Article: Love triumphs in paper towels

The dilemma, in a nutshell, as we stood in the paper goods aisle at Shaw's debating our domestic futures: Which held more promise: Awesome or Mighty?It's a bigger question than you might think.

While other areas of life get high marks, paper towel satisfaction has, of late, been in a steep decline for both of us. And those ShamWow commercials aren't helping. (Oh, that we'd hit the lottery and could just buy those in bulk.)

Bag Lady's convinced her beloved Bounty is traveling the path of New Coke, trans fat-free Girl Scout cookies and Windows Vista. The new Bounty just doesn't feel as nice as it used to. Frankly, there's no joy in paying 10 bucks for eight rolls of sandpaper.

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