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People Share Secondary Uses for Everyday Products

It’s nice when you can learn to use a household item in a new and exciting way, isn’t it?

Well, maybe if you didn’t necessarily feel that way BEFORE you started reading this article, I have a pretty good feeling that you’ll be in that mindset after you read through these responses about great secondary uses for everyday items.

Let’s check out these tips from folks on AskReddit.

1. You gotta love it!

“Ground coffee (powder) is amazing at neutralizing vomit smell on carpets or fabrics. I was once in an international flight that would last 9 hours, and on hour 3 a child threw up on the aisle.

The stewardess gracefully poured two handfuls of coffee powder on the leftover stain (after removing the puddle) and the smell instantly went away.”

2. Does it all.

“As a mechanic, a flat-head screwdriver is a pry-bar, package opener, square-head (Robertson) screwdriver, hose-pick, a punch, test-lead, electrical bridge, scraper, chisel, and least importantly, a flat-head screwdriver.”

3. Wow!

“Bottom shelf cheap VODKA.

Put it in a spray bottle and squirt in on your bathroom walls to kill mold, squirt it on clothes to remove any odors, use it to clean mirrors, glass, windows.

Squirt it in your mouth to make cleaning more fun! ?”

4. If you feel sick.

“Pickle juice can assist the ph balance in your stomach. This means when out drinking, if your stomach starts to feel queasy take a shot or two of pickle juice… why vomit when you’re out having fun?

On a side and probably more relevant note, pickle juice is essentially the OG Gatorade. If you need to replace electrolytes or simply feel a bit dehydrated, drink some pickle juice and then some water.”

5. The leftovers.

“Leftover used Bounce sheets are good little scrubbies for dishes, especially greasy pots and pans. Because they don’t scratch, they’re free (because they already served their original purpose) and when they’re all gunky you can throw them away.”

6. If you have a pool…

“Pantyhose for pool filtering.

This is pretty random, but… Women’s knee-high pantyhose stretches to fit perfectly around the return pipe in an above-ground pool.

For the itty-bitty particles (our problem was gnats!) that manage to make it through the filter, a single knee-high pantyhose sock will catch everything that would otherwise be returned into the water. It can be bunched up on the pipe so it’s not very intrusive.

Cheap enough to throw away when it’s dirty, easy to replace. A 6-pack for $3 got us through the summer and we had to vacuum about half as often.”

7. A happy accident.

“There’s this body wash you can get from the dollar store, I accidentally didn’t shut the lid tight one night and it tipped over.

When I woke up the next morning my bathtub was coated in the stuff, however, after rinsing it away the areas that it was left to sit were cleaner than that bathtub has ever been the entire time I’ve lived in that house.

Now I just buy a bottle of that stuff instead of bath cleaner.”

8. Me, too!

“I stuff dryer sheets in my shoes when i’m not wearing them to absorb the odor and moisture.”

9. Good one!

“Pringles tube lids are good for placing on tin cans when you haven’t used all of the tin.”

10. Pay attention.

“Baking soda in a nylon stocking can be put in your boots or close toed shoes to help freshen then, in your closet to help that musty smell, in your fridge etc.

Couch can be used to tricep dips and sitting

I don’t have a spray head in my kitchen sink so when I want to wash things that need more water to really clean them I take the colander to the bathroom and use the shower head, it also has better pressure so it takes less time to rinse my veggies.

I use my frozen eye mask for bringing down inflammation on my acne as well, I use paper towel as a clean barrier between it but it’s a lot easier then wrapping ice cubes in paper towel which melt. Works great for it’s intended use as well which is depuffing my eyes, really great when I have severe allergies that have been making my eyes water.

Pam spray can be used on your knife when cutting garlic so it doesn’t stick to your hands or knife

Dish soap in a clogged toilet will loosen the clog.”

11. Let’s work on those feet.

“Standing on a tennis ball for about a minute each foot will work absolute wonders.

Try to touch your toes before and after you do this. It’ll loosen everything in your back and give you a lot more range of motion.”

12. Works wonders.

“Use sticky-notes to clean between the keys of your keyboard.

You’ll be amazed how much hair and dirt you’ll clean out.”

13. Get rid of stains.

“Shaving cream is the best stain remover I’ve ever used.

Clothes, carpet, whatever…dampen the stain with water, apply shaving cream, scrub with a damp cloth, then clean up shaving cream by scrubbing with a second damp cloth.

You’ll be surprised how well it works.

Bonus use for shaving cream: apply a SMALL amount (seriously like a pea-sized amount) to your bathroom mirror, and wipe it in circles with a towel like you’re waxing a car.

Do this for an area about the size of your face until the mirror is dry of shaving cream. BOOM! The mirror won’t fog up for a while.

If it starts to fog again, just re-apply. Tip: only apply to mirror when it’s dry.”

14. Use them for something else.

“A pub I used to work at would always keep extra small condoms in a first aid kit.

The use was that in case of an accident cut to a thumb, the condom would put enough pressure on to slow the bleeding and allow the kitchen hands to keep working without risk of a bandaid getting lost in someone’s food.”

15. For your bong!

“Great for bongs – pour in some kosher salt, fill with rubbing alcohol.

Shake the sh*t out of it, rinse, and it’s crystal clear.”

Now we want to hear from you!

In the comments, tell us about YOUR pro tips on how to use everyday things for other stuff.

Please and thank you!

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People Talk About the Strange Things That People Get Offended By

You never know what you’re gonna get with people, do you?

They’re odd, unpredictable, and they tend to get offended by the weirdest things sometimes.

You know it and I know it!

People can just be…bizarre.

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say about the weird things that human beings get offended by.

1. Jerks!

“Informing a person that the place where you work does not offer a service or does not have an item in stock that they are looking for. I’ve had this conversation many times:

Customer: “I’m looking for [item]”

Me: “I’m sorry, we don’t have that stock.”

Customer: “What the f*ck??? I drove TWO HOURS to get here! How the hell are you telling me you don’t carry [item]? I could have ordered it off of Amazon and saved time AND money. But because of you, I’m going to be wasting four hours of my day traveling to and from your sh*tty store! Nice going, *sshole!”

2. My decision.

“When I say I don’t want children.

It is my decision to make and people should accept that.

I’ve had so many people tell me that I’ll change my mind. I decided when I was 12 that I didn’t want kids. It’s been 20 years, and I haven’t changed my mind.”

3. Not my problem.

“Having their name mispronounced.

Get mad at your parents for naming you Cheaghean and wanting it pronounced Shawn.”

4. It all means the same thing.

“Being offended when describing a death by saying the person “died” or “is dead” instead of “passed on” or “passed away”.

Denying it won’t make them come back.”

5. You should be happy about it!

“Getting ID’d for alcohol/cigarettes/whatever age restricted item.

It’s a compliment!”

6. We’re done!

“When you don’t like the same things they like.

A former coworker of mine had me try pizza from his favorite restaurant. I told him I didn’t like how the cheese tasted.

He got upset and said, “okay well I’m never going to share food with you again.””

7. THIS.

“Being asked to wear a mask.

