getting smaller

Have you noticed everything is getting smaller and we are paying 20-50% more. Just watched Philip Marlow. He paid 20 cents for macaroni and cheese. The soup cans and cereal boxes are smaller and poor Maggie doesn't get full on a can of dog food any more. Fabric is coming in at $15.00 per yard and is four inches thinner. Just spent the past 40 min. cleaning baby Bernina. In a class I took years and years ago our teacher had us use q-tips to clean our machines. Those magic q-tips have extended the life of baby bernina. Well as I was cleaning away, I was able to get these smaller q-tips in little tight spots I've never been able to reach. Greasy, nasty and full of lint devils. No wonder these new high tech machines have to be continually serviced. Official diagnosis: too much gunk and way toooo small q-tips. Happy New Years. I take quilt classes in Dallas this Sat and next. Finished one quilt and starting another: Its going to be called "9-lives" and staring