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It Pays to Be Lazy (Continued from page 38) time every hour that I'm around. Laziness, you see, doesn't mean doing nothing. Not to me, anyway. It means doing the things I must do, plus — -and this is terribly important — the things I like best to do, but doing them in my own way, and at my own tempo. It doesn't mean wasting time. On the contrary, it means ducking every useless, unimportant, and unpleasant thing I can in order to save time to be lazy. For instance, I loathe shopping. Some girls love messing around the stores "just looking," I know, but I hate it. Still, in my business, I can't go around in an old pair of blue jeans and a sweater. My wardrobe is important. But I don't have to devote my good lazy time to it. I shop four times a year, along with the change of seasons. This way: two or three days before I am going to descend on the department store, I telephone my favorite saleslady, tell her I'm coming in, what sorts of things I need. When I get there I quickly try on the dresses and suits she has assembled, select the ones that are right for me. A package of slips, bras, girdles, stockings is already wrapped and waiting — this salesgirl knows all my sizes. In a couple of hours I have done my shopping for a whole season. You could call that laziness — or you could call it organization. The same thing goes for that other bugaboo — the beauty business. I don't want to look like a frump, any more than any other girl — but I hate spending hours and hours being "beautified." So I organize that too ... I have a standing weekly appointment at my beauty shop where my hair is set, and cut if necessary, and my manicure is done while my hair is drying. Between times, I forget about the whole business. I roll up my hair at night, of course, and freshen my nail polish if it chips — but I don't break into a perfectly good, free day by rushing back to the beauty operator for repairs. 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