It’s crazy how many people will verbally assault a teenage host when she’s just informing you of restaurant rules.”

8. Not a fan.

“Not liking an artist they like.

Some people lose their mind when I say I dislike Eminem.”

9. People are strange…

“The idea of wanting other people to have a better quality of life.

The other day I said that I think flu shots should be free in the United States and my dad (a healthcare provider) was outraged.

I might as well have said “Dismantle the military-industrial complex to fund a mandatory socialist healthcare scheme,” instead of “You know, I feel like the U.S. could afford to give everyone a free flu shot who wanted one.” Same with things like school lunches.

It feels like now if you even raise the spectre of something like that there’s someone foaming at the mouth about how you’re a commie or a socialist.”

10. I’m staying in…

“I’ve had friends get offended when I didn’t want to join them when they were out, I just don’t feel like going out some nights.”

11. I’m insulted!

“Happy Holidays!

“Wow, what an attack on Christianity!”

How do you know it isn’t an attack on Judaism, Islam, or any other religion?”

12. Just trying to help.

“When women get offended cause a man held the door open, or offers to hold her bags etc.

As a lady myself I am just so appreciative. It’s not that people are saying you can’t do something, they are just being nice, thoughtful men.

Get off your high horse and take a chill pill is what I want to say when I hear someone say “ I don’t need a man, I’m perfectly capable” when someone was just trying to do something nice.”

13. Don’t ask me that!

“I’ve never understood why asking for someone’s age is such a horrible thing.

I’ve had friends I’ve known for 5+ months get mad at me for asking how old they are.”

14. This drives me nuts.

“Hearing facts and logic.

Like c’mon dude…proof is right there and you say it’s all a conspiracy.

What will people gain from creating this conspiracy?”

15. This is ridiculous.

“My friend is Mexican he’s second-generation immigrant so he kinda looks like one but has a normal southern California accent. I’m a midwest hillbilly so I’m white as f*ck.

I was visiting him down around LA one time and he was showing me this place to get good authentic Mexican food, while we were there some random white lady came up to me and proceeded to harass me for eating at an authentic Mexican restaurant.

She legit said I was culturally appropriating the food, I had only heard about people like this but never saw one in the wild so this was a shock.

It was f*cking wild, she ended up leaving after getting winded and we just went back to eating but like holy sh*t, she went mental because I’m a white person eating food from a different area.

Like damn, it’s just food let me eat in peace.”

What about you?

What weird things do you think people get offended by?

Talk to us in the comments!

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People Share Their Thoughts About a Four-Day Work Week

I know what I think about this possibility…I love it!

Now, I don’t have a 9-5 job anymore like I did in the past, but if I did, I’d be all about working ten hours a day for four days a week instead of the standard five.

Three-day weekend EVERY WEEK? Booyah!

Here’s what folks on AskReddit had to say about the prospect of a four-day work week.

1. Extra time.

“Working a 5 day work week just makes life seem so much more pointless.

By the time I get the other things I need to do (grocery shopping, appointments, etc.) done, its Sunday night.

A 4 day work week might give me time to play the piano I bought to combat depression.”

2. They love it.

“My company switched to 4 10 hour days. We are diesel technicians and work 7-5:30. Half of us work Monday through Thursday and the other half work Tuesday through Friday.

We have did this for over two years and we all love it. It is so nice to have a three day weekend every week. Another thing about it that is nice is if you doctors appointment or something I can make it on a Monday and don’t have to miss any work.

Plus I forgot to mention having a two month this helps out a ton. More time for me to be with my wife and daughter. And if there is a lot to do I can just come in on Monday and boom 10 hours of overtime.”

3. Much better.

“Life would be that much better.

I would have somewhere around 50 extra days a year to do all the yardwork and home projects that I don’t want to spend all weekend doing.”

4. Not as great as you think…

“It’s great, don’t get me wrong, but if you have to work the full 40, it’s not as great as you might think. An extra 2 hours a day doesn’t sound like much, but it takes a while getting used to.

Especially when you are drained, and you still have a few hours left. On top of that, if you have a family and you got off at 5, now you’re getting off at 7. So if you have small children, that gives you roughly an hour with them a day before they go to bed, which has been a deal breaker for some coworkers in the past.

If you instead go in earlier, you now can’t be the one to take the kids to school. You miss out on after school sporting events. On top of that, you’re just generally more drained from going 120% for four days in a row.

I still think it’s worth it. But not by much.”

5. Gladly take it.

“I would gladly work 4 ten hour days to have an extra day off.

2 day weekends are too short. They’re gone just as soon as you start to feel comfortable.”

6. A big fan.

“I work 4 10s a week instead of the usual 8 5s and I f*cking love it.

2 extra hours each shift is easily worth the 3 day weekend.

Feel like I actually get a break from work each week.”

7. A good idea.

“Think it makes sense.

All the evidence suggests it works, and the welfare benefits would be enormous.”

8. Game changer.

“My BF works 4 10s and it’s a total game changer.

It’s adjusted his schedule so he wakes up at earlier hours on his days off, which gives him more day in his day, on top of already having an extra one.

I’m self-employed and I try to have all my work done by Friday’s, so we usually get 3 day weekends together, which also makes taking short trips easier without missing any work.

It also opens up a weekday for him to do certain things that have more limited hours on weekends like appointments and whatnot.”

9. Might be a good idea.

“Given that we now have more people in the workforce and supposedly more “productivity” because of automation, we ought to be dropping down to 32 hour weeks to compensate for the changes in our household structures.”

10. Not much difference.

“I think it’s less about 4 day work weeks, but more about work life balance.

For people that’s already working more than 10hrs day or no-pay overtimes or working during holidays, working 4 days week means very little.”

11. Energy saver.

“In terms of climate change it’d be about 20% less CO2 emissions from commuters which is nice.

Not just commuting, but running a workplace. Industrial jobs are the most obvious, but even an office building full of computers, lights, climate control, etc uses a lot of energy.”

12. Keep the hours the same.

“As long as it is 4 – 8 hour days with no change in pay.

I can get the same amount of work done in 32 hours as I get done in 40.”

13. All good things.

“I would do some or all of the following:

Cook more

Play more competitive video games

Join a band

Play dodgeball

Go to the doctor/dentist once in a while

Travel out of state more often.”

14. Wouldn’t work for everyone.

“It wouldn’t work for me.

I work at an animal hospital, open 7 days a week, and there’s not enough of us to go around. And the company would never hire enough people to cover for a four day work week.”

How about you?

What do you think about a 4-day work week?

Please share your thoughts with us in the comments!

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Things That Have Gotten Worse as They’ve Gotten More Expensive

Inflation exists and items become more expensive over time. Most of the time, the quality stays the same – or even improves – which makes paying a bit more bearable (even if it still hurts).

When an item declines in quality but increases in price, inflation can be a bit harder to stomach – and that’s exactly the case with these 15 things.

15. You used to get what you paid for with these.

Scented candles.

Yankee Candle in particular used to be the candle that was considered premium. But while they’ve never been cheap at least a while ago it was worth the money.

