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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm not sure there's any magic formula here other than doing less. Workouts are great but if you traded your 30min workout at lunch 2x/wk for running a couple of errands, you might free up more weekend time. Same for your husband.

I also don't get the school pickups - if you have a 12yo, they are plenty old enough to come home alone and watch the younger kid for an hour or two. Do you really not have a school bus option? We do split shifts and didn't use aftercare for a variety of reasons, older kid babysitting has made life so much easier.

Finally 90 percent of all errands can be done via online shopping. Fighting traffic to get into a Target parking lot is a huge waste of time.

Your schedules are pretty normal; but you need to recognize that you're choosing to spend your non-work time on errands, school driving, and workouts. If you want to choose differently, you can.[/quote]

My work location has no shopping nearby, it’s a very economically depressed area, so no errand running is possible. DH has similar issue, but his last job did have an option then.

We never go to target, that is done all online. Grocery shopping we buy mostly fresh food so online doesn’t match well with that, errands tend to me more need to buy a new coat or return the 3 pairs of wrong sized shoes we ordered online (online hasn’t always worked, and taking to UPS store ends up being weekend chore).

Yes, we live on a busy street, and the school bus requires both kids crossing it as well as currently a construction zone as they are building a new apartment there, so lots of random people, trucks and such at all hours. If they were being dropped off on a leafy suburb street, we would be all over that!![/quote]

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