Items That Cost A Pretty Penny Despite Being Cheaply Made

All of us know that the vast majority of companies in this world worship nothing more than the almighty dollar. Sure, they give back to the community when its in their best interest, and they give us “deals” from time-to-time, but the prices on their items have far more to do with what people will pay than what they’re actually worth.

If you need some examples (and things to avoid in the future), here are 16 items that are far, far cheaper to make than what the price tag might suggest.

16. The cheap stuff works just as well.

Alcohol.

Costs manufacturers pennies to make, and the government makes the biggest cut.

15. You’re paying for the label.

Most luxury brands with huge obvious logos on them.

14. And they’re probably made by children.

Those $350 Nikes cost maximum 20 bucks to make, shipping included.

Oh, and the 15 hundred dollar ones also cost about 20 bucks to make.

13. All prescription eyedrops are ridiculous.

Glaucoma eyedrops – about $379 for a tiny bottle of the prescription treatment.

you could fly to a country like India and get a bunch of bottles (same if not better quality) and fly back and it would save you money (would have to be like a dozen or more but you get the point)

12. The placebo effect.

Homeopathic pills.

There is nothing in it, no money used for clinical trials. Sold for around 7- 10 euros per box.

11. This should be illegal.

Insulin.

It’s criminal how much they charge compared to the manufacturing costs.

10. A tourist trap.

Crêpes.

We make them often at home here in France. 250g of flour, two eggs some milk, maybe butter, you get 25 crepes for what, 4 euros of groceries. Some street foods in Paris or other big cities will sell them 4 or 5 euros sometimes. And they buy the ingredients in big bulks at cheaper prices so they make an even bigger margin.

They make 100 euros of crêpes for 3 euros of batter and add the toppings, let’s say 7 euros for a pot of nutella, sugar and lemon or whatever. 100 euros for 10 euros. Stonks.

It’s well known by people who work in restaurants in France that crêpes are highly profitable.

9. It’s funny because it’s true.

Babies.

Both adopting and buying a baby on the black market takes serious money.

The biggest cost associated with a baby is the ongoing maintenance costs.

8. Just spring for the Bose.

Beats headphones cost $17.00 to make, and are sold for $100 – $500

That’s insane

If you want a better suggestion , my skullcandy hesh 3’s sound 3x better than my old beats, at only $100. I have a fairly large head, and having the headphones be able to stretch to fit is very important, and these work perfectly for that.

7. This is pretty interesting.

Volkswagen ignition cylinders.

When I worked at Vw, we had to constantly order ignition switches because either they are cheaply designed or cheaply made. So when we would place the order from Volkswagen North America, it gets shipped directly from the manufacturer (either Huf or Valeo). And they would include the invoice in the box.

Well, Vw would charge the dealerships $99.95 and set MSRP at 129.95. The invoice from the manufacturer to Vw, showed cost to Vw being $14.95

6. What if it’s pink, though.

Himalayan Salt – in Pakistan, we get that shit in like 0.20 cents but I’ve heard it being expensive in UK & US.

5. Robbery. I knew it.

Most fast fashion.

A pair of jeans that costs $4 to produce but costs $40 for you to buy is a 1000% markup.

4. Someone is always looking to make a buck.

Face masks.

I would imagine it doesn’t take much to make 15 of them, and with the virus, they have jacked the price up.

3. A total con job.

Diamonds.

Natural diamonds are made for free in nature and harvested using slave labor. Lab created diamonds still cost 45% less.

2. We just want to have smooth skin!

Razor blades.

They are produced at like 15 cents but are sold for 3$ per blade.

1. It’s so yummy, but still.

Popcorn at movie theaters is I think the most expensive commodity.

Some of these actually surprised me, but not most.

What else belongs on this list? Put it down in the comments!

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Scams That Are So Normalized People Don’t Even Recognize Them For What They Are

Pretty much anything starts to seem normal if you see it, hear it, or do it often and for long enough.

Like staying at home and going nowhere and cleaning your groceries, for example.

Sometimes people stop and take stock of life, though, and realize things that everyone is doing are actually a scam – which is the case in these 15 instances.

15. Just say no.

Payday loans.

