Regular r/CasualUK readers may remember me from my A to Z receipt. I'm back, this time with a receipt for 100 items going up from 1p to £1. I was inspired/told to do it by u/ManTurnip in ascending numerical value. They didn't go so far as to say 1 to 100 but I decided that would be best. A silly idea in hindsight and probably foresight too, if I'm being honest.

EDIT: After a number of comments I feel like I need to clarify the following (and I really wasnt expecting this to be so controversial)… I did not buy 100 items per se. To get the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 I used the self-weighing machines and some small weights to print out labels for those amounts. So all I bought in those instances was technically the little label itself. I didn't buy a tiny piece of banana. I didn't buy half a potato. I did buy a small potato for 5p. That was the cheapest physical thing I could find in the supermarket that day.

To buy a physical item for each price would involve ripping up pieces of banana or slicing off bits of potato which would probably annoy or be against the rules of the supermarket. There is basically one rule for this project, that the receipt that comes out of the till needs to be the final artwork.

This receipt was way harder than the A to Z and probably marks the end of my challenge-type receipts. But you can expect more story-type receipts in the near future.

If anyone wants to keep keep following this project (as I won't/don't post everything here) then you can follow me on Instagram.

by spacecadet06

49 comments

  3. My only question really. How do I get this much free time?

  4. What was your favourite item?

    How did you get a banana for 1p?

    And
    …

    Why?

  7. Which was the worst item (either by taste or other), I’m curious now. Also well done! Were any of the staff suspicious at all…?

  8. Great use of free will, it’s mad you can get anything for less than 30p these days

  11. Nothing worse than being stuck behind someone in a checkout scanning items in price order.

    What time of day was this done?

    Also very interesting till operator name.

  13. I don’t care what anyone says, I think this shit is whimsical and stupid and I like it. You keep making your silly receipts, sir.

  15. Had fun figuring out it was worth £50.50 until I remembered this was a receipt and it says it at the bottom 🤦🏼‍♂️

    Any plans on what to make with your assortment of fruit, veg, and haribo?

  17. Boom, I got the correct total before checking the receipt using the power of GCSE Maths 

  19. That is horrible that you repeated bananas so many times. To me, that invalidates the whole thing. Everything must be different. You need to ~~come~~ go back.

  20. Have you thought about returning an item, just to see some poor member of staff try to comprehend your receipt?

  22. Do you have one of those £1 tokens for a trolley?

    I feel like you would.

  23. How long was the queue at the self service tills, and how much tutting did you get?

  26. I hate to break it to you, but part of a banana isn’t an item, neither is part of any item… You failed

    A 1 penny sweet is an item, half of a 2 penny sweet isn’t.

    Try again, but do it properly this time

  29. Feel like you should have just started with the actual cheapest item you could buy and gone from there.

  32. Would you consider doing a Finobacci sequence receipt?

    Feel free to stop at £21 before it gets too expensive.

  34. Hope you didn’t drive because those car parks are usually only like 2-3hrs max stay (no return within 2hrs)

  35. Upvoted to acknowledge the effort. But just can’t understand why.

  37. I wonder if this could be considered a piece of art. Unusual sure, but there’s a tradition of this sort of thing in art.

  38. 90p item just called SAUCE….

    what was the 42p and 69p items?

  40. Does the parking allow you to park your car for 5 hours?

  42. At least you gave your wife a few hours off so she could spend it with Geoff the neighbour.

  43. There is a Morrisons receipt in the Tate modern that has only white items on. You should submit it as an exhibit and say it inspired you.

  44. Was really hoping it would be exclusively bananas after the start

  45. Will you frame and hang this receipt, to be an heirloom of your family, as it is precious to you, though you buy it with great pain?

  46. I’m from Germany and this stumbled onto my feed, but I HAD to comment, sorry if no Germans allowed.

    If you have 5 hours of free time, volunteer at a soup kitchen or something. That way you can make a difference!

  48. Is no one going to say:

    In for a penny, in for a pound?

  49. I can’t imagine why you were made redundant…

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