Keeping Track Of The Grocery Bill When Shopping

RE: Keeping Track Of The Grocery Bill When Shopping Post by Onesummer (8) | (11/01/2007) Contact I use a tally counter. RE: Keeping Track Of The Grocery Bill When Shopping Post by Jantoo (524) | (10/04/2007) Contact Good idea. When I'm waiting in a grocery line, I mentally add up the total for my groceries, and am usually within 20 cents or so. At Aldi's it's easy because a lot of prices end in 9, so I just round it up to 10, and then add up the number of items I have and subtract that many cents from my total. It's good, practical mental exercise. RE: Keeping Track Of The Grocery Bill When Shopping Post by louel53 (38) | (10/03/2007) Contact Great to hear that someone is using math skills rather than electronics. I teach rounding and estimating to my grade 7 & 8 classes, and this is the sort of thing that I tell them that people can do -- a practical use for the skills that they learn. Louise, Nipawin, Sask. RE: Keeping Track Of The Grocery Bill When Shopping Post by purrplekat (15) | (10/03/2007) Contact I do something similar, I keep a running total, rounding up to the nearest 10 cents. For instance if something is $4.78, I round up to $4.80. By the time I get to checkout I am usually within a dollar of my total.