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"What is a nice way to tell someone who can't take a hint to leave you alone? My dad's friend has a kid that keeps coming over. The kid is like... 19 and just keeps walking into our house whenever. He keeps emailing me, FB messaging me, Instagram DMing me, LinkedIn stalking me. When he comes over, he asks me the same 5 questions every time. I have dropped all of the hints. I don't want to be rude, but he really can't take a hint. He sometimes even comes over a few times a day. His coming over constantly stops me from getting stuff done. What can I do? I don't want to be a dick to him, and can't because our dads are friends, so what should I do?",
"What is a nice way to tell someone who can't take a hint to leave you alone? My dad's friend has a kid that keeps coming over. The kid is like... 19 and just keeps walking into our house whenever. He keeps emailing me, FB messaging me, Instagram DMing me, LinkedIn stalking me. When he comes over, he asks me the same 5 questions every time. I have dropped all of the hints. I don't want to be rude, but he really can't take a hint. He sometimes even comes over a few times a day. His coming over constantly stops me from getting stuff done. What can I do? I don't want to be a dick to him, and can't because our dads are friends, so what should I do?",
"What is a nice way to tell someone who can't take a hint to leave you alone? My dad's friend has a kid that keeps coming over. The kid is like... 19 and just keeps walking into our house whenever. He keeps emailing me, FB messaging me, Instagram DMing me, LinkedIn stalking me. When he comes over, he asks me the same 5 questions every time. I have dropped all of the hints. I don't want to be rude, but he really can't take a hint. He sometimes even comes over a few times a day. His coming over constantly stops me from getting stuff done. What can I do? I don't want to be a dick to him, and can't because our dads are friends, so what should I do?",
"What is a nice way to tell someone who can't take a hint to leave you alone? My dad's friend has a kid that keeps coming over. The kid is like... 19 and just keeps walking into our house whenever. He keeps emailing me, FB messaging me, Instagram DMing me, LinkedIn stalking me. When he comes over, he asks me the same 5 questions every time. I have dropped all of the hints. I don't want to be rude, but he really can't take a hint. He sometimes even comes over a few times a day. His coming over constantly stops me from getting stuff done. What can I do? I don't want to be a dick to him, and can't because our dads are friends, so what should I do?",
"What is a nice way to tell someone who can't take a hint to leave you alone? My dad's friend has a kid that keeps coming over. The kid is like... 19 and just keeps walking into our house whenever. He keeps emailing me, FB messaging me, Instagram DMing me, LinkedIn stalking me. When he comes over, he asks me the same 5 questions every time. I have dropped all of the hints. I don't want to be rude, but he really can't take a hint. He sometimes even comes over a few times a day. His coming over constantly stops me from getting stuff done. What can I do? I don't want to be a dick to him, and can't because our dads are friends, so what should I do?",
"What is a nice way to tell someone who can't take a hint to leave you alone? My dad's friend has a kid that keeps coming over. The kid is like... 19 and just keeps walking into our house whenever. He keeps emailing me, FB messaging me, Instagram DMing me, LinkedIn stalking me. When he comes over, he asks me the same 5 questions every time. I have dropped all of the hints. I don't want to be rude, but he really can't take a hint. He sometimes even comes over a few times a day. His coming over constantly stops me from getting stuff done. What can I do? I don't want to be a dick to him, and can't because our dads are friends, so what should I do?",
"What is a nice way to tell someone who can't take a hint to leave you alone? My dad's friend has a kid that keeps coming over. The kid is like... 19 and just keeps walking into our house whenever. He keeps emailing me, FB messaging me, Instagram DMing me, LinkedIn stalking me. When he comes over, he asks me the same 5 questions every time. I have dropped all of the hints. I don't want to be rude, but he really can't take a hint. He sometimes even comes over a few times a day. His coming over constantly stops me from getting stuff done. What can I do? I don't want to be a dick to him, and can't because our dads are friends, so what should I do?",
"What is a nice way to tell someone who can't take a hint to leave you alone? My dad's friend has a kid that keeps coming over. The kid is like... 19 and just keeps walking into our house whenever. He keeps emailing me, FB messaging me, Instagram DMing me, LinkedIn stalking me. When he comes over, he asks me the same 5 questions every time. I have dropped all of the hints. I don't want to be rude, but he really can't take a hint. He sometimes even comes over a few times a day. His coming over constantly stops me from getting stuff done. What can I do? I don't want to be a dick to him, and can't because our dads are friends, so what should I do?",
"What is a nice way to tell someone who can't take a hint to leave you alone? My dad's friend has a kid that keeps coming over. The kid is like... 19 and just keeps walking into our house whenever. He keeps emailing me, FB messaging me, Instagram DMing me, LinkedIn stalking me. When he comes over, he asks me the same 5 questions every time. I have dropped all of the hints. I don't want to be rude, but he really can't take a hint. He sometimes even comes over a few times a day. His coming over constantly stops me from getting stuff done. What can I do? I don't want to be a dick to him, and can't because our dads are friends, so what should I do?",
"What is a nice way to tell someone who can't take a hint to leave you alone? My dad's friend has a kid that keeps coming over. The kid is like... 19 and just keeps walking into our house whenever. He keeps emailing me, FB messaging me, Instagram DMing me, LinkedIn stalking me. When he comes over, he asks me the same 5 questions every time. I have dropped all of the hints. I don't want to be rude, but he really can't take a hint. He sometimes even comes over a few times a day. His coming over constantly stops me from getting stuff done. What can I do? I don't want to be a dick to him, and can't because our dads are friends, so what should I do?"
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"It’s not impolite to tell him to stop. In no uncertain terms. I don’t know why people think being assertive = being rude. You don’t need to use foul language or insult him. Just tell him you’re not interested in having online contact with him and he needs to stop coming over. Repeat politely but firmly until he leaves you alone.\n",
"Keep asking him for money whenever he comes by. Either he gets uncomfortable and doesn't come around anymore, or you get money.",
"As others have said, being straightforward is good. If you ain’t feeling that, “I’m feeling overstimulated and need some quiet” has worked as an excuse for me. Also “I’m grumpy today. Please give me some space.” Neither necessarily has to be true, but everyone has felt that way and I doubt anyone will see it as a personal affront. If they aren’t receptive to that, you can go ahead and be as rude as you want. You warned them.",
"Stop him at the door and don’t let him in. Say something like: “I’m sorry but I’m not able to hang out. I’m really busy so can you please leave?” That’s firm but polite.",
"Frankness is a good thing. Just tell him calmly but sternly that he needs to leave and that you don’t want to hang out. \n\nIn the future try and set clear boundaries as early as you can with others... the longer the stuff is permitted the harder it is to set the boundary later.\n\nIf they get mad that’s on them... if you get mad in return then you’re also to blame. Gotta state your case calmly, frankly, and openly.",
"Try locking the doors, can't bother you if he can't get in. And as some one else mentioned block him on social media. Who said you had to be connected that way?",
"If he is coming over without invitation, that is absolutely rude. Tell him that he needs to text and check first to see if it's OK.",
"I won’t repeat what others have already said about being straightforward, although this is an important one! Be consistent with how you react with him e.g always NOT responding online, or otherwise he might feel like you are just playing hard to get. \nIf things keep getting bad, I’d do one of two things\n1) talk to your dad about it\n2) « confront » the guy and tell him you feel like your private space is invaded and ask what his intentions are (there could be some misunderstanding or personality characteristics which could mean he just doesn’t get it?)\n\nPersonally, I’d op for 2",
"I take it you're a girl? Honestly just tell him, if it's impacting you then a awkward 60 second conversation would be worth it. Both your dad's will understand as you're doing nothing wrong... So long as you're nice about it",
"Act like an adult and be straight forward instead of playing games and wondering why he doesn't get it"
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"How do I remove myself from spam/telemarketer/data harvesting lists? For example the familytreenow.com website, telemarketers, and other places my info is being used",
"How do I remove myself from spam/telemarketer/data harvesting lists? For example the familytreenow.com website, telemarketers, and other places my info is being used",
"How do I remove myself from spam/telemarketer/data harvesting lists? For example the familytreenow.com website, telemarketers, and other places my info is being used"
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"Unroll.me - searches any websites you're signed up to even if you didn't sign up to them yourself, and you get the option to unsubscribe/block whichever ones come up ",
"If it's someone on the phone, simply ask to be put on the \"Do Not Call list.\" They are by law (at least in the USA) required to stop calling you after you say this, and they are not allowed to object to your request in any way.\n\nIf it's an email, there should always be a link somewhere, no matter how small, that says \"Unsubscribe.\"",
"For my email I have a filter set up that dumps any email with the word unsubscribe into my spam box. Very few unwanted get through. For my phone I have an app that basically works as a caller ID to tell me the number calling has previously been reported as spam"
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"Best way to open an orange. We've all seen the banana methodology, but that wasn't a big problem originally. \n\nIs there a similar trick to opening an orange? Either to start peeling it or to minimize the mess?",
"Best way to open an orange. We've all seen the banana methodology, but that wasn't a big problem originally. \n\nIs there a similar trick to opening an orange? Either to start peeling it or to minimize the mess?",
"Best way to open an orange. We've all seen the banana methodology, but that wasn't a big problem originally. \n\nIs there a similar trick to opening an orange? Either to start peeling it or to minimize the mess?",
"Best way to open an orange. We've all seen the banana methodology, but that wasn't a big problem originally. \n\nIs there a similar trick to opening an orange? Either to start peeling it or to minimize the mess?"
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"place the orange on a flat surface, press down on it with yoru hand, jsut enough to squish it a LITTLE, and roll it all around... what you're doing is separating the peel from the fruit itself by forcing hte 'larger' sphere to flatten a bit. er.. it's hard to describe exactly.. but. roll it around on the table, applying pressure, for a few minutes (1 or 2) and you'll eventually learn how to feel that the skin is loosening from the fruit inside. Then, just tear into the skin, and the peel will come off pretty effortlessly.",
"It isn't Harriet's method of solving cubics. Use your hands, make a mess, and enjoy yourself a deliciously aromatic treat. ",
"Cut off one end of peel. Then make 4 slices starting at the top and down to the center bottom through the peel but not too deep so you dont cut into the orange. Grab onto the top of the peel, insert your fingernail and pull down the peel. You should be able to peel it with just the 4 strips.",
"Knife method:\n\n1) Cut off both \"ends\" of the orange\n2) Hold the orange in your hand, and with a knife, make a cut from the outside to the core\n3) Repeat all the way around the orange (at 1 inch intervals or so)\n\nWhen you're done, it will all fall apart into neat, perfect little wedges. NO mess!"
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"How to roll your R's I'm trying to learn a foreign language, but I cannot roll my R's. Is there a way that you can teach yourself to roll your R's?",
"How to roll your R's I'm trying to learn a foreign language, but I cannot roll my R's. Is there a way that you can teach yourself to roll your R's?",
"How to roll your R's I'm trying to learn a foreign language, but I cannot roll my R's. Is there a way that you can teach yourself to roll your R's?",
"How to roll your R's I'm trying to learn a foreign language, but I cannot roll my R's. Is there a way that you can teach yourself to roll your R's?",
"How to roll your R's I'm trying to learn a foreign language, but I cannot roll my R's. Is there a way that you can teach yourself to roll your R's?",
"How to roll your R's I'm trying to learn a foreign language, but I cannot roll my R's. Is there a way that you can teach yourself to roll your R's?",
"How to roll your R's I'm trying to learn a foreign language, but I cannot roll my R's. Is there a way that you can teach yourself to roll your R's?",
"How to roll your R's I'm trying to learn a foreign language, but I cannot roll my R's. Is there a way that you can teach yourself to roll your R's?",
"How to roll your R's I'm trying to learn a foreign language, but I cannot roll my R's. Is there a way that you can teach yourself to roll your R's?",
"How to roll your R's I'm trying to learn a foreign language, but I cannot roll my R's. Is there a way that you can teach yourself to roll your R's?",
"How to roll your R's I'm trying to learn a foreign language, but I cannot roll my R's. Is there a way that you can teach yourself to roll your R's?"
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"It's a really hard skill to teach, but it basically involves placing your tongue around where it would be if you were making a 'D' sound and continuously saying that sound whilst also making a sound, so that the air sort of pushes your tongue back and forth. It should end up waggling a little bit in the 'D' and 'L' areas, maybe a little behind or in front of that, but definitely on the palette.\n\nBeyond that, just practice, maybe look up clips of people making the sound themselves and try to practice against that. At one point I believe it just sort of clicks, although I've only been on the teaching end since I've always been able to do it.\n\n",
"~~I'm Australian. It's my patriotic duty to drop, rather than roll.~~.\n\nImitate an American, if you're not one already.",
"There are two kinds of r rolls. One happens in the front of your mouth, the other towards the back. Spanish, Russian, Italian, etc., use the front of the mouth or an \"alveolar trill\". \n\nThe way I learned is first you have to make the movement natural for your tongue. Make the sound \"puh\" like at the beginning of possum. Then make a duh sound. Alternate between those and you'll feel your tongue hitting behind your teeth. Keep making those two sounds faster and faster and over the course of a couple weeks it'll feel natural and you'll be able to roll your r's without issue. \n\nThis is how I learned while I was learning Russian. It took me about 4 days to nail it, but don't pressure yourself. This is a sound you're not used to making, and even a lot of children in countries that roll r's need speech therapy to help them out.\n\nKeep in mind that you're not rolling your R's actually, you're making a different sound. Instead of arrrr think of it as errrrr. ",
"Spaniard here.\n\n1. Touch the roof of your mouth with the tip of your tongue and while doing this try to put it at the back of your mouth, as far as you can reach.\n2. In this position try to make your tongue vibrate. It's OK if it doesn't vibrate that much. You must exhale a bit to help the vibration.\n3. While you're doing all this slowly start sliding forward the tip of your tongue across the roof of your mouth.\n4. You'll find some spots where the vibration of your tongue is noticeably stronger. You'll notice this vibration in other parts of your mouth.\n5. Add some vowel sounds after this strong vibration.\n\nCongratulations! You're now rolling your R's.\n\n*",
"This topic comes up a lot over in /r/languagelearning.\n\n[This thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/yltjp/this_video_taught_me_how_to_roll_my_rs_hopefully/) links to the most useful video I've seen on the topic. Check out the video and thread commentary.",
"I couldn't roll my r's as a kid, but I discovered I could do it with a specific word (don't remember what it was, but it began with \"ar\"). Something about that particular transition of sounds made it possible for me. I just kept practicing that until I could do it independently, then finally until I could do it for all sounds. ",
"Former Spanish professor here. It really helps to get a \"running start\"--instead of trying to begin a word with R, start with an open vowel, like ah, and try to glide into the R from the ahhhhhhhh. Imagine your tongue flapping in the breeze of a fan. If you made brrrr noises as a child when playing with toy cars, that's the same thing.\n\nAlso remember that in Spanish, only the double RR and initial R get the full roll--single R between vowels gets the \"single voiced tongue flap\": almost the same sound as the T in \"matter.\"",
"Depends if you want the German or the Spanish/SE Asian way. Germans do it with the back of the tongue and makes a much lower and guttural aRrrrr where the Spanish/SE Asians do it with the tip of the tongue making a much softer Rrr",
"Thank you for all your comments! I will attempt all of your suggestions and will update you on my progress.\n",
"I once found a youtube video on it. I can't find it now but basically she said that you place your tongue like you do when you say \"butter\".",
"Can you say \""
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"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?",
"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?",
"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?",
"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?",
"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?",
"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?",
"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?",
"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?",
"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?",
"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?",
"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?",
"For those who never get sick, what is your secret? Putting aside genetics, are there any people out there that use to get sick often and did something/changed something in your lifestyle that allows you to never get sick? \n \nLately I've been getting a string of painful sore throats and fevers and it's been driving me mad. Some people tell me it's just the weather, but I know there must be some better ways. \n \nAny uggestions?"
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"Good DNA. Works everytime.\n\nAlso, healthy lifestyle, plenty of sleep, not too much red meat.\n\nYou know, exactly what you think it is.",
"Wash your hands first thing when you get home after going out. When you are out, keep your hands off your face, and out of your mouth, nose, or eyes. Get enough sleep. Exercise daily. Eat healthy. Drink lots of water. If you're stressed, find some way to manage or reduce it. ",
"I make no effort to eliminate bacteria. There may be no solid evidence to support it strengthening the immune system, but it works for me. \n\nIf you are getting frequent persistent sore throats and fevers, you should talk to your doctor. If you get enough in a small period of time they may suggest getting your tonsils removed.",
"if you have a local sauna, get a member subscription and try to go twice a week, it helps you sweat some of those poisons out.",
"Sun on bare skin whenever I get a few minutes free, and, never touch anything in a public restroom. Especially faucets. My friend took cultures from some of them for a project in nursing school, and she found every common virus and bacteria that goes around, there. \n\nI get sick maybe once in ten years.",
"Sounds a bit disgusting but following the \"10 second rule\" when dropping food. helps build up the immune system.",
"Since I started sticking to my diet (fresh fruits, lots of greens, little carbs and meat) I have not been sick in over a year. I have gone through many colds and flues which everyone caught but me. I also take a 500mg Vitamin C tablet every morning. ",
"My suggestion: Vitamin C . \n\nI take vitamin C as much as possible, because its been proven to build up your immune system. If you don't like the huge pill forms, they have chewables, and even then there is just good old Orange Juice ! Vitamin C has always helped when I am sick.\n\nOn top of that, change bed sheets and pillow cases regularly. Obviously being in one place for hours at a time, you can build up some nasty germs. Especially if you are like me when you come strait from work and pass out on that bed. Bringing everything from work. \n\nWash your hands decently frequently. If you wash too much, it will dry out your hand super bad. So just keep it consistent, and wash after things that have the most chance of getting you sick. So wash after the bathroom, before you eat, etc. \n\nLight excercise can help. Contrary to what people say, you would be amazed at how working out at just a subtle amount can do a day. Or as an alternative running is great too. But also, make sure to stretch. I see these old people at a park nearby all the time, just stretching. Nothing else. Key to old age? Possibly.\n\nAlso, last but not least. I can't verify this at all. So don't hold me to it, however whenever I am feeling slightly sick, I get the spiciest food I can buy. The kind to give you a runny nose, burn your throat a bit, sweat, etc. This I think can help clear things out, but I haven't proven it at all. ",
"I work on people's computers for a living, and beginning in the fall I have to make it a point to wash my hands after leaving someone's desk. See if there is some obvious avenue like that for you to help.\n\nMy other part of the theory is that you only get sick when there is an imbalance in your life. If it's there, you know it, and it's probably the Elephant in the Room. \n\nThose two things, balance and avoiding obvious \"exposure\" have kept me healthy for a looooong time...",
"I think I always stay healthy because of the amount of garlic and tea with honey I consume. Honey and garlic are natural antibiotics.",
"I like to think the fact that I had very poor hygiene growing up has given my body an extrahuman immune system. So basically i'll be feeding my children dirt on unwashed plates until they can decide for themselves\n"
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"Advice for first time car owner I just bought a car for the first time and wanted some advice on maintaining the vehicle.",
"Advice for first time car owner I just bought a car for the first time and wanted some advice on maintaining the vehicle.",
"Advice for first time car owner I just bought a car for the first time and wanted some advice on maintaining the vehicle."
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"Keep it clean (inside and out). Clay bar + wax at LEAST once a year between season changes. Rotate the tires with every oil change (roughly 5-7k miles depending on your make/model/oil type). Tint the windows if possible to help block some sun and preserve the interior trimmings and upholstery. Don't use cheap gas. If possible, pay more on your loan per month to help knock down some interest and pay the car off a tad quicker. ",
"What is the; Year? make? model? mileage? financed? Manual? Automatic? Do you use the car to commute? If so how many miles per month estimate? More detail will help with advice specific to you.",
"This comes from my best friend's dad, and I don't do it as religiously as I should. Keep a small notebook in your car and record the mileage you're getting each time you fill up. When something starts to go wrong \"silently\" you'll often see a decrease and can take it into a mechanic early with your observation. (You can also tell that it's, say, law school exam time because you start driving angry/frustrated/emotional and your mpg plummets.)",
"Keep a log in a small notebook in your glove compartment of all repairs and what-not; from when you put air in your tires to a new transmission, everything. Get a good jack and a pair of jackstands, keep them in your trunk. Learn how to do an oil change, fix burned-out lights, etc. Clean your air filter monthly. If you notice your directional light indicator blinking quickly on your dashboard, one of your directional lights are out. Once a month put fuel injector cleaner in your gas but drive till you have 1/4 of a tank left and fill it up with the cleaner. \n\nI drive a '99 Camry with 204,000 miles on it. \n\nGood luck to you."
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"How to get more money when they overbook a flight They overbooked my flight and they are asking me to volunteer and only offering me $200, but I've heard of people getting even up to grand. How am I able to get a better deal if I have to volunteer?",
"How to get more money when they overbook a flight They overbooked my flight and they are asking me to volunteer and only offering me $200, but I've heard of people getting even up to grand. How am I able to get a better deal if I have to volunteer?",
"How to get more money when they overbook a flight They overbooked my flight and they are asking me to volunteer and only offering me $200, but I've heard of people getting even up to grand. How am I able to get a better deal if I have to volunteer?",
"How to get more money when they overbook a flight They overbooked my flight and they are asking me to volunteer and only offering me $200, but I've heard of people getting even up to grand. How am I able to get a better deal if I have to volunteer?"
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"There isn’t really a trick. You can wait and see if they don’t get enough volunteers at $200 and then they will raise it to $200+X until they get enough people. \n\nSo, don’t take their first bid, but know you might risk not getting anything if there are enough volunteers at the lower level. ",
"they have to offer a certain amount before they kick people off, and when they kick people off, those people are then entitled to a large amount. they will keep raising the offer until that point. ",
"My family and me were once on our way to china where the Lufthansa overbooked our flight. They offered us each 600€ (total 2400€) and a Hotel stay for a night. We immediately agreed to this offer but someone lowballed us at the counter after we left and we had to take the flight without cash. Not bad either but watch out for volunteers who hop off the plane for way less money!",
"It's a formula anymore. Though one time I volunteered for $300 and the lady smiled at me when she gave me the ticket and said, \"I have you guys $500.\"\n\nSo I guess they still have leeway."
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"How not to overthink when people do stuff like not text you back. I admit, I tend to get worried for a bit if people don't text me back for a while for fear I've done something bad when 8/10 this isn't the case. Any tips to not stress there?",
"How not to overthink when people do stuff like not text you back. I admit, I tend to get worried for a bit if people don't text me back for a while for fear I've done something bad when 8/10 this isn't the case. Any tips to not stress there?",
"How not to overthink when people do stuff like not text you back. I admit, I tend to get worried for a bit if people don't text me back for a while for fear I've done something bad when 8/10 this isn't the case. Any tips to not stress there?",
"How not to overthink when people do stuff like not text you back. I admit, I tend to get worried for a bit if people don't text me back for a while for fear I've done something bad when 8/10 this isn't the case. Any tips to not stress there?",
"How not to overthink when people do stuff like not text you back. I admit, I tend to get worried for a bit if people don't text me back for a while for fear I've done something bad when 8/10 this isn't the case. Any tips to not stress there?",
"How not to overthink when people do stuff like not text you back. I admit, I tend to get worried for a bit if people don't text me back for a while for fear I've done something bad when 8/10 this isn't the case. Any tips to not stress there?",
"How not to overthink when people do stuff like not text you back. I admit, I tend to get worried for a bit if people don't text me back for a while for fear I've done something bad when 8/10 this isn't the case. Any tips to not stress there?",
"How not to overthink when people do stuff like not text you back. I admit, I tend to get worried for a bit if people don't text me back for a while for fear I've done something bad when 8/10 this isn't the case. Any tips to not stress there?"
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"Thinks of all the times you weren't able to reply immediately and assume your friends are in the same situations. Then again, I'm usually the one who stalls.",
"Keep busy. Do something that you like to do. Shop online. Watch funny YouTube videos. Get a stress ball.",
"It happens to everyone. Don't tell me you always respond in a blink of an eye every single time someone texts you. Absolutely nothing to stress about, give it some time.",
"Remove your battery from your phone for a day. \n\nNow whenever you don't get an immediate text-back, assume someone else saw this thread and is trying the same thing because they too get nervous about it.\n\nOr just assume they're busy having sex and will get back to you when they finish up. \n\nOr the approach I actually use: I'm terrible for delayed responses. Famously so. Keyword there famously. No one expects me to reply within an hour, let alone a minute, if they send me a lunch invitation for 1pm, my friends send it at 9am. Then, inevitably, one of their phones will break or malfunction eventually, and everyone teases them for being worse than me at replying quickly. My whole group of friends are smiles about it. We generally agree, if it's important, it's a Unified Call To Battle: Cell phone call (not text, actual call), skype call, steam alert, the works, and discuss the important thing. If it's a text or skype note (NOT call), it's really not all that vital or time-sensitive. If we miss something, we miss it. S'ok.\n\nAs per \"accidental faux-pas\", mocking viciously comes standard in our group. We get along so well that there is really nothing we could say to each other that would sever a friendship, and make clear when something actually offends us, compared to theatrical complaints when it's acceptable. \n\nCommunicate with friends. Let 'em know, \"hey, if I offend you, just tell me, because I suck at reading cues, only way I'll improve is critique.\"",
"I struggle with this as well, even when communicating via text with people I know very well. I want to second the distraction idea (watch TV, shop online, etc.). In addition, for me, when I find myself worrying I think about how my reaction goes against the kind of person I want to be (confident, secure, understanding, etc.). That's why when I find myself worrying or constantly checking my phone to see if someone responded, I feel worse about myself in the end. Therefore I do something I do have control over, hence distraction. I feel better about myself when I move on and make choices about what I do.",
"Get on World of Warcraft and do your stupid garrison daily chores. All available free time will get sucked into that, and you will not even remember the text.",
"I have a magic 8 ball. When someone doesn't text me back, I ask it if they're dead. It usually says yes. 100% of the time, they eventually text back and are not dead. I only worry if it tells me they're not dead ;)\n\nBut seriously, work on distractions for yourself. Don't keep your phone right beside you. That will just keep reminding you of the waiting.\n\nOr, get better friends.",
"Assume they really like you and are playing hard to get. Texting back right away shows they're super into you, nobody wants to show their cards like that. "
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"i am very hard of hearing. How can i get people that i dont know to not yell at me from a distance to get my attention? This happens everywhere, people yell out to get my attention. I cant hear them, and they get pissed. I read lips so if i cant see them , i cant \"hear\" them. How can i let people know (at a distance) that yelling at me is useless? ",
"i am very hard of hearing. How can i get people that i dont know to not yell at me from a distance to get my attention? This happens everywhere, people yell out to get my attention. I cant hear them, and they get pissed. I read lips so if i cant see them , i cant \"hear\" them. How can i let people know (at a distance) that yelling at me is useless? ",
"i am very hard of hearing. How can i get people that i dont know to not yell at me from a distance to get my attention? This happens everywhere, people yell out to get my attention. I cant hear them, and they get pissed. I read lips so if i cant see them , i cant \"hear\" them. How can i let people know (at a distance) that yelling at me is useless? ",
"i am very hard of hearing. How can i get people that i dont know to not yell at me from a distance to get my attention? This happens everywhere, people yell out to get my attention. I cant hear them, and they get pissed. I read lips so if i cant see them , i cant \"hear\" them. How can i let people know (at a distance) that yelling at me is useless? "
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"Use minimal sign language.\n\nAs soon as you starting signing the person will realise yelling is futile.",
"Also, would people please stop calling us rude when we don't answer you? If you're talking behind me, the chances are I don't know you're talking to me.\nThe really small hearing aids are nice, but on the flip side, no one knows I'm wearing them!\nAlso, please know that the hearing aids improve my hearing, but they don't make my hearing loss go away.",
"https://www.google.com/search?q=semaphore+flags&biw=360&bih=559&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMqeHKtK3LAhXDgj4KHdmQBgIQ_AUIBygC#imgrc=5ZCg8gBEBT1BGM%3A semaphore flags.",
"Tape a big sign to your forehead that says, \"I am very hard of hearing. Don't yell at me from a distance to get my attention.\" on both sides :D I think that your problem would never happen again if you did this OP."
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"Confronting roommates about costs of their activities. I have a couple roommates who don't seem to understand just how much energy space heaters use. They fall asleep with them on every night WHILE we have our gas heat running. I don't know how to approach them without sounding like a dick (can you dress warmer or just put on another comforter?,) but the math is factoring out to about $30 a month out of my pocket for them to do this all winter. Help.",
"Confronting roommates about costs of their activities. I have a couple roommates who don't seem to understand just how much energy space heaters use. They fall asleep with them on every night WHILE we have our gas heat running. I don't know how to approach them without sounding like a dick (can you dress warmer or just put on another comforter?,) but the math is factoring out to about $30 a month out of my pocket for them to do this all winter. Help.",
"Confronting roommates about costs of their activities. I have a couple roommates who don't seem to understand just how much energy space heaters use. They fall asleep with them on every night WHILE we have our gas heat running. I don't know how to approach them without sounding like a dick (can you dress warmer or just put on another comforter?,) but the math is factoring out to about $30 a month out of my pocket for them to do this all winter. Help.",
"Confronting roommates about costs of their activities. I have a couple roommates who don't seem to understand just how much energy space heaters use. They fall asleep with them on every night WHILE we have our gas heat running. I don't know how to approach them without sounding like a dick (can you dress warmer or just put on another comforter?,) but the math is factoring out to about $30 a month out of my pocket for them to do this all winter. Help.",
"Confronting roommates about costs of their activities. I have a couple roommates who don't seem to understand just how much energy space heaters use. They fall asleep with them on every night WHILE we have our gas heat running. I don't know how to approach them without sounding like a dick (can you dress warmer or just put on another comforter?,) but the math is factoring out to about $30 a month out of my pocket for them to do this all winter. Help.",
"Confronting roommates about costs of their activities. I have a couple roommates who don't seem to understand just how much energy space heaters use. They fall asleep with them on every night WHILE we have our gas heat running. I don't know how to approach them without sounding like a dick (can you dress warmer or just put on another comforter?,) but the math is factoring out to about $30 a month out of my pocket for them to do this all winter. Help.",
"Confronting roommates about costs of their activities. I have a couple roommates who don't seem to understand just how much energy space heaters use. They fall asleep with them on every night WHILE we have our gas heat running. I don't know how to approach them without sounding like a dick (can you dress warmer or just put on another comforter?,) but the math is factoring out to about $30 a month out of my pocket for them to do this all winter. Help.",
"Confronting roommates about costs of their activities. I have a couple roommates who don't seem to understand just how much energy space heaters use. They fall asleep with them on every night WHILE we have our gas heat running. I don't know how to approach them without sounding like a dick (can you dress warmer or just put on another comforter?,) but the math is factoring out to about $30 a month out of my pocket for them to do this all winter. Help.",
"Confronting roommates about costs of their activities. I have a couple roommates who don't seem to understand just how much energy space heaters use. They fall asleep with them on every night WHILE we have our gas heat running. I don't know how to approach them without sounding like a dick (can you dress warmer or just put on another comforter?,) but the math is factoring out to about $30 a month out of my pocket for them to do this all winter. Help.",
"Confronting roommates about costs of their activities. I have a couple roommates who don't seem to understand just how much energy space heaters use. They fall asleep with them on every night WHILE we have our gas heat running. I don't know how to approach them without sounding like a dick (can you dress warmer or just put on another comforter?,) but the math is factoring out to about $30 a month out of my pocket for them to do this all winter. Help."
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"How warm are their rooms? If they have drafts, poor insulation or bad windows they might get very cold in the winter. Maybe have a meeting and talk about putting plastic shrink wrap up to save a little money. If they have storm windows make sure they are down/installed. One of my college roomates complained about it and the landlord came by and noticed he forgot to install the storm window to his room. Agree on a temp for the winter. ",
"Man i hear you. I don't miss having roommates at all. Personally i would just be as honest as possible. I had a roommate who would turn the heat up to the mid 70s because he was wearing a t-shirt and shorts in January. I told him that him being comfortable in summer clothes in the middle of winter shouldn't cost me money. I would go in with the mindset that they are ignorant to the power consumption space heaters have. My roommate's parents paid for everything (we were in college) and he just didn't think about the half of the bill that i had to pay. \n\nnot to mention how many fires are started by unattended space heaters. \n\n(I know they aren't necessarily unattended but not readily able to be turned off in the event of unfortunate stuff.) ",
"Write out the math so you can show them your concerns. My first option would be asking to renegotiate the energy split (pay 65/35 instead of 50/50, eg) as long as you're confident that you aren't wasting energy yourself. It's not so easy to change people's habits so I wouldn't try to go the nagging route - just bring math and facts and renegotiate the terms. Be calm and respectful and don't make it judgmental just point out that you wear sweaters indoors and don't want to finance their poor habits.",
"Nah Dave it isn't really that bad. \n\n<serious> just tell them every time to turn off the heat when they go to bed. Even if that makes you the mom of the shared flat.",
"Just provide them with simple math and ask if they'd be okay paying a little extra.\n\nTypical space heater power usage: 1000 watts\n\nHours per 30 days: 720 hours\n\nPrice per Kilowatt Hour: $0.09\n\n\n720 Kilowatt-Hours * $0.09 = $64.80/month if run 24/7",
"I understand you don't want to make your room mates angry but the simple matter is they're costing YOU money. They obviously don't understand the correlation between power usage and dollar signs. So you'll have to make them understand. Your electronics are nothing compared to space heaters which are well known for being small little energy hogs when used incorrectly. Doesn't matter what they say or think. You're aware of everyone's careless energy consuming ways (\"Put some freaken' clothes on. You don't look like Jack Frost or Elsa to me! If the cold bothers me it bothers you!\"). Stacking up heating sources like that for the sake of \"comfort heating\" will not heat up their room any better and DOES ramp up the cost to use it. After a quick google search about the cost of running a space heater stated this exact thing no matter which website I went to. Take your pick. \n\nMost importantly, get them involved with the budgeting. I have a whiteboard that lists all the bills with the amounts (present and past), due dates and what it the cost is when it's split per person. This way they can see their habits before them in terms of money. I don't understand why this is considered nit picky or passive aggressive by some. Perhaps they're the ones who are part of the problem and not the solution. It's more of a visual bridge that puts everyone on the same page with a mutual understanding about where money is going and why. They may finally feel a need to shape up if they just see the consequences of their actions.",
"I had a space heater that you could set at a certain temperature and it will shut off when it hits that. Maybe they could cut down on the cost with something like that. ",
"Get Kill-A-Watts. I think they're under $20 each and you can use these to monitor the power consumption of the space heaters.\n\nYou will need to be careful with the approach, though, and not turn it into nitpicking.\n\ne.g. make sure you also use them to monitor power usage of communal appliances like the TV or microwave so you can build a profile of all power usage in the household.\n\nYou can also do a week of each of your appliances to highlight who is the power hog or where most of your power is going (e.g. do all your computers to show that the space heaters probably? blow them out of the water).",
"Approach them calmly, and respectfully. Do not take any of these bullshit 'use a power monitor' sneaky approaches.\n\nYou're not their parent/boss, taking on a condescending or authoritarian tone will be counterproductive.\n\nJust discuss it calmly. Try starting it with 'if your room is too cold, we can turn the heating up a little to compensate'. The gas heater should be way more efficient than a space heater. Your room mates may not understand that electrical heating is essentially the worst, possible, way to heat things, and the least efficient by a huge margin. So they may think they're actually saving money.\n\nI would avoid doing napkin math, or having all of the cost analysis already done. This makes it feel like you've laid an ambush because they are doing something 'wrong'.\n\nTry to keep it centered on you, not them. How you feel, how it effects you, etc. Pushing it out to them, in confrontations like this, can be counter productive because it puts them on the defensive, and you don't really want that.",
"Well, you better make sure you're not doing the same with something else before you confront them. Do you leave your TV on all night? Are you home more so you use more lights? Do you wash more laundry? That kind of stuff.\n\nAnd, if you're splitting it, and it goes up say $30 a month, your extra portion is $10 extra dollars a month. As annoying as it may be, is that amount of money worth the argument or awkwardness that this may bring on?\n\nThings to think about before approaching it."
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"how to forget about someone Seriously I'll take anything at this point. There's a toxic person in my life that I can't stop thinking about and I just want to forget them.",
"how to forget about someone Seriously I'll take anything at this point. There's a toxic person in my life that I can't stop thinking about and I just want to forget them.",
"how to forget about someone Seriously I'll take anything at this point. There's a toxic person in my life that I can't stop thinking about and I just want to forget them.",
"how to forget about someone Seriously I'll take anything at this point. There's a toxic person in my life that I can't stop thinking about and I just want to forget them.",
"how to forget about someone Seriously I'll take anything at this point. There's a toxic person in my life that I can't stop thinking about and I just want to forget them.",
"how to forget about someone Seriously I'll take anything at this point. There's a toxic person in my life that I can't stop thinking about and I just want to forget them.",
"how to forget about someone Seriously I'll take anything at this point. There's a toxic person in my life that I can't stop thinking about and I just want to forget them.",
"how to forget about someone Seriously I'll take anything at this point. There's a toxic person in my life that I can't stop thinking about and I just want to forget them.",
"how to forget about someone Seriously I'll take anything at this point. There's a toxic person in my life that I can't stop thinking about and I just want to forget them.",
"how to forget about someone Seriously I'll take anything at this point. There's a toxic person in my life that I can't stop thinking about and I just want to forget them.",
"how to forget about someone Seriously I'll take anything at this point. There's a toxic person in my life that I can't stop thinking about and I just want to forget them."
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"A wise person once told me to only think about what you see, smell the air and try to be aware and feel your own physical body as you move ...be in the present.\n\nPracticing this regularly is m",
"On computer hard drives, you can never actually delete memory items. You can only over write them with new items.\n\nYour memory works the same way.",
"remove anything that reminds you of them. unfollow or block them on social media, block & delete their number. Get rid of any of their things you have in your home. Distract yourself in healthy ways, go out with friends, be busy.",
"Granted this sounds a bit naff, but you could try something symbolic like writing down everything you don't like about the person or all of the things that you want to forget about him or her. Take that sheet of paper and burn it, throw it off the end of a pier, as a paper plane off the top of a building; you get the picture. You then say goodbye to those memories as the paper floats / flies / burns away taking your memories of the person with it.\n\nFailing that, try to find a positive from it. What about this person was toxic? If he or she put you down in some way, use your (presumed) dislike for the person as the fuel to motivate you to change something about yourself for the better; the whole success is the best revenge theory.\n\nAs others have suggested, busying yourself with something else can also be helpful. Perhaps there's something you always wanted to try but didn't because of the person or maybe before now, you didn't have time for that you could dive into now.\n\nGood luck!",
"Keep yourself occupied. I mean really occupied. Work hard, play hard. Fill all of your time. Don't give intrusive thoughts room to fester.",
"First suggestion I would offer: is forgive them. Second: look at what irritants occur from their toxicity. For example what specifically about their memory in you triggers what specific emotions. What do these emotions feel like, how do you react to them, does this then effect others? If it does then you need to own the toxicity you emit. While having memories about a person who did you harm, caused you pain, maybe used you, can feel terrible. If they are just memories and not someone who is still an occuring presence in your life, then you need to learn to begin to let it go.\n\n (I agree with other posts that offer: seek professional counseling). These memories are never forgotten. In my own experience I have learned what they really are, so I am able to deal with them without all the anger, pain, embarrassment, and shame. What we learn to let go of is the feelings they caused. We do not have to have these feelings. We can change them, or at least learn how to change focus when they begin to seep in. \n\nIt also takes power away from the person. Forgiving them can (I dare say will) give you the ability to take any power away that they now hold over you when you are triggered. I have done this for a person in my life that was very toxic for me. I also apologized for my faults and destruction I performed and caused. Though we are not regularly in each other's day to day. We are now able to hold a conversation. I let go of a lot, I accepted a lot, and I work on myself a lot.",
"Trust me, just go outside more. Seeing other people at parks, coffee shops, etc. Really helps me think of “the bigger picture” and it brings me peace to realize the world will always keep moving regardless of how terrible my problems may seem be to be at any given moment. You never know when someone will say something friendly or little things will happen throughout my day that will make me appreciate life a little bit more",
"Remove anything that reminds you of them, block, unfollow, unfriend. Exercise, watch movies, distract your mind. And then give yourself actual time to think about them, grieve the loss of a relationship/friendship, and then do something calming afterwards. Drink tea, take a bath/shower, take a nap.",
"I think about all the bad things about her and also play out the relationship in my head to the logical conclusion, after the passion and the good sex was out of our system and I would actually have to face this shitty person every day and deal with the negative shit about her that I hated.\n\nLike she littered - she threw trash on the street and just shrugged it off when I said it was pretty bad. And she was a gold digger. She knew I was broke, so I was just fun sex until she found a rich guy to get her claws into - if somehow we had ended up in a real relationship, she would probably be asking for shit that I couldn't buy and making me feel inadequate for not being a one percenter. That's just a person I don't want to be with, no matter how fun she was when we were together.",
"I had a friend who set a timer, sat down and thought until it rang, then if she caught herself thinking remembered it wasn’t time to think about it. \n\nMy solution was a mind palace, a prison where I didn’t have to think about people. If I needed to visit them, I could.",
"How long ? Things take time . Took me 1.5 years to turn a corner with my horrible ex gf . You might need to talk to a counselor . Meet someone new ? Self improve ?"
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"How to work 3rd shift twice a week and normalize a sleep schedule I work 3rd shift (11pm-7am) only twice a week, and I have classes the morning after. \n\nI need to keep my GPA up, but when I have class at 9:30 am after I worked all night, it's a really rough day. \n\nAnyone who has worked 3rd shift have any tips for me? I was in the Army and I had some 40+ hour days, but I expected it. Now I'm just trying to do two jobs at once, and I want as many tips or lifehacks that I can get haha. ",
"How to work 3rd shift twice a week and normalize a sleep schedule I work 3rd shift (11pm-7am) only twice a week, and I have classes the morning after. \n\nI need to keep my GPA up, but when I have class at 9:30 am after I worked all night, it's a really rough day. \n\nAnyone who has worked 3rd shift have any tips for me? I was in the Army and I had some 40+ hour days, but I expected it. Now I'm just trying to do two jobs at once, and I want as many tips or lifehacks that I can get haha. ",
"How to work 3rd shift twice a week and normalize a sleep schedule I work 3rd shift (11pm-7am) only twice a week, and I have classes the morning after. \n\nI need to keep my GPA up, but when I have class at 9:30 am after I worked all night, it's a really rough day. \n\nAnyone who has worked 3rd shift have any tips for me? I was in the Army and I had some 40+ hour days, but I expected it. Now I'm just trying to do two jobs at once, and I want as many tips or lifehacks that I can get haha. ",
"How to work 3rd shift twice a week and normalize a sleep schedule I work 3rd shift (11pm-7am) only twice a week, and I have classes the morning after. \n\nI need to keep my GPA up, but when I have class at 9:30 am after I worked all night, it's a really rough day. \n\nAnyone who has worked 3rd shift have any tips for me? I was in the Army and I had some 40+ hour days, but I expected it. Now I'm just trying to do two jobs at once, and I want as many tips or lifehacks that I can get haha. "
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"Stay the hell away from caffeine because you will inevitably crash. Between the end of your third shift and the start of your day go for a run in the cold morning air. The combination of physical exercise and cold will help you feel refreshed and like you're beginning the day again. Don't sit in comfy chairs, drink caffeine or sit around doing nothing for too long.",
"I work 3 twve hours night shifts a week 7-7y last day I sleep until noon and go to bed around midnight. I'd suggest a nap after the class. 4 hours or so, drink some coffee enjoy the rest of the day and go to bed at a normal time.",
"What does your full schedule look like? It's hard to give anything better than general advice without knowing more specifics.\n\nDo you work the two shifts consecutively? Do you have commitments the day before? If so, at what times? Do you have commitments other than the 09:30 class following shifts?",
"It's not physiologically possible. You're operating in a way that is contrary to the circadian rhythm altogether. Instead of finding a way to make it better, you should be finding a way to live a normal schedule. That means finding a job that fits in better with your school asap.\n\nPut your foot down and take your life back."
