HazelStone

You hypocrite! Take the flab out of thine own thigh and then will you see clearly how to take the cellulite from your sister's thigh. *runs like hell*

Yeah, right. A normal size Snickers bar is around 280 calories. Why do I know that, you ask? It's just one of those random factoids that stick in your head for no reason at all... I swear! If you want to eliminate the king size stuff to look like you are "doing something" about health issues, ok...but you are taking a BIG chunk out of a normal size bar there...not king size.

A while back my husband noticed the same thing- and with the bulk buys at Costco the brand names (and even the store brand) have taken to putting fewer rolls per package in. DH is very analytical and very frugal. We stood there gazing back and forth between brand name on "sale" vs. the store brand. Different number of rolls, and different square footage for each roll. And we HATE falling into the "shortchange the package to fleece the customer" trap. So DH said "May I borrow your smartphone?" and asked me to start reading off the prices and square footage for the two packages- and DH concluded that one was cheaper by a little bit. Further up the aisle I saw a very pregnant lady with I presume her mother comparing other items on the shelf behind us. She noticed my DH punching away on the smartphone and asked, "Would you mind telling me what you came up with?" So we were able to be of small help to another lady who needed to watch her pennies too.

On the bright side, if you save those cardboard centers for the garden (protect new plants from cutworms), the plant has that much more room within the roll.

Keep us updated in how that goes. Mom and Dad's house has a horrible mouse problem; Mom talked about watching one chew/scratch through drywall and drop into the house that way! She has two good mousers and a third that likes it recreationally...but there's just too darn many now. I've seen evidence of mice around the outside of my house. No evidence of invasion yet. My adolescent kittens hardly let a fly survive in here anyway. They are hungry all the time and, well...they utilize the resources available to them.