A place to share and track our grocery spending
After returning to Sydney from 6 months in Zurich, I started to think that the amount I spent on groceries was similar in both places. And yet they say that food is more expensive in Zurich.This is my attempt to find out more. You too can enter your grocery receipts, combined with location and time, and we can compare what we're spending.
1 Record
- What you spent
- How often you buy
- What you liked
2 Share
- Prices around the world
- Similarities and differences around the world
3 Find out
- if the City you're thinking of moving to is more expensive based on your actual spending patterns
- what you can cook based on whats probably in your pantry
- What you probably need to by now based on your normal buying patterns
Your data remains yours
When you enter information into the mySpending system, its license is CreativeCommons ShareAlike. You retain ownership of everything that you enter, and allow anyone to use that information, so long as any derived works are also ShareAlike licensed.We are not using Attributable ShareAlike, because that will raise issues of financial confidentiality - all identity will be stripped from the data that is shared with other users.
(Yes, the simplest form of the data could be considered 'facts' and thus not copyrightable, but the connections and added value are copyrightable, and so we're going to use ShareAlike as the guiding principle)
mySpending is an experiment in community information gathering and reporting.