Smartlife

Ordering alcohol from the web seems like a dream come true when you want to browse wide selections and stock up on specialty brews or unique wines, or just to get the best deal out there. You can save time compared to making beer runs to the distributor and have access to a huge variety of drinks. While you can save a bundle, consider the shipping costs to your state and look for deals on shipping, which many sites offer.

Dinner is a big deal: from planning to shopping to cooking to cleaning up to leaning up, there’s a lot of time-consuming work involved. For some people, eliminating all that work is a matter of stopping by McDonald’s, Burger King, or Chick-fil-A on the way home. That approach can lead directly to health problems, and more. There are plenty of other ways to outsource your food tasks and still avoid the problems that go along with fast food. Not only that, outsourcing will help free up your time for other valued pursuits and perhaps even save yourself some money.

There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of food you can get online. Just like your groceries, you can also order baked goods online and get them delivered right to your doorstep. Now, as you can imagine, it was difficult for me* to compile a list of online bakeries without ordering every savory-looking bakery product that met my eyes. Thankfully, I made it through the entire list without packing on any extra pounds. With a little moderation, you can too — but do treat yourself and taste-test a few. You might just find an online bakery or two to substitute for any local ones you travel to, thereby saving yourself some time and gas money.

M&Ms, gumdrops, lollipops, rock candy, jelly beans, sour bears, Hershey’s Kisses, and white chocolate dipped pretzels — thanks to the Internet, you can now enjoy all these various sweets without ever having to leave your sofa. But just when you thought life couldn’t get any easier, Smartlife is here to say it can — we went ahead and compiled a list of 40+ places where you can buy all these items and more (trust us, lots more) online. While it may seem ironic to you that a blog called “Smartlife” is facilitating tooth decay and weight gain worldwide, there’s nothing wrong in our opinion with enjoying life’s little pleasures every once in a while as long you do so in moderation. Enjoy.

How often have you looked into your refrigerator and noticed that it was empty? That you didn’t have anything to eat and no ingredients to cook? I don’t know about you, but this happens to me way too often, forcing me to make an unproductive run to the grocery store or eat yet another overpriced and unhealthy meal out of the house. If only there were a method to make sure you had enough food, always. Fortunately, with the increase in personal outsourcing options, now you can even outsource the most basic of tasks: grocery shopping.

Traditional, in-store grocery shopping consumes 269 hours of your life per year (assuming you’re the “average” American grocery shopper). Online grocery shopping and home delivery, on the other hand, only takes up about 13 hours total, if that. Throw in other benefits such as money saved on driving (IRS’ most-recent estimate on the cost per mile of car travel is 58 cents) and impulse buying (4% of all groceries purchased at stores go to waste), online grocery shopping is a smart way to save yourself some time and money.