But now they’re just exorbitant in price, they don’t smell like they used to, and they are not worth the money.

14. Which is weird, because the Quarter Pounder has definitely improved.

Big Macs.

That burger “patty” is a stones throw away from being a slice of roast beef.

13. Something that didn’t get better with time.

Photo booths!

Oh the old ones were so cool! Four different real photos for 1 dollar. – Now you pay $ 7 for four identical bad laser prints.

12. They only reward new customers.

Cable/ Internet providers.

Oh yes sorry your trial period was over, your bill went up 200 dollars.

Oh no we didn’t promise you 200mb/s download speed constantly, we said UP TO. read the fine print ?

11. Well if that’s not depressing…

My university education, specifically this year.

They are raising tuition AND fall semester has no in-person sessions.

10. Time to cut the cord!

Cable television.

More commercials, channels upon channels of crap, ridiculous bill.

9. You’ve gotta splurge for the Ben & Jerry’s.

Ice cream with fudge in it.

Used to get massive slabs of fudge now they just have tiny nuggets.

8. It’s a marketing ploy.

I swear that Reese’s peanut butter cups have gotten worse over the years. The peanut butter seems chalkier and the chocolate tastes blander.

Plus I can’t ever seem to pry them out of that little cup wrapper without leaving the bottom chocolate “skin” stuck to it…

I think the push to put them in the freezer and eat them chilled is a ploy to cover the declining quality

7. Hard not to agree with this assessment.

Smarties. Never been right since they got rid of all the artificial colors.

Better for you, I’m sure, but chemical blue was the best flavor.

6. I haven’t been there in a while but this makes me sad.

Buffalo Wild Wings.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but their prices have gone up and the quality has gone down.

5. Thrift stores are the obvious answer.

Clothes.

Even a sweater from the Gap is like $70 now even though the quality is about 10% better than Old Navy.

Goddamn it clothes retailers, settle down or I will go naked.

4. Real estate is not what it once was.

As someone shopping for a house, I have to say homes.

not only has the real estate market been ridiculously inflated (especially in NYC, my residence), I’m finding that the actual quality of a lot of these homes are absolute shit. Due to the ability to find and source cheap materials and labor, developers are able to make huge profits off high prices and low costs.

It’s making me really rethink if I want buy a house, or just use all that money to aggressively invest.

3. Did they used to be better tasting, too? Because…

I remember the donuts at dunkin donuts to be bigger and cheaper

2. Definitely not built to last these days.

Clothes.

Very few companies make clothes to last and fast fashion is rising while the cost of items continue to increase!

1. And who knows what’s in that chicken. *shudder*

I’m sure this will get overlooked but KFC. I remember growing up a whole family could eat there and it was great! Now it’s just garbage, super greasy, and will cost you an arm and a leg for a dang bucket of chicken.

They have gotten way worse and the price has went up.

Some of these are really appalling, but I never considered others!

Would you add something to this list? Tell me what in the comments!

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Products People Might Stop Buying If They Knew How They Were Made

Some things are just better off not knowing, if you ask me. For example, if you’re not interested in becoming a vegetarian, you probably don’t need to know how chickens are processed. Just don’t do it.

There are other things, like working conditions in factories that sell goods to American retailers like The Gap, that perhaps more people should be aware of so they can make the right choices when they’re out shopping.

Below are 16 products that people might stop buying if they knew how it was made, and I’ll be honest, the list contains a bit of each type.

16. Make sure to Google this one.

After I found out the story behind the palm plantations for production of palm oil I made it my personal mission to completely throw it our of my life (and that sh.t is in almost everything you eat).

Palm oil is the biggest reason for massive deforestation around the world. South America and Southeast Asia (Indonesia in particular) are producing the most. There are moratoriums on new palm oil plantations, but companies are skirting that issue by paying individuals to start forest fires so that the companies can then buy up the land that is no longer a forest.

The deforestation is destroying habitat for animals like orangutans and tigers. And all of the burning of the forest is also burning peat. Peat is essentially forest detritus that houses huge amounts of C02. By burning it we are quickly releasing all of thst C02 into the atmosphere. Worst of all, the plantations are only good for one or two cycles, then the land is essentially discarded, and new plantations are made.

In my opinion, palm oil production is the greatest ecological disaster in history. It is nearly everything, and essentially impossible to avoid. There are so many different names for it, so it can go unnoticed so easily. Even the supposedly sustainable palm oil production is extremely damaging to the environment it is grown in.

15. It’s all in the bottle.

Most low to mid tier vodkas. I work at an industrial distillery where we make millions of gallons of very high purity ethanol from corn.

We have customers in the beverage market that literally just dilute our product to 80 proof or so, run it through a filter, and bottle it to sell.

Those customers sell their products from anywhere from $8-$50+ for a liter. And you know what the main difference is? The more expensive vodka’s bottle is “fancier”.

It’s almost all brand perception with these corn based vodkas.

14. That’s less than appetizing.

I’ve work in 2 different meat departments in 2 separate grocery stores.

The meat in the case that has had work done, (marinated or like put into kabobs) are usually the old meat we didn’t sell that is about to go bad.

That marinade is hiding how shitty the meat looks.

13. Special doesn’t necessarily mean “special.”

Certain signed art work. Used to work at an art printing company that we did signature editions of certain pieces.

Guess who did the signing me and some coworkers, we were all design and art majors so they just had us learn all the artists signatures, we even had machines that could mimic the signatures too, I wish I had a picture of the devices they were pretty cool.

It was in the fine print that we were doing it and was approved by the artists but I guarantee most people would never buy the prints if they knew the signatures were forged. So always read the fine print when buying items, especially “special” editions of stuff.

12. Eight hours is kind of blowing my mind.

RVs.

They aren’t insulated fully. Nothing is sealed correctly. All the electronics that are “fancy and new” are outdated and inefficient.

The manufacturers use the cheapest materials possible AND all RVs are built in 8 hours. A vacation home. On wheels. In 8 hours!?

11. I never would have guessed.

This reminds me of a documentary series my dad once watched. Garlic. The garlic industry is a hell of a lot darker than most people would think.

I don’t remember everything, but apparently a lot of Chinese companies that sell to restaurants overseas use prison labor. These inmates have to peel the garlic completely by hand, no tools whatsoever.

There were a few inmates missing fingernails. If I recall correctly, one man said that he had a friend who had to resort to using his teeth because he didn’t have any nails left. They work unimaginably grueling shifts, in which they have to meet a quota for the day or face consequences. They get paid very little, if anything at all. They all seemed so miserable. The series is titled “Rotten”, you can find it on Netflix.

10. This one is hard to stomach.

Chocolate produced by child labor.

9. I guess it’s not so fresh.

“Fresh-squeezed” is marketing. You can deliver orange juice year-round in three ways:

1) buy fresh oranges and squeeze them yourself.
2) squeeze the oranges, remove most of the water and freeze the concentrate. This is sold as frozen concentrate.
3) squeeze the oranges, then separate all the components of the juice mechanically and chemically. Store the various components in huge tanks – sometimes for years. Then mix it with flavors and preservatives, bottle it, and sell it before it separates again. This is sold as fresh squeezed, because it’s never been frozen.

