If you go to the store to buy a box of Cheerios, the 8.8oz box is $4.29 and the 16oz box is $4.89. For $0.60 more you get nearly twice the quantity. Big box, save money. Awesome.

Recently Cheerios has decided to return to the tradition many of us experienced, looked forward to and damn near counted on of putting little toys in the cereal box. Right now buying a 16oz box of Cheerios also gets you a Lego car or truck to play with. Cheerios + Lego = WIN.

Today I have learned that this more-for-less logic is completely false.

A 16oz box of Cheerios containing a toy mixed with a 2.5yr old armed with a vacuum cleaner expedites the toy removal process however it also renders the Cheerios inedible. I can also attest to the fact that the Dyson claim that their vacuum doesn't lose suction is correct (or at least in the case of sucking down 16oz of Cheerios in rapid order). In fact, I would have received infinitely more edible Cheerios and more Lego's if I had bought the 8.8oz box and the little package of Lego's for $0.99 one isle over.

BTW - we got the blue 4x4. It is pretty cool.