We got tired of paying more for less.
Same brands. Smaller boxes. Higher prices. Every month, the same trip, more money, less stuff. We started keeping receipts. The store wasn’t telling us the whole bill — gas, time, the “while-we're-here” impulse buys.
So we built this. One exact-pack catalog, a private current-price calculator, and real math on what each trip actually costs us. Try it with the prices on your screen instead of trusting an old screenshot or a headline percentage.
Three kids, two parents, one cat (an asshole). Anything else we’d add wouldn’t be true.
Where the numbers come from
Every product on this site started as a real order in our own history — that history seeds product identity, not a public price claim. Stored order amounts stay internal. We publish an Amazon catalog amount only when an approved API provides the required lowest-new evidence and the capture is no more than 24 hours old. Otherwise the product page sends you to the current listing and the comparison uses only the numbers you enter in your browser.
Every comparison can add the trip to the store side: the round-trip drive and your time, at deliberately conservative rates. The complete formula, every assumption, and the sliders to change them live on the trip cost calculator. When the store wins a comparison, we say so — the ledger keeps our losses on the books too.
How the money works
Amazon affiliate links, and that’s it. A qualifying purchase may earn us a category-specific commission; it costs you nothing extra. Amazon’s current rules generally disqualify products purchased as subscriptions, so we do not assume a Subscribe & Save order pays us. There are no ads, no sponsored posts, no paid placements, and no “best of” lists juiced by whoever paid for the slot. Items earn their spot on this site by one metric — the math. The whole policy is on the disclosure page.