A few weeks back, we bought new suitcases. The reason was, the nested set we had included four, two of which we never used. This seemed wasteful, so we gave them away and bought two new ones, both having the dimensions of the ones we had been using. Strangely, when we got them home, they seemed awfully big. So, I went back and bought the next size down, meaning we now have a nested set of three suitcases, one of which we will never use.

And this is why I went on a ...