I needed to be in three places at once — buying a new iPhone charger, picking out a birthday present for a friend and meeting friends from college for a drink.
In the negotiations over health care reform, it protected the Democratic bill on two fronts at once: buying off some of the most influential interest groups even as it hid the true cost of universal coverage.
From the high-end to weekly meals prepared at once, buying private chef services is more accessible than ever.
While he admits that one of his biggest challenges was wanting to do every thing at once (buy out distributors and agencies, re-create the product and the boutiques, and reposition the advertising and marketing strategies), he knew his first step was hiring the right people.
If you cannot buy every thing at once buy one item at a time so that by the time you come to give birth you have these requirements.
If you can't afford the tools all at once, buy them gradually until you have all of them; sales can be a good time to stock up and save.
Although three out of four respondents claimed it is always easy to get free condoms, half of the respondents had at least once bought a condom.
Redknapp also revealed he is an admirer of the Real Madrid midfielder Lassana Diarra, but believes the Spanish club will refuse to sell the player he once bought at Portsmouth.
Ari Taymor's cooking is technical, digging deep flavors out of plants you have never once bought at Whole Foods, and dishes like crisp English muffins with uni and burrata and frozen foie gras with coffee granola occasionally seem too cute, but the effects are unfussy, direct and delicious.
"So many books, so little time," declares a button I once bought at New York's late, lamented Gotham Book Mart, and like the critic and essayist Walter Benjamin, I judge the quality of someone's library by the books he or she has yet to read.
