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More than likely, shopping for food every 2 weeks will end up taking *more* time since you have to spend more time shopping for each item. Not to mention packing it all up in your vehicle and unpacking will take longer since there will more than likely be more items to carry. Shopping for groceries every few days is a far more effective tactic since you can typically go shopping right after your last class, after all you’re already out and about so why not shop before you go home (unless you live on campus, of course)?

My girlfriend and I both make grocery runs at least 4 days a week since we’re lucky enough to have our grocery right across from our school and the old one we shopped at is merely 2 minutes away. Since we have to pass by the store just to go home from school, it’s far easier to actually stop by at that moment than go on the weekend.

As for making big meals in order to have leftovers, that’s a double edged sword. Sure you can save money by eating leftovers but then again, you’ll end up wasting more money on the food you throw out that you didn’t eat but swore you would. This is an old item that people never dwell too much on because since you have more food, you’ll naturally eat it over the week. But you have to take into account how much it costs to actually buy extra foods and then how much it costs to toss away the rest. Buy what only you’ll eat, not more. Aside from odd ends of breads and pitas, we throw away — on average — maybe $10 of food a month simply because we only buy what we plan on actually eating. Also, fixing bigger than needed meals usually makes you overeat and end up being less healthy, or at least packing on unnecessary pounds versus buying enough food that you’ll actually eat. Portion control will save you a lot more money in the long run, I can promise you that.

As for clothing, picking out your clothes the night before can save time. But so can buying a lot of similar looking clothing, this completely removes the need to actually pick something out and saves more time since you don’t have to think about what you’re wearing, you just grab and go. Einstein did this because he had far more important things to think about (I do too, three pairs of jeans and 25 black t-shirts means all I need to think about is where my jeans are). He cleverly stated that a lack of choice was about more freedom for more important issues. I’m pretty sure no one can argue about his correctness of that statement.

the thing about libraries is that your time is wasted more on walking around looking for books than looking AT books.