Welcome to Radical Personal Finance to show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua, and today we tackle one of those seemingly mundane topics that I think makes

a big difference in our daily lives and it's simply this. How do you track when you're out shopping? How do you

track the cost of the merchandise that you're accumulating in your shopping cart or

shopping basket or shopping bag or shopping bag as the case may be.

This is one area where online shopping just beats the pants off of in-person shopping.

Because in online shopping is you click

add to cart on your online grocery store or online store of whatever kind.

You can see that total add up.

Usually it's right there in the top right hand corner.

And then when you're done, you can open that card up

and you can delete, you can save for later,

you can adjust the quantities,

and that makes it really easy to stick within your budget.

After all if you have $367 in your checking account and you're shopping in that online cart and you see that

your tax and shipping is going to bring you to $374, then of course you have to change and reduce the

quantities. But this is a little bit harder in person because in person it's hard to keep

track of all the different things that you are adding into

your cart. Now depending on where you're shopping, this may or may not change your, it may be easier

in some circumstances than it is in others. I find it really tough to keep track of things when I'm

shopping in two particular places. A store where I'm accumulating lots of items or a store where I'm

accumulating items of hugely varying quantity values. So the grocery store is the biggest

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