# Kleenex Box Conversion Tables

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kleenex-box-conversion-tables/949446 "2021-08-24T16:52:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kleenex-box-conversion-tables/949446/1 "2021-08-24T16:52:04Z")

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Hi, I remember that 30-40 years ago you could look on the bottom of a box of tissues and there was a conversion table. I think it was mainly imperial to metric. I am in Canada and so maybe it was something specific to Canada. I can’t find any evidence that it was an actual thing but it seems like a pretty strange false memory.

Can anyone confirm?

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kleenex-box-conversion-tables/949446/2 "2021-08-24T16:54:07Z")

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I hesitate to ask, but, conversion tables from what measurement to which other measurement?

Is there a standardized measure of snot in both metric and imperial?

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kleenex-box-conversion-tables/949446/3 "2021-08-24T17:02:26Z")

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Around 1977-80 there were a lot of metric conversion charts on many products or giveaways.

I think\* I still have one or two of those old sliding metric converters that boat shows would give away. Supermarkets gave away kitchen conversion charts.

I don’t specifically recall tissue boxes. I think I remember one cereal box having a back panel devoted to said.

\* I might have finally tossed them before the move. Now I just use my phone or Google.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kleenex-box-conversion-tables/949446/4 "2021-08-24T17:29:36Z")

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Yes, I remember Metric conversion tables on the bottom of our Kleenex boxes. Also, my school exercise books had conversion tables on the back (and some had a colour picture of a guy fishing in wading boots on the front). It was probably just in Canada, though, eh ?

I don’t think we ever used those conversion tables for anything in school, we were just taught Metric directly while conveniently ignoring that we measured our bodyweight in pounds, etc.