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If time is money would you not save more money spending the time doing something else instead of exchanging something with little value?
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If time is money would you not save more money spending the time doing something else instead of exchanging something with little value?
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That is.... quite the life hack....
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Old People Life Hacks:
1. Handicap stickers... just get one, if you're old they hand them out like free condoms in college.
2. If a young person is holding a door open get your wheezing ass ahead of them in w/e line is inside.
3. Claim you're too old for w/e shit you don't want to deal with.
4. Claim you're too wise and young people don't understand.
5. If a Cop pulls you over for any reason, just start babbling about Eisenhower, they will let you go.
6. If there is a long line at Jewel just start farting and loudly reminiscing about when the blacks had their own stores, someone will usher you to the front of the line.
7. If you're ever feeling blue, get up at 6am and drive around at 5-10 under the speed limit slowing people down who are trying to get to work... one day one of those people might road-rage murder you, but who cares.
8. If anyone asks you a question you don't want to answer, just go "WHA?" and repeat louder each time the question is repeated until the questioner gives up.
9. Take milk up to the service desk at Jewel and tell them Cindy said you could have half off because the date on the milk was bad.... they will probably just give you the milk for free, there is no Cindy who works there.
10. Instead of tipping the car wash guy, just drop him a butterscotch candy and start babbling about Truman and those sneaky Japs... they will get uncomfortable and just gtfo.... this applies for most tipping... valets... bellhops, etc.
1. Handicap stickers... just get one, if you're old they hand them out like free condoms in college.
2. If a young person is holding a door open get your wheezing ass ahead of them in w/e line is inside.
3. Claim you're too old for w/e shit you don't want to deal with.
4. Claim you're too wise and young people don't understand.
5. If a Cop pulls you over for any reason, just start babbling about Eisenhower, they will let you go.
6. If there is a long line at Jewel just start farting and loudly reminiscing about when the blacks had their own stores, someone will usher you to the front of the line.
7. If you're ever feeling blue, get up at 6am and drive around at 5-10 under the speed limit slowing people down who are trying to get to work... one day one of those people might road-rage murder you, but who cares.
8. If anyone asks you a question you don't want to answer, just go "WHA?" and repeat louder each time the question is repeated until the questioner gives up.
9. Take milk up to the service desk at Jewel and tell them Cindy said you could have half off because the date on the milk was bad.... they will probably just give you the milk for free, there is no Cindy who works there.
10. Instead of tipping the car wash guy, just drop him a butterscotch candy and start babbling about Truman and those sneaky Japs... they will get uncomfortable and just gtfo.... this applies for most tipping... valets... bellhops, etc.
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Ftr Costco is still pretty good on the return bit, my mother is return happy, I know she took a inkjet printer back that was well over a year old and got her money back.
Edit: of course she always saves all her receipts as well, something I'm bad about.
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Edit: of course she always saves all her receipts as well, something I'm bad about.
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With you 100 percent.
On a related note, it blows my mind how often some people (mostly ladies) buy shit and return it because they do not like it when they get it home.
It bewilders me to no end.
If I need shoes, I select a pair and commit. I don't buy 5 pairs and eeny meeny miny moe them when I get home.
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I've done this with a couple a cheap tvs and a bunch of Playstation controllers.
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I actually have done this with tools, but if I pay good money for a tool and it breaks, **** them I'm getting another one for free.
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How much money are you guys making in your free off time? Time isn't money. That's just a silly cliche. Time is time and money is money.
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They are the guys going to McD's for their coffee group that takes up three tables. They get full coffee pots for free every 10 minutes and don't shut up.
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I can do other things with that time which is where the saying comes from.
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This ^^^
I pay more money to save time in other circumstances... I can live with a 5$ "loss", if you even consider it a loss, to keep that time.
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Some pretty funny ideas. Some pretty good ideas. And some plain dickhead, cheap, ass*hole, "you're part of the problem with our society" ideas. After 29 years in retail, I'm pretty good at figuring out which is which. Leave to others to decide for themselves.
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is listening to full music albums on youtube unethical?
I do this a lot.
Or watching movies on youtube? This I feel more guilty than the music. I don't know why.
I do this a lot.
