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These 10 Cost-Saving Home Hacks Really Work

The internet is full of hacks for your home that claim to save you all kinds of time and money, but how many of them actually work? Who knows? But I’m happy to report that these 10 tips definitely have some potential – and they’ve been tried and endorsed by the people who shared them!

#10. An easy fix for a stinky house.

Teenagers, dogs, someone cooked eggs that morning…there are a hundred reasons your house might get a bit of a funk to it. Alternatively, if your house is on the market, they say to have it smelling homey and like baked goods to draw in buyers.

The solution? A drop of vanilla extract rubbed on your light bulbs. Mmmmmm.

#9. Save toilet paper.

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If you’ve got a small child, you’ve got a problem with wasted toilet paper. But if you simply bend the roll into an oval shape, it will squish up against the wall and your tyke won’t be able to pull the entire roll loose in one go.

Seriously! So simple.

#8. Inventory your freezer.

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You can write right on the outside with a dry erase marker, then erase when you take something out. What a genius way to stop yourself from buying stuff you have or digging through looking for that package of steaks you’re “sure” are still in there!

#7. Foil those annoyingly sticky stickers once and for all.

In the day and age of the easy peel-off price tags, I’ll never know why some companies still want to drive us mad with the old kind that refuse to come all the way off and leave a sticky residue behind when they do. But now, you’ve got an easy fix – a paper towel and some hand sanitizer.

Done and done.

#6. Implement the “1-minute rule.”

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If something is going to take you less than a minute, do it now. This will help keep your house tidy and keep your to-do list from piling up!

#5. Ditch your iron, but still have smooth clothes.

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Just pop a couple of ice cubes in the dryer with your clothes, and voila! Lazy and chic.

#4. Bra. Hooks.

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These will change your life – bras don’t fit in drawers and they don’t belong in drawers. Hang some cheap, simple hooks on the back side of your closet doors instead and watch your life transform for $5.

#3. Organize your cleaning supplies.

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This see-through plastic shoe organizer makes your things easy to see and grab – way better than a dark cabinet you have to bend down to get to, if you ask me.

#2. Freshen your drawers.

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You know how candles burn low and it’s hard to get them to light and stay lit, but they still smell good? Yes? Take those beloved scents and stick them in the backs of your drawers and into your linen closets to keep those spaces smelling great.

#1. Those pesky, tiny ants.

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Soak cotton balls in peppermint oil and place them in crevices and along windows, etc, where ants and spiders tend to worm their way inside – you’ll thank m, because those little ants are just the worst to get rid of!

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What’s Really Inside the Hot Dog You’re Eating?

We are in full-blown hot dog season right now. Actually, hot dog season is all year long, but the summer is when we’re all going to cookouts, baseball games, and food trucks to load up on wieners.

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But have you ever taken the time to sit back and think about what’s actually in all those hot dogs that you’re stuffing your face with?

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All of us have heard the rumors over the years about the disgusting ingredients inside that foot long. But trust me – they may not be the most healthy concoction ever dreamed up, but hot dogs are 100% FDA approved.

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So what’s in them? Well, a whole lot of “trimmings”, which are discards of meat cuts leftover at the slaughterhouse (that’s a nice image). Think a lot of fatty tissue, sinewy muscle, meat from an animal’s head, and even the liver sometimes. These trimmings can also contain animal blood, skin, and feet (but it’s all edible). All of these leftovers are cooked to kill bacteria, made into a paste, and then ground up.

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It’s also at this point that other ingredients are added for flavor and to help with curing the meat that will one day be a delicious hot dog. After this process, the ground up paste is put into casings and cooked all the way. Then there’s a water rinse, the dogs are removed from the casing, and they’re packaged for all of us to buy. So now you know, and you can put some of the (more) disgusting rumors to rest. Enjoy your summer dogs – I know I will!

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Here’s How You Can Spot Bed Bugs on Airplanes

If you’re traveling this summer, you need to keep an eye out for bed bugs. Having the misfortune of getting attacked by bed bugs in a hotel (or maybe even your own house), is gross and uncomfortable.

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Well, now those disgusting little insects have found their way onto airplanes.

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The best thing you can do when you board a flight and take your seat is to keep an eye out for the buggers (and alert the crew immediately). There are other precautions you can take as well to avoid an annoying and potentially painful couple of days after your flight: Bring your own pillow and blanket if you’re planning on snoozing throughout your journey. Also, bed bugs can’t bite through your clothes, so you should wear long sleeves and pants. You can also buy and bring your own seat covers if you want to take extra care.

