Personal Consumer Issues • Changed my mind [on consumer issues]

In our never ending pursuit of learning, education, and wisdom, we often change our minds when presented with new data, news, facts, or evidence. I have recently changed my mind on the topics below and why I changed my mind. Feel free to share your own experiences, as the actionable part of this is you could change my mind on other topics or change others minds!

Nitrogen in tires
I always thought this was a gimmick. Filling my tires with pure nitrogen at an additional cost? Ridiculous. Air is already ~78% nitrogen. Well, after having just had tires installed at Costco, where they nitrogen fill the tires and offer free purge and nitrogen refill, I did a little digging and pure nitrogen has some advantages. Nitrogen can reduce tire failure up to 80%, it's non flammable, can reduce the risk of excessive heat build up in tires, and reduces the loss of tire pressure. Since nitrogen purge and refills are free at Costco, I am converted to pure nitrogen in my tires.

Home wifi
I posted recently about home wifi problems. I purchased "pods" from the cable internet company, and they are terrible. I always looked at it like this is a problem the company should fix. After all, I am paying for a service, plus additional equipment, so it's not up to me to solve this problem. Well, a fellow boglehead commented that I should not look at it that way and I decided to follow the boglehead's advice and went with a mesh router system. I also purchased my own modem which will pay for itself in 1 year (friend's advice). The wifi is fantastic now. My kids are pleased.

I will leave controversial topics out of this post, but I'm always analyzing and open forming new opinions. [See my posts below --admin LadyGeek]

Statistics: Posted by worthit — Fri Nov 22, 2024 7:36 am — Replies 4 — Views 439