15 News Headlines Prove That Florida is Pretty Insane

Are you looking to start a new life somewhere exciting and unpredictable? Why not try Florida!

You may have heard of this state, but unless you’ve lived it, you really don’t know the full experience!

Here are fifteen reasons you should check out Florida today!

15. The fabulous healthcare system

You’re gonna need to come in with something bigger than that if you want real help.

Source: ABC 6

14. Their unique cuisine

Now that’s what I call fine dining.

Source: Orlando Weekly

13. Public games and festivals!

It’s not just the cards that are wild.

Source: Click Orlando

12. The culture of honesty

Maybe it was meant to be like a double bluff?

Source: KTLA

11. The amenities

Welcome home, sucka.

Source: Tampa Bay Times

10. Their determination

Wasn’t this a whole season arc in Rick & Morty?

Source: NBC 12 News

9. Their home medicine

Hey, if it’s good enough for the President.

Source: Sun Sentinel

8. The natural splendor

I need to know how long he got away with this.

Source: Click Orlando

7. Their flare for the dramatic

Cool way to get the cops called on your parents.

6. Their generous nature

Best Easter ever.

Source: ABC 9

5. Their Christmas spirit

You can sharpen those things down pretty good if you’re patient enough.

Source: Radio.com

4. Their attitude of diligence

Just gotta double check first, otherwise this would be really stupid.

Source: Miami New Times

3. Their arts and entertainment

This is exhausting work.

Source: The Gaily Grind

2. Their innovation

Not sure if that’s what they meant by “mask required.”

Source: Tampa Bay Times

1. Their bold statements

This is just flexing.

Source: NBC 8

Well what are you waiting for?! Head to the sunshine state and start your weird new life NOW!

What’s the strangest thing about where you live?

Tell us in the comments.

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15 Times Florida News Headlines Baffled Us All

Oh, boy, here we go…

Webster’s Dictionary defines Florida as “Some sort of hot swamp full of tigers, maybe.”

The definition can’t go into much more detail than that because to date, nobody who has entered Florida has ever escaped to tell the tale.

Looking at these headlines, though, we might just get a bit of a glimpse inside…

15. Get a leg up

And it would’ve gotten away from him too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids.

Source: MSN

14. The fruitcake

Why are you laughing? WHAT DO YOU KNOW THAT WE DON’T?

Source: Click Orlando

13. The most important meal

She crawled so that future Karens could run.

Source: Action News Jax

12. Hole in one

Whatever it takes to keep that score low.

Source: UPI

11. Going up?

“Can you please open up, I’m very late.” – alligator, probably

Source: MSN

10. Beneath the mask

Yeah, you should join, we have these ceremonies where we just sorta keep our distance and we worship the concept of not dying a preventable death.

Source: Fox 35 Orlando

9. Mist me

He a little confused but he got the spirit.

8. Something squirrelly

Genuinely, it’s my job to write funny little remarks about these things, but what could I possibly add to this masterpiece?

Source: Sun Sentinel

7. You kid

I don’t think I’d like to know any more about this.

Source: AP News

6. Spray it out loud

Yeah, not super sure that’s how viruses work.

Source: KIRO 7

5. Sign of the times

You know you can just like…easily lift those out of the ground right?

Source: News Channel 8

4. Polly want a cracker

I will be reading this article in full later, thank you very much.

Source: Tampa Bay Times

3. Whatcha gonna do?

He played the ol’ reverse card on ’em. Now it is THEY who are the bad boys.

Source: Click Orlando

2. Full contact

Well, you get what you pay for, I guess.

1. Thou shalt not steal

This sounds way more exciting than the church I grew up in.

Source: Daily Mail

If you’re feeling adventurous, maybe give Florida a chance. Later. For…obvious reasons.

What’s the strangest thing about where you live?

Tell us in the comments.

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Creepy Urban Legends You Should Read With the Lights On

Most cities have at least a few creepy urban legends.

And thankfully people from all over the world can come to Reddit and share theirs for all the online world to read.

The following 12 people have heard some s**t, and now you can read it!

Let’s take a look!

