 Howdy now from time to time, you know, I like to talk about products and you know that I go out shopping and I've been looking at You know these these oh my goodness The nutritional facts and in such and I'm always looking at how you buy things and economy of scale and trying to find the best buy and I'm going to show you something that I think is very interesting because it kind of points something out That everything isn't always what it seems to be. So anyway, I've showed you this here This is basically Kool-Aid cherry flavor little tiny thing, you know, look at this, you know That even really fit in my hand all that well but this little tiny thing is sugar-free and I've been buying this for Probably a year now as a matter of fact I did a video last year where I compared this to some other flavor that I didn't like but I ended up loving this cherry Kool-Aid I discovered cherry Kool-Aid back in 1997 and I loved it But I'd given it up because of you know, how much sugar I was putting in it Which kind of helped me to speed up the onset of diabetes and such So I'd given it up but found some sugar-free drink that I could put in water. I could carry it with me Wonderful stuff. The thing is you see how tiny it is basically I can only get five of My cups of Kool-Aid out of it. Now. I know you're saying wait just five cups This is the size of a cup. This is a 52 ounce cup Now I'm one of those people who likes my stuff really cold So I pack it with ice pretty much all the way to the top put the water in it So most probably I'm getting about maybe, you know, truly 32 to 40 ounces of water Which is about four to five cups of water in here So anyway, I can usually get five cups out of this now I'm at the store the other day and I come across this Notice the difference in size in this so I see this I said, oh my goodness really? Let's check this out now. This one actually does have sugar in it. It's got sugar It's got that high fructose corn syrup that some people real about or whatever but It's got less sugar in it than the other stuff that I used to buy you know, I used to buy the granulated mix so it already tells you it's got less sugar in it and I went ahead and I bought it because this bad boy was $2.99 and this bad boy is 259 Right, so I'm thinking oh wow. I'll get a lot more out of this Then I will this that was that's what my thinking was so I bring this stuff home and The first one I do I Need to put enough in there till I get it to where I like it and oh my goodness It tasted wonderful, but I looked at the bottle and I said whoa, how much of this did I use? So I started kind of doing some calculations and you want to know a truth It takes a lot more of this stuff to get the Kool-Aid to the flavor than it takes this to get it to the you know the way I like to taste it and So I said well, what's that about and So I did some calculations This little bad boy here on the bottle says that you can get the equivalent of 24 8 ounces out of the 24 24 servings out of eight cups so in other words, you know eight cups equals 24 servings This thing here says that you can get six quarts out of it Now here's the math the math is that a court is Eight ounces of liquid so I did the math this here says I can get 24 cups So I did eight times 24 when I came to as 192 fluid ounces Then I did this Four cups equals 32 ounces and basically it says, you know, okay, I can get six quarts So I did the math so I did 32 times six it comes to a hundred and ninety two fluid ounces so Out of both of these if I use the exact same amount if I use the amount that they recommend I get the exact same number of Cups of water or Kool-Aid. Are you kidding me now? Here's the thing If this measurement was proper Then at least I could say oh, I've got an equal thing, but it's not I need to use more of this to get the flavor Then I do this So I'm already getting less out of this now. Here's number two. This here is 259 This here is 299 So when you look at the thing, I don't know if you folks do this But I do this all the time I look at price of by fluid ounce for a lot of different items And I've recognized that sometimes something this smaller offers you a smaller price And everything because what grocery stores do is that they usually base the price based off of what sells better So I did this with the crystal light long time ago where it turned out that if you bought the four pack of crystal light as opposed to the six pack and You ended up buying the same number so you ended up with the same number of little packets or whatever You actually saved money buying the four pack then you did the six pack Your mind says oh, I'm buying six at a time. They'll discount that so I'll pay less. It doesn't work that way It just doesn't work that way. So in this case 299 Versus 259 sugar free versus sugar zero calories versus at least 160 calories to make a picture which Is this So at least 160 to 200 calories every time I use the other stuff to make drink Now the reason I'm pointing this out is because there are a lot of people who sometimes look at something and you think bigger is better and Sometimes bigger is better or you think newer is better but we don't really sometimes tend to really dig deep and figure things out and In this case, I feel like I've been scammed. I You know, I didn't do the calculation in this door because my god. Are you serious? I saw this and I saw this and I'm thinking oh my goodness I'm gonna get twice as many servings out of this that I'm gonna get out of the other one And it just doesn't work that way if there must be something about sucralose This has a little bit of sucralose by the way this thing here They put a little bit of sucralose in it so that they can say that it's less sugar and I look that up You know, but this here is just sweetened by sucralose. So This is how they fool you now. Let's equate this to a lot of other things You know, there's some people who and I'm not gonna call anyone out because I don't want to look like one of those kind of people but there are some folks who are Writing things on their different blogs or putting things up on social media That are necessarily of the quality that a lot of other people do and what they're doing is they're packing these blogs with five to eight thousand word posts and Everyone is now saying that that's the way to go that search engines want to see these big epic posts that tell all this stuff Because they see that as authority And you know what I see for the most part. I see people writing this stuff They're they're repeating over and over the exact same thing in their post Or they're just like like pounding it in with these things these examples that mean nothing now There are some people who are writing some extremely good posts. I have to say that There are some folks who are putting together five thousand post five thousand word posts that are epic They are wonderful, you know, I just want to give them a little applause But that ain't the majority and yet there's all these Recommendations lately saying right longer posts right longer posts. Well, you know what? I am one of the progenitor Progenitors of the long post, but you know what a long post used to be between one thousand Words, you know, I've always said that I write until I'm done So I start with my premise if my premise ends at 450 words I'm done if my premise ends at 2000 then I'm done But I don't intentionally set out to write something overly long I just don't do it unless it's a research post or unless it's a step-by-step How you do something because when I write a step-by-step, I'm not leaving anything out One of the gripes I have with a lot of people who write step-by-step posts is that they leave stuff out as you get these gaps and That's an old blogging trick as well people say if you give everything away. No one has anything to ask you Oh, please. Don't give me that mess. I hate that but Volume does not necessarily always equate to better. It just doesn't so when I see people ask Well, how many words should my blog post to be my answer is always been it should be as long as it needs to be if It only needs to be 300 words Then it's 300 words if it needs to be two three thousand then it needs to be two or three thousand But don't keep putting words in just because someone told you that more words in a post is better Life just doesn't work that way. No one wants to read that Which one of these is better? Know what this one now all of a sudden turned out to be more cost Beneficial, I will say That's what I'm saying. So what do you think? You know Tell me about cost pricing things out But also tell me about this little thing about long posts versus short posts Have you been trying to read some long posts? Like I said, I'm not a hater of long posts I am one of those people who hates This let me just throw these words in here because I want it close to be really long Remember that I bet you know There's a lot of people here who used to try to write those papers in school where you had to write a thousand word paper And so basically you had four strong paragraphs and you spent three pages trying to reword those paragraphs to get your stuff Done come on own up to it. You know you did it I didn't ever have to do that matter of fact my papers are almost always way too long But that's how it works sometimes, but let me know your thoughts on this, you know who I am y'all take care Hope you enjoyed this video