I used to work as a debt collector for a payday loan company in the UK… I was not a very good debt collector… people used to find out about the various loopholes that stopped interest being added really easily…

I worked there just before christmas… it is the job that made me go back into education… because.. my soul

14. Make print stores the new normal.

Ink cartridges. printer company’s make barely any profit off of actual printers, they’re just vessels to make you buy unreasonably priced cartridges

“Hey please print this document in black and white” “F*ck you give magenta”

13. Smart phones are the future.

Back to base security system monitoring

Huge scam.

My smart home security system alerts me faster than ADT ever did (biggest offenders) When you don’t answer the call, they will send out someone and will charge you a fee

And every-time your system messes up, it will send false error codes to the monitoring station, which they will charge you a huge fee to fix

And oh if you want to disconnect it, they guy i spoke to from ADT was going to charge me $250 call out + $50 for every 15 minutes he was at my house, and the job would of taken at least an hour he they said, they may need to go into the roof

no i just called a security installation Electrictian and he said $50 call out and $30 for every 30 minutes he was there but that was depending on the type of job

He was at my house for 5 minutes

Power off Remove power wires from control box* Protect the wires so its safe Replace cover on control box Done

He only charged $50. Compared to ADTs service which would of cost about $450

(ADT Hardwired it into our power system… without telling us what circuit they plugged into, basically one flip of a switch outside and the system turns off)

12. Artificially inflated.

The diamond industry, specifically as it relates to jewelry.

Everything that the average person “knows” about it stems from propaganda and advertisements created by DeBeers.

They aren’t rare, they aren’t worth what you pay for them, they don’t appreciate in value and are a terrible investment. They aren’t special.

11. There’s no magic pill.

EVERY SINGLE PERSON on the Internet that sells some sort of „millionaire education“ it’s all bullsh%t.

Every single one of them. They are all liars, most of them are not even rich to begin with! They fake it enough that some idiots buy it. You are customers to them. Nothing more.

10. Nothing is truly unlimited.

Internet Data Cap. F*cking scammers.

We’re living in our RV, and “unlimited” cellular internet is a fraudulent lie.

They all throttle your speed and de-priorize your data packets for using too much of your “unlimited” data. I hate these f*ckers with the fire of a thousand suns.

9. Why are there no other options?

Ticketmaster.

Basically scammers adding huge marks up but making it impossible to use anyone else.

Not to mention allowing mass purchasing bots to scoop up tickets only to offer a third-party market platform for those same scalpers to resell the tickets at increased prices to the fans actually going to the show — TM takes a cut twice!

8. No way around it.

Those Keymaster games that usually have something like a Switch and a pair of Beats and stuff.

I work part time at an arcade and you physically cannot win a prize until the machine has taken it’s retail equivalent in cash.

7. When you do the math…

Starbucks. I pay $9.99 for 51 oz of Folgers Ground Coffee, roughly 380 8 oz cups. That comes out to about $0.02 per cup of coffee. At Starbucks, a Tall Dark Roast costs $1.85.

I could have 92.5 cups of Folgers at home before I pay for 1 Starbucks.

My tub of Folgers is worth $703.00 if I were to sell it at the same price as Starbucks. AND I’m using reusable cups every day.

6. Just walk away.

I just paid for the privilege of setting up my router.

My cable company recently started trying to charge me for my router. Which I own.

I got a notice saying “we noticed an error in billing and we will be charging you for the equipment rental starting in December”.

The f*ck you will, I have every receipt from every cable or phone transaction I’ve ever done for that exact reason. I paid outright for my router so I wouldn’t be renting their sh%tty equipment at $12/month.

Now they want to charge me for my own property. After receiving that notice I hopped right on to customer service to get it resolved, and they directed me to their “loyalty department” because “they could best handle it over there”.

I cut off the conversation and just cancelled my service. Cable companies are pure scum.

5. Human nature.

What’s worse is when the companies try to do right and we force them back into scamming.

Stores like JC Penney sell $10 shirts for $20 at a %50 discount. They also inflate the price of belts, wallets, and underwear but then lower the price of pants. It all evens out but the customer gets the satisfaction of getting a deal.

Once they tried to get rid of that with a “fair and square” pricing strategy but it almost bankrupted the company and it never fully recovered. People don’t want to buy cheap stuff. They want to buy “expensive” stuff at a discount so they feel like they’re getting a bargain.

4. No idea why these are still a thing.

The school picture industry. $80 for an awkward picture of my baby? Nah, thanks.

3. Not a good deal.

Rent-to-own furniture and appliances.

