Because we have some money to spare, and neither a car nor driving licenses, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude and I placed a large delivery order with Instacart this evening, for delivery tomorrow afternoon.
Almost all of it is things we will use, buying them now rather than next week, month, or possibly season: the next bottles of things like dish soap, vinegar, and olive oil that we will use, and not in the "it will come in handy sometime" way. We did add a few things we don't normally buy that are likely to be useful if we're stuck at home because of a quarantine, or for that matter a blizzard (it's Feb. 29th and this is New England), like frozen orange juice, frozen peas, and a half dozen cans of condensed soup.
We're paying for the convenience, of course: a dollar extra on this item, and 75 cents on that, adds up; but our time and energy are worth something.
I also made sure we are well supplied with spices, to add some variety if we wind up eating lots of rice and beans.
There have been times I would have hesitated to do this, for lack of either spare cash or storage space; right now we're okay on both.
ETA: We are stashing extra paper towels and toilet paper on the (enclosed but unheated) porch.
cattitude and I placed a large delivery order with Instacart this evening, for delivery tomorrow afternoon.Almost all of it is things we will use, buying them now rather than next week, month, or possibly season: the next bottles of things like dish soap, vinegar, and olive oil that we will use, and not in the "it will come in handy sometime" way. We did add a few things we don't normally buy that are likely to be useful if we're stuck at home because of a quarantine, or for that matter a blizzard (it's Feb. 29th and this is New England), like frozen orange juice, frozen peas, and a half dozen cans of condensed soup.
We're paying for the convenience, of course: a dollar extra on this item, and 75 cents on that, adds up; but our time and energy are worth something.
I also made sure we are well supplied with spices, to add some variety if we wind up eating lots of rice and beans.
There have been times I would have hesitated to do this, for lack of either spare cash or storage space; right now we're okay on both.
ETA: We are stashing extra paper towels and toilet paper on the (enclosed but unheated) porch.
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