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This is Laura.

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Today's tip is to go with the closer one.

Unless there is a really good reason to choose something that is farther away,

minimizing travel time can make life feel a lot more doable.

So a new supermarket just opened about five minutes from my home.

This is quite exciting, as the building had been empty for several years.

Before, the nearest grocery stores were all 10 to 15 minutes away.

While that doesn't sound like a huge difference, if you happen to have forgotten

a key ingredient for dinner, it kind of is. Someone can zip over to the new place and dinner

is only delayed by 15 minutes. Not half an hour or more. Now, as a frugal person who pays attention to this sort of thing,

I can tell you that this grocery store is not the cheapest for everything my family eats,

but proximity is worth a lot. I want there to be a grocery store located near me and my neighbors. So unless I know this

grocery store doesn't have something I want, I tend to do my shopping there. In life, proximity in

general is worth a lot. If you track your time, you will see that a lot of any given day

is going to be spent getting from one place to another, to work, to your kids' schools,

to the grocery store, to kid activities, to your house of worship, or to another family

member's home. The difference between a grocery store that is 10 minutes away, verse 5 minutes, isn't huge.

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