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Recently I was at Hobbycraft and was buying, amongst other things, glue sticks for the glue gun. The cashier very helpfully pointed out that the fifty-pack, rather than the twelve-pack, was better value. "Thank you," I said, "but that would be basically a lifetime's supply of glue sticks." It's taken me well over fifteen years to use the glue sticks we had. They've moved house three times. I suspect they weren't even all used and we do still have glue sticks - it's just my wife isn't very good at looking for things. Fifty glue sticks would, at the current rate of crafting, take me to well over ninety years old. My niece would inherit them. The data plan on my phone, for which I pay £10 a month, is now 20gb. I use about 500mb of that. It is, essentially, unlimited data. On the old-fashioned pay-as-you-go system that would do me for over three years. I get unlimited calls but on a previous plan 100 minutes was basically unlimited calls. When I was a kid we had to wait until after six…

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