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Passengers have been complaining lately about bed bugs on flights and have been leaving their voyages all bit up and comfortable. The fact is that bed bugs can be easily carried from hotel rooms to the airport and then onto planes, so it isn’t too much of a stretch that this would eventually happen.

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You usually won’t notice bed bug bites until a couple of days later, so it’s wise to be safe just in case. And if you’re actually getting eaten alive in your airplane seat, chances are YOU’RE the one who brought the bed bugs on your flight. So after you notify the flight attendants, you should probably call your hotel as well.

Let’s hope all of our future flights are bug-free!

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After 2,000 Years, This Massive Egyptian Coffin Was Finally Opened

If you’ve seen a horror movie before, you know that this is usually how things start…

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Just kidding! We’re all gonna be okay…for now. A huge coffin was unearthed in Alexandria, Egypt recently and people on the Internet (as they are wont to do) speculated on what kind of curses/demons/mummies/zombies might come pouring out of it when it was opened.

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Thankfully for all of us, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities decided to go ahead and open the 2,000-year-old tomb and it looks like we’re in the clear.

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There was no treasure inside the large tomb, but the sarcophagus did contain the remains of three people that are believed to have been warriors. Also in the tomb: a whole lot of red sewage water that seeped in over the years through a crack in the side of the massive coffin.

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In a very strange twist, because people are insane, an online petition has emerged calling for the keepers of the tomb to let regular folks drink the red coffin sewage water. As of this writing, more than 26,000 people have signed the petition. Okay…

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Watch the video below for more information about the story.

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After 2,000 Years, This Massive Egyptian Coffin Was Finally Opened

If you’ve seen a horror movie before, you know that this is usually how things start…

Photo Credit: Universal Pictures

Just kidding! We’re all gonna be okay…for now. A huge coffin was unearthed in Alexandria, Egypt recently and people on the Internet (as they are wont to do) speculated on what kind of curses/demons/mummies/zombies might come pouring out of it when it was opened.

Photo Credit: Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Thankfully for all of us, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities decided to go ahead and open the 2,000-year-old tomb and it looks like we’re in the clear.

Photo Credit: Mohamed Abd El Ghany

There was no treasure inside the large tomb, but the sarcophagus did contain the remains of three people that are believed to have been warriors. Also in the tomb: a whole lot of red sewage water that seeped in over the years through a crack in the side of the massive coffin.

Photo Credit: Ministry of Antiquities

In a very strange twist, because people are insane, an online petition has emerged calling for the keepers of the tomb to let regular folks drink the red coffin sewage water. As of this writing, more than 26,000 people have signed the petition. Okay…

Photo Credit: Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Watch the video below for more information about the story.

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12 Good Things That Came out of Horrible Tragedies

We hope to avoid tragedies as much as we can in this life, but, unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen. When tragedy does strike, however, there may be something good to come out of it.

The original poster on this Reddit thread used the example of the Titanic disaster – afterward, all ships were required to have enough lifeboat seating for every single soul on board.

But what are some other unspeakable tragedies that led to long overdue change? You’re about to find out!

#12. More fire safety.

“Laws mandating fire escape maintenance came about after an infamous incident in Boston in the 1970’s. There’s an iconic, Pulitzer-award photograph showing a woman & child falling off the side of a building after a fire escape fell off the building during a fire.

After I became a firefighter…I learned that pretty much every safety code in the NFPA manual is the result of someone dying.”

#11. Written in blood.

“Just about every law that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, (OSHA) has mandated is written in the blood of someone else’s mishap.”

#10. Safety codes.

“Triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911? In New York. They didn’t even have a ladder at the time that would reach the floors on fire. The water from the fire hoses could not reach the flames. The doors opened inward, instead of outward … so the people desperate to get out literally couldn’t open the door because of the weight of the people pushing against them.

Other doors were chained shut to prevent workers from taking breaks or pro union people sneaking in. The workers were squeezed in like sardines, there were no sprinklers at the time, the water wasn’t even turned on for the fire hose they had inside, people were smoking next to highly flammable fabric, the fire escape fell off of the building with people on it because it couldn’t handle the weight. They had never conducted a fire drill, ever.

