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A better shopping list

2026-06-02 · Notes

It is such a small thing. I used to write the list as the items came to mind, then walk back and forth across the shop. Now the list has four headings: fruit and veg, bread, tins and dry goods, cold. It matches the route through the shop, and the trip is about ten minutes shorter.

It also makes it obvious when I have forgotten something, because a heading is empty. That is the whole trick.

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