What a plank!!! I did it again..!!!  

This also happened to me once in a while. I was so surprised why my bill was so high and when I check upon arriving home, there goes my budget for some items that are so rpicey. I do not wear my reading glasses when I do my groceries and this is the result.

Oh dear me,good thing you checked or else you would have wondered how many times you were being duped!:)Is it THAT expensive?I have never bought it in my whole life,but was planning to buy it finally for some recipes..guess I will have to use it carefully and not waste a drop of it.

Not at the moment. Im very keen at price tags. I guess I have a built in calculator in my mind LOL I'll start computing while shopping and when I arrived at the counter I would know the price that I would pay. I love eating salad with balsamic vinegar with olive oil... yummy!

Wow Buddy i dont believe that was so expensive vinegar . I dont buy it , i get it from my Village .My Uncle send me vinegar each year and that is enough for our family for the whole year . SO i never know what is the price of it .
Regarding the question i have never been in such a situation where such kind of incident had happened with me . Ya sometimes i lost money may be while playing or doing any work but never of this types.

i got a lot of that specially when im on a rush, and when i get home and check the receipt i ddint know it has cost me so much, but im to shy to return it :) too bad for me

Yes I have done that very same thing. See one price then find out it is higher than I thought. I usually just go ajead and use it bacause it is such a hassel taking it back since I have to depend on others to get any place.

I don't remember these happen to me but don't mean didn't happen.
What I mean.....At least even late you understand it ,me even if happen I'll not.I haven't much free time as you know ,and the supermarket near to us is soooooooooooooo expensive so I use to go once at the month at big supermarket (carrefour,exist at many country but I'm not sure for UK).anyway i do alot of shoppings there,food,clothes,small things for the home and if I pay 500 euro and not more I'm fine lol:I'm sure many times could happened to me what happened to you but i didn't understand it.Maybe best so I don't die from heart attack lol:
PS:I thing you need lock you salad in a safe box.

If something like this happens to me, I will likely find out at the counter. I will just be honest and said I don't want it now. It might be a bit embarrassing but if it is out of my budget, it is out of my budget.

I am not going to eat grass for a week just so that I can buy that bottle of vinegar.

And I feel that 12 pounds is simply crazy. We have a nice meal at the restaurant for that amount already.

Sure bet that salad tasted great. :P

My goodness, Yan. I think I need to pass on some of my special carrots to you. It will helps brighten your eyes, LOL.

I am the one managing the budget here. I'm real careful with every single items I'm buying. For most of the ordinary grocery stuff, I have an idea how much each items will cost. When I take a trip to my favorite health store, I always check each one properly. This store is selling all kind of organic products and the prices is higher than the regular one. Its a good thing I was never a plank yet.

Wow. I bet that truly was a delicious salad!
My husband tells me all the time that I should keep a round figure in my head of what the bill should be so that I would know about a difference like that. He would have caught it at the register. Like you, I would have had no idea until I got home (and maybe not even then).