{"id":35088,"date":"2026-04-03T07:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35088"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:05:39","slug":"we-see-what-you-did-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/03\/we-see-what-you-did-there\/","title":{"rendered":"We See What You Did There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/bounceselectasize.jpg\" width=\"300\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\">So, gentle reader, I am the sort of person who puts dryer sheets in with his laundry, especially during the winter months.  And I have vacillated between the warehouse club&#8217;s house brand and Bounce name-brand dryer sheets for years.  Depending upon how miserly I was feeling, mostly.  But the last time I was in the market, I decided to go with Bounce because even though we run the laundry all day here, by the time we got to the bottom of a box of sheets, particularly the two-pack bundles we got, the sheets had lost most of their scent.  So I went with the Bounce, and&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Wait a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a two-pack of sheets, I got a single box here instead of two, and you&#8217;ve cut the size of the sheet about 20% but have put two of them together, perforated, so I have to tear them apart myself.  And for the same low price?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess if you&#8217;re going to do shrinkflation, it pays to add as many variables to the calculation as possible to try to obscure it as best you can.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, you&#8217;re doing this <em>for my convenience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jeez, guys, am I getting more curmudgeonly, or merely posting the same amount of curmudgeonishness and cynicism more often?  <em>More value for you!<\/em>  If you value that sort of thing, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, gentle reader, I am the sort of person who puts dryer sheets in with his laundry, especially during the winter months. And I have vacillated between the warehouse club&#8217;s house brand and Bounce name-brand dryer sheets for years. Depending upon how miserly I was feeling, mostly. But the last time I was in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35091,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088\/revisions\/35091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}