12. “she threw the baby off the bridge…”

“In Wichita, there is a bridge, Theorosa’s bridge. There are a few versions of the story, but most of them tell that there once was a woman who had an illegitimate baby, and she threw the baby off the bridge into the water to be rid of it.

Full of grief and regret, she then jumps in after the baby and drowns herself. Supposedly, if you go to the bridge and yell loudly that your are Theorosa’s child or that you have her child, she will appear and drown you in the river.”

11. “once they came out running with a bat…”

“We have the Watchers. The story (that I have heard) is that their daughter was kidnapped and murdered decades ago and the family completely snapped. They boarded up their windows and installed CCTV stuff and now they watch not just their yard but their whole street 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If they think someone is suspicious they will run out of the house with a weapon and attack.

The Watchers are completely legit, it’s pretty much a rite of passage in my area and they DO come running out after you. I’ve done it twice, both times in a car, and once they came out running with a bat and another time they came out with a knife. No idea what really compels them, especially since this has (supposedly) been going on since the 70s or 80s, but it’s real.

It isn’t a rural area, either- it’s just a house on a normal California street. I know their (new) next door neighbors, too. Nobody knows what their deal is.”

10. “people used to hide behind the trees on the side of the road…”

“Shades of Death Road is actually located about five minutes outside of my town. A lot of people get really into it and insist that they see ghost on the side of the road.

I remember my teacher telling me it was a really old road and people used to hide behind the trees on the side of the road and murderer them and have an old fashion GTA. There is also a lake next to the road called Ghost Lake. I love that road and lake. I’ve taken many beautiful drives down that road and have hiked and explored around the lake.

The lake at night can give out a weird vibe, though.”

9. “There were reports of green like ooze dripping…”

“In my hometown there is a legend that one of our high schools is haunted by a girl who committed suicide in the school.

There were reports of green like ooze dripping from the ceiling and the hallway supposedly covered in fog everyday. The hallway has been closed on the fourth floor that has been closed off for decades. Some hear a girl sobbing near the hallway, some see her waving at them from the balcony, even some see a girl jump off of the balcony and see her vanish before she hits the ground.”

8. “and said that they tried to sacrifice her…”

“There’s a church in a suburb town of Dallas with no real windows, and if you go there at night, there’s always at least 1 car, sometimes 2 parked in the entrance and really spooky choir music audible. The doors are all metal, and the 10″ish square windows in the doors have that shatter-proof wire mesh in them. Keep in mind that this church is not in a terribly bad area. Not great, but not bad.

Rumor is that a woman walked into a nearby convenience store covered in blood, and said that they tried to sacrifice her. No idea if it’s true, but I used to live near the church, and I can confirm the car(s), spooky music, and overbuilt door bits of the story.

Might actually try to go by there after dark and get a video or something. Anyone interested?”

7. “legend has it he still haunts a trail by the railroads…”

“Where I am from, there is a man known as the Green Man.

He was a normal person who endured a traumatizing accident in his youth. Basically, a freak accident melted his face clean off, and the the locals called this person ‘Charlie No-Face.’

Eventually he died, but legend has it he still haunts a trail by the railroads, which is where he would do his night time walks, away from people that would be too afraid of him during the day.”

6. “The slaughter house was built sometime originally in the 20’s”

“I used to live near Statesboro Georgia for a time, and while my own home town didn’t have its own creepy urban legend, there was a legend about the old abandoned slaughter house on the aptly named ‘Slaughter house Road.’

The slaughter house had been built sometime originally in the 20’s, and worked through the mid 40’s before a fire ran through the place, killing a number of the employees. The legend was that the fire had been started by the owner when he found out that his young bride to be wanted to break off the marriage in favor of her childhood sweetheart. Among the dead reported were the woman, and the presumed sweetheart. The owner himself effectively vanished off the face of the earth after the fire, making the case technically (he’d be long dead now) still open.

The building has long stood abandoned, with no power, phone, nor access to the very top most floor. Yet this hasn’t prevented phone calls to 911 cropping up from there, as well as strange sightings of a woman walking aimlessly along the top floor where the offices were.”

5. “her eyes are completely black with bloody tears…”

“The little girl in the white dress.

