It’s not a crisis on the level of governmental intervention, but it is a personal antidote to the problems of the world right now. While Hungary, Israel, the United States, and other sovereignties duke it out, I’m studying cubes.
Not Rubik’s or office cubicles. Not ice or watermelon pieces. Rather, those small tissue cubes like Puff’s® or Kleenex®
I’ve been a Puff’s® devotee since its inception in 2010. Yes, Puff’s® has been around long before then, but that was when the cube was introduced. I love the cube, although it’s more expensive in many ways than the larger family sized box. I’m a sucker for the design.
But . . . one day Earl, who does our shopping, came home almost apoplectically apologetic that he couldn’t find a Puff’s® cube and bought a Kleenex® cube instead.
That was a couple years ago. Since then I’ve concluded that Kleenex® is as good as Puff®. But here’s another thing to be wary of: the number of tissues in each cube differs, which impacts the per tissue price.
The two empty boxes on my desk are proof. The Puff® box says it has 48 two-ply tissues while the Kleenex® one says 85 three-ply tissues. On the face of it, the latter seems like a better deal.
But, according to the internet, the most economical thing to do is to use toilet paper for your nasal concerns. A roll of toilet paper has almost four times as many sheets as a box of tissues and costs about half as much.
That’s nothing to sneeze at.
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