Before today, the only decisions to make were one ply or two or under or over.  Now, add another choice to the mix!  On Monday, Kimberly-Clark is launching a line of Scott toilet paper that is free of a cardboard tube.

Major innovation here, people.

Kimberly-Clark estimates that the 17 billion toilet paper tubes produced each year in the U.S. generate 160 million pounds of trash, or enough tubing to stretch over a million miles when placed end to end.

This new modern innovation is available for purchase starting Monday at Walmart and Sam’s Club locations nationwide.

Car accidents are the leading killer of teens, however the number of fatalities resulting from teens being behind the wheel is going down.  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of deaths caused by accidents involving teen drivers decreased from about 2,200 in 2004 to 1,400 in 2008.

Experts are crediting tougher driving laws with saving teens’ lives — not teens driving more cautiously — as well as safer cars and highways.

What did we do before caller ID?  I can’t tell you how many times my phone has rang this week, with someone on the other end encouraging me to vote for this candidate or that candidate.  Don’t even get me started on the political ads!  Candidates for Congress have spent more than $3.6 billion on this election so far, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and they’re still going!

Suppose instead of running attack ads, slick mailers, and robocalls, our politicians lavished us with:

1. Tuition for 62,548 students at America’s most expensive university
Forbes recently listed Sarah Lawrence College as the nation’s priciest school, with a tuition rate of $57,556, including room and board.

2. 3,973,510 monthly mortgage payments
The average monthly mortgage payment, according to analysts at Freddie Mac, is $906 in principal and interest. $3.6 billion would buy one month’s reprieve from the repo man for almost 4 million Americans.

3. 48 million bleacher tickets for a World Series game
Cheap seats cost $75. Wouldn’t we all like to be there?

4. Annual salaries for 83,116 high school teachers
Payscale.com pegs the median high school teacher salary at $43,313. Don’t we need more math and science experts in the classroom?

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