Re:How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency
by cperciva on Monday January 07, 2013 @11:45PM
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I imagine it depends on definitions. I bought a dozen pairs of socks in November; does that count as 12 pieces of clothing or 24 pieces of clothing? Do the hiking boots I bought count as clothing? And if a new parent is buying baby clothes, who is the consumer -- the parent or the baby?
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Re:How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency
by kleiba on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @01:13AM
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The latter point is probably not as important since we're talking about averages anyway.
I would imagine boots do not count since we're talking about detergent here, although some shoes can be thrown into the washing machine.
There are three comments about socks now :-) But to get to 68 you'd still have to buy 34 pairs of socks. Even if you exchange some of them for shirts, pants and underwear, you'd need a pretty big sock drawer if you keep adding and adding every year...
Re:How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency
by cperciva on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @02:07AM
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The latter point is probably not as important since we're talking about averages anyway.
Well, unless you say that the baby isn't a "consumer", in which case your average is the same total number of items of clothing divided by a smaller number of consumers.
I throw away socks as soon as they get holes in, which is pretty frequent (I don't make any effort to take care of them, they're just socks). To replace them I buy a set of 5 pairs maybe three or four times a year. It doesn't seem completely implausible.