Rather mundanely I wanted a pair of wellies that dont fold over when you take them off, which meant actually seeing them before buying, also as it turned out the sizes were much too mean and I needed a bigger pair than I expected. I also took four pannier's worth of bottles to the bottle bank and bought a month's supply of full ones back. I also deposited a small girl with her mother for a few days, two supermarkets visited for a stockpiling of non-perishable supplies.
Unfortunately when you order something, you dont even know which day it will be delivered on and even lazy folk such as myself have to go out to work sometimes. Waiting in all day for a package isnt really a sustainable way to live life.
The car is used for lugging things around that cant just go on a bicycle and normally would be too much for me to carry in one go, which makes connections through public transport impractical. If I am being lazy (normally in bad weather) and take the car to town without need to carry a load, I do normally park on the outskirts and walk everywhere in town, rather than driving to the centre or even worse between locations in town. More because I cant stand waiting in traffic, paying for parking and watching the car's mpg figures going down than because I am worried about the townies' respiratory problems.
