A Shopping List Should Make Your Life Easier
Use a Modern Shopping List Now
A MakeLifeEasy shopping list has built-in features to manage itself:
- Automatic Replenishment. When you buy something that will last a while,
you can record it in your shopping list to "manage" it (see below).
Later, your list tells you when it's time to re-buy that item.
It goes on your list automatically.
And, you can get a lot of advance notice, so you can get a good price.
- Buying Advice. When it's time to buy, your shopping list tells you
what's a good price to pay and how much to buy. This buying advice is based on
your past purchases. It's completely unbiased, and it's customized for you.
- Always Ready. Get your list from home, work, a cafe, a store,
or anywhere the internet's available.
Use it online or print it out and take it with you.
Manage Your Purchases To Achieve Smart Shopping
Of course, you can use your MakeLifeEasy list
whether or not you choose to manage your assets.
But many products are great assets to "manage" in MakeLifeEasy.
To "manage" your assets in MakeLifeEasy, you record the products you bought
to cover the needs on your list.
Consider managing what we call "supplies" --
items that you have to buy more than once,
especially items that you buy time and time again.
These include some groceries,
health and beauty products, personal care products, home and garden supplies, office supplies,
and other types of things you tend to buy over and over.
For now, stick with items that you shop for no more often than once a month.
That way, you won't spend a lot of time and effort recording them.
But while you're at it, go ahead and record large one-time purchases, too.
Then they get entered into your home inventory record automatically.
These are good types of supplies to manage:
- Items that you can easily stock up on.
- Items where the prices change and/or sales happen often,
so MakeLifeEasy's buying advice and early reminders can be very useful.
- Items that are heavily "merchandised" -- that is,
items where the manufacturers and stores try really hard to persuade you to buy them.
MakeLifeEasy helps you make more calm, rational decisions
so that you can relax and avoid the hype.
Other articles in MakeLifeEasy (see below) help you get set up and to decide which assets to manage.
Use MakeLifeEasy For a While To Get Advanced Features
After you've used MakeLifeEasy for a while, you get the benefit of more advanced features, including:
- More advanced buying advice, including how much to buy at the prices offered.
- Seller performance reports: how your stores stack up against each other,
in terms of price and availability.
- Other advanced features,
including your "cost per day curve" (what each item costs per day, per month, etc.),
and how you might consider changing what, when, and how much you buy
to save money and improve your satisfaction.
Get Ready For the Shopping Lists of the Future
These new MakeLifeEasy lists are just a start.
Even better lists will be here before you know it.
Here's what's coming:
- You'll get bids from several stores to fulfill your list automatically.
You pick the one you like best and get your order fulfilled by them, all at once.
- Better yet, pick your favorite store, and agree to let them fill your list automatically.
That's how you get the absolute lowest cost and easiest shopping.
Start using MakeLifeEasy now to get prepared for freedom from shopping!
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