Unless you physically see method 1, method 2 is far, far fresher.

8. I’m going to have to use that.

“Anyone who enjoys sausage and respects the law should never find out how either are made.”

7. Of course they didn’t.

In high school, the girls in my class were horrified to find out what their Uggs were made of.

They had no idea.

6. I hope we’re on the way to fixing this one.

Most baby powder is made with talcum, which is potentially carcinogenic since it works via breaking down into some of the finest pieces we can make, fine enough to cause problems for your cells.

Use cornstarch, we have too much of it, it works by absorbing the moisture. The only caveat is that you have to make sure to shower if off of you regularly enough that it doesn’t mould on you, but that shouldn’t be a problem for someone that showers at least once a week.

5. What a jerk face.

My parents decided to build a house in another state. The builder did not know I lived in the neighborhood. The builder took this nice piece of land and spread about 2 feet of broken concrete over where the front yard and house would be. Not knowing much about construction practices, I took a picture and showed it to a construction engineer friend. He said that was messed up and there was no reason for that.

Hired a local third party engineer to visit the building site, and he said the builder was destroying the land. Parents had a lawyer send a letter to the builder. Builder’s lawyer wrote back, denied any wrong doing. Parents threatened to sue. Builder offered to refund deposit. Rather than waste time/money on a lawsuit, parents took back deposit and walked away. Wasted money on architect fees. Builder completed house.

The finished house was raised 3 feet above of where the natural ground was. Whoever bought that house either didn’t know or care that 6 inches below was tons of broken concrete debris. Fuck that guy and every builder like him.

4. It sounds cynical, but…

I really don’t think there is one. If it’s because the ingredients or preparation are disgusting, I think most people are perfectly happy to keep eating/using it because the finished product is fine.

If it’s a moral reason, I just don’t think most people would care enough to stop using or eating whatever the product is. We’ve known for years that Air Jordans are being made with child labor in sweatshops, and sales haven’t dipped one bit due to that.

And I don’t say this as a cynic, I think we should work to improve conditions for all humanity, but the proportion of consumers who would be bothered enough to stop buying a thing is vanishingly small.

3. Definitely awful.

Silk.

Bonus story: Had a friend who worked briefly in bridal and was fitting a woman who was boasting how vegan and eco friendly her wedding was going to be. No one was allowed to wear leather etc. All while wearing her dress with huge amounts of silk on it.

ETA: 17/07/20

A lot of people asking if my friend told the bride, so I asked her:

“No I didn’t. The bride and her friend started making fun of my disability when they thought I wasn’t in the room and couldn’t hear them. I would have also lost my job if I had lost the sale”.

2. Womp-womp.

Nothing. People know what goes into hot dogs and chicken nuggets, they still eat them. They’ve seen what the sweatshops look like, and they still buy stuff from there.

1. That is the sad truth.

I want to say sneakers by brands like Nike, who exploit, underpay and abuse their workers, but sadly most people already know how they are made and still buy them.

Well, I’m going to do some soul searching, how about you?

Is there something else that belongs on this list? Add it in the comments!

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The Quality of These Products Has Gone Down While the Price Has Gone Up

Pretty much everything increases in price, right? I remember being stunned when I first learned that my grandmother could go to lunch, a movie, and get ice cream with a single quarter!

We expect to have to pay more for those things, now, but we don’t expect to pay more for products that aren’t as good as they used to be – which is the case with these 12 things, according to savvy Redditors who have noticed.

12. We all need more space.

New homes.

Cookie cutter houses, built with cheap contractors who cut corners left and right, situated in neighborhoods with ever higher HOA fees: and the HOAs are getting more expensive too.

11. All of the razor burn.

Face razors. They had it perfected with double edge blades in a metal razor. Cheap and incredible shaves. Modern plastic disposable razors are worse on your skin, give a worse shave, and grotesquely expensive.

They are nothing more than monopolies controlling the availability and accessibility. When you go to the razor section at the store you can only choose from their garbage.

I give double edged metal razors to men and women loves ones as gifts and universally their minds are blown realizing how much better and less expensive they are.

10. Definitely applies to washers and dryers.

Certain house appliances.

My grandma has had the same fridge for 40 years. My parents recently had to replace theirs. It’s their third in 20 years.

9. Just a fact of life.

There used to be this burger joint called “Joe’s cablecar” near me. Great place. I miss it so much. A few months before it closed down, I was there and the owner, Joe, was having a heated conversation with one of his suppliers on the phone. After he hung up, he looked over at me and just said, “price goes up, quality goes down.”

It took me a while to realize that that wasn’t the particular supplier he was dealing with, just a fact of life. People like Joe can’t tolerate that. That’s why the truly great things never last. Only the mediocre things are able to endure long enough to degrade into the universally hated embodiment of entropy that the physical world allows for.

8. We can all agree Nestle is the worst.

Everything Nestle takes over.

In general, anything that ANY corporation takes over.

7. This one physically hurts.

Health Insurance.

It really is an ugly situation. We should have better care if the price increases.

Who’s making all that money?!

6. Capitalism rears its ugly head.

Any service ever.

Not gonna lie. Modern business is based on a model of cutting costs.

5. Those are some big words but I agree.

Almost everything.

Planned obsolescence and expediency has taken the place of quality and craftsmanship.

4. This makes me sad.

Disney Theme Parks. (Speaking pre Covid world)

They were better when you could do an entire park in a day, cost much less, like $40 vs whatever the insane price is now, and they limited who could get in.

Universal is the same way, specifically Halloween Horror nights. It was $15 the first time I went, they capped how many tickets they sold and you had time to do every house plus a couple of rides. It was my favorite and we would go every year.

Now? It’s like $70 for a ticket, you have to buy fast pass for another $30 or $40 just so you have a chance to do every house because the lines can literally be hours long because they don’t cap ticket sales and they recycle the same houses but pretend it’s a new theme. It’s so miserable we stopped going.

3. And it’s chock-full of preservatives and other stuff.

Food.

Unless you make it yourself.

Even then ingredient quality is lacking unless you’re dropping way too much money.

2. Ben & Jerry’s is the only ice cream.

Ice cream containers that were originally one-half gallon have been “shrinking.”

They went from 64 oz. to 56 oz and now 48 oz. – but the price hasn’t “shrunk” (it’s been increasing steadily) and the quality often isn’t as good as it used to be when containers were a true half-gallon.

1. Lots of people feel this way.

Reese’s peanut butter cups.

Their “Big Cup” is basically the size of their original cup for double the price.

Also it tastes different. I remember as a kid the original peanut butter cups came in those 4 packs and you could individually peel away the chocolate from the peanut butter. Like, part of the game for me was to try to peel back the chocolate so all I had was an intact peanut butter disc.

Can’t do that anymore. The chocolate is super thin and has no “snap” to it. It’s just mush.

I definitely have to agree with most of these.

What would you add to the list? Share with us in the comments!

