Why Martha Saved Five Hundred Paper Receipts From Her Weekly Grocery Trips

for the low hum of the overhead fluorescent lights. Vance took his reading glasses off, wiped them with a small blue cloth from his pocket, and put them back on.

He pulled the first bundle of paper receipts toward him, slipping the rubber band off and letting it snap against his thumb.

“This is from the first Tuesday in September,” Vance said, his finger continue reading …