It’s no secret that some toilet-paper manufacturers have been sneaking bigger cardboard tubes into their rolls. Now, Crandle says, it appears that the size of individual sheets is shrinking.

The individual cardboard sheets are scored with a triangle pattern ... printed guidelines for easily creating boxes of different size–this could be the cleverest thing since the Puma shoebox ...

but the Home Duvet and Trottoir Sheet Set have to be among the strangest out there. The 144 thread-count fabric is adorned with a photographic print of a weathered cardboard box and paving stones ...