# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1589
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31764 "2014-12-08T21:13:09Z")
Stuff in Your Junk Drawer 1. Take-out menus 2. Garbage Bag Ties 3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31765 "2014-12-08T21:15:11Z")
Stuff in Your Junk Drawer 1. Take-out menus 2. Garbage Bag Ties 3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work 4. Plastic bag clips ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31766 "2014-12-08T21:27:21Z")
Peter Jackson also filmed much of the _Lord of the Rings_ and _Hobbit_ movies in scenic NZ. Stuff in Your Junk Drawer 1. Take-out menus 2. Garbage Bag Ties 3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work 4. Plastic bag clips 5. Pens that long ago ran dry ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31767 "2014-12-08T21:35:47Z")
Stuff in Your Junk Drawer 1. Take-out menus 2. Garbage Bag Ties 3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work 4. Plastic bag clips 5. Pens that long ago ran dry 6. Keys from two residences ago ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31768 "2014-12-08T21:54:57Z")
Stuff in Your Junk Drawer 1. Take-out menus 2. Garbage Bag Ties 3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work 4. Plastic bag clips 5. Pens that long ago ran dry 6. Keys from two residences ago 7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31769 "2014-12-08T21:58:42Z")
Stuff in Your Junk Drawer 1. Take-out menus 2. Garbage Bag Ties 3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work 4. Plastic bag clips 5. Pens that long ago ran dry 6. Keys from two residences ago 7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE 8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31770 "2014-12-08T22:15:56Z")
Stuff in Your Junk Drawer 1. Take-out menus 2. Garbage Bag Ties 3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work 4. Plastic bag clips 5. Pens that long ago ran dry 6. Keys from two residences ago 7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE 8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of 9. A compass. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31771 "2014-12-08T22:20:13Z")
Stuff in Your Junk Drawer 1. Take-out menus 2. Garbage Bag Ties 3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work 4. Plastic bag clips 5. Pens that long ago ran dry 6. Keys from two residences ago 7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE 8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of 9. A compass. 10. Fast food napkins ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31772 "2014-12-08T22:21:58Z")
Stuff in Your Junk Drawer 1. Take-out menus 2. Garbage Bag Ties 3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work 4. Plastic bag clips 5. Pens that long ago ran dry 6. Keys from two residences ago 7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE 8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of 9. A compass. 10. Fast food napkins 11. Three rolls of half used clear packing tape. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31773 "2014-12-08T23:01:28Z")
Stuff in Your Junk Drawer 1. Take-out menus 2. Garbage Bag Ties 3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work 4. Plastic bag clips 5. Pens that long ago ran dry 6. Keys from two residences ago 7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE 8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of 9. A compass. 10. Fast food napkins 11. Three rolls of half used clear packing tape 12. Some spare blades for box cutters No idea where the box cutters are ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31774 "2014-12-08T23:02:47Z")
Stuff in Your Junk Drawer 1. Take-out menus 2. Garbage Bag Ties 3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work 4. Plastic bag clips 5. Pens that long ago ran dry 6. Keys from two residences ago 7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE 8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of 9. A compass. 10. Fast food napkins 11. Three rolls of half used clear packing tape 12. Some spare blades for box cutters 13. Several tiny ziploc bags of small computer screws. Next: Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 14. Breakfast cereal. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31775 "2014-12-08T23:04:04Z")
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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31776 "2014-12-08T23:05:29Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31777 "2014-12-08T23:12:11Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water 3. Pharmaceuticals If more specific is needed, I’ll say “aspirin in a hospital”. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31778 "2014-12-08T23:28:07Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water 3. Pharmaceuticals 4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31779 "2014-12-08T23:58:21Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water 3. Pharmaceuticals 4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters 5. Coffee ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31780 "2014-12-09T04:13:51Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water 3. Pharmaceuticals 4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters 5. Coffee 6. Diamonds OK, still not cheap, but far more common than the industry would have you believe. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31781 "2014-12-09T05:35:35Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water 3. Pharmaceuticals 4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters 5. Coffee 6. Diamonds 7. Mozzarella Cheese Mozzarella is by far the cheapest and easiest chees to make, requiring a much short aging period, but it costs the same as all other hard cheeses. It should be about half the price of other mild cheeses. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31782 "2014-12-09T12:57:09Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water 3. Pharmaceuticals 4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters 5. Coffee 6. Diamonds 7. Mozzarella Cheese 8. Epinephrine (Adrenalin) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31783 "2014-12-09T14:31:22Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water 3. Pharmaceuticals 4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters 5. Coffee 6. Diamonds 7. Mozzarella Cheese 8. Epinephrine (Adrenalin) 9. Cable TV stations Which are supported by advertising revenue, but charge cable companies to air their commercials, which is passed on to the consumer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1588) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1590)