Close to Home by John McPherson for February 18, 2024

and don’t start on hot dog buns!

well it is Multi-Ply

Now do the prices. You will need exponent mathematics.

Next do toilet rolls.

Thus – as The Mother Earth Almanac already suggested in the 70s – use a rag.

Whenever possible. Or tolerable.

That’s corner cuttin’ math.

It takes trigonometry to factor in the Select-A-Size rolls!

Costco.

Welcome back, Mr McP & Bleeb.

Anyone absorbing this?

Now, a roll is NOT = to another roll. Some are wider some are shorter. Each company has different sizes of sheets.

Dang, that’s just hilarious!

Now I kinda wanna point that out, the next time I’m in the grocery store…

… right before they throw me out. ツ

That’s a bjs/costco type solution

All smaller in size, weight and packaging!

I must be hungry. All I can think of is cinnamon rolls :⁠-⁠D

i do arithmetic, not math.

I did a whole post on this on 2020. LMBO!!

Good joke…. how often have I been at the grocery and the packaging that the particular item in question (TP, Paper Towels, Cleaners etc.) were actually equivalent to multiple of the “old” size or their competitors….

Hope Bleeb gets an A on the test

Excellent! The manufacturers have made it completely confounding!

The students might need a cheat sheet.

The main trouble is: the “three” rolls are the same as one roll used to be but cost like 3 rolls!

Can’t quite put my finger on it butt I think there is a hole in most of the theories above.

Wait until they start doing government math. Gonna REALLY mess with their minds.

The guy on the right says “My head hurts!”.

Bleeb’s helping the guy in the front row have a nervous breakdown! My rule is, never buy anything bigger than your head. :)

Toilet paper math is the hardest math of all.

Or the super inconvenient mega rolls that don’t fit into the toilet paper dispenser. 1 roll = 4 rolls (and lots of frustration!)

I don’t know about paper towels,but toilet paper for sure.

Explains the bakers dozen or it doesn’t