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[ShazzieB]

36. I wish I could remember the price of every single item. That must be a huge help!

I have a pretty good memory (used to be excellent, when I was younger) for verbal info, but numbers just will not stick to my brain. I can't remember what a frequently purchased item cost the last time I bought it, either. I may have a vague sense that something is getting more expensive, but that's as far as it goes.

I think I have some kind of learning disability in that area. In school, math was always my Achilles heel. I didn't have any trouble understanding the concepts but would make errors in computation, especially things like long division or adding long columns of numbers. Basically, the more steps there were, the more likely I was to make a tiny error somewhere along the way that threw the whole thing off. Double checking every answer helped, but it was so tedious that I didn't always have the patience. (Calculators didn't exist back then, unfortunately.)

Sorry for the digression. I'm just in awe of the ability to remember the cost of every single item! Even if I wrote them all down as I put things in the cart, I would probably get some of them wrong. I would have to photograph the shelf label of every item.