Apparently a father went crazy in the 1950s and tied up & blindfolded his young daughter that was wearing a white dress. He placed her on train tracks and she was decapitated.

There are sightings to this day of a young girl standing right next to the tracks where the roadway is. They always say that it looks like a real human until she turns around and her eyes are completely black with bloody tears running down her face. Then, poof, she’s gone.

Thats how the sightings always go too. Nobody ever sees her from the front first…it’s always from the back, she turns around, people see the face, are horrified, then they see a mist where the ‘girl’ was and she disappears.”

4. “you can see Old Man Taylor’s eyes watching…”

“From rural Alabama…we had the story of Old Man Taylor. Tl;dr Old Man Taylor’s house caught on fire during a Sunday night poker game, everyone ran out, someone went back in for Taylor, saw his head had been cut off or something like that.

Legend is that the wrong man was convicted, so you can see Old Man Taylor’s eyes watching where his house used to be for the actual killer to come back.”

3. “these people also took their lives in a local forest…”

“Randomly, the amount of suicides in my home town will spike from absolutely zero to about 6 or 7 a year. We can go for 20 or so years without a single suicide, then all of a sudden many people take their lives over the course of 12 months.

I first heard about it when my mother was explaining what happened to some of the people she mentioned by name but I had never met. Two of them happened to take their own lives in the same year, as did 4 other people. They are normally in their early or mid twenties, have pretty normal lives, and usually aren’t connected much in anyway, so it’s not like these are suicide packs.

It’s creepy as hell because this is a small rural town in the highlands of Scotland. The population never really goes over 1,500 people. Most of these people also took their lives in a local forest by hanging themselves.”

2. “I noticed a few shadowy figures out of the corner of my eye…”

“I live in Princeton right now but I’m from a suburb of Seattle but I always say I’m from Seattle because people don’t know where federal way/Tacoma/auburn/Renton is.

So the story goes that if you go Federal Way, on foot or bike at night, and then to Tacoma (doesn’t matter exactly where) you’ll began to notice little things start to get weird. Usually you’ll feel as if you’re just stuck in the same 500ft stretch of land that just repeats over and over again forever. Then paranoia and the last thing would be some things chasing you on foot, shadow figures.

I thought it was stupid when I heard it in the 7th grade until I tried it, except in a car years later. I noticed a few shadowy figures out of the corner of my eye looking at me, at that point I peeled out and drove to my girlfriends in downtown Seattle and said some bullshit about wanting to see her.

Would never try it again. I had an intense paranoia that I couldn’t get rid of. Like night terrors that I felt for days at a time.”

1. “their skin is super pale and tinted blue.”

“I live in Southern California, and about half an hour east of the cities in the foothills. It’s very rural with lots of steep rocky hills and dry brush.

The blue people are a cult that live in the deep foothills. They never come out during the day, so their skin is super pale and tinted blue. They will leave a person laying on the rd out in the rural areas, and when a car stops to help them, they’ll surround the car and the person and the vehicle are never seen again.

I once got lost with very little gas out in the foothills at night and this story freaked me out so much I had to keep convincing myself it was just a story.”

Wait… the BLUE PEOPLE?!? What in the actual f**k?

Okay, I’m not sleeping tonight. Thanks Reddit!!!

Which of these really freaked you out? Let us know in the comments!

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Weird Things About Being Over 30

It’s my birthday very soon, and I’m gonna be thirty (mumble mumble) years old. How do I feel about that? I don’t know. I try to tell myself it’s just a number, but then my back pain yells that it’s very much not.

Here are some things about the whole experience that you’ll understand if you’re in the same achy boat.

10. You gotta lower the bar

“Serotonin? In this economy?”

9. You’re outdated

It is absolutely wild to remember a time when it took like three days to pull up a Netflix movie and that felt fast, somehow.

8. You fall hard

I slipped on the ice like a week ago and I’m still paying for it.

7. You get the worst combinations

Am I a child or a vampire? DECIDE, BODY!

6. You’re still a kid inside

Gonna put a bunch of those stars on my ceiling and let ’em fall on my face.

5. You grow apart

Then like four years will go by and you won’t even notice it.