There was an episode of Hotel Impossible where the owner rented the couch in her lobby on a weekly basis for years. She could have bought multiple couches with the money she spent on that one couch she doesn’t even get to keep.

2. And it’s no better than tap water.

Bottled water, like Dasani.

Especially in places like an amusement park that mark ups the price a shocking amount. Also the average markup of bottled water is 4000%, which is outrageous, bc water is literally free most places

1. Definitely should be widely available.

Scientific journal memberships.

Where academics pay journals to publish their papers which are than peer reviewed by volunteers and the journals themselves are then sold by subscription?

Not to mention that a huge part of scientific research, breakthroughs, and discoveries are often subsidized by the tax payer. So even though I helped indirectly fund their research through the NIH, I can’t read the results without a $200 monthly subscription.

I’m sure some academic ethicist could probably speak to this issue in more detail that I can, but that’s always bothered the fuck out of me.

Wow, I have to say, my mind is kind of blown on some of these.

Is there something you would add to the list? Share in the comments!

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10 of the Worst Roommates Of All Time

Depending on where you like to get your information, apparently the number of American adults living with roommate(s) has gone up by somewhere around 10% in the last 20 years. At this rate, in a mere 140 years, every single person will have at least one roommate.

That would be mostly bad, though it would give us a lot of fodder for subreddits that specialize and thrive off of people complaining about the people they live with.

Like these!

10. Shirt happens

What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is mine.

Friend has a creepy roommate. from cringepics

9. Foiled again

What exactly were they using it for?

So my roommate used my tin foil from mildlyinfuriating

8. Dolla dolla bills

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say your roommate is a stripper.

The way my roommate gives me rent from mildlyinfuriating

7. Meal time!

That looks like it’s been caked on for weeks.

Wanted to make a nice meal. Roommates habits had other plans. from mildlyinfuriating

6. Empty inside

When you literally have way too much chill.

My roommate puts the empty milk containers back into the fridge. from mildlyinfuriating

5. Very driven

I think what you’re looking for is a chauffeur. Or…yanno, just a car.

Need a roomie/miracle.. single ladies only. from ChoosingBeggars

4. The thin line

But think of what she’s doing for the environment.

It was my roommate’s turn to buy toilet paper from mildlyinfuriating

3. Water, water everywhere

He’s building an army of bottles and you’ll rue the day you laughed at them.

The way my roommate can never finish a water from mildlyinfuriating

2. Back in the tube

I feel like I should call the police but I’m not sure what to report once I do.

How my roommate uses toothpaste from mildlyinfuriating

1. Knife to meet you

Do the dishes? Sure, I’ll take a stab at it.

How my roommate places knifes in the drying board…. from mildlyinfuriating

We’ve all had bad roommates, hopefully most of us haven’t experienced any quite this bad. For those who have, godspeed to all of you.

What’s the worst roommate story you’ve got?

Tell us in the comments… if you dare!

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Check Out Some of the Dumbest Roommate Moves Ever

Here’s a true story…

A few days ago I moved into my own place for the first time in my entire life. I don’t wanna say how old I am, but suffice it to mention that I’m…older than the average person is when striking out without a roommate for the first time in their lives.

I’ve shared lots of different places with lots of different people. Some of them are perfectly pleasant, others are awful, most are somewhere in between.

But rarely do any hold a candle to the outrageous crap perpetrated by the people being complained about in these Reddit posts.

10. Off the cup

What kind of awful monster…

My roommate ate all of the peanut butter cups off of the cupcakes that were made from mildlyinfuriating

9. The juice is loose

A fool and his money are soon partied.

My roommate spent her paycheck too fast again, so I offered to get us liquor. It devolved into this from ChoosingBeggars

8. Pot heads

If that ain’t the most inefficient, inconvenient thing I’ve ever seen…

My roommate and I own only two pots. When he cooks with them, he stores any leftovers from his cooking in the fridge in the pots, instead of putting them in containers. from mildlyinfuriating

7. On the tube

On top of that, he rolLED IT THE WRONG WAY.

My roommate has hit new peaks of laziness from mildlyinfuriating

6. Divide and conquer

This is the sort of conversation that might be reasonable in, say, a marriage, but a roommate situation? Nah, man.

Facebook CB wants roommate to pay more rent because she makes more from ChoosingBeggars

5. Self-contained

Just wait ’till he tried to heat those tots up in the microwave.

