Free Chocolate!!!!

An idea that I've come across before, but never instituted til lately was the "self- gleaning" idea.
It goes like this: Frying up hamburger for tacos? Take out 2 Tbsp, you'll never notice. Put it in a baggie in the freezer (before adding spices). Frying hamburger again for making hamburger gravy to put over rice? (don't knock it til you try it), take another 2 Tbsp...you get the idea, til you have enough for a meal. It really doesn't take too many times, and it's like a free meal. I used to think it was dumb, but I decided to test it with my chocolate chips, since I make chocolate chip cookies (ahem) a lot. I'd put the asked for amount in the bowl, then take some out by hand and toss them in a container and stash it in the cupboard. I didn't miss them from the recipe, and it only took a few batches of doing this to get enough to make a whole batch of cookies. It's like FREE chocolate!! And who can pass that up?