Time is Money : Share your idea of saving time

yes..automate bill payments if you are comfortable. And check your bank statements once a month to just cross check if all is well.
Automate even savings/ investments/ shopping.
Set Subscribe and save for shopping regularly purchased items for home and self on amazon/ vitacost/ any other store which provide online shopping and home delivery.

 

Hi sonal

thank you for the ideas.

I would like to share 1 or 2 from my side

Keep the scanned copy of your id proof, address proof like voter id, adhaar card etc in your mailbox. Sometimes when I need to submit any application in a very short notice and I am at office then I simply log in to my yahoo account and print the required documents.
Also I keep 2 or 3 of my passport size photo in my wallet.

One more thing I do is to carefully remove the gift wrapping paper. This can be reused. Sometimes when we don't have time to go to a shop and get gift wrapped, we can do it ourselves.

 

Cool tips. I loved th idea of tossing one thing a day thats 365 things a year less in the house..and the scanning tip as well. For those of you who traveled frequently do also scan your passport after getting stamped at immegration . Once when I lost my passport, all those scans came handy while applying for a new passport .

Thank you girls .. bring on some more please.

Few more tips from my cool sister-
1. I tend to forget eating quinoa and tri color lentils. So she told me just to store quinoa and regular brown rice together in a jar. Same for dry mixed color lentils. Everything gets washed and soaked at once before cooking

2. She keeps one box for extra items / bulk items for every room in her house. Like one box for extra cutlery, coffee mugs, utensils and everything else she may need when guests come over. So her daily kitchen items are kept to minimum. Cleaning and prep becomes less time consuming that way

One box for office supplies, crafts, kids items etc.

3. Have multiuse items in the house.
- Like one dish liquid soap for washing dishes, hand soap, floor cleaner, all purpose cleaner..
- One big pot for making bulk food, steaming veggies, washing multiple vegetables And fruits at once. When not used for meal prep, use the same pot for storing extra kitchen items you do not need on a daily basis
- one universal remote for most of the appliances. One extension cord in each room for multiple electronic gadgets. Get them wifi enabled so all devices can be swtichee off at once at night and while going away from home

 

thanks @sonal1611
I just use our good old google calendar for planning cooking. It is anyway updated with other tasks so it helps to make a meal selection. On the days when I have less than an hour to cook, I just fit in easy meals in the calendar. and other days when I can cook to my heart's content and not have to worry about time, i can try something new or meals that take a longer time.

oh one more thing that my mom always used to do, especially when we were growing up- she had a list of quick and easy meals/ recipes written on a piece of paper that she would stick on the refrigerator. When we used to come home after school and used to demand food in 2 mins, in stead of maggie, she would ask us to pick what we wanted to eat that day from her list and then cook that for us. i still make so many of her recipes in less than 15-20 mins. life was soo good growing up, we never really paid attention to how much planning and prep mom was doing in the background to serve us fresh cooked food day in day out all her life..sometimes i wonder, if i can do that for my family... but i digress. hence my reason to look for kitchen hacks and sanity savers..

 

ohh..ladies if you are specifically looking for time saving ideas in the kitchen, there are already some threads here..
Jiffy cooking & Planning of Menus for all occasions at home.

Time saving Tricks for indian Cooking

I didn't know them so i will restrict the kitchen tips to these thread above and will only post general time saving tips here in this thread..