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MechEngDropout
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 Posted: 12/06/05 - 18:40 Post subject: How well do you calculate your grocery store total?
I usually try to estimate the cost of everything in the basket before checking out. Within a dollar is my goal. Today my guess was $20, and the total was $20.02.
Yeah, I'm easily amused. 
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 18:43 Post subject:
when i do my weekly shopping i'm normally pretty good, if i end up going with a vehicle i'm normally way off.  Sunday i was off by 40.00 but i did buy a big turkey
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MastrBrewr
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 18:53 Post subject:
To the penny.
/Thanks to HandyShopper on my Palm. 
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 19:26 Post subject:
I'm usually within a dollar or 2 also. DH is really impressed by this.  However, finding where the car is parked outside the store is always a mystery to me.
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Cappy
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 19:27 Post subject:
When I did it, I was usually within 5 bucks or so. I usually added the things in my head as I went along
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 19:29 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | When I did it, I was usually within 5 bucks or so. I usually added the things in my head as I went alon |
Your head is always spreadsheeting. 
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 19:36 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | Cappy wrote: | | When I did it, I was usually within 5 bucks or so. I usually added the things in my head as I went alon |
Your head is always spreadsheeting. |
which explains why your DH is always shocked when you do it. 
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Cappy
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 19:39 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | Cappy wrote: | | When I did it, I was usually within 5 bucks or so. I usually added the things in my head as I went alon |
Your head is always spreadsheeting. |
Not according to my Mrs
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TimRuns
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 20:01 Post subject:
off by 2 pennies...that's not bad...
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robp
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 20:46 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | When I did it, I was usually within 5 bucks or so. I usually added the things in my head as I went along |
I add it up in my head also as I go along, usually rounding things and guessing at the amount of tax. I'm usually within $5 on a $70 dollar total.
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 22:02 Post subject:
we buy to many things and when I have the kids with me, i spend to much time saying No, and put that away to try and keep track.
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gretriever
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 22:08 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | I'm usually within a dollar or 2 also. DH is really impressed by this. However, finding where the car is parked outside the store is always a mystery to me. |
Not to mention parking garages.
I'm not allowed to get near the checkbook when we go to the grocery store.
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akern
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Posted: 12/06/05 - 22:16 Post subject:
I just randomly throw things in my cart. Then at the checkout if I've spent too much, I start rooting through my bags for things to take off.
The rest of the people in line love me.  HEY! It's WAL-MART! That kind of behavior is expected!
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thegman
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 00:04 Post subject:
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I'm not allowed to get near the checkbook when we go to the grocery store. |
Neither am I. I volunteer to do grocery duty all the time, but I'm never allowed. 
Grocery executives love me. "Let's try this!" is my favorite phrase at the grocery store.
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Cappy
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 06:32 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | I'm not allowed to get near the checkbook when we go to the grocery store. |
When my Mrs gets back from grocery shopping, and I ask her how she spent, she usually asks me if I have my nitro handy 
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