Or watching movies on youtube? This I feel more guilty than the music. I don't know why.
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Hoarder Life hacks:
1. Eat at fast food restaurants for lunch every day and take as many salt/pepper and condiment packets as you can... even if you don't use them, something needs to go in that empty drawer.
2. Those bags they put your stuff into at stores.... you get to keep those!
3. No one at Chipotle will stop you from taking all the napkins.
4. Borrow a child for Halloween and stock up on candy.... those signs that say "Take 1" are just a suggestion.... candy, like milk, doesn't actually ever expire.
5. You know those boxes that food is shipped in to the grocery store? They will just give the empty ones to you... not only do they take up space but you can also put more junk in them!
6. You know how your car is made to fit multiple people? Well you can also just put stuff where the people would go.... the more junk in your car, the less likely it is to get robbed.
7. Walk around downtown and find those free newspaper thingys.... no one will stop you from taking all of them.
8. If you walk into any bank they have those deposit slips sitting out, you can take all of them at least a few times before the security gets wise.... then you just go find another bank.
9. It's always garbage night somewhere.... drive around and find an area where it is garbage night.... there's always treasures to be found.
10. Go to a knife-maker's convention.... someone will eventually let you have a free knife.... stab them with the knife and take all their knives, now you have lots of knives.
1. Eat at fast food restaurants for lunch every day and take as many salt/pepper and condiment packets as you can... even if you don't use them, something needs to go in that empty drawer.
2. Those bags they put your stuff into at stores.... you get to keep those!
3. No one at Chipotle will stop you from taking all the napkins.
4. Borrow a child for Halloween and stock up on candy.... those signs that say "Take 1" are just a suggestion.... candy, like milk, doesn't actually ever expire.
5. You know those boxes that food is shipped in to the grocery store? They will just give the empty ones to you... not only do they take up space but you can also put more junk in them!
6. You know how your car is made to fit multiple people? Well you can also just put stuff where the people would go.... the more junk in your car, the less likely it is to get robbed.
7. Walk around downtown and find those free newspaper thingys.... no one will stop you from taking all of them.
8. If you walk into any bank they have those deposit slips sitting out, you can take all of them at least a few times before the security gets wise.... then you just go find another bank.
9. It's always garbage night somewhere.... drive around and find an area where it is garbage night.... there's always treasures to be found.
10. Go to a knife-maker's convention.... someone will eventually let you have a free knife.... stab them with the knife and take all their knives, now you have lots of knives.
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If it's an object that doesn't work, yeah, I'll return it and stand in line for it...if I actually bought it in meatspace that is (if not Amazon/B&H/Newegg are usually very good about returns). But still, If I bought something that implies a need for a working version, not a defective version and upon finding it's defective that implies needing a working one--so it's not so much as time wasted but going back to get something that actually works as advertised.
But I don't think that's what you're driving at. If you're referring to something bought that you intend to use once and that in all intents and purposes works as advertised, and then return...yeah. I don't get that mindset. If you buy a $20 shirt to wear to something once and then stand in line to return it to me is wasted time. You might be able to use that shirt later and if not, well you saved yourself a trip to the mall.
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Yeah, not defective product or clothing that doesn't fit like a gift mistake.
I am talking about cheap junk that you can either repurpose or just eat the cost or use it later.
Like here's one.... I bought a pan to make something, and got home and realized I bought the wrong size pan.
So I went back to Jewel and bought the right size and used it.
I told my mom this and she said "Oh did you return the other one?"
No... it was a 3$ baking pan... I kept it.... I found uses for it later.
Even if I didn't... it is a 3$ pan... I would spend 3$ a fucking day if I could guarantee myself a spot getting off the train in the morning that would save me 20-30 seconds of walking behind the train buddies who clog up the walkway like a fucking O-line on a screen pass.... I am not spending 5 minutes at Jewel returning that pan for 3$.
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Bullshit. In truth it’s not that your free time is worth a damn. The irony here is you could actually use that free time to get extra money if you weren’t so damn lazy.
I’ve let stuff go too that I don’t return. I just don’t lie to myself about it. Truth is I don’t want to be bothered and I don’t think the loss will kill me.
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I feel like Ares is making a mockery of this thread.
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