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I took a brief blogging hiatus; life just gets so crazy sometimes. However, things have calmed down, and I'm bored at work again. Unfortunately I don't really have much to say today.
I recently bought some gum. (Hear me out.) I'm at the check out line at Target, looking for my normal pack of Extra peppermint gum but couldn't seem to find it. Finally, I realized that the strange looking Extra box that I thought was mints was actually the gum. Instead of the tear off the top packages, Extra has jumped on the cardboard box bandwagon. The pieces are still in the same foil paper and the same size, but now they are in this weird little box. I'm having mixed feelings about this marketing ploy. I liked my old packs of gum just the way they were, even if towards the end they got a little smashed and some of the sticks would fall deep into the depths of my disorganized purse. I also thought that maybe they were trying to compete with Orbit until I found out that they are owned by the same company. The gum was already popular. Why did they change it? I mean, the box is kind of neat. If I decide to only have half a stick of gum, the chances that the other half will still be usable (in other words not fall out and get lost/covered in purse crap) are much higher b/c the box allows easy accessibility to the half stick. As with most new products, I'm sure I'll love the box eventually and forget I ever had to rip off the top of my chewing gum packs. Now that I have discussed the pros and cons of chewing gum packaging, I should probably try to find some work to do. Happy Monday.