Some of these were blatant code violations, others weren’t required at the time. But the deaths of 146 people, mostly teenage girls, with the youngest victim being just 11 years old …

Major changes to the fire safety codes of the time.”

#9. Emergency valves.

“After the reactor in Chernobyl blew up due to pressure build-up in the containment, all reactors worldwide were equipped with emergency valves to release pressure in order to maintain the integrity of the containment in a worst-case accident.”

#8. Pollution.

“The EPA was formed as a direct result of Cleveland’s rivers being polluted to the point of catching on fire.”

#7. Fair warning.

“Certain commercial/utility trucks are now required to have an audible signal when the vehicle’s transmission is placed in reverse.

The relentless “beep-beep-beep” sound can be annoying, but it helps save lives after many accidents where someone was unaware a truck was backing up and accidentally got hit.”

#6. Like Breaking Bad, sorta

“The Tenerife disaster in which two 747s collided on the runway lead to many changes. Two of the most important were standardizing how pilots talk on the radio, firstly to ensure they all speak English and then to make sure they always use the correct words. Eg, the word “Takeoff” is only used when giving permission to take off, otherwise they will use “Departure”. The other innovation was Crew Resource Management, which teaches pilots not to always use the Captain as the sole decision maker and to work as a team instead. These innovations have saved millions of lives over the years.”

#5. Basic sanitary practices.

“After the disgusting conditions of the meat packing industry was exposed by the book The Jungle by Upston Sinclair the FDA was created to help ensure basic sanitary practices in the food industry as a whole.”

#4. No one left behind.

“There were two American tourists who got left behind by a boat in the reefs outside of Queensland. Noone really knows what happened to them, but probably drowning and sharks.

Now all over Australia, they have a very clear set of rules to make sure everyone is on the boat back.”

#3. Filed through the city.

“After the Great Molasses Spill in Boston during the 1910s, the government got much stricter with calculations regarding anything that was being built in major cities, especially near high population density cities. Before this, you could kinda just get away with the engineer doing the calculations, and everyone else kinda just assumed they were correct. Now, all of the calculations done by engineers and architects are filed through the city before anything actually gets done.

If you don’t know what the spill was, a molasses tank (50 ft. tall, 90 ft. wide) that was holding like 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst due to cylindrical stresses on the container. Sounds hilarious in your head until you realize the molasses then flooded the streets at 35mph, killing more than 20 people and injuring like 150. Yikes.”

#2. On a lighter note.

“After 9/11, a lot of people started tuning in to the Food Network, as it was one of the few channels whose programming didn’t dedicate significant time to the attacks. The uptick in general viewership motivated Food Network to create more varied programming, rather than the previously homogenous “cook this simple dish in your kitchen” shows.

This is a bit more tangential than some of the other comments in here.”

#1. Train barriers.

“In Singapore, an exchange student was waiting for the train when a crowd formed behind her and she ended up being pushed onto the tracks right when a train was arriving. The train cut off her legs. Since then, all Singapore train platforms have had barriers.”

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Escape Room Employees Share the Dumbest Ways People Tried to Escape

If you haven’t had the pleasure of participating in an escape room, I highly suggest you give it a try! Just don’t freak out and do what these people did…

Here are responses from escape room employees on AskReddit about the dumbest ways people got out.

1. Failures

“Once a group disassembled a portable AC unit hoping to find a key. There wasn’t any key. From that moment screwdrivers were forbidden.

But the best team I remember was the first team that ever played. We made a big, enormous, GIGANTIC mistake: we forgot the entire detailed instructions inside the room, right at the entrance on a table. They found it immediately, they started reading it, they clearly saw that every combination, every puzzle, every piece of history and every piece of furniture but they didn’t realize it was the complete walkthrough, and in some unknown way they failed to escape.”

2. That’ll do it

“There was a VERY pregnant lady in the group. We asked her if she was at risk of going into labor at any time, but she said she was fine. We let her in. The entire group was getting upset because they weren’t doing well. They were in the hardest room we have, it’s always a big deal if you make it out. They kept asking me for the code they needed to escape, and I had to keep telling them I couldn’t say what it was. They had to discover it. So pregnant lady took out the water bottle she had, turned around so she wasn’t facing the camera, and poured some on the floor.

