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

the wood as I smoothed out a receipt from the second Tuesday of September.

There, near the bottom of the column, below the gallon of whole milk, was a charge of six dollars and eighty cents for eggs.

I picked up another slip from July, my thumb sliding down the faded purple ink of the register printout.

The same duplicate charge appeared next to the tax continue reading …