Every year since 2019 I have set goals and resolutions as a way to challenge and improve myself. I have been using a spreadsheet to track my goals and resolutions and provide quarterly updates here. … Read more

Morning friends! So this is more of a life hack than a money saving one (in fact, it’ll actually cost you more money, lol), but it’s been such a game changer for me that I had to share 🙂 In a nutshell, I buy DOUBLE of the stuff I need or use everyday, and then scatter them all around the house to make everything more convenient!  Example: every morning I wake up at 5am and either work out at the gym or take a fun hot yoga class. Being how it’s so early in the morning though, I hate rustling around our main bathroom while getting ready and waking up my wife and kids, so instead I head to our downstairs one to limit the noise. But to use the downstairs bathroom means moving all my toiletries from the top one to the bottom one each night before, and as you can imagine I forget half the time. I’d been doing this for years, and then one day a lightning bolt hit me – why not buy a second toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, hairspray, etc and then just leave them all downstairs? That way I have everything I need each morning without doing a thing?! And boy let me tell you – it makes a world of a difference!! One small tweak for daily compounding effects – the best kind of hack 🙂 (And turns out, this particular example doesn’t actually cost you any additional money since you’re only extending the shelf life of your main toiletries since you’re now only using them half the time! It works out nicely! PS: this also works well with shoes) So that’s kinda where this “double everything” idea came from… Which I now employ in other areas of my life too! Here are the other things I’ve doubled up on, or even quadrupled up on! Phone chargers — Why have only one to use, when you can have others spread across different rooms saving you time and energy? (Literally!) No more going back and forth or forgetting your phone in a different room if you have it right there in your current one charging right up… Laptop chargers — Especially helpful if you go to coffee shops or other places to work every day! I used to take my main one from my house every day, but similar to the toiletries I’d often forget and then get stuck somewhere with no battery juice. One time late at night when I was out of town I got stuck in the middle of a project and my laptop shut down. I scrambled like a crazy person to find an open store who sold them and fortunately came across one, but had to spend over $60 for it (!!!). So now I just throw an extra one in my laptop backpack and keep it there so I’m always good to go without ever having to think about it. Laptops themselves! — This may be a bit extreme,