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"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n",
"What are things I can do to help me get a job? I've just turned 15, so I'm finally old enough. I need to make my own money. I don't really care where I work or what I do. I just want money. Preferably, I'd like to do something easy like fast food. \n\n"
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"Apply online. All chains require online applications. They usually take at least 10 minutes a piece. \n\nThen go somewhere that you applied to and ask if they're hiring. They will tell you to fill out an application online, tell them you already did and you will seem proactive and valuable.",
"i got my job through getting voluntary work. concentrate on your studies to make sure you get respectable grades, and volunteer in you spare time so you come across as a nice human being. also luck",
"Have an appropriate resume that looks professional (nice layout, no errors). Add baby/pet-sitting and volunteer experiences to make up for the lack of work experience. Dress professionally and go into places you think you'd like to work and hand over your resume with absolute politeness and confidence! Even if the store doesn't have openings, the manager might remember you and give you a call later on. Good luck!",
"Leave your phone at home.\n\nWork/be 10% better than your competition.\n\nStudy your industry and have insights.\n\nDont let your boss regret hiring you. \n",
"\\#1 priority: Have good grades.\n\nTry to identify people in your social network (e.g. Older brother of a friend?) that have a job that can vouch for you with their employer.\n\nHave reliable transportation to and from where you'd like to work.\n\nApply at times companies are likely to hire, even if there's no promise of a permanent position. A good example here is retail in the fall/winter, and I think food places (and maybe retail) will probably be hiring for summer as well.\n\nBe persistent.\n\nHave extracurriculars / hobbies / sports that can vouch for you ability to honor commitments and be on time.",
"Do something that makes you happy and can help develop skills like time management, customer service, troubleshooting, leadership, etc. I say try to find a local camp with kids. You'll learn how to manage them. Or if you want to do fast food, don't just think of it as an easy job. Think of it as an opportunity to start developing some of the most important skills you can have. ",
"Wait till 16 and Mcdonalds will hire you. 8.25 hr, and free meals and breaks if you work 4 or more hours. Doesn't get much better than that.",
"There is a lot of good advice here already. I got my very first, bottom rung of the ladder, job by visiting the websites of local companies and looking for a careers link.\n\nThere is probably a lot of seasonal work too; for example garden centers and landscapers are probably looking for extra temp work over the summer.\n\nThe one thing you have to remember is that you are trying to sell yourself to a company. Without work history that means you are going to be doing a lot of character building. So if you are taking fancy classes at school or some such, highlight that on your resume.\n\nFor me, the interview was difficult just because I wasn't used to on-the-spot talking yet. And it is no good trying to memorize a bunch of answers to questions they might ask. Practicing an 'elevator speech' in the mirror can be a great way to build confidence though.\nAlso, come up with a story for why you want to work. I'm fairly certain we all want the same thing, to get rich and retire early; but if asked, it sounds really good to say something like \"I'm trying to save up for college.\", even if you never intend to go.",
"Reiterating, shower, shave, look presentable. These people may hire you to represent their brand, they have some appearance standards. Smile, be kind. ",
"Know how to write an application! \n\nSince your only 15, not much can be written, but remember not just write: I was a dishwasher, I sold tickets at the movies, I worked on the floor at a grocery store (My C.V e.i) \n\nRemember to write what you learned and what skill you got from that job and how it may apply to the employer.\n\nIf you do sports, may be a team captain for your football team, tell them why you are the captain and what it takes or just why you're so passionate about your sport. \n\nI've had 4 jobs in a city with few jobs for young people (Im now 22), but alot of my friends have been amazed that I'm always able to get the job I'm looking for, it's simple, know how to write an application, to many lack that skill \n\n ",
"If you just need *a* job, any job, literally go door to door with resumes introducing yourself and if you get no bites go home and spam them on Craigslist. Any restaurant row in a major city will hire Joe Blow off the street as a dishwasher within the hour if you're on the ball and don't sperg out when talking to them. They don't give a fuck if you have any real experience, they just want someone who will act right. Forget all this shit about going on McDonald's.com and answering a 60-part questionnaire on your favourite McFlurry. Print 40 resumes and walk down the street looking for dishwasher gigs and when one gives you a staj drop everything and hustle it for your pulled pork sandwich and cash on the spot.\n\nYes, I have done this and it has worked for me. No, it will not get you a respectable job. But the guy who pounds pavement and looks the chef in the eye will get that greasy dish pit minimum wage gig faster than any of the idiots who follow memes about going online to McDonald's.com and answering a 60-part questionnaire on their favourite McFlurry.",
"If you have any tourist attractions near you, apply to the foods division... It's pretty cool and they usually hire.",
"If you have an amusement park in your area, strongly consider applying there. They are always hiring during the season and have a variety of positions someone with little experience can excel at. This may be seasonal employment depending on where you live. If it is, pre-season and post-season operations will extend the position into the school year. Plus, all your coworkers will be roughly your age allowing for some networking. Plus, many parks will give you free tickets for family, you can attend for free on your days off, and you can buy anything inside at a discount. I did this throughout highschool and was able to buy my first car after my second season and get a place with some coworkers my third season after I turned 18.",
"I'd say have very open availability. Nothing's worse than someone who claims they want to work so bad but then says oh but I can only work 3 days a week at these very specific times (although they'll understand if you go to school). \n\nBy the way, as someone who works in fast food, it is easy in the sense that it doesn't take skill but it is a terrible job relatively speaking. If you can go for a grocery store or something do that because running back and forth in a 90° kitchen for 8 hours gets old quick. ",
"I started working at Subway when I turned 15.\n\nContrary to popular thought, handing in a resume to any fast food chain (McDonald's, Burger King, Subway etc) is an absolute *waste of time*. What to know what happened to all the people who handed in resumes at my restaurant? Their resumes got put on the whiteboard out the back for a bit, then the manager either collected them up or binned them. And the people never got a job.\n\nYou gotta apply online if you want to work at a fast food chain. Independently owned restaurants (non chains) are a different story. \n\n",
"I know this isn't the life protip you wanted, but consider going into a trade. At your age you can either stick with the trade if school isn't for you or you can finish college and have a degree as well as completed a apprenticeship. It will give you two career paths when your in early 20's",
"I got my first job at 15. Whether they accept online applications or not, always ask to speak directly to a manager. Look them in the eye and ask confidently for an application, if they are hiring, or to check the current status of your application.\n\nDon't expect to be hired on the spot, follow up every week or so at each place you apply. You'll have a job in a month or less.",
"Ask. Ask your friends who have jobs if their company is hiring ask uncles or aunts or friends of friends. Knowing someone is the only way I have ever gotten a job. ",
"Apply for them.\n\n\nNo, in all serious. Network. Talk to people you know, family, friends, etc. Tell them you are looking for a job and what you're looking to do.\n\nApply online and do follow-up phone calls a week later to ask about your application.\n\nMake sure your resume is one page and beefed-up! Talk to a professional, if you need to. A lot of websites use programs that scrub through resumes for certain keywords - find out those keywords for the area you'd like a job in. ",
"Another thing to consider is working for yourself. Lots of options for this.\n\n* If you're in a suburban neighborhood, mowing lawns and yard work can bring in good money. You'll need some equipment, but there are a number of ways to approach that. And almost everyone in that kind of area needs their grass cut. Depending on where you live, you can rake leaves in the fall and shovel snow in winter (plus many other things) to keep the income coming in\n\n* Alternatively, get a string trimmer or edger and offer to do the detail work that a lot of people skip over when they do their own lawn. Lower start-up cost for equipment. May be easier to find customers since perhaps more people cut their own grass, but might not do the extras.\n\n* Pet sitting or dog walking takes no equipment. Depending on where you live, finding enough customers to make it worthwhile might be challenging\n\n* Related to the previous: Poop scooping. It is literally a shitty job, but many people who don't want to do it themselves will pay you to periodically clean up their yards\n\n* Detailing cars. Fairly minimal gear/supplies required. People really serious about their cars will do it themselves, or pay for a pro. But lots of people will pay for a less-than-pro job if the price is right\n\n* Pressure washing. Decks, siding, driveways, etc.... The equipment may be a little more affordable than a lawn mower, maybe a little more unique service offering\n\nThose are just a few ideas off the top of my head. I'm sure there are lots of other things you can do. You will probably work harder at any of these than fast food or retail jobs, but you'll make more per hour, no one will withhold taxes from what they pay you, you can set your own schedule (to an extent), and if you hustle a bit and/or are in a good area for it, you can stay busy enough to make pretty good money.",
"All the comments about finding work are great and you should listen to them.\n\nI just want to add that you should also try your hardest to take courses and attend workshops, specially the ones that give certificates. All this will help you later on as you will be constantly improving your skills and they'll look great on your resume, specially because you've done it at a very young age. \n\nI wish you all the best and let me know what happens with you. Better not forget! \n\n",
"Good for you! So young yet so eager to work. I think any job in retail would be a great idea. I've had a ton of part time jobs when I was in college but the one I thought was most valuable: Old Navy. Taught me really great customer service and people skills, positive environment, they always had incentives to help motivate me. \n\nAs far as tips to help you get a job...make a resume, and when you take it in to apply anywhere, always ask to speak to a manager and give to them direct. If you just hand it off to any employee who knows where it'll end up...so by asking for a manager, you'll know it got to the right person, and they get to put a face to a name. Make an impression!\n\nI used to be a manager in the service/retail industry. I hope this helps! Good luck"
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"How can one become less irritable? I wish I were more mild-mannered, at peace with both myself and the world. ",
"How can one become less irritable? I wish I were more mild-mannered, at peace with both myself and the world. ",
"How can one become less irritable? I wish I were more mild-mannered, at peace with both myself and the world. ",
"How can one become less irritable? I wish I were more mild-mannered, at peace with both myself and the world. ",
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"How can one become less irritable? I wish I were more mild-mannered, at peace with both myself and the world. "
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"Patience is like muscle. The more you practice with it. The stronger it gets.\n\nStart practicing patience with small things. Learn to recognize your own sign of irritation so you can control it.\n\nCreate some mantra when you are irritated. For example \"I am a mountain - small things bother me not\".. Or \"I am cool. I am cool\". The first word out of your mouth in heated moment often shape the next moments. \n\nAnyway, once you can get over small irritations, over time you find yourself able to handle bigger irritations.\n\nAs for me, I used to think that I am a patient man, but when I got children, I realized I still have a lot more to learn on being more patient. They sure know how to push your button. Haha.",
"Learn how to m",
"Ask yourself, the honest question. And be truthful as it is happening; why are you irritable?\n\nAlso it’s not a myth not eating well can cause much of unnecessary irritability. If you catch yourself snapping more than other times, try and test to see if it’s because you haven’t eaten, or slept well.",
"This may sound stupid, but I used to be a lot more angry than I am now. I would curse if I dropped something or if something broke, but I intentionally started using the word \"Frick,\" more so in a silly way(I always thought of that old Zendaya meme).\nAfter a while, I was just a lot lessangryabouteverythingandnow I'm actually too laid back when it comes to when my wife and kids are arguing and stupid stuff like that. I just flat out don't get worked up and calmly say \"stop.\"\nI taught myself to just say, \"well that happened and it's too late, so what do I do now?\"",
"Stress is carcinogenic. Being angry at trivial shit all the time will kill you faster. Remember that you feel uncomfortable and youre hurting yourself more. It also makes you less likable to other people. Save it for when its useful.",
"This is life long and something that we all should strive for. I would suggest philosophy in the long term. Studying self help books. Short term is trying to pull back and see the bigger picture. Yes, the kid in the seat behind you is kicking your chair and it is annoying. But is it hurting you? Causing lasting damage? Will you dream of this later and relive this moment for the rest of your life? Probably not. It's small potatoes. Makes it easier to let things go.\n\nStill ask the kid to stop kicking your chair of course. But you wont be so mad when you do.",
"Study the writings of Marcus Aurelius.\n\nDonate time and money to charitable causes.\n\nSpend more time outside, preferably around Nature.\n\nListen to gentler music. (Not so much Cradle of Filth; perhaps more Enya. I’m only half-joking.)",
"Check out DBT, which is a type of therapy. You don't have to go to a therapist, you can just look up the tools online."
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"Safest way to carry your passport. I am going to be abroad for a few months, and will frequently have my passport on my person. I am looking for a discrete way to conceal my passport. I have looked into cases worn under your clothes (hip or around the neck) and I find them to be bulky and silly looking. Anyone have any other ideas?",
"Safest way to carry your passport. I am going to be abroad for a few months, and will frequently have my passport on my person. I am looking for a discrete way to conceal my passport. I have looked into cases worn under your clothes (hip or around the neck) and I find them to be bulky and silly looking. Anyone have any other ideas?",
"Safest way to carry your passport. I am going to be abroad for a few months, and will frequently have my passport on my person. I am looking for a discrete way to conceal my passport. I have looked into cases worn under your clothes (hip or around the neck) and I find them to be bulky and silly looking. Anyone have any other ideas?",
"Safest way to carry your passport. I am going to be abroad for a few months, and will frequently have my passport on my person. I am looking for a discrete way to conceal my passport. I have looked into cases worn under your clothes (hip or around the neck) and I find them to be bulky and silly looking. Anyone have any other ideas?",
"Safest way to carry your passport. I am going to be abroad for a few months, and will frequently have my passport on my person. I am looking for a discrete way to conceal my passport. I have looked into cases worn under your clothes (hip or around the neck) and I find them to be bulky and silly looking. Anyone have any other ideas?",
"Safest way to carry your passport. I am going to be abroad for a few months, and will frequently have my passport on my person. I am looking for a discrete way to conceal my passport. I have looked into cases worn under your clothes (hip or around the neck) and I find them to be bulky and silly looking. Anyone have any other ideas?"
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">I have looked into cases worn under your clothes (hip or around the neck) \n\nIf they work, you should use them, regardless if they're 'silly looking' .",
"What's worked best for me is a neck strap pouch that hangs down about one inch into my pants.\n\n Basically the pouch is stuffed down the front of my pants... The neck strap is holding it from sliding all the way down. You cannot notice it, you can feel it there and all is well. \n\n I expect to get a lot of jokes about this but it works the best for high security. ",
"Use a waist or neck money pouch. I took all cash for a month-long trip to France and kept cr",
"Some advice if you're planning to visit hot countries...\n\nKeep your passport in a thin ziploc baggie within your money belt. When you're wearing something strapped around your body for hours at a time in a hot climate, the sweat will definitely soak through and without some moisture protection you will be left with a stinky, soggy passport.",
"Just put it in your front pocket, not a purse or back pocket. Even if a thief saw and wanted it and you were not paying attention they could not just slide it out or razorblade it off. \n\nThe two things you need to watch our for is people sneaking up on you with a razorblade, cutting it off and bolting. That or they will cut it off real quick right as train doors close so you can't do anything about it.\n\nThe other thing is that pople will \"accidentally bump into you\", and you will both kind of swagger back from the impact, and then your wallet is gone.\n\n Knowing how it would happen is key in preventing it, and really puting it in your front pocket seems pretty foolproof. The only thing is often only men's clothes have big enough front pockets so you can stuff it in there real deep and keep your eye on the only opening. You may need to get new pants if you are a woman, but as a man the front pocket is pretty darn safe. \n\n",
"It depends on what type of country you are going to. If you are in a dangerous, high crime area those cases will only attract attention to you. Front pockets are a good place if you have them. "
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"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?",
"How to not make my head overflow with thoughts at night This is I think why I can't fall asleep too many thoughts. I feel depressed sometimes, I think about life, the future, and stress. Is there any way to relax my mind?"
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"Do your serious or introspective thinking more often. \n\nYou won't experience such a sudden and large wave of thoughts when your head hits the pillow if you become comfortable with the ideas that are currently stressing you out. Giving them some thought during the day makes them less of a surprise later.\n\n",
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"If you ask the psych I had in the Air Force, progressive muscle relaxation along with diaphragmatic breathing. It didn't work for me but from the way he spoke, it works for most people who can't get ~~the lambs to stop screaming~~ their brain to shut up at night.",
"I usually go with m",
"what works for me is to have some sort of background noise on, for me it would usually be the sounds of crickets or if gets too warm for me too sleep ill turn on my ac and listen to humming it makes. its very easy to zone out while paying attention to a background noise. if thats not your thing you can think about things you like only, any special hobbies or activities and look forward to doing them the next day or whenever. another technique would to be visualize a balll bouncing around a room in your house and let your mind wander as to where the ball would bounce next. good luck though, sleeping is a difficult thing to master.",
"You need a good bed time routine.\n\nMost of the time when my mind is racing at night, it's because I've been browsing the Internet or something until really late. It's not a healthy bedtime habit.\n\nYou need to put the phone away before bed and not look at it. Make your bedtime routine really structured and calm. Maybe drink some relaxing tea.\n\nGet yourself really snug and comfy in bed and take lots of deep breaths. I'm a big fan of 7/11 breathing - breathe in for 7 counts and out for 11. Keep this going for a little while and really focus on your counting.\n\nAnother thing I do if my mind is still racing after that is count down from 100 in 3s in my head. It's boring and repetitive and will probably switch your mind off before you reach the end.\n\n",
"What will work is at least spending some time (approx. 15 minutes) throughout your day to think about things that may come up. Also, you could try not thinking (m",
"Try playing simple word or number games in your head. Like, count backward from 200 by 7s, or try to think of four-syllable words for every letter in the alphabet. The games should be challenging enough to hold your focus, but not so hard that they keep you awake.",
"This happens to me all the time, the only way I can fall asleep now is to have a tv show playing in the background. Maybe give that a try?",
"This gold answer from a very similar thread : https://np.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/4tg4oe/z/d5hjmhf",
"Take a time in a day when you just sit and don't do anything. Don't watch TV, don't read, don't look at your phone, just let the mind wander. Thoughts will get sorted in your head and your brain won't need to do it just before you fall asleep. ",
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"Sometimes it can help to write stuff down. Take an empty paper or a diary or whatever. \"[Thing] stresses me out\" \"I am angry at [person]\" or something... It is taking a physical step to say \"YES BRAIN, I realize this stresses me but lets put it aside\".\n\nIf the stress and the depressive thoughts are frequent you perhaps should talk to a professional, always a good thing.",
"On you're drive to or from work don't turn on the radio or have any sounds around you. During that time instead let you're mind think about anything and everything that you would normally think about while you are trying to sleep. Do this enough and you won't have a problem sleeping at night ",
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"I usually rise my self up with enough Xanax to kill a small child works for me but I'm addicted now so bad that if I don't take it every night I get a seizure",
"I know most people say the opposite, but I find doing yoga/muscle tension exercises for about 15 minutes before I go to bed helps me relax my muscles and I go to sleep straight away.",
"Have a set schedule and follow it. It'll train your brain to shut off easier. Play a stupid game on your phone to distract you too! I have anxiety too and it sucks but you can overcome it. It ebbs and flows, sometimes it'll be worse sometimes it'll be better",
"Have a routine for the night that excludes hitting the bed till is time to sleep. Train your body into a pattern that tells it sleep now when you lay down. \n\nStop electronics about an hour before bed. \n\nRead a good but non-cliff hanger book. I like medieval history. \n\nStart a gratitude journal – Try to remember 3 good things to have gratitude for during the day. And you don’t get to repeat them from last time. It does not have to be epic. It’s not a competition. Someone returned a smile this morning at the coffee shop. It was nice and brightened my day. \n\nVent the worries. Write down your worries and why you are worried and options to look into in the morning. Writing also helps you rework the story in your mind. I hit that and by writing I take things from, oh god this sucks, everything sucks to Okay here is the things to do to fix it.\n",
"ASMR.\n\nNot for everyone but since I discovered it I fall asleep to [cranial nerve exam roleplays](https://youtu.be/ySELrkFwa6o?t=11s).",
"A self-hypnosis trick I read/use was to imagine a white room with a giant spiral staircase with alternating black and white steps. You visualize yourself walking up each stair: black, white, black, white to the 50th step, (count them in your mind as you ascend) at the top you are in a completely black room. Take a wide brush and paint the room white, when done go back down the stairs counting until you're in the white room, take a brush and paint it black. Repeat going up and down the stairs and painting the rooms until you fall asleep. It works for me."
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"I live on the 3rd floor and the smell of cigarette smoke goes through my vents, making my house smell like a Las Vegas casino I live in Los Angeles and have been in the same unit for 18 years. Over the past year or two, the smell of cigarette smoke has been coming through my vents, which I am assuming is from my downstairs neighbor. I have called our building's security on them multiple times to stop smoking, but it continues to persist. I sometimes just wake up angry because the smell of smoke would just wake me up. I've covered my vents with plastic and tape so that I won't smell the smoke, but it's inefficient since I need to take it off every time I want to turn on the AC.\n\nEver since quarantine has started, I've been working from home and realized just how much they smoke in their unit (at least 3x a day).\n\nWhat can I do to either make them stop smoking in their unit or another way to deodorize the scent without really spending much?",
"I live on the 3rd floor and the smell of cigarette smoke goes through my vents, making my house smell like a Las Vegas casino I live in Los Angeles and have been in the same unit for 18 years. Over the past year or two, the smell of cigarette smoke has been coming through my vents, which I am assuming is from my downstairs neighbor. I have called our building's security on them multiple times to stop smoking, but it continues to persist. I sometimes just wake up angry because the smell of smoke would just wake me up. I've covered my vents with plastic and tape so that I won't smell the smoke, but it's inefficient since I need to take it off every time I want to turn on the AC.\n\nEver since quarantine has started, I've been working from home and realized just how much they smoke in their unit (at least 3x a day).\n\nWhat can I do to either make them stop smoking in their unit or another way to deodorize the scent without really spending much?",
"I live on the 3rd floor and the smell of cigarette smoke goes through my vents, making my house smell like a Las Vegas casino I live in Los Angeles and have been in the same unit for 18 years. Over the past year or two, the smell of cigarette smoke has been coming through my vents, which I am assuming is from my downstairs neighbor. I have called our building's security on them multiple times to stop smoking, but it continues to persist. I sometimes just wake up angry because the smell of smoke would just wake me up. I've covered my vents with plastic and tape so that I won't smell the smoke, but it's inefficient since I need to take it off every time I want to turn on the AC.\n\nEver since quarantine has started, I've been working from home and realized just how much they smoke in their unit (at least 3x a day).\n\nWhat can I do to either make them stop smoking in their unit or another way to deodorize the scent without really spending much?",
"I live on the 3rd floor and the smell of cigarette smoke goes through my vents, making my house smell like a Las Vegas casino I live in Los Angeles and have been in the same unit for 18 years. Over the past year or two, the smell of cigarette smoke has been coming through my vents, which I am assuming is from my downstairs neighbor. I have called our building's security on them multiple times to stop smoking, but it continues to persist. I sometimes just wake up angry because the smell of smoke would just wake me up. I've covered my vents with plastic and tape so that I won't smell the smoke, but it's inefficient since I need to take it off every time I want to turn on the AC.\n\nEver since quarantine has started, I've been working from home and realized just how much they smoke in their unit (at least 3x a day).\n\nWhat can I do to either make them stop smoking in their unit or another way to deodorize the scent without really spending much?",
"I live on the 3rd floor and the smell of cigarette smoke goes through my vents, making my house smell like a Las Vegas casino I live in Los Angeles and have been in the same unit for 18 years. Over the past year or two, the smell of cigarette smoke has been coming through my vents, which I am assuming is from my downstairs neighbor. I have called our building's security on them multiple times to stop smoking, but it continues to persist. I sometimes just wake up angry because the smell of smoke would just wake me up. I've covered my vents with plastic and tape so that I won't smell the smoke, but it's inefficient since I need to take it off every time I want to turn on the AC.\n\nEver since quarantine has started, I've been working from home and realized just how much they smoke in their unit (at least 3x a day).\n\nWhat can I do to either make them stop smoking in their unit or another way to deodorize the scent without really spending much?",
"I live on the 3rd floor and the smell of cigarette smoke goes through my vents, making my house smell like a Las Vegas casino I live in Los Angeles and have been in the same unit for 18 years. Over the past year or two, the smell of cigarette smoke has been coming through my vents, which I am assuming is from my downstairs neighbor. I have called our building's security on them multiple times to stop smoking, but it continues to persist. I sometimes just wake up angry because the smell of smoke would just wake me up. I've covered my vents with plastic and tape so that I won't smell the smoke, but it's inefficient since I need to take it off every time I want to turn on the AC.\n\nEver since quarantine has started, I've been working from home and realized just how much they smoke in their unit (at least 3x a day).\n\nWhat can I do to either make them stop smoking in their unit or another way to deodorize the scent without really spending much?",
"I live on the 3rd floor and the smell of cigarette smoke goes through my vents, making my house smell like a Las Vegas casino I live in Los Angeles and have been in the same unit for 18 years. Over the past year or two, the smell of cigarette smoke has been coming through my vents, which I am assuming is from my downstairs neighbor. I have called our building's security on them multiple times to stop smoking, but it continues to persist. I sometimes just wake up angry because the smell of smoke would just wake me up. I've covered my vents with plastic and tape so that I won't smell the smoke, but it's inefficient since I need to take it off every time I want to turn on the AC.\n\nEver since quarantine has started, I've been working from home and realized just how much they smoke in their unit (at least 3x a day).\n\nWhat can I do to either make them stop smoking in their unit or another way to deodorize the scent without really spending much?",
"I live on the 3rd floor and the smell of cigarette smoke goes through my vents, making my house smell like a Las Vegas casino I live in Los Angeles and have been in the same unit for 18 years. Over the past year or two, the smell of cigarette smoke has been coming through my vents, which I am assuming is from my downstairs neighbor. I have called our building's security on them multiple times to stop smoking, but it continues to persist. I sometimes just wake up angry because the smell of smoke would just wake me up. I've covered my vents with plastic and tape so that I won't smell the smoke, but it's inefficient since I need to take it off every time I want to turn on the AC.\n\nEver since quarantine has started, I've been working from home and realized just how much they smoke in their unit (at least 3x a day).\n\nWhat can I do to either make them stop smoking in their unit or another way to deodorize the scent without really spending much?",
"I live on the 3rd floor and the smell of cigarette smoke goes through my vents, making my house smell like a Las Vegas casino I live in Los Angeles and have been in the same unit for 18 years. Over the past year or two, the smell of cigarette smoke has been coming through my vents, which I am assuming is from my downstairs neighbor. I have called our building's security on them multiple times to stop smoking, but it continues to persist. I sometimes just wake up angry because the smell of smoke would just wake me up. I've covered my vents with plastic and tape so that I won't smell the smoke, but it's inefficient since I need to take it off every time I want to turn on the AC.\n\nEver since quarantine has started, I've been working from home and realized just how much they smoke in their unit (at least 3x a day).\n\nWhat can I do to either make them stop smoking in their unit or another way to deodorize the scent without really spending much?",
"I live on the 3rd floor and the smell of cigarette smoke goes through my vents, making my house smell like a Las Vegas casino I live in Los Angeles and have been in the same unit for 18 years. Over the past year or two, the smell of cigarette smoke has been coming through my vents, which I am assuming is from my downstairs neighbor. I have called our building's security on them multiple times to stop smoking, but it continues to persist. I sometimes just wake up angry because the smell of smoke would just wake me up. I've covered my vents with plastic and tape so that I won't smell the smoke, but it's inefficient since I need to take it off every time I want to turn on the AC.\n\nEver since quarantine has started, I've been working from home and realized just how much they smoke in their unit (at least 3x a day).\n\nWhat can I do to either make them stop smoking in their unit or another way to deodorize the scent without really spending much?",
"I live on the 3rd floor and the smell of cigarette smoke goes through my vents, making my house smell like a Las Vegas casino I live in Los Angeles and have been in the same unit for 18 years. Over the past year or two, the smell of cigarette smoke has been coming through my vents, which I am assuming is from my downstairs neighbor. I have called our building's security on them multiple times to stop smoking, but it continues to persist. I sometimes just wake up angry because the smell of smoke would just wake me up. I've covered my vents with plastic and tape so that I won't smell the smoke, but it's inefficient since I need to take it off every time I want to turn on the AC.\n\nEver since quarantine has started, I've been working from home and realized just how much they smoke in their unit (at least 3x a day).\n\nWhat can I do to either make them stop smoking in their unit or another way to deodorize the scent without really spending much?"
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"Activated charcoal might help. Put them in small pots or deep dishes around your home and near your vents. Some come in small burlap bags/pouches you can easily hide between crevices and furniture.\n\n\nI used to smoke. i only smoked indoors when it was in a separate building that allowed smoking. Just want to also say that your neighbors are huge assholes.",
"Goes through, meaning coming in or out? If out, most units have exhaust vents drawing out bathroom and kitchen odors. To prevent hall air from coming in, seal up your front door frame with foam insulation tape and get a better door sweep guard. Stuff a bath towel along the bottom when you're home.\n\nIf blowing in, then it's up to management to rectify the situation or else have you lodge a government complaint against them. Their exhaust is getting sucked in and redistributed to everyone else. I could never put up with that.",
"ground coffee and baking soda neutralize odors. you can put little bowls with it around the house. there are also certain plants that eat smoke. peppermint plants literally absorb nicotine and other toxins from the smoke, also rubber tree, bamboo palm, rose of jericho and other plants are known to reduce the discomforts of cigarette smoke. \nif nothing helps i recommend using odors in your house that match with the smell of tabak/smoke. this might sound weird or gross, but it can combine really harmonic with certain aromas. vanilla, caramel or ginger can be a good fit. in my experience, very fruity/juicy odors don't mix well with smoke. \nto balance the smoke odor out you can use scented candles or essential oils in a lamp or diffuser. also incense sticks takes the intensity of the smoke away, i personally love olibanum. \ngood luck!",
"Is it legal or not to smoke in your building? Don’t just get the smoke smell covered up, you will have to work to make the building enforce.",
"If there are no cameras, soak their door with butyric acid. Then there will be a smelly problem for them, too.",
"I was in the same situation a couple of years ago so I feel your pain. My apartment manager kept “talking” to the tenant and he never stopped smoking and the manager never did anything about it. I did all kinds of hacks/cover-ups and nothing worked. I ended up moving. Everything in my house (especially clothes and linens) smelled like smoke! Good luck.",
"A great smoke eater is an ozone generator, which you can buy for like $40. You can’t use it while you’re in the space(it will damage your lungs worse than covid and I cannot stress this enough — do not use while you are there or if you have pets), but it’s what stadiums use (and really used to use when people smoked inside) to kill the odor.\nMost have a timer, so if you set it as you leave, you should come home to a good smell.\n\nFor the day-to-day, I would invest in a decent purifier. I know they’re expensive, but they do help.\n\nFor cheap, I would get an exhaust fan for my unit, a candle, and then complain to management, esp if you’re not allowed to smoke in your unit (as the rules probably apply to them too.)",
"Pet odor candles and floater spray worked for me when I loved above smokers, but floater spray is getting hard to find.",
"ONA gel. It's a gel that releases ozone, which nuetralizes odors better than just about anything else. There's also a spray version.",
"Just add some vinegar essence in hot water and put the cup in your room. \n\nThis kills all different kinds of smells. Maybe it works with cigerette smell too.",
"Find a heavier-than-air gas that will flow down into their unit. This might kill them but second hand smoke is killing you, so...",
"Dryer sheets over the vents, used to hide my green smoke by doing this works well enough but not 100%"
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"How to keep from biting your lip in the same spot over and over after the initial bite. It's terrible! You accidentally bite your lip and then keep chomping the same spot over and over until you are lucky enough for it to heal. Surely there has to be a way to lessen the repeated bites."
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"Get Oragel or Ambesol. It will numb the spot you bit so you don't think about it and will not bite it again. Works for me everytime"
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"Back Pain Prevention Tips (Not Treatment) Nearly every middle aged+ person I know struggles with chronic back pain. This includes not being able to turn/twist without pain, routinely seeing a chiropractor, constantly \"pulling their back out,\" always on the lookout for \"better\" mattresses that never seem to help long-term, etc.\n\nWhat can be done to significantly improve the chances of preventing this altogether? It's important to note, I am not looking for a treatment -- I'm looking for a prevention one can start when they're young.\n\nWhat I'd really love is specific exercises or stretches that are proven to help prevent this.\n\nOr even specific posture exercises / routines would be helpful.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI'd also be interested in hearing people's thoughts on mattresses. From what I understand, and this may be oversimplifying the data out there, western research seems to recommend a nice, comfortable mattress to make it comfortable while you sleep. Eastern research seems to recommend sleeping on as firm a platform as possible... such as the floor or a very firm mattress. The reason seems to be because it promotes better posture while you sleep, while a comfortable mattress will promote horrible sleep posture (since you don't feel uncomfortable in the position). I've read articles that go as far as saying comfortable mattresses are the reason for chronic back pain as people age. What are your thoughts?",
"Back Pain Prevention Tips (Not Treatment) Nearly every middle aged+ person I know struggles with chronic back pain. This includes not being able to turn/twist without pain, routinely seeing a chiropractor, constantly \"pulling their back out,\" always on the lookout for \"better\" mattresses that never seem to help long-term, etc.\n\nWhat can be done to significantly improve the chances of preventing this altogether? It's important to note, I am not looking for a treatment -- I'm looking for a prevention one can start when they're young.\n\nWhat I'd really love is specific exercises or stretches that are proven to help prevent this.\n\nOr even specific posture exercises / routines would be helpful.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI'd also be interested in hearing people's thoughts on mattresses. From what I understand, and this may be oversimplifying the data out there, western research seems to recommend a nice, comfortable mattress to make it comfortable while you sleep. Eastern research seems to recommend sleeping on as firm a platform as possible... such as the floor or a very firm mattress. The reason seems to be because it promotes better posture while you sleep, while a comfortable mattress will promote horrible sleep posture (since you don't feel uncomfortable in the position). I've read articles that go as far as saying comfortable mattresses are the reason for chronic back pain as people age. What are your thoughts?",
"Back Pain Prevention Tips (Not Treatment) Nearly every middle aged+ person I know struggles with chronic back pain. This includes not being able to turn/twist without pain, routinely seeing a chiropractor, constantly \"pulling their back out,\" always on the lookout for \"better\" mattresses that never seem to help long-term, etc.\n\nWhat can be done to significantly improve the chances of preventing this altogether? It's important to note, I am not looking for a treatment -- I'm looking for a prevention one can start when they're young.\n\nWhat I'd really love is specific exercises or stretches that are proven to help prevent this.\n\nOr even specific posture exercises / routines would be helpful.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI'd also be interested in hearing people's thoughts on mattresses. From what I understand, and this may be oversimplifying the data out there, western research seems to recommend a nice, comfortable mattress to make it comfortable while you sleep. Eastern research seems to recommend sleeping on as firm a platform as possible... such as the floor or a very firm mattress. The reason seems to be because it promotes better posture while you sleep, while a comfortable mattress will promote horrible sleep posture (since you don't feel uncomfortable in the position). I've read articles that go as far as saying comfortable mattresses are the reason for chronic back pain as people age. What are your thoughts?",
"Back Pain Prevention Tips (Not Treatment) Nearly every middle aged+ person I know struggles with chronic back pain. This includes not being able to turn/twist without pain, routinely seeing a chiropractor, constantly \"pulling their back out,\" always on the lookout for \"better\" mattresses that never seem to help long-term, etc.\n\nWhat can be done to significantly improve the chances of preventing this altogether? It's important to note, I am not looking for a treatment -- I'm looking for a prevention one can start when they're young.\n\nWhat I'd really love is specific exercises or stretches that are proven to help prevent this.\n\nOr even specific posture exercises / routines would be helpful.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI'd also be interested in hearing people's thoughts on mattresses. From what I understand, and this may be oversimplifying the data out there, western research seems to recommend a nice, comfortable mattress to make it comfortable while you sleep. Eastern research seems to recommend sleeping on as firm a platform as possible... such as the floor or a very firm mattress. The reason seems to be because it promotes better posture while you sleep, while a comfortable mattress will promote horrible sleep posture (since you don't feel uncomfortable in the position). I've read articles that go as far as saying comfortable mattresses are the reason for chronic back pain as people age. What are your thoughts?",
"Back Pain Prevention Tips (Not Treatment) Nearly every middle aged+ person I know struggles with chronic back pain. This includes not being able to turn/twist without pain, routinely seeing a chiropractor, constantly \"pulling their back out,\" always on the lookout for \"better\" mattresses that never seem to help long-term, etc.\n\nWhat can be done to significantly improve the chances of preventing this altogether? It's important to note, I am not looking for a treatment -- I'm looking for a prevention one can start when they're young.\n\nWhat I'd really love is specific exercises or stretches that are proven to help prevent this.\n\nOr even specific posture exercises / routines would be helpful.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI'd also be interested in hearing people's thoughts on mattresses. From what I understand, and this may be oversimplifying the data out there, western research seems to recommend a nice, comfortable mattress to make it comfortable while you sleep. Eastern research seems to recommend sleeping on as firm a platform as possible... such as the floor or a very firm mattress. The reason seems to be because it promotes better posture while you sleep, while a comfortable mattress will promote horrible sleep posture (since you don't feel uncomfortable in the position). I've read articles that go as far as saying comfortable mattresses are the reason for chronic back pain as people age. What are your thoughts?",
"Back Pain Prevention Tips (Not Treatment) Nearly every middle aged+ person I know struggles with chronic back pain. This includes not being able to turn/twist without pain, routinely seeing a chiropractor, constantly \"pulling their back out,\" always on the lookout for \"better\" mattresses that never seem to help long-term, etc.\n\nWhat can be done to significantly improve the chances of preventing this altogether? It's important to note, I am not looking for a treatment -- I'm looking for a prevention one can start when they're young.\n\nWhat I'd really love is specific exercises or stretches that are proven to help prevent this.\n\nOr even specific posture exercises / routines would be helpful.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI'd also be interested in hearing people's thoughts on mattresses. From what I understand, and this may be oversimplifying the data out there, western research seems to recommend a nice, comfortable mattress to make it comfortable while you sleep. Eastern research seems to recommend sleeping on as firm a platform as possible... such as the floor or a very firm mattress. The reason seems to be because it promotes better posture while you sleep, while a comfortable mattress will promote horrible sleep posture (since you don't feel uncomfortable in the position). I've read articles that go as far as saying comfortable mattresses are the reason for chronic back pain as people age. What are your thoughts?",
"Back Pain Prevention Tips (Not Treatment) Nearly every middle aged+ person I know struggles with chronic back pain. This includes not being able to turn/twist without pain, routinely seeing a chiropractor, constantly \"pulling their back out,\" always on the lookout for \"better\" mattresses that never seem to help long-term, etc.\n\nWhat can be done to significantly improve the chances of preventing this altogether? It's important to note, I am not looking for a treatment -- I'm looking for a prevention one can start when they're young.\n\nWhat I'd really love is specific exercises or stretches that are proven to help prevent this.\n\nOr even specific posture exercises / routines would be helpful.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI'd also be interested in hearing people's thoughts on mattresses. From what I understand, and this may be oversimplifying the data out there, western research seems to recommend a nice, comfortable mattress to make it comfortable while you sleep. Eastern research seems to recommend sleeping on as firm a platform as possible... such as the floor or a very firm mattress. The reason seems to be because it promotes better posture while you sleep, while a comfortable mattress will promote horrible sleep posture (since you don't feel uncomfortable in the position). I've read articles that go as far as saying comfortable mattresses are the reason for chronic back pain as people age. What are your thoughts?",
"Back Pain Prevention Tips (Not Treatment) Nearly every middle aged+ person I know struggles with chronic back pain. This includes not being able to turn/twist without pain, routinely seeing a chiropractor, constantly \"pulling their back out,\" always on the lookout for \"better\" mattresses that never seem to help long-term, etc.\n\nWhat can be done to significantly improve the chances of preventing this altogether? It's important to note, I am not looking for a treatment -- I'm looking for a prevention one can start when they're young.\n\nWhat I'd really love is specific exercises or stretches that are proven to help prevent this.\n\nOr even specific posture exercises / routines would be helpful.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI'd also be interested in hearing people's thoughts on mattresses. From what I understand, and this may be oversimplifying the data out there, western research seems to recommend a nice, comfortable mattress to make it comfortable while you sleep. Eastern research seems to recommend sleeping on as firm a platform as possible... such as the floor or a very firm mattress. The reason seems to be because it promotes better posture while you sleep, while a comfortable mattress will promote horrible sleep posture (since you don't feel uncomfortable in the position). I've read articles that go as far as saying comfortable mattresses are the reason for chronic back pain as people age. What are your thoughts?",
"Back Pain Prevention Tips (Not Treatment) Nearly every middle aged+ person I know struggles with chronic back pain. This includes not being able to turn/twist without pain, routinely seeing a chiropractor, constantly \"pulling their back out,\" always on the lookout for \"better\" mattresses that never seem to help long-term, etc.\n\nWhat can be done to significantly improve the chances of preventing this altogether? It's important to note, I am not looking for a treatment -- I'm looking for a prevention one can start when they're young.\n\nWhat I'd really love is specific exercises or stretches that are proven to help prevent this.\n\nOr even specific posture exercises / routines would be helpful.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI'd also be interested in hearing people's thoughts on mattresses. From what I understand, and this may be oversimplifying the data out there, western research seems to recommend a nice, comfortable mattress to make it comfortable while you sleep. Eastern research seems to recommend sleeping on as firm a platform as possible... such as the floor or a very firm mattress. The reason seems to be because it promotes better posture while you sleep, while a comfortable mattress will promote horrible sleep posture (since you don't feel uncomfortable in the position). I've read articles that go as far as saying comfortable mattresses are the reason for chronic back pain as people age. What are your thoughts?"
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"Keep your core strong- a stronger core will give you better support in the long term and your back will not give as many issues in the future",
"You need to stretch and you need to move. Stretch every single day, get in your steps. This is the absolute best way to prevent and resolve back issues.",
"When your back hurts it is either muscular pain (most common, painful but harmless) or actual damage to the spine (painful and potentially dangerous). If you don't know which of the two you have, visit your doctor. Spine problems require treatment such as surgery/medication.\n\nHowever if your pain is muscular, like mine, the solution is exercise. When you exercise the core muscles and the muscles in your back, they become thicker and will support your spine. They will also let you move without straining the spine too much since they are stronger. I had chronic back pain for many years. After just a few months of crossfit (I started as a complete beginner/noob) my back stopped hurting completely.\n\nI tried stretching before this, it literally had no effect. You need the support of muscles around your spine.",
"proper back/lumbar support (not the over-exaggerated lumbar cushions) has helped me with sciatic pain. Stretching and exercises help reduce this type of pain as well as help prevent it maybe. \n\nSo for back pain in general I'd say all three: stretch, strengthen, and support(good posture especially while sitting).",
"We spend a lot of time sitting and hunched over a computer so exercising your core and stretching are really important. Doing pelvic thrusts, hamstring stretches and making sure you pick things up properly by bending at the knees will go a long way. Also, don't underestimate how important a quality chair is if you're working at a desk",
"I have a foam roller that i lie on every few days or when i feel like i need it, it cracks my back and relieves all pain immediately, but its NOT A CURE... its just a relief",
"A few good tips already, I agree with getting good core strength. Posture is also very important, I can fully recommend never getting a racer style or gaming chair for using at a computer if you're going to spend more than an hour every few days. Seriously they're horrible for posture, they encourage you to have your shoulders forward in a more hunched position, generally have terrible lumbar support or they overcompensate with a cushion that's got too aggressive a curve then wears out into being of no support at all.\n\nWith that, I'd say a proper ergonomic office chair, rated for 8 hours or more (they're rated for how long they should be comfortable to sit in per day, with breaks to get up and stretch) the more adjustable the chair the better too. Doesn't matter if it's got the best rating if you won't fit in it properly. Get it set so your feet are flat on the floor, knees and hips at a comfortable angle without having to put any effort to hold a position, back is on the back rest and your arms are at a good height for comfort but not encouraging you to slouch. Take breaks often to stretch.\n\nAs for mattresses, too firm and it will be difficult to get a decent sleep, too squishy and you'll be putting your joints into strange positions as the mattress squashes down under your weight. A good mattress will offer support with enough squish to be comfortable. For example, a firm mattress with a memory foam top will allow you to sink in for comfort, but not beyond a certain point. Laying on your back, you should feel relief (as though you're not laying on anything at all, or in a cosy cocoon), laying on your side it should feel like your whole spine is in a straight line and your hips will thank you in future if you put a pillow between your knees. \n\nHow good your mattress is won't make a lot of difference to your neck and shoulders if you pair it with a pillow that puts your head at a weird angle. This is pretty subjective though as everyone has different levels of preference. A good rule of thumb is to go by comfort, and don't be afraid to spend a little extra money, because it's about your health. Try to avoid gimmicks, nobody actually needs a pillow that will tell you how many calories you burned through snoring last night, but sometimes someone might need a pillow that cools itself and never feels too warm.",
"What fixed my chronic lower back pain was walking about 3.5 miles five days a week and doing the Eight Pieces of Brocade every day.\n\nAsk your doctor before you start the Eight Pieces, some of the stretches might not be appropriate for everybody.",
"I broke my back many years ago but thankfully without getting paralysed. But it didn't heal up properly so I'm rather stiff in the back when I wake up in the morning. The first thing I do is the sit with a water filled heating pad. 5 minutes. That gets the back started and warm. And then I exercise my back several times a week. Core training. Strength training. Mobility training. And stretching. That does it. I rarely have serious pains in back since I started that regime. Good luck!"
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"How to make moving easier So this college semester is coming to an end and I have to move my stuff 500 miles away back home.\n\nWhat are life pro tips for moving from how to pack to what to pack with to what to get to store all this stuff? \n\nThank you! ",
"How to make moving easier So this college semester is coming to an end and I have to move my stuff 500 miles away back home.\n\nWhat are life pro tips for moving from how to pack to what to pack with to what to get to store all this stuff? \n\nThank you! ",
"How to make moving easier So this college semester is coming to an end and I have to move my stuff 500 miles away back home.\n\nWhat are life pro tips for moving from how to pack to what to pack with to what to get to store all this stuff? \n\nThank you! ",
"How to make moving easier So this college semester is coming to an end and I have to move my stuff 500 miles away back home.\n\nWhat are life pro tips for moving from how to pack to what to pack with to what to get to store all this stuff? \n\nThank you! ",
"How to make moving easier So this college semester is coming to an end and I have to move my stuff 500 miles away back home.\n\nWhat are life pro tips for moving from how to pack to what to pack with to what to get to store all this stuff? \n\nThank you! ",
"How to make moving easier So this college semester is coming to an end and I have to move my stuff 500 miles away back home.\n\nWhat are life pro tips for moving from how to pack to what to pack with to what to get to store all this stuff? \n\nThank you! "
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"First off if you have the cash most big box home improvement stores (Lowes, Menards, Home Depot, etc) sell moving boxes. They aren't very expensive, they are sturdy and they can last a long time. So stick them under a bed or in a closet and you can reuse them again and again.\n\nSecond, get rid of anything you don't really need. No need to move stuff you don't really need. This goes double for furniture. If you can afford to buy new stuff after the move makes it easier to move.\n\nThird, pack up everything you don't need to get by. By the last few days before the actual move you should only have the basics. Clothes, toiletries, books or whatever entertainment you enjoy.\n\nAlso, label those boxes. Either by the room they will be going to or by general content. That way they are easy to put away when you are unloading. Label them on multiple side or just on the top. Either way you'll be able to quickly check what is inside and know where to put it.\n\nGood luck! ",
"Price out the option of a small storage unit for things you'll need in the fall, but don't want to move twice. Like books, furniture, kitchen items. You can even split it with a few friends and save money. \n\nAs for packing itself, pack your clothes in your laundry baskets. Or use them to pack fragile things. Don't put all your books in one box, but instead put one or two in a box. That keeps them from getting too heavy. \n\nThoroughly label your boxes:\nItems, room, name, date packed 1 of 8\n\nYeah, it's overkill but you will have all the info you need right on the outside. ",
"I always get boxes from liquor stores when I move. They're sturdy cause they usually hold 6 handles of liquor per box and the stores are usually glad to hand them over. If they're not, I just check their cardboard dumpster.",
"Lists. \nI made a list of things i owned\nThen put them in categories\nThen put them in boxes/cases\nThen put them in a rental van\nThen unpacked them - knowing exactly where what was let me put tbe right box in the right room if needed/storage if could wait\n\n\nLists!",
"I know we all hate buzzfeed but when I moved these really helped. https://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/brilliant-moving-tips?utm_term=.vsgLrxxrZ#.lsg46006R",
"Get rid of anything you haven't used or touched in the last two months! \n\nI've moved like 7x in the last 4 years and the unnecessary clutter only makes a difficult task more daunting",
"Get a small box for the really important crap you don't want to lose or will need ASAP. (computer, headphones, medications, etc.)\n\nGive away, sell, or donate as much as you can afford to. Furniture, clothes, whatever. Don't buy new shit you don't need when you get back to your parents' house, especially if you're going back to the school in the fall.\n\nIf you **are** going back, see how much a storage space rental is for the time in between. There's a good chance it can be less than buying new furniture.\n\n"
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"How to eliminate flying dust from otherwise spotless room? Hey guys, figured this was the best place to act. \nI keep my room ridiculously clean. Vacuuming and wiping everything down with pledge / windex almost every single day.\n\nYet it always seems there's an endless wave of dust floating around my room that settles on all the glass table tops and desks and looks atrocious after a single day.\n\nIs there a way to get rid of all this dust? ",
"How to eliminate flying dust from otherwise spotless room? Hey guys, figured this was the best place to act. \nI keep my room ridiculously clean. Vacuuming and wiping everything down with pledge / windex almost every single day.\n\nYet it always seems there's an endless wave of dust floating around my room that settles on all the glass table tops and desks and looks atrocious after a single day.\n\nIs there a way to get rid of all this dust? ",
"How to eliminate flying dust from otherwise spotless room? Hey guys, figured this was the best place to act. \nI keep my room ridiculously clean. Vacuuming and wiping everything down with pledge / windex almost every single day.\n\nYet it always seems there's an endless wave of dust floating around my room that settles on all the glass table tops and desks and looks atrocious after a single day.\n\nIs there a way to get rid of all this dust? ",
"How to eliminate flying dust from otherwise spotless room? Hey guys, figured this was the best place to act. \nI keep my room ridiculously clean. Vacuuming and wiping everything down with pledge / windex almost every single day.\n\nYet it always seems there's an endless wave of dust floating around my room that settles on all the glass table tops and desks and looks atrocious after a single day.\n\nIs there a way to get rid of all this dust? "
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"Stop having skin.\n\n>[The percentage of the dust in your home that is actually dead skin cells is approximately 75% to 90%.](http://skincare.about.com/od/exfoliating/qt/What-Percentage-Of-Your-Dust-Is-Actually-Dead-Skin-Cells.htm)",
"To remove the bulk of it you need to figure out how its getting in and seal that supply off. Then use a HEPA filter on your HVAC supply duct. You can never remove all the particles from the air. And even if you were to remove the ones visible to the naked eye, you are still breathing in billions of mites, particles, and bacteria that are invisible to the eye. If you have the money to spend you can create your own clean room. It may just be easier to live with the dust. \n\nhttp://cleanroom.net/?p=622\n",
"I just recently bought one of [these](http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/bap8422b-cn-tower-air-purifier-99-hepa/10022165?collectionName=Featured+Items&fromCollectionPage=false) (Air Purifier) and you would not believe the amount of dust it sucks up after a couple hours. Never mind clearing a family sized room of any residual odors (smoke, pets, dinner, stinky relatives lol). I'm sure there are better ones out there but they all essentially do the same thing. Just make sure you get a HEPA filter unit.",
"I'm not really sure how to get rid of the dust, but to make it drastically less noticeable on glass clean your glass with pledge. I thought it was crazy but it turns out that large retail stores that have shelves and shelves of glass use pledge to clean them so dust doesn't accumulate as quickly. My other suggestion for keeping glass clean is to use Rain-X on the outside of your windows, especially on the hard to reach ones. ",
"hmmm my bathroom is always without such dust particles coz of hot shower,may be if we use something similar for room,like some steam from hot water,not everyday as it will create moisture leading to fungus,or use a spray bottle and spray water all over your room!"