She screamed that her water broke, and I needed to tell her the code so they could get out and go to the hospital. I guess she forgot we have cameras in several places in the room, and we saw exactly what she did. So I went into the room myself and explained that she was free to leave, I would just escort her out and the rest of the team could continue. She really thought that by having her water break, that was a free pass to get the escape code.”

3. Geniuses

“One of our rooms has a bed in it with white sheets. There was this group who was in the room working on the last puzzle, a logic puzzle. There’s a sheet of paper in the room that’s full of facts about a murder that you’re trying to solve. The group wasn’t quite getting the puzzle so I typed up “The white sheet of paper in room three will be a lot of help.”

So the group runs into the room and starts tearing all the white sheets off the bed and I type “Not the bed sheets.” So they start pulling the pillows out of their sheets. I then reply “The sheet you write on.” and lo and behold they grab the room’s marker and start drawing all over the bed sheets. They didn’t escape.

4. Bad parents

“I have both hosted games and managed escape rooms. I have seen it ALL…

People who cheat and bring in tools. People who physically break objects and play dumb when confronted, yelling matches, people on drugs, but the worst are the bad parents…

The dumbest people were always the dads or moms of large families who took over the games from their children and didn’t let them play or ignored them.

Sometimes kids were just left unsupervised while mom and dad played alone (guess they couldn’t get a babysitter) but most of the time some really smart kids could see things the adults did not and sure enough mom and dad ignored their input and got stuck overthinking everything.

It was so satisfying to go in after they had lost and tell the parents they should have listened to the kids. The smiles from the kids made it so worth it and the parents couldn’t do anything but pout!”

5. Future thief

“I run a tech camp thing for junior high aged kids and we have them do an escape room puzzle. Basically the box in the middle of the table has 5 locks, one for each puzzle, that has its own colored ring attached to it. Once you solve a combination, you bring the ring to the game master and you get the next puzzle. Simple enough, right?

Never have I seen anybody do this in the 2 years we have done this puzzle for both kids and teachers, but one kid this year managed to unsnap a ring from one of the locks and picked every single one of them and got the box open without solving a single puzzle.

6. Chug!

“We played through this demonic-themed escape room and the guy running it would speak as the “voice of Vade” through the PA system. He’d give us hints when we ask for them and would narrate story bits when appropriate.

At one point there’s a little fountain that pours out holy water. There’s a little bottle to collect the holy water. But they only trigger the fountain enough for us to get a little holy water in the bottle. Then we’re supposed to figure out we need to drip some holy water into a small hole in a box. Instead we tried dousing the holy water on just about everything else in the room. Nothing’s working. Then my girlfriend’s brother says, “Oh, maybe we have to drink it!” and he chugs the rest of the holy water. The voice of Vade jumps in and says, “Do not waste the holy water.” “

7. So many…

“Escape room employee here. Here are some examples.

People who find keys, exclaim, “It’s a key!” put it in their pockets, and forget about it. They don’t make it out.

Had a woman who would insist on pulling her group members away from CORRECT solutions so that she could waste time with incorrect ones so that she could be “right”, to the point that I actually insisted that she shut up via the messaging system. She didn’t, they listened to her, and they lost.

It’s amazing how many times a day I type “If it’s unlocked, OPEN IT.”
We have a key in a box in one of our rooms that you get out via a specific tool that you find in the course of the game. For some reason, instead of intuiting that there was a tool involved, two women tried to use tampon applicators from their bags (unused) for this purpose.

Had a guy who sat in the middle of the room and counted the ceiling tiles, convinced that finding the number would help him. I told him it would not. He lost.

There is a room that necessitates putting an actual puzzle together. It’s a 50 piece puzzle, it’s the first clue, a child could do it easily. Took one couple 40 minutes. They looked for nothing else (despite being urged), they did nothing else, they just worked on the puzzle. They lost.
Oh, there are so many.”

8. You were right!

“Not an employee but a player.

I was working a puzzle on my own on one side of the room, and this tiki torch looking thing keeps falling down while I’m working on something else. I keep picking back up so it’s not in the way.

Finally I get frustrated and slam it into this wooden stand with a hole in it. It makes a loud bang and part of the stand comes off.

I think I’ve f-cking broken it and quickly put the piece back into place and go back to my puzzle.

Of course it was supposed to open, and there was a clue inside. We failed the room.”

