Recently, I bought a cartridge for my printer. It came in a 
box mounted on a card and wrapped in plastic. When I took it apart, 
I found that the printer cartridge itself was actually quite small, 
but they made the packaging unnecessarily large to make it harder 
to steal and to make the customer feel better about the high price. 
I pointed this out to my wife and mentioned how my weight gain over 
the years of our marriage should have the same effect: It made me 
seem more valuable and also made me harder for other women to steal.