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"Cover up or drown out noise from the main road outside I'm spending a month at a guesthouse which happens to not be worth the money, considering the fact that it's next to a main artery of the city and doesn't have double pane windows or whatever it is that should be stopping incoming noise and cold. I really don't want to continue waking up at 5 in the morning much longer. Any ideas? I've been here for almost two weeks already and I'm not getting used to it.",
"Cover up or drown out noise from the main road outside I'm spending a month at a guesthouse which happens to not be worth the money, considering the fact that it's next to a main artery of the city and doesn't have double pane windows or whatever it is that should be stopping incoming noise and cold. I really don't want to continue waking up at 5 in the morning much longer. Any ideas? I've been here for almost two weeks already and I'm not getting used to it.",
"Cover up or drown out noise from the main road outside I'm spending a month at a guesthouse which happens to not be worth the money, considering the fact that it's next to a main artery of the city and doesn't have double pane windows or whatever it is that should be stopping incoming noise and cold. I really don't want to continue waking up at 5 in the morning much longer. Any ideas? I've been here for almost two weeks already and I'm not getting used to it."
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"1st preference: custom moulded ear plugs\n2nd preference : foam disposable earplugs.\n\nThe wax kind are only meant for swimming and have their own problems.\n\nWhite noise is your friend. There are a few 10 hours white noise cluips on youtube, use a youtube ripper to download mp3 onto your phone. Otherwise a fan will generate a small amount of white noise.\n\nI tried sleeping with earmuffs, didn't work so well as I roll in my sleep YMMV.\n\nI haven't checked any of these links for subliminal programming. [Worth being aware some pranksters out there might have embedded something in anything you get for free from unverified source.]\n\nIf you are technically oriented, get a shorter clip and loop it. Better still, set your phone to loop a shorter mp3.\n\nsample 10 hours white noise\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNqERBWaJeM\n8 hours waterfall\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YXDQILt22o",
"I live on a highway and find that a fan's white noise blends nicely with traffic sound and makes it less irritating.",
"I have a white noise machine that I absolutely adore. It's small and portable. Takes batteries as well as plugs into the wall. I live on a main thoroughfare and my bedroom window is on the ground floor. I never hear the traffic when I have my white noise machine on. Also, I bought mine at a drug store about 15 years ago for less than 20 dollars. if you don't have a white noise machine, having a fan on in the room helps, too. "
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"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time",
"Tips on how to survive 12h shifts? Hello everyone, I just looking sor some useful tips on how to survive 12 hour shifts mentally & phisically, I’m working at a food company and I have to stay the whole shift standing, I’ve been doing this the past 4 months but I’m feeling a little bit tired right now.\n\nIt’s not an option to stop doing it because it’s a temporary thing, I’ll keep doing this for just one month more, I really need the money. \n\nSo I’m open to every useful thing that you could share with me.\n\nThanks in advance. 🖤\n\nUPDATE 10/15/2021:\n\nI’ve been feeling so well lately with your tips my friends, it really helped me, I’m gonna list the things that are helping me the most right now:\n\n- water (between 1L - 2L per day)\n- multivitamin \n- caffeine pills (one at mid shift, it really helped me to get through the day)\n- stretch as soon as I wake up, stretch before starting the shift, stretch on breaks, stretch as soon as I get out of the company \n- no big foods, better if it’s small portions of something, q lot of snacks to award me for getting that far \n- listening to one or two songs that I know that are going to give some energy \n- comfy shoes \n- compression socks are a game changer, I loved them \n- breathing exercises \n- don’t watch at the clock, or start having a better relationship with time"
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"I worked 12-14 hour days, 7 days a week for 10 years. \nGood shoes or inserts\nNever look at a clock, NEVER! Set alarms for breaks\nIf you can use headphone while on the clock do it. \nDo something once you are off, I’d break my house work into each night. So vacuum on Monday, dust on Tuesday, bathroom Wednesday and so on. Keeps is lite and simple. \nAlso do something for you, video game, drink/smoke and listen to music, go for a walk, call a friend or family member and listen to there stories. Don’t talk about it till it’s over or it will snow ball. You may not want to but it helps keep the mind sane, you will be sore and tired but it’s worth doing something. Gives you control of your life and not just wake up, work and then sleep on repeat. \nThe walls get easier and further and further apart, you got this. It’s not easy to take the extra shifts but you did and are almost done, props hommie.",
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"A big part of your ability to do this is how you feed yourself throughout the day, both on and off the clock, and how well you rest. \n\nYour exerting your body heavily during a 12 hour shift and you need to replenish it by having a good breakfast, light lunch, snacks through shift breaks, and a healthy dinner.\n\nFollow that up with drinking a lot of water and rest when you get home.\n\nIf you focus on taking care of your body and diet, it will pay you back 2 fold.",
"Podcasts, audiobook or music if you can sneakily wear an earpiece or headphone. I used to make air filters on a 12 hr shift,feel your pain man.",
"Think about all the awesome stuff you’ll do with the money you earn once you are finished with your last month. :)\n\nJust leave inside your mind",
"Stretch and strength training for your entire body, but especially your back. It doesn't have to be intense, you can just do yoga along to youtube videos. Doing this during your off time will help you be less fatigued while working.",
"New socks!\n\nIt is well known in filmwork circles that putting on a new pair of socks about 8 hours into your shift is like having new feet.\n\nAlso beverages help.\nStart with water and have a coffee or soda half way through. Then back to water.\n\nThe best tip is to stay busy.\nTrying to hide and shirk responsibilities takes a mental toll that will burn you out within a few hours.\nWhatever you are doing, get mentally into it.\nPut in effort mentally but pace yourself physically.\n\n\nOr just tons of coffee and cigarettes.\nKidding, that's really bad for you.",
"Caffeine pills from the dollar store. About 1 every 3 hours.\n\nHydrate with pure water. Helps me more than I expect.\n\nBring a change of new socks. Buy really good quality socks. Throw away shoes older than 6 months. Buy good quality shoes.\n\nWearing a visor helps me as 12+ hours of intense cheap lighting is fatiguing.",
"Sounds harsh. When I worked for the catering industry, I learned some tricks that helped me. \n\n- Invest in good shoes. They're the gamechangers! \n- I had acces to unlimited coffee. I know too much is bad and you should'nt make it a habit. But some extra cafeïne kept me going through harder days. \n- When I really needed a break to stretch my back, like when I was on my period (I can get pretty nasty backpains). I went to the bathroom, just for 5 mins of solace and backstretching. I picked strategic moments and didn't overdo it so it would go unnoticed.",
"I used to work maintenance at a company that made HVAC units. I personally loved 12hr shifts, I worked 3 days a week and had 4 off. As long as I showed up for my 3 I got the bonus 4 hours for free. Not to mention the guys I worked with made it enjoyable.",
"This is great, I have an easy solution for you. Quit and tell management to get bent. Fuck ever working a 12hr shift in unhospitable conditions. Nobody should be doing this.",
"Insoles from the drug store. Stretch every day, do quick stretch breaks during work if possible. Music makes everything easier. Try to get to green space if it's accessible to you, a garden, park, even just looking at a flower or a tree always helps me. Make your bed in the morning so it's waiting for you when you get home. You got this :)",
"If it's temporary, suck it up, you're almost done.\nIf not, buy Bombas socks and start taking vitamins.",
"I just started 13 hour shifts. I just started taking calming herb/supplements and found them to help get to sleep and give quality sleep if my head it buzz as sometimes there’s no wind down time. \n\nI’m currently taking ‘Adrenal Switch” and it works a treat",
"How people can work 12 hr days 6-7 days a week just to afford the bills and groceries and not see a problem with the system we live under blows my mind. Working crazy hours has solidified my beliefs more than anything else the working people must struggle to advance their class interests at all turns or things will get much worse. The rights we gained after the Great Depression are gone. That’s what decades of red scare propaganda does to a country. We’ve lost all our infrastructure 80% of our workforce is in service based jobs. We the people must take America back.",
"Do you get health insurance? You may be covered for a podiatrist, so you can get boot inserts and maybe prescription boots. Regardless, a fresh pair of boots and new socks with a fresh pair after lunch will really change your life. Maybe you are covered for massages and physio too. \n\nWater and healthy snacks are great. Chatting with coworkers can help. \n\nReally focus on your sleep schedule and quality. Make sure your room is cold, dark and quiet, with a fan and humidifier. No screens 30 mins before bed, do some stretching and drain your legs. Aim for 8 hours of quality sleep. Good luck"
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"Make an outline and review it step by step. It's really easy to miss covering an important point if you're passionate about the topic. If you're trying to show someone where procedure wasn't followed(or needs an exception), it's critical to present a complete picture. I personally am much more composed if I know where things are going ahead of time.\n\nOn the subject of keeping a lid on things emotionally, preparing ahead of time can be a great help. Avoid caffeine(unless you have a dependency that causes headaches), get plenty of sleep the night before, and eat a snack before the meeting. If you're religious, pray about it. If you aren't, m",
"I'd take a couple of shots of bourbon and start of with a joke. Then I would say with a great big grin \"charlie I've always liked you. What did the ham sanwhich say to the burger? ...we qll get eaten, even pussy gets eaten so lets work on this (insert your idea)\"\n\nWorks everytime."
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"Dealing with alcoholic family. Looking for a tip on dealing with an alcoholic family. Father drank until he couldn't get out of bed - Warnicke's Korsakoff Syndrome is preventing him from making a recovery. How can I deal with this?",
"Dealing with alcoholic family. Looking for a tip on dealing with an alcoholic family. Father drank until he couldn't get out of bed - Warnicke's Korsakoff Syndrome is preventing him from making a recovery. How can I deal with this?",
"Dealing with alcoholic family. Looking for a tip on dealing with an alcoholic family. Father drank until he couldn't get out of bed - Warnicke's Korsakoff Syndrome is preventing him from making a recovery. How can I deal with this?",
"Dealing with alcoholic family. Looking for a tip on dealing with an alcoholic family. Father drank until he couldn't get out of bed - Warnicke's Korsakoff Syndrome is preventing him from making a recovery. How can I deal with this?",
"Dealing with alcoholic family. Looking for a tip on dealing with an alcoholic family. Father drank until he couldn't get out of bed - Warnicke's Korsakoff Syndrome is preventing him from making a recovery. How can I deal with this?"
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"several people have mentioned Al-anon. I want to give a shout out to Adult Children of Alcoholics. It was a huge life changer for me because for the first time in my life people were describing a childhood that was just like mine. I wasn't so weird any more. \n\nThere is a saying in 12 step programs \"If you hang around the rooms long enough you will eventually here your story\" I was a white middle class heterosexual male from New Jersey. I was attending a meeting in Perth Australia, listening to a working class, radical feminist lesbian woman. But when she described her childhood, It was like she had watched a movie of my family. It was creepy and exhilarating. There were other people like me and so I wasn't nearly as weird as I thought I was.",
" Go to Al-anon. Seriously. It has helped me a lot. Realize you can never change them. You have to live your life for you as much as you can. My dad is a raging alcoholic and has been my whole life. I only recently started going to Al-anon and it's helping me to be stronger when I am around him. Give it a few weeks and try a bunch of meetings till you find one you like. Good luck. ",
"A bit of background on me, first. My half sister, with whom I'm quite close, has been battle drug and alcohol addiction for majority of her life. It got to the point I got child protection involved as she was homeless, sleeping rough with shady people and getting into very sketchy situations. I'm a social worker, so guess who her go-to person was for the longest time? Yep.\n\nOn to the advice part: al-anon is a good suggestion. Alternatively, there are counsellors who can support you in coping with your loved ones drinking. \n\nThey can help you do some things: realize you can't make the person change, give you strategies to engage with your dad, SETTING BOUNDARIES (Sorry for caps, but this is important) and coping with the stress that your dad's drinking brings on to you (I'd wager you don't fully appreciate the toll it's taking on you). \n\nRealize that you're not a social worker, doctor, psychologist, addiction expert or counsellor. Even if you are those things, you're not them at home. You can help your dad to engage with these professionals, but that's it. If he contacts professionals, great, then you have an avenue (saying \"Sorry you're feeling ______, but wouldn't Dr So and So be a better person to speak with?\"). If he doesn't want to see anyone, that's sad, but you're not qualified or in the position to deal with his drinking. \n\nYou may have to be honest with him as well. I'm not talking \"Intervention letter-writing\" honest, but day-to-day honest: \"Dad, I'm not coming over because you're way too drunk. Call me when you sober up a bit.\", \"Dad, I don't come around because it's not fun to visit anymore\", etc. Lastly, just try to be a son, and only a son. I know that's extremely vague, but it's extremely personal. \n\nAgain, going back to my experiences. I had to say draw a line in the sand. I was clear, chose a calm time to discuss it and was polite. She's learned to respect that I have my own life to attend to but I'll still support her within reason. They were polite, if unpleasant conversations. I'd imagine you would need to have similar conversations, again a therapist can give you specific strategies that will work for you.\n\nSorry for the wall of text or if I'm being presumptuous but I hope you find something useful out of this post. Best of luck, and if all else fails just focus on your goals and your path- don't get embroiled in your dad's drinking if you can help it.\n\n",
"You don't state your current relationship with the family, so I'm going to assume you still live with them. Here are some things I have found useful in dealing with a heavily drinking family member.\n\nYou are not responsible for anyone else's life. You do have a responsibility to look after them as best you can, but first priority has to be your mental health. I really mean it when I say that when you see you can't do anything, don't try. As kids we spent immeasurable hours hiding bottles and shoes to keep them from drinking, with zero net effect. You're older now, but I'm sure you've experienced similar. Help if you can, and if you can't, then you can't. I guess what I'm saying is, \"if you want to help someone up, you have to be standing\". As when you're exhausted yourself, what's the good in that?\n\nI'm sorry you have to live with what you described. I don't know what that syndrome means and it's too late here to study it now, but I'm sure you're going through a difficult phase. Keep in mind that there are many of us who have been there, and you will pull through. You may have mental symptoms now or later, though. I have had: depression, difficulty of interpreting own feelings, and romantic problems. Should you have these or other symptoms, they are not wrong or unnatural, they're part of your personal history. As I said, there's many of us, and you're all right. The events that you've lived through have and will teach you lessons in empathy and life choices that your peers have never even dreamed of. So maybe there's some good in this, too.\n\nI'm sorry about rambling on. Is there some more specific situation or feeling you would like to discuss, or as you say, \"deal with\"?",
"Please please please, don't forget about looking after yourself too though. Seeking help on here and in other really great suggestions from other users is awesome, but being a carer for someone who suffers with addiction, ongoing chronic illness or a disability that requires constant care is really tough to take on for anyone young or old. So get yourself some space for you and make sure you have loads of support in place for *you*. \n\nHopefully you won't see this as me being patronising at all, it is not intended that way at all, but having looked after my mother (alcoholic - died sadly after many different things ongoing also), I found myself as a young carer, where I had no one to talk to and nowhere to go. Even if it's just a few people around who can help you out with stuff, someone you can trust. \n\nPlease don't forget that there are so many people around you here to help you as much as they can and even when they aren't - don't be afraid to reach out to help lines or websites that can help you deal with the emotional side of stuff. I really found it hard without any support, I hope you find yourself in a much more stabler environment, and as someone who still deals with said effects, I am more than happy if you would like me to PM you any of the supports or talk with you about how things have been for you. \n\nHope you are safe, happy and that life treats you well. \n\n[Seven Cups of Tea Anonymous Chatroom for someone to talk to about these issues](http://www.7cupsoftea.com/)\n "
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"how can I make old shoes look like new? I got some pairs of old shoes that I dont want to wear because they look ulgy and faded. Any tips on how to best restore them? \n\nPic of the shoes: http://imgur.com/qaebmOE.",
"how can I make old shoes look like new? I got some pairs of old shoes that I dont want to wear because they look ulgy and faded. Any tips on how to best restore them? \n\nPic of the shoes: http://imgur.com/qaebmOE.",
"how can I make old shoes look like new? I got some pairs of old shoes that I dont want to wear because they look ulgy and faded. Any tips on how to best restore them? \n\nPic of the shoes: http://imgur.com/qaebmOE.",
"how can I make old shoes look like new? I got some pairs of old shoes that I dont want to wear because they look ulgy and faded. Any tips on how to best restore them? \n\nPic of the shoes: http://imgur.com/qaebmOE."
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"Doesn't look like much hope for those. You need a new pair of shoes. It looks like they are water damaged. Only hope is maybe using RIT dye and a toothbrush you might be able to redye the suede, but it would be messy and tedious.",
"Magic Eraser or bathroom cleaner + brush on the soles.\n\nNew white laces.\n\n[This](http://www.pedagusa.com/product%20pages/suedecolorrestorer.htm) on the uppers, multicolor variety.\n\nAnd don't have very high expectations, because these kicks are pretty kicked out.",
"toothpaste & water scrubbing with a brush will whiten the white rubber bottom part but the fabric up top will take some soaking/ scrubbing with the brush",
"Get a pair of new shoelaces and polish them regularly. A good polish makes any leather look like new. "
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"How to get over reading induced motion sickness. I've just recently started taking the bus again, and just recently discovered that I have reading induced motion sickness. This take away from really valuable study time. Does anyone have a remedy for this so I can read on the bus/in a car again?",
"How to get over reading induced motion sickness. I've just recently started taking the bus again, and just recently discovered that I have reading induced motion sickness. This take away from really valuable study time. Does anyone have a remedy for this so I can read on the bus/in a car again?",
"How to get over reading induced motion sickness. I've just recently started taking the bus again, and just recently discovered that I have reading induced motion sickness. This take away from really valuable study time. Does anyone have a remedy for this so I can read on the bus/in a car again?",
"How to get over reading induced motion sickness. I've just recently started taking the bus again, and just recently discovered that I have reading induced motion sickness. This take away from really valuable study time. Does anyone have a remedy for this so I can read on the bus/in a car again?",
"How to get over reading induced motion sickness. I've just recently started taking the bus again, and just recently discovered that I have reading induced motion sickness. This take away from really valuable study time. Does anyone have a remedy for this so I can read on the bus/in a car again?",
"How to get over reading induced motion sickness. I've just recently started taking the bus again, and just recently discovered that I have reading induced motion sickness. This take away from really valuable study time. Does anyone have a remedy for this so I can read on the bus/in a car again?",
"How to get over reading induced motion sickness. I've just recently started taking the bus again, and just recently discovered that I have reading induced motion sickness. This take away from really valuable study time. Does anyone have a remedy for this so I can read on the bus/in a car again?",
"How to get over reading induced motion sickness. I've just recently started taking the bus again, and just recently discovered that I have reading induced motion sickness. This take away from really valuable study time. Does anyone have a remedy for this so I can read on the bus/in a car again?"
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"It generally helps me to drink water and take Dramamine. If you can pull over for a few minutes, put your feet flat on the ground and keep your eyes on the horizon. ",
"I use the bracelets. Also drink ginger ale and eat carbs. Good luck. \n\n\nhttp://www.walgreens.com/store/c/sea-band-wristband/ID=prod2662944-product",
"I have this issue too, but its not just reading. I also get this if I am playing a video game on a hand held or something. What usually helps me is listening to music. ",
"I have this as well and it is really frustrating on long trips. Depending on the books you're reading, you may be able to find an audio version or get a text transcript that can be read by any number of audio readers out there. Depending on your school's programs, this might even be available to you already. ",
"Not sure if this helps but I just chew gum. For me the reason I get sick is the movement in my peripheral vision and somehow chewing helps me focus on just what I'm reading so I ignore what's around ",
"I have had horrible motion sickness from as long as I can remember. Cars, buses, planes, boats... I can't even look at a spinning ride at an amusement park.\n\nYes, Dramamine makes most people VERY tired (makes me hyper-but I am a freak of nature).\n\n- I always thought an empty stomach would help, turns out the opposite is true. A protein-based meal 1 hr. before a trip (not too big/not too small) seems to help me.\n\n- Ginger/Ginger tea. Real ginger (not just ginger ale) as been as effective as medication for motion sickness. I just get a chunk of fresh ginger root from the market. Slice off skin and cut 3-5 coin sized slices into boiled water and steep a few mins. Tastes nice even after cooling. Candied ginger is also avail at Trader Joe's- not sure if it works as well though.\n\n- If you can open a window. Fresh air helps.\n\n- Practice. Although I can't ever read in a car, my daughter can. We live in the mountains and the road home is VERY winding. She used to vomit every. single. time. Now, 2 years later, she can read the whole ride without even feeling sick.\n\n",
"Honestly it comes down to practice, like anything. I've been reading on the bus since I was a little kid, and I can do it anywhere now. ",
"Hmmm... not sure, but try taking short breaks and looking out the window. I've heard that the sickness comes from feeling motion but not seeing it. I.e., your body is being jostled around, but you're looking at a stationary book. Your brain gets confused. So maybe hold the book up so that your peripheral vision catches movement out the window, or just look up periodically and watch the movement."
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"How should a college kid simplify/organize their small living space? I have a very small house in student housing and my room feels quite crowded... Any suggestions?",
"How should a college kid simplify/organize their small living space? I have a very small house in student housing and my room feels quite crowded... Any suggestions?",
"How should a college kid simplify/organize their small living space? I have a very small house in student housing and my room feels quite crowded... Any suggestions?",
"How should a college kid simplify/organize their small living space? I have a very small house in student housing and my room feels quite crowded... Any suggestions?",
"How should a college kid simplify/organize their small living space? I have a very small house in student housing and my room feels quite crowded... Any suggestions?",
"How should a college kid simplify/organize their small living space? I have a very small house in student housing and my room feels quite crowded... Any suggestions?",
"How should a college kid simplify/organize their small living space? I have a very small house in student housing and my room feels quite crowded... Any suggestions?",
"How should a college kid simplify/organize their small living space? I have a very small house in student housing and my room feels quite crowded... Any suggestions?",
"How should a college kid simplify/organize their small living space? I have a very small house in student housing and my room feels quite crowded... Any suggestions?"
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"Add a bar in the cabinet under your kitchen or bathroom sinks. You can then hang your spray bottles (cleaning products) from that bar. This increases your undersink space.\n\nYou can buy hangers that have an extra hook on them letting you hang another hanger off of them. This could help increase your closet space.\n\nStay organized, keep things in plastic boxes, under the bed, etc. Utilize all of the space you have.\n\nFold your clothes and place them in your dresser drawers vertically instead of horizontally. You should be able to fit more and see what you have too.\n\nFor shoes you can get door hangers. Store your shoes on that and they are off of your closet floor. You can then put other stuff there. \n\nIf you can wall mount your TV. It is one less piece of furniture that you need.\n\n",
"Cinder blocks and 2x12s for cheap shelf space. Think of how a high rise maximizes ground space by building up. ",
"I always changed the layout of my room when I was in college. My parents always wanted to send me to college with a ton of stuff I didn't really need, so I kind of have some experience in that. My only suggestion would be to think about putting as many things on your walls or stacked up on top of each other. Buy some book shelves, that's where I would keep some food like cereal boxes, canned foods, etc. If you have a lot of shoes, I can't really suggest anything other than getting rid of them but I'm not a girl so I don't cherish shoes as much as girls.",
"Check out /r/minimalism and /r/declutter. Do you use all the stuff you have in there, or could some of it be gotten rid of? For what you really do need and use, keep it organized well and use the space more efficiently. Under the bed storage, for example, or drawer dividers.",
"The most important thing to think about is how much stuff you actually need. As a college kid, you probably don't have much really nice stuff, so there isn't much fiscal harm in getting rid of most of it. Get rid of anything that you don't use often.\n\nWhen I was in college, I kept a bookshelf full of novels in my room and read none of them. I donated them to charity (I kept a few of my absolute favorites) and...acquired...digital copies of them for my Kindle. I still don't really read them, but I got rid of a huge piece of furniture. \n\nNot bedroom related, but one thing that recently came up (I got a new roommate). Don't have more than 2x plates/cups/bowls than you have people in your house. It saves so much space and makes everything neater and cleaner if you just wash your dish after you're done with it. If you have a cabinet full of dishes, they will all get dirty and they will be strewn around your kitchen/living room/bathroom. Reducing mess helps everything seem bigger.",
"I went to Walmart and bought a couple of small wooden folding tables for around $20. They're fairly small but can fold up and hide between my bed and desk, and in a pinch it's great for eating on or putting an extra book on while your main desk is full.",
"Ditch posters. Use that important space to hang hooks and industrial adjustable wall shelving from a home improvement store. USE A STUD FINDER! Also buy a box of [binder clips.](http://www.buzzfeed.com/kevindanger/54-uses-for-binder-clips-that-will-change-your-lif-555z?s=mobile)\n\nThe idea is to keep as much crap off the floors as possible. ",
"Buy bed risers to squeeze boxes underneath your bed.\n\nAlternatively loft your bed, and put your desk underneath. That should open up a ton of room. ",
"A place for everything and everything in its place. I should add that I struggle everyday with this and wish I had started following this rule in college. Every aspect of my life would be easier now. "
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"best way to warm up my freezing thighs When I'm working a job outdoors during the winter months my thighs get extremely cold to the point that I can \"feel\" it in my bones. So when I get home I strip out of my work clothes and take a hot shower then burrito myself in the blankets. However, to no avail my thighs do not warm up. So reddit, does anyone have a LPT to help me with my daily dilemma?",
"best way to warm up my freezing thighs When I'm working a job outdoors during the winter months my thighs get extremely cold to the point that I can \"feel\" it in my bones. So when I get home I strip out of my work clothes and take a hot shower then burrito myself in the blankets. However, to no avail my thighs do not warm up. So reddit, does anyone have a LPT to help me with my daily dilemma?",
"best way to warm up my freezing thighs When I'm working a job outdoors during the winter months my thighs get extremely cold to the point that I can \"feel\" it in my bones. So when I get home I strip out of my work clothes and take a hot shower then burrito myself in the blankets. However, to no avail my thighs do not warm up. So reddit, does anyone have a LPT to help me with my daily dilemma?"
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"The best advice I can give is to keep your thighs warm while you're working- wear long johns, underarmour, or (my personal fave) fleece-lined tights.",
"Have you considered having something hot in the blankets with you? A hot water bottle covered in a long sock works very well for assisting sleeping in freezing temperatures. You can make the water quite hot due to the insulation of the sock; boiling is not out of the question as long as your sock is thick enough that it doesn't hurt your skin. You can wrap it in a blanket to distribute the heat or use more than one if you get tired of moving it around.\n\nThere are flexible or pouch-like water bottles; if you're wearing something like snowpants or anything big and heavy on this job, you might be able to put them in large pockets or hook them to your belt. \n\nHowever, if you have to move a lot or this isn't practical, a simpler solution is to fill small cloth pouches with un-popped popcorn (plain/bulk) and heat them in the microwave for a short time, 30 seconds or less at once. Great hand warmers, and they work in pockets for thighs. Short lived (20-30 mins) and probably not perfect, but it makes a difference.",
"Keep your kidneys warm. All your blood goes through them. Heat packs have adhesive strips. Put them over your kidneys and your whole body will be warm. Also, eat more fat."
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"What are some ways to entertain yourself during long hours at work? I'm starting my first full time job tomorrow, and I just want to get through the day as quick as possible. Any suggestions? ",
"What are some ways to entertain yourself during long hours at work? I'm starting my first full time job tomorrow, and I just want to get through the day as quick as possible. Any suggestions? ",
"What are some ways to entertain yourself during long hours at work? I'm starting my first full time job tomorrow, and I just want to get through the day as quick as possible. Any suggestions? ",
"What are some ways to entertain yourself during long hours at work? I'm starting my first full time job tomorrow, and I just want to get through the day as quick as possible. Any suggestions? "
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"Get drunk before you go to work.\n\nSmoke some pot during lunch..\n\nDo a couple of lines of coke during your afternoon coffee break.\n\n",
"reddit.com & medium.com educate yourself\n\nwhatever you're curious about, google it and go deep - get paid to learn - use duolingo.com to learn a new language, etc",
"Whatever you do, you have to make sure that it doesn't involve what you're being paid to do. That bit of the day sucks ass, so YouTube, Reddit and pornhub will get you through it quicker. Dont forget to take your time when going to toilet too. At least 3 or 4 times per day for your first week or so. After that you'll probably get away with 6/7 times. ",
"The key thing that I do every day is a line of cocaine before clocking in. This allows me to stay focused throughout the day, and my boss doesn't bother me. It's a win-win. "
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"Loose or not functioning electric outlets/sockets My sister and I recently moved into an older apartment building for school at the university. A lot of the electrical outlets are too loose to use, like the plugs fall out of the walls D: We already don't have enough sockets as is, so I kinda wanna see if there's a way to fix/utilize the few we have D:\n\nAlso, I don't know how hard/expensive it is to fix outlets that simply don't work, but if someone has advice for a easy fix that'd be much appreciated :c\n\ntl;dr: Need advice on how to fix \"loose\" outlets which won't hold plugs and/or outlets that just won't work.",
"Loose or not functioning electric outlets/sockets My sister and I recently moved into an older apartment building for school at the university. A lot of the electrical outlets are too loose to use, like the plugs fall out of the walls D: We already don't have enough sockets as is, so I kinda wanna see if there's a way to fix/utilize the few we have D:\n\nAlso, I don't know how hard/expensive it is to fix outlets that simply don't work, but if someone has advice for a easy fix that'd be much appreciated :c\n\ntl;dr: Need advice on how to fix \"loose\" outlets which won't hold plugs and/or outlets that just won't work.",
"Loose or not functioning electric outlets/sockets My sister and I recently moved into an older apartment building for school at the university. A lot of the electrical outlets are too loose to use, like the plugs fall out of the walls D: We already don't have enough sockets as is, so I kinda wanna see if there's a way to fix/utilize the few we have D:\n\nAlso, I don't know how hard/expensive it is to fix outlets that simply don't work, but if someone has advice for a easy fix that'd be much appreciated :c\n\ntl;dr: Need advice on how to fix \"loose\" outlets which won't hold plugs and/or outlets that just won't work.",
"Loose or not functioning electric outlets/sockets My sister and I recently moved into an older apartment building for school at the university. A lot of the electrical outlets are too loose to use, like the plugs fall out of the walls D: We already don't have enough sockets as is, so I kinda wanna see if there's a way to fix/utilize the few we have D:\n\nAlso, I don't know how hard/expensive it is to fix outlets that simply don't work, but if someone has advice for a easy fix that'd be much appreciated :c\n\ntl;dr: Need advice on how to fix \"loose\" outlets which won't hold plugs and/or outlets that just won't work."
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"Is there a reason you can't get the superintendent/landlord to fix it? It is their responsibility after all.",
"Get a multiple outlet power strip(or a few); on the power strip(s) bend the plug prongs outward slightly. Once plugged in they should fit snug. Now that the strips are plugged in you use those instead of the outlets & don't need to ruin all your other plugs.",
"I don't think you should attempt this sort of repair. Your landlord needs to have an electrician come over and fix the outlets. ",
"Kill the breaker for that area, grab a screwdriver, and tighten the wires back down.\n\nA multimeter would be good to have for safety and verification."
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"Falling asleep without an A/C when it's 92˚F and humid. I am naked, without a sheet, with a window fan pumping warm air into my room. Help?",
"Falling asleep without an A/C when it's 92˚F and humid. I am naked, without a sheet, with a window fan pumping warm air into my room. Help?",
"Falling asleep without an A/C when it's 92˚F and humid. I am naked, without a sheet, with a window fan pumping warm air into my room. Help?",
"Falling asleep without an A/C when it's 92˚F and humid. I am naked, without a sheet, with a window fan pumping warm air into my room. Help?",
"Falling asleep without an A/C when it's 92˚F and humid. I am naked, without a sheet, with a window fan pumping warm air into my room. Help?",
"Falling asleep without an A/C when it's 92˚F and humid. I am naked, without a sheet, with a window fan pumping warm air into my room. Help?"
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"Put a shallow dish of ice/water in front of the fan and aim it at your bed, stuff all pillowcases (and top sheet) in the freezer, and take an icy shower. Remake your bed after the sheets are chilled, and soak a dish towel in the ice water. Climb in, position the fan, wrap the towel around the back of your neck, and slumber. ",
"After following the other advice you've been given to cool down the room itself: Strategically placed ice packs (the soft ones that mould to the shape of your body.) One on the back of your neck, one on your lower back. If that's not enough go for the armpits and groin. If the ice packs are too cold on their own (most will be unless they were designed for direct skin contact) wrap them in a small towel or pillowcase.\n\n",
"In addition to the things mentioned, when you lie down spread yourself out. Make sure no part of your body is touching another part of your body. This stops you feeling your own body heat and has helped me many a time. Source: I live in Dubai, it gets hot",
"My friend does this: Take a t shirt and run it under some cold water and then squeeze it out. Wear the shirt. Apparently he stays cool for hours doing this! I haven't tried it before (I have an A/C, so no need to) but if it works it works!",
"Grew up fairly poor in a southern state. Mon refused to run the AC or AC was always broke. And it is hot in the summer in SC. So anyway we used box fans placed on a chair blowing air directly on each of us and by George it worked pretty well.",
"last night I took an ice pack out of the fridge, wrapped it in a pillow case, and put it underneath the small of my back. it worked wonderful...my house is ~87 right now"
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"Away from home for month as a minor. Any advice? I got into a summer program, and now I have to stay at a college for a month. Are there any tips that you guys have for traveling or staying by myself?",
"Away from home for month as a minor. Any advice? I got into a summer program, and now I have to stay at a college for a month. Are there any tips that you guys have for traveling or staying by myself?",
"Away from home for month as a minor. Any advice? I got into a summer program, and now I have to stay at a college for a month. Are there any tips that you guys have for traveling or staying by myself?",
"Away from home for month as a minor. Any advice? I got into a summer program, and now I have to stay at a college for a month. Are there any tips that you guys have for traveling or staying by myself?",
"Away from home for month as a minor. Any advice? I got into a summer program, and now I have to stay at a college for a month. Are there any tips that you guys have for traveling or staying by myself?",
"Away from home for month as a minor. Any advice? I got into a summer program, and now I have to stay at a college for a month. Are there any tips that you guys have for traveling or staying by myself?",
"Away from home for month as a minor. Any advice? I got into a summer program, and now I have to stay at a college for a month. Are there any tips that you guys have for traveling or staying by myself?"
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"My daughter uses a fire proof envelope for all her documents like passport. We all have our IDs stored on our phones & in a central area that we can all access . Make sure you have all medications & prescriptions with you and a pic of them in case with you and your parents . If you wear glasses take your prescription too.",
"Keep your stuff organized. Have fun and change up your routine. Practice being an adult. Don't be afraid to try new things, it would be a waste to do and eat the exact same things you do at home. That being said stay smart and aware. If something doesn't feel right, don't do it. Always know how you're getting home and don't rely on people you've just met for your safety or basic needs.",
"Figure out your laundry routine early and bring enough socks, underwear, t-shirts so that you only need to do one load of laundry per week. \nAsk people for recommendations (local sights to see, cafes, restaurants to try, etc) \nMake new friends! I imagine there are other people in your shoes. Don't be afraid to ask a random group if you can sit at their table during lunch. Don't spend too much time alone in your room, get out there and make the most of the experience.\nHave fun!",
"WRITE DOWN a few phone numbers (and put them in your wallet/bag) in case you lose your phone or it's stolen (or you get thrown in jail for some reason)!",
"If you are in an unfamiliar area and need to look up directions on your phone, occasionally laugh, smile, or look angry to make it seem like you're texting. \n\nAlso, if you find yourself headed in the wrong direction and need to turn around, act like you got a call and sound annoyed \" ugh, I'm headed back\". That way you don't clue people in to being a from out of town. \n\nIf you wear a student ID or a let's say hit up a convention and are wearing a badge, take it off before you hit the town. That makes you a target.\n\nFinally, I live in a big city so this happens a lot, don't open your wallet in public if someone asks you for money. And if someone asks tou if you dropped your wallet, don't pat your pockets or check your bag. Ask them what it looks like.\n\n",
"Divide your money; don’t keep all of it in the same place. And keep some with you always in person,hidden, either in an inside pocket or inside a shoe or sock",
"Be careful who you trust. If your gut says something is off, it probably is so walk away. Don’t let yourself get pressured into situations. And assuming you have a good relationship with your family, don’t ever be afraid to call home."
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"You walk into a room and see someone has just hung themselves but are still alive, how do you save them? "
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"Most of these what ifs mean you better run/call for help immediately. Kicking could be managed if you were able to grab and hug both legs. Any slight lift in their weight might prolong their lives. \n\nGet your self a chair, hug their legs and hold on for their life.",
"Approach in the same way as any first aid situation (UK-based training).\n\n- remove them from danger as best as possible\n- check airway, breathing, circulation\n- call 999/911\n- attempt CPR if required"
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"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?",
"What are some pro tips to buying a new car? I just bought a new car and it will be delivered to the dealership on Friday. What should I look for or make sure is in working condition before signing the receipt of car documents?"
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"You really can't look for much specific while at the dealership. The car has a warranty though. Put it through it's paces. Do a proper break in (outlined in the manual), observe EVERYTHING. keep the radio off for a while so you can hear sounds. Open and close the windows for sound monitoring too. Also google the exact model and look for service bulletins, as well as joining a forum based on your specific car.",
"GAP insurance if you financed it! Make sure you're not under water on the car loan if it's totalled soon after.",
"You can always leave, unless you signed a paper there is no deal\n\nAlso, get your own financing at a local bank before you step foot on a lot",
"If you don't know much about cars do not let yourself feel ashamed about asking a trusted friend to go with you (assuming you have a petrolhead in your group of friends of course).\n\nI know nothing about cars. I offered to buy one for my elderly mother to drive (I don't drive and don't want to) so I took my mate to the dealership with me. He did the test drive, inspected the engine, etc etc. \n\nThe car he recommend turned out to be an absolute gem. It ran sweet and true for over a decade with minimal repair work. I think the running repairs cost less than (or very close to it) the original purchase by the time she stopped driving it, and it wasn't an expensive purchase to begin with. \n\n\"Phone a Friend\" is not just for gameshows.",
"Research, research, research. Look for every discount you can get. Some dealerships have partnerships with companies like Lyft and Uber. My most recent purchase I got an extra $1500 off because I signed up to be an Uber driver and showed them my dashboard. Never took one trip, but still got the discount.",
"I used to unload dealer new cars off of transports.\n\nLook at it in the sun. Not under a lamp, not when it’s overcast, not in early evening. Under. The. Sun. you’ll thank me when you find the massive scratches/dents you otherwise would have missed.\n\nI’d also look at Xylon, or whatever equivalent they offer. it’s overpriced, but when you’re wiping wet paint off of your hood with a microfiber instead of paying for a new paint job, you’ll be glad.",
"www.carcomplaints.com \n \nPut in your make/model/year and see what kind of problems are reported on the car. \n \nCC has a rating from 1-10 on a severity of various lemon-esque issues. \nAC compressor exploding (2003 CR-V) \nTransmission stripping out (2005 Taurus, Vue, Accord, etc.) \nFront end needing very regular alignment checks (2009 Focus) \nNo problems at all (2014 Nissan Leaf) \n \nAsk your dealer if Problem X has been addressed with Y car you purchased. \n\n",
"My sister was once looking at cars while the dealer was checking her current car for trade-in value. When she decided against making a deal that day, the salesman was \"Having a hard time finding her keys.\" I think in a bid to keep her there longer. (...and maybe buy the new car out of frustration? I don't know.) In that situation, tell them you are calling the cops and they will suddenly have no trouble finding your keys.\n\nAlso, if you're thinking of doing a trade-in, get an offer from Carmax or similar ahead of time, it gives you better leverage in the negotiations. \"This price with a trade-in of $1500? Well, I've got an offer for $2500, if you can't match that, I'll take my trade-in and come back with the cash another day.\"\n\nAlso, no matter how much you like a car, don't hesitate to walk away if you're not happy with the price and/or financing or feel like they're trying to pressure you with the ol' \"Well, I had a guy in this morning who was REAAAAALL interested.\". They need to make a sale more than you need to buy from them specifically. Even if someone else is genuinely interested in the same car, that doesn't mean it will sell or if it does sell that a deal more to your liking won't come along.",
"Keep your calculator out and keep a running tally as you talk to the dealer/haggle/go over pricing options. Always know where your numbers stand. Don't let them throw other numbers at you to confuse you. If they do, you have your calculator with the actual number. They're going to work realllllly hard to keep you confused.\n\nThis is exactly how I figured out that my dealer had tacked on an \"accidental\" $25 a month to my car payment. And when I pointed it out, they said they'd fix it later - after we had gone over warranties and other special offers that would have increased my payment. I think they were hoping that I'd accept one of the \"deals\" then magically fix the \"error,\" leaving me at exactly the same car payment as I had before and thus it wouldn't seem so bad.\n\nWhat happened instead is that I said, \"No, how about you make that fix right now so I know what I'm looking at?\" \n\nThey did, and then I proceeded to reject every single deal, much to the frustation of the salesman. \n\nDon't fuck with me, fellas.",
"I don’t know if it’s still true, but at one time Consumer Reports said the best cost per mile was to buy a car brand new and then drive it until the wheels fall off. This method has worked well for my family. \n \nAlso. Subscribe to Consumer Reports online. You have to dig for it but you can find the dealer’s cost for any vehicle. But keep in mind that the dealer gets discounts on top of that price. So start by offering $1000 less than the dealer cost and let them work up from there. The last car I bought, I got for $800 less than the dealer cost. ",
"Check out the blind spots. You don’t notice right away, but after a little while they can seem horrendous in some cars.",
"We have a whole sub dedicated to this. /r/askcarsales Keep in mind that sub deals with getting you ready to buy a car really. Not much anyone can do once you've bought it.",
"See if you can find the car you want at multiple dealerships nearish to each other. \n\nMake them fight for your business. \n\n",
"Just because you can buy a new car doesnt mean you should. Always check how much it costs for maintenance/insurance/petrol efficiency and factor those in before buying a car.",
"Shop around until you find the car you actually want. Talk to a salesman and find out when their quotas are due. I offered 40k on a 50k truck at the end of the month and they took it. Doesnt really work on a vehicle that they cant keep in stock.",
"Idk if someone has mentioned it, but if you can try traveling to another city or even state. I co-worker bought an Audi in Ohio (not sure the city) for almost $7000 less that in Raleigh,NC. After plane ticket and the gas and miles on the drive back he still saved thousands of dollars. Many locations have monopolies over a certain region so shop around. I know not everyone is on the market for a new Audi but still shop around."