9. Smooth move

“My friend runs a place with four escape rooms. One guy got frustrated in the last chamber and just started messing with wall panels, assuming they were all hidden doors. He ended up pushing one and finding that it seemed to have a little bit of give to it. It was definitely not a hidden door. He went straight through it and put a very large hole in the wall. My friend and I had plans that night and he flaked on me because he had to fix the wall.”

10. That was easy

“Ho ho, time to turn the tables!

The stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in an escape room: The final challenge/lock was a “locked” cabinet, consisting of a coiled up bicycle lock. The problem was that the bicycle lock was basically just a big 3-foot loop, and they’d only run it through the handles of the cabinet once, so there was more than enough slack to simply open the cabinet.

Within the first 5 minutes of the game, somebody in our group just walked up, opened the cabinet, and we were out.”

11. Hulkin’ out

“It’s amazing how many times I say “no excess force will be needed- brains over muscle” during the initial brief and people still hulk out and lose their minds.”

12. Poor plant

“We created an escape room for our library, and one of the decorative props was a potted plant. One group thought there was something inside the pot, and proceeded to pull the entire plant out, roots and all. There was dirt all over the floor and the poor plant was in shambles.

In their defense, the theme of the room was Harry Potter, so they probably were thinking it was a mandrake (in which case they should have used fuzzy pink earmuffs). Thankfully the plant was needing to be repotted anyway, so my coworkers and I split it up and took them home. My little piece is doing great!”

13. The cure

“Worked a zombie themed escape room within a haunted house where you had to find the “cure” before your time ran out and you became a zombie. on part of the haunted house is a locker room type deal and you have to walk through the stalls to open up into the room itself.

Girl finds the cure in a toilet tank, gets so excited she FOOTBALL SPIKES THE TANK LID. Lid of course shatters, and we get less than five minutes of reset to clean up her mess before the next group comes in and shreds themselves to ribbons. Good times.”

14. Just in case

“The room had electronic components, so there were electric wires that were tied down but looped around the room. One Friday night, someone tried licking them, just in case.”

15. Epic failure

“Oh boy. In my story, the stupid customer is my husband and me. We have done a handful of escape rooms before, in larger groups and also just the 2 of us, and we are decent (not great but not bad) so we decided to do one in Montreal.

When we showed up the guy working there REALLY hyped up the room, saying that it has a 5% solve rate, it’s the hardest room they have across all locations, etc. I think that really got into our heads.

Because we….epically failed. We did not solve a SINGLE freaking clue. We ran around the room like chickens with our heads cut off making wild guesses and yep, bickering like an old married couple (we are in our late 20’s).

We had 2 hints and had to ask for both of them through a scratchy walkie talkie, but we couldn’t understand the hint so we had to ask them to repeat it multiple times.

It was so freaking embarrassing to see the time run out and realize we had utterly and completely failed. Then to make it worse we sat through the employee explain the whole damn thing and realize just how little progress we made.

To be fair the room was completely ridiculous. And truly not designed for just 2 people. But still….I think if we had figured out at least one hint we wouldn’t have been so humiliated.”

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7 Creepy Facts About Murderers

True crime seems to be all the rage these days on TV, film, and in print.

Take a look at these 7 facts about real-life killers…sleep tight.

1. Last words

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2. Uncontrollable

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3. Footage

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4. Fiends

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5. Study the mind of a criminal

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6. Dating Game Killer

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7. Ed Gein

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11+ People Reveal the Biggest Bullet They’ve Dodged in Their Lives

They say hindsight is 20/20, and sometimes it takes perfect vision to spot all of the the bullets we’ve dodged in our past.

#12. Go to sleep instead.

“Was in Vegas during the concert shooting. We arrived a couple of days prior and the stage where it happened was already set up. Everytime we passed by the stage my dad kept telling me “we should go there, looks fun”. While I was in Vegas we went to a Golden Knights game and planned to go see what that stage was all about afterwards. I was so tired during the game that I could barely keep my eyes open. My dad noticed and told me we would go to the hotel to sleep instead of the concert.”

#11. On the way home

“Leaving work one day and I let someone else merge in ahead of me. We both get to a Traffic light and stop. The light turns green and we both start driving through the intersection. A SUV comes throught the guard rails and off the overpass just past the intersection and lands ON the car ahead of me. The car is flattened.

If I had been more agressive that would have been me.”

#10. A “friend.”

“Didn’t lend money to a “friend” because I was broke, few months later he disappeared with several thousands he had stolen from my other friends.”

