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I purchased some Lemon Oreos yesterday and when I opened them today found that each row in the package was missing either two or three cookies. (See above photo) I don’t know if this was a packaging mistake or just the way they sell them. It’s possible that they share packaging between the different types of Oreos and that the lemon version are more expensive so they put in less. It’s also possible that they just started including fewer Oreos to keep from having to raise the price as a consequence of Biden’s inflation. No matter what, it doesn’t give the customer a good first impression of the product when you open the package. On the same store trip, while …

Living in New England, we have a problem with low humidity in the winter.  The cold dry air of winter does a job on your skin and nasal passages and generally makes for an unpleasant time.  To combat this,  a number of years ago we bought a humidifier from Sears. It’s a pretty simple device, you fill the tank with water which pools on the bottom of the humidifier and a strong fan evaporates the water, sucking it through a filter dispersing it around the house.  Outside of being a little on the noisy side when it’s running full bore, it does a pretty good job of improving the air quality. Little maintenance is required to keep it running; an …