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I'm the kind of person who doesn't notice that one of our household supplies is in short supply until it's gone. I hate to think of all the gas I've burned driving to the market to pick up a single item that I urgently needed, such as deodorant, razor blades, shampoo, toilet paper, dishwasher detergent, or baby diapers.

Those wasteful days are over, now that I've started using the Amazon.com* Subscribe & Save program, an automatic delivery service for common household consumables. You can choose from thousands of different items, selecting how many units you want and how often you'd like to get them delivered to your home. Not only will Amazon deliver the goods according to the schedule you specify, it'll knock 15% of the price it normally charges. Best of all, shipping is free.

Amazon charges you only when the items are shipped, and it sends you an email a couple of days before the order is scheduled to be sent, so you can modify, postpone, or cancel the order.

I'm currently susbcribed to 14 different products using Subscribe & Save, and the next time I run out of something, I'm sure I'll be adding it to the list.