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Times Life
Times Life
Aishwarya Kapoor

Your Grocery Bill Is 20 Percent Higher Than It Needs to Be: The Exact Budgeting and Savings Fix

Chanakya Knew Your Kitchen Was Leaking Money

Chanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a household that does not account for small expenditures will find large ones impossible to control. He was writing about state treasury, but the principle maps exactly onto a monthly grocery run. The 20 percent overcharge on your bill is not one big mistake. It is six small ones, made every week, that compound quietly.

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