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Parents Admit Whether They’ve Ever Regretted Their Child’s Name

What we name our kids is very personal, and most people will defend those choices like they’re making a last stand.

Even, let’s be honest, when they should be embarrassed and have many, many regrets.

These 15 parents are ready to get honest on whether or not they wish they’d named their little bundle something completely different.

15. This is why I made a popularity rule.

There used to be 7 kids named ‘Ayden’ in my grade but all were spelled differently, or had different last names, until an 8th Ayden showed up with the same last name and spelling as another kid in the same grade.

We called him ‘new kid’ for the rest of the year.

14. So many baby girls whose name was once beautiful.

Isis. Back when it was just an Egyptian Goddess (7 years ago).

We don’t yell her name out in public anymore.

13. Yeah, that’s a no from me.

I’m named after a song. It was also in the top 5 names for the decade in which I was born. Pretty sure they started to regret it the first time there were more than 5 kids sharing my name in my class.

12. That’s such a pretty name, though.

My friend’s name is Sepfora, and she was named that before the popular make up company Sephora got big.

It’s the greek version of the biblical name Zipporah (Moses’s wife).

11. Someone is a drama queen.

Before I was born, my dad wanted to name me Harley after his favorite bike, but my mom insisted that I needed a Bible name. At age 4 I chose a nickname for myself because I couldn’t pronounce this Bible name, but then as a teen I questioned my younger self’s choice and explored new nicknames, including Harley.

When I brought this idea to my dad thinking he’d be pleased, he got red in the face and said “I had to sell that bike to put you in school! It’s nothing to me now, just a random chunk of metal. You want to be named after a random chunk of metal? Fine! I’ll call you Crankshaft how about that!” And he did, for like 2 years. I don’t know where the regret is in that story, but it’s somewhere.

10. This is a very weird story.

My wife and I don’t like all the family politics of naming the children. Someone’s going to get bent out of shape because one family member got used and not another. So, we racked our brains to agree on a name not used on either side of the family.

Didn’t announce the name until the birth. Neither my mother or father said anything for a year. Then, one day they casually mentioned the name of my uncle’s first son that I wasn’t even aware of. He had died at only 6 weeks old, 15 years before I was born.

I don’t know that I regret the name of my son. But, it would have been crossed off the list of contenders had I known.

9. Kids are merciless. Remember that.

There was a girl in my elementary school named Nida Butt.

I suppose it’s hard to come up with a good name ending in Butt but “need-a” would not have been my top pick.

8. Depending on the kid, this could have been epic.

I was almost named Luke Sky.

One guess as what my last name is.

I honestly probably wouldn’t have minded much, I already took on a lot of flak in school anyway

7. A sad tale, this one is.

My dad regrets my name. He wishes he had named me after his father. When my parents had me both his younger brothers were engaged, so he figured they’ll probably have sons and name him after their dad.

Well one had two sons and the other had one. None of them need after my grandfather. My dad regrets picking the name he preferred and has said, “If I could go back in time, I would name you Thomas.”

6. Well that’s awkward.

Well I don’t think they regret it or care but my name is Latina and I’m black.

I always get asked about it and have to explain that it was completely arbitrary and I speak no spanish.

5. They probably don’t regret it. Because they should.

Not me but my SO teaches two sisters named Princess with their middle name as the differentiator.

If they haven’t regretted it they will when both ‘Princesses’ grow up………..I hope (gulp).

4. Oh, man, no you’ve gotta change that.

I knew an analyze once, and when she was 8, they realized that the unique spelling of her name was a popular personal lubricant.

3. Something to think about with the “he can just go by his middle name” decision.

As far as I know, my parents don’t regret my name, but it’s an odd situation… I was their first born, and my dad wanted me to be named Jerry, after himself. But we have 7 other Jerrys in my family… So they named me Jerry, but they decided, from birth, that I would go by Caleb (my middle name).

I don’t mind, because I don’t like the name Jerry. But it makes things confusing at work, cause I don’t like to explain to everyone that I prefer to go by my middle name… So I usually just go by my first name at work.

2. Like a name out of  ‘Twilight’

My name is Jessica, which is the name my dad wanted. Mom wanted to name me Clarissa. I was born early and they hadn’t settled on a name, a nurse suggested combining them… they seriously considered naming me Clarissica.

They had even decided my nickname would be Rissy. I am so glad Mom decided Jessica was fine, I never would have forgiven them.

1. Why would he want to memorialize that?

If I had been a boy, dad planned to name me Luke…in honor of his mother getting diagnosed with leukemia that year.

So thankful I am female. Of course, they still let my sister name me, who was 3 at the time.

I love both of my kids’s names, so fingers crossed nothing happens in the world or pop culture to change that anytime soon.

Do you regret your kid’s name? Tell us why or why not in the comments!

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13 Parents Admit They Have Regrets About Their Child’s Name

Most people take the responsibility that is choosing another human being’s name seriously. We opt to honor family, favorite literary characters, names that we’ve loved since our youths, or any number of meaningful options.

Some people seem to just toss something down on a birth certificate without much thought to things like initials, potential nicknames, or the fact that no one should be named that, ever – but at least these 13 parents have enough sense to regret their choices.

13. No one could have seen that one coming.

I named my daughter Karen.

Thanks, Internet.

12. Why are men, y’all?

Luckily my mother stopped quite a few bad names proposed by my father, but the worst one had to be when she proposed Levi, but he insisted that Garrett be my middle name if that was the case.

For those uninformed in the tobacco industry, Levi Garretts is a chewing tobacco brand. My father was well aware of this.

11. Maybe they were delirious.

I know triplets named Wild, Winter, and Wolf.

Feel bad for all of them except for maybe Winter cause that’s a OK name.

10. Whyyyyyyy though? Call CPS!

My mom went to school with a girl named Pennis, but everyone called her Penny.

9. Oooh, man, someone was in the doghouse.

My mom regrets my name. They thought I was going to be a boy, and had a boy’s name picked out. I arrived, very much not a boy, after 12 hours of labor and no epidural (sorry, Mom). She told my dad to just pick a name, so he named me after his sister. My mom and my aunt don’t like each other. At all.

Dad did not get naming privileges for my siblings, and Mom made sure to pick one name for each gender well before they arrived.

8. This is a stinking Greek tragedy.

i hope no one who knows me happens to be scrolling this sub… my mother absolutely REFUSES to call me by my name, and has my (22f) entire life. she named my older brother, so she let my dad name me, despite her so badly wanting to name me “laramie” (gag). my dad named me alexandria. I don’t like it, and i hate being called alex which literally everyone does no matter how much i insist on alexandria. But it’s better than what my mom wanted to name me, and calls me.

my mother hates my name so much, and is so pissed she didn’t get to name me, that she refuses to call me by my name. so instead, she came up with a nickname for me that she’s called me since i was an infant: buddha. not my real name, not a shortened version of my name, not my middle name, not my initials, not a bearable nickname, not even the name she wanted for me, but fucking buddha!? BECAUSE THATS SO MUCH BETTER THAN ALEXANDRIA!? to add insult to injury, i was a very overweight child with a large protruding stomach. her yelling “BUDDHA!!” in the grocery store was always a mortifying experience.

she got “buddha” from calling me “beautiful baby” in a baby talk voice. so she would say it like “boo da ful baby” and it got shortened to “boo da” very fast. but of course when you see a mom calling her fat ass kid “buddha” the last thing you think is “oh, well thats CLEARLY short for beautiful!” no amount of begging or pleading (even as an adult) has made my mother stop calling me “buddha”, she will not use my actual name. its kind of ridiculous and annoying and upsetting, but i realize theres no winning. i am forever “buddha” smh.

i think i have name dysphoria.

