Convenience stores are garbage. If you live near a convenience store, *stop going to it*. It will make your life better.

Here is all the poison they sell:

  • Sugar. Even if you get out without a 99-cent 32 oz big gulp (which alone has twice the sugar you're ever supposed to get in a day), every piece of food they sell is loaded with sugar too.
  • Lottery tickets. Tons of options for how quickly you just give your money away to the state.
  • Gas. Fine, this is more of a national addiction than a personal one.
  • Chew/cigarettes. They've got your tobacco fix and its associated cancers.
  • Milk, water, eggs, bread. Okay, these are probably fine, unless it's cutting into your real grocery shopping time.

I had a lot of diet habits to fix recently. The shortcut of simply not going to convenience stores fixed problems categorically with very little effort from me. Try it for a month!