How do you Stretch Your Gas Dollars - share your ways and what works for you!

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With the price of gas higha nd heading up higher this summer, how about throwing out your ideas for gasoline conservation or making you gas tank stay full loner or using your gasoline wisely or how about just not wasting gas and making sure you have enough for what you need. Tell us what you do to make your gasoline last long as possible. This way we can all collect options to better use our fuel in our cars! I make a lists. I start of Fridays (sometimes Thurs - depends on how busy the week has been) and just leave it in plain sight and then all weekend write everything I have to do outside the house. I take and pick up my GD at school every other week - it is 20 miles round trip. The other week I have to myself. I write down EVERYTHING I need to do - phone calls, pick up prescriptions, grocery , bank, post office, gas for car, things I have to get and at what store. I even write what emails I have to send to who for why. So all weekend I write what i have to do next week. Sunday night I start another list - I seperate the things I have to do to "away from home" and "at home". The "away from home" list, I try to put all these things and schedule them to the week I take/pick up my GD at school. Lot of places in a 20 mile trip - lots of alternate routes I can take to do what I need to do but not use any extra gas or waste any. Then I make the next list with the things to do at home. Each day of the week gets the things away and at. I'll start with away as I can drop her at school and do things on my way home. Once home, i have until 1:30 to do things at home and then have to go pick her up. I try to do all things prior so I don't have to take her anywhere to do things and we have more time to spend together. She is picked up at 5pm so then I crash on the bed and hope I have enough energy to make myself something to eat later! The "at home" things, I will try to catagorize them like most doctors are busy on Mondays and I can't get through or banks and customer service places, so I'll schedule them for Tuesday or later. Lot of things close on Fridays, so I try to do them first of the week. Also, any specific calls to make for a specific reason on a specific day - I wont' forget to make the call. Sounds like a ton of disorganization, but really, after the second (maybe third!) time of doing it, it has worked out so well, and I even enjoy planning my week to see if Ican do better on saving my time and gas money. I am right now at $30 a week. The week I have my GD it is $6 a day for school travel (and that is at $3 a gallon, it is now $3.79!) so about $25 a week for that week, but the next week, I plan to do the things around the house like clean the dresser drawers, mop floors, deep housecleaning, and things like that, so I don't come near using as much gas, and that can be carried over to next week when I need more. How about you? Any tricks of the trade you care to share? We all need to stretch our gas dollars so might as well see what's out in the My Lot pond!