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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today’s video, I’ll show you how we use Amazon Household in our family. For a long time, my family operated with just one Amazon prime account.  That was all we really needed. After all, I’m the chief procurement office for our house, so I do the vast majority of the shopping. And for whatever reason, no one really watched Amazon Prime videos but me.  Fast forward to now, my kids are teenagers — one is in high school, one in college.  For a whole host of reasons, having multiple accounts now seems much more attractive.  The biggest things was that my son is Not Trustworthy - with my credit card.   If he has access to my account he can not only order stuff to be sent to himself without approval, but he figured out how to just create cash by sending himself gift cards.  I had to shut this down.  And because he can’t be trusted with the login credentials on my account, it be...

Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll tell you why I prefer Kindle or ebooks to hard copy or physical books.  This is obviously a super personal decision.  And by that, I mean -- everyone has preferences and it really shouldn't matter to anyone else how you read your books.  That said, I've gotten this question about which reading format I prefer, so I'm going to attempt to answer it.  The one thing I will say is that most people have a natural resistance to change.  Like when, unbeknownst to you, one of your apps is automatically updated and you have to spend a bunch of time figuring  out where everything is again in the new and "improved" version?  That's annoying, right?  Well, I think the same could be said for how we read.  I remember (and this is going to date me), in undergrad I used to write out my papers and essays by hand on many pieces of paper with scratch outs and inserted...

Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today’s video, I’ll share my tips for successfully navigating a group project or a group paper. So, you’ve been assigned a group project. Fun!  Just kidding —  I hate them.  It’s not that I don’t like other students — I do.  And I feel like you can learn a lot from others if you share your work.   But group projects are objectively terrible — and professors continue to insist that we participate in them and all earn the same grade despite the fact that VERY RARELY is everyone in the group doing the same amount work. Right now, I’m in graduate school for social work, but in my 20s I earned a degree in information systems.  The professors always insisted that group projects were a way to “simulate how groups work in the business world.”   Since at the time I was working IN the business world in many groups, I had a pretty good sense of what that was like, and I rea...