4. You hang WAY over

Just clear the whole day.

3. You’re always cleaning

It just sort of regenerates, somehow.

2. Everything costs way too much

I’ve never purchased any rug larger than a bath mat for exactly this reason.

1. You’re caught in the middle

I know how to use Zoom, but I’m still gonna yell at it.

I may not be super cool with the whole ageing thing, but as many philosophers have pointed out, there ain’t much I can do about it. Might as well just enjoy the insanity!

What’s the strangest thing about being your age?

Tell us in the comments.

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What is Going On in Florida? Hilarious Headlines From the Sunshine State.

Quick question – what in the hell is going on in Florida?

I know the whole “Florida Man” thing is a meme, but the meme comes from real headlines, and every time I see one I’m like…is that place legit? Like, does it exist? I could swear I myself have been there multiple times, and yet…

I mean, look at these.

15. Money talks

Our government is working great, why do you ask?

Source: Fox 35 Orlando

14. Can you smell what we’re cookin?

It’s good to have your priorities straight.

Source: ABC News

13. The cheer squad

When you have no idea what’s happening but you wanna support your team.

12. Cut and dry

Well this changes EVERYTHING for me.

Source: Click Orlando

11. Have a seat

The kids are most definitely not alright.

10. Droning on

I appreciate the effort but I really need it IN the bathroom right now if you know what I’m sayin’.

Source: MSN

9. Irresistible

Chicken of the sea and of the land, fight.

Source: Orlando Weekly

8. Cool it

If you wanna keep being a dad of any description I’d suggest not doing this.

Source: Click Orlando

7. I am the night

I mean, I guess we can’t technically prove him wrong.

Source: KIRO 7

6. Getting high

When you gotta go, you gotta go.

Source: Click Orlando

5. “Weird primary”

And this was when we were just getting started.

4. Life’s a beach

I like that they gave him a mic.

Source: Fox 8

3. Bloody good time

Some people take the celebration of Passover very, very seriously.

Source: WAFF 48

2. The food chain

Maybe just stay out of the water, my dude.

Source: USA Today

1. Candles in the wind

Is this really the time for a vigil?

Source: WFLA Tampa

Florida, whether you’re really a state in the union or you’re just a myth, I salute you. Ya absolute weirdos.

What’s the strangest thing about where you live?

Tell us in the comments.

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What Memory From Your Life Would You be OK with Losing?

One of my favorite movies is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

If you’re a Millennial who has ever been artsy and/or angsty at any point in your life, you’ve probably at least seen it. It’s a sort of parable about the pain of remembering the love you lost, but how in the end, it’s really better to remember it all anyway, because that’s how you know you’re alive.

That’s what I was thinking of as I scrolled through this Reddit thread:

The Average human brain is comparable to about 2.5 million gigabites. Your brain has reached near capacity. What do you delete to free up space? from AskReddit

So, Sunshine‘s message aside, what would you delete if you could? Let’s find out what the internet thinks.

1. Reality vs reality.

Memories of reality shows I’ve watched.

All memories of being bullied and picked on as a child.

– MrDoomsday13

2. When you have VERY exclusive tastes.

Everything but fine dining and breathing.

– redguitar530

3. It can get better.

Yeah, I think I can safely delete about 8 years from the late 90’s to about 2006 when I was a drug addict.

That was just a never ending series of cringe that to this day a random (horrible) memory will pop into my head and I get embarrassed/remorseful/horrified all over again.

I have to physically try and make myself stop thinking about it. Of course, the harder I try the more it’s there ¯(ツ)/¯

– sucks2bdoxxed

4. The ultimate burn.

All “yo Momma” jokes so I can make place for yo Momma.

– xlr8inferno

5. The man knows his priorities.

The spank bank is staying everything else can be deleted.

– 11015h4d0wR34lm

6. Cache me if you can.

I’d delete my entire cache of childhood memories up until age 16.

– pokedbyhand

7. Screw education, I guess?

I need to delete all bullsh*t school taught us to make space for memes

– Sharma_boi_18

8. Dude, see a doctor.

Every time I farted, should free up about half

– Sacred42069

9. Choose your own way.

When I was studying for medical school I lost my mental road maps of the town I grew up in.

