Three guides, written before the order
This journal holds three long guides. Each one covers a job our packs get bought for: setting a table for a large number of people, buying one of something for a room of thirty children, and working out which household things are worth buying by the dozen. These are written to be read before the order, not after it.
These guides are not reviews. They are not a list of the best anything. They are arithmetic and experience, showing what a pack costs per piece and whether that math holds up for your crowd. Sometimes the honest answer is to buy fewer, and we will say so in plain words.
Party & entertaining
Setting a table for a hundred: how many of everything you actually need
Glasses per guest, bottles per hour, and the two-hour rule that decides how the food goes out. The arithmetic behind a room full of people.
Read the guide
Craft & classroom
Buying for a room of thirty: the classroom and craft cupboard
The margin above thirty, the difference between a consumable and a tool, and what the labels on art materials are actually telling you.
Read the guide
Buying well
The multi-pack rule: which household things are worth buying by the dozen
Three questions decide it: does it get used up, does it get lost, does it store flat. Everything else should be bought one at a time.
Read the guide