7. Well that’s a big ol’ yikes.

my mom always told me the story of my eldest sibling (died at about a month old) who was named after our dad and his dad. my mom’s mother chooses all the middle names in our family, so the middle name was non-negotiable.

unfortunately for my brother, our last name starts with a K, and the men are all named Kevin, and our grandmother really liked K names. RIP K.K.K. the third

6. You never think about the details, hmm?

I’m the son. My father regrets the name he gave me, because it’s nearly identical to his name. Only difference is the middle name / initial- which rarely shows up on paperwork. So almost any time that either of us goes to do any paperwork or sign up for something, we run into issues involving our nearly identical names.

For example: We both face roughly a 20 minute delay when trying to vote because they mix up which of us is which. I receive his best buy receipts. He gets packages and mail meant for me and I for him. His credit card routinely pops up on my credit report, my student loan routinely pops up on his.

5. Too bad because it was really cute!

Before my son was born, my husband and I were having a lot of problems picking boys names. Everyone in my husband’s family has two middle names so that made it a lot harder.

After a few days, we landed on a name we loved. Harrison Atlas Henry Ames.

After a few hours of blissful happiness, I stopped dead in my tracks, telling my husband we can’t name our son that.

His initials would’ve been HAHA.

4. It was an awesome show and also I like that name!

Hi, the child here.

My birth mom named me Sabrina, after her favorite tv show, Sabrina the teenage witch.

You can bet that when a certain someone from my middle school that for some reason absolutely hates me found out, he started calling me “Sabrina the teenage bit*h.” I don’t go by Sabrina at all, by the way.

3. Please excuse my secondhand rage.

I don’t mind my sons name but I regret that I didn’t stand my ground and insist that his middle name be my great grandpa’s name. I really wanted to honor my opa who was a big part of my life and my ex insisted it was “too German” and insisted he have a “good Irish name” and “allowed” my alternative.

My ex is like a quarter Irish through his grandma that he never met, meanwhile my German dad literally didn’t speak English til he was 7 and my mom is German and I grew up in a household where German was spoken too but go off i guess.

2. Whew, dodged a bullet there!

Lol I’m not a parent, but my dad was going to make me Arizona Corona. I’m very thankful he didn’t name me that considering the times..

1. It’s a minor inconvenience, but…

Didn’t anticipate spelling her name every single time you need an appointment, prescription. It’s a strange but known spelling of a common name. Used it television, fashion, and an author with it.

Like Cierra for Sierra kind of difference.

I was also unaware of how people butcher my now husbands last name (German but short). We weren’t married at the time. So this kid has to spell out her first And last names every single time usually twice.

She just starts spelling now vs saying then spelling bc people still get it wrong.

Some of these are appalling, but others are just bad luck, right?

Do you love your kid’s name? Have regrets? Tell us about it in the comments!

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People Share Their Travel Horror Stories

There’s a huge world out there full of adventure…and uncertainty.

I love traveling in the U.S. and in other countries but you have to know how to be aware of your surroundings, or else you might end up in a very compromising position…

Then again, sometimes things are just totally out of your control and you fall into some bad luck for no reason at all.

Traveling can be a crapshoot, ya know?

AskReddit users weighed in with their stories of travel gone wrong.

1. City of lights.

“Went to Paris with my buddy for the night in September. Trouble at the hostel around midnight. No place to sleep. Bar/club hopped until about 4.

Froze my ball$ off while I slept at a bus stop until we got chased out by a couple of cops. Spent the rest of the night in front of an ATM on top of a heat vent. Took the first train back in the morning. Cr*ppy night, great memory.”

2. Into the slammer.

“Thrown in jail for a night on an island in Thailand (Lanta) because I was working illegally (bartending at my hostel without a workers permit) and they were asking 30,000 baht (1,000 USD) in order to let me go.

I said nah because I wasn’t about to pay that, especially knowing they would take less. They were just being greedy knowing I was a young American kid and trying to take advantage of me.

I got out of it by staying in jail for much longer than needed in order to drive the price down (total of about 16 hours). Eventually paid 6,000 baht (200 USD), and even got a ride back to my hostel from the police. Overall, very civil extortion and bribery to be completely honest.

Got roughed up a bit in the beginning but never really hurt or anything.”

3. Not friends anymore.

“I decided to travel with a friend of mine for Spring Break. I flew to Venice a day before him. Next afternoon I randomly ran into him on the street, when he told me he had lost his wallet in London and had decided to fly to Venice anyway. He had no phone or way to contact me so it was an act of God he found me and didn’t get stuck without money in Venice.

Later on in our trip we got separated on our way to a train station in Rome. He freaked out and instead of looking for me, smuggled himself onto a train and hid in the bathroom. We found each other again on the plane out of Rome and we were both furious at each other.

The guy is a cartoon character and made that trip fiftyfold more stressful than it had to be haha. But at least he’s lucky. We also had no money the whole trip because I had to pay for everything so we were constantly hungry. He spent the last night at Heathrow because I only had money left for a single train ticket back to London.

Our friendship didn’t quite survive that ordeal.”

4. USA.

“I took a road trip solo across the US. It turned out that my 17-year-old car was not up to the task, and it died on the side of the road ~5 hrs from home.

I had to hike down the highway until I found a farm where I could get the number for a tow truck, and then I got towed to the nearest town, a couple miles away. I was in contact with my family the whole time (this was when I still lived with my parents), and eventually my grandparents decided that they would drive down in two vehicles and give me their spare car.

After I got that car, I managed to get through the rest of the trip without any major problems (aside from one flat tire that i was able to get replaced easily), up until the third last day of my trip. I still had about 1000 km (600 miles) to go, and I rear-ended another car, totaling my grandparent’s vehicle.

Again, I was extremely lucky. I was only about 2 hours from my brother’s place, so he drove out to get me and all my stuff, and then I spent the night with him and took a greyhound home.”

5. Oh, boy…

“My husband I have such a history of bad travel luck that it’s a running joke.

Our first big trip together was to Taiwan, during typhoon season. We got trapped overnight in Taroko Gorge due to a landslide and had to replan several activities due to weather closures.

Six months later, he crashed a motorbike in the Philippines, breaking his collarbone. It’s taken two surgeries, but he’s perfectly fine now. Unfortunately, it happened on the 3rd day of our trip to a place that required a boat to get to any nice beaches, and he wasn’t able to get in and out of the boats. So we ate and drank a lot at local restaurants.

