Self-tutoring about consumer education: the tutor mentions an appeal of gift baskets. Between Dec 25 and Jan 9 just passed, my wife and I were in numerous stores for one reason or another. Always on the lookout for what I …
Self-tutoring about buying groceries: the tutor mentions a trend he’s noticed. My earliest memories of consumer issues date from the late 70s, when inflation was high. I don’t know if the sleights-of-hand I started to notice then had always been …
Self-tutoring about glues: the tutor mentions Krazy and Super. I recall, as a kid, seeing ads for Krazy Glue. It was famous. I never saw ads for Super Glue, but began hearing about it a little after the Krazy Glue …
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Self-tutoring about consumer education: the tutor mentions a new strategy. Every trade has its secrets. Of course, the best-kept secrets hide in plain sight. So it is with the trades: they don’t purposely hide anything, but rather just don’t share. …
Self-tutoring about consumer education: the tutor looks up the meaning of VOC. VOC (noun): Volatile Organic Compound. Such a compound evaporates readily at room temperature. Therefore, if poisonous, it can produce dangerous fumes while opened, during application, and while drying. …
Perhaps lifestyle requires more tutoring than anything else – for me, anyway. The tutor relays his experience phone case shopping. Yesterday I got schooled on how to buy phone cases. I’m interested to share what I’ve learned. We bought my …
Monitoring nutrition involves constant self-tutoring. The tutor reflects about nutella®. I first encountered nutella® (spelled lower-case on the jar, so I’ve spelled it the same) decades ago. I had a Dutch girlfriend who ate it; I never liked it. (She …
The tutor answers a question that brought someone to his site. These days, Oracle Tutoring gets between 5000 and 6000 distinct visitors per month. Looking over the raw log entries of how some visitors arrived, I saw an inquiry yesterday …
The tutor continues from his last post about the value of solar energy dollars. In my last post I discussed the Wattage one might expect from solar energy for $100. Based on a graph from Scientific American, the equation for …
The tutor continues exploring annuities. In my previous post I introduced the idea of an annuity with an example. That example had each payment at month’s-end; hence, it was an ordinary annuity. With an annuity due, the payment is …
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