A paid job is work 4 hrs get a 15 min break.
Since I started going to the store once a month I don't buy as much junk
Try going once a week and buying one or two junk items
That is true. Didn’t think of that. But still. I feel like the physical labor is more tiring anyway.
Thanks, I may try that!! It is just hard because we have soooo many stores around so it is too easy to go whenever I want. And I am always going somewhere daily or at least a few times a week and it’s a different place every time and I usually always pick something up. And also I usually eat it all at once or at least one day
But I could try to have some self control.
I think part of my problem is I am bored and have nothing to do so I think sometimes I drive around all over and/or shop for fun as lame as that sounds and I also listen to my music in my car and like driving around for that. Maybe I just need to get a life....
But I literally have stores 2 minutes from my house, right down the street, and more like 10-15 mins away either direction (faster if I speed lol). So that does not help. Among the ones literally right down the street are a Dollar Tree, a CVS (though I don’t buy junk there cause it’s expensive but just saying), 2 big grocery stores, 2 gas stations/convenience stores, a Papa Gino’s (pizza), a McDonald’s, 2 Dunkin Donuts (they just built the second one as a stand alone, previous one is inside one of the gas stations. I think that one is closing and becoming something else. But still. For now it’s 2), and soon to be a Starbucks which they are also building although I hate Starbucks. There’s also a bazillion liquor stores including one walking distance but I don’t drink. But just saying there is A LOT of bad stuff around. And then further away there is the mall filled with junk including an Auntie Annies and typical food court stuff and another big outdoor shopping plaza right near that with a million restaurants and fast food, and stores, a huge
Walmart, and among the food is Wendy’s, Taco Bell, Panera Bread, DAngelos, Moe’s, Coldstone Creamery, and they just opened a Chipotle and are opening a Chik Fil A. Building it now. And there is another grocery store across the road from this from this plaza. Literally just go to leave it and go through a set of lights into the other plaza. I actually like that store better so maybe I can limit myself to once a week and actually asking if anyone wants or needs something instead of just impulsively going. And our
Tractor Supply carries some candy and drinks and stuff but I actually like our local feed store better and they carry the brand I prefer so maybe I will start going there more instead and avoid the other one altogether. Plus the plaza this feed store is in doesn’t have much except BJs which is a pain to go to for one thing and they only sell in bulk. Also the feed store isn’t even in the plaza, it is on the outside of it on the street so I don’t even need to go in. I can just ge try feed and get out fast which I think is ideal. OH!! And also at the plaza like down the street from our house there is also an Ocean State Job Lot which carries just about everything and they are cheap.
Once a month?! I go once or sometimes twice a week because produce doesn't last and two 13 YO boys.
Yeah I go way more often
Umm true
It's just me and I freeze a lot in the summer...in the winter I buy frozen veggies and fruit... the 'fresh' is really not very fresh. I read studies that the frozen is more nutritious because it's frozen right away. The fresh is almost a week old by the time it gets to the store in the winter. So I get yellow and green bananas for the first 2 weeks and frozen the rest. Salads too.
Oh wow that’s so interesting about that study. Didn’t realize that. May have to start buying more frozen food then. And growing my own this year.
my current strategy is more like 5 or 10 minutes of work and an hour of break lol or multiple hours and sometimes don’t even get back to the project cause I accidentally stay online too long 