Wasn’t using them. They got written over.

It was weird when I visited and couldn’t find my way around.

– mapbc

10. To live it all over again…

My memories of the main campaign of some good video games… so that I can play it again, and walk through it like the first time ever.

– LithiumZer0

11. What keeps you up at night?

All of those awkward moments you think of when you’re trying to go to sleep.

– Manu442

12. Spice up your life!

I could probably do without the lyrics to the entire Spice Girls back catalogue.

– MakesTypos

13. This program IS an error.

Anxiety.exe

– James-Avatar

14. Seriously, 100 GB, wtf?

Call of duty warzone, should free up at least half of it

– abzzdev

15. I need a location…

My fear of wicker furniture, my desire to play the trumpet, my tentative plans to purchase a hat, and six years of improv workshops.

– William_Harzia

Not sure what I would erase if given the chance. Would probably consult a therapist about it, have tons of anxiety about the decision, and then just decide to say screw it and go back to bed to remember stuff.

What about you? What would you delete?

Tell us in the comments.

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Funny Memes to Make You Smile

Do you know that special feeling? When you see a meme across the room and you just gotta go over and say hi?

You get those butterflies in your stomach wondering if the meme will like you, or if your friends will like it, and what kind of a future you might have together?

It’s quite a thrill. The sacred and flirtatious dance of the internet.

Here are twelve special memes that just might catch your eye.

12. Fry day

I’m definitely gonna start on that tomorrow or something maybe.

Via: Someecards

11. To be blunt

Yeah, THAT’S the element of that magical fairytale that just doesn’t add up.

Via: Someecards

10. Stay on target

You don’t choose why you’re there. The store determines that for you.

Via: Someecards

9. Warning signs

Read ’em and weep.

Via: Someecards

8. Eyes on you

I’m not sure how, but the back of that guy’s head is a cop.

Via: Someecards

7. True tests

Oh great, we’re gonna reopen this old wound now?

Via: Someecards

6. Summer bummer

Psh, whatever I’m alive.

Via: Someecards

5. Mother clucker

Let’s go around the room and say a little bit about ourselves.

Via: Someecards

4. Many distractions

I’m so broke I can’t even pay attention.

Via: Someecards

3. Holy writ

Checkmate, atheists.

Via: Someecards

2. Tow the line

Sir, this is a permit neighborhood. I don’t make the rules.

Via: Someecards

1. Face the facts

No, it’s not that I hate you, it’s that I hate *me.*

Via: Someecards

I think you and some of these memes are gonna make beautiful music together.

What’s your favorite spot to find new memes?

Tell us in the comments.

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This Revenge Story Proves You Shouldn’t Mess With Someone’s Christmas – Even if They’re Family

It’s fair to say that every family does the holidays differently.

You might do Santa up big, or play him down (or ignore him totally). Everyone might buy each other all of the gifts they can afford, or you might draw names from a hat to keep things less expensive (but still loving). There might be so many kids that you just stop buying for everyone period, because it costs a crazy amount of cash.

Whatever you decide when it comes to gifts, as long as your entire family is ok with it – or gets ok with it – you should still be able to enjoy the holiday together.

It’s about family, after all, not presents…right?

That’s what this guy thought, at least, when he and his father agreed that it was no longer necessary for everyone to buy for everyone else’s kids, only their own parent/siblings – great news for OP (original poster), since he was the only childfree dude in the bunch.

Image Credit: Reddit

Here is the cast of characters (I really appreciate this guy’s way with words!)

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Things begin to go awry when OP hands over his Nintendo DS, goes to get a drink, and hears trouble brewing.

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No one else is concerned about the situation, but the stepsister eventually wanders in to “handle” things.

Spoiler alert: she handled nothing.

Image Credit: Reddit

6 months later, the stepbrother calls with the news that OP should really buy Christmas gifts for the kids this year.

Image Credit: Reddit

They have a discussion about it that really doesn’t go all that well.

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And ends with OP thinking they understand each other, and that now no one is getting gifts.

But of course that wasn’t all, because then his father called.

