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Musings on an Efficient Afternoon

November 17, 2008 · Filed Under Random · Comments 

I love efficiency.  I love doing tasks in such a manner as to reduce the overall time it takes or the effort exerted.  This manifests itself in a number of different ways depending on if the task in question is a household chore or home improvement project or shopping trip, etc.

I also love accomplishing things.  I am a list maker and I feel great when I get to cross items off the list when completed.  In fact, if I do something that wasn’t on my list, I will add it to the list and then immediately cross it off to get that feeling of satisfaction!  (Do other people do that?)

Anyway, so with those two things in mind, This is what I did one afternoon last week:

  • I returned some pillows we had purchased
  • I got four new tires put on my wife’s "ivic"
  • I had an eye doctor appointment
  • I bought some milk
  • I bought some compact fluorescent lightbulbs for my dad (he was along for the trip)
  • I filled up the car with gasoline

The interesting thing about this day was that all of this took place at the same store .  For accomplishment’s sake, I was able to do a ton of things in a very short period of time.  For efficiency’s sake, I was able to get them all done very quickly with no extraneous driving around from store to store.  I also was able to overlap waiting for the tires to be installed with the eye appointment and shopping.

What has the world come to where you can buy milk, get new tires installed on your car, and get an eye checkup at the same place? Though maybe this is actually more like how shopping used to take place years and years ago when a town would have only a general store to get everything you needed (or at least everything that was sold in a particular town)?

Though I do love efficiency and I do love checking things off my list, it is true that I don’t really love spending lots of money.  So, from that standpoint, it was somewhat of a downer of an afternoon as an eye doctor appointment and four new tires are quite expensive nowadays.

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2 Responses to “Musings on an Efficient Afternoon”

  1. ChristianPF on November 21st, 2008 3:54 pm

    You are speaking my language! I also get a euphoric rush from checking things off my list. Here’s to efficiency!!

  2. John on November 21st, 2008 4:06 pm

    It’s good to know that I’m not the only one!!

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