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

bottom shelf of the pantry, the cardboard corners soft from years of storage.

Inside lay hundreds of long, thin paper receipts, each one folded in half and organized by month with a rubber band.

I pulled the bundle from August and slid the rubber band off, letting the paper slips fan out across the yellow table.

My silver charm bracelet clinked against continue reading …