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"Can't explain things well in English right off the bat. I have to think first in my native language then translate to English. How to work around this? ",
"Can't explain things well in English right off the bat. I have to think first in my native language then translate to English. How to work around this? ",
"Can't explain things well in English right off the bat. I have to think first in my native language then translate to English. How to work around this? ",
"Can't explain things well in English right off the bat. I have to think first in my native language then translate to English. How to work around this? ",
"Can't explain things well in English right off the bat. I have to think first in my native language then translate to English. How to work around this? ",
"Can't explain things well in English right off the bat. I have to think first in my native language then translate to English. How to work around this? "
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"Keep a daily journal in English. It'll help you to improve your vocabulary and figure out words that you use most often, and also practice communicating ion English. After a while it should become easier and more natural",
"Being fluent in another language basically means forcing yourself to think in that other language, which is very hard to do. \n\nI don't know of any workarounds. Immerse yourself in English as much as you can, and try to think in it even if you are mixing in words of your native language to fill in gaps.\n\nWarning: it causes headaches for me. Forgive yourself for the days you just can't face it, and reward yourself for the days you managed it fairly well.",
"Write your explanations down. Try to think in English and If you don't know a word, look it up, then write the translating down somewhere and review those words later.\n\nParticipate in discussion groups/ online forums. Writing in general improves speech and thinking.",
"Practice practice practice. One way to do it, is to get drunk with people who speak that language. You will make friends with them, and you will get a confidence boost to practice. Once you are sober, they will want to hang out with you and then you will have to push yourself to practice.",
"Think in English, thats how I do. Jk, idk dude. Even if I am Romanian and I speak Romanian every day I just seem to think in English AND Romanian. Idk how it works but it does. It s like King Crimson.",
"Thanks to everyone who replied. The consensus it seems is I should think and write in English as much as I could. I'd do exactly that. :)"
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"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else",
"what should we do if they have tried breaking into our apartment 2 times? So last week I wasn’t home that night but my bf was. He was deep asleep on the couch in the living room with the tv on around 2am. He thought he heard something but got up and popped his shoulder and let out a yell. Then he heard the door close. He thought he was thinking too much of the situation and it was nobody. Last night he woke up to someone trying to open the door again and he ran away. My bf didn’t catch what he looked like but suspect it was someone in that apartment complex bc they didn’t run outside afterwards. Btw there are Only 12 residents in total. So what should we do is he a burglar or want something else"
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"Make sure you buy renters insurance, get a buddy bar for your home door, and keep your deadbolt locked when you are home.",
"Do what the others mentioned but also get an alarm. You can even get something as cheap as an alarm you stick on the frame and door that goes off when the door is opened. \n\nThe loud sound should scare them. I would also talk to the apartment complex manager to install more security",
"If you don't have a deadbolt, get one. Keep the door bolted whenever you are inside. If you have a sliding door, keep the security bar down.\n\nIt may be a creeper (gets a thrill out of sneaking into someone else's home) or a burglar. But TBH, it could also be a sleepwalker. It could also be a lost resident/guest, particularly if you live in a complex where the buildings and doors all look the same (very easy for someone to try to go in the wrong door).\n\nFinally, was your BF the only one to see/hear this? It seems like in both cases, he witnessed these events when waking up. Perhaps it wasn't a creepy crawly, but hypnopompic hallucinations... essentially, a literal dream projected into reality. Burgulars are common in HH. HH can happen when you fall asleep or wake up, particularly if you're sleep deprived.\n\nBut yeah, the deadbolt. \n\n\n",
"* Install security cameras and sensors on doors and windows where applicable. There's plenty of standalone products you can buy and configure yourself or you can sign a contract with a security firm, which will install all that for you. Over here it's around 20 EUR a month and they send a vehicle if alarm is tripped and nobody is picking up the phone.\n\n* Change locks and get proper ones.\n\n* Think about self defense. Home invasions happen outside the movies, often with lethal consequences.",
"File a report with the police and your apartment manager to have it on record. It might be a series of break ins going on in the neighborhood. \n\nAlso, see about a buddy bar, deadbolt or a change of locks. The later may be your landlord’s responsibility, especially if the current lock is damaged.",
"If there are only a few apartments I’d seriously consider in addition to everyone else’s suggestions alerting other homeowners.\n\nPerhaps write a note to fellow apartment folks and put it under every door.\n\nSay just wanted to let you know there were two attempted break ins and please be on high alert. \n\nMaybe… them you do t have anything worth taking but still concerned for everyone safety. Say you have installed security cameras that send data off site. That you and put in traps in your apartment to tag them with unremovable ink and set up your home to injure them and protect yourself. Or maybe that you put fake valuables tagged to be clearly identified and traceable at the suggestion of police. That you advise everyone else to take similar precautions. \n\nSay that they did not leave the building so it’s possible it a of tenants or hiding in one of homes unknowingly. \n\nTo please call police if they see anything suspicious and assume it’s a break in not something normal \n\nYou don’t identify yourself or which apartment unless you want to. \n\nThis way it declares you’re not an easy target and makes them\nGestate before picking on you again and also puts puts neighbors on alert .\n\nDon’t do it alone do it in your building. No one wants crooks or worse as neighbors.",
"I like the idea of buying an electric fence generator and connecting it to the door handle at night. I mean do the other stuff that people suggested to burglar proof the door, but also give them a shock they will remember. Better yet, a cattle prod. Rig it with some wire or something so that when they turn the knob, it triggers the cattle prod on the handle shocking the absolute crap out of their hand.",
"Hotchner: \n\\[To Reid\\] The maximum distance an attacker with a knife can close in the time it takes to react, draw your sidearm, and fire is twenty-one feet. \nBlackwolf: \nInside twenty-one feet I win. Outside twenty-one feet, I have other options besides shooting a man.",
"Reinforce door and motion sensor lights and a camera on your walls are your friend man. Nobody wants to break in while illuminated on camera in the middle of the night. Add in some door protections so it takes some extra effort to get in, and you're cherry",
"Just in case you don’t have a deadbolt (highly suggest buying one), I would consider getting some (maybe 2-3) rubber door stops (the wedge shape ones) and duct tape them to the floor after you and your boyfriend are home and don’t plan to go out afterwards. If the door somehow gets opened by this burglar, the door will get jammed and won’t be opened further unless they can somehow reach a hand in to remove said doorstops (if they even know to do that). \n\nObviously this doesn’t work if the both of you are out, but if one of you goes out for the day then you can easily remove and put back the door stop. \n\nThis isn’t exactly a fail safe option, however it does provide extra insurance from getting burgled in the middle of the night.",
"Get the ring. Or some other camera. They have ones that get pretty much 180, so people can't sneak up from the side.",
"All of the mentioned security enhancements, but I’m assuming you locked your door. Change the locks. Also, consider that this person has a master key and talk to the landlord (and police) about this as well.",
"Yes\nAll of the above and I would sleep with one eye open & a baseball bat next to my bed.\nBut I’ve watched a lot of movies",
"In addition to what steps others have said to take, notify your landlord or apt Mgr about what is going on, what steps you have taken and ask for their help in providing a “safe and secure apartment” - use those words. Document the discussion. They may have security tapes or have other residents who were also victims. If you are in USA there are landlord/tenant laws which state the renter can expect a Safe and Secure environment.",
"If you can, get a guard dog or better yet, an alert dog.\n\nThey'll start barking as soon as someone approaches. If someone is trying to break into the neighbors place as well, they'll appreciate it.",
"If you can and have a place to put it up that if wont be stolen, put up a game camera to get some pics of who it is.",
"- get cameras\n- sleep with a baseball bat nearby\n- piss inside of a bucket for a few days till it’s nice and full. put that bucket over the door they’re using rig it so it spills piss all over them when they open it\n- if they don’t run out beat that piss covered ass like a drum\n- call the cops",
"change your locks. at the very least get kwikset locks with \"smartkey\" feature they are difficult for the average person to lock pick where as regular lock are extremely easy for novices. if you don't have a deadbolt lock and only knob, make sure your lock is dead latching which prevents the use of cr",
"You want to know what we think you should do? There’s only like one or two options at the most. What do YOU think you should do?",
"This is why I personally sleep with a loaded 9mm under my pillow. \n\nAm I paranoid? Yes, very \n\nHas my paranoia saved my life before? Yes, it has",
"There's this little thing called a Ring Doorbell camera. You should look into it. Seems kinda obvious.",
"Sounds like you’ve been watched for some time or could be coincidence. It could happen again. Cameras help. And maybe get some protection. If it’s a dog or weapon for home invasions. It’ll make them think twice if they see even ‘protected by X’ for security by your door. Even if it’s legit or not",
"Self defense weapon is always a good idea. Not necessarily a firearm but at least a bat or bear spray, keep in mind tear gas in a confined space is not great.",
"Reinforce your door frame and get a few good locks. Invest in a doorbell camera. If you have a gun keep it on your person",
"Police wont do anything. \n\nGet a gun and be ready to shoot, the thief life is less than worthless, its a negative to society. Help us all.",
"Maybe, get a ring (or comparable surveillance device) installed so that you can see who the perpetrator might be and maybe the unit that they are coming from and going into after the attempted break-in! Obviously, protect yourselves. I hope that you both stay safe. Take care.",
"I’ve never done this and someone who has might have more specific instructions but I’ve heard replace the screws in your front door hinge with longer/stronger ones to make it harder to kick in.",
"I’d say a gun would be the most convincing thing but I’m a Texan so. Also maybe put something jingly on the door, second the alarm and buddy bar as well. Maybe get ring camera or something too. Put some cherry bombs and powder around the front entrance can help you get a shoe print and alert his unwelcome presence, make sure porch light is on as well. Maybe borrow an aggressive dog from a friend or adopt one. If you can stay up tonight, I’d sit at the door with a 12 gauge shotty or an AR. I favor threat elimination, but like I said, Texas.",
"If you don’t *already* have a gun, it’s time to get one. If you do already have one, it’s time to make a trip to range for a few practice sessions to keep yourself competent",
"If you don't already have one... get a shot gun. Then sit outside your apartment in plain view and clean it for all to see.",
"If you can’t afford ring, then print out the logo thing on a sticker and put them on ur doors and windows. Maybe?",
"I'd be tempted but probably not the best advice to tape a note on the door you tried to break in twice I bought a gun Don't try it a third time.\n\nSecurity cameras probably the best thing and a better lock on your door.",
"I kept a christmas reef hung outside of my door year round when I lived in an apartment because I lived in a college town with neighbors that would get drunk and walk into the wrong apartment\n\nIt seemed to do the trick as prior to the reef I had three instances of different people walking in at night and well fortunately while I have firearms I was also working night shifts and awake with lights on and such to see it was just some drunk dumbass… \n\nAnyhow after putting up the reef I for christmas I noticed it stopped happening and nobody even tried my door knob as far as I could tell so I just left it year round. \n\nIn addition to something to better secure your door I would suggest doing something to very obviously differentiate your door from the other apartments on the face of the door itself and if the complex gives you any grief about it explain the situation (I found my complex was understanding)…\n\nTons of options they make wraps and stuff for doors, you could go the reef route or alternate hanging things that are more appropriate to the time of year…",
"Gun in a fingerprint safe by the bed. Everything else is great as a deterrent but it seems like a situation where I would want to have every ability to protect my family.",
"Get a gun and start going to the shooting range for practice. I also suggest taking any safety classes that may be available for you as well.",
"Get a big dog. If thats not in the cards, do what lovingcat-beepboob suggested. Cameras, police reports, extra bars on doors, etc.",
"Everyone keeps mentioning adding small locks and a buddy bar and deadbolts but I'm thinking metal security door. Buddy bar is $120.. deadbolt probably like 50 bucks. Security door is around $200 or even less for a used one.\n\nI had a fairly small man with a knife kick my door in on the first try. Both sides of the door frame were across the room and the deadbolt didn't do a damn thing. Buddy bar may have slowed him but the door frame seriously exploded.\n\nI had a gun though. 😀",
"Does your boyfriend usually stay up late? I’m speaking personally but I’d try and catch them/grab them and threaten them just to scare them from coming back. They’re clearly determined.",
"Contact complex management, inform them of the situation. \n\nInstall an alarm. \n\nInstall an inside-only lock of sorts.\n\nGet a gun, learn how to use it proficiently. The cops aren't going to help you. You're on your own.",
"Cameras. Guns. Get a hotel syle lock for the inside of your door and put it up high. If someone has a hotel style latch up high (like near the top) it takes a few extra hits to get through the door. Giving you time to get your gun.",
"Buy a gun and end it at 3 so their won’t be a 4th or a 1st later to another victim. \n\nSome states have higher charges for B and E at night because it often leads to violent outcomes opposed to the same crime during the day where the people are know to be at work of gone.",
"Buy a 12 gauge. As soon as robber enters pull trigger. He will never steal again. Thieves are the worst",
"Add some permanent dye to your door knob. Wear gloves when you enter your home and reapply the dye until you figure out who it is?",
"If you live in America look into the Second Amendment and brush up on the laws specific to this situation because it doesn't seem like somebody being home is stopping them",
"Call the cops, get a deadbolt, and a door bar, cameras are good but only after the fact. Think about self defense options. Gun, tazer, or mace. Be aware regular mace just doesn't work on some people.",
"Get a shotgun, all u need is 1 single buck shot shell, keep your front door unlocked, and when the asshat breaks into your home, be sitting there and pull the trigger. Just aim in the general direction of said asshat and asshat will disappear from this world.",
"I'd let the thief in then lay down lead, looks better to the police if the perp is dead inside rather than in the hallway. Ya, don't tread on me, I'm not messing around with thieves and druggies , and yes I can legally shoot or cut someone up in my house who is an invader. Dang it"
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"finding your way in the dark Any tips for this? im always entering my garage late at night and never navigating it safely.",
"finding your way in the dark Any tips for this? im always entering my garage late at night and never navigating it safely.",
"finding your way in the dark Any tips for this? im always entering my garage late at night and never navigating it safely.",
"finding your way in the dark Any tips for this? im always entering my garage late at night and never navigating it safely.",
"finding your way in the dark Any tips for this? im always entering my garage late at night and never navigating it safely.",
"finding your way in the dark Any tips for this? im always entering my garage late at night and never navigating it safely.",
"finding your way in the dark Any tips for this? im always entering my garage late at night and never navigating it safely.",
"finding your way in the dark Any tips for this? im always entering my garage late at night and never navigating it safely.",
"finding your way in the dark Any tips for this? im always entering my garage late at night and never navigating it safely."
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"* **First**: close your eyes and count to 30. *This lets your eyes adjust.*\n\n* **Second**: dont focus your eyes on an object, stare off into space. *Your peripheral vision works best this way.*\n\n* **Third**: walk slowly. Feel the area in front of you with your feet before commiting to stepping. *You wont run into anything*\n\n* **Forth**: hold one hand about a foot in front of your face and hold your other hand about a foot in front of your junk. *Your hand will hit whatever is in the way before those.*\n\n* **Also**: (if there's sharp stuff everywhere and you are barefoot) Dont walk the normal way. humans now commit to a step by putting their wieght on their foot before it's on the ground. there is a second in your step where you fall. **instead**, use your foot to find a bearable spot to step on, and shift your wieght onto that foot. instuctions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjnhnmBU_rU.\n\nI used this method to walk through a forest blindfolded and barefoot. It works. I hope you find this helpful.",
"Wear an eye patch, switch eyes when u enter the garage, swutch back when u leave. Each eye is adjusted to light and darkness",
"Install lighting. If that can't be done, install [TeslaLED](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.flashlight&hl=en).",
"Try to see using your peripheral vision. If you have time, wait a few moments in the dark and let your eyes adjust to the dark a little.",
"Take out your mobile phone, and use the small amount of light it gives out. It makes all the difference.\nNo need to unlock it you just need a little.",
"My parents recently bought a new garage door motor that has a motion sensor on the open/close button that turns on a light on the motor box when you walk by it (The button is just inside the door, so the light always turns on when anyone steps inside.) It was about $200 but it's an amazingly quiet motor and the built-in-light is actually better than the regular 60watt light that was built in to the garage. Best solution to a first world problem.",
"I usually wave my arms in front of me like a maniac, and pray to Christ theres nothing to hit my sub-waist",
"First get on your knees or all four then screech or yell the loudest and highest you can. Listen carefully to where your voice reverberates off of. Viola you can sense any obstructions in the room.",
"Have blue eyes. The lighter color your eyes the more light gets in the better your vision. People with blue eyes can see in te dark better than anyone else in the planet"
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"hard to close zippers I bought a new pair of pants last month that I really like, but the fly zipper is impossible. It generally opens without a problem, but when it’s time to close it, it keeps catching on itself. It doesn’t open on its own, I’m only having trouble with the closing motion. \n\nIs there a way to fix this before the zipper just breaks? It’s a metal zipper if it matters. ",
"hard to close zippers I bought a new pair of pants last month that I really like, but the fly zipper is impossible. It generally opens without a problem, but when it’s time to close it, it keeps catching on itself. It doesn’t open on its own, I’m only having trouble with the closing motion. \n\nIs there a way to fix this before the zipper just breaks? It’s a metal zipper if it matters. "
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"I used to use WD-40 or something along that nature to help lubricate the zipper, then line it up right and zip it up and down for 10 minutes or so. Sometimes it helped.\n",
"I have a relatively similar problem where my shorts fit fine, but when I zip them up, the zip pops out, leaving a big hole in my trousers and a pain in the ass to get the zipper zipped back down so I can try again. So far, happens every time. "
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"How to put a pack of Pez in the dispenser without them exploding everywhere 'Tis there woman or man who has ever succeeded in this truly Sisyphean undertaking?",
"How to put a pack of Pez in the dispenser without them exploding everywhere 'Tis there woman or man who has ever succeeded in this truly Sisyphean undertaking?",
"How to put a pack of Pez in the dispenser without them exploding everywhere 'Tis there woman or man who has ever succeeded in this truly Sisyphean undertaking?"
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"It takes some practice. If you slooooowly peel open the wrapper at the seam you can on occasion open it up nearly inna row.set this gently down. Now fully extend the dispenser and it should lock in place extended....never fully trust this feature. Now hold the pack in one hand as you guide the track over the candy. Once the candy has landed,flip that whole setup upside down and gently slide the pez into its home.",
"Just carefully and slowly. Securely hold it open and slowly shuffle pack in, with the pack gently opened down one side. ",
"Is Pez still a thing?! When I was a kid, I used to buy the 10 pack refill and gobble them up faster than a heroin addict does to oxycontin pills. I never bothered with any dispenser."
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"What do I do with my old work polos? I worked a customer service job for almost four years. Now I have about six polos in good condition with the company's logo on it and I'm leaving for a better job. \n\nAny ideas on how to repurpose them? Or even a good place to donate them to? \n\nIf nothing else, I will just ask my company if they want them back. ",
"What do I do with my old work polos? I worked a customer service job for almost four years. Now I have about six polos in good condition with the company's logo on it and I'm leaving for a better job. \n\nAny ideas on how to repurpose them? Or even a good place to donate them to? \n\nIf nothing else, I will just ask my company if they want them back. ",
"What do I do with my old work polos? I worked a customer service job for almost four years. Now I have about six polos in good condition with the company's logo on it and I'm leaving for a better job. \n\nAny ideas on how to repurpose them? Or even a good place to donate them to? \n\nIf nothing else, I will just ask my company if they want them back. "
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"1. See if co-workers want them\n2. If it's a big company, sell them online. A new employee might appreciate not having to pay top dollar for a dumb work shirt. ",
"At my workplace it was customary to wash them,take into break room,leave on table for coworkers. If not in good enough condition for workwear use for rags. ",
"Turn the shirt inside out and cut the sleeves off at the seam and then cut the collar off (just the part that folds down). It makes a tunic style shirt excellent for workouts. \n\nThe logo for my workshirts was on the sleeve so that sufficed for me."
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"Removing dirty dog smell from vacuum cleaner. I've tried everything. Google reveals no good answers. Any secrets out there?",
"Removing dirty dog smell from vacuum cleaner. I've tried everything. Google reveals no good answers. Any secrets out there?",
"Removing dirty dog smell from vacuum cleaner. I've tried everything. Google reveals no good answers. Any secrets out there?",
"Removing dirty dog smell from vacuum cleaner. I've tried everything. Google reveals no good answers. Any secrets out there?",
"Removing dirty dog smell from vacuum cleaner. I've tried everything. Google reveals no good answers. Any secrets out there?",
"Removing dirty dog smell from vacuum cleaner. I've tried everything. Google reveals no good answers. Any secrets out there?"
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"Throw potpourri, ground cinammon or anything small that smells good on the floor. Vacuum it up before you start cleaning. It will spread the smell through the whole place.",
"Replace the filters? Typically, there are at least one, if not two, filters in a vacuum. \n\nYes, even \"bag-less\" vacuums.",
"If it's a bag vacuum, put a dryer softener tissue in the bag. Clean and replace the sub-filter on a bagless cleaner. You can probably do the same thing with a tissue in the canister on the bagless unit as well.",
"Wash your filters. I know the manual suggests hand washing with warm water and drying carefully.\n\nFuck that shit, stick all the filters you can in the washing machine with your detergent of choice then dry in the tumble drier. They'll get much cleaner, and you can usually have the whole job done in under an hour.\n\nHell, with some vacuums you can take them apart enough to clean the cylinder where the dirt lives, or even stick it in the dishwasher.",
"I have a bagless vac and I have this issue. The thing that worked for me is using EXTREMELY hot water & bleach (mixed w/ water), let the parts soak for a while.\n\nThen, let air dry before you use the vac. It made the smell go away. The only problem is that it came back. :( So- I have to do it every time.",
"An onion. For some reason, onion absorbs a lot of strange odors. Cut one in half and let those sulfenic acids go to work! Yeah, you'll have an onion smell for a bit, but it goes away quickly. "
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"How to positively deal with criticism How do you deal with criticism without getting defensive or upset? I have been having trouble accepting criticism without taking it to heart.",
"How to positively deal with criticism How do you deal with criticism without getting defensive or upset? I have been having trouble accepting criticism without taking it to heart.",
"How to positively deal with criticism How do you deal with criticism without getting defensive or upset? I have been having trouble accepting criticism without taking it to heart.",
"How to positively deal with criticism How do you deal with criticism without getting defensive or upset? I have been having trouble accepting criticism without taking it to heart.",
"How to positively deal with criticism How do you deal with criticism without getting defensive or upset? I have been having trouble accepting criticism without taking it to heart."
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"You're identifying the thing they are criticizing as \"you\" or \"your identity\".. That thing they are condemning is not actually \"you\" though. Don't be attached to it as though it is a physical part of you they are deriding or something.. \n\nThink of these critiques as a chance to see your own behavior from a different perspective, and be grateful that there are differing viewpoints you can draw from in your efforts to grow and evolve.. Sometimes criticisms are useful and others aren't so much, that will be up to you to determine ",
"Receive their opinion as their perception. You have your own. If you have a reason to change yours it must be a very good one, like saving lives.",
"Imagine if somebody else had been doing what you were doing, and how you would feel about it. If they changed because of the criticism, would it be for the better? *e.g if somebody said you were being too loud, picture somebody else being noisy and if you'd want them to quiet down too.* Distancing yourself from the criticism can help you look at it objectively. Sometimes it can be hard to handle it right there and then, so saying a, \"thank you, I'll consider that,\" then taking a moment (bathroom break or what have you) to go over the words yourself can help. \n\nAlso remember there is a fine line between constructive criticism (meant to help you realize how to 'improve') and straight up being rude (saying you're doing things wrong without explaining why).",
"I usually try to understand that its not personal. If it's coming from someone you trust then take it with a grain on salt while respecting the fact that it's not always easy to point out others errors. We are all human the only way we get better is if we acknowledge our own shortcomings and work on them. The hard part is that we can't always recognize our faults on our own, that's why you try and listen, take some time and evaluate yourself and if it's true make a change! Hope this is helpful to you! ",
"Screw that. *Take it t heart*. Be better. Step it up. \n\nSay, \"hey thanks I aplreciate your thoughts, ill work on that.\""
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"Does your ability to read improve as you read more? How much (and maybe what) should you read to feel confident if you feel insecure in your ability to read? ",
"Does your ability to read improve as you read more? How much (and maybe what) should you read to feel confident if you feel insecure in your ability to read? ",
"Does your ability to read improve as you read more? How much (and maybe what) should you read to feel confident if you feel insecure in your ability to read? ",
"Does your ability to read improve as you read more? How much (and maybe what) should you read to feel confident if you feel insecure in your ability to read? ",
"Does your ability to read improve as you read more? How much (and maybe what) should you read to feel confident if you feel insecure in your ability to read? "
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"Not quite reading but a simple trick most folk can do is turn off autocorrect on your phone, forces you to actually spell words right all the time and eventually you'll notice a big improvement",
"Yes, your reading ability absolutely improve as you read more. To get better at reading, do it every day, and start by finding things that are fun to read. If you like what you’re reading, you’ll be more likely to do it. \n\nIt’s hard to get more specific than that, not knowing your reading level or interests. Generally, articles from reputable news magazines, young adult novels, graphic novels, or short books on a topic that interests you are good places to start. \n\nAlso, to help with concentration: read with a pencil or highlighter in hand, and mark any words or sentences that you don’t understand or find really interesting. If you have thoughts about what you’re reading, write those thoughts down somewhere. If you come across words you don’t know, make a list of them, look them up online, and write down their definitions.",
"We were encouraged to read broadsheet newspapers to help with our reading when we were in school. Started out a little bumpy but it improved my ability to read and to understand a wider vocabulary too. The aim I believe was to teach us to understand the meaning of the words in context rather than the sterility of a dictionary and thesaurus. It definitely worked for me. I read a lot even now (15 years since leaving school) and now my daughter follows in my footsteps and reads whatever I've been reading. She started with reading cereal boxes and such and has been reading novels with confidence since she was 8.\nDefinitely would recommend spreading across print formats. Listening to an audible book while following a printed copy can also be useful. Same with using closed captions on the tv.\nBest of luck in your journey! \nAnd as an afterthought....you read through all of this so you're on the right track!",
"You can also practice reading aloud, even to yourself. It will help with concentration and sounding out words will help with comprehension.",
"At least where I'm from, teachers recommend reading comics. Donald Duck is popular here, and it has some RICH vocabulary, and definitely makes you more articulate.\n\nIf you can't read read, you may want to have yourself checked for dyslexia."
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"How do I teach myself discipline ? I find myself lacking in discipline in just about everything, from school or chores to everything in between. How can I fix that? ",
"How do I teach myself discipline ? I find myself lacking in discipline in just about everything, from school or chores to everything in between. How can I fix that? ",
"How do I teach myself discipline ? I find myself lacking in discipline in just about everything, from school or chores to everything in between. How can I fix that? ",
"How do I teach myself discipline ? I find myself lacking in discipline in just about everything, from school or chores to everything in between. How can I fix that? ",
"How do I teach myself discipline ? I find myself lacking in discipline in just about everything, from school or chores to everything in between. How can I fix that? ",
"How do I teach myself discipline ? I find myself lacking in discipline in just about everything, from school or chores to everything in between. How can I fix that? ",
"How do I teach myself discipline ? I find myself lacking in discipline in just about everything, from school or chores to everything in between. How can I fix that? ",
"How do I teach myself discipline ? I find myself lacking in discipline in just about everything, from school or chores to everything in between. How can I fix that? "
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"I wouldn't say it's discipline at this point. More about motivation?\n\nTry thinking of the reward your work might give you or how it would benefit you or someone else. \n\nIf it's discipline you're talking about, ask yourself what kind of image you want to give people. Try to give the best image of yourself. Nobody likes a sloppy individual.\n\n\n",
"It's less about discipline and more about pattern-building, at least from my experience. \n\nYou're likely considering yourself undisciplined because you're spending your time in a manner that you've deemed unproductive. You keep doing these unproductive actions, however, because you've built patterns around them. \n\nYou need to get into the habit of doing the productive stuff regularly because once you've built them into your routine it's harder to not do them. You're going to need to convince yourself at first to take the effort and do them, but if it's done consistently each subsequent attempt will seem easier, until it just becomes another thing you do. ",
"Motivation is not discipline. They are not interchangeable. Mixing them up unintentionally can cost you.\n\nMotivation is emotion, the reason WHY you want a goal. Desire will make you hungry but it will not keep the gears turning.\n\nDiscipline is the result of faithfully executing the daily steps of rigor to make the long-term goal a reality.\n\nThe link between motivation and discipline is PASSION, better understood as the means necessary to be consistent and persistant with those daily steps. \n\nTeach yourself discipline by finding a goal you will be ecstatic with, the WHY to never give up on it, and the passion to never let anyone or anything derail you off the path to that goal, and the next one.\n\nThat was free. Now get off the computer and go make it happen.",
"*following* i'm similar, at times I find it difficult to commit to doing a task well and motivating myself to get things done",
"Start by setting little steps at a day that summed up together will help you to reach your short/long term goals. Make weekly plans and stick to them. This way, you'll feel like it is not much of a huge work to make and every week when you check your progress you will feel more encouraged to continue. I have been doing this for almost a year and has helped me a lot to finish almost everything that I propose 😂. I truly understand you. Been there before. The key is to set realistic and doable things according to your time and your possibilities and little by little you'll get there. Good luck! ",
"If it's discipline you're looking for find someone to hold you accountable. From personal experience, willpower/discipline is just like a muscle; it must be trained in order to become stronger. Having someone holding you accountable will help you train you're willpower and discipline.\n\nTL;DR: Ask someone to help you out with accountability just like you would a gym partner or a study buddy.",
"Discipline isn't about accountability or motivation. Discipline is just doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done. ",
"1. Identify times for things: if you didn't brush your teeth first thing before bed, it wouldn't be so easy to do. You can establish these patterns based on your knowledge of self. I'm more likely to workout in the morning before work. I'm more likely to eat healthy if I workout in the morning. I'm more likely to get up early if I go to bed on time. I'm more likely to go bed on time if I sleep the same time and read for half an hour in bed. This also lets me read more books than I would read normally. Build chain reactions like these. \n\n2. Reduce or increase barrier to entry: you're more likely to workout if you have a stationary bike at home, or if gym is within walking distance of home. You're less likely to eat junk food if you don't buy. \n\n3. Enjoy the reward: while eating junk food is a good feeling, a deep inside part of your brain is disappointed in that behavior. The \"win\" you get by being disciplined and resisting junk food and finishing the project a couple day early makes you feel \"in control\" and gives you \"self worth\". Lack of this self worth is hard to deal with and pushes you towards the bad habits like procrastinating and eating junk food\n\n4. Keep all indulgence in check: if you're going to eat a piece of cake, make sure it's not going to turn into 5 pieces. Ask yourself, when was the last time you indulged? Was is last month or two days ago. When was the last time you had a couple beers? Was it yesterday or last week? Was the Saturday you just Netflix and chilled an occasion or a pattern?"
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"Transporting meat on a bus I'll be making a 12-hour journey from Bulgaria to Turkey today and wondered the best way to transport two small packages of sausage and bacon was. Transporting them for obvious reasons (as it's ridiculously expensive to buy in Istanbul). Help please!\n\n",
"Transporting meat on a bus I'll be making a 12-hour journey from Bulgaria to Turkey today and wondered the best way to transport two small packages of sausage and bacon was. Transporting them for obvious reasons (as it's ridiculously expensive to buy in Istanbul). Help please!\n\n",
"Transporting meat on a bus I'll be making a 12-hour journey from Bulgaria to Turkey today and wondered the best way to transport two small packages of sausage and bacon was. Transporting them for obvious reasons (as it's ridiculously expensive to buy in Istanbul). Help please!\n\n",
"Transporting meat on a bus I'll be making a 12-hour journey from Bulgaria to Turkey today and wondered the best way to transport two small packages of sausage and bacon was. Transporting them for obvious reasons (as it's ridiculously expensive to buy in Istanbul). Help please!\n\n",
"Transporting meat on a bus I'll be making a 12-hour journey from Bulgaria to Turkey today and wondered the best way to transport two small packages of sausage and bacon was. Transporting them for obvious reasons (as it's ridiculously expensive to buy in Istanbul). Help please!\n\n",
"Transporting meat on a bus I'll be making a 12-hour journey from Bulgaria to Turkey today and wondered the best way to transport two small packages of sausage and bacon was. Transporting them for obvious reasons (as it's ridiculously expensive to buy in Istanbul). Help please!\n\n"
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"Are you sure they even require refrigeration? If the bacon is dry cured it does not. What type of sausages are you smuggling?",
"To replace ice or ice packs, freeze new sponges in plastic bags and put them in your freezer bag. They don't have to be soaking wet or store a ton of water so they don't get as drippy when they melt. 12 hours should be fine, as long as the meat doesn't get too warm.",
"Both are preserved meats, the sausage probably hung for three weeks at room temp and the bacon is so heavily salted and cured that it will last for the trip. Just take a look at how they are displayed at the vendors, no refrigeration there.",
"This thing\n\nhttp://static.webshopapp.com/shops/009566/files/002364636/giostyle-koelbox-fiesta-25-liter.jpg\n\nAnd freeze it in, with ice around it.\n\nBut honestly, 12h is a looong trip. Wouldn't really bother bringing meat over that distance.\n",
"Put them separately in plastic bags, than put those bags into another plastic bag. Put that into the baggage compartment. Bacon and sausage don't needmuch cooling, not over 12 hours, especially in the cold baggage compatment (it's winter atm)...",
"They have these things called coolers.. you should check them out.\n\n"
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"How to calm performance anxiety I'm a competitive snowboarder and I've always struggled with anxiety before my run. Whats a good way to clam down?",
"How to calm performance anxiety I'm a competitive snowboarder and I've always struggled with anxiety before my run. Whats a good way to clam down?",
"How to calm performance anxiety I'm a competitive snowboarder and I've always struggled with anxiety before my run. Whats a good way to clam down?",
"How to calm performance anxiety I'm a competitive snowboarder and I've always struggled with anxiety before my run. Whats a good way to clam down?",
"How to calm performance anxiety I'm a competitive snowboarder and I've always struggled with anxiety before my run. Whats a good way to clam down?",
"How to calm performance anxiety I'm a competitive snowboarder and I've always struggled with anxiety before my run. Whats a good way to clam down?",
"How to calm performance anxiety I'm a competitive snowboarder and I've always struggled with anxiety before my run. Whats a good way to clam down?"
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"Try the 4-7-8 breathing technique. Breathe in through your nose for 4 seconds, hold it for 7 seconds, then breathe out through your mouth for 8 seconds. Repeat 4-5x for maximum relaxation. I use this to calm down before presentations, going to sleep, etc...",
"Sometimes I have to work in really high places. Scaffolding, lifts, etc. I get really anxious when I get up there cause I have a small fear of heights. So I'll close my eyes and breath in through my nose and out my mouth. While I am doing that with my eyes still closed I'll start doing math in my head. Usually double digit multiplication. For some reason it seems to calm me down.",
"I'm a musician, and the only thing that works every time is practice practice practice. Practice until you're confident in yourself, then practice with a friend watching to become comfortable. You get nervous because you think you'll fail and you psych yourself out.\n\n When performing, imagine it's just you and the friend watching, tune out the audience and everyone else watching. You'll get better after more exposure to the competition as well.\n\nThey use this technique with concerts, the lights are bright enough that you can't see the audience from the stage. ",
"Exposure therapy is proven to work. Just put yourself in socially evaluative situations, or compete a ton. You will develop the \"skill\" of competition calm with dedicated effort. On another note, keep in mind that anxiety is a natural reaction to stress. It is the result of chemical and electrical activity in your brain and blood stream. Feeling the fight or flight reflex triggers a cascade of hormones to release and this in turn excites the nervous system. Keeping this system in mind will allow you to practice it all the time, get cut off in traffic? Fight the hormone release and it gets better. This one takes years in my experience, but awareness of it is the first step. Much love my man, and many victories in battle.",
"Very specific deep breathing as it's proven to calm the mind and body, but in conjunction with that, put this event or competition in perspective with the entire scheme of life. So for me, it's playing a significant show (musician). All the hours of practicing, the people watching, and just having a \"outcome dependency\" on my emotions on whether it's good or not causing the anxiety to do well. But then I think...this will end, and whether it's good or bad, I'm going to get some Chipotle afterwards regardless. Look forward to something you're doing after the event and focus on that. It sort of makes this event seem like a non-issue, especially if what you're doing afterwards is your fav thing.",
"Try asmr if you have time to yourself before. Literally calms my nerves before a test or competition. \n\nAlso, YouTube search has tons of them\n\n",
"I've used two methods with success.\n\n1. Think of the physical manifestations of the anxiety as signs of excitement rather than anxiety.\n\n2. Realize that you are anxious because you are in a position that matters to you. Focus on being grateful that you are in the position that you are in regardless of what happens (ex. being in a position to even be able to compete in something that you are passionate about vs. being a starving refugee or being on fire)"
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"How do I keep a storage unit fresh? How do I keep a storage unit fresh?\n\nI’m going to be storing a bunch of stuff including clothes that will be hanging in a climate controlled storage unit. Is there some life pro tip on how best to keep the storage unit fresh for several months? I’ve read about baking soda, cat litter, vinegar, bleach but I don’t know which advice is right and what exactly to buy. Do I just buy the smallest bag of kitty litter and leave it open? Do I buy those small arm and hammer baking soda boxes and leave one open? What should I do?",
"How do I keep a storage unit fresh? How do I keep a storage unit fresh?\n\nI’m going to be storing a bunch of stuff including clothes that will be hanging in a climate controlled storage unit. Is there some life pro tip on how best to keep the storage unit fresh for several months? I’ve read about baking soda, cat litter, vinegar, bleach but I don’t know which advice is right and what exactly to buy. Do I just buy the smallest bag of kitty litter and leave it open? Do I buy those small arm and hammer baking soda boxes and leave one open? What should I do?"
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"Do you know what the unit looks like inside? Mine had a concrete floor and I learned quickly to put nothing directly on it as damp would come up through the floor (and seep into cardboard boxes). The ‘ceiling’ in mine was also just a wire mesh, which meant there was air flow throughout the entire building. As such, I didn’t really have to do anything to keep it fresh as the climate control and air circulation did their job.",
"You can get a high capacity moisture absorber from Lowe’s for about $10. That, with some pallets to keep things off the ground should do the trick."
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"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome..",
"Tips for how to keep my room warm. cant afford much as i don't earn much. Cheap or no cost ideas would be awesome.."
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"Weatherize your windows. Wear thick ass socks when home. Layer your clothing. I keep the bathroom door shut and the door to the living room open as I get the warm air from the living room and it just goes to die in the bathroom. ",
"I have a presto brand water kettle. It plugs into the wall. It cost me about $20 ten years ago. It still works.\n\nWith it I can heat up water quickly from an outlet. I make herbal tea. It is nice to hold the hot tea cup. Warms my hands. And breath in the warm steam. Warms my face. Then drink the hot tea. Warms my belly.\n\nAlso you can fill up a water bottle with the hot water and then put that, sealed, in your bed with you. It makes your bed very warm. Just be careful to do it right and not burn yourself with the water. This is an old camping trick for sleeping bags.\n\nI got a bunch of candles, like a box, for 79 cents. I light 3 or 4 of them at the same time and they seriously heat up the room after a few hours. \n\nI purchased some wool socks and yeah they were a little expensive but the quality is so much better. 1 pair keeps you 300% warmer, easily. \n\nAlso if you are cold just do 30 squats. Boom. You're not cold anymore. ",
"http://www.walmart.com/ip/17133826?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227016740459&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40872617312&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=78765400352&veh=sem Window seran wrap",
"Shrink film over the windows helps a *lot*.\n\nWearing something extra to keep your legs warm is a big help, too.",
"I got a 35$ space heater from target. Has a remote. Best 35$ I have ever spent. Alarm goes off, snooze, turn on space heater, sleep in. Wake up to a warm and cozy room!",
"Thermal curtains prevent heat from escaping through windows. I have them and they are great and also helps prevent light from the street from shining through my windows at night",
"Put bubble wrap on your windows, between the glass and the blinds/curtains. Better if you put the Satan wrap stuff on the windows first.",
"If you can, this thing is awesome. Has an internal thermostat so it shuts off once the room is at the desired temperature and unlike regular electric heaters it is quiet. No waking you up in the middle of the night when the fan kicks in:\nhttp://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/redstonetrade%3B-electric-multi-purpose-oil-filled-deluxe-radiator-heater\n\nAs far as cheap/free...others have covered that pretty well.\n\nLayers are always a good idea. And you can try to zone the heat in your apartment/house so the desired room gets a bit more heat.",
"If the sun shines in through the window, open the blinds or curtains during the day. Just remember to close them again at night.",
"I haven't seen anything about this, but weatherstripping is key. Block off or use proper weatherstripping underneath all door gaps to create a good seal, and feel around windows, wall areas, and doors to look for drafts. If the window area feels really cold, you can put up some sort of insulation.",
"I find the problem is getting up to temperature in the first place if the house is cold. I like to blast the heating and go for a brisk walk, wearing a few layers of clothes. Come home to a warm house and all warm myself, I can often then shut down the heating and I am warm for hours. If I wake up and it is cold, no matter what I do I can end up chattering away for hours unless I keep active.",
"Close the doors of your closets, lock windows if you haven't.. bundle up with blankets, pillows, and make yourself some hot chocolate!",
"Costco has/had quite a generous return policy (not sure what it is now). In the past I bought a cheap space heater for the cold months and either returned it or exchanged it for a fan for the hot months."
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"How to find and do work you love? My friend will finish school next year and she's struggling with her life purpose, because after school, she needs to go to a college and she's afraid she'll waste 4-5 years to find that she doesn't like that. \n\nAs for myself, I already found my life purpose, I left college because I knew from the first year that this is a waste of time for me and I will get nothing useful from there. So I became a professional comic book artist, I love my job and in my spare time I learn to write and play music, because I love that too. \n\nI told her that I've been through this already and if she will go to college just to get a degree - she will feel hollow. Just because everybody do that doesn't mean this is the only true way to be happy with your life. \n\nShe just don't know what she's looking for. ",
"How to find and do work you love? My friend will finish school next year and she's struggling with her life purpose, because after school, she needs to go to a college and she's afraid she'll waste 4-5 years to find that she doesn't like that. \n\nAs for myself, I already found my life purpose, I left college because I knew from the first year that this is a waste of time for me and I will get nothing useful from there. So I became a professional comic book artist, I love my job and in my spare time I learn to write and play music, because I love that too. \n\nI told her that I've been through this already and if she will go to college just to get a degree - she will feel hollow. Just because everybody do that doesn't mean this is the only true way to be happy with your life. \n\nShe just don't know what she's looking for. ",
"How to find and do work you love? My friend will finish school next year and she's struggling with her life purpose, because after school, she needs to go to a college and she's afraid she'll waste 4-5 years to find that she doesn't like that. \n\nAs for myself, I already found my life purpose, I left college because I knew from the first year that this is a waste of time for me and I will get nothing useful from there. So I became a professional comic book artist, I love my job and in my spare time I learn to write and play music, because I love that too. \n\nI told her that I've been through this already and if she will go to college just to get a degree - she will feel hollow. Just because everybody do that doesn't mean this is the only true way to be happy with your life. \n\nShe just don't know what she's looking for. ",
"How to find and do work you love? My friend will finish school next year and she's struggling with her life purpose, because after school, she needs to go to a college and she's afraid she'll waste 4-5 years to find that she doesn't like that. \n\nAs for myself, I already found my life purpose, I left college because I knew from the first year that this is a waste of time for me and I will get nothing useful from there. So I became a professional comic book artist, I love my job and in my spare time I learn to write and play music, because I love that too. \n\nI told her that I've been through this already and if she will go to college just to get a degree - she will feel hollow. Just because everybody do that doesn't mean this is the only true way to be happy with your life. \n\nShe just don't know what she's looking for. "
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"I just wrote a long essay about this. I'll summarize it below. \n\nAdolescence is the period in our lives from the onset of puberty to the mid to late 20s. It's a time of growth and learning. During this period we're supposed to make mistakes and gain as many life skills as possible. It's also important to note that our body and brain are completely development. So, it is only fitting that we can't understand such difficult questions like our life purpose. In essence, we need more life experiences. \n\nLife experiences expose us to different avenues and provide us with skills for traversing these routes. Think of life as a map. Now imagine you're in a dark room with an unknown object in front of you. To determine the object you have one tennis ball. To learn about the object you must throw the ball toward the object and determine where it bounces. Hit or miss, \"success\" or \"failure\", tells you more and more about the object. By analogy, the object is your future and the tennis ball is your choice. Sometimes you \"succeed\" and sometimes you \"fail\", and each outcome yields more details about life. It takes all of adolescence to know about the object. Only then can you make an adequate life decision such as your life purpose. Some people are lucky enough to have a desire from a young age, some aren't. \n\nIf someone doesn't know, I can suggest the following. Go out in the world. Find someone successful and be their intern or apprentice. Spending 4 to 5 years gaining a productive mindset is better than being educated in something you hate. Wait until you have a breath of knowledge about the numerous subjects of the world, then decide what your purpose is. ",
"Step 1: Figure out what you love. This is not your passion, you could be passionate about people's health and realize you are squeamish.\n\nStep 2: Find out what jobs involve that thing that you love. Identify realistic career paths that allow you to pursue life goals while doing what you love. Talk to many, many, many people in that career.\n\nStep 3: Get good, get certified, get degrees in that field.",
"Not everyone knows what they want to do and it can take time. \n\nI drifted through a few jobs and tried out stuff that seemed interesting which combined with a few lucky encounters meant I ended up doing a job I love (which is incidentally also illustration but not comics).\n\nIt did take over 10 years but going to college did open me up to new options, people and meeting my wife so it's not a complete waste of time. \n\nDifferent things suit different people.\n",
"Get her to do some career quizzes and suggest she look into seeing a careers person or life coach. They will be able to work through with her about strengths, interests and skills and see if something pops. Otherwise suggest that she see if she can test out a few jobs or activities to find something she enjoys. College might not be a waste of time as it can also help with this."
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"Making the transition from an introverted lifestyle to an extroverted one I just want to clarify. I want personal experience here, not the usual 'Go out on the weekends, get a hobby'-type of advice:\n\n* What can one expect when making the transition?\n\n* Mimicking other people is something we all do; are there any personality-traits in particular one should look to adapt into?\n\n* Humor has been a tool of the trade for many insecure people in making the transition; got any beginner-to-intermediate LPTs for developing a better expression of humor?\n\n* Emotional turbulense is sure to be expected when going against ones nature like this; how to better prepare for the upcoming battle of emotions?",
"Making the transition from an introverted lifestyle to an extroverted one I just want to clarify. I want personal experience here, not the usual 'Go out on the weekends, get a hobby'-type of advice:\n\n* What can one expect when making the transition?\n\n* Mimicking other people is something we all do; are there any personality-traits in particular one should look to adapt into?\n\n* Humor has been a tool of the trade for many insecure people in making the transition; got any beginner-to-intermediate LPTs for developing a better expression of humor?\n\n* Emotional turbulense is sure to be expected when going against ones nature like this; how to better prepare for the upcoming battle of emotions?",
"Making the transition from an introverted lifestyle to an extroverted one I just want to clarify. I want personal experience here, not the usual 'Go out on the weekends, get a hobby'-type of advice:\n\n* What can one expect when making the transition?\n\n* Mimicking other people is something we all do; are there any personality-traits in particular one should look to adapt into?\n\n* Humor has been a tool of the trade for many insecure people in making the transition; got any beginner-to-intermediate LPTs for developing a better expression of humor?\n\n* Emotional turbulense is sure to be expected when going against ones nature like this; how to better prepare for the upcoming battle of emotions?",
"Making the transition from an introverted lifestyle to an extroverted one I just want to clarify. I want personal experience here, not the usual 'Go out on the weekends, get a hobby'-type of advice:\n\n* What can one expect when making the transition?\n\n* Mimicking other people is something we all do; are there any personality-traits in particular one should look to adapt into?\n\n* Humor has been a tool of the trade for many insecure people in making the transition; got any beginner-to-intermediate LPTs for developing a better expression of humor?\n\n* Emotional turbulense is sure to be expected when going against ones nature like this; how to better prepare for the upcoming battle of emotions?",
"Making the transition from an introverted lifestyle to an extroverted one I just want to clarify. I want personal experience here, not the usual 'Go out on the weekends, get a hobby'-type of advice:\n\n* What can one expect when making the transition?\n\n* Mimicking other people is something we all do; are there any personality-traits in particular one should look to adapt into?\n\n* Humor has been a tool of the trade for many insecure people in making the transition; got any beginner-to-intermediate LPTs for developing a better expression of humor?\n\n* Emotional turbulense is sure to be expected when going against ones nature like this; how to better prepare for the upcoming battle of emotions?"
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"I find booze transforms me from intovert to extrovert to ass.\n\nIt's important that I finesse my consumption to where I stay at phase 2.",
"my journey:\n\nawkward fat girl in a bad relationship for years, hated myself, got single and needed a change.\n\nso I:\nseparated a little from those who knew me well so I didn't feel judged\n\ntook improv classes, cuz it was terrifying\n\nwent to bars alone\n\nSat up straight and made eye contact with strangers at the bar while inwardly terrified, cuz I knew it would make me approachable\n\ndrank enough liquid courage to talk to strangers at the bar. talked to everyone. old men are always friendly, even the drunks. Plus I felt like talking to old people would give the message that I wasn't there for a hookup..\n\nSo after doing that for months, I actually met some really good friends through improv because it's a huge risk on a stage and when you risk something with people, you connect to them. We now perform once a month and have gotten quite the following. Met a lot of interesting people at the bar as well, especially since I made it a policy to talk to anybody who is drinking alone because there's a reason that they're drinking alone. Some of those people are still my friends.\n\nI'm now a trainer who stands in front of a classroom 40 hours a week and teaches new hires and they are all fans of me. I have a great group of friends. I'm confident enough to talk to anybody at any social situation including things that used to make me panic, like checking out at a grocery store.",
"I have always been one of those people who flicks between intro/extra so I may not be the best person to comment. \n\nFirst and foremost, remember that everyone has a little social anxiety. Everyone wants to be liked, and doesn't like the feeling of social rejection. Treat people like people, by which I mean, realise that everyone has an inner life that is as real and vivid and immediate to them as your life/experience is to you, and act accordingly. \n\nAsk people questions. A) people (generally) like talking about themselves/their hobbies/ their interests. Don't just ask questions to ask them though, take a general interest in what they are saying. \n\nIt's always safer to make a joke that is at your own expense rather than at someone else's. Don't take these jokes too far though, that can make people really uncomfortable, really quickly. Tell a story about you doing something that was a bit stupid, a story that is a little embarrassing. This humanises you to other people, and will make them more open with you. \n\nUltimately, don't stick with wanting to change like this if it causing you a lot of distress. It simply isn't worth it. \n\nWhy are you trying to change by the way? ",
"Get good at asking questions. Part of what makes people introverted is not being interested in other people. Genuinely interested. They may want to be, but they don't know how to make relationships with other people mutually beneficial. \n\nRealize that people are the best source of information there is if you know how to steer a conversation in a productive direction. Ask open ended questions.\n\nLook up the Socratic method, even if you don't know what you're talking about, using this method makes you seem more interested in other people. Not only that, the Socratic method makes people form more connections about what you are asking them about, and see the topic in a new light by filtering them through questions they haven't thought about before.\n\nFor example, instead of asking a coworker how long they have worked at a place a simple answer, ask an open ended question like \"why did you choose to work here?\"\n\nWhen someone mentions how great that movie was last weekend, apply the Socratic method and have them expand on that thought. Ask them, \"what aspects of that movie made it pleasurable to you?\"\n\nAnther thing you might want to look into is Dale Carnegie's book \"How to Win Friends and Influence People\". He talks about techniques that make people more likable. \n\nOne of the principles in the book is to take a genuine interest in other people. See things through their perspective. Ask yourself, \"what does this person want and how can I help them achieve their goals?\"\n\nPeople can tell when you genuinely care about them and when you're faking it. ",
"For the Humor part : take note of the kind of jokes people make . Not the easy ones like \" haha that's because you're ugly \" or the ones that involve insulting random people to no end . You don't have to be loud to be funny . Always remember that one , unexpected joke that got everyone rolling on the floor laughing .\n\nAs for emotional turbulence : just remember 90% of the time when someone goes \" Ay fuck you \" jokes about your face being lopsided or your balls being in a twist - it's not an insult , just Abit of fun . And if you can anticipate it and even counter it and make them look stupid : you're the king and you'll have everyone's respect "
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"What to do with Lottery Winnings of any Size So a few days ago I found the reddit post that talked about the optimal way to utilize and handle a [$656 Million lottery win](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_won_a_656_million_dollar_lottery_what_do/chba5nw). However, it got me thinking about other lottery amounts since the jackpot may never get that high again (like can I apply the $656 Million advice to a $15 Million lottery win?). \n\nI can imagine when they're as low as $10,000 that the best thing to do is pay off debts. But at what dollar amount can you safely start making investments such as treasury bonds or investing in the stock market, or even crazier?",
"What to do with Lottery Winnings of any Size So a few days ago I found the reddit post that talked about the optimal way to utilize and handle a [$656 Million lottery win](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_won_a_656_million_dollar_lottery_what_do/chba5nw). However, it got me thinking about other lottery amounts since the jackpot may never get that high again (like can I apply the $656 Million advice to a $15 Million lottery win?). \n\nI can imagine when they're as low as $10,000 that the best thing to do is pay off debts. But at what dollar amount can you safely start making investments such as treasury bonds or investing in the stock market, or even crazier?",
"What to do with Lottery Winnings of any Size So a few days ago I found the reddit post that talked about the optimal way to utilize and handle a [$656 Million lottery win](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_won_a_656_million_dollar_lottery_what_do/chba5nw). However, it got me thinking about other lottery amounts since the jackpot may never get that high again (like can I apply the $656 Million advice to a $15 Million lottery win?). \n\nI can imagine when they're as low as $10,000 that the best thing to do is pay off debts. But at what dollar amount can you safely start making investments such as treasury bonds or investing in the stock market, or even crazier?",
"What to do with Lottery Winnings of any Size So a few days ago I found the reddit post that talked about the optimal way to utilize and handle a [$656 Million lottery win](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_won_a_656_million_dollar_lottery_what_do/chba5nw). However, it got me thinking about other lottery amounts since the jackpot may never get that high again (like can I apply the $656 Million advice to a $15 Million lottery win?). \n\nI can imagine when they're as low as $10,000 that the best thing to do is pay off debts. But at what dollar amount can you safely start making investments such as treasury bonds or investing in the stock market, or even crazier?"
