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[Patte Rosebank]

The stuff Larynxa says. Ditto. She’s smart.

Thanks, Robb0!  As my brother says, I’m smarter than I look.  Sometimes.

I have a “burning desire” right now, but it’s for an Astro Pop.

(Here comes one of those totally off-topic posts…)

Remember those cone-shaped, 3-colour Astro Pop lollipops?  They stopped making them in 2004, but Leaf Confections finally bought the rights, and has re-launched them—with the stick at the big end, just as we remember them.

The previous company (Spangler) made a huge mistake by putting the stick at the small end, and claiming it was “so you’ll have more to lick, with the big end at the top”.

Bollocks!

Every kid knew that it was really because the small end turns into a needle-sharp point as you suck on it, and Spangler was afraid it would get sued because some kid had speared his tongue on it.

Between moving the stick to the wrong end, and making the Astro Pops half the size, it’s no wonder sales tanked to the point where Spangler stopped making them!

Now that I’m taking time to think things through before I buy something, I found the cheapest place in town to buy Astro Pops, and then I asked if I could get a bulk discount for buying a whole box of 24.  Yes, I could!

So, I did what I always wanted to do when I was a kid:  I bought a WHOLE BOX of Astro Pops!  (Hey, I used smart grown-up tactics, to buy something stupid & fun & kid-like!)

Even with the discount, each one cost $2.15.  Yipes!  When I was a kid, they were only 25 cents each.

Still, most stores around here sell them for $3.99 each, so I saved $1.84 on each one (a total saving of $44.16), by thinking & planning before I bought.

Now, if I can just continue thinking & planning, so I don’t devour them all at once…

Fortunately, each one lasts for about 2 hours, as long as you don’t crunch it.

So, they are representative of a “work in progress”.

(See how I cleverly got us back to the topic of this thread?)

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