Photo by Lucky Business / Shutterstock.com It takes me forever to use up a roll of paper towels, it seems. It’s not that I’m particularly neat. It’s that I see no reason to use paper towels when I have plenty of rags. Sure, paper towels are convenient. But they’re expensive …
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Times are hard. Over the past year, we’ve seen many individuals starting their own home businesses to earn extra income from the first MCO. On a recent online shopping experience, my boss came across a merchant on Lazada selling what is claimed to be an original branded paper bag from …
Read More »Photo by fizkes / Shutterstock.com If you like receiving paper 401(k) and pension statements, you need to act fast before they disappear. A new U.S. Department of Labor rule lets private sector retirement plan administrators default to sending required retirement-plan documents via electronic media: email, texts and websites. While you …
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Google has begun using Duplex, its AI chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone, to contact businesses about the status of certain “in-demand” items like toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and cleaning solutions. As reflected in an update to a support webpage and confirmed to VentureBeat by a spokesperson …
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One of the most interesting things I noticed in the last few weeks is that people are searching Google with terms like “how to make toilet paper.” Likely, these folks found themselves in a situation where there wasn’t any toilet paper in their local stores due to shortages and they …
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What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to summaries of five or fewer words. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question. 1. Staying put, but worried2. Replacing bottles and boiling water3. Frugal alternative to laundry softener4. Son has many credit …
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