Scrapbook pages

I finally cleared some space off my desk so I could do some scrapbooking. Plus I bought a huge tub of Halloween letters on clearance at Target and I wanted to use them on some layouts. I would like to know why a tub of 356 foam letters was $5.00 (I only paid $2.50) but if they were in the scrapbooking aisle, they would have been $5.00 for a sheet of 26 letters and, of course, you can't spell a whole lot with just 26 letters, so you have to buy at least two sheets. I love to scrapbook, but I really do think the industry is a huge rip-off. It cannot possibly cost $1.00 to manufacture a piece of paper. Somebody is getting rich off of people like me!

O.K. This is Parker's school picture and I have some issues with it. Let me be clear--I don't think it's a bad picture, but I don't think it is a very good picture of him. I don't like his posture. He looks kind of like a turtle to me. I can say that because he's mine. And, he seems to have mashed his hair, which was adorably spiked when he got on the bus, down onto his forehead. He just looks uncomfortable and nervous to me. On top of that, they took it on the wrong background. It was supposed to be on this kind of amber/brownish color which fits my decor perfectly (and would bring out the green of his eyes which look black in this picture.) So, I have confirmed that I could have his picture re-taken on the correct background free of charge. Do I do it? Or just let it be. I paid over $30.oo for a picture I'm not crazy about. ???? The next picture could, in theory, actually turn out worse. Unlikely, but true. And, this one will be in the yearbook. ?????