There are certain items that you will buy every month of your life. That is a fact. And without fail, it will always, always be a chore to head out into town, to battle traffic, and aggressive car guards, or aggressive city parking officials, and random road works, just so you can get to Waltons to buy printer ink. Except Waltons closed at 15h00 today, for staff training. How could you not know that?

Your life could, and should be better. If you hate going outside to buy printer ink, coffee, home bar stock, and miscellaneous gifts, then you need to read this. You will live longer, because of it. We guarantee it.

NUMBER 1 GRUDGE PURCHASE – Printer Ink

Really. If you’re still buying brand name printer ink for R250 a pop, and enduring the nightmare that I just described above, then you are living in 2001.

Inksaver will sort you right out, with delivery straight to your door. Now you can continue running your business like a functional adult, and not a flailing amateur.

Get into the habit of always having 1 spare colour cartridge and 1 spare black cartridge. That’s all you have to do. And when you use one – just order again – it will arrive at your door moments later! WAKE.UP.PEOPLE.

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2) Coffee

Nespresso (and similar) pod-based coffee machines are terrifically terrific. But they do tend to chew through coffee pods pretty quickly, and by the time you need coffee, you’re standing semi-naked in the kitchen, and it’s 06h45. You’re in caffeine limbo, my man. You could have browsed, paid for, and had coffee delivered to you on a fortnightly basis, if you hadn’t been a silly boy.

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3) Misc. Home Bar Stock

Look, there will be a time when Schweppes starts producing two litre bottles of tonic water. Until that time, you’ll have to restock your home bar on a fortnightly basis, at least.

e-booze are our preferred service provider in this regard. We’re not looking for anything fancy, just your standard whits spirits, a little jack, maybe, mixers. And door-to-door delivery. Nicely.

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4) Quick Gifts – Nothing says it like bubbles

If you are over the age of 22, and you don’t have a system for emergency gifts and/or miscellaneous thank you’s, then you missed a pivotal stage in your development.

This is what you do, friend. Buy a case of Pierre Jourdan (six bottles for around R600), print a run personalised thank you/I love you/you’re so nice tabs at any copy shop, pre-attach those badboys to the neck of SA’s tastiest MCC, and when the moment comes, you simply grab one of those guys and run. Schwing!

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