This February, we found out I was pregnant 6 days before a long awaited trip to Thailand and Malaysia. We’d been planning it for 18 months. The first few days were great, but after a long day in the sun, I got very sick.

Long story short, due to low blood pressure, I fainted through a glass door, shattering it and landing in the glass. I sliced through the tendon in my hand and was unable to use it for the next six weeks. Then the morning sickness started. I spent a lot of time in hotels while my husband did all the fun things we planned (I insisted).

We’re a little hesitant to plan any future travels.”

6. That’s bad.

“I was barely three weeks into a planned 9-month RTW trip. Started off in Peru, hiked the Inca Trail and came down through Bolivia into Chile. Spent 24 hrs on a bus from Calama to Santiago. When I got off the bus my legs buckled under me. At first I thought it was just muscle fatigue/cramps from sitting cramped so long on the bus.

Went to the hostel but later that day I fell down on the floor and couldn’t get back up again. I didn’t have any strength and had to crawl back to my room. Luckily there was someone in the dorm and they called an ambulance.

Got to the hospital and was having trouble describing what was happening to me… luckily there was a doctor there that spoke some English and said I most likely had Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Spent the next 10 days in the hospital in Santiago as my strength kept getting worse and worse.. I couldn’t open a bottle of water or even squeeze toothpaste. No pain though so it felt really weird.

They put me on immunoglobulin therapy. I was supposed to travel with a girl through southern Chile.. hadn’t met her before other than talking on the phone. Luckily she had given me the name of a local contact and I was able to get in touch with her and she came and visited me in the hospital. Ran up a $300 bill on the phone using the Internet (this was in 1998).

At the end of the 10 days though my strength was finally starting to return but still very weak. Needless to say, being paralyzed meant an end to the trip. Had to go back to the US where I spent two months in physical therapy. I still couldn’t run or jump.

After two months I decided to try to resume my trip, at least partially… doing 3 months instead of the original 9. I went back to Chile and Easter Island, then continued on to South Africa and spent a month on an overland safari truck going up to Nairobi.

I think being outside and active helped me get better much faster than moping at home. Even when I got back from the trip I wasn’t 100%… took another 6 months or so. Now I’m fully recovered and haven’t had any relapse.”

7. As we speak…

“Currently in one.

Bought a Chinese knockoff Honda Win 110 in Hà Nội. Drove to Ninh Binh. Drove further to Dong Hoi… But the engine busted two days ago. Got a new engine for about 80 Euros or 2 million Dong.

Started yesterday at 4 in the afternoon to make it to Đồng Hới. Drove 40 kilometers. Engine died every 10 kilometers. Dies uphill. Neutral and 1st gear are almost impossible to get in. Drove back to mechanic who gave me the new engine.

His store was closed at 8PM when I arrived there. Went to the hotel across the street where I slept the day before.

Then he showed up. He was a little bit embarrassed that he did not fix it correctly. Hotel staff gave us a room (gf and me) and huge plate of food for 8 Euros.

Now I am sitting and waiting for the motorcycle… in a small deserted town between Nịnh Bình and Đồng Hới.”

8. Ouch!

“Got so badly sunburnt in Thailand every time I smiled my face bled.”

9. Not a good time.

“I stayed in a really sketchy hotel in Cairo, with mice running along the skirting and bare wires protruding from the wall just above my pillow.

After a couple of days I wanted to find out whether the wires were live, so I touched them together and shorted out three buildings.”

10. Scary.

“Parents got mugged in Colombia.

My brother and I were about 50yds ahead of them and heard my mom scream in panic. Sprinted back, just in time, to see her swing her purse around and connect.

Guy went down hard thanks to the $1200 Nikon in her purse.”

11. Bad luck.

“In Ecuador my wife’s bag was stolen, she lost all three of her passports.

In Botswana, I was hitching a ride in the back of a truck which ran off the road. In Morocco my train derailed. In Israel, my friend fell down a mountain and was taken to hospital by helicopter.

But in every case, everything turned out fine. Traveling is awesome!”

12. OH MY GOD.

“My family took a trip to Sudan (To visit my Dads family). My brother came back with a sever rash all over his back.

The rash persisted for a few weeks, and the doctors had no idea what it was. Then, we were at the park one day and he started complaining about the rash to our mom, saying it starting to hurt more.

She ignored it, thinking he must have rubbed it on something by accident, when he feel to the floor screaming with pain, and literally hundred and hundreds of flies came flying out of a single hole at the base of his neck. He was 8.

Apparently some sort of African fly had laid eggs (or more likely cocoons or something) in his back when we slept. They hatched when we were back in England.

Scary.”

13. The friendly skies.

“Flew with China Eastern Air to visit family in Hong Kong.

The businessman seated in the aisle was a rude as$hole that constantly made displeased faces at me. He wouldn’t even f*cking stand up when I needed to get past him to my window seat (f*cking bizarre). He clearly knew I needed to get past him, but made me climb over him, glowering at me as I passed.

The seats were concrete, the air was stale, and the food was stand-up-comedian level inedible: dry rice and sh*tty, bland fish. There was no in-flight entertainment and they announced that no electronic devices were allowed at any time.

I only brought my phone with me to keep my occupied, so I was SOL. So all I could do for hours was just try to force myself to sleep as to not be conscious of how awful this all was.

On my return flight back to Japan, the airline decided that they couldn’t let me fly without having a ticket booked to leave Japan. I explained that I have flown into Japan almost a dozen times without a departure ticket and it has never been an issue.

They did not care and insisted that it was illegal (it’s not) and they would deny me entry (they wouldn’t). By the time I jumped through enough of their idiotic hoops to get on board, they decided that 1 hour was not enough to make my connecting flight in Shanghai, so they would have to book me on another flight tomorrow and charge me a few hundred more dollars for that.

I flipped them off, went down the hall to Cathay Pacific. I gave them money, they gave me comfortable seats, pleasant crew, good food, in-flight entertainment, and no f*cking bullsh*t.”

14. The Dirty South.

“Atlanta.

Downtown was really nice. Olympic Park, World of Coke, a very good Aquarium, and blah, blah, etc.

Outside the perimeter was like running the gauntlet in the post-apocalypse. I had a guy come up to me, pull up his shirt showing a revolver in his pants, and say, “Hey, white bread, you got fi’ dollas fo’ a hit?”.

I still tell myself giving him $20 while my daughter went pee in the worst gas station bathroom her or my wife have ever seen wasn’t a “mugging”.

I’m certain if our car happened to break down there we would have all 3 died terribly.”

15. Indonesia.

“Traveling in Indonesia, we had just landed in Jakarta and after one night we were headed to an ‘idyllic’ surf spot (near Cijulang) that was meant to be a quiet paradise according to the lonely planet guide.

We had done extensive planning for the trip, although we seemed to have missed that we arrived just as the biggest Muslim festival of the year (ede) was finishing that included some of the only public holidays in the year.

The bus travel from Jakarta to the South Coast took an extra 6 hours, nearly doubling the time due to the traffic on the road.

