Dirt deception

It important to get angry about really silly stupid stuff….but have you ever tried to buy dirt?

Speaking of taking advantage of innumeracy, you can buy bags measured in quarts or square feet or compressed or with filler added….it is wildly confusing since compression shrinks the visible size of the bag.  The giant compressed bales of Pro- mix are the best deal, but you would never know from the packaging.

Remember the measure: There are about 25 and 3/4 dry quarts in a cubic foot. A 20 dry quarts package of potting soil is approximately 3/4 of a cubic foot. So the 16 quart bag in the grocery store for $6.95 is much more expensive that the $8.99 one cubic foot bag at the big box store. Or is it?

Of course it is…there is a reason they call them smart phones…44 vs. 34 cents per quart.