Image Credit: Reddit

The same sort of conversation happened, with OP expressing continued disinterest in impressing the kids.

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In the end, OP agrees to buy small gifts and bring them to Christmas.

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OP promises that the kids will definitely enjoy his gifts.

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Enter Christmas, with not 1, but 4 gifts under the tree for each of the four children. He’s excited and can’t wait, so he encourages the kids to open his gifts first.

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The parents agree, and of course, the kids do love their gifts.

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Then all hell breaks loose.

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Then, the beautiful parting shot.

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Here’s your TL;DR if you skimmed up until this point.

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Do you agree with how this guy handled his stepfamily?

I have to say, I do think this guy could be nicer about his nieces and nephews, because they’re family and also just because they’re kids, and really don’t deserve this kind of judgment.

That said, gifts should be optional and no one should be forced to buy them if they’re not moved to do so, right?

Tell me your thoughts on the topic down in the comments!

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Unique Things People Collected and Shared With the World

I’m not sure what the psychology is behind why we love to collect things – coins, books, rocks, figurines, records, what have you – but there must be some reason that so many people lovingly gather certain things to display in their homes.

Sometimes those collections go beyond the average, too, and that’s when they really become interesting, if you ask me.

Here are the really different collections kept by 17 different people.

17. Ok I have questions about this one.

Like…why? And how?

Over the past 15 years my dad collected 1,785 bowling balls and built a giant Bowling Ball Pyramid from pics

16. Alphabets made from beach stones.

This is one of several alphabets assembled by Belgian type designer Clotilde Olyff from stones collected at the beach.

Image Credit: Kottke

15. I can see hanging onto these for a rainy day.

Or for the inevitable apocalypse.

Collection of reference seeds found in my Grandad’s attic from mildlyinteresting

14. These extremely cool “punched” state quarters.

I mean, if you thought they were cool before…

A year ago, I started staying in and peircing state quarters, instead of going out and getting in trouble. Here is my collection so far. from pics

13. This is super cool.

I would love to see all of the birds that came!

Image Credit: Pleated Jeans

12. The crows never forget.

So, better friend than foe.

Inspired by an old reddit post. I started feeding bar nuts to these crows that are regural to the patio of a bar I work at. My collection of gifts finally started after 3 months. from pics

11. This looks like something out of a horror movie.

I don’t like it.

The product of 15 years collecting shedded antlers from the woods. from pics

10. That’s something worth keeping.

It would make you smile every single day!

Image Credit: Pleated Jeans

9. For what purpose?

Just to fill a barrel?

Since the late 80s, my office has been collecting used staples that were removed from documents that needed to be microfilmed/scanned. Here is that collection. from pics

8. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this.

These are seriouslycool!

My grandfather’s pencil sharpener collection i inherited from mildlyinteresting

7. Happy Birthday!

Also, that’s a LOT of tires.

Our tire sticker ball turned 6 today from Damnthatsinteresting

6. I bet it’s not really about the rocks.

It’s about finding the rocks.

Perfectly round rocks found on the beach. Bonus: egg rock, triangle, and taco rock. from interestingasfuck

5. Those belong in a museum.

Not everyone is so lucky to live where these can be found.

Some of my favorite arrowheads. Amazing little pieces of history collected on our private property in southern Arizona. from interestingasfuck

4. He’s even color-coded them.

How endearingly dorky.

This is my Periodic Table of Elements with actual elements! from mildlyinteresting

3. Just picking it up here and there.

That’s a lot of walks on the beach.

2 years of collecting sea glass. from mildlyinteresting

2. He must really like apples.

I can respect that, but maybe they disappeared for a reason!

This man’s collection of lost apples varieties. from mildlyinteresting

1. He’s accomplished more than I have in my whole life!

This kid is going places.

I’m 14 and here is a picture of me and my chess medals from MadeMeSmile

 

I guess I collect books, but not really on purpose. I would like to collect dogs but I don’t have enough land. Or money.

What do you collect? Tell us in the comments!

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Inexpensive Items That People Claim Drastically Improved Their Lives

There are some things we buy and we know that they’re frivolous.

Other items we expect big things from (because maybe they came with big price tags) only to be disappointed, the thing relegated to the back of a closet where we don’t have to look at it and be reminded.

