The cashier at the grocery store who told me to round up

I was buying milk and bread, total came to $3.78, and this older woman at the register said "just put the whole $4 on your card, pretend the change doesn't exist." I did that every week for a year and ended up with $112 saved in a jar. Has anyone else tried that weird mental trick and had it work?

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john_singh20d ago

Actually $112 from rounding up $3.78 to $4 only comes to about $11 over a year.

evan29521d ago

Haha I tried that with a barista who always asked if I wanted to round up for "charity" and I ended up with like $6.50 in my tip jar over three months. Honestly that cashier is a GENIUS for turning it into a jar savings thing, I just let my coffee add up to an extra $20 I spent on dumb crap instead. Did you actually count all that change or just estimate? Because if you really saved $112 from rounding up pennies I might need to try this with every damn store.

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graceprice21d ago

Genius" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for a coffee jar that's basically a slow-motion heist on your own wallet.