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Sweet ’N Low Packet Hoarding For A New Generation

Grandma, why do you have so much hand sanitizer?

Shani Silver
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readJul 23, 2021

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Photo: Aleksandr Zubkov / Getty Images

My great-grandmother saved Sweet ’N Low packets. Those little pink rectangles of currency now only found in very old, very sticky diners where rent is minimal and corporate interest in property nonexistent. In her lifetime I don’t think my great-grandmother…

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