Post #103630 by Trader Woody on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 10:13 AM

Over here, they calculate trends in costs of living by using a shopping index based upon the price of various common items in a shopping basket (eg. loaf of bread, carton of orange juice, jar of coffee, etc etc.)

What I thought might be interesting would be to decide what would be in the 'shopping basket' of the average Tikiphile, then see how the cost might differ between points on the Tiki map.

To kick off, here's a few suggestions:
Bottle of rum (can we decide on a particular, well-used brand?)
Lime
Tiki mug from local manufacturer
Exotica CD
Thrift store Exotica vinyl album
Book of Tiki

Anyway, you get the idea. So first, perhaps we could decide on what the essentials of the shopping basket are, then we could find out who's paying what for their basket of Tiki.

Trader Woody