One errand I seriously dislike is grocery shopping.  It’s tedious.  It’s mind-numbingly repetitive and boring.
Not to get obsessive about it, but here is one way to make it less painful, especially if you are a working mom trying to squeeze this chore into a weekday.
The Master List
You need a list.  Going to the store without a list is like going shopping for shoes for someone you’ve never met.  Insane.
So start with a list.  To take the pain out of the list, make up your master list.  No matter how accomplished …

So you’ve created a Gmail account, and are happily using it for your personal stuff.  You subscribe to a thing or two, and before you know it, your mailbox is flooded with emails.  Newsletters, breaking news, helpful local happenings.  You do want to be in the know, just need to manage them a bit better.
Enter Gmail filters.
These filters are analogous to rules on other email systems, and are really easy to set up.  To the right of the search box, right after Search Web and Search Mail, you will find …

Many years ago while in the middle of a mid-life crisis (I had them often in my early twenties), I decided to make a list.   The List.  It was essentially a to-do list on steroids.  Nowadays they come with pictures and are called vision boards.  But back then, I didn’t quite have that terminology available to me, so it was just A To-Do List.