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"[Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/windfall) the /r/personalfinance wiki on windfalls.",
"pay off debts, no matter how high they are, then put it in vanguard index funds immediately and dont tell anyone. Live off interest for life, instead of having it ruin your life.",
"First thing you do, BEFORE you collect the money.\n\nSee someone about setting up a trust so that you don't claim the money personally. Suppose your name is \"Smith\", it's simply listed as the \"Smith family trust\" and all inquires go though a lawyer.\n\nReason for this is I've known a couple of people who have won the lottery. You HAVE to keep an active phone number on file. He would get mad calls from investment houses, charities and a host of other people who wanted a piece of his pie. You change your number, but they would still get it. (Apparently they pay off people at the lottery commission).\n\nNow all they have is a lawyer's office and they tell those people to go pound sand.\n\n",
"There was the mother of all Reddit posts posted on handling lottery winnings a bunch of years ago.\n\nAnybody got the link? I'm on mobile. >_<"
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"How to sell door to door So I have to sell bags of coffee beans to fund raise my high schools music department. What are some tips to make selling easier and more successful? ",
"How to sell door to door So I have to sell bags of coffee beans to fund raise my high schools music department. What are some tips to make selling easier and more successful? ",
"How to sell door to door So I have to sell bags of coffee beans to fund raise my high schools music department. What are some tips to make selling easier and more successful? ",
"How to sell door to door So I have to sell bags of coffee beans to fund raise my high schools music department. What are some tips to make selling easier and more successful? ",
"How to sell door to door So I have to sell bags of coffee beans to fund raise my high schools music department. What are some tips to make selling easier and more successful? "
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"I'm still in highschool, and for a while I had to go door to door selling local newspaper subscriptions. I made it quick as possible because I had to do it in the evening by myself. I first introduced myself, by my first name only, mentioned the school I went to, ad asked if they had a couple minutes to spare (if they didn't then I'd thank them anyway and leave). I'd then make a quick pitch that I was part of an after school program that was selling the subscriptions to raise money for the school (then I threw in a joke about those darned LA budget cuts) and asked if they'd like to subscribe for x weeks at x dollars. \n A little bit of humor is good, because they tend to be more likely to buy if you make them comfortable. I got 12 bucks for every sub I made, and sold around 20 subs a week. \n So your pitch, along with your own style, would be something like:\n Hi! My name is ________ and I'm part of the _______ high school band/orchestra. Do you have a few minutes to spare? (Sure, why not?) Great! So we're doing a fundraiser at school selling bags of coffee (flash the coffee bag at them so they can see it) and they cost x bucks a bag. (you could throw in spmething about trying to buy new instruments for the program, because those danged budget cuts makes it harder for the school to get the needed amount within the music budget) Would you be at all interested in supporting us? If they buy a bag, then make sure you thank them at least once and mention how you appreciate it, and if they decline, you thank them anyway and mention that you appreciate the time they've taken to listen.\n\nKudos!",
"I don't know what your local area is like, but mine is inundated with scam companies who pay high school and college kids to 'sell' magazines door to door under the pretense of them winning a scholarship, when in actuality the kids are making an hourly wage and the money is going to the company. Because of this, myself and many of my neighbors ask to see something 'official' from the school in regards to the charity- anything on a letterhead, a picture of the kids as a group in front of the school, *anything* to show they are actually doing this for school and not a company.\n\nTalk to your teacher and see if you can get a group shot of the kids in the music department with the coffee and their instruments or something for paranoid people like me to see you are actually doing this for school. ",
"I would definitely make sure you say that you are part of a high school fundraiser as soon as possible. People are going to be quick to close the door thinking you're another failed green movement or JW or vacuum cleaner salesman.\n\nHave proper documentation and make sure you give proper receipts. Otherwise, they might think you're scamming or pocketing half the proceeds. We had this problem with Little League fundraisers. The kids were keeping half the money because there was nothing to turn in and keep them honest.",
"I did door to door fundraising for a charity. First rule is to knock on a lot of doors. Second rule is to have a *short* memorized pitch, like WestWay818 says. Then, just be relaxed and comfortable at the door, friendly and ready to engage with each potential customer. Finally, once you go to the next door, forget all about the last one and start fresh. Each person is different. Sluff off the unfriendly ones right away and bounce right up to your next door. Keep your energy high: people will respond to that.\n\n(Note: If you get a first rejection at a door, try again, after that, cut it short and move on. Don't wast time!)",
"Dress casually, neatly, and neutrally. I.e., no logos or other apparel that might bring undue attention.\n\n"
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"How to get rid of dry scalp/dandruff? Whenever I stroke my hair, multiple flakes fall down, any tips as to fixing this? ",
"How to get rid of dry scalp/dandruff? Whenever I stroke my hair, multiple flakes fall down, any tips as to fixing this? ",
"How to get rid of dry scalp/dandruff? Whenever I stroke my hair, multiple flakes fall down, any tips as to fixing this? ",
"How to get rid of dry scalp/dandruff? Whenever I stroke my hair, multiple flakes fall down, any tips as to fixing this? ",
"How to get rid of dry scalp/dandruff? Whenever I stroke my hair, multiple flakes fall down, any tips as to fixing this? ",
"How to get rid of dry scalp/dandruff? Whenever I stroke my hair, multiple flakes fall down, any tips as to fixing this? ",
"How to get rid of dry scalp/dandruff? Whenever I stroke my hair, multiple flakes fall down, any tips as to fixing this? ",
"How to get rid of dry scalp/dandruff? Whenever I stroke my hair, multiple flakes fall down, any tips as to fixing this? ",
"How to get rid of dry scalp/dandruff? Whenever I stroke my hair, multiple flakes fall down, any tips as to fixing this? ",
"How to get rid of dry scalp/dandruff? Whenever I stroke my hair, multiple flakes fall down, any tips as to fixing this? "
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"I find T-Gel works best by far. \n2 problems: it's expensive, and you have to keep using it. \n\nCostco sell it at a better price than most other places.",
"Get it checked out, just in case it's psoriasis. \n\nI thought I had regular dandruff for years, only to find out I had psoriasis all over my scalp. Now I have to keep my head shaved so I can scrub it very regularly. ",
"take colder showers, I have dandruff as well, really bad sometimes, I've found that if I take cold showers it reduces the dandruff much better then anything else I've tried....including trying different shampoos like T-Gel and Head and Shoulders.\n\nanother thing to do is wash your hair with shampoo less regularly maybe 2-3 times a week instead of everyday.",
"Make sure to thoroughly scrub your head with both a separate shampoo and conditioner. T gel does work well. Additionally, rubbing some Moroccan oil on your scalp post shower can help. Also make sure to drink a lot of water! ",
"In my experience, it was the sodium laurel sulphate common in many shampoos (and most dandruff shampoos) that was drying out and destroying my scalp. When I switched to a sulphate-free shampoo (Not Your Mother's), my flakes went away after several few weeks. ",
"Suprised no one hasn't mentioned this, massage some coconut oil onto your head an hour before showering!",
"I have eczema on my scalp and head and shoulders takes care of it for me, I use it regularly and havent had dandruff in ages.",
"Hands down, Nizoral is the best OTC shampoo. It's available at Walgreens. It comes in prescription strength as well. ",
"Back when I did a lot of cycling I would get nasty dandruff due to all the sweat. After you are done washing your hair, pour a cup of Listerine over your hair and work it down to the scalp then rinse. I swear it works, it is also cheaper than T-gel and smells a whole lot better.",
"Drink lots of water.\n\nOnly use soap in your hair every other day. When you use shampoo you clean out the natural oil in your hair and it in-turn dries out your scalp.\n\n"
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"How to spend less time in the shower When in the shower my mind often wanders and I end up spending way more time than I need to in the shower.",
"How to spend less time in the shower When in the shower my mind often wanders and I end up spending way more time than I need to in the shower.",
"How to spend less time in the shower When in the shower my mind often wanders and I end up spending way more time than I need to in the shower.",
"How to spend less time in the shower When in the shower my mind often wanders and I end up spending way more time than I need to in the shower.",
"How to spend less time in the shower When in the shower my mind often wanders and I end up spending way more time than I need to in the shower.",
"How to spend less time in the shower When in the shower my mind often wanders and I end up spending way more time than I need to in the shower."
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"Set a timer on your phone that plays your least favourite song when it goes off and leave it outside the shower. \n\nWhen the song starts playing you will have to get out to go turn it off. ",
"Pfft, Shower time is a vacation from cruel reality. Enjoy it as much as you can. The rest of my day is just survival so I can sleep, dream, and shower.",
"Take a cold shower. It's better for your skin, wakes you up, and you'll inevitably spend less time in there.",
"Sing a song out loud that takes you 3-5 minutes to sing (no Alice's Restaurant unless you want to take 10 minutes). You should be finishing up showering and the song at the same time.\n\nI have a bathroom fan timer, I can set it on 10 or 20 minutes so I know to get out at the end before the mirror fogs up (I have a complicated routine with long hair, leg shaving, etc.)",
"Take the cold shower challenge. It has lots of health benefits\nIncreased testosterone\nFat-loss\nIncreased energy levels\nAt first I couldn't take a minute but now my body self heard pretty quick",
"I have a tiny 3 minute hourglass kind of thing. I get it the shower and turn it upside down. Then when it finishes i jump out. Easy peasy. \n\nHeres an amazon link : \nhttps://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B016ZDG3YC/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1475850990&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=hourglass+timer&dpPl=1&dpID=41WHCLe6s1L&ref=plSrch"
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"What to do about you best friend giving you the cold shoulder from nowhere? Me and my best friend, let's call him Giffel, have always had a great bond/connection since 6 years back. We went to the same highschool and have been enrolled at the same university too, where we study our seperate programmes. \n\nWe usually have alot to say to each other, even if we didn't we would always have the \"willpower\" to chat if we messaged each other. We have the same interests and we could complete each others sentances in an eerie yet fascinating way. We could talk on skype for hours and he would come over to my house from time to time.\n\nBut for about 1-2 years now he has gone completely silent. Well, I mean it feels like he don't have time for me or rather that he doens't want to give time to me. Answering a question or a simple \"Hello m8, wassup?\" can take hours and our conversations are mainly based off of \"Lmao, Rofl, Lol and xD\". I have quite alot to say but and usually write my sentances to my hearts content. His answers make think that I might actually be irritating him and that he answers just.... For the heck of it so I don't \"complain\" so to say. \nI would never really ask/tell anyone about this kind of matter, but you see, it feels so weird valuing someone so much and show appreciation while at the same time feel that he doesn't even show half the appreciation you have towards him. How would you go around about this awkward and weird situation? \n\n",
"What to do about you best friend giving you the cold shoulder from nowhere? Me and my best friend, let's call him Giffel, have always had a great bond/connection since 6 years back. We went to the same highschool and have been enrolled at the same university too, where we study our seperate programmes. \n\nWe usually have alot to say to each other, even if we didn't we would always have the \"willpower\" to chat if we messaged each other. We have the same interests and we could complete each others sentances in an eerie yet fascinating way. We could talk on skype for hours and he would come over to my house from time to time.\n\nBut for about 1-2 years now he has gone completely silent. Well, I mean it feels like he don't have time for me or rather that he doens't want to give time to me. Answering a question or a simple \"Hello m8, wassup?\" can take hours and our conversations are mainly based off of \"Lmao, Rofl, Lol and xD\". I have quite alot to say but and usually write my sentances to my hearts content. His answers make think that I might actually be irritating him and that he answers just.... For the heck of it so I don't \"complain\" so to say. \nI would never really ask/tell anyone about this kind of matter, but you see, it feels so weird valuing someone so much and show appreciation while at the same time feel that he doesn't even show half the appreciation you have towards him. How would you go around about this awkward and weird situation? \n\n",
"What to do about you best friend giving you the cold shoulder from nowhere? Me and my best friend, let's call him Giffel, have always had a great bond/connection since 6 years back. We went to the same highschool and have been enrolled at the same university too, where we study our seperate programmes. \n\nWe usually have alot to say to each other, even if we didn't we would always have the \"willpower\" to chat if we messaged each other. We have the same interests and we could complete each others sentances in an eerie yet fascinating way. We could talk on skype for hours and he would come over to my house from time to time.\n\nBut for about 1-2 years now he has gone completely silent. Well, I mean it feels like he don't have time for me or rather that he doens't want to give time to me. Answering a question or a simple \"Hello m8, wassup?\" can take hours and our conversations are mainly based off of \"Lmao, Rofl, Lol and xD\". I have quite alot to say but and usually write my sentances to my hearts content. His answers make think that I might actually be irritating him and that he answers just.... For the heck of it so I don't \"complain\" so to say. \nI would never really ask/tell anyone about this kind of matter, but you see, it feels so weird valuing someone so much and show appreciation while at the same time feel that he doesn't even show half the appreciation you have towards him. How would you go around about this awkward and weird situation? \n\n",
"What to do about you best friend giving you the cold shoulder from nowhere? Me and my best friend, let's call him Giffel, have always had a great bond/connection since 6 years back. We went to the same highschool and have been enrolled at the same university too, where we study our seperate programmes. \n\nWe usually have alot to say to each other, even if we didn't we would always have the \"willpower\" to chat if we messaged each other. We have the same interests and we could complete each others sentances in an eerie yet fascinating way. We could talk on skype for hours and he would come over to my house from time to time.\n\nBut for about 1-2 years now he has gone completely silent. Well, I mean it feels like he don't have time for me or rather that he doens't want to give time to me. Answering a question or a simple \"Hello m8, wassup?\" can take hours and our conversations are mainly based off of \"Lmao, Rofl, Lol and xD\". I have quite alot to say but and usually write my sentances to my hearts content. His answers make think that I might actually be irritating him and that he answers just.... For the heck of it so I don't \"complain\" so to say. \nI would never really ask/tell anyone about this kind of matter, but you see, it feels so weird valuing someone so much and show appreciation while at the same time feel that he doesn't even show half the appreciation you have towards him. How would you go around about this awkward and weird situation? \n\n",
"What to do about you best friend giving you the cold shoulder from nowhere? Me and my best friend, let's call him Giffel, have always had a great bond/connection since 6 years back. We went to the same highschool and have been enrolled at the same university too, where we study our seperate programmes. \n\nWe usually have alot to say to each other, even if we didn't we would always have the \"willpower\" to chat if we messaged each other. We have the same interests and we could complete each others sentances in an eerie yet fascinating way. We could talk on skype for hours and he would come over to my house from time to time.\n\nBut for about 1-2 years now he has gone completely silent. Well, I mean it feels like he don't have time for me or rather that he doens't want to give time to me. Answering a question or a simple \"Hello m8, wassup?\" can take hours and our conversations are mainly based off of \"Lmao, Rofl, Lol and xD\". I have quite alot to say but and usually write my sentances to my hearts content. His answers make think that I might actually be irritating him and that he answers just.... For the heck of it so I don't \"complain\" so to say. \nI would never really ask/tell anyone about this kind of matter, but you see, it feels so weird valuing someone so much and show appreciation while at the same time feel that he doesn't even show half the appreciation you have towards him. How would you go around about this awkward and weird situation? \n\n"
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"Just tell them how you feel. Maybe it would be better to make specific plans to catch up? Personally, I know that I have lost touch with many of my close friends. I have taken an effort recently to try and make plans, something such as getting coffee, that will allow us to talk and catch up. This is what I would recommend because a \"lol, rofl, haha, ... conversation isn't really possible when sitting face to face. \n\nAll in all, there could be a very simple explanation such as a new job, or extra work that has been taking all his times. His intention may not be to blow you off, hence why he is responding, but he may be busy or preoccupied with something, therefore hasn't been giving thought out responses. Also could explain why he takes a while in responding.",
"Do you see this person in real life ever, or just chat online? Sounds like you may have drifted apart, which happens all the time. If you don't have much in common to talk about then maintaining a relationship starts to feel like more of a chore than something enjoyable, and it's normal at that point for people to stop talking to each other.",
"Some people just don't have the time to type stuff out ! Things change , maybe the person does not want to have evening long conversations via typing ! \n\n",
"Oh , and he probably does not see you as his best friend ! His best friend is probably sitting chatting in his house with him !",
"I had this experience once, just let it go, if you try to talk it out it'll ruin an otherwise good relation. Just let it go and make other friends. The human brain, I read somewhere can only maintain 170 odd relations at any given point of time, so old relations should pave the way for new ones"
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"fixing hair in the morning Title. I usually am a night showerist and when I wake up in the morning my hair(medium length and thick) always is flat on the side which my head laid as I slept. Because of that my hair looks uneven and just straight up ugly. My question is what's the best solution to have your hair look best every morning?\n",
"fixing hair in the morning Title. I usually am a night showerist and when I wake up in the morning my hair(medium length and thick) always is flat on the side which my head laid as I slept. Because of that my hair looks uneven and just straight up ugly. My question is what's the best solution to have your hair look best every morning?\n",
"fixing hair in the morning Title. I usually am a night showerist and when I wake up in the morning my hair(medium length and thick) always is flat on the side which my head laid as I slept. Because of that my hair looks uneven and just straight up ugly. My question is what's the best solution to have your hair look best every morning?\n",
"fixing hair in the morning Title. I usually am a night showerist and when I wake up in the morning my hair(medium length and thick) always is flat on the side which my head laid as I slept. Because of that my hair looks uneven and just straight up ugly. My question is what's the best solution to have your hair look best every morning?\n"
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"I've been sticking my head under the sink for decades. Works great. Just have a handtowel to dry your head off. ",
"Either shower in the morning instead or just wet and dry your hair when you wake up, takes less than 5 mins.",
"Do you have a detachable/hose shower head? I just rinse my head in the tub.\n\nI get cowlicks pretty bad every night so just wetting it isn't enough, but shampooing and letting my hair stay a little damp while I get dressed usually works.\n\nThen if it's not dried in that time, I use a blow drier for all of 30 seconds and style.",
"Why not just wash your hair in the morning? Shower isn't necessary if you don't want to do so, but just washing your hair is a simple solution. "
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"contact lens care I've been wearing contacts for almost a decade now, but I know that there are still some tips out there for cleaning them, caring for them, storing, insertion, etc. What to do if you get something in your eye w/o solution handy...stuff like that.\n\nContacts can still be a nuisance in my life. I have dry eyes as well, and those two don't normally mix well. Any tips? ",
"contact lens care I've been wearing contacts for almost a decade now, but I know that there are still some tips out there for cleaning them, caring for them, storing, insertion, etc. What to do if you get something in your eye w/o solution handy...stuff like that.\n\nContacts can still be a nuisance in my life. I have dry eyes as well, and those two don't normally mix well. Any tips? "
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"I started using the \"clear care\" brand cleaner a few years ago. Its a different case\\cleaner than the regular opti-free or what not. I have come to enjoy it because it feels like a new pair of lenses every day. Its only a few dollars more expensive than regular cleaner. Try costco or Walmart ",
"I have dry eyes as well, and I can assure you that a clean, disposable cup with water has saved my eyes in many a dire situation.\nI live far enough away from my extended family that when we go to visit we usually take supplies to spend the night. And I have to tell you, it is the worst feeling knowing that you didn't come prepared with a lens case and storage fluid. I've had to use cups of water to store my lenses. And while it's not the most sanitary thing to do, it's loads better than sleeping in them."
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"How to take out thick spreads from a glass bottle with a small opening? I've tried using a knife to try to scoop some out (spoon is too big to use for the opening) but nothing!! Please help!",
"How to take out thick spreads from a glass bottle with a small opening? I've tried using a knife to try to scoop some out (spoon is too big to use for the opening) but nothing!! Please help!"
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"Tiny spatulas are available for just that purpose. I would say go check Amazon, but I fucking hate them, so please don't.",
"Pour some hot (not boiling) water into a larger container. Sit the jar of (undisclosed stuff) within the warm water. Hold it, or it may topple over and be diluted. Leave it to heat few mins, melt a bit, have another go. Repeat if necessary. Heat the outside of jar with hot water. Melt the inside. Good luck."
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"How to stop thumb sucking? My child has sucked his thumb since he was two-ish. It was cute at the time but now he's eight and he still does it. We've tried multiple approaches; bribery, rewarding good behavior, punishment, applying something to the thumb, and they've all failed. Surely, somebody here has an idea how to solve this. ",
"How to stop thumb sucking? My child has sucked his thumb since he was two-ish. It was cute at the time but now he's eight and he still does it. We've tried multiple approaches; bribery, rewarding good behavior, punishment, applying something to the thumb, and they've all failed. Surely, somebody here has an idea how to solve this. "
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"What worked for us was something a speech pathologist suggested: before he goes to sleep, put long athletic socks over his hands and arms, and safety-pin them to his shirt. Present them as \"puppets,\" and get him interested and involved in decorating the puppets. This stopped the behavior in a month or less.\n\nAn 8YO is significantly bigger than our then-3YO was, so the actual mechanics of sock length etc might be a bit tougher for you, but it's worth a shot. Best of luck!\n\n",
"My four year old does this. She has been doing it so much now she has, what our doctor calls, a ganglion cyst. Their youngest patient ever. I'm starting to run out of patience too. It affecting her skin in that hand now. It's really not ok. It's self harming. "
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"How to stop dwelling on things? I (teen male) have noticed that whenever something I don't like happens (usually things I have no control over), I always dwell on them and allow them to stress me out. This creates real problems for my stress levels and productivity rate.\n\nAnyone got any suggestions how to stop dwelling?",
"How to stop dwelling on things? I (teen male) have noticed that whenever something I don't like happens (usually things I have no control over), I always dwell on them and allow them to stress me out. This creates real problems for my stress levels and productivity rate.\n\nAnyone got any suggestions how to stop dwelling?",
"How to stop dwelling on things? I (teen male) have noticed that whenever something I don't like happens (usually things I have no control over), I always dwell on them and allow them to stress me out. This creates real problems for my stress levels and productivity rate.\n\nAnyone got any suggestions how to stop dwelling?",
"How to stop dwelling on things? I (teen male) have noticed that whenever something I don't like happens (usually things I have no control over), I always dwell on them and allow them to stress me out. This creates real problems for my stress levels and productivity rate.\n\nAnyone got any suggestions how to stop dwelling?",
"How to stop dwelling on things? I (teen male) have noticed that whenever something I don't like happens (usually things I have no control over), I always dwell on them and allow them to stress me out. This creates real problems for my stress levels and productivity rate.\n\nAnyone got any suggestions how to stop dwelling?",
"How to stop dwelling on things? I (teen male) have noticed that whenever something I don't like happens (usually things I have no control over), I always dwell on them and allow them to stress me out. This creates real problems for my stress levels and productivity rate.\n\nAnyone got any suggestions how to stop dwelling?"
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"You could start a routine of thinking about things that you dwell on daily/weekly, thinking through it in whatever way you feel is best and then letting it go. Train yourself to understand that anything you’ve reflected on is done and anything that didn’t come to mind when you were reflecting on your day/week evidently wasn’t important at the time and isn’t important now. This stops things from mentally building up.\n\nOr learn to understand that if you can’t change the things you’re dwelling on or use them to help you in future then they’re not worth even remembering, let alone overthinking about.",
"Some of the advice here is great -barring the alcohol one, because that just makes it worse- but if you're like me, the things that help others doesn't do a thing to help me, which can make the anxiety worse and possibly add depression into the mix. I am a huge proponent of seeing a therapist. \n\nDon't know what you or your families thoughts in therapy is, but I grew up in a household where on \"crazy\" people need to see a therapist. Not true. There are specialties for anything ranging from \"how do I come out of my shell\" all the way up to serious mental disorders. Anxiety is something that can be a \"simple\" issue that can turn into something crippling over time, which is why I definitely advocate seeing somebody sooner rather than later. \n\nMy anxiety disorder was crippling and made zero sense to anybody outside my own head, and I don't want that for anybody. You don't have to be stuck in your own head figuring it out on your own. Shoot, send me a message if you have any questions.",
"Make a gratitude list. Start with the big things and just keep going and going. The longer the list is the more perspective you have about the one issue bothering you. \n\nAlso when you are focused on that one issue, try to take notice of others. It's very easy to become self focused during those times. Turning your focus toward others and how you could be considerate or intentional towards others helps. Not only can it take your mind off your problems it makes you a better friend, family member, co- worker ect.",
"For me it was crippling sitting and thinking about what I could have, should have, would have done/said/acted like. I had a friend who attended AA and he thought me the serenity prayer. You don't have to be religious (agnostic myself) but it's great to use as a mantra when you get into your own head.\n\n\n\n\n\nGod, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,\n\nThe courage to change the things I can,\n\nand the wisdom to know the difference.",
"All of these are great. Be active physically and mentally. Focusing on doing something can help from focusing on negative thoughts. read books (May I suggest “the way of the peaceful warrior”) \nThis is common for everyone, especially in your teens and young adult years. And for me, it just got better when I got older. So it can for you too",
"You literally said it, you dwell on things you have no control over...soooo why worry about it if you can't change it? You should heed to the advice of the ancient Roman Stoics and not worry about things that you have no control over because worrying in that case is a complete waste of time. If you value your time then you won't spend it worrying about such things. I hope this bit of wisdom helps :)"
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"What kind of firewood to buy for a wood-burning fireplace? What kind of firewood would you wholeheartedly recommend to someone looking for a hot, clean, long burn to both entertain and actually provide heat in a brick-built wood-burning fireplace?",
"What kind of firewood to buy for a wood-burning fireplace? What kind of firewood would you wholeheartedly recommend to someone looking for a hot, clean, long burn to both entertain and actually provide heat in a brick-built wood-burning fireplace?",
"What kind of firewood to buy for a wood-burning fireplace? What kind of firewood would you wholeheartedly recommend to someone looking for a hot, clean, long burn to both entertain and actually provide heat in a brick-built wood-burning fireplace?",
"What kind of firewood to buy for a wood-burning fireplace? What kind of firewood would you wholeheartedly recommend to someone looking for a hot, clean, long burn to both entertain and actually provide heat in a brick-built wood-burning fireplace?",
"What kind of firewood to buy for a wood-burning fireplace? What kind of firewood would you wholeheartedly recommend to someone looking for a hot, clean, long burn to both entertain and actually provide heat in a brick-built wood-burning fireplace?",
"What kind of firewood to buy for a wood-burning fireplace? What kind of firewood would you wholeheartedly recommend to someone looking for a hot, clean, long burn to both entertain and actually provide heat in a brick-built wood-burning fireplace?",
"What kind of firewood to buy for a wood-burning fireplace? What kind of firewood would you wholeheartedly recommend to someone looking for a hot, clean, long burn to both entertain and actually provide heat in a brick-built wood-burning fireplace?",
"What kind of firewood to buy for a wood-burning fireplace? What kind of firewood would you wholeheartedly recommend to someone looking for a hot, clean, long burn to both entertain and actually provide heat in a brick-built wood-burning fireplace?",
"What kind of firewood to buy for a wood-burning fireplace? What kind of firewood would you wholeheartedly recommend to someone looking for a hot, clean, long burn to both entertain and actually provide heat in a brick-built wood-burning fireplace?"
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"You want hardwood. Don't get any sort of pine, it burns hot, but it burns fast. \n\nI live in NC and there is oak aplenty.",
"Stay away from coniferous trees because they cause bad creosole build up.\nBut like has been mentioned, hardwood is the way to go.",
"To heat your house? Look at a getting a high efficiency insert that completely burns the wood and gases.\n\nThen find someone who owns land that will allow you to cut deadwood out of.",
"Pine is crackly and good for increasing the amount of fire.\nBirch burns very hot and long but needs hot coals to get going.\nPoplar is loud and has a satisfying crackle it burns Hotter than pine but colder than birch",
"Seasoned, whatever hardwood you choose get the seasoned. If it's for this season pay the extra and late winter or early, early spring buy it by the green cord and stack it cleanly, cover the top but you want airflow. There's videos on YouTube for proper stacking and prepping to season it. The green will be ready in the winter, then just stay ahead. If you're handy with a saw you can find it by the grapple load, rounds, etc which will help you save cost, but you'll be processing it.",
"Hard maple, cherry are the better ones in my area. You can look up the btu value by species to see what is best in your area",
"We always used oak in our fireplace and wood burning stove. It has a pretty high BTU and gives off a lot of heat. If you don't have oak, look up BTU numbers for wood that is local to you. Anything on the lower end won't do much good other than look nice.",
"Oak, ash, walnut. Those are all hardwoods and will burn for a while. However, you should add some birch or other softwood as it will ignite easier, but will burn faster. It will help ignite the hardwood.",
"Another tip to consider that I don't see mentioned, stick to wood locally harvested. The national forest I live in was ravaged by a bark beatle parasite epidemic brought about by tourists bringing in firewood from wherever."
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"Cleaning grime off outdoor couch cushions As in the title i’m looking for a way to clean the grime off of some outdoor couch cushions. The previous people who lived gere didn’t clean the backyard often and the couches fell into this state. I’d like to use the backyard more often but don’t know how i would by replacements for these cushions. Ive tried several loads int he washing machine but to no avail! Thanks in advance",
"Cleaning grime off outdoor couch cushions As in the title i’m looking for a way to clean the grime off of some outdoor couch cushions. The previous people who lived gere didn’t clean the backyard often and the couches fell into this state. I’d like to use the backyard more often but don’t know how i would by replacements for these cushions. Ive tried several loads int he washing machine but to no avail! Thanks in advance",
"Cleaning grime off outdoor couch cushions As in the title i’m looking for a way to clean the grime off of some outdoor couch cushions. The previous people who lived gere didn’t clean the backyard often and the couches fell into this state. I’d like to use the backyard more often but don’t know how i would by replacements for these cushions. Ive tried several loads int he washing machine but to no avail! Thanks in advance"
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"We have the same issue. Those things are friggin expensive to replace! Pressure washer on a low setting with cleaning solution. When guests come over we have large white table cloths we use to cover them. It doesn’t look half bad when tucked behind and under.",
"When you get them clean, or buy new ones. Bring them inside in winter, and cover then in inclement weather. \n\nTry oxyclean to clean them with. First brush off all the debris, and wet the cushions. Then take powdered oxyclean sprinkle it over and rub it in well. Let it sit, wet, overnight. Power wash the next morning.",
"Carpet cleaner or upholstery cleaner (from the car sectuon). It won't get longstanding stains out, but it cleans a lot of surface dirt up.\n\n\nI also second the pressure washer idea. \n\nBaking soda and vinegar (or hydrogen peroxide) can also be used to clean, but make sure you rinse very well to avoid any staining or bleaching that could be caused by leftover vinegar/hydrogen sitting out in the sun.\n\nIf you're decent with a sewing machine, you could probably make easy-to-change slipcovers. My nana made some out of sheets that slip on just like pillowcases. They're not weather resistant, but she can wash them in the washing machine, and it looks nice when company is over."
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"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )",
"How to actually *wake up* after the alarm goes off I very strongly dislike that groggy half-awake lazy hazy but-the-bed-is-so-cozy-and-warm feeling I get after my alarm wakes me up and I want to know your tips as to how I can get over that part of the morning faster? \n\nBody at rest stays at rest so how do I put it to motion more quickly? \n\n( getting out of bed isn't that much of an issue. Coffee takes too long to kick in. )"
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"Get a sleep study done. You might be sleeping poorly.\n\nOtherwise try to cut out everything except water from 6pm till breakfast. Eat dinner early if possible.",
"Make sure you’re actually getting enough sleep. I know that seems obvious, but as someone who, until recently, always operated on about 5-6 hours of sleep per night, I can tell you, we take that for granted. Huge difference.",
"When I’m really groggy I like to just sit up in my bed. I’ll kinda keep my eyes closed but won’t fall back asleep because I’m sitting up. Eventually my brain kicks in and I feel more motivated to get up.",
"Some of them things that helped me:\n\n- Cut off all electronics at least an hour before bed. \n\n-Become a night shower person and shower before bed. \n\n-Get in an exercise routine and fit that into your day. \n\n-drink a glass of water as soon as you wake up",
"I've recently started going for a walk around the block every morning as soon as I get out of bed. It took so much discipline to start doing, but it's awesome! Only takes about fifteen minutes (including getting dressed), and makes a huge difference in how my day starts. Getting to look at the world, breathe some fresh air, feel a little sun/rain on my face makes me feel so much more awake and aware. I haven't had an \"oh no it's 1pm and I've been at work (remotely) for hours but I'm still wearing my jammies and forgot to make breakfast\" situation since I started!",
"i love my sunrise lamp. by the time I open my eyes, I'm already completely awake because the room has been brightening for half an hour",
"You guys get to sleep until your alarm goes off? I wake up at least half an hour before mine goes off lol\n\nBut I find showering in the morning helps me feel more awake.",
"When I was young I had to get really loud alarm clock and put it just for an acc that I had to stand up to get to it - and then it’s just willpower not to crawl back in bed but a hot shower does help",
"honestly if you're the kind of person who feels groggy no matter how much sleep you get, it's hard to figure out how to beat that. I find any time I'm woken up by an alarm I'll ALWAYS feel like that no matter how much sleep I've gotten.\nthe only thing that's worked for me is getting out of bed the moment your alarm goes off. I used to quite literally jump straight out of bed when I heard my alarm, and then immediately go stand in the shower for like ten minutes and let that be your wake up time. if I stay in bed when my alarm goes off, I will become too warm and cozy and go back to sleep.. shower is the second best because at least it's warm lol\n\nI allowed that to be my wakeup routine long enough, and coupled with going to bed at a consistent time, I find I'll usually wake up before my alarm goes off these days, and if I make myself actually get up after that initial wake up, I feel a lot less tired than if I choose to go back to sleep until my alarm. \n\nhopefully this helps. I wish there was a way not to be tired but unfortunately you kinda get used to it and just find something that works lol",
"They have alarm apps that make you do a puzzle or make you do jumping jacks before it’ll let you turn the alarm off",
"I'm the same way. It basically boils down to this for me (may not be true for you). \n\"Do I have to be somewhere? Am I looking forward to the day?\"\n\nI had so much trouble waking up in the morning in college that I got a job in a coffee shop. I had no problem waking up at 6 AM every day for months. When I changed jobs and started working from home, within a week I was back to 8 am wake times. \n\nMy advice? Make an appointment you can't avoid. Join a running club or an early morning gym class. If you have the time, take a class or do a part-time job. Nothing wakes you up like knowing you have to be somewhere or that someone's waiting for you. \n\nIt also helps to \"prep\" things for the morning the night before. Check the weather, pick out your outfit, decide how you're going to do your hair, meal prep, etc. That frees time up in the morning, so you can relax, listen to some music, drink some good coffee, and look forward to the day!",
"Time your sleep so you wake up at the top of your rem cycle (approx 1.5 hour intervals) this is more natural cause you get pulled out in your lightest sleep as opposed to being yanked out by digital beeping in deep sleep",
"Keep a loaded meth pipe by your alarm clock. ... just kidding.. you just gotta get up and start moving and once you get into the habit it gets easier over time.",
"I operate on about 4 hours of sleep. What I do is put my phone across the room, so I have to stand up to turn off alarm. Proceed to make coffee immediately after. While coffee is brewing browse dating apps until coffee is ready.",
"This is something I've struggled with, too. Here are a few possible ideas:\n\n- keep a large glass of cold water near the bed, or go to the nearest source of cold water and drink a big glass of it. The ultimate size will likely vary depending on your size but I'd recommend no less than 32 oz. The key is a lot of cold water hitting your system.\n\n-If that doesn't work, you could splash some (or all) of the (cold) water in your face or down the back of your neck. The \"diving reflex\" ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex) can be a powerful tool. \n\n-Variations on this can include your sticking your head outside on a early winter's day or sticking your head under cold shower for a few minutes.\n\n-I've also found that physical activity (eg ~2-3 sets of jumping jacks) can help.\n\nIf you want to go the alarm clock route, you might look into the following:\n\nClocky - https://clocky.com/\n\nSonic shaker (designed for the deaf)- https://www.sonicalert.com/SBP100-Alarm-Clock\n\nHope at least some of this helps!",
"This has been helping me nowadays. Get a sipper, keep it by the hand’s reach, and Make a habit of drinking water the moment you wake up, piss after half an hour and voila, sleep gone",
"Start to diligently get up at the same time. After a few weeks you'll find your self naturally waking up pretty close to that time. If you do wake up naturally near the normal time you set. Get up, falling back asleep will re-trigger sleep inertia and you'll struggle to get up with the alarm. Ultimately you should not hear your alarm go off, rather just be canceling it.\n\nDon't use Coffee as a way to wake up, all you're doing is setting yourself in a withdrawal loop each day. I know caffeine is awesome, I'm addicted too, but be more mindful when and how its being used.",
"Sounds like you're dealing with sleep inertia. It happens when you're woken up from deep sleep. I struggled with this for a long time, but using a progressive alarm has really helped. It starts out really quiet and gets louder over several minutes until it reaches full volume. This helps bring me from deep sleep to light sleep, and I always wake up before it reaches full volume.\nThere are several apps with this feature. You can search for \"progressive alarm\", \"gentle alarm\", \"gradual alarm\".... The one I use is called Sleep As Android. I've been using it for years; it's one of the first ones that came out. I ended up paying for the full version at some point, but I'm not sure if that's needed for the progressive alarm feature. \nI like it because I can set how many minutes it takes to reach full volume. It also has a pretty good sleep tracking feature. You can set it to track your sleep all night or you can set it to track just for a certain period before you need to wake up, and then start the alarm once it senses you're in a light sleep phase. \nGood luck!",
"Learn your rhythm. Most sleep cycles are 40ish minutes long. Waking up at the right time can mean the difference between groggy and refreshed (ready to hop out of bed). If you can avoid an alarm altogether that's best as your body will tend to naturally wake up at the same time (usually 3-4 minutes before the alarm goes off if you're getting enough sleep). But if you do 'wake up groggy' and don't wish to slumber again, move the clock and force yourself to 'do stuff'. I've hit snooze 3-4 times with zero recollection that I've done so. Sometimes you just do it automatically while half asleep with zero cognition. \n\nYour 'body' is ready to go after only a few hours of 'rest', your mind however has a difference of opinion. You can 'train yourself' just to get up, like military folks, or those 'on call' must do. Sometimes it's just a matter of accepting the fact that now YOU'RE UP! I'd never depend on chemicals to make a difference...then you'll always depend on them.\n\nBest thing I can do to mentally prepare yourself, is fall asleep thinking of all the things you need to do once you immediately get up. Like prepare your clothes, and or mentally (movie style) visualize yourself DOING those things...and sometimes your body will automatically start doing them ( yes I've 'woken up' in the shower with no real memory of how I managed to walk the distance, turn it on, await for warm water (assuming I even did) and get in).",
"Hey from a fellow hard sleeper!\n\nTurn on the lights and open the blinds!\n\nGet a Alexa powered light switch or bulbs, for every light in your room bright as you can ( and dimmable) and homie when that shit turns on at 6 am it’s like gods flashlight. If it’s not bright enough…get more lamps! Program Alexa to your alarm time then create a routine when you stop the alarm it plays NRP. \n\nEducated and awake guaranteed!",
"Buy a crappy, not so cozy bed. Or do like the Japanese, and sleep on the floor. Futon I think it's called."
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"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now.",
"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now.",
"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now.",
"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now.",
"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now.",
"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now.",
"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now.",
"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now.",
"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now.",
"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now.",
"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now.",
"How to make friends in a new place? I've recently moved to a new country, and I know no one. I've only been to my new school for about two days now."
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"Look for meetup groups in your area, or look for classes or groups that do things you're interested in. Do you like model planes? There might be a group that flies near you. Do you like fitness? Look for a running group or something like that. ",
"If you're at school, then just sit, get involved with the class, make discussions and don't be weird and people in the same boat will move towards you and want to find out more about you and where you come from etc",
"If it is anything like a US school there will be group projects. Scout the class, find someone you think you share interests with. Introduce yourself but don't push yourself on them. Sit near them. Make idle conversation (\"So, how about that thing last night, on reddit, on the news, etc\"). Eventually you will need a partner, immediately ask them if you want to partner up. Attempt to make outside appointments to meet. If they turn out to be good people, great! You have taken the hardest step of finding a friend. If they suck, move on and try someone else.\n\nSecond option: Find a club that shares an interest. D&D, board games, book clubs, poetry slams, whatever. Doesn't matter as long as you enjoy it and the company you are keeping. Eventually you will find a friend.\n\nIn the end, if you invite people to things, they will, sometimes, invite you to things in return. \n\nDon't be weird.",
"What are your hobbies? I recently start rock climbing soon after moving to my new town. I've already started meeting people and going out to do things. Honestly, it's a first for me, so I'm really happy about finally getting out of the house.\n\nAlso, if you're new to the \"gym\" or whatever, ask people for random help, even if you know the answer. Just talk to them. Most people enjoy helping, especially if you're new.",
"Try joining a sport or a club, or some type of after school activity. That's usually the easiest way to make friends. Good luck. ",
"To reach true self-confidence, stay out of your comfort zone as much as you can. Also realise that you shouldn't care what others think about you, because usually, they actually don't care\n\nTo prepare for small talk and what not, visualise yourself having a conversation with someone you want to meet. Ask some stuff that flows on from the previous idea, you will be making conversations yourself!",
"Start with a compliment and strike up a conversation about what you're complimenting. \"I love your shoes! Where did you get those?\" People love to feel like they have good taste in things and it shows you have something in common. ",
"If you're in school, it's fairly easy to make friends since you're essentially forced to be with the same people everyday. Just choose one spot to sit in for each of your classes and stick to that spot. After a while, everyone else will choose their spots as well and stick to it. Talk to the people next to you about an assignment or anything class related. After talking about the class a couple of times, your conversations will naturally evolve to other classes, professors, events, parties, etc. When your first test comes around, try to study with these people outside of class. Maybe the friendship will develop beyond the classroom.\n\nJoin clubs, as others have said.",
"Go to local bars/restaurants, if you see an interesting group of people, ask if you can join them, introduce yourself, ask them about themselves, find commonalities, but don't fake it. If you find you don't get along with them or don't have any commonalities, try again the next day. Feel free to ask what people are doing after the current venue if it isn't too late in the evening, and ask to join them to that as well. My wife and I have made many new acquaintances this way. The key is to make yourself available without being too intrusive or seeming too desperate. If you feel there is no connection, you can politely excuse yourself, thank them for letting you join them, say it was nice to meet them, and move on.",
"Get really good at remembering names, people like being remembered. Also, try not to come off as desperate or not genuine. ",
"Stand on high traffic corner and play guitar, juggle, tell corny jokes. Have mini cupcakes and sign up sheet. OR just go look for somebody who looks lonely and say Hi!",
"\"See, you need to go to church. That's where all the nice girls are.\" (Please read in Eddie Murphy voice. )"
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"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?",
"NSFW how to keep yourself from making regrettable decisions while horny. Like all my other reddit brothers (and sisters?) when I'm horny and looking for a partner for some love making or searching for fap-material, I have made some very regrettable decisions that I basically hated myself for instantly after orgasm. Has anyone found a way to combat this other than abstinence?"
