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Bread in a plastic bag stays soft for three days and grows mould on the fourth. Bread in a paper bag is crusty on day one and stale by day...
A shampoo bar the size of a biscuit claims to replace three bottles. A bottle claims to last two months. One of those claims is usually true and the other...
A box of laundry sheets promises forty washes in a package the size of a paperback. A bottle of liquid detergent promises sixty washes and weighs two kilos. One of...
A three litre tin of good olive oil costs about the same per litre as two small bottles. A three litre tin that goes rancid before you finish it costs...
A twelve dollar pair of shoes and a ninety dollar pair of shoes look like a thirty dollar gap and a seventy-eight dollar gap depending on who is doing the...
Most homes have a repair kit somewhere. It is usually a tin with three bent needles, a spool of white thread and a screwdriver that fits nothing. The kit exists,...
A bunch of parsley bought on Saturday is slime by Wednesday. A bunch treated the right way is still usable twelve days later, and the difference is not luck. It...
The refill shop looks like the obvious right answer. Jars on shelves, no plastic, a vaguely virtuous feeling at the till. Then you get home and realise you paid eleven...
A roll of paper towels gets used up in about ten days and nobody thinks about it. A stack of cloth wipes gets washed once a week and lasts years....
A tin of beans goes into the trolley without a second thought. A bag of dried beans sits in the cupboard for a month while you decide whether the soaking...