This friendship hack is a literal game changer

Once I started doing this, my friendships got 10x better.

Hello friends!

Blame it on our phones, blame it on a culture that values work and productivity above all else—whatever the case, adult friendship is hard. Especially in 2025.

Navigating the complicated landscape of friendship is the subject of today’s mini-episode, and I’m here to tell you that there are actually really simple ways to make your friendships feel easier. Seven of them, in fact!

All of those tips are in the episode, but I want to focus on a specific one here, because it’s so easy and made my friendships so much stronger and deeper: Run errands and do chores with your friends. Yes, that’s right—do the things you’re already doing, the things you dread doing, but with your friends.

Here’s what I mean: You already know you need to work out, so go to the gym together. Take a class or head out for a hike. But don’t stop there! Knock out the rest of your to-do list side by side, too. Go to the DMV together. Grocery shop together. Then head back to someone’s house for a meal prep session. Instead of squeezing in friendship around everything else, you’re stacking it right into your life.

When you have more time, I highly recommend hiking with friends over the dinner or drinks catch-up—but more on that in the episode.

When you do the mundane stuff together, everything gets better. You breeze through boring errands, you get quality time, and you leave with a stocked fridge for the week. It also makes your time together more memorable. Maybe it’s laughing over that rude person at the DMV or struggling through a tricky recipe—you’re creating mini adventures and shared challenges.

All of this tells your brain, “Hey, something novel is happening here,” which makes the experience way more satisfying. It stands out in a way that a dinner spent rattling off what each of you has been up to recently just doesn’t. I absolutely swear by it!

From the episode:

”Go to the DMV together. Go grocery shopping together and then do a meal prep session at one person's house. This solves for the time problem because instead of squeezing friendship into available moments around the commitments that you already have, you’re habit-stacking your friendships into your to-do list. If you grocery shop and meal prep with friends, you make a boring task way easier. You end up with closer friendships, and you have a bunch of healthy food to eat all week long.”

The takeaway

Making time for friendships is important, but you can also fold your friends into your existing life. This week, try inviting a friend along for one mundane task—grocery shopping, say, or even going somewhere kind of awful like the DMV—and see just how much better it makes the task. And how nice it is to spend that low-pressure time with your friend!

For more incredible friendship hacks, including why it might actually be better to have less friends, the one huge mistake you’re probably making when out with friends and so much more, head over to today’s mini-episode of The Liz Moody Podcast on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube.

Love you guys!

Xo,

Liz

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