My roommate doesn’t put his leftovers in containers either. from mildlyinfuriating

4. Hair today, gone tomorrow

Um…why are they so short and curly…

The soap bar is mine, but the hair is not. My roommate better come home bald, or else I’ll have to move from mildlyinfuriating

3. Share the wealth

I’m gonna guess this is in NYC.

Live away roommate from ChoosingBeggars

2. Control freak

Remotes are like $10 brand new, I think you’ll be fine.

My girlfriends roommate refuses to take her TV remote out of the packaging to preserve the "value" of the TV. from mildlyinfuriating

1. Getting panned

Well, now it’s just a war of the wills.

we love shitty roommates from mildlyinfuriating

Love ’em or hate ’em, most of us have to have roommates at some point, because, yanno, the economy was handed to us in ruins. So you might as well learn to laugh about ’em!

What’s the worst roommate story you’ve got?

Tell us in the comments.

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People Discuss the Statement, “I’m Not Responsible for What Your Kids Hear Online, Even if I’m the One Saying It.”

The Internet and social media have completely revolutionized how we do almost everything in our lives.

The way we interact with each other, the way we do business…all of it has been impacted by this technology that was not available to us about three decades ago.

And, as you already know, the atmosphere online can be toxic, offensive, and troublesome, especially to kids.

So is it up to parents to shield their kids from this kind of material? Or do individuals have a responsibility to keep it clean and civil online?

Here’s what AskReddit user had to say about this.

1. Up to the parents.

“It’s the parents’ responsibility to protect their children from the Internet.

I say a lot of f*cked up sh*t while gaming and if you don’t block voice chat on games that your eight year old plays, that is your fault not mine.’

2. Agree to an extent…

“I agree to an extent.

Being on twitch, and most internet places, at 12 and under is usually against TOS. If the parent is already doing the streaming or they are internet savvy and know the ins and outs, then I feel it could be ok to stream as long as the parent and child are doing it together.

With the parent very strictly monitoring all communication first. And teaching the kid what is acceptable/unacceptable on the internet.

But I do also agree adults should not have to worry about censoring themselves in online interactions. As long as they aren’t harassing or engaging in illegal content, adults should not be compelled to cater to children.

Which is why I think it’s absolutely stupid that YouTube has been marking vids as unfriendly for advertisers if they have cuss words.”

3. MY JOB.

“My son wants to stream and do tournaments and stuff with me cuz both me and my partner play. We told him no.

Also he isn’t very good at it yet but he has potential. And the last and probably biggest reason is he’s f*cking annoying and people will tell him.

You’re right it is my job to monitor his sh*t not your job to watch what you say and I have had f*cking kids tell him they’ll murder me not realizing I’m in the party chat playing too.”

4. Keep an eye on them.

“Parents shouldn’t assume the internet is kid friendly and should vet what their kids are allowed to do online, especially online games where other gamers are over 18 and can say whatever they want.

That said, for kid friendly websites or direct message chats to an underage person, the overage person is responsible.”

5. Not kid-friendly.

“I grew up in the 2000s with the internet.

The internet was and never will be kid friendly, up to parents to implement parental controls.”

6. Nasty stuff.

“I always thought this was obvious till my kids were playing among us.

Sure they have the words bleeped out but they can still be exposed to nasty stuff.

I guess I still feel this way but want them to be able to experience fun online games without the smut.”

7. Do the research.

“If it’s a game marketed to kids and not like Fortnite but like specifically for kids then I hold you responsible.

Because in that case the parents did their research and you just played the wrong game.”

8. It can be toxic.

“I simply don’t let my kids play adult oriented games or any games with voice chat because I know some people kids AND adults can be toxic over chat.

It totally sucks for the kids who just want to chat and have fun. Toxic folks kinda ruin it for everyone and themselves.”

9. Cowardly excuse.

“Why do you feel not responsible for what others hear you saying?

Sounds like a cowardly excuse to me.

I mean sure, you are indeed not responsible for other peoples parenting to protect their child from toxic areas on the internet.

But it is still you “saying f*cked up sh*t” degrading everyones else experience. It is your responsibility keeping those places toxic.

I am not a kid. I still love to play online. I love anonymous team play interactions with strangers. But I am grossed out by the general low standards of communication in most games putting me off.”

