, maybe you can.

According to a 2005 study conducted by AOL and Salary.com, the average American worker admits to frittering away over two hours a day surfing the web, socializing with co-workers and just generally spacing out. To help you gain back some of that valuable lost time, we’ve come up with a number of time saving tips to help you get through your busy day.

Shop ahead…
Depending on individual arrangements, most families will either do all of their grocery shopping once or twice a week. A few go every day. To save time, try doing all of your shopping for the entire year in one visit. Naturally, this will take a great deal of planning, but this can save you over 39 hours a year. Of course, your shopping list will be quite a bit longer (52 loaves of bread, 36 chickens, 150 lbs. of hamburger meat, etc.), but the time you save will be worth it.

Have your food delivered…
Another alternative to going out to buy your groceries is to have all of your food delivered to your home, affording you huge savings in gasoline, tune-ups and new tires. On Mondays, you can have pizza; Tuesdays, Kentucky Fried Chicken; Wednesdays, Wing Foo’s Chinese food, etc. The most important thing is to never leave the house unless it’s for a trip to the emergency room, getting the newspaper from the driveway or watching your daughter get married.