Write to the company and express your displeasure. I bet you get a free pair or at least a discount on some new ones.
If I’m ever dissatisfied with a product even slightly, I let them know. Nowadays with this new fangled thing called the electronic spider web or the interpol-net or whatever, it’s easier than ever to communicate with a copmpany.
A corollary to that is when I find a product that exceeds my expectations, I also let them know.
In the former situation, I often get a coupon for a free or discounted item. In the latter, sometimes then send me something similar.
Squeaky wheel gets the oil.
(it all started like 40 years ago. I like Titleist golf balls and my dad suggested i write and tell them. The sent me a sleeve of balls and said to share them with my fellow golfers to spread the word. Hmmmm, I thought. So I wrote several other golf ball manufacturers and sho’nuff they also sent me some free swag.)
Yeah, duh, That’s what our brains are for: to get better at a task, and how we learn. Same for playing a piano or skateboarding or math. Your brain figures out how to have your body do something, then rewires itself so that it’s easier the next time.
Not really a formal “study” but my client has progressed maybe not into the 21st century, but maybe at least the 1990s now and the thing that accounted for roughly 40% of our paper usage is no longer getting printed.
Owner was pleased to see that our paper usage for the first quarter of 2023 compared to 1Q 2022 is down, wait for it… roughly 40%.
I guess I could cross-post in Happy Thoughts. We still kill too many trees, but fewer than we used to for the same amount of work.