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"Sometimes it's easier to just come to terms with what you think is acceptable and stop regretting it.",
"Just sit down and fap. You don't think straight when you're horny, I've found it's best to just get it out before you do something you'll regret.",
"Jerk off more. Going on a date? Jerk off first. Going to the club? Jerk off first. Going to the grocery? Jerk off first. Its Tuesday? Better jerk off. Seriously this method has saved so many men from making stupid penis based decisions.",
"Discipline is really what it comes down to. When a strong desire rises within you, be it hunger, thirst, fatigue, or lust, it has a real chemical effect on your brain and literally changes how you think.\n\nThe only real way to combat this is to have an iron will and a set standard for your reaction(s) to these urges.",
"If you're finding yourself hating yourself instantly after masturbation, you have some serious unresolved problems around your sexuality. \nUnless you're fappin to kiddie porn, there's no reason to feel bad about what you're doing. You may want to seek some kind of counseling to deal with your issues. You'll feel better once you do.\n\nIf it IS kiddie porn you're fapping to, I suggest a visit to [Virtuous Pedophiles](https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCMQFjAAahUKEwjhi_jWhLrIAhXElR4KHfkjClM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.virped.org%2F&usg=AFQjCNGuTYmSIHMbcP-5GjNyQ3bJIqxxig&sig2=YH0fyKNyKoHJ-vWTOuzi3w). They're an online support group for pedophiles who are firmly committed to resisting the temptation to have sexual contact with kids. There's support out there if you need it. ",
"The trick is to start having regular sex. Find a girlfriend, a sheep of appropriate size, a Thai-ladyboy, or a tree with a knot hole, and just get the urges out, man!\n\nHaving a regular outlet for your sexual frustration will greatly reduce the amount of time you spend obsessing over the act.",
"My father gave me some advice when I left for school. \"When you get to a party, find the ugliest girl there. When she starts to look good, it's time to go home alone.\" I've taken this to mean set your standards, or your quitting point, before getting into something. It's not just about making sure you don't sleep with ugly people, but it works there too.",
"Ok I'm going to go full on tantric budhist, but these are my opinions. Take it or leave it:\n\nMale homeyness is essentially a life force driven to create, since after all, you are creating babies. When you orgasm on your own, you essentially eject that life force without creating anything. It's a waste, and you feel a bit of a void for doing such. Excess fapping causes you to feel non productive, and spent. You are less motivated and it's a downward spiral. We've all seen the memes but \n\nWhen you have sex with a partner, the energy exchange is mutual and you both benefit. This is why you feel much happier after a real encounter.\n\nNow when you are horny, you can redirect this creating energy into...creating. Pick up a hobby, whatever it is and create. Wood working, art, sculpturing, fabricating lego blocks, whatever it is. This is the male creation force in a nut-shell. You will feel a hundred times happier and your energy levels will sky rocket. I'm not saying give it up, but moderate it and you'll feel much better.",
"Old proverb: \n\nFor every evil under the sun,\n\nThere is a remedy or there is none.\n\nIf there be one, try and find it.\n\nIf there be none, never *fucking* mind it.",
"I dont know if this is just me but pretty much every sexual encounter i have had in my life, before the shaft enters the void i start thinking about my 3 older brothers who all had children before the age of 18 and how their life sucked soooo much for them after their children were born. That usually deters me from any sexual regrettable descisions. Im Still a virgin at 22 years old but god damnit i know one day i will have the courage make it to the big leagues....someday...\n\n",
"When I'm jerking it naked (lying on the bed) the thought of cumming all over myself turns me on so god damn much. ^^^I'm^^male^tho\n\nAfter I do it I contemplate never jerking it again.\n\nCurrently 1 week jerk-free.",
"What I have learned is to make myself aware that it is my horny mind working. It doesn't always work, but it's kinda like being aware you're sleeping when you're in a dream, your more likely to get control of yourself. Personally whenever I have a strong emotion I always tell myself that it's just a chemical reaction in my brain making myself do (blank).",
"Stop thinking of things as wrong or gross and start thinking of them as \"dirty.\" You may learn you have some kinks or fetishes if you become more comfortable with it all.",
"Step 1: Cease activity\nStep 2: Proceed to private area\nStep 3: Jerk off\nStep 4: Rethink activity\n\nProblem solved.",
"Nothing short of an external force. Only pre-emtive measures help. \nSorry, thats the truth i am afraid if you reached this point of desperation. ",
"My grandpa always told me if you have a big decision to make, whether it involves a female, a big job, anything like that. Go home. Jerk off. Then think long and hard about what you really want, and should do. Great piece of advice.",
"Make decisions for how you make decisions in life as a man ahead of time. If a situation comes up where that comes in conflict have a rule that you can change those rules but with a 12 hour cooling off period. \n\nAlso the option of respecting yourself and what I assume is the other people involved with you should give you some motivation to do the right thing.\n",
"Just jerk off? Like every bad decision looks like exactly that in the clarity that comes from an orgasm",
"I would suggest that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Don't invest your active thinking into sexual thoughts when you believe they are not in your best interest, sexual thoughts are cumulative and get stronger if enabled/encouraged. While you have an unbiased clear thinking mind, **Stop yourself short**, before your knee deep in it, before it gets to deep to get out of the sexual trance. ;)",
"I used to change the names in my phone of potential partners that I knew were a bad idea to \"masturbate first.\" Saved me a few stupid decisions. \n\nIn terms of going down the rabbit hole of porn, I have no advice worth hearing. ",
"I spent the last two hours trying to recover a deleted video of my ex when I was horny. Good job part of the file was overwritten so it didnt recover properly or that woulda been bad",
"I have no LPT for this, but if I could go back in time I'd taze my childhood self every time someone spoke French to me. That would have saved me from at least 1 regrettable decision. South African accents, too. That's 2 more. \n\nBasically, if you're ever confronted with a willing, sexy, potentially foreign partner with an accent who seems way out of your league ... they're not out of your league. They're mental patients. ",
"Fap frequently. Fap often. Use lube to avid chaffing. Keep your balls about half full and they'll have less sway on your decisions. However sometimes you just make bad choices and you have to learn to live with that, and learn from what you did wrong.",
"Christ; this thread is bad. Have some fucking self control, don't think with your dick, and don't excuse yourself for being a sex obsessed-weirdo because you're technically an \"animal\". ",
"Yeah, you're monumentally normal. That's the universal one night stand; the drink, boink, and regret. Everybody does it, and if they don't they regret NOT doing it when they had the chance.",
"*If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.* (Matthew 18:9)",
"Get a significant other you like for more than just the sex.\nThen, assuming they are truly a good match for you, you get laid all the time.\nSource: have girlfriend, bang often.",
"Gonna guess you are 14 maybe 15, am I close? You are not the first teenager to get horney. Deal with it and get on with your day."
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"How to stay awake for 30 hours Hi, for several reasons I will have to stay awake from Sunday morning thru Monday night, any tips?",
"How to stay awake for 30 hours Hi, for several reasons I will have to stay awake from Sunday morning thru Monday night, any tips?",
"How to stay awake for 30 hours Hi, for several reasons I will have to stay awake from Sunday morning thru Monday night, any tips?",
"How to stay awake for 30 hours Hi, for several reasons I will have to stay awake from Sunday morning thru Monday night, any tips?",
"How to stay awake for 30 hours Hi, for several reasons I will have to stay awake from Sunday morning thru Monday night, any tips?"
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"Do you play games? Like consoles, pc's? (This helpd me)\n\nDrink Coffee\n\nExercise (low cardio)\n\nM",
"Drugs for sure. If you're against that don't allow yourself downtime. Hard to stay awake if you're gonna lay around.",
"Prepare some small snacks and some coffee you can drink when you starting to feel tired and go wash your face or take a cold shower when you feel the body wants to sleep. ",
"Play cards against humanity. Keep laughing and have a warrior mentality about the whole thing. That's gotten me through multiple all nighters. \n\nand get a lot of sleep before hand. ",
"I don't know if this can work for you but power nap is your best bet without caffeine or other medication.\n\nI sleep 4½ hr each night and take 2 power nap (20min each) in day time. \nDon't sleep for more than 20minute because it can sluggish and unfocused. Each power nap will make you feel you refresh a boost of energy that can keep you going.. \nI have been in this routine for 3 years and haven't had any side effect. \n\nMy timing,\nSleep - 4-5 to 8-9am.. \nFirst power nap - between 3-5 pm\nSecond power nap 8-10pm \n\nIf you have to wake up 30hr, take a power nap every 7hr or so... Use app such as alarmy to make you don't over sleep.\nWith this system in place, I have abundance of time to enjoy my life. \n"
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"Dealing with nerves I'm currently on my way to an interview and my heart is ready racing (I've got three hours before my interview). Any tips on dealing with nerves would be much appreciated.",
"Dealing with nerves I'm currently on my way to an interview and my heart is ready racing (I've got three hours before my interview). Any tips on dealing with nerves would be much appreciated.",
"Dealing with nerves I'm currently on my way to an interview and my heart is ready racing (I've got three hours before my interview). Any tips on dealing with nerves would be much appreciated."
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"Try breathing deeply. Or box breathing, breathing in, holding, breathing out, holding all for 3 seconds. Go through possible scenarios in your head, and how you would handle them. Tell yourself that you deserve this job, you're great for it and if they don't see it, then their loss. If you can, listen to music or watch a video/podcast/whatever that helps you relax. Are you going to die if you're nervous in your interview? Are they gonna sense your heart racing and make you leave? Is being nervous going to harm you in any way? The answer is no. Everyone gets nervous. It's common to be nervous in interviews. The only thing that matters is how you handle it. If you get flustered to the point where you can't look at them or you just mumble, they're not gonna like it. If you admit your nervous, and play it off my laughing at yourself a little if you mess up, or make a little joke about it before moving on and answering whatever it is, they're gonna see that you have the ability to handle things under pressure. \n\nGood luck, I really hope it goes well!! ",
"Familiarity. \n\nLast time I looked for a job, I got better at doing interviews as I got more practice. ",
"Booze does it for me. Though this is not as practical for a job interview.\n\nIt's too late to test it now, but a single shot of liquor an hour or so before the interview aught to perk you up with no ill effects."
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"Getting rid of years of grease on stove. All in title. I have been living in this place for a while and roomates and I have been using the stove without properly taking care of it. I would like to get rid of years of grease accumulation. \n\nThanks",
"Getting rid of years of grease on stove. All in title. I have been living in this place for a while and roomates and I have been using the stove without properly taking care of it. I would like to get rid of years of grease accumulation. \n\nThanks",
"Getting rid of years of grease on stove. All in title. I have been living in this place for a while and roomates and I have been using the stove without properly taking care of it. I would like to get rid of years of grease accumulation. \n\nThanks",
"Getting rid of years of grease on stove. All in title. I have been living in this place for a while and roomates and I have been using the stove without properly taking care of it. I would like to get rid of years of grease accumulation. \n\nThanks",
"Getting rid of years of grease on stove. All in title. I have been living in this place for a while and roomates and I have been using the stove without properly taking care of it. I would like to get rid of years of grease accumulation. \n\nThanks",
"Getting rid of years of grease on stove. All in title. I have been living in this place for a while and roomates and I have been using the stove without properly taking care of it. I would like to get rid of years of grease accumulation. \n\nThanks",
"Getting rid of years of grease on stove. All in title. I have been living in this place for a while and roomates and I have been using the stove without properly taking care of it. I would like to get rid of years of grease accumulation. \n\nThanks",
"Getting rid of years of grease on stove. All in title. I have been living in this place for a while and roomates and I have been using the stove without properly taking care of it. I would like to get rid of years of grease accumulation. \n\nThanks",
"Getting rid of years of grease on stove. All in title. I have been living in this place for a while and roomates and I have been using the stove without properly taking care of it. I would like to get rid of years of grease accumulation. \n\nThanks"
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"Baking soda is great for a number home remedies and cleaning uses, and baking soda makes a fantastic non abrasive cleanser for cleaning dried grease spatters from the stove and other kitchen appliances. Just dampen a clean sponge, sprinkle a little baking soda on the sponge and/or appliance and scrub away the greasy mess. The baking soda won't scratch appliances, and it will leave them naturally clean and fresh.",
"[WD - 40](http://imgur.com/gallery/ruOne) 200 uses for WD - 40 the government doesn't want you to know about. Corporate america hates her for this one little secret.",
"I don't see it on here but here's what I do. Boil water. Dump it over the stovetop, place a towel over it. That shit will wipe right off after about 10 minutes.",
"dawn dish soap is my number one for cleaning anything greasy, after that i go for a spray foam cleaner, something like an oven cleaner or window cleaner.",
"there's this stuff that my housekeeper turned me on to. it's awesome.\n\nseriously... it's called \"L.A.'s Totally Awesome\" and you can get it a almost every dollar store, such as Dollar Tree. it's amazing stuff. Spray it on, but make sure you don't breathe it. go away, and come back with a plastic knife (and/or a razor blade) Scrape up as much as you can, then spray again, then go at it with a scrubby sponge. \n\nI have sprayed it on the greasy vent covers above my stove, left it for an hour, scrub a little with a cleaning scrub-brush you don't care about, rinse, and repeat until it's clean as new. \n\nI don't even care if that shit causes cancer, because it cleans that well.\n\n",
"Wipe it off with soap and water to get rid of the recent, liquid stuff. Saturate a paper towel in ammonia and put it on the trouble spot.",
"I always use [Greased Lightning](http://www.greased-lightning.com/Kitchen/), let it sit for a few minutes, and then just scrub the mess clean. Real easy stuff, and very effective.",
"[Bar Keepers Friend](http://www.barkeepersfriend.com/) is absolutely, hands down the best product for this. It is an acid that doesn't harm the surface you are working on (wear gloves). I use it in my kitchen, on the stove, in the oven, on s/s pots and pans.",
"I'm assuming here that we are talking years of old burned on grease stains, not a little greasy spot. I'm afraid the holistic, natural options below, like baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, just aren't going to cut it. \n\nBut there is a totally natural chemical that is your friend. Lye. Sodium Hydroxide. It's caustic as all get out, so use gloves and a mask and be careful. It's caustic because it works. \n\nYou probably want to use a commercial mix rather than mixing your own, but this is the stuff that makes EZ-off work and is the base for most commercial grease cleaners. [I use this stuff.](http://www.samsclub.com/sams/proforce-oven-grill-fryer-cleaner-3-32-oz/123954.ip) \n\nThe trick is to use multiple applications. Spray it down and wait. If the liquid starts to turn brown, it's because it's dissolving the burned grease. Wait a while, scrub it off. Repeat as needed. I'm also assuming here that you're cleaning hard steel or porcelain covered metal. This stuff will eat softer iron and aluminum. "
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"How to stick to an exercise program long term. I've tried juicing, paleo, Dr. Fuhrman, the abs diet... the list goes on. I have never found a sustainable diet and exercise combination. Please help.",
"How to stick to an exercise program long term. I've tried juicing, paleo, Dr. Fuhrman, the abs diet... the list goes on. I have never found a sustainable diet and exercise combination. Please help.",
"How to stick to an exercise program long term. I've tried juicing, paleo, Dr. Fuhrman, the abs diet... the list goes on. I have never found a sustainable diet and exercise combination. Please help.",
"How to stick to an exercise program long term. I've tried juicing, paleo, Dr. Fuhrman, the abs diet... the list goes on. I have never found a sustainable diet and exercise combination. Please help.",
"How to stick to an exercise program long term. I've tried juicing, paleo, Dr. Fuhrman, the abs diet... the list goes on. I have never found a sustainable diet and exercise combination. Please help.",
"How to stick to an exercise program long term. I've tried juicing, paleo, Dr. Fuhrman, the abs diet... the list goes on. I have never found a sustainable diet and exercise combination. Please help.",
"How to stick to an exercise program long term. I've tried juicing, paleo, Dr. Fuhrman, the abs diet... the list goes on. I have never found a sustainable diet and exercise combination. Please help.",
"How to stick to an exercise program long term. I've tried juicing, paleo, Dr. Fuhrman, the abs diet... the list goes on. I have never found a sustainable diet and exercise combination. Please help."
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"There is no Pro Tip to solve this. The only thing that works is the old fashioned work and time. It's not working because you're looking for quick tips instead of lifestyle change. \n\n1. don't try a fad diet. Start with eating whatever you normally eat, but less of it. Track everything you eat. Use one of the many options out there to figure out how many calories you should be eating to be at a mild deficit. Try to hit that number every day without going over. That may mean you eat less of the same stuff, or that may mean you decide to eat some lower-calorie things so that you can eat more overall. There are some excellent tools (including apps) that can be recommended if you would like assistance in this area. \n\n2. Find something active that you enjoy. Start biking to work twice a week. Join a community soccer league. Try hiking on the weekend. Try a bunch of different things, but find something you like doing. Then do a lot of it. If you are exercising regularly, you can maintain the same caloric deficit while eating more food overall. \n\nThere are things that can make it easier, but those are the two big helps. There is no LPT for it. ",
"The biggest problem for dieting is honestly just eating too much. If you do eat food that is bad for you (fried food, soda especially, cheesy or sugary foods) start by eating much smaller portions of them. Find a food that you like that is also healthy (fish is something a lot of people like that is also very healthy). Most people do not realize that the amount they eat is just too much. They eat it every day so it seems like a normal portion to them. ",
"My tip: sign up for a 5k 12 weeks away and start the Couch to 5k running program (you can find a plan online or use an app on your phone). Go to a specialty running store to get properly fitted for running shoes before you begin. The right shoes are important for making running fun and pain-free, and the initial investment will help with motivation. \n \nAfter completing the couch to 5k I've run as far as 26.2 miles by following similar plans with my only goal throughout the training process being to cross the finish line without feeling like shit. Once you've paid registration fees and told friends about your plans, it becomes a little easier to put the work in each day. \n",
"Partner up at the start. It's much easier together started when your not doing it alone, and you will motivate each other. ",
"Find a sport/activity you like and integrate it slowly into your life. Same with food. Find something organic that you genuinely love the taste of and make sure it's always in your fridge (for me, it was smoothies. Couple of banana's and some canned pineapple with ice and lemon juice, sweet as an ice cream cone and healthy to boot,). Once you start feeling the benefits of a little light exercise once or twice a week, it's much easier to transition into more intense diet and workout plans. Fad diets DON'T WORK. Spent years trying to lose weight with no success before getting into cheerleading and dance to now find myself 5 sizes smaller without anything that felt too much like 'work'. ",
"Record your exercise routine and Track your progress. \nPeople tend to stick with a routine when they can see results, improvements, etc. -especially in a chart form. \nNike Plus is a good example. It records each run and can output things like calories burned, miles run, running times, as well as personal bests. ",
"I used My Fitness Pal to track calories and started taking walks on my breaks at work. Over a few months I began walking faster and faster and now it's my favorite part of the day!",
"Eat smaller meals more often and track your calories, I like My Fitness Pal. Most people don't realize how many calories are in their food. Workout everyday. Lose weight."
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"How to stop losing things or how to find them. I lost my phone and I can't find it, I had it on silent with no vibration and I forgot where I put last time. I know I'm not the only who does these kinds of things so maybe somebody here can help me and people like me.",
"How to stop losing things or how to find them. I lost my phone and I can't find it, I had it on silent with no vibration and I forgot where I put last time. I know I'm not the only who does these kinds of things so maybe somebody here can help me and people like me.",
"How to stop losing things or how to find them. I lost my phone and I can't find it, I had it on silent with no vibration and I forgot where I put last time. I know I'm not the only who does these kinds of things so maybe somebody here can help me and people like me.",
"How to stop losing things or how to find them. I lost my phone and I can't find it, I had it on silent with no vibration and I forgot where I put last time. I know I'm not the only who does these kinds of things so maybe somebody here can help me and people like me."
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"Here's what I do to quit losing things. Not entirely foolproof, but it helps.\n\nHave a place for everything and keep the important things together. When I leave the house, my keys go in my left pocket, cell phone goes in the right pocket, wallet goes in the little top pocket in my backpack. When I get home, the wallet and keys go on my shelf by the door, and my cell goes on the table by my recliner. When I go to bed, the cell phone goes into the charger on the shelf by the bed. \n\nI used to lose things like my wallet or keys once a week at least. Now it's months in between.",
"Tip to find things faster the next time you lose them: When you find an item after searching for it, put it back where you first looked for it.",
"this is going to sound obvious, but since I do this all the time I'll share. (my phone is required to be on silent for work & constantly misplaced) \n\nI remember exactly when I had it last, and walk myself through the steps I've taken since that moment. I check at eye level flat surfaces and under common movable objects (cushions, clothes, blankets). I've located my phone in the crisper drawer of the fridge and the top shelf of my entertainment center. \n\nAlso, if you think it's in your car, night is a good time to check. Call the phone, you can see it light up around the seats!\n\nGood Luck!",
"It might sound stupid but I always say out loud to myself where I'm setting my phone, keys, purse, ect. I read somewhere it helps commit it to memory. Works for me so far :)"
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"Damn Karen, find something more important to worry about. Don't live in a community with a school if you don't want traffic, it's that simple."
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"How To Tell If A Job Offer Is A Scam? Pretty much the title. I've been looking for a new job and just got offered a position in a field I've never worked in before.\n\nI work mainly with my hands and got offered a sales position... with zero sales experience.\n\nThe email sent to me states that my technical skills are outstanding and that they want to have a talk with me even though my skills aren't directly in line with the position.\n\nSomething is fishy here...",
"How To Tell If A Job Offer Is A Scam? Pretty much the title. I've been looking for a new job and just got offered a position in a field I've never worked in before.\n\nI work mainly with my hands and got offered a sales position... with zero sales experience.\n\nThe email sent to me states that my technical skills are outstanding and that they want to have a talk with me even though my skills aren't directly in line with the position.\n\nSomething is fishy here...",
"How To Tell If A Job Offer Is A Scam? Pretty much the title. I've been looking for a new job and just got offered a position in a field I've never worked in before.\n\nI work mainly with my hands and got offered a sales position... with zero sales experience.\n\nThe email sent to me states that my technical skills are outstanding and that they want to have a talk with me even though my skills aren't directly in line with the position.\n\nSomething is fishy here...",
"How To Tell If A Job Offer Is A Scam? Pretty much the title. I've been looking for a new job and just got offered a position in a field I've never worked in before.\n\nI work mainly with my hands and got offered a sales position... with zero sales experience.\n\nThe email sent to me states that my technical skills are outstanding and that they want to have a talk with me even though my skills aren't directly in line with the position.\n\nSomething is fishy here...",
"How To Tell If A Job Offer Is A Scam? Pretty much the title. I've been looking for a new job and just got offered a position in a field I've never worked in before.\n\nI work mainly with my hands and got offered a sales position... with zero sales experience.\n\nThe email sent to me states that my technical skills are outstanding and that they want to have a talk with me even though my skills aren't directly in line with the position.\n\nSomething is fishy here...",
"How To Tell If A Job Offer Is A Scam? Pretty much the title. I've been looking for a new job and just got offered a position in a field I've never worked in before.\n\nI work mainly with my hands and got offered a sales position... with zero sales experience.\n\nThe email sent to me states that my technical skills are outstanding and that they want to have a talk with me even though my skills aren't directly in line with the position.\n\nSomething is fishy here...",
"How To Tell If A Job Offer Is A Scam? Pretty much the title. I've been looking for a new job and just got offered a position in a field I've never worked in before.\n\nI work mainly with my hands and got offered a sales position... with zero sales experience.\n\nThe email sent to me states that my technical skills are outstanding and that they want to have a talk with me even though my skills aren't directly in line with the position.\n\nSomething is fishy here...",
"How To Tell If A Job Offer Is A Scam? Pretty much the title. I've been looking for a new job and just got offered a position in a field I've never worked in before.\n\nI work mainly with my hands and got offered a sales position... with zero sales experience.\n\nThe email sent to me states that my technical skills are outstanding and that they want to have a talk with me even though my skills aren't directly in line with the position.\n\nSomething is fishy here...",
"How To Tell If A Job Offer Is A Scam? Pretty much the title. I've been looking for a new job and just got offered a position in a field I've never worked in before.\n\nI work mainly with my hands and got offered a sales position... with zero sales experience.\n\nThe email sent to me states that my technical skills are outstanding and that they want to have a talk with me even though my skills aren't directly in line with the position.\n\nSomething is fishy here...",
"How To Tell If A Job Offer Is A Scam? Pretty much the title. I've been looking for a new job and just got offered a position in a field I've never worked in before.\n\nI work mainly with my hands and got offered a sales position... with zero sales experience.\n\nThe email sent to me states that my technical skills are outstanding and that they want to have a talk with me even though my skills aren't directly in line with the position.\n\nSomething is fishy here...",
"How To Tell If A Job Offer Is A Scam? Pretty much the title. I've been looking for a new job and just got offered a position in a field I've never worked in before.\n\nI work mainly with my hands and got offered a sales position... with zero sales experience.\n\nThe email sent to me states that my technical skills are outstanding and that they want to have a talk with me even though my skills aren't directly in line with the position.\n\nSomething is fishy here..."
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"That's definitely fishy. You know what follows if it's too good to be true.\n\nDefinitely avoid any potential multilevel marketing companies or anything that requires putting a payment on training or products to sell. There's many times when someone I rarely keep in contact with would suddenly message me out of the blue and it'd make me think they were trying to reconnect. I would follow up and try to converse with them and talk about hanging out again. Then, as the small talk ends, they tell me about a really great company they're working with, how they really need people, and how much money theyre making. They'll offer me a job with all this promise. Their titles are inflated with fancy senior sounding positions for a salesman/recruiter position. I try not to blame these folks because they're trying to make a living but promises from companies like this prey on vulnerable, needy people and they can go suck it. \n\nSo definitely be wary of sales positions that sound too good to be true. Sales is a great field but terrible companies take advantage of the field's image and lure desperate folks into buying their awful merchandise at premium prices. ",
"Search for the name of the company with the word \"scam\" behind it. Read a few of the rants.\n\nGroup interview? Huge red flag, but might just be a churn and burn high pressure outfit that spits people out so fast that's they only way they can keep the chairs filled. I had one of these jobs; half the people didn't make through the first week, the top guys were making low to mid 6 figures. The job itself wasn't a scam, but we did sell garbage to suckers. (I was young and needed to eat, don't judge.)\n\nIf you get to the interview and they tell you that you need to \"buy a sample kit to get started\", stand up and walk out. No need to make a scene, they've heard it all before and it won't matter. You're not the employee, you're the sucker.",
"Uh.. did you go through an interview process? Did you speak to the managers who are hiring you? The only time I've seen this happen is to re-title someone and make a position obsolete, to either fire them through attrition, or cut their old job to save on payroll costs.",
"Think about the part of it that sounds fishy and ask a very direct question forcing them to explain it.\n\nFor example, let's say you're offered a position that boasts an hourly wage that seems too good to be true. That sounds fishy, so ask them straight up: \"Could you explain how the compensation works?\" You should very quickly be able to tell if there's something weird going on based on their answer.",
"So...standard spam mail, ok.\n\nStep one is recognizing what actual job offers look like and what job spam looks like.\n\nThe e-mail you got has nothing to do with you. It's just junk spam sent to a hundred thousand people with some hope of response for some crap job waiting which probably has some up front buy in.\n\nAlso as you apply for real jobs, upload your resume, and start letting these automated systems and recruiter firms work for you, you start getting a sea of new job postings and piles of recruiters point you to new job opportunities half way across the country. The job postings are automated. The recruiters are only using your body to fill a hole and don't particularly care about you. Your resume was a reasonable keyword match, so you got an e-mail, yay. Meanwhile the job is in bumfuck nowhere for some terrible company that can't hold onto staff because they suck so much.\n\nThere are three good ways to get a job.\nOne, go to a desirable company's website and look in their careers section for job openings. Apply to anything you are capable of doing.\nTwo, go onto job boards like Indeed, CareerBuilder, or Monster and upload your resume (these are big resume banks employers and staffing/recruiting firms use), search for and apply for jobs, and upload your resume to the sub resume banks that are used in many of these job applications.\nThree, find staffing/recruiter firms that specialize in your career field and work with a recruiter to find job opportunities.\n\nUnderstand that blind e-mails are spam. Job boards can automatically generate useful e-mails for job opportunities (via keyword) and keep you abreast of new listings. Staffing/recruiting agencies are a good option for getting others to do the busy work for you. It's their job. However, they are filling employment holes for commision, so...tread cautiously. However, they can sometimes get your foot in the door easier than you can yourself. Some companies strictly go through staffing firms only, so in some cases this is the only way in.",
"Is it insurance?\n\nDon't ever sell insurance or even go to one of their 'interviews' because they're scams.\n\nNot really scams, but insurance sales works the exact same was a MLM setup. You can make good money at it if you are good at selling the one thing no one wants to buy.",
"If you see a small sign on the road that reads in bold. 10K PER MONTH. Realtor looking for student. It's a scam.",
"If you go to an interview and its in a group but really feels more like an introduction seminar. \n\nIf they aren't clear about what they sell or what they do then yeah, probably a scam.\n\nIf they have a dodgy website that looks like something outta north korea\n\nIf the CEO top person is like 23",
"If they seem like they'll hire anyone, or desperate to get people to work for them, most likely garbage job or a scam job. \n\nIf the ad promises you can make big bucks, but the payments are made on a what-you-produce metric instead of hourly. \n\nBe wary of 'sales' jobs, probably the most scam jobs I see are for shitting telemarketing or scammy junk sales type jobs. \n\nIf it's too good to be true. \n\nYour boss is on drugs. ",
"If it's insurance, especially for a company you've never heard of, then be wary.\n\nIf it's commission only, stay the fuck away. A real company would pay base salary plus a commission.\n\nIf there's some multi-level bullshit of you needing to hire people under you, then you get your commission and a part of theirs, then that's a pyramid scheme which is fraud.",
"If it sounds too good to be true, it is! Those jobs don't exist in reality. Look at what people with your credentials demand on the job market and go from there. If you have your high school diploma why would someone offer you 5 thousand dollars a week? Pretty much every other high school grad out there would work for much less...why are you so special? Because you're so smart? No...it's likely the exact opposite, and they think they can appeal to your pride and con you in to working as a sales shill for next to nothing for a month until you're completely burnt out."
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"Avoiding confrontation with a former friend I'm going to a friend's wedding, we'll call him jim, this month and I have been told that a person who was once a friend, we'll call him bob, will be there as well. bob became an asshole after discovering alcohol and became kinda sex crazed, needless to say, our friendship didn't last long. I'm going there for jim and it is his day and i will not ruin it by having a confrontation with bob.\n\nhow can i avoid this?",
"Avoiding confrontation with a former friend I'm going to a friend's wedding, we'll call him jim, this month and I have been told that a person who was once a friend, we'll call him bob, will be there as well. bob became an asshole after discovering alcohol and became kinda sex crazed, needless to say, our friendship didn't last long. I'm going there for jim and it is his day and i will not ruin it by having a confrontation with bob.\n\nhow can i avoid this?"
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"I'm in a similar situation except I'd have to share a room with Bob. \n\nMy advice would be to focus on why you are there: for Jims wedding. Keep yourself cordial on all other topics and be there to celebrate their new marriage rather than hashing out an old friendship - if it comes up. ",
"You avoid Bob. If he comes up to you, say hi in a polite but not friendly tone, then walk away. If it feels necessary you can make up an excuse about how you were just going to get another drink, the bathroom, etc. Only if he pushed the topic would I flat out say you're here for the wedding and let's not talk about that right now. Just because like you said, trying to not let Bob create a scene at your friend's wedding!"
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"How to Discuss Your Views as an Opposing Party in an Easily Offended Other Opposing Party Space Without Self-Castration of Your Views? ",
"How to Discuss Your Views as an Opposing Party in an Easily Offended Other Opposing Party Space Without Self-Castration of Your Views? ",
"How to Discuss Your Views as an Opposing Party in an Easily Offended Other Opposing Party Space Without Self-Castration of Your Views? ",
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"I'm moderately liberal and love having discussions with Trump supporters, but the biggest problem is when people resort to logical fallacies and refuse to admit it for fear of losing 'the war' so to say.\n\nIf you avoid fallacies, you can remain logical and I think you will find people with an opposing viewpoint more engaging.\n\nI often skim this site to refresh on the fallacies https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/\n\nYou have to remember that Reddit is a younger and more educated audience, and that isn't Trump's demographic, so Trump supporters will be outnumbered here.\n\nIt just means that you will have to deal with more trolls, but I've had some Trump supporters change my mind on a few things on Reddit.\n\nJust try to see each user as a person and not a 'team'.\n\nNot to get in the argument, but just did for thought, my take is that Trump supporters retreated to TD so that they could insulate their echo chamber and call Hillary corrupt while ignoring the thousands of times Trump was in court, etc. That left even fewer Trump supporters in other subs.\n\nDon't give up trying though. We need diversity in opinions.\n",
"As someone who was not happy with either choice in the past election I was attacked by both sides, but I must admit I was able to have more respectful conversations with my more conservative friends. It was an interesting place to be for me & I know for certain attacking someone's feeling will never change their mind. Open dialog is your only hope.",
"Talk about guns. \nSeriously though I spoke of Clinton with my right leaning friends, and Trump with my left leaning friends. I thoroughly enjoyed the election season. ",
"When your values are based on feelings and not science, in that kind of situation you can't really change people's minds",
"Ah, so a conservative is complaining that a marketplace of ideas has passed judgment and wants to level the playing field because they're a special snowflake who deserves to be heard. \n\nWhat a delightful irony. "
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"How to use Google to search for reliable sources of unbiased information such as statistics, facts, etc. I enjoy sweeping the net for research on certain topics and I am having more and more difficulty finding out reliable information as things like blogs and click-bait articles consistently rank highest among the search results. I'd just like to know how to search so that the results are more like government websites about the topic or maybe scientific institutions that presents facts with data or STATISTICS (I can NEVER find these). Any help would be appreciated :)",
"How to use Google to search for reliable sources of unbiased information such as statistics, facts, etc. I enjoy sweeping the net for research on certain topics and I am having more and more difficulty finding out reliable information as things like blogs and click-bait articles consistently rank highest among the search results. I'd just like to know how to search so that the results are more like government websites about the topic or maybe scientific institutions that presents facts with data or STATISTICS (I can NEVER find these). Any help would be appreciated :)",
"How to use Google to search for reliable sources of unbiased information such as statistics, facts, etc. I enjoy sweeping the net for research on certain topics and I am having more and more difficulty finding out reliable information as things like blogs and click-bait articles consistently rank highest among the search results. I'd just like to know how to search so that the results are more like government websites about the topic or maybe scientific institutions that presents facts with data or STATISTICS (I can NEVER find these). Any help would be appreciated :)"
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"You're going to need an academic search engine if you want legitimate information. Google is about making money not providing the best results for you.",
"Librarian here. I agree that using academic databases such as Academic Search Premiere, etc. is the best way to get scholarly (read: peer-reviewed) articles. Check with your local library to see if they allow remote access to their databases with a library card. Many do.\n\nAlso, if you want to focus only on Google, use [site:.gov] before your search terms to find results only on US government sites. This can be used for any other domain as well. Like universities' sites usually end in .edu, so you could put [site:.edu] in your search terms to find results from university sites only,\n\nJust in case you or someone reading this could use it: Google \"CRAP test\" or \"CRAAP test\" to learn about weeding through sources to determine if something is reliable.",
"Google is considering going beyond PageRank and including factual accuracy in the search results. Apparently there is a Google Knowledge bank of facts.",
"This thread has been linked to from another place on reddit.\n\n\n- [/r/knowyourshit] [LPT Request: How to use Google to search for reliable sources of unbiased information such as statistics, facts, etc. - LifeProTips](http://np.reddit.com/r/knowyourshit/comments/2y5mei/lpt_request_how_to_use_google_to_search_for/)\n\n\n*^If ^you ^follow ^any ^of ^the ^above ^links, ^respect ^the ^rules ^of ^reddit ^and ^don't ^vote. ^\\([Info](/r/TotesMessenger/wiki/) ^/ ^[Contact](/message/compose/?to=\\/r\\/TotesMessenger))* [](#bot)"
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"How to give yourself (or another) a decent haircut with electric clippers! Hi LPT, my wife and i are expecting our first child and here in Norway things are quite expensive. I need a haircut and I'm looking to do it myself or have her do it with a set of electric clippers. Any help?",
"How to give yourself (or another) a decent haircut with electric clippers! Hi LPT, my wife and i are expecting our first child and here in Norway things are quite expensive. I need a haircut and I'm looking to do it myself or have her do it with a set of electric clippers. Any help?"
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"Depends on what kind of haircut you want. I've been cutting my own hair for 10 years (on and off) but always the same length (no differing lengths on the top and the sides).\n\nA couple of tips:\n\n* Stand in front of a mirror while cutting\n\n* Take your time, do not do this when you're short on time - those small hairs get everywhere and they itch\n\n* Where as few clothes as possible while cutting\n\n* If you want to remove the hairs on your lower neck without risking cutting into the hair further up - use masking tape. It is really easy to put masking tape near the bottom of your neck-hair-line. Use a smaller mirror to check the tape before cutting. Then you can just use the clipper up to the masking tape.\n* On using a small mirror to see the back of your head: Turn your back to the big mirror (the one on the wall) and look into the small mirror, this is a lot easier than the other way around.\n* Brush loose hairs off your head often while cutting; this will make it easier to detect the longer hairs that you missed.\n* To check if your hair is the same length; gently stroke your hand over the hairs (against the grain), you will quickly notice any hairs/parts that are longer than the rest. Do this often while cutting and do an extra check when you're done.\n* Use the clipper in overlapping intervals; so you don't get streaks of longer hair.\n* Important: The comb on your clipper is soft plastic; be careful to not use to much force while cutting, you may press the teeth of the comb out and end up with really short hair in one spot. **NOTE** (I did this once) when you're cutting the hair in the back of your neck, you may feel like bending your head down (chin to the chest). Do this now and feel the back of your neck, feel that tendon-thingie? It will plow into the teeth of the comb and you will get a bald spot in the middle of your neck (or the back of your head).\n* If you want longer hair on the top of your head than on the sides and the back; that's a bit harder. A friend used a belt that he held in place with one hand while cutting with the other hand - this probably takes some practice. And this may give you too sharp a border between the short parts and the long parts.\n* When you're done clean the sink and surrounding areas. Then take a shower.\n\nLet me know if this was unclear",
"There are many YouTube videos on cutting hair, I learned to cut hair after watching some of them. \n\nDon't do it on carpet floor, do it either on tile/wooden floor or put newspaper down. \n\nGet one of [these](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hair-Cut-Cutting-Salon-Stylist-Cape-Nylon-Barber-Cloth-/150655774105?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2313c8ad99), clean up will be much easier. \n\nUse the shortest attachment first and don't press too hard, especially if you are new at it. It will be more time consuming but at least you won't take off too much hair at once. \n\n"
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"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?",
"How to scratch under my cast? I got an arm cast put on, and it's pretty itchy. Any LPT's other then this fork I'm using?"
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"Push a long thin piece of cloth through with a coat hanger or whatever. You can pull the cloth back and forth and slide it all around your arm.",
"Holy shit do not friggin scratch underneath your cast with a coat hanger or a fork.\n\nThis is like the first thing I tell people after they get their casts. The number of casts I've taken off that have had infected cuts because people did stupid stuff like this is ridiculous. \n\nBlow some air into it or run it under water if it's a waterproof cast. \n\nFor the love of God don't use sharp objects to scratch under a cast. ",
"Probably the best way would be to gently pour some warm honey down there. Then let a a swarm of ants slowly find the sweet, sweet nectar and they'll eliminate the itch in no time with the gentle pitter patter of their feet along your skin",
"Orthopedic tech here. This thread makes me want to cry.\n\nThe best way to stop itching in a cast is to be clean when the cast goes on. Don't scrub your skin though, because that makes you itch more. A gentle clean with soapy water will be fine. Alcohol soaked gauze is the go-to cleaning swab that we use in our clinic. Be dry when you get casted. Don't get wounds, incisions, ulcers or the dressings on them wet. You'll get infected, you'll smell really bad, and you'll have to see the doctor a lot more frequently than he wants to see you.\n\nIf you're in a cast (instead of a splint) there's a good chance that someone will take it off, clean you up, and put another cast on. You don't usually go straight into a cast if it's easy to fuck your injury up. Bad / recent injuries mean swelling, which means splints are applied instead of casts to stop bits of you dying and falling off. Casts are applied further along the healing timeline than splints. Especially if your doctor isn't a halfwit.\n\nOnce you're in a cast, do your best not to over-exert yourself and get sweaty.\n\nIf your cast is fiberglass, it will have a rough surface. You can try dragging coins, fingernails, angry cats, or your mothers sex toy down the cast in a pathetic attempt to get relief through vibration.\n\nThe orthopaedic surgeon I work with often suggests that you scratch the other non-casted limb in the place where the injured one itched. He spins some far-fetched sounding yarn of how the nerves in your body are kinda symmetrical and the mirror nerves head to the same triggers in your noggin (medical term for your bonce, or think cabbage). It seems to work best if you believe his story.\n\nSticking things down inside casts is bad. I know you're going to do it but its bad. How bad? You don't want to know. Lets just say that maggot infested wounds with plastic unicorn heads embedded in them lead to transcriptional confusion.\n\nYeah...you're going to do it aren't you. You're going to fucking do it. Fuck me, what's wrong with you? Okay, you're forcing me to tell you...\n\n1. That padding in your cast, it easily bunches up and sits there slowly eroding your skin for weeks. \n\n2. That chopstick that you scratched up your leg with caused swelling and now it's stuck in there.\n\n3. The same goes for that butter knife.\n\n4. Pens leave evidence of scratching. Don't expect anyone to believe you didn't stick anything inside your cast if you're going to have long ink lines along your limb, (or, as happened in one case, a pen lid UNDER the skin).\n\n5. Infections are bad. Infections can be very, very, very bad. Some of the not so bad ones take months to heal. Months. Months of changing sticky, smelly wet dressings that you sometimes have to INSERT INTO your new gaping wound.\n\n6. Infections are easy to start and thrive in the humid, slightly damp, warm environment that your cast provides.\nI've seen it happen on a few occasions. Nobody ever thinks it will happen to them. It's common sense folks...\n\nI've seen maggoty wounds caused by it. I've seen an ulcer develop in a (less-than-healthy) patients foot to the point where you can drop a golf ball through without it touching the sides. I've seen horned mythical horse toys inside a limb. I've seen a diabetic patient lose his leg because diabetes sucks and because he didn't take the right precautions while casted.\n\nDon't stick things inside your cast.\n\nIf you have an injury that takes a long time to heal, and you screw that up with an infection, your treatment plan changes. Now the doctor has to manage two different problems. Usually it's the infection that becomes the focus and the fixing of the fracture becomes more complicated and sometimes less likely to succeed.\n\nI don't know why I bother. Oh well...be careful when you stick whatever it is in there.\n\nMy patients don't generally have a problem with itching casts. It's actually surprisingly rare. Getting a cast does not guarantee itching. I assumed you were already itchy. If you're not, try not to think about it too much.",
"I actually had to do research for this very thing in nursing school. The recommendation made in our book was to use a hairdryer on low with the cool button depressed the whole time to essentially blow some cool air between the cast and skin. Hopefully that might provide some relief!",
"There is a product out there that combines compressed air, baby powder, and a long straw that works wonders. I don't remember the name but I'm sure Google does. ",
"Be careful man. My first cast i had crazy itching, started to notice some red bumps. Couple days later my while entire leg was covered in these water blister things that just oozed puss and made the skin insanely hypersensitive. It was hell. ",
"Story time. \n\n\nFriend had cast, used a stick from a broom stick to scratch his itch. Few weeks later itch becomes unbearable, so he goes to Doc who opens the cast and sees worms on decomposing and infected flesh. \n\nEnd of storytime. ",
"When I had my cast, I put baby powder in my cast. Although you can't clean it for a few weeks, it helped with the constant itch. ",
"Jeez some of these posts have strange tips. When I had a cast, I got a plastic ruler and used that to scratch under my cast. Worked pretty well.",
"I'm a nurse on a trauma unit - DO NOT STICK ANYTHING UNDER YOUR CAST! Since you cannot clean the skin under a cast, this is a GREAT way of getting a horrible infection. When you finally get your cast off, the smell is horrific from the bacteria that is allowed to grow and the dead skin the bacteria are thriving on.\n\nThis is from Mayo Clinic's website:\n\nWhat can I do if my child wants to scratch under the cast?\n\nA cast can cause your child's underlying skin to feel itchy. To relieve itchy skin:\n\n1. Turn a hair dryer on a cool setting and aim it under the cast\nAsk your child's doctor about giving your child an over-the-counter antihistamine\n1. Don't allow your child to stick objects, such as a coat hanger, inside the cast to scratch his or her skin. This could cause an injury or infection.\n\nhttp://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/childrens-health/in-depth/cast-care/art-20047159",
"take a super duper long pipe cleaner (you know those bendy things you get at school), bend it into a U (make sure you only use the U portion so you can't get cut by the wire. \n\nYou're welcome.",
"You know when your doctor and the ortho tech told you not to stick shit into your cast? DON'T FUCKING STICK SHIT INTO YOUR CAST!",
"Wooden coffee stirrers. I used ones from Panera when I was in a cast. They are flat so they slip easily into the cast, they're like 8 inches long so they reach down far enough, and they're smooth so you can't cut yourself. They're perfect. ",
"Use a [steel rule](http://www.accessoreyes.co.uk/ekmps/shops/accessoreyes/images/steel-rule-722-p.jpg). Long, flexible and you can't really get it stuck down there. Just make sure you clean off the skanky dead skin that will come back out (depending on how long the cast is on for).\n\nSide note: get a black cast, it stops people writing on it.",
"Things I used when I had a full cast:\nToy army man ( didn't work ), metal coat hanger (works great), butter knife ( works good), change (nope...just nope), pencil. ( kinda works... just don't break the lead off in your arm).. at least when the cast comes off you have change for a soda and can draw up a map to fight your army men on!",
"The NON-hooked end of a metal hanger works. Make sure there are no sharp areas along the metal \"wire\" (there usually isn't). Usually they are smooth and compact, fitting into small spaces. They are also bendable. ",
"Straighten out a wire hanger and duct tape a small piece of cloth to it so you don't break the skin. The duct tape alone might be enough, I used cloth though and it worked great. ",
"Ok, i'm a little late here, but I've had A LOT of experience with this. First off, most people here are correct in saying that you really shouldn't be sticking anything inside your cast. However, sometime the itching just truly sucks and you have to do something about it.\n\nI've used a product called sani-cast in the past (http://www.sani-cast.com/). It's definitely overpriced for what is essentially a long, thin strip of plastic with some velcro attached at the end and a tub of cotton cleansing pads, however IT WORKS.\n\nBasically, you stick a slightly moist cleaning pad on the velcro tip and push it under the cast to clean/swab the area. The main reason your skin itches is because of built up sweat, dead skin cells, etc, and the cleaning really does a great job of relieving the itching. Sometimes when it's really bad I'll forgo the cleaning pad and the plain velcro against the skin feels amazing.\n\nThe biggest thing you have to be careful of is any scar/incision area. You need to be as careful as possible NOT to go over this area and irritate any wounds or stitches that may be under the cast.\n\nAgain, avoiding sticking anything down there is truly best. But sometimes you do what you've gotta do.",
"Just moved into a walking cast and I tell ya it's sooooooooooo much better.\n\nUse a wooden spoon and be very careful. Depending on how long your cast has been on or will be on until it's changed you can easily tear your skin. \n\nThis is possibly the worst place to have an open wound due to the nature of unclean, sweaty skin which would allow rapid infection.\n\nBut a good scratch is so worth the time to do it properly.\n\nHappy scratching.",
"I've had arm casts two different times, the best solution I came up with was to pour 91% isopropyl alcohol down the cast and then take a vacuum with the flat extension piece and slide it just under the lip of the cast and vacuum until it was dry again. The alcohol evaporates really fast. I didn't discover this trick until the second cast and there was significantly less brown gunk when it got removed.",
"I used to use a ruler to rub the skin when I broke my wrist. My hand cast was a different story. I pulled my cast off twice to relieve the itch and sweat buildup. Unfortunately the bone ended up healing at an arch because I didn't put the cast back on the second time. ",
"I swear to you up and down on this, a fly swatter. A single plastic piece with nothing removable. Usually come two to a set so, one for at home and one in the car. Broke my ankle and was in a cast up to my knee, fly swatters helped me keep my sanity. ",
"I just spent my summer in double leg casts. If you're really going insane, there is a product called a cast cooler that works by basically creating suction pulling air through the cast. I managed to replicate it with a vacuum cleaner. The trick is to use your other hand to create a seal around the vacuum cleaner tube. In your case, you will probably need a second person so you might want to look into getting the actual CastCooler device. Canned air also works. And if you're really going crazy, benedryl. Sweat is what really makes it itchy so try not to get really hot. Good luck!",
"I just got a full cast off a couple weeks ago, and I found a chopstick worked the best and there's no real chance of the chopstick breaking the skin and causing infection, so that's good.",
"I have a friend with an itchy cast, so I read the thread. Taking heed to the fair warnings on sharp objects, we settled on this:\n\nWe did the (safer) fabric strip scratcher, but we soaked it in alcohol. Just for grins, i threw a few benedryl in the alcohol. We pulled it thru with the zip tie.\n\nThanks, redditors. ",
"I had a cast once for my fractured arm. Whenever I felt itchy, I had a long flexible ruler that I would slide in to do the scratching. It didn't cut me or anything but I did it very often. When the time came to open the cast, my arm looked so gross with all those scratch marks. Good thing it didn't leave any permanent scar.",
"Don't scratch at all. I used to be an orthopedic nurse. Scratching underneath the cast is an easy way to get an awful infection. You can use a blow dryer and blow cold air underneath.",
"A lot of the itchiness is caused by moisture. Shake a bit of medicated talcum powder with menthol into the openings. The menthol will cool the skin and the powder will reduce the moisture. It also acts as an antibacterial which reduces bacterial growth and odour.",
"invent a new type of cast one that does not blanket the arm compleatly but still rigid enough to support the arm.\n(",
"Whatever you do, don't use a pen.\nWhen I was 10 I had one on my arm and decided it was a good idea to use a pen with the cap on to scratch. Cap came off and got stuck inside my cast.\n\nHoly shit that was painful.\n\nIt didn't get infected though, thank the lawd.",
"We gave our son a chop stick...not the pull apart fast food type but, a real one and it worked so well for him. He broke his arms 3 times in 11 months, it was a rough year. Also, he sleeps naked so I used one of my husbands fluffy white socks to make a soft snug fitting cover by cutting the toes off the sock for his fingers and making a thumb hole off to the side since casts are scratchy and dirty. We made a few so we always had a clean one while the others were in the laundry. \n\nHere's a picture of his casts and itching tool. http://i.imgur.com/mv8RL5H.jpg?1",
"I used to make daily trips to the nearby gas station to use the tire inflation pump to blow a cool, refreshing blast of air into my forearm cast. It felt so good!",
"I used a cat toy handle. Like one of those toys that were like a fishing rod with feathers instead of a worm. The cat bit off the toy end, so I used the plastic part to itch. Works well, and is plenty long. ",
"Try to resist! The skin under there is super weak, white and gross. You'll be left with gouges when they take it off. Trust me, I had a broken arm every summer growing up. ",
"Try this stuff.. I used in on my arm, instant relief! \n\nhttp://www.trademarkmedical.com/pro/pro-ortho-castblast.html",
"Try a slim jim. Not the food, the thin metal bar people use to jimmy car door locks. Just make sure the edges are smooth and itch away.",
"Quarters. Drop some quarters in there and raise your arm up and down and let it slide around in there.",
"I'm gonna go ahead and give this a shot: you know those metal bristles that street sweepers throw around? These break off and are left on the side of the road. Depending on the length of your cast, these just might be the answer.\n Put a slight bend at the very far end using a pair of needle nose pliers and scratch away (albeit cautiously, of course)",
"I used to gently tap my cast on the counter right next to where it itched, and it helped. Probably not the best way to do it but it worked",
"I used a net curtain wire when I was a kid, worked a treat: strong, flexible and cheap. \n\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Curtain-Wire-Length-Includes-Hooks/dp/B002Z8N0KC",
"DONT DO IT! Even if whatever you're sticking in there isn't sharp, if it gets stuck, you can get NASTY pressure sores! Use a hair dryer on the cold setting. ",
"DON'T! I had a cast on my arm about 3 months ago, didn't think I was scratching much, but when the cast came off there were just scabs, pus and broken skin everywhere. It was disgusting. ",
"Use the metal file hanger off of a file in your filing cabinet, the one that has the painted ends. They are rigid but smooth and flat. ",
"Simply pour in a half cup of sand, shake it around, then enjoy the gentle massaging of the grains against your skin...",
"Fat sewing needle with a large top. Thats what i used. Got it from my grandma. No sharp bits and plenty of relief.",
"nothing is worse than an itch. sex workers should be covered by insurance when a patient is gravely affected by itches. It would take the patient's mind off of it for a while and make them feel better in general. I suffered from a huge accident in high school and had multiple skull fractures and such. It hurt. But my 2 weeks fighting an allergic reaction to dilantin with itching hives from head to toe was what nearly broke me."
