The person carrying groceries upstairs is finishing work the checkout receipt cannot measure.

The transaction ends at the till, and the work does not. Bags have to be carried, stairs climbed, things put away, and none of it appears in any record of what the shopping cost. Households run on long stretches of labour that produce no receipt and get noticed only when they stop. Effort leaving no trace is the easiest kind to assume will simply happen.

Meet somebody at the door this week rather than at the table. If you live with other people, say out loud what the trip actually involved, since naming it is the first step to sharing it.