10. Mute yourself.

“If I hear a kid, I’ll just mute them most probably and mute myself too cuz I f*cking hate children’s voices while gaming.

It just doesn’t go well with me but ik others who could just swear or say profane things while the kids is there.

I don’t give a f*ck, there’s a reason the games are rated a certain rating y’know. + Toxicity should be a well known thing nowadays.”

11. Take responsibility.

“Ultimately, parents need to take more responsibility for what their children see, hear and do.

When I was 13, I had already spent the last couple of years begging my parents to let me play WoW after watching them run around playing vanilla, but they always said not until I was older. When they finally caved, I got the biggest “people on the internet are weird” kind of talk.

A lot of the current generation of kids would have parents that spoke in chat rooms, on msn messenger, had a myspace account and probably stalked something fierce on omegle. So how are there so many parent oblivious to the imminent chaos found on any kind of online game?”

12. Good one!

“Here’s an unpopular opinion for ya…

You could also TRY to be a better person?”

13. Pretty crazy.

“I am in a PC builders group on facebook. The amount of parents that will join and ask:

“What is a good mic and headset for my son? He is 8 years old and plays Fortnite. He is really good so I want to help him start streaming. He wants a separate mic and headset but I’m not sure what that means.”

ITS INSANE.

And every time I try to say something like:

“I don’t mean to tell you how to parent, but I’m 32 and I don’t even want to get into streaming because it can be a pretty toxic environment. And recently there has been a lot of issues with younger kids being groomed by weird older and more popular streamers.

I highly suggest holding off on letting an 8 year old stream. The internet is very vast and you don’t know who they will start talking to and ultimately “entertaining”. They can see your son, tell your son to do things, and you son might do the things if he thinks he will get money or tricked by other means.

I highly highly suggest looking into what is involved in streaming. If it were my son I would not let them stream at 8 years old… if they were 16 I would consider it but it would have to be where I can monitor it… even at like 16.”

And that always gets a negative response about how they know all about streaming and what it is… yeah then why couldn’t you ask a streamer what mic to buy your son?

Clowns raising clowns.”

What do you think about this issue?

Please share your thoughts with us in the comments.

Thanks in advance!

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People Share What They’d Like to Delete From Their Brains

Our brains are such complicated things that there’s been a tendency throughout history to compare them to just whatever the most complex or cutting edge technology was at the time.

We used to talk about our brains in terms of steam engines, now we talk about them like computers. For instance:

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

Assuming the computer comparison holds true, what WOULD you delete, if you had the choice? Let’s see what the folks on Reddit had to say.

1.  Maybe get back that excitement?

Write down a list of my favorite video games/movies/albums and delete all memory of them so I can experience them for the first time again.

Absolutely wouldn’t free up space in the long run but exactly what I would do with the opportunity.

Realistically I’d probably delete memories of grade school since it was terrible

– Servinah

2. I don’t wanna talk about it…

All of my most embarrassing moments

– cacao_2_cacao

3. This is lodged in our minds forever.

Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, bananaphone!

– c0y0t3_sly

4. Do they live in Texas?

All about my exes

– chichinfu

5. Up up down down.

Cheat codes from the 90’s.

just kidding, those f*ckers are there forever whether I like it or not.

– rawker86

6. It’s just a rehearsal.

Saved scripts to win replays of arguments from twenty years ago

– VastDerp

7. Poor puppers!

The nintendo 3DS dogs I left in my device

– Infinite_Tissue_For

8. There’s a story here.

Poop in pant. Yes, poop in pant

– CherasPoyo

9. Talk about disappointment.

Game of thrones lore… Actually no scratch that just season 8 of the show as a whole.

– Azarken

10. Why do I even know this?

All knowledge that Kim Kardashian and everything associated with her even exists.

– fingers621

11. Stuck in the middle.

Can I delete my whole middle school experience? I wasn’t paying attention anyways.

– AnEpicHibiscus

12. Once you get into it…

All the kinky stuff that I wished I never found.

– TemplarSensei7

13. An ad campaign for our nightmares.

The godd*mn Quiznos rats

– DickaliciousRex

14. The one fact we remember from biology class.

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

– tne_fan

15. And of course…

System32

– dothisnowww

Personally, I don’t really have this problem. My long-term memory is crap and it always has been.

Or at least I think it always has been. How would I know?

What would YOU delete given the chance?

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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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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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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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