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"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n",
"How to stop unnecessary sweating. I sweat at the most random of times, like when I'm casually talking to friends at school. I'll have to walk in to the bathroom randomly and dry out my pits, and then try incredibly hard to hide pitstains. I've used about every antipersperant out there, but nothing seems to work. Help out a friend, reddit. \n\n"
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"I'd shower, put a tshirt on and by the time I walked to the bathroom to blowdry my hair, the shirt would be wet..not soaked, but very noticeably wet. Through Reddit, I found out about Drysol. It's like this tube of \"deodorant\" that you dab on at night and wash off in the morning. I was really skeptical of it because I had already tried all of the clinical strength deodorants and I swear they made me sweat *more* but I grabbed a tube of it ($20 but lasts a long time) and I tried it. For me, when I consistently use it, it is AMAZING. Like I literally cried when I realized how awesome it was haha. \nFor the first time in almost 20 years I wear tshirts and coloured clothing. BUT the downside is that it itches, especially if you happen to put it on freshly shaved armpits. And I'm talking like you wanna rip out your hair because it's so itchy..but if you blowdry it a bit after you apply, it definitely helps.\nThankfully I live in Canada where you can just get it at Wal-Mart but I believe you have to get a prescription for it in a lot of places. \n\nI've heard that CertainDri is pretty similar to Drysol, and doesn't itch as bad. Check out /r/hyperhidrosis and I'm sure they could help you out a bit more! ",
"Use certainDri. Its an antiperspirant only that you put on at night, and regular deodorant during the day. I had this problem and have been using it for a while now and its all good now.\n\n",
"i sweat profusely from my head, chest/back as well as my arm pits.\n\nthe head is the most annoying, in summer i carry around a scarf i use to towel off with.\n\nany tips for the head/general body sweating?",
"I had the same problem. The solution was simple. Use deoderant instead of anti-prespirant. My problem has never returned since I made the switch. Seriously try it. It made a huge difference in my life. I use old spice. Google it. We arent alone.",
"Former dermatology medical assistant here. [Botox](http://www.botoxseveresweating.com/) can basically \"cure\" you, at least, until it wears off after ~6 months, depending on the person. It's expensive, but probably the most effective treatment out there. Best of luck.",
"Are you reasonably in shape? I used to deal with terrible sweating issues before when I was a sorta chubby teenager. I lost about 30-40 pounds, changed my diet, started working out consistently, and it relieved my anxiety issues. \nI started realizing people don't really care dude, or chick. I used to think wow, I'm really hot, I'm sweating, everyone notices. Occasionally I still get the same feeling, but not nearly as much as I used to. I used to sweat in school, when I was literally sitting still. \n\nLong story short, people don't really care. Just relax, take a deep breath, believe in yourself, and everyone will start to believe in you. It's an awesome feeling. Keep the faith man. ",
"Lose weight. I'm not trying to be offensive at all, if you are overweight at all it really does help a lot. I went on a diet a few years ago, mostly to stop the sweating actually. Ended up losing ~50kg (~110 pounds), I've stayed at that weight and the sweating is down to a normal persons level. Feelsgoodman\n\nIf you are not overweight however, I have no tips to give :(",
"I sweat like pig because I work in the heat and weld for a living.. I end up drenched in sweat at work so I take an extra undershirt and swap them out a couple times during the day. I also use Gold Bond (or generic) body powder as well..\n\nIf I could get my head to stop sweating profusely, I would be satisfied with that...",
"It sounds like you have a different case than mine, but if your hands tend to sweat a lot too, there is actually a minimally invasive surgical procedure that will stop them from sweating forever, with instant results. I had this surgery when I was 16 and my parents only allowed me to get the procedure once they found that insurance would actually cover the costs. I did realize a reduction in underarm sweat too after the surgery, but not full reduction.\nBest of luck.\n\n",
"Sounds counter-intiuitive but try using just deodorant, not antipersperant/deodorant. I used to have a similar issue when I was in my late teens, and made the switch...somehow, the antiperspirant made me sweat MORE. When I use just a deodorant stick, I don't really sweat at all. I had like 3 or 4 friends with the same issue...they all did the same and it helped. Not saying this is definitely your issue, but worth the try. ",
"This may sound strange, but I used to sweat in between and under my boobs. I went to a fantasia party (sells sex toys) and the demonstrator pulled out the edible body powder and poured a layer on top of a glass of water. She had all of us stick a finger in the water and pull our finger out. Came out bone dry. I've started using the edible body powder for my sweat and I've been dry since. Smells good also. ",
"My face sweats a lot, but the rest of my body barely sweats at all. What can I do to make my face sweat less? ",
"Might be an old wives tale or w.e the fuck you call that shit... But I sweat like crazy...Put on a shirt instantly wet and shit I just woke up... Mum says I got the solution I was hesitant but w.e years of wasting money on clinical deo might as well... So this is what she did bicarbonate powder and lime or lemon either one and mix till a paste apply to the pits let it sit for 15 min wash off shower and do it for 2 more days now I can go outside in the tropical weather and I barely sweat... Try it you got nothing to lose lol",
"I work for a dermatology office and an option for hyperhidrosis is Botox for the armpits. They can do a prior authorization to see if your insurance will cover it, but it is an effective method of dealing with severe sweating.",
"Have you tried prescription/ prescription strength deodorant? I had the same problem then I started using Old Spice Sweat Defense and it made a world of difference.",
"Go to walmart and buy SweatBlock in the deodorant section. It is seriously the best product out there to stop underarm sweat. ",
"Are you sweating due to random nervousness, do you feel hot suddenly, or is there no other symptom other than the actual sweat?",
"Does anyone have a problem with body and head sweating? I sweat a lot on my face, head, and body, not so much in my pits. \n\nRegular deodorants don't help much when sweating is outside of the armpit area. ",
"I use [this](http://i.imgur.com/zMI1prH.jpg?1), its literally Gods gift. I used to sweat and smell so bad during the afternoons of almost everyday until I tried this. Now I use this everyday once in the morning and it works a charm, haven't noticed any sweat or smells for over 6 months now. I love it.",
"Cold showers help. I've been taking them for a couple of years, since I read Tim Ferriss' 4HB. The first 6 months it was hard, I had always used hot water before. But I started to feel great about it every day. Now I can't stand it hot anymore: I just use warm water to clean the skin, then 7-10 minutes as cold as it gets. It's supposed to help you get fit, but since I also changed my diet at the time, I couldn't tell.",
"When I used to do stage acting there was an antiperspirant called Mitchum that we used on our pits, to protect the costumes. It was a total process stopper, even for nervous actors in warm costumes under lights. ",
"My problem is that I sweat a ton above my upper lip, and on my forehead. It's to the point that I put on my makeup, and within the five minutes after that I get dressed, it's half off. I've tried regular Degree deodorant on my face, but that didn't help much. Does anyone know if these ideas people are putting out there for OP's underarms would work for the face? Or any other suggestions?",
"I'm sure it's been said, but in case it hasn't, if pit stains are something you are worried about, like if you are wearing a nice white shirt, use deodorant without aluminum. Old Spice is one.",
"I struggled with it my whole life. I mistakenly bought deodorant instead of antiperspirant and it's changed my life. I am so dry and happy! ",
"I dont know if you have it around your area but you can try perspirex. I've used it personally on my arm pits and it just STOPS perspiration. I actually wanted to get rid of the smell but removing sweat all together made it better\n\nAlthough, after reading much about it, aluminium found in antiperspirants are bad for your health according to some studies (like causing breast cancer and such).\n\nSo I stopped that now I use, as some people have mentioned, wear another tshirt (very thin tshirt like this one: http://www.freshpair.com/Calvin-Klein-Savoy-V-Neck-T-Shirt-M9610.html) underneath and baking soda mixed with water. The tshirt underneath prevents sweat stains on the outer shirt and the baking soda and water relieves yourself from the smell. I could go to the gym and back and there wouldnt be any smell at all.",
"Alright, this seems to be as good a time as any to bring this up, as it's relevant. \n\nWhenever I sit for extended periods of time, no matter the temperature, by ass sweats, and frequently, depending on the fabric, this sweat shows through my pants/shorts, resulting in a big wet spot. I do wear boxer briefs, which I assume are mostly cotton. I am not a fat guy (6'1\" 160 lbs). It's taken me to this summer to realize it, I don't know if anyone else has this problem but it is certainly embarrassing and making me a lot more self conscious than it should. Any advice would be appreciated!",
"[Here's a link](http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1hbh3p/ysk_that_making_your_own_deodorant_is_cheaper/) that I found on /r/YouShouldKnow about how to make your own for cheap. OP says it works great. ",
"Yeah, the guys already laid down the law, but here's my tip if you want to wear silk shirts or color-see-sweat-everywhere- shirts.\n\nWear a wife beater. Sucks in the summer but awesome anytime else. Sweat will go down the wife beater and your regular shirt is stain free. Unless you sit down and lean back, it'll leave a mark. ",
"Try not using an antiperspirant for a while. That really worked for me. I used to sweat buckets, now not so much. Although, I could've just gotten older as well.",
"Not sure if you're in the uk or not but Boots sell a deodorant called triple dry which is absolutely amazing. I can do a full work out and my pits will be bone dry. ",
"Not sure if it has been said yet, but I had a similar issue for years but when I switched to only deodorant with no antiperspirant, I stopped sweating. It may be an allergy. Good luck!",
"My first year of high school (last year) I would sweat through 3 layers of clothes to the point where I couldn't lift my arms and it was one of the most embarrassing times of my lives and I tried everything to fix it. I now have a clinical antiperspirant that is supposed to be taking affect in a day or so. I didn't know there were medications like that in pill form if this doesn't work I am defiantly going to talk to my doctor, thanks for the info !",
"Just adding to the deluge of advice you got. \n\nMy story... for the past 2-4 years my Anti-Persperant of choice seemed to get less and less effective. My sweat cycle would go like this after an hour of showering/AP application i would just start sweating regardless what i was doing... sitting, walking, whatever... my pits would just start dripping by about 5 PM it would just stop and the sweat would mysteriously stop but my shirt of course would be drenched under my arms. \n\nStarted looking into possible remedy and advice and the one bit of info that really resonated with me was that because some APs work and some dont on people is because of the pH for people are different. so go try different APs until you find one that works... I think I tried about 3-5 different sticks/brands/types but the one that worked for me was this\n\nhttp://www.dove.us/Products/Men-Care/Deodorants/Dove-Men-Care-Clean-Comfort-Clinical-Protection-Antiperspirant-Deodorant.aspx\n\nI don't expect this one to work for you but it might. I dunno, I'm not an expert on it but this one just randomly worked wonders for me. \n\nGood luck! ",
"I'm surprised nobody has suggested Driclor yet. Apply once a week (or twice) and you won't sweat at all from your underarms. Your body simply diverts the sweat to other places. Works wonderfully and is fairly cheap if you buy it online.",
"I wanna know how to stop butt sweat. I hate sitting in warm environments and on leather/pleather/vinyl chairs becuase they retain heat horribly and my boxers are at least damp, and if the pants/shorts arent thick enough it looks like I sat on a damp towel. At times i've put Gold Bond in my ass but thats not always effective.",
"I used to have this same problem. I wore jackets in the summer just to hide my pit stains. The most unlikely solution fixed mine. I stopped using antiperspirant. Yup. I just get the cheap old spice that just says deodorant. I know this sounds crazy but for over 3 years now I have been completely sweat free. I have no explanation why it worked but it did. Maybe you should try. ",
"I used to have the exact same problem and then I bought Certain Dri. It basically closes up your pores so you can't sweat from your arm pits. It's relatively cheap from what I recall and I was totally blown away when it worked. When I worked at a grocery store we had these royal blue t-shirts and I would sweat right through them, seriously like 8 inch diameter pit stains. Applied Certain Dri at night and let it dry (about 5 minutes) and I barely had any pit stains. \n\nTry it man. I used to sweat like big foot running a marathon. It was brutal. You can find Certain Dri at Wal*Mart/Kroger/Rite Aid/CVs, etc. Good luck!",
"I misread this and came here to tell you to be proud of your potty mouth and anyone that can't handle it can go fuck themselves.\n\nSweating though, hmm. How about moving to ireland? It's too cold for sweating here.",
"How about for those who sweat while eating? It's getting kinda embarrassing for me to eat with another person, that I usually eat alone at the office. People think I'm a grouch, but I'm just embarrassed at sweating like a pig while eating :(. I think it maybe due to my high metabolism.",
"Everyone has some great recommendations: CertainDri, switching to regular Deodorant rather than Antiperspirant (which oddly worked for me). \n\nThe most important one: It's all mental! Not caring about who sees the underarm sweat (and realizing that most people have it), knowing you have a backup plan if need be (extra t-shirt), and just trying to be confident/not care is the biggest thing that helped me and many others. ",
"Does anyone know if this CertainDri stuff would help with sweats in more girly areas like under-boob and mid back (where the bra comes together)?",
"http://www.webmd.com/drugs/drug-64879-Hypercare+Top.aspx?drugid=64879&drugname=Hypercare+Top\n\nI use this, it's very effective. Its prescription so you'd have to see a dermo but it works wonders. Basically you just apply it at night for 3 straight nights and it controls sweating for up to a month. ",
"http://www.drionic.com/\n\nIt sounds totally ridiculous (zapping your pits?), but it totally works for me. I have mild hyperhidrosis, mostly in my pits, and this was the solution that worked for me. A half-hour each pit a night for a week the first time, and then every 2-3 weeks or so do another set of sessions (2-3 nights worth). Then normal antiperspirant works as it's supposed to. After years of dealing with this embarrassment, it's finally under control! And no questionable chemicals or drugs.\n\nThe only problem is that the batteries are proprietary and replacements are expensive. Fortunately, they're really just 9v batteries in a unique format. So I wound up building my own (there's a way to adapt the hand/feet device to use standard 9v batteries, but not the armpit devices), using a cut up yoga ball for the pit holder, aluminum flashing for the plates, felt for the pads, speaker wire that run from the plates down to audio-jacks (for easy unplugging and current reversing) that attach to a home-made battery holder (attached a couple 9v holders to a small piece of wood, added a screw hook to attach to a lanyard, which hangs around my neck). Oh, and rechargeable 9v batteries. The parts were all cheap (electronics shop, fabric store, and hardware store for the aluminum flashing), and for the price of the devices, I have plenty left over for replacement parts. Works exactly the same (I tested it with a voltmeter), only it doesn't automatically reverse the current every 45+ seconds, which is what the circuit board in the Drionic devices does, so you have to do that manually with the audio jacks.",
"You can't help it. It is an autonomic nervous system response. \n\nThey have surgery for sweaty hands, but for all-over sweat, there isn't much you can do. I am not sure about pit sweating. ",
"You can wear 2 shirts. For example, when I am out in hot weather, I like to put on a plain white t-shirt under another t-shirt or any shirt you're wearing. ",
"YMMV, but my sweating issues were due to anxiety issues. What helped: \n\n* [benzodiazapine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine)\n* [beta blocker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_blocker)\n\nThe benzo helped deal with the psychological problems of sweating (feeling self-conscious about it), the beta blocker helped to block sweating directly. Some people just sweat more than others but if you're self-conscious about it talk to a doctor about those things and go from there.\n",
"Workout first thing in the morning. This completely cured me of \"easy sweating\". Might not be quite the same thing as random sweating, but I bet it would help!",
"When I was in the Marines I was told to try witch hazel to help with sweaty palms and to keep from getting really bad pit stains. It worked for me, but I just remember it smelly horrible. ",
"Wear a T-shirt under a loose-fitting long-sleeve shirt. the t-shirt will absorb the sweat while the long-sleeve remains dry. Just choose colors that work well together. ",
"Very easy, had this problem too.\n\nIn my country i went to the pharmacy and let them make me a 15% Aluminum-Chlorid (AlCl) solution.\n\nWhat it basicilly does is clog your sweat-adenoids.\nI use it once a week, i know it's bot good.\n\nBut i much rather be able to lift my arms in public without worrying",
"Try putting on an anti persperant deodorant before bed then more so again the next morning as you wake up. It worked for me",
"Trim your armpit hair. You don't have to completely shave it, but trimming shorter will help reduce odor.",
"This might sound weird. But it's worth a try. And works for a little while, say before a date. Place a fresh tea bag under both of your armpits and leave them for a few minutes. It somehow soaks in the sweat and prevents more for a little while. Just trust me.\n",
"This can also depend on where you live.\nI currently live in the south where sitting outside in a chair in the shade on a decent day will make me sweat enough to make my clothes feel soaked. When I go a good bit north of here, especially in mountainous areas with less humidity, I can basically spend the day outside doing whatever I want without breaking a sweat.",
"There is a newer procedure out called miraDry (I work for a large dermatology company and we just got it). Unlike botox it is a one-time procedure. The downside is that insurance doesn't cover it yet and it's pricey... however if you can't find anything else that works it may be worth the investment! ",
"The only guaranteed way to fix this problem is to stop caring so much about an uncontrollable bodily function. As you can see, you're not the only one with this problem. So if it's not causing your body physical harm, is it really that big of a deal?",
"Spacepong said it all. I would go see a dermatologist, and just so you know, it's could just be a part of puberty. In a few years you might not have this problem",
"Sounds bad. I tend to sweat more when I notice I'm sweating. Like my body is on overtime because I noticed it or something. \n\nThen during my last visit to the USA (from the UK) I saw an advert on TV about \"stress sweat\" - I am not really in shape and would get hot and sweaty just walking to work, and the voiceover on the advert said that stress sweat smells four times as bad as regular sweat. I had no idea about it before but thought to myself \"Great, just another thing to get stressed over.\" ... it's like halitosis, giving it a name just makes it that much worse sometimes! \n\nHope you can figure something out!",
"OP, if you have an excessive sweating problem see your doctor..could indicate some other things. One treatment that your insurance MAY be able to cover ( if you have any), is Botox injections which close up the sweat glands. ",
"OK I see a lot of Drysol, wear the right colors/clothes/fabrics, change deodorant, lose weight, botox. I found another solution.\n\nTMI: I have a tendency to get IBS-D if I'm not careful. Basically, churning gut moves things through my system way too fast. Stress only makes it worse. I went to the dr. I was prescribed Hyoscyamine.\n\nHyoscyamine works by essentially slowing down some of the nervous system function that causes an overactive gut. And in my experience, it also slows down your sweat glands. All of them. If I play soccer while on hyoscyamine, there's a huge difference in how sweaty my gear becomes. The only annoying side effect I've had is dry mouth. \n\nYou'd have to get a Rx from your doctor. But if you can, hyoscyamine is available as a cheap generic. It may do the trick. And really, you don't need to take it all the time. You could just take it before social or business engagements.",
"Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but a simple change in diet can really help. Eat less meat and more veggies and fruits. ",
"Not sure if I fit into the category of unnecessary sweating however I do carry multiple shirts with me at any time for that reason so... ",
"NATURAL REMEDY!\n\nI don't believe it's been scientifically proven or anything, but a lot of people I've talked to say drinking sage in tea form helps control sweating. I feel like it works for me wether its actually the sage or not. Possible placebo effect?",
"My brother used to have this problem. On the advice of a doctor, for unrelated problems, he switched to a gluten free diet. A short while later he noticed that he wasn't sweating nearly as much as he used to. YMMV, and this may just be a coincidence, but he hasn't stained a shirt in over a year now. ",
"It sounds silly but it's worth asking: do you have a lot of pit hair? Because that makes it super sweaty. Try trimming them",
"Im in medical school and have dealt with extreme hyperhydrosis all my life. Ive tried all the traditional forms of treatment and none of them really worked. Though the glycopyrrolate does mitigate sweating to a certain degree, it also comes with unnecessary side effects such as dry mouth. I tried using botox injections for my palms and armpits. Those did not work too well, were extremely expensive and only lasted a month. Eventually I ended up getting a surgery called a sympathectomy, by a doctor at Stanford, Dr. Joseph Shrager. He is a specialized Thoracic Surgeon and when I saw him he said I had the worst case of hyperhidrosis he had ever seen. He cut some sympathetic nerves (the ones that send the signal from your spinal cord to your peripheral areas to start sweating) that supply my armpits and hands and they no longer sweat, which is a HUGE lifesaver! The only downside is that a side effect from the surgery has resulted in compensatory sweating, so now my back and trunk region get pretty sweaty. I dont find these effects nearly as psychologically or practically detrimental to the palmar and armpit sweating though.\nI have also found that by wearing exercise clothes and golf-polo shirts with the moisture-wicking fabric really helps my body breathe and prevents sweat stains from showing. For more professional clothes and dress shirts to wear while working, going out or formal occasions I was able to find some selection from a new website called ministryofsupply.com. I feel your pain, our condition sucks and no one else really understands all the subtleties we need to go through on a daily basis to deal with this. I hope these little tips were able to help out a bit.",
"If it's just underarms, try switching to deodorant instead of antiperspirant. I know this seems backwards, but antiperspirant actually makes you sweat more since the body can't cool down as efficiently. This means that the antiperspirant breaks down faster. I switched to simply deodorant about 2 years ago and I sweat less than I ever have.",
"Idk if this applies much but after staying in humid countries like Korea and Taiwan, I learned that taking cold showers keeps you frim sweating like a whore in church when you venture outside.",
"I've recently been using homemade deodarant and I find that I still sweat, not as much as I used to, but oddly enough I don't notice as much of a smell as I used to. It took a week or so for my body to get used to the switch, but I will never go back. Plus, I'm saving a hell of a lot of money. So win/win for me :)",
"I've got this affliction as well. It's called hyperhydrosis. Just be sure to talk to your doctor. There are some over the counter medications but the best things I've used by far are from the doctor. The stuff I use right now is called \"hypercare\" and it works fucking wonders. Absolute fucking wonders. I can wear whatever shirt I want to wear at any time and not have to worry about it. ",
"I've got a similar problem. I'm constantly sweating, hot or cold, and every product I've tried helps, but only for so long. I can't get through a whole container of deoderant without it stopping the sweat/smell. I dislike smelling bad at any time. I'm a girl, I shave my pits, and even wear guys deoderant because it seems to just work better. Yet, at the end of the day, I still have a slight lingering funk to me. It's really gross, but I'm trying to find a way to stop it. Thanks OP, now I don't feel as embarassed to admit I have something wrong too.\n",
"I've found that having a glass of gatorade every morning helps. I'm obviously not a doctor, but the electrolytes do something to keep you from sweating. ",
"I'm right there with you. I can be sitting in an office and working on a computer (Mechinical) and start sweating like a pig. Outside I am a water fountian. My wife say I am hot in bed and I mean heat wise.. Well a little both may be... I ride motorcycles and during teh summer I am fine till I get off and go inside and I sweat for an hour. ",
"I'm a guy but found [these](http://www.amazon.com/ADVADRI-Oval-Underarm-Sweat-Pads/dp/B000IO4OCI) to helpful, especially at long, hot, fancy occassions. Also, cutting back on caffeine helped. ",
"I was literally days away from having surgery to remove/block my sweat glands (it's been so long, I can't remember the exact procedure). I am the type of person that could be sitting completely still in -20C weather and still have massive pit stains - it's ridiculous.\n\nThen I found Perspirex.\n\nPut it on at night (roll on), and the next day it's essentially impossible to sweat. I've gone for strenuous runs, and was sweating everywhere except my arm pits after Perspirex application.\n\n**Pro(s)**: It works, really well. Amazing. \n\n**Con(s)**: \n\n* It stinks (only when you apply at bedtime)\n* If you over-use it (apply too much, and/or apply it too often - like every single day), it's possible to get a slight chemical burn (itchy burning)\n* It isn't cheap. I've only ever found 25 mL roll-ons, and that runs me $20/bottle. For an excessive sweater like myself, though, it's worth it.\n\nBottom line: I strongly recommend trying it. It has changed my life. I used to wear hoodies year-round over my clothes to conceal pit stains, or just wear black all the time. Now, colours! Now, no embarrassment!\n\n*Ninja ",
"I used to sweat through all my shirts. I started using Certain Dri(the roll on) and it all stopped. After a while you only have to use it once every two weeks. It works. It's probably going to give me cancer but I couldn't deal with all the sweaty pits.",
"I used to sweat constantly with no solution in sight. Didn't like Drysol and definitelt didn't like putting it on my face, would even sweat through the expensive clinical strength deodorant in a cool room. I had pimples from wiping my face constantly. I've been lighter and heavier but losing weight never helped. When I switched to the ketogenic diet, though, I noticed that after a month or two in I barely sweat anymore if I'm not exercising. Not sure what exactly about the diet switch made it so much better, but the sweat reduction has been quite dramatic. ",
"I used to have this problem. For me it was getting in better shape, and not consuming caffeine that remedied it.",
"I used to have an issue with arm pit sweat despite using anti persperant. Switched to just regular deodorant and the sweating stopped. ",
"I used To have the same problem, and I found cutting soda from my diet cured it. \nI'm not a health nut or anything, but it really worked or me. Now I only sweat when it's actually hot or when I drink soda (and the sweat only stains with the later). \nSoda is pretty delicious though....",
"I too suffered from both axillary and palmar hyperhidrosis. My family physician originally diagnosed me with an anxiety issue. He put me on Paroxetine, which absolutely sucked. \n\nIn 2003 after a correct diagnosis from another physician, I chose a surgical option (ETS @ T5). While ETS is rather controversial with wide ranging side effects, it was a wonderful option for me. 10 years later I don't regret a thing. While I still deal with compensatory hyperhidrosis (very common in ETS patients), it is much more manageable. I have virtually zero axillary or palmar hyperhydrosis now. \n\nYou should definitely educate yourself on the risks before opting for a permanent solution like ETS. However, it will definitely change your social life and confidence.\n\n",
"I take a crap t-shirt to go about places when im traveling and then change when ive arrived at my destination. You should of cool down more then enough by the sweat you've made from your t-shirt. Remember sweat is not your enemy its your body trying to cool down. Also drink room temp water not cold <----- your body will try to cool the cold water down resulting that you get even hotter. ",
"I suffer extreme sweating only around my face and head for some reason.\nWent to a specialist who just said you sweat a lot, no shit that's why I am here. I discovered this stuff (http://www.perspi-guard.co.uk/) which works well for day to day living. In Summer and a lot of physical activity it does sort of work as well. I still sweat heaps with it but instead of being massive droplets its fine beads of sweat which never stop. I find that at least to be a better alternative than looking like a hose just sprayed my face.",
"I still have this issue but I did a few things to mitigate the problem.\n1) Trimmed the hair in my armpits so they don't get as hot.\n2) Lost some weight. That one was more of an accidental discovery.\n3) Used drysol and certaindri, which both make my armpits itch like crazy. My doc gave me a steroid cream to put on after that that completely stops the itching. It's Triamcinolone acetonide cream 0.1%.\n\nI especially use the drysol or certaindri for a few nights before I know I will be in a sweaty situation (ie suit).",
"I prefer Maxim to CertainDri, it doesn't irritate my skin as much. After about 2 weeks of use I was irritation and sweat free. After that you only have to apply it once every couple days.\n\nI also had the surgery mentioned below and it helped a decent amount but Maxim has been by far the best solution.",
"I imagine that the sweating can be caused by many different things but when I used to have it it was caused by social anxiety. I got rid of it by socializing a lot for about 2 years and now that I feel comfortable (it took a lot of effort and uncomfortable awkward situations) I don't sweat like that anymore. I barely get sweat stains on my shirts now.",
"I have the same problem. I just bought a [Thompson Tee](http://www.thompsontee.com/Mens_Thompson_Tees_Selection_s/1823.htm) and I love it. It doesn't prevent sweating but it's an undershirt that has \"hydro-shield\" in the arm pits. I was just at an outside wedding in Florida and I had a little back sweat, but my pits were completely dry. You can feel the extra material there but it's not uncomfortable by any means.",
"I have never in my life sweat through Old Spice antiperspirant. In fact, on my days off I give my pits a breather because it typically even works through a shower.\n\nThere are probably some pH and hormone issues in what you eat. I would look into that.",
"I have a very similar problem. Use Certain Dri. Apply nightly before bed. It takes about a week to kick in but with continual use I no longer have pit stains \n",
"I had this problem with my forehead, just randomly, sometimes stress reaction etc. It's important to use a \"real\" antiperspirant for this, since nothing from the drugstore helped me either. Those are usually available in pharmacies, they are much much stronger and don't have a strong smell and are NOT designed to cover smell but to prevent sweating. Often they are just a liquid that is applied in the evening using using cotton pads. I tried \"Yerka\" antritranspirant which helped me with that a lot so far. Not sure if it's available anywhere else (I'm in Europe).",
"I had this issue and after trying every product out there I decided to tackle the cause. In my case it all had to do with hydration. I would sweat when I needed to pee, it wasn't like I felt the need to go...rather, the sweating told me I should go. ",
"I don't know about you, but getting regular sessions of cardio and sweating a lot in the gym / out on the trail helped me a lot.",
"I do two things, I wear a plain white T-shirt 100% of the time under my shirt, so it doesn't ever really show on my outer shirt. I also just got this new generic brand (got it at walmart) spray deodorant and it's ultra dry or extra dry I can't remember, but it really has helped me a lot. ",
"Hyperhidrosis is the worst. There's a lot of good info [here](http://www.sweathelp.org/en/) including information on all of the different treatment options. I have cranial hyperhidrosis and it's pretty fucking terrible :(",
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"Have you tried CertainDri? My brother used to sweat like crazy all the time, but now he has no problems. I'm pretty sure it shrinks the pores in your armpits so you sweat less. You put it on at night and it's supposed to last 72 hours. My brother puts it on every night to be safe, but it works wonders for him.",
"Gym more. I find that I sweat way less generally when I go to the gym regularly, but way more when I'm actually working out.\n\n",
"Go to your doctor and get prescribed stuff. I fif it once and it worked unril I became able to control my sweat. I used to know a guy who pitted out sweatshirts and he helped me out. Best decision of my hgh school career. I was very self conscious about it until I got help.",
"Go to the Doctors!\nI Had this problem in Scotland and was coming out to Australia where obviously it was going to be a lot warmer. I was prescribed a roll on extra strength antiperspirant to use at night and have never looked back! It honestly made a huge difference to the quality of my life. Now i can dress thinking what looks good, not what won't show my sweat patches as much.",
"Exercise more often; at least 3 days per week. The health and mental benefits are far superior to shaving your armpits or wearing copious amounts of deodorant. If you do in fact have Hyperhidrosis, which is less than a 3% chance, accept it and move on with your life.",
"Ease up on the caffeine as well. I am a very sweaty person but found cutting back on the caffeine really helped my sweating, especially on my palms.",
"Dude, once I stopped eating processed foods, I was like one of those dainty feminine females who NEVER SWEATS a drop. Like, I am VERY strict about it, though. I never need deodorant. \n\nI too would sweat randomly and to the bogglement of my peers. I guess for me it was my body trying to throw off whatever. I know my brother is allergic to milk, so whenever he drinks it, you can smell sour milk on him as his body tries to throw it off. ",
"Don't know if someone has already mentioned any natural remedies for hyperhidrosis but sage tea has been my best friend. You steep a tablespoon of sage for 3-5 mins, let cool and drink this up to 3 times a day. The only thing that sucks about this remedy is if you're a woman and do this for more than 2 weeks at a time, you may get your period a little early. Do some research and talk to your doctor before starting any kind of home treatment. I'm not a doctor and these statements are for educational purposes only, not to replace a doctor's prescribed treatment.",
"Certain dri, drysol, and hypercare solutions all work.\n\nTrick is, on a clean armpit, coat it. Then wrap with saran wrap and sleep with it. In the morning use hot water to clean and then cooo water to close up pores. Then put on dry deodorant.\n\nWorks for me anyway",
"Botox was the ONLY thing that helped my armpits. No deoderant works because you have hyperhidrosis specifically axillary hyperhiydrosis. The botox allows me to sweat like a normal person not like one that is running a marathon during a heatwave (while it is winter).",
"Botox has been FDA approved for treatment of hyperhidrosis. It doesn't cause additional sweat anywhere else (apparently) and may be covered by insurance if you have it. It lasts about 6-7 months.",
"Before jumping to hyperhidrosis, get your hormones checked out. I sweated insanely, got diagnosed with PCOS and medicated, and no longer sweat like that. If hormones are your underlying problem, there is no level of symptom treatment that will really address it.",
"As weird as it may sound, as far as the underarm sweating goes, try a deodorant only, not antiperspirant. Seems completely counter-intuitive, but it works for me. Anxiety is also a huge part of it, so just try to keep your mind off it as much as possible. People probably don't notice as much as you think they do. ",
"As many have said...\nCertaindri,\nBlack or whites, never gray,\nDrink more water.\nThe best for me, I just owned up to it, getting over the anxiety helped tremendously.",
"/r/keto I've been an extra sweater my whole life. I switch diets and I never have the problem since. ",
"**My background:**I really had the same problem. I used to have pitstains to hell and I literally sweat when it's -2(Fahrenheit) out.\n\n**Solution!!**I got a prescription for [Drysol](http://www.drugs.com/cdi/drysol-solution.html). I apply it once a week at night before I go to sleep and wash it off in the morning.\nI also use [Degree Clinical Plus Anti-perspirant](http://www.amazon.com/Degree-AntiPerspirant-Deodorant-Re-Charge-Technology/dp/B006D0POUW). \n\n**Results:**This has combo has worked miracles for me and my armpits! As for my back and every other place I sweat, I'll just leave those for now. \n\n**Last recommendations: **if you are overweight, losing weight might help. Also as hard as this is, just stop worrying about it. Try the solutions I mentioned above and then as that reduces so does your 'anxiety'",
"Try CertainDry! It was a miracle worker for me. Its a deodorant you apply at nighttime and how stop excessive perspiration for the next day. You can find it at target or really any drug store.",
"The cheap regular Speed Stick deodorant, man. That's all you need.\n\nI don't know what the chemical is in it that reacts the way it's supposed to with the sweat glands under my arms, but boy does that shit work. For about 17 years, starting when I was in the eighth grade, I experimented with literally EVERY type of super active mega long-lasting body reactive sport gel deodorant and anti-perspirant on the market, to inculde Certain Dri and all of its variants. Those worked for about two weeks for me after consistent use, and for whatever reason stopped working (despite me following directions to the letter).\n\nMy shit was BAD too, the most embarrassing thing in the world. I'd sweat through an undershirt + button down + sweater, and through a suit jacket even if I was outside and it was cold. Hell, when I'd go out with my friends or on a date or somewhere else that was important I'd fold tissues under my arms, and change them out in the bathroom halfway through the night if needed. I mean it was baaaad.\n\nI ran out of deodorant one morning about a year and a half ago and had to stop by the gas station on my way to work to pick some up and damn if it didn't work. I've used it every day since then, in a line of work that involves me walking between 8-12 miles per day at a quick pace. Since the first day I used it I have not had one drop of underarm sweat stain my clothing, even if it was hours after I applied the deodorant.\n\nThe only thing that should be noted is that the deodorant (smell-fighting portion) ingredients don't seem to last as long as whatever's in it that reduces sweat, so it's good to keep a small stick of some other brand handy to apply midway through the day if you're being active (no need to re-apply the Speed Stick, though).\n\nSeriously...like $3 and it works perfectly, don't ask me why.",
"I'm an expert on sweating...I run and cycle a lot and sweat like a bastard on fire. I only sweat when exercising. When you cycle 100 miles at a stretch, or run 25 miles on an 80 degree day, you totally get and understand your bodys sweat characteristics. \n\n1: Cease drinking all soda. That shit will fuck you up. BTW, energy drinks are for crack/meth addicts. They are not for healthy adults.\n\n\n2: Drink 2-4 20oz water bottles every day, whether you exercise or not.\n\n\n3: Regarding the food golden rule...'if it's fried, it ain't food'. Stop eating fried food. \n\n\n4: Anything with sugar in it, on it or around it, is for 6 yr old kids who like sprinkles on their cup cakes. But not you.\n\n \n5: Exercise regularly. \n\n\nObey those five rules, and in 3 months, tell me if you still sweat like a bastard on fire when just talking to friends. In case you think i'm a dick and don't know what i'm talking about, I do sweat profusely, and lose so much water I had to research sweating, how it occurs and the physiology involved before i could do things like run 50 miles on a blazing hot days. Peace out dude, good luck.\n\n",
"Don't listen to any of these medical terms being throw around. Just use \"Certain-Dri\" apply at night, works like a charm.",
"Can someone give me a life pro tip on how to sweat? I have some sort of disorder where I just don't sweat ENOUGH. I do have the ability. 2 years ago, I had an outdoor job and I had a heat stoke. This year, I moved to Georgia from Michigan .. So, I'm in need of the ability to sweat. ",
"The kind of sweating you're describing comes from social anxiety. Social anxiety can come from being embarrassed about sweating a lot. If these are both true, you have a positive feedback loop on your hands, which can be a real mess to deal with.\n\nHave you tried therapy? I'm not being an ass, it just may be that there is some simple root cause you haven't thought of, and that a therapist may tease out."
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"How to deodorize kitchen? Any tips on deodorizing a kitchen or a room in general? Getting rid of smells, not covering it up. Just moved into a new place a few weeks ago. I clean and spray the counters every time I'm finished cooking, but there's still a lingering smell. It doesn't smell like food, it just smells. There's no sign of mold or anything. \n\nAnything you do that really works to deodorize /neutralize smells other people should know about? I've read to leave out vinegar, baking soda, boil lemon rinds and cinnamon sticks, leave out lemons (but doesn't that invite fruit flies?), etc? Want to know what really works!!"
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"Rent an ozone machine. My wife used to work at a cleaning supply store, and they rented them out for house fires and non-smokers who moved in where smokers used to live.\n\np.s., you'll need to find another place to live for a couple days while the ozone machine works its magic.",
"Get yourself some of this- http://www.odoban.com/ and really give the place a good, deep scrubbing. Move out the stove & fridge, & mop behind them, wash down the cabinets with warm soapy water, clean the stove inside & out, flush the sink drain, in short, clean, clean, clean! If you *still* have an odor problem after doing that, you may have a dead rodent or mold in the walls, where you can't see it, and might have to call in a professional."
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"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
"Tips and tricks for first year in college? Any tips or tricks for first year of college, having to do with anything, class, dorm room, socializing, clubs etc?",
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"when you're at a party, turn the tab on your beer sideways. It'll be easy to find your drink later on and it'll help you keep track of the number beers you drank.\n ",
"Don't get sucked into eating fast food all the time. Yes, it is easier, but it also crazy expensive compared to going to the grocery.",
"In the first few weeks, all the clubs and societies try to lure you in with free food and parties. Go and partake. Give them a fake email address. \"Why yes, I'm interested in <checks banner at booth> lesbian drum circles! May I have another piece of pizza?\"",
"Be open to meet as many people as you can, they might surprise you! I noticed many people come into college with the judgy high school mind set, but it's completely unnecessary. Embrace this new change as a learning experience and a time to gain an open mind",
"Learn how to manage your money. Here are some reddits to subscribe to if you don't already:\n\n* www.reddit.com/r/frugal\n* www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance\n* www.reddit.com/r/investing\n\nJoin lots of clubs that are related to your degree and that match your hobbies. Try to become an officer.\n\n",
"Go to class. Avoid the temptation to slack off. Keep up with readings and problem sets. GO TO OFFICE HOURS.",
"Don't be afraid to try new things at all, whether it be drugs, sports, jobs, classes, etc. You're at the point of your life where you experiment with as many things as possible so you can figure out what you want later in life. \n\nAnother thing I can recommend is to buy generic! You literally save so much more money. I've also taken the time to put my cr",
"Trade class schedules with your roommate(s) so everyone knows everyone else's early mornings and late evenings. My first roommate and I had completely opposite schedules, to the point of rarely seeing one another awake, but we rarely disturbed one another's sleep because of the schedule exchange.",
"Study and do homework in the library. Giving yourself separate contexts for work and play helps avoid procrastination.",
"if you are living in the dorms, buy and hide good toilet paper. the one ply stuff that is in the bathrooms will work on your hind end. you have to hide it and keep quite that you have it b/c your pals will steal it when they discover the pure hell that is associated with raw ass, this will lead them to the theft of your beloved charmin ultra soft tp. ",
"Try to think of a question you would ask the presenter/prof for every hour of class. I had a friend in uni who asked a question to the prof during or after every class and when I asked him about it, he said that he always had trouble paying attention unless he knew that he had to be accountable for it right away. It makes you consider everything a bit critically.",
"Take classes seriously.\n\nPlease, oh please take classes seriously. The fact of the matter is, you probably don't know what you want to do in life yet. I didn't either. Because I was lazy, I used this as an excuse to slack off, and got poor grades (Just under 3.0 for three semesters). If you end up as a Sociology major, fine. I ended up a pre-med major, and now as I'm applying to medical schools, it's really a burden on my gpa for that first year, although since then it's been spotless.\n\nGet A's. You'll be thankful later. There's been so many times that I've screwed up financial aid paperwork or something else that my school gave me the benefit of the doubt because of my academics.",
"Never, I repeat NEVER go to Costco (or other warehouse type bulk shopping places) hungry. your wallet will thank you",
"If possible, get to know your professors, at least to some degree. Make sure they know your name. Sounds unnecessary, but this past semester, I was dealing with some health issues that eventually required surgery, and the professors who knew me by name were a lot more understanding when I emailed them to explain that I wouldn't be coming to class that day because I had been in the ER until 5AM. \n\nEven if you don't have any problems like that, if you're struggling in a class but are consistently showing up and the professor knows you and sees that you're making an effort, they're more likely to help you out. At least in my experience, which is admittedly limited to community college.",
"Get up early and go to the gym. Even if you go back to bed after - getting fat at university is a rite of passage that you don't have to endure and the fatteners are everywhere. ",
"Everyone probably knows this, but take all your notes on a laptop and organize them into specific folders for each class by day.\n\nI used to write only what I thought I needed to know down on paper, but eventually I found that if you at least copy something down once, your brain will remember it more. \n\nIt's also 1000000x easier and faster to type than it is to write. Also saves you money on paper/pencils.\n\nAlso, ALWAYS have a mechanical pencil and black pen on you at all times, good for jotting down random notes on your hand/scrap paper in a pinch"
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"What is the best way to remove wrinkles from clothing without heat? Hey, I have a lot of clothes that I do not machine dry to preserve them longer. What is the best process to prevent them from getting wrinkles without heat? The heat can seriously damage clothing and I can not bring myself to use it. If anybody knows a good way to avoid wrinkles, it would be much appreciated if you let me know, thank you!",
"What is the best way to remove wrinkles from clothing without heat? Hey, I have a lot of clothes that I do not machine dry to preserve them longer. What is the best process to prevent them from getting wrinkles without heat? The heat can seriously damage clothing and I can not bring myself to use it. If anybody knows a good way to avoid wrinkles, it would be much appreciated if you let me know, thank you!",
"What is the best way to remove wrinkles from clothing without heat? Hey, I have a lot of clothes that I do not machine dry to preserve them longer. What is the best process to prevent them from getting wrinkles without heat? The heat can seriously damage clothing and I can not bring myself to use it. If anybody knows a good way to avoid wrinkles, it would be much appreciated if you let me know, thank you!",
"What is the best way to remove wrinkles from clothing without heat? Hey, I have a lot of clothes that I do not machine dry to preserve them longer. What is the best process to prevent them from getting wrinkles without heat? The heat can seriously damage clothing and I can not bring myself to use it. If anybody knows a good way to avoid wrinkles, it would be much appreciated if you let me know, thank you!"
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"spray them with a little water while theyre hanging perfectly and wait for them dry in that position. thats what my grandma did",
"They sell a product in a spray bottle called Wrinkle Releaser...think its made by Downy. Works great.",
"If you’re in the US and have a Dollar General nearby, their brand of wrinkle releaser is amazing. Better than Downy IMO and cheaper.",
"Heat is the only easy method.\n\nI suppose you could stretch them out under something large and flat, but that would be tedious for more than one or two items."