#9. Missed my ferry.

“I missed my ferry on 9/11, making me late to work. I saw the plane fly into the building from my next ferry.”

#8. Get out of jail free.

“I didn’t understand how tickets worked. There was a fee and a court date and I assumed I had to go to court that day and pay it there.

Missed the court date.

Went to the district attorney’s office and she looked right my 17 year old ass and said “Here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to reduce your speed, I’m going to completely ignore the fact that you were out after your curfew, I won’t have a warrant out for your arrest, and you’ll just have to pay a large fine. This is an almost literal get out of jail free card, don’t waste it.”

I wanted to hug her through the glass, and I don’t think I said thank you enough.”

#7. I’d be a flapjack.

“I once slipped on ice and into the street right after a truck went by. I had stopped to pick up my phone moments before, if that didn’t happen I’d be a flapjack right now.”

#6. It probably would have been me.

“I had a ticket to the theatre 9 showing of Batman in Aurora 2012. I was the closing waitress at work that night and got “screwed” by a table coming in 5 minutes before closing. The person sitting next to my bff was killed- it probably would have me sitting there.”

#5. She had to pee.

“Not my story, but my moms. When she was a senior in high school, a bunch of seniors went up to the mountains to drink a week before graduation. Someone’s dad worked as a ranger, so we was able to secure the keys to everyone’s cars so they couldn’t drive drunk or anything reckless. Mom’s best friends show up late in their topless jeep. They drink and do a bunch of drugs and decide to go stump jumping in the jeep. They drive up the path a bit, messed out of their minds, and my mom begs them to stop and wait for her while she pees. She hops out, goes to do her thing, her friends leave her. She hikes back to camp and tells everyone and so they go out looking for her 3 friends. Finds them the next morning, jeep completely turned over, everyone dead. If my mom went with them, she would have died too.

It absolutely messed her up, and shes said shes never had a best friend since that, despite her being very social and a wonderful person.”

#4. Don’t rush.

“We were all set and ready to put an offer on a house. Did the paperwork with the realtor, signed the check, put down the offer. The realtor was super pushy but the room was 90 degrees and we weren’t thinking straight. After signing the papers we go to see the house again with my in laws and notice a TON of issues we hadn’t seen before. Got really anxious, big issues like plumbing, a huge wrap around deck that needed work, etc but we were stuck now.

Got a call the next day from the realtor saying that we never signed the bottom of the offer paperwork and can we please come sign it RIGHT AWAY. We decided not to and are going to wait a bit and do this smarter next time.

Don’t rush when buying your first home folks.

EDIT: this was the very first step in the process, prior to any inspection or anything. So by not having signed the offer we didn’t end up wasting any money.”

#3. Moved out.

“Moved out of an apartment complex this year where I did not have renters insurance. It burned down 4 days later.

EDIT: I appreciate all of your concerns! I have renters insurance now and won’t ever be without it again.”

#2. The wrong house.

“Buying the wrong house. Put an offer on a house that needed some work. Offer was refused. House sold a year later for $100,000 less than my offer. Bullet dodged.”

#1. My dream job.

Got offered my dream job running an offshore aquaculture facility. Had to choose between the job and my SO’s future (long story). I reluctantly declined the job. A few months later i heard the facility was dealing with a serious disease issue and had no chance of being sustainable. Had i taken the job, i would have most likely being single living in a tiny seaside shit-hole town, the job would have sucked, and i would have only worked there for max three months before the place shut down.

Edit: been lots of comments as to the long version about the SO. She has depression and is trying her best to make the most of it. In her late twenties she decided to try and get a degree. For someone who could barely get out of bed in the morning, hold any long term job, this was somewhat ambitious. She started studies the year we moved in together. Studies went well, but as the degree went on, exam times loomed etc etc i had to take over more and more of the household tasks. Essentially all she had to do was college stuff. I did all the shopping, cooking, cleaning, get her out of bed, make sure she work too hard, etc. We had a routine (not a very fun one) but she was doing well so all was fine. Depression wise she was doing much better, although it did rear its ugly head during stress times. I got offered the job mid way through her final year. Her work load was higher than ever. Had i taken the job and moved out, she would have suddenly had to adapt to doing things i had taken over, which for someone with depression would have been very very bad. Id seen how she would react to minor changes in her schedule, so something this big would have set her back years. So although i had to give up the dream job, i knew she wouldnt have graduated had i left. She did graduate (top of the class), is doing much better depression wise, and now has a full time job. I initially never even told her i got offered the job, let alone turn in down. I waited a few weeks until she was in a better space to tell her.

