Empty your Amazon cart

Empty your Amazon cart, especially if it’s filled with a face wash and a deodorant and a hairbrush. Go to that cute West Village independent pharmacy Erica showed you instead, and enjoy the errand that gives you a reason to explore a different neighborhood.

Empty your Amazon cart, especially if it’s filled with new sheets or towels or pillows. Touch things that are meant to be touched before they end up in your bedroom a little scratchier than you’d like.

Empty your Amazon cart, especially if it’s filled with paper towels and batteries and dish soap. Walk out your door, pass two blocks, enter the bodega, and say hi to the man who has seen you drunk at 3 a.m. buying Cheez-Its, as you place these more responsible fixings of your life on the counter.

Empty your Amazon cart, especially if it’s filled with a plastic balloon banner or Halloween-printed tablecloth or $9 stretchy white mini skirt for a last-minute House of Yes theme. You probably don’t need these things. These are not the kinds of details that make a memorable night.

Empty your Amazon cart, and maybe try to cancel that Prime subscription altogether. Replace it with local shopping or used shopping or less shopping, whenever possible. Sometimes it will not be convenient to do so — sometimes that’s kind of the point.

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Cecilia

@ceciliaJun 19, 2026

running errands!!!! >>>>

Cate Hurwit

@churwitJun 27, 2026

Omg I’ve also saved so much money since I told Amazon that I wouldn’t be rejoining unless, and I quote, “you send Bezos to Mars and he doesn’t come back.”

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