We arrived and couldn’t find a hotel, being followed by the local mafia that make hotels charge more when they direct you there. Managed to find a suitable place in the end.

Unperturbed the next day my friend and I (the third friend was throwing up all day due to bad food in Malaysia a few days earlier) tried and reach this ‘idyllic’ spot. We find out the only way to get there is along this windy track and the best way is on the back of a moped.

So my friend and I (who are both over 6 foot) get this local to drive us there on the back of his moped. This seems like a bad idea already, until we arrived at a bamboo bridge which when driven across with 3 people ends up with a moped falling over. Luckily we didn’t fall in so kept going to this beach.

We arrived to the lovely spot only to find about 15,000 locals that had the same idea

We were the only white people there, also the only people over 5’10. People stared at us, asked to take pictures with us and were generally just confused when they looked at us.

All in all it didn’t go great but IMO that’s what makes the difference between an adventure and a holiday”

Have you ever had any bad experiences while traveling?

If so, please tell us about them in the comments.

We’d love to hear from you!

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People Share the Scary Things That Have Woken Them up at Night

I’ve never been woken up in the middle of the night by someone in my house or a person peeping through the window or anything like that.

But it seems like a lot of people have had genuinely hair-raising experiences while being snapped out of their slumber.

It’s a big, scary world out there…and you never know what’s lurking in the darkness…

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say about scary things that have woken them up out of bed.

1. Time to panic.

“The night I watched the movie The Conjuring, I woke up to my bed shaking and all the clothes hanging in my closet rattling like crazy. Took me quite some time to realize it was an earthquake and not the devil come visiting.

When I was in my final year at high school, I had trouble sleeping at night with my final exams approaching. I think I dozed off for a bit and suddenly woke up to see a person’s face staring in through my window grill.

I was in such a panic I literally couldn’t move or scream. Luckily he saw me wake up and escaped.”

2. Eerie music.

“Once i woke up because i heard music playing from the kitchen and i thought maybe mum forgot to turn the radio off.

I went through the dark hallway to the kitchen to turn the radio off but when i was standing in the dark kitchen there was no music playing everything was as quiet as always at 3am.”

3. The neighbor.

“The worst was when the neighbor boy, 9 y/o, came banging on our door and ringing the doorbell at 1am.

His mom and stepdad were fighting, stepdad hit mom and had her on the ground with his hands around her neck trying to choke her. We’ve never had to call 9-1-1 before that night.

This poor little boy had his 2 y/o sister in his arms with a completely dazed look on his face. While my mom was on the phone with 9-1-1, I sat the boy down and made sure to tell him that he was incredibly brave and no matter what anyone tells him, he did the right thing by coming here.

Even sadder is they had just moved here from across the country that week and he knew no one.”

4. Sounds like a movie.

“When I was 18 I’d broken my leg, so I was sleepingon the sofa downstairs.

Woke up to a guy climbing in the window directly over my head. I’d obviously left the window open a crack and he’d seen an opportunity.

As scared as I was, I’m fairly sure I scared him too as he screamed and ran away after I hit him with my crutch.”

5. Clowns are terrifying.

“My sister had an all white clown doll that hung from the ceiling on a little swing. In the summertime, we slept with our doors and windows open to get the cool air in.

When I woke up one night hearing some tapping against her window down the hall. If i sat up in bed and look down the hall, and I could see into the front of her bedroom.

So I did, and I see this f*cking clown swinging back and forth against her window, back lit by the street lamp, but clearly staring directly into my soul like it was all it desired in this world.

I didn’t sleep well that summer.”

6. Who’s there?

“I heard someone quietly trying my front doorknob late at night (I wasn’t quite asleep yet).

I checked with my roommate later, and it wasn’t them. It happened once or twice more, but I never got to the door quickly enough to see who it was through the peephole.

Nothing ever came of it, and I live somewhere else now.”

7. Camping.

“Camping is so terrifying.

I went once and woke up to the sound of something EATING inside my tent. I couldn’t even move and just laid there in fear listening to a creature eating in complete darkness 5 ft away from me.

Turns out it was just a hedgehog eating our hot dogs.”

8. Whoa. That’s scary.

“My dog barking because “cops” were banging on the doors and windows of our airbnb, flashing their lights into each and every room.

Called 911 and she told us to not answer the door because she doesn’t see cops in our area.”

9. Hahaha, oh my…

“My dog decided to hop onto our piano and started walking along the keys in the middle of the night.”

10. This might take the cake.

“I had an industrial size rat dying from rat poison come thru a panel in my closet and up into bed with me at 2 am.”

11. NO WAY.

“I had a large camel spider run over my face at about 3 am.

That was not a pleasant sensation.”

12. Sleepwalking.

“I woke up with chunks of teeth in my mouth and severe abdominal pain (probably swallowed some tooth).

Then, I looked across the room and there was a pool of blood on the opposite side of the room. After quickly spitting out the rest of the teeth bits, I went to the bathroom and was shocked to see my ENTIRE face was bleeding, but from a deep cut in my chin and not from my missing tooth.

I realized that I had sleepwalked, then decided to fall asleep while standing on the other side of the room and did a belly flop straight on the floor, and then somehow after all of that, got up again and WALKED BACK INTO BED and fell asleep for a few more hours.

I had to get a new tooth from a student doctor that I’ve never gotten fixed. I also ended supergluing my busted chin together because I couldn’t afford stitches.”

13. Scary.

“On a camping trip with friends in a state park. In the middle of the night our tent is woken up by the sound of gun shots. It is illegal to go hunting in state parks, so we weren’t sure if the shooter was hunting animals or just shooting a gun randomly into the woods.

Gun shots grew louder over the next hour, so it seemed like the shooter was getting closer to our campsite. A state trooper helicopter started flying overhead with a spotlight trying to find the shooter.

We eventually heard a bunch of cop cars up the hill from our campsite, and heard the state troopers get out and order the shooters to drop their weapons, and they brought the shooters into custody.

The next morning we asked the people who ran our campsite what happened. The people who lived in the house up the hill had apparently done a lot of meth, then decided to use cars driving down the main road as target practice.

There were rvs and trees in our campsite that had bullet holes in them. Luckily none of the bullets hit any campers, or caused any of the cars to go off the road, which would have sent them hurtling down a mountain side.”

14. Dogs are our best friends.

“The sound of my front door handle jiggling and the door being opened.

My dog launched off the bed and slammed into the door while snarling. He’s never acted like that. I called him back to me because I knew it was my roommate coming home.

Roommate came out of his room and asked what was going on. Apparently he’d forgotten to lock the front door.”

15. Glad he’s okay.

“A few years ago at 6am some random night, my mom burst into me and my brothers room and says “your dad has just had a heart attack, keep the dogs in here” before she proceeded to try and direct the ambulance to our house by giving directions over the phone and turning on all the lights.

The hospital is a 45 minute drive from us so getting back to sleep wasnt gonna happen.

He survived and is pretty much completely back to normal now.”

Now we want to hear your creepy stories.

In the comments, tell us about a time when you were genuinely scared.

We’d love to hear from you!

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