DU! I need help! How many holes do salt & pepper shakers have?

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9. A tangential inquiry

It takes (a year or two? ) to run out of the salt cardboard container and replace it? And these containers have been the same (model? ) for my 78 years' lifetime.

So at this late date the new container looks the same but upon breaking it in, used the usual needle-nosed plier to bend back the tip of the spout and turns out that the spout is new-fangled, somehow less gripped into the cardboard opening, and the spout completely unhinged itself and fell into the container. Plus that in our New Times, seems like the product is less full while in the appearance of the same, larger containter.

So, always with the Depression-raised parents teaching Economy - in my Boomer usage meaning "saving" on insignificant things while splurging on bad habits - I proceeded to find some kind of container of the same volume with a lid with holes.

Yes, went to regular groceries places, and then to the Dollar places. Looking NOT for shakers, but rather for a full sized container with holes.

*(** The closest thing found was a glass, cylindrical thing fairly closely looking like the salt cardboard container. BUT, labeled as a *cheese* shaker (no idea) with the lid holes being extra large.

Still haven't transferred the salt from the cardboard to the glass. And I don't use the "normal" sized shakers, just shake the thing from the cardboard thing.

Leaving this here.