Then there are the times – rare as they may be – when we buy something inexpensive that we want to try, and our lives end up the better for it every single day.

These 16 people claim these items – all less than $50 – drastically changed their lives for the better.

16. I hate cleaning it and putting it away though.

A non-stick electric griddle. You can cook a bunch of stuff on that thing.

adding to the list:

A coffee maker and a knock off Yeti tumbler. You can save a crap ton of money that way.

15. Anyone else want to jump ship?

Affinity Photo on sale for 25$, I could leave Photoshop and the whole Adobe Creative suite nonsense behind me. No more monthly payments. Just these 25$ once and I won the thing.

Other thing was a used line tool for architects for 3€ (normal price is 25€), making comic panels never was easier

14. If you don’t already have one.

Pocket/Swiss army knife or multi tool

I have 2 that I keep on my at all times and use them pretty much daily

13. The longer the better (heh).

3 metre long charging cable.

I got a 10 ft USB extension cable to a friend who was recovering from surgery at a hospital. He told me that was the best present he ever got, his words “in my life”.

12. It is revolutionary.

Electric toothbrush.

Speaking of oral care, I bought a tongue scraper on amazon 8 years ago on a whim. I can’t believe I wasn’t scraping my tongue before. The amount of plaque that I get off with that thing every morning is astounding and my breath is so much better now.

11. As someone with a bad back, this sounds nice.

Something called “the helping hand”. Its basically a litter picker (which was actually invented for the disabled btw).

I am disabled and a wheelchair user. My occupational therapist gave me this years ago to help me get things out of high up kitchen cupboards etc.

I still have it and it has been a life changer!

10. For the writing nerds.

This one mechanical pencil that I bought in high school or earlier. I’ll graduate college soon which means I’ve been writing with the same pencil for somewhat 10 years. It fits perfectly between my fingers.

I’ve kept a traditional diary since I was a kid and it has become more and more important since hardly anything requires paper and a pencil today. So many memories from the happiest moments to the absolute worst have been written down using this pencil.

I have a few other pencils as well but they don’t feel right and eventually I’ll put them away and return to my old friend.

9. Learned this from my parents.

A butter dish/butter tray. Room temp butter always available. No more fucking with trying to spread hard butter out of the fridge.

8. Is he on YouTube?

About 20 years ago I bought a 3 VHS tape set that showed me this guy, Sepp Holzer, doing pond and gardens and raising animals in a way far better than I imagined. It has been the core of my life ever since.

7. They almost make winters bearable.

A heated blanket, dont know how I ever survived winters before this.

My bedroom is in the attic and it gets cold. Due to how stuff is wired the heating in my room only goes on when it’s cold downstairs, but since it doesn’t get that cold downstairs my heating never starts up.

This has saved me so much cold nights curled up in a ball at night trying to warm up, it’s amazing

6. I didn’t know there was a way to fix that!

Sheet suspenders!

I toss and turn a lot and would have to fix the fitted sheet every morning

5. Omg this is a thing?

Try a heated mattress pad. They are more efficient has the heat rises and gets trapped by the blankets. Most also have a zone for your feet.

4. If that’s your sort of thing…

A $1 corkscrew that I keep in my car.

The amount of times I have been the hero because of this you wouldn’t believe

3. For people without small children.

A coffee grinder. Buying whole beans and grinding them yourself gives infinitely better coffee than buying pre-ground.

2. I like the enthusiasm.

I do a lot of IT-ish things, so I decided it would be a good idea to get a backpack for my laptop. And backpack means IT’S KIT TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!! All kinds of pockets and whatnot for all life’s basic concerns.

Stanley 6 way screwdriver? Done. Chargers & battery packs? Yep. Whatever random crap? Probably!

The amont of times I’ve been The Guy with whatever completely basic thing is insane. It’s not like the pack is busting with tools.

1. That’s quite an endorsement.

Rainex

If there is one product I would sell door to door, this is it (please don’t let it come to that)

 

Definitely putting some of these things in my cart to try.

What would you add to this list? I would say a battery jump box to replace your jumper cables!

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