I hate shopping. It takes up a whole lot of time and I always wind up buying too much stuff. I am a mom with four children and I really don't have time for you to always be running for the store to get things. We tried a significant box club membership therefore we can stock up on essentials a couple of times a month but meant people had to go and execute a large shopping trip every couple weeks. This was an absolute nightmare with four children. We subscribe to Amazon Prime and Amazon Pantry and that I have an Instacart account, and so I decided to try out an experiment to determine whether we could go an entire month without needing to set foot in a store locally for family or food essentials, instead, we do online shopping.
INVENTORY
The very first thing that I did was make an inventory list of what which we utilize as a family and how much of it we use. I really couldn't discover how much to order till I knew that which we used and how much of it we went through every month. Getting inventory lists of essentials would also prove to be very useful in the foreseeable future.
Once the inventory list was done I compared prices on essentials between local grocery stores through Instacart along with Amazon Prime and Prime Pantry. Amazon was almost always less expensive. Over the last day of the month, I purchased most of the toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning supplies, and other non-food things which we'd utilize that month from Amazon Prime and Prime Pantry. It turned out to be a huge order but because of Amazon Prime's shipping policy, it all had been at your home in 2 weeks. I put it all away in a section of the pantry I had cleared out for it all and was thrilled I wouldn't ever run out of paper towels or even dishwasher soap all month.
I then switched to grocery store. Shopping for supermarkets for an whole month wasn't practical so I decided I'd do two Instacart orders, one every two weeks, and I'd meal plan for those two weeks then shop for those ingredients as well as stocking up on household staples. For the first Instacart order I ordered from three distinct stores and paid no more shipping charges because I pay the $15 a month membership fee. Within a few hours, all the food and supplies we needed for two weeks was at the door.
THE VERDICT
I did indeed can avoid doing some buying essentials or food for an whole month. When I compared the cost of what we normally spent on groceries and household expenses being organized, having an idea, along with majority ordering actually saved us money along with a massive amount of time. It's a radical shift in thinking to give shopping up however because of me, it was totally worth it. A small company wound up saving me a lot of money and time that I get to spend with my family members. You must attempt it and you'll never go back to daily Food Shopping runs either