Kathryn Zdan, EA
Editorial Director

Sheet dimension. Ply. Softness. Buying toilet paper is already laden with decisions, and now math has been thrown into the mix. The multipacks available at warehouse clubs boast equivalents like "4 Mega Plus rolls = 18 regular rolls." But how does that reconcile with "16 Double Plus rolls = 36 regular rolls"? This is beginning to sound like Winston Smith trying to buy toilet paper at Costco. Doubleplusungood.

Next time you're buying multipacks of larger-than-normal rolls, here is a conversion list to assist you:

• 1 Double Plus roll = 2.27 regular rolls
• 1 Mega roll = 4 regular rolls
• 1 Mega Plus roll = 4.50 regular rolls
• 1 Ultra roll = 4.56 regular rolls (what's the point, since we already have Mega and Mega Plus?)
• 1 Super Mega roll = 6.00 regular rolls (does this even fit on the dispenser??)

Here are some of the choices you have:

Austin Lewis
Managing Editor

A Florida man has confessed to stealing rare coins worth thousands of dollars, which he then redeemed at Coin Star machines at local grocery stores for just their face value.¹

Michael Johnson inherited more than 100,000 coins from his father, and most of that collection was stolen last fall by Shane Mele, a man Johnson let stay at his office while helping him with a work project. Mele ransacked Johnson's office and broke a lock on the cabinet where the coins were stored. He then sold some coins to a jeweler (no paperwork, or paper trail, required) for $2,330 and then went off to the Coin Star machines.

Mele, who still had some of the stolen coins in his possession when he was arrested, was charged with grand theft of more than $100,000.

Among the rare coins Johnson said are missing are 33 presidential coins with a value of $1,000 each. But Coin Star's processing fees can be as high as 11.9%, making the face-value redemption worth less than $30.