Ponce
19th March 2015, 09:03 AM
While the tp is getting smaller my rolls are looking better...........:)
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Yeah, I know...
Perfectly obvious to most but just noticed it this morning and brings to mind all the stealthy ways manufacturers have attempted to defraud us by proxy over the last several years.
We have all witnessed these things. Instead of selling bacon by the pound now a lot of packages are 14 ounces but the price is the same or more. The #40 bag of dog kibble that I use and store a few years ago is now down to #30 for a large bag but the price is the same, ect.
Most of us prep for as many contingencies as possible and we have backup ways of doing things. We may have different ways of making fire in case there are no lighters or matches available. We have different ways to keep our houses/sleeping areas warm at night. Perhaps backup plans for obtaining and purifying drinking water and so on.
One way that I refuse to utilize [really, really don't want to] is to use an alternate plan for the precious commodity known as toilet paper. I know how other cultures take care of that function but none of them are appealing to me so TP is something that I store in abundance.
For me 100 rolls per person is a minimum and I have considerably more than that stored. My primary storage building is a moat right now with the spring snow melt and run off and I would have to trudge through water and mud to go get the precious commodity. Since I believe in not keeping all the eggs in one basket I have a little bit of everything in other storage sheds as well. If one shed burns down or is broken into there are always the other ones.
I went to the other shed to retrieve some of the precious commodity and put it on the roll. While I was sitting and waiting for nature to take it's course I saw the new roll wasn't nearly as wide as the old roll. I try to rotate stock so I'm using paper that has been in storage for a few years but the stuff from the other shed is new. Fricken new roll is about 3/4" of an inch narrower than the old stuff.
The rolls seem as full as the old ones just narrower. Of course the price is even a little bit more than what I was paying a few years ago. They have been shrinking packages of stuff so slowly that most people don't know it but when you look at a package from a few years ago and prepare it to today the realization is rather stark.
Certainly not an earthshaking event by any means but it's irritating to see first hand how the consumer is getting screwed by stealth. Wouldn't really have even noticed it if I didn't have an old roll to compare it with.
==============================================
Yeah, I know...
Perfectly obvious to most but just noticed it this morning and brings to mind all the stealthy ways manufacturers have attempted to defraud us by proxy over the last several years.
We have all witnessed these things. Instead of selling bacon by the pound now a lot of packages are 14 ounces but the price is the same or more. The #40 bag of dog kibble that I use and store a few years ago is now down to #30 for a large bag but the price is the same, ect.
Most of us prep for as many contingencies as possible and we have backup ways of doing things. We may have different ways of making fire in case there are no lighters or matches available. We have different ways to keep our houses/sleeping areas warm at night. Perhaps backup plans for obtaining and purifying drinking water and so on.
One way that I refuse to utilize [really, really don't want to] is to use an alternate plan for the precious commodity known as toilet paper. I know how other cultures take care of that function but none of them are appealing to me so TP is something that I store in abundance.
For me 100 rolls per person is a minimum and I have considerably more than that stored. My primary storage building is a moat right now with the spring snow melt and run off and I would have to trudge through water and mud to go get the precious commodity. Since I believe in not keeping all the eggs in one basket I have a little bit of everything in other storage sheds as well. If one shed burns down or is broken into there are always the other ones.
I went to the other shed to retrieve some of the precious commodity and put it on the roll. While I was sitting and waiting for nature to take it's course I saw the new roll wasn't nearly as wide as the old roll. I try to rotate stock so I'm using paper that has been in storage for a few years but the stuff from the other shed is new. Fricken new roll is about 3/4" of an inch narrower than the old stuff.
The rolls seem as full as the old ones just narrower. Of course the price is even a little bit more than what I was paying a few years ago. They have been shrinking packages of stuff so slowly that most people don't know it but when you look at a package from a few years ago and prepare it to today the realization is rather stark.
Certainly not an earthshaking event by any means but it's irritating to see first hand how the consumer is getting screwed by stealth. Wouldn't really have even noticed it if I didn't have an old roll to compare it with.