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When I go shopping for variety groceries, I never use a calculator or add up anything. Instead I use this neat little trick that my mom taught me -
Count the number of total items in your cart and double it - that will be the approximate price of your bill, including tax. Items almost always average out to be 2$ per item. On a good run (when focus is on off brands) I can get less than 2$ per item average. I've noticed when I buy more "high class" name brands, it can run up to 2.50, 3.00 per item average but i've never seen it more than that.
This works when you are on a variety grocery shopping day. It wont work if you are going to buy only high dollar items (i.e, all meat).
An example from my last grocery run 2 weeks ago... I was purchasing some cleaning products, hot pockets, luncheon meats, bagged salad, chicken fryers, canned foods, cereal, milk, juice... items with prices ranging from .33 up to over $10 ...typical pantry stuff - I had a total of 49 items (so I estimated 98$) to be processed in the check out line. My bill came to $95.74.
I love this trick and have never seen it fail to get me close to the guestimate.
Its great for those days when you are looking at your buggy saying, oh gosh now how much do i have and am i going to go over? Just count it out and double.
Count the number of total items in your cart and double it - that will be the approximate price of your bill, including tax. Items almost always average out to be 2$ per item. On a good run (when focus is on off brands) I can get less than 2$ per item average. I've noticed when I buy more "high class" name brands, it can run up to 2.50, 3.00 per item average but i've never seen it more than that.
This works when you are on a variety grocery shopping day. It wont work if you are going to buy only high dollar items (i.e, all meat).
An example from my last grocery run 2 weeks ago... I was purchasing some cleaning products, hot pockets, luncheon meats, bagged salad, chicken fryers, canned foods, cereal, milk, juice... items with prices ranging from .33 up to over $10 ...typical pantry stuff - I had a total of 49 items (so I estimated 98$) to be processed in the check out line. My bill came to $95.74.
I love this trick and have never seen it fail to get me close to the guestimate.
Its great for those days when you are looking at your buggy saying, oh gosh now how much do i have and am i going to go over? Just count it out and double.
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