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15 Questions That People Will Never Get Answers To

Life, at its core, is a mystery. We all have at least one strange thing in our lives that has never been solved.

People on AskReddit shared their thoughts.

1. Haunted

“When I was in highschool I had to get my gallbladder out but something wasn’t great and I had to get another procedure a few days later. As I’m heading in I’m joking around with the nurses and they’re joking around with me. They slip in the IV and ask if I’ve got any tattoos or anything I don’t want my mom to know about.

I laugh and just as they seem to be ready to knock me out, one of the nurses turns to me and says, “just so you know I might have to stick my finger up your butt”

And then I was out.

I still don’t know. And I will never know. It haunts me.”

2. A, B, or C?

“My birthday is November 15th, meaning I was “made” around February 14th, aka Valentine’s day…. BUT, my dads birthday is February 13th. I guess my question is, was I a birthday present, valentines day gift, or a mistake?”

3. Blew it

“Some years ago, I was in a bar and a girl said something to me that I didn’t understand because the music was too loud. So I answered an automatic “yeah haha” which gave her a huge smile made her reply something like “too late ;)”.

Wtf did she ask me?”

4. The watch

“My father recently passed away and in his things I found a beautiful gold pocket watch. It looks like it’s from the late 19th century and the type you see in the movies being passed down from generation to generation. However, my father never wore a pocket watch nor did his father, to my knowledge.

The watch is lovely and in excellent condition, it works perfectly. Yet, I have no idea what the story is with this wonderful heirloom. Since my father comes from a family of war refugees, I would be additionally interested in even the story of it making it into the country. My dad was the last of all his siblings to pass away and, perhaps needless to say, his parents and their siblings have also passed. So, I guess I’ll never know.”

5. Confidence

“Which girls would’ve gone out with me if only I’d been confident enough to ask?”

6. The important stuff

“Of all the things that can be pickled, why is a pickled cucumber the only thing we call a pickle?”

7. Another dimension

“That pen that fell under my chair, what dimension did you go to?”

8. Why?

“Why is it so wrong to coast in life? Why do I always have to be working towards some grand plan?”

9. ?????

“What that g-ddamn mystery sillyband was supposed to be shaped like.”

10. What happened?

“In the opening credits for Parks & Rec, there is a shot of a basketball hitting the rim and going straight up. They don’t show what happens next before cutting away. Did the ball go in?”

11. The rabbit hole

Just how deep does the rabbit hole go, regarding conspiracy theories being true?

Like, is the CIA running the world drug trade?

Does the Illuminati (or whatever name for a shadow government) exist?

Do people really not like pineapple on pizza or is it just an ad campaign for pizza companies to save money by not having to stock pineapple anymore?”

12. The road

“I got really lost once exploring the back roads in the countryside and tried to take this shortcut through a dense forest that would supposedly take me straight back to the main country road I was trying to get back to.

I spent something like 40 or 50 minutes following this windy and bumpy road through dense forest lands and large hills, only to eventually come across a large sign blocking the road saying “ROAD CLOSED”. I had taken this huge detour for nothing and now I was even more lost.

I eventually got back home after a few hours of backtracking, but that road block was still lingering in my mind. Why was the road blocked that far in? Was it a fallen tree? Was it a flood? Was there some kind of large scale destruction that made the road unusable? Did it lead into private property and this was just a hack job way of rectifying it? Or was it something more out there like a biological contamination or maybe something supernatural?

I tried traveling to where the road was supposed to terminate in the other side some time later to try and see if I could explore the road from the other side and find out what’s going on, but I couldn’t find it. I’ve entertained the thought of traveling back there and just exploring the road on foot, but it’s waaaay out of the way and honestly not worth it. So I guess I’ll never know why that mountain road is closed. And maybe that’s for the best, since it’s become so mysterious to me that any answer is likely to be hella disappointing.”

13. Stats

“What are my stats? How many times have i breathed? How many pounds of chili have i eaten? How far have i walked? How many insects have i accidentally swallowed?”

14. Take me to your leader

“Why haven’t aliens showed up yet on major cities? C’mon guys probe us!”

15. The big question

“What happened just before the Big Bang? I want to know.”

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