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"What can you put on 'default' job applications (the kind you fill out for fast food/small business jobs) that makes you stand out. ",
"What can you put on 'default' job applications (the kind you fill out for fast food/small business jobs) that makes you stand out. "
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"If you're filling it by hand please, please, please write neatly. And don't spill any coffee or mystery food in it either. You wouldn't believe the number of applications I've seen working retail that are torn, stained or impossible to read.",
"Long and short answer is you don't. You make sure to show up at a time where the manager is going to be there and most likely not busy and get his ear for 5 min (note THIS IS NOT THE FUCKING DINNER RUSH AT A RESTAURANT, pretty stunning how many young people don't get that). Mainly cause for jobs like that the only thing that matters is looking somewhat presentable and that you won't do something dumb like stick your hand in a fryer. I have yet to get a single job from the application like that but I have been hired on the spot because I was presentable and charming enough to get my foot in the door. "
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"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour.",
"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour.",
"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour.",
"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour.",
"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour.",
"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour.",
"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour.",
"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour.",
"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour.",
"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour.",
"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour.",
"how to wake up on your first try I can't tell you how many times where I'm going to \"wake up early tomorrow\" turns into hitting the snooze button for another hour."
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"1. Drink water before bed -- not only does it hydrate you and prevent nasty morning headaches, but you'll wake up with unsuppressible need to urinate everywhere. Also, open your blinds before bed; natural sunlight is incredible for easing you out of sleep if you can time that right.\n\n\n2. Set the alarm for the same time everyday; honestly setting that habit is the hardest thing, but once you have it you can basically wake up without an alarm, because your body's circadian rhythms are already lined up and shit\n\n3. Try some alarm clock apps. I like one's that can gradually increase the volume, and have cool methods of making it just a little harder to press snooze. http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/08/13/best-alarm-clock-apps/\n\n5. Don't set an alarm with a default tone -- it'll condition you to wake up irritated and dread that sound. Instead, set something that is soothing but loud enough to wake you; I like to set something groovy like Earth Wind and Fire, so I can dance my way to the urination phase\n\n6. After urination, chug more water. Keeps you hydrated and wakes you more than coffee. Then, splash cold water on your face or take a cold shower -- this really does wonders for quickening your mind, and this is totally unverified but I heard it helps jumpstarting your metabolism or whatever. http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/fitness/exercises/5-ways-to-raise-your-metabolic-rate.html\n\n6. Get a roommate/parent/SO/pet to slap/shake/lick/lick you awake. I personally enjoy a cold towel to the face. The shock/anger always gets me out of bed.\n\n7. Sleep earlier. If you can fall asleep so early that you couldn't possibly oversleep, and then use the time you save by waking up early to shower, eat breakfast, exercise/study, and most importantly, reddit+facebook, you'll look forward to the morning routine, AND you'll be motivated to wake even earlier, by leveraging your reddit addiction in favor of your sleep instead of against it :)\n\n",
"Put the alarm clock on the other side of the room and set it to its highest volume on the alarm, not the music.",
"Sit up in bed when your alarm goes off. For me at least, I'm unlikely to go back to sleep when I am sitting up. ",
"i put my alarm clock on the other side of the room set for 4:54. I turn that off and then crash again. at 5am, my phones alarm goes off which requires me to solve a math problem to turn it off. then at 5:05, my phone will go off again requiring another math problem. works for me!",
"http://sleepyti.me/\n\nThis website tells you when to go to bed to wake up at a certain time (or when to wake up if you go to bed now)\n\nI'm not saying that I wasn't tired when I woke up using this, but I didn't have a hard time waking up.\n\n",
"Two big things that do it for me: take a HUGE inward breath as soon as the alarm goes off, and then get up, look out the window or at a bright light source, and keep looking til it no longer hurts - about 10sec. Then have a big glass of cold water. Okay, three things.",
"This guy has a few interesting articles:\n\n* [How to Become an Early Riser](http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser/)\n* [How to Become an Early Riser – Part II](http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser-part-ii/)\n* [How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off.](http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right-away-when-your-alarm-goes-off/)\n* [How to Wake Up Feeling Totally Alert](http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/10/how-to-wake-up-feeling-totally-alert/)",
"Ok so I read through this and there's a bunch of steps, hints, tricks, but its all hogwash.\n\nI had the exact same problem until I finally just decided to have some self control. If you know you have to wake up on the first alarm (never set more than one), then when it goes off, just get up out of bed. Thats it. Don't psyche yourself into closing your eyes for 5 more seconds, literally be a man about it. Go take a shower, do your normal routine, and in no time (a minute tops) you'll be awake enough to not need to go back to sleep. Then go enjoy your day",
"I used to keep a thermos of coffee made the night before by my bed to help get me up on the morning. ",
"I use an app called sleep cycle. I always had a problem of sleeping through alarms and hitting snooze in my sleep but this app seems to work. I've been using it for a few months now and I wake up on time every morning... not to mention IT'S FREE!",
"I usually put 5 minute snoozes for about 20 min.For example i gotta wake up at 8 , i put the alarm clock to 7:40 and geadually get more awake each time i press the snooze button. \n\nAlso washing with cold water is very good .",
"Another redditor made a [post](http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1qaxyi/lpt_the_ultimate_sleep_guide/) about this. You should check it out. All cr"
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"I want to sell my guitar and buy a bass guitar instead. How to do so while not losing too much cash in terms of net? I bought a guitar in the summer because I was huge into rock music, especially pop punk and grunge, and have been for a few years, but 6 months later my music tastes have diversified, and I'm much more of a jazz, hip-hop, funk, and technical death metal type guy, as well as listening to a lot more modern music, both well known and not-so-well known. So thus, I just haven't had the urge to play guitar as much, as I feel like it is kind of outdated now IMO, and I just don't have much motivation to play it. However, I've noticed that in a lot of songs, I've been really attracted to the basslines and bass guitar parts. And plus, basslines are a crucial part in almost all genres, so I'd have a plethora of music I love that I can recreate. Now, onto the real question. I bought my guitar (Squier Affinity Stratocaster) and amp (Fender Champion) for around $300 last summer. I want to buy a bass and bass amp instead. However, I don't want to lose too much money in terms of net total. Like, starting with the $300 spent on the guitar and amp, and adding in the money received from selling them on now, and buying the bass and bass amp now. I hope what I'm saying made sense. What's the best way to sell my guitar/amp, and how can I get a bass guitar and amp for cheap?",
"I want to sell my guitar and buy a bass guitar instead. How to do so while not losing too much cash in terms of net? I bought a guitar in the summer because I was huge into rock music, especially pop punk and grunge, and have been for a few years, but 6 months later my music tastes have diversified, and I'm much more of a jazz, hip-hop, funk, and technical death metal type guy, as well as listening to a lot more modern music, both well known and not-so-well known. So thus, I just haven't had the urge to play guitar as much, as I feel like it is kind of outdated now IMO, and I just don't have much motivation to play it. However, I've noticed that in a lot of songs, I've been really attracted to the basslines and bass guitar parts. And plus, basslines are a crucial part in almost all genres, so I'd have a plethora of music I love that I can recreate. Now, onto the real question. I bought my guitar (Squier Affinity Stratocaster) and amp (Fender Champion) for around $300 last summer. I want to buy a bass and bass amp instead. However, I don't want to lose too much money in terms of net total. Like, starting with the $300 spent on the guitar and amp, and adding in the money received from selling them on now, and buying the bass and bass amp now. I hope what I'm saying made sense. What's the best way to sell my guitar/amp, and how can I get a bass guitar and amp for cheap?",
"I want to sell my guitar and buy a bass guitar instead. How to do so while not losing too much cash in terms of net? I bought a guitar in the summer because I was huge into rock music, especially pop punk and grunge, and have been for a few years, but 6 months later my music tastes have diversified, and I'm much more of a jazz, hip-hop, funk, and technical death metal type guy, as well as listening to a lot more modern music, both well known and not-so-well known. So thus, I just haven't had the urge to play guitar as much, as I feel like it is kind of outdated now IMO, and I just don't have much motivation to play it. However, I've noticed that in a lot of songs, I've been really attracted to the basslines and bass guitar parts. And plus, basslines are a crucial part in almost all genres, so I'd have a plethora of music I love that I can recreate. Now, onto the real question. I bought my guitar (Squier Affinity Stratocaster) and amp (Fender Champion) for around $300 last summer. I want to buy a bass and bass amp instead. However, I don't want to lose too much money in terms of net total. Like, starting with the $300 spent on the guitar and amp, and adding in the money received from selling them on now, and buying the bass and bass amp now. I hope what I'm saying made sense. What's the best way to sell my guitar/amp, and how can I get a bass guitar and amp for cheap?",
"I want to sell my guitar and buy a bass guitar instead. How to do so while not losing too much cash in terms of net? I bought a guitar in the summer because I was huge into rock music, especially pop punk and grunge, and have been for a few years, but 6 months later my music tastes have diversified, and I'm much more of a jazz, hip-hop, funk, and technical death metal type guy, as well as listening to a lot more modern music, both well known and not-so-well known. So thus, I just haven't had the urge to play guitar as much, as I feel like it is kind of outdated now IMO, and I just don't have much motivation to play it. However, I've noticed that in a lot of songs, I've been really attracted to the basslines and bass guitar parts. And plus, basslines are a crucial part in almost all genres, so I'd have a plethora of music I love that I can recreate. Now, onto the real question. I bought my guitar (Squier Affinity Stratocaster) and amp (Fender Champion) for around $300 last summer. I want to buy a bass and bass amp instead. However, I don't want to lose too much money in terms of net total. Like, starting with the $300 spent on the guitar and amp, and adding in the money received from selling them on now, and buying the bass and bass amp now. I hope what I'm saying made sense. What's the best way to sell my guitar/amp, and how can I get a bass guitar and amp for cheap?",
"I want to sell my guitar and buy a bass guitar instead. How to do so while not losing too much cash in terms of net? I bought a guitar in the summer because I was huge into rock music, especially pop punk and grunge, and have been for a few years, but 6 months later my music tastes have diversified, and I'm much more of a jazz, hip-hop, funk, and technical death metal type guy, as well as listening to a lot more modern music, both well known and not-so-well known. So thus, I just haven't had the urge to play guitar as much, as I feel like it is kind of outdated now IMO, and I just don't have much motivation to play it. However, I've noticed that in a lot of songs, I've been really attracted to the basslines and bass guitar parts. And plus, basslines are a crucial part in almost all genres, so I'd have a plethora of music I love that I can recreate. Now, onto the real question. I bought my guitar (Squier Affinity Stratocaster) and amp (Fender Champion) for around $300 last summer. I want to buy a bass and bass amp instead. However, I don't want to lose too much money in terms of net total. Like, starting with the $300 spent on the guitar and amp, and adding in the money received from selling them on now, and buying the bass and bass amp now. I hope what I'm saying made sense. What's the best way to sell my guitar/amp, and how can I get a bass guitar and amp for cheap?"
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"Before getting rid of your guitar, practice a few baselines on it. The low strings are EADG- the same 4 as a bass. I know it's not exactly the same, but this let's you see if you really like the bass or just want something different.\n\nI play bass but also piano and a little acoustic six string. My son plays drums, keyboard, flute and violin. Lots of people own multiple instruments.\n\nKeep the guitar and buy a used bass at a pawn shop. You can get them for a hundred bucks.\n\nTry Craiglist and apps like \"Offer Up\" or \"Let it Go\". \n\nOnly sell your guitar if you're certain you'll never play it again. You may have regrets.",
"Try Craigs list, and post that you're looking for a trade. You'll probably get some fair offers (along with the attempted scammers).",
"Lots of musicians dabble in other instruments. Check a local Facebook group for buying and selling to see if anyone is interested in a trade.\n\nOr visit a pawn shop and see if you could make a trade.",
"Depreciation on used instruments and gear is at a minimum 70% for mint condition, increasing significantly with damage, wear, and condition. Your best bet is to try to find someone to trade your guitar for a bass, but replacing the amp is going to be tricky. You’ll likely lose most here, as starter amps are typically nearly impossible to sell used. You can get lucky if someone is looking to pick up a gift set or starter set themself but it’s rough. I would try Facebook Marketplace and search out any musical instrument sell/swap groups in your area.",
"Sell the guitar and buy a used bass. Fender Squier bass or something might do the trick for cheap. Keep in mind you can keep using the same amp, at least in the beginning. "
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"How to ask if someone's finished something without being pushy? Maybe it's just all in my head and is just social anxiety, but I have a really hard time asking people if they've finished a task I need from them yet.",
"How to ask if someone's finished something without being pushy? Maybe it's just all in my head and is just social anxiety, but I have a really hard time asking people if they've finished a task I need from them yet."
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"I often will ask a small question about the finished product, and they will divulge the status of the product without me prompting them to.\n\nMe: \"Hey John, are you going to make that report the same color scheme as we presented last time?\"\n\nJohn: \"yes I was. It's actually almost all done but I still have to do x & y\"\n\nMe: \"great, sounds like you are thinking it will be done Tuesday?\"\n\nJohn: \"yep\"",
"I usually will ask how long do they think it'll take to finish and then propose a date or time according to what they say. That way they'll now when your expecting for them to be done."
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"How to keep my heels from aching while standing up for long periods of time I'm a cashier and I'm on my feet 8+ hours at a time. My heels always kill me after an hour of standing, and they ache all day after my shift. What can I do to prevent that?",
"How to keep my heels from aching while standing up for long periods of time I'm a cashier and I'm on my feet 8+ hours at a time. My heels always kill me after an hour of standing, and they ache all day after my shift. What can I do to prevent that?",
"How to keep my heels from aching while standing up for long periods of time I'm a cashier and I'm on my feet 8+ hours at a time. My heels always kill me after an hour of standing, and they ache all day after my shift. What can I do to prevent that?",
"How to keep my heels from aching while standing up for long periods of time I'm a cashier and I'm on my feet 8+ hours at a time. My heels always kill me after an hour of standing, and they ache all day after my shift. What can I do to prevent that?",
"How to keep my heels from aching while standing up for long periods of time I'm a cashier and I'm on my feet 8+ hours at a time. My heels always kill me after an hour of standing, and they ache all day after my shift. What can I do to prevent that?",
"How to keep my heels from aching while standing up for long periods of time I'm a cashier and I'm on my feet 8+ hours at a time. My heels always kill me after an hour of standing, and they ache all day after my shift. What can I do to prevent that?",
"How to keep my heels from aching while standing up for long periods of time I'm a cashier and I'm on my feet 8+ hours at a time. My heels always kill me after an hour of standing, and they ache all day after my shift. What can I do to prevent that?",
"How to keep my heels from aching while standing up for long periods of time I'm a cashier and I'm on my feet 8+ hours at a time. My heels always kill me after an hour of standing, and they ache all day after my shift. What can I do to prevent that?"
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"A way to relieve the pressure would be to bend your knees slightly so they aren't locked which in turn will also push your weight more onto the balls of your feet versus your heels. \n\nAnother solution could be to buy padded sole inserts to help with the issue",
"Make a request to your boss for them to purchase you a floor mat to stand on so that you don't have to open a workers comp case later on. ",
"I'm a Pharmacy Tech. The best shoes I've worn are Cross Trainers or shoes with a slightly higher heel. You should also try to have more than one pair of work shoes. Giving your shoes a day off will help keep the cushioning from breaking down.",
"I would also recommend superfeet insoles, which you can get at REI or any shoe store that promotes well-supporting shoes.\n\nAnother thing that will help is to tightly lace up your shoes - this ensures that your body weight is more distributed throughout your feet. ",
"Sit more? Might not be an option but that's how i solved my leg pain problems. Also try not to stand still, seems to help for whatever reason.",
"SKECHERS! The comfiest shoes ever. super thick memory foam insole that doesn't go dull after you've worn them a few times (like some shoes do). Loads of styles, too, so you can find something you can wear at work. I'm a street fundraiser on my feet all day and my feet feel great! :D",
"I walk a lot. I bought new hiking boots for weekend hikes, and the salesman talked me into buying \"superfeet\" insoles.\nI usually use the green ones since they fit in the shoes i have better. there are softer ones, but then you might need to buy a bigger size shoe. with the green ones, sometimes I have to loosen all of the laces a touch, but WOW! what a difference for my feet.\nthere is a lot of arch support, which really takes a lot of weight off of your heel, and it has a better heel cup, so the weight is distributed better. I think they're around $40-50, which isn't cheap, but for comfort 8 hours a day . .. that's $5 /hour for one day and free after that !",
"Get good shoes. I also work retail and invested in Clarks wavewalks for work specifically. go to a good store (not payless!), one that has knowledgable people to help you find the shoe that will work for your feet. they will probably be more money than you want to spend, but it will be a worth while investment. "
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"How to prevent junk mail (postal not email) Seriously in two weeks, the only thing I've gotten is ads, ads and more ads!",
"How to prevent junk mail (postal not email) Seriously in two weeks, the only thing I've gotten is ads, ads and more ads!",
"How to prevent junk mail (postal not email) Seriously in two weeks, the only thing I've gotten is ads, ads and more ads!"
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"It depends on what jurisdiction you live in, but a simple sign, even hand-made, reading \"No advertisement/junk mail\" will suffice. Depending on where you live, it may be illegal to leave junk mail in someone's mailbox if it's got such a sign placed on/by it.",
"I started sending the junkmail back to the company. I wait to collect a few bits from different companies, then i swap their own documents and send them back using their return postage. after a while, i'm sure they got tired of opening up other peoples mail and stopped sending me stuff. (or at least i'd like to hope) ",
"I sometimes enjoy the joke of it. I've been approved three times this week for auto cr"
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"Forgot someone's name? What can I do if I've forgotten someone's name? It's always awkward to ask someone what their name is.",
"Forgot someone's name? What can I do if I've forgotten someone's name? It's always awkward to ask someone what their name is.",
"Forgot someone's name? What can I do if I've forgotten someone's name? It's always awkward to ask someone what their name is.",
"Forgot someone's name? What can I do if I've forgotten someone's name? It's always awkward to ask someone what their name is.",
"Forgot someone's name? What can I do if I've forgotten someone's name? It's always awkward to ask someone what their name is.",
"Forgot someone's name? What can I do if I've forgotten someone's name? It's always awkward to ask someone what their name is.",
"Forgot someone's name? What can I do if I've forgotten someone's name? It's always awkward to ask someone what their name is.",
"Forgot someone's name? What can I do if I've forgotten someone's name? It's always awkward to ask someone what their name is."
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"\"I'm sorry, but I suck at remembering names. Please remind me what your name is.\"\n\nNo shame in asking",
"If you have someone nearby, something I like to do is introduce a friend to the person I just met so I hear them introduce themselves",
"Ask them about their name on Facebook, if they have a nickname or not, the way they spell their name, or make something up so u can see their ID ",
"When I meet someone and they introduce themselves I try to use the name in my next sentence. Ex: “my name is Jackie” I’d say “it’s nice to meet you Jackie.” It helps reinforce it. ",
"Imtroduce them to someone else you know. This way they are forced to say it in front of you. Works every time",
"For the future, remembering names is easier if you follow these two steps: 1) when meeting someone for the first time, make a conscious effort to actually listen to and remember their name, and 2) then try and picture new person holding hands with someone you already know with that same name. This has helped me for years. #1 is actually much harder than #2 because it is so easy to gloss over, especially when meeting a lot of new people at one time. ",
"\"Let me get your number in case I need to follow up with you on this. How do you spell your name? Last name I meant.\"",
"'I could never forget that smile, but your name has slipped my mind' any variation of it works quite well "
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"how to reduce light from electronics (power bar, computer, etc.) left on during the night in bedroom? Are there light-blocking stickers or something I can buy? Turning off all the things at my desk every night and turning them back on the next day is a hassle. ",
"how to reduce light from electronics (power bar, computer, etc.) left on during the night in bedroom? Are there light-blocking stickers or something I can buy? Turning off all the things at my desk every night and turning them back on the next day is a hassle. ",
"how to reduce light from electronics (power bar, computer, etc.) left on during the night in bedroom? Are there light-blocking stickers or something I can buy? Turning off all the things at my desk every night and turning them back on the next day is a hassle. ",
"how to reduce light from electronics (power bar, computer, etc.) left on during the night in bedroom? Are there light-blocking stickers or something I can buy? Turning off all the things at my desk every night and turning them back on the next day is a hassle. ",
"how to reduce light from electronics (power bar, computer, etc.) left on during the night in bedroom? Are there light-blocking stickers or something I can buy? Turning off all the things at my desk every night and turning them back on the next day is a hassle. ",
"how to reduce light from electronics (power bar, computer, etc.) left on during the night in bedroom? Are there light-blocking stickers or something I can buy? Turning off all the things at my desk every night and turning them back on the next day is a hassle. "
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"Sharpie if you don't care about ever seeing the light again or Dry Erase Marker if you want to be able to go back to full brightness.",
"Just use electrical tape. \nThe bass control knob in my car has a bright blue LED that likes to blind me when I'm driving at night. Some electrical tape fixed that problem real fast. ",
"Put socks on them. Next day, depending on your financial situation, put them on again or put them in the laundry basket.",
"Other than electrical tape, i like using aluminum foil \"sink repair\" tape to cover stuff. The adhesive has less tendency to become a sticky mess when I'm trying to remove it in the future. \n\n... I suppose plain tinfoil would work as well if just covering something e.g. charging stuff on a table. ",
"I use blue-tac to cover any LEDs that are small and sticky notes or things like books to cover any larger lights.\n\nAlso you should consider an extension lead with a switch so that you only need to flick one switch and everything is off, remember that devices left on all the time cost a fortune after a few days. Maybe you are lucky enough not to pay the bills but it's a good habit to turn everything off so that when you do pay the bills you aren't paying for waste",
"I don't like putting tape on my things so I sit stuff in front of it or conceal it in some way.\n\nLike my power strip is snugged in behind the TV, a decorative wooden box blocks the front lights. The power brick for my console is behind a cloth bin on the bottom of the shelf. That sort of thing. It doesn't look like crap either. "
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"How to get rid of hiccups easily. Ever since I was a young child I have gotten hiccups A LOT. I have tried many many ways to try and get rid of them but none of them ever work. \nI was wondering if anyone had a different way that works most times!\n\nThanks very much for any advice!",
"How to get rid of hiccups easily. Ever since I was a young child I have gotten hiccups A LOT. I have tried many many ways to try and get rid of them but none of them ever work. \nI was wondering if anyone had a different way that works most times!\n\nThanks very much for any advice!",
"How to get rid of hiccups easily. Ever since I was a young child I have gotten hiccups A LOT. I have tried many many ways to try and get rid of them but none of them ever work. \nI was wondering if anyone had a different way that works most times!\n\nThanks very much for any advice!",
"How to get rid of hiccups easily. Ever since I was a young child I have gotten hiccups A LOT. I have tried many many ways to try and get rid of them but none of them ever work. \nI was wondering if anyone had a different way that works most times!\n\nThanks very much for any advice!",
"How to get rid of hiccups easily. Ever since I was a young child I have gotten hiccups A LOT. I have tried many many ways to try and get rid of them but none of them ever work. \nI was wondering if anyone had a different way that works most times!\n\nThanks very much for any advice!",
"How to get rid of hiccups easily. Ever since I was a young child I have gotten hiccups A LOT. I have tried many many ways to try and get rid of them but none of them ever work. \nI was wondering if anyone had a different way that works most times!\n\nThanks very much for any advice!"
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"Works every time: inhale until it is physically impossible to inhale anymore. Swallow then hold your breath for longer than the frequency of the hiccups. Enjoy not having hiccups anymore. ",
"This will work every time if you do it right: draw your breath through your nostrils using your diaphragm. Don't suck air using your nostrils, let air be drawn through them as you stretch your diaphragm. As you're doing this try to catch the next hiccup and flex your abs as hard as you can at the same time as the hiccup. It requires some focus, but it will definitely work.",
"I'll try not to get too pseudo-science on you, but I treat hiccups like any other muscle spasm- by stretching the muscle that's in spasms.\n\nFirst, breathe in deeply but not quickly. Then, \"sip\" in more air, wait a few seconds, and sip more. Continue this until you're out of breath. Do not go so far as to pass out, but you should make an effort to hold your breath.\n\nLastly, do not exhale explosively. Steadily and forcefully if need be, but not explosively.\n\nSometimes I have to do it two or three times but it works.",
"breathe into a plastic or paper bag for a minute or so until you start to hyperventilate works for me every time, most of the time.",
"My go to cure is to get a spoon, some lemon or lime juice (has to be sour!) and sugar. Put 2 parts sugar to 1 part juice until the sugar is soggy but not dissolved. Then eat it. I find the combo of the lemon juice + the sugar works 98% of the time. ",
"I suck a popsicle. It's the only thing that's worked for me more than once, and it's way more pleasant than all those other cures. Try to get the kind without chunks so your steady breathing won't be distracted by a bunch of chomping.",
"Every trick for curing hiccups is a placebo. Just try concentrating on not hiccuping (or do whatever you believe stops hiccups)."
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"How to reduce dishsoap waste at work? Some coworkers use excessive amount of dishsoap. Apart from dilluting the dishsoap with water in another dishsoap container, what are your tips? I don't know the culprits, we're too many on our floor.\n\n",
"How to reduce dishsoap waste at work? Some coworkers use excessive amount of dishsoap. Apart from dilluting the dishsoap with water in another dishsoap container, what are your tips? I don't know the culprits, we're too many on our floor.\n\n",
"How to reduce dishsoap waste at work? Some coworkers use excessive amount of dishsoap. Apart from dilluting the dishsoap with water in another dishsoap container, what are your tips? I don't know the culprits, we're too many on our floor.\n\n",
"How to reduce dishsoap waste at work? Some coworkers use excessive amount of dishsoap. Apart from dilluting the dishsoap with water in another dishsoap container, what are your tips? I don't know the culprits, we're too many on our floor.\n\n",
"How to reduce dishsoap waste at work? Some coworkers use excessive amount of dishsoap. Apart from dilluting the dishsoap with water in another dishsoap container, what are your tips? I don't know the culprits, we're too many on our floor.\n\n",
"How to reduce dishsoap waste at work? Some coworkers use excessive amount of dishsoap. Apart from dilluting the dishsoap with water in another dishsoap container, what are your tips? I don't know the culprits, we're too many on our floor.\n\n",
"How to reduce dishsoap waste at work? Some coworkers use excessive amount of dishsoap. Apart from dilluting the dishsoap with water in another dishsoap container, what are your tips? I don't know the culprits, we're too many on our floor.\n\n",
"How to reduce dishsoap waste at work? Some coworkers use excessive amount of dishsoap. Apart from dilluting the dishsoap with water in another dishsoap container, what are your tips? I don't know the culprits, we're too many on our floor.\n\n",
"How to reduce dishsoap waste at work? Some coworkers use excessive amount of dishsoap. Apart from dilluting the dishsoap with water in another dishsoap container, what are your tips? I don't know the culprits, we're too many on our floor.\n\n"
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"I know you mentioned diluting the soap already, but you should get a foaming dispenser and use a concentrated formula of dishsoap. I use Dawn's (the blue original kind) and each refill I probably only fill up a 1/8th of the bottle with actual soap.",
"Get a super tiny bottle from the dollar store and only keep that out. Keep the big bottle hidden. People are less likely to use a bunch if they think it's almost out.\n\n*source - I have a super cheap accountant at my work who hates spending money on ANYTHING, so in order to avoid her wrath we come up with creative ways to stretch the use of stuff.",
"As someone who buys the dish soap in a government office, I would advise you to just bring your own private stash. Fill a travel-sized shampoo bottle with your soap, bring it to work, and stash it (and a clean sponge) in your desk.",
"Put zip-tie(s) on the pump shaft so only a limited amount comes out. This won't stop multiple pumps though.\n\n",
"I read somewhere to put dish soap in an old olive oil bottle so that you only get a couple drops each time. Haven't tried it though.",
"At my work they have a sponge /dispenser that stores soap in the handle and only releases a little bit directly into the sponge. This seems to work because it's kept in a glass next to the sink and is always sudsy. Not sure if it'll save money in the long run but my company is pretty big.",
"Accountability works. Create a system where everyone pays when the soap is out. Create a list of everyone. Once people realize how fast the supply depleted they will find the waste and curb it.",
"I'd recommend cultivating a work environment in which they care about their job. Pay them a living wage, treat them with respect, etc. Then, when you teach them a way to wash dishes without wasting excess soap, they'll listen!",
"My suggestion is to try to have a bit more going on in your life, so you are less troubled by insignificant things like this."
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"How to get static out of a weighted blanket My dilemma is this: I have a very staticky 30lb weighted blanket thanks to the fact that I didn't let the dryer get all the static out of it's cotton cover during one wash of it and now all the static from that cover has been transferred to the weighted blanket which is now perpetually staticky. I can't put this blanket in the dryer with dryer sheets because it's too heavy so I'm wondering if there are any other ways to get the static out of it manually",
"How to get static out of a weighted blanket My dilemma is this: I have a very staticky 30lb weighted blanket thanks to the fact that I didn't let the dryer get all the static out of it's cotton cover during one wash of it and now all the static from that cover has been transferred to the weighted blanket which is now perpetually staticky. I can't put this blanket in the dryer with dryer sheets because it's too heavy so I'm wondering if there are any other ways to get the static out of it manually"
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"You can run the dryer sheet over the surface of the blanket (also works great on winter hair frizz) or spray it with an anti static spray.",
"humidity, natural, spray bottle or hung in bathroom while showering.\n\ngrounding, maybe run tinfoil touching sink or stove over it."
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"Improve spelling I'm a professional and generally considered reasonably intelligent. But all my life I've sucked at spelling. I know this so I'm careful to make sure everything is thoroughly spell checked. But the other day I was in a meeting (which included my boss) and a hand written request I'd submitted was projected up for everyone to see (no malice, it was just bad luck). It contains two basic and glaring spelling mistakes and I was mortified. People judge. Anyway, I decided that instead of trying to cover it up, I'd try and actually improve. Any tips? ",
"Improve spelling I'm a professional and generally considered reasonably intelligent. But all my life I've sucked at spelling. I know this so I'm careful to make sure everything is thoroughly spell checked. But the other day I was in a meeting (which included my boss) and a hand written request I'd submitted was projected up for everyone to see (no malice, it was just bad luck). It contains two basic and glaring spelling mistakes and I was mortified. People judge. Anyway, I decided that instead of trying to cover it up, I'd try and actually improve. Any tips? ",
"Improve spelling I'm a professional and generally considered reasonably intelligent. But all my life I've sucked at spelling. I know this so I'm careful to make sure everything is thoroughly spell checked. But the other day I was in a meeting (which included my boss) and a hand written request I'd submitted was projected up for everyone to see (no malice, it was just bad luck). It contains two basic and glaring spelling mistakes and I was mortified. People judge. Anyway, I decided that instead of trying to cover it up, I'd try and actually improve. Any tips? ",
"Improve spelling I'm a professional and generally considered reasonably intelligent. But all my life I've sucked at spelling. I know this so I'm careful to make sure everything is thoroughly spell checked. But the other day I was in a meeting (which included my boss) and a hand written request I'd submitted was projected up for everyone to see (no malice, it was just bad luck). It contains two basic and glaring spelling mistakes and I was mortified. People judge. Anyway, I decided that instead of trying to cover it up, I'd try and actually improve. Any tips? ",
"Improve spelling I'm a professional and generally considered reasonably intelligent. But all my life I've sucked at spelling. I know this so I'm careful to make sure everything is thoroughly spell checked. But the other day I was in a meeting (which included my boss) and a hand written request I'd submitted was projected up for everyone to see (no malice, it was just bad luck). It contains two basic and glaring spelling mistakes and I was mortified. People judge. Anyway, I decided that instead of trying to cover it up, I'd try and actually improve. Any tips? "
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"What I found worked for me, was reading more. More specifically, books. Reading allowed me to get a 'feel' for how words were spelled because I had seen them so often and because of that, I was able to quickly pick up on misspelled words. ",
"Change your word processor to only mark misspellings and not to automatically change them.\nIf you mistype a word, immediately delete the entire word and type it again. This will more closely link the word and correct spelling than if you wait to the end and go through with the spell checker or even manually through looking for the marked misspellings. \nThis should still help with your handwritten work ",
"Grammar tip: the difference between a/an is the sound that the next word makes. Starts with a consonant sound: a. A vowel sound: an.\n\nA fox. An egg.",
"So as people have recommended already reading is a great first step. It will familiarise your language with you to the point where it becomes second nature, just like breathing. \n\nThis progression happens very organically once you read your preferred literature. I'm sure you're proficient in punctuation, so just like how our minds envisage the pace, flow, and intonation of a character through how their dialogue is punctuated within the book, your mind will also envisage how the character enunciates their words. With more common words, your mind will automatically provide you with the default pronunciation for your mental narration, but when you come across words you've never seen or heard before I would definitely recommend looking them up online with a pronunciation dictionary. This will give you confidence and once you're confident you know the pronunciation of words your mind will automatically start reading and breaking down the words you read via their newly-learned and proper pronunciations, which in turn will act as a super-useful mnemonic for remembering how to spell a word. Even if it's bizarrely spelt, having the memory to know that its distinct pronunciation may contradict its conventional spelling is enough most of the time to remind you how to spell it. \n\nOnce you've acquired a collection of words you've become accustomed to, you can go into online forums and message boards (I go into chatrooms) and put your theory to practice. This is how I learnt. I used MSN Messenger as a DIY tutor back in its heyday. Practising acts as a constant and subconscious revisional tool to condition your mind to spell and punctuate a certain way, until any other ways starts to look and and feel noticeably wrong. The moment you realise you're doing something wrong you can teach yourself how to fix it. There's nothing worse than making mistakes and not being aware you're even making them, like with people mispronouncing 90% of the words they've never actually heard outside of the books they've read before. ",
"Look for lists of commonly misspelled words. Study them. Memorize them if you have to. A good typing tutorial game or program can also help you. They score on accuracy and speed."
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"I always ended up stabbing myself with a mechanical pencil in a painfully desperate attempt to stay awake during class. The results were mixed.",
"Im just curious but have you been dressing in very warm clothes to your classes? \n\nI've found that when I'm bundled up in sweathsirts and sweatpants I get drowsy very fast... but taking a layer off and letting yourself get a little chilly is so revitalizing.\n\nGive it a shot.",
"I think I am prediabetic, because whenever I eat any sort of carb (bread, pasta, rice, anything with sugar in it) I get extremely tired. Even half a cup of juice is enough to knock me out. It took me a long time to realize this correlation because I never suspected that I'd have this issue given how healthy I am.\n\n\n\nMaybe you suffer from the same thing? Try to limit your food before class to non-carbs for a while, and see if that changes anything. Personally I eat eggs for breakfast. No toast, no sugar with my drink, and no fruit. Also, eating large meals can also make you feel tired even if you are not diabetic at all, because your body wants to \"rest and digest.\" \n\n\nI have found that bringing a bottle of water to sip on helps. I have this water bottle I got from walmart that allows you to sip from a straw type of thing that comes with the bottle, similar to [this](http://www.walmart.com/ip/Sawyer-Inline-Water-Filter-with-34-Ounce-Bottle/8283710?ci_sku=8283710&ci_src=14110944&sourceid=1500000000000003260410). It's a lot more effective at keeping me awake than water bottles that I have to lift up to drink from. I can just sit there and take sips every few minutes. It helps keep you awake.\n\n\nHow much sleep do you get, and is it REGULAR? If you get 5 hours one night and 9 hours the next, and it's constantly fluctuating like that, you might be tired from \"sleep debt,\" which is literally what it sounds like. You can google it for more info. \n\n\nI found that after I started sleeping a regular 7+ hours a day, I am able to stay awake. I used to think that the amount of sleep I got woudln't affect my ability to stay in class, too, until I found out that the trick was getting sleep regularly. Then I was never tired. \n\n\nAlternatively, if there's nothing wrong with your ability to metabolize sugar, as in, sugar doesn't make you sleepy at all, you could bring snacks like nuts, trail mix, dried fruit, or maybe fresh fruit for class. \n\n\nSometimes minimal texting can keep me awake. A full blown conversation will distract you entirely, but a text here and there is stimulating/interesting enough to wake me up. \n\n\nHow do you get to class? Maybe if you got to class in a physically stimulating way (biking, walking) it would get your blood pumping and keep you awake for SLIGHTLY LONGER before you fall asleep, since for the first 10 minutes of class you are still energized from the physical activity.\n\n\nI also find that listening to music with 1 earbud helps to keep me awake sometimes. \n\n\nIf you have a break between lectures, stand up and move around, don't just continue to sit there. Walking for just a minute, and getting the blood flowing through your veins helps a lot. \n\n\nLast tip I have: I often find that I get sleepy if I fall behind on my academics and don't understand the material at all. What IMMENSELY helped with my ability to stay awake in class is to quickly look over the material the night before (aka pre-reading) so the next day I KNOW what's going along and I can follow along with the lecture. It's a lot more interesting that way, and it prepares you for the exam much better since lecture will be a sort of \"mini-review\" with the addition of new details. By the time lecture comes, your mind has already seen the material twice and you are on your way to a much easier time when studying for the test.",
"I used to do this too. \n\nYou could have a sleep disorder.\n\n1) Go to your primary care physician.\n\n2) Tell them how you are tired no matter how much sleep you get (Give examples)\n\n3) They might make you go get a sleep study. These are no biggy at all.\n\n\nI had sleep apnea and since I got diagnosed etc I have been feeling a lot better. Feel free to msg me any questions.\n\n",
"I once knew a trucker, he said to stay awake on long drives sometimes they would roll the window down a crack and hold onto a $100 bill outside.",
"Actively DON'T TAKE NOTES!\n\nThis is the worst. Blindly copying down what a prof is saying is repetitive and aggravates the problem. Better is to think about what the prof is saying, and make a few scribbles to yourself answering questions like: \n\n1. What is a corollary to this statement?\n2. What cool inventions could give rise or have appeared because of this statement?\n3. Is this fact a) trivial? b) average? c) insightful? d) genius?\n4. ...\n5. ...\n6. ... you catch my drift.\n\n*Actively* thinking about what is happening in the lecture is far more valuable than passively taking notes.",
"Drink water. It'll keep you awake if you space it out through the lecture. Also, if your teacher is looking around the room for someone to call on (and you don't know the answer), take out your water bottle and sip from it. They'll pass you over for some other unfortunate, less hydrated student.",
"If all else fails, go see your doctor. If you're in school/college/grad school etc., you are young enough where this shouldn't be an issue for people your age. Couldn't hurt to get checked out. \n\nAlso, exercise helps me sleep and keep my sleep schedule regular. ",
"Bring your laptop to class and split the screen - one side of notes, and one with the wikipedia page open on the notes itself. If you find yourself getting drowsy by the monotone of the speaker, zone out and start reading your wiki page and weblog through the topic at hand. You'll find weird facts that are still relevant to the lecture, so you won't be missing anything.",
"If you slouch, you're restricting your breathing, meaning less air makes it to your muscles and brain, meaning you get sleepy. If you sit up, you'll have an easier time staying awake since you'll be getting more oxygen.\n\nAlso, bring a bottle of water with you to class. Drinking will help you wake up a little.",
"I went through Basic Combat Training for the army about a hear ago, and contrary to popular belief there is a lot of classroom time. About a third of my time was spent in a desk taking notes off of a powerpoint. If i didn't stay awake during class i was sure to get an ass chewing.\nWhenever I felt myself dosing off I would take hand sanitizer, rub it in my hands, and then take a big whiff through my nose. The sting in your nostrils will be sure to wake you up for a little bit. Squirt, rub, and repeat when necessary.\nCAUTION: To be used moderately. I do not condone huffing alcohol products to get high... Often.",
"Stretch for 20 minutes or so before bed if you can and try to exercise during the day. It doesn't need to be 45 minutes at a gym, just try to stay active. Stay hydrated. Try to keep a regular eating schedule, stop eating before you are full, stay away from highly processed food ( I know, college, good luck ) and if you need caffeine, stick to coffee/tea. \n\nSit near the front, take notes, sit near someone attractive. Also, get as much sex as you can, it keeps the mind and body motivated. ",
"Here's what you do (if the lecture hall/classroom will accommodate this)...\n\nWhen you feel yourself nodding off in your seat, extend your feet outwards so your knees aren't bent that much anymore. Do so until your feet are about a foot off of the ground. Hold this position.\n\nHere is how it works:\n\nFirst, your legs use a large portion of blood, so by flexing your quadriceps your heart rate will elevate slightly. \n\nAlso, this position gives you something to momentarily change your focus, which stimulates a little brain activity.\n\nLastly if you do fall asleep in this position, your feet hit the floor which will wake you back up!!\n\nI realize you may look like an idiot for a few minutes when you have your legs sticking out, but it beats looking like an idiot who fell asleep in class. Hope this helps.",
"Getting lots of sleep is important, but I know sometimes that's just not possible. For those days when you just can't stay awake:\n\nDrink water. Ice cold if you can. The cold will help you stay awake, as will having something to sip on.\n\nAs a girl with long hair, I almost always have a ponytail holder on my wrist. When I can't stay awake, a few little snaps with the elastic band usually wake me up. ",
"A cup of water with either ice or carbonation, or both. The best is soda water with ice. The ice keeps the water cold, and slows down your drinking. The carbonation slows down your drinking even more. With both, and drinking casually, it should take you 45 minutes to drink about 22 ounces. The activity of constantly putting cold water in your mouth keeps your whole head cool and you awake.",
"Try to predict what the professor is going to say next in your head. This way your brain will keep processing the subject matter at hand which will prevent you from sleeping as well as give you a better understanding of what is being taught.",
"Lollipops. Friend of mine used to have to drive a lot at night and he said lollipops helped him stay awake better than anything else.\n",
"Coffee\n\nBe actively engaged in said lesson/lecture (if allowed)\n\nTake notes\n\nAsk questions \n\nFish oil + vitamin d3 (5,000 iu)\n\nHealthy foods\n\nCurious mindset",
"This helped me during lectures. When you start to drift off, roll your wrists and clench/stretch your fingers. Then roll your ankles and clench your toes. Then do it together while flexing your leg muscles. I find I start to fall asleep after my legs and arms have already gone. It's a temporary fix, but in desperate situations it helped me.",
"I know this sounds dumb, but actually prepare for class. Write down questions from the text and then try to answer them with the notes from the lecture. It provides your brain with something to do instead of passively listening. \n\nAlso, and I know I don't have the link, but drink small amounts of caffeine throughout the day, rather than one big binge. So, tea=good! \n\nI agree with the other posters here too, good sleep is also great. ",
"For my two hour lectures I normally put in one headphone and listen to my favorite music on really low volume...obviously this can become a problem if you focus too much on the music but having some wubbly background beats always keeps me awake.",
"*I used to fall asleep in class a lot.* In fact, I was notorious for it. It wasn't particularly hazardous to my health until I started getting sleepy while driving in traffic, so the stakes were higher.\n\n* If you're already sleepy, [coffee will not work](http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/kypvd/eli5_why_do_so_many_brands_of_energy_drinks_and/c2odla4).\n* If you're in college, bring your laptop. Don't play games, but try reading reddit or wikipedia in small bursts when your mind starts to wander. You might not be able to get away with this in high school.\n* If you only have access to pen and paper, [start doodling](http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/doodlerecall/). It's been proven to enhance memory recall, among other things.\n* Buy an ice-cold **can** of soda. (Cans work better than bottles for what I'm about to describe here.) Wipe off any residue on a shirt (ewww) and then... **HOLD THAT CAN TO YOUR FACE**. This has saved my life on a number of occasions and I have always considered it my Nuclear Option.\n\nYou could talk to a doctor about drugs such as [Provigil \\(modafinil\\)](http://www.salon.com/2004/11/12/provigil/singleton/) that keep you awake, I've actually seen *coupons* floating around on the internet for this shit. Explaining that I tended to fall asleep while driving was a pretty good justification for me, since car accidents are hazardous to my health. Not recommended if you have heart issues.",
"Sleep above all but when that isn't an option stand in the back during lecture. Your professors will respect your will to stay awake.",
"Record three hours or so of lectures.\n\nPick a Saturday, and play them back all in one go, get someone to check on you every half an hour, if you're asleep they should give you a slap to wake you up sharply, if you're awake you get a small reward of some kind.\n\nRepeat as required.\n\nIt's crude but highly effective.",
"Raise your hand. Ask a question or respond in some manner, the professor will naturally start to pay more attention to you and make more eye contact, even if they don't call on you or expect anything further. It's their usual response and if the fear of the professor watching you as you fall asleep isn't enough to keep you awake, you're probably better off not being in class at all.",
"One thing I did occasionally was sit in the very back row and when I started getting sleepy, stand up and pace back and forth a little. Or just stand and listen. Though, the rooms where I did this had a lot of room behind the last row of desks.",
"I slice apples or carrots VERY thinly, so I end up with chips. I take these and constantly eat them. They usually last a whole class period with some to spare. It's a great way to stay healthy and awake!",
"Honestly, it sounds lame but sit in the first few rows. You're automatically more engaged and since the professor is so close, you'll be more conscious about how your attention is perceived.",
"Go to the gym; do a short but intense round of weight lifting. Then eat breakfast. Then talk in class.",
"Former long time sinner of staying up way too late here.\n\nYou know how sleepy you sometimes feel after a good dinner? Warm lunches can cause the same trouble. [Random duck duck go link on subject.](http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/sleep-topics/food-and-sleep) Get some salad or sandwiches in stead. \n\nIf you do however feel like having a nap during lecture, move to the back row and stand up. It may look odd, but it does work wonders. \n\nBut really. Get some self discipline if you're having trouble getting to bed. Set an reminder on your cell phone to chime at the same time every evening, and don't open another cursed reddit link in your browser after it goes off. \n\n",
"Exercise a bit before class. Nothing extreme, just enough to let your body know it's wake up time. I'd rank this #3 after sleep and low carb breakfast (at least for me).",
"Drink caffeine or lots of water. You won't drift off to sleep with a full bladder.\n\nI also use this trick, as a deep sleeper, if I need to grab one quick 1.5 hour sleep cycle. I usually sleep through my alarm if tired, so I drink a ton of water before dozing off and nature makes sure I wake up when my alarm goes off so I can relieve myself.",
"have you tried taking classes in things you are interested in? I find that it is trivially easy to stay awake when I am fascinated or learning something I think is valuable.",
"Without a doubt Sunflower Seeds. It keeps me awake no matter how tired I am or how boring the lecture is. Seriously try it, like right now",
"The only three things that I have found to be working for me are:\n\n* Participate, ask questions, answer the lecturer's questions\n* Chat a little bit with the person sitting next to me. It doesn't have to be a long chat that disrupts the class or distract you from the lecture, but it usually shocks me back into a very awake state\n* Basically anything that engages my mind more intensively. Usually I feel sleepy when the lecture becomes dull, so I've taken up drawing, or doodling a cool architecture for a research project, or anything I can put my mind 100% on for a few minutes and then go back to the lecture.",
"If you start to feel sleepy, stand up in the back of the room. Normally the first time you do this the teacher will give you a weird look, but just tell him or her that you're starting to get tired and you need to stand in order to stay awake. Once you feel awake again, sit back down. Works every time",
"I've found drinking water keeps me awake, maybe take a bottle and take a gulp when you begin to feel sleepy.",
"Here's what I do, works for me:\nWake up, take a deep breath, get out of bed and start moving around. Start the shower on hot, then slowly make it colder towards the end of your shower. \n\nIf I'm in class and falling asleep, I usually just try to drink water to keep myself awake.",
"Have you ever been checked out for any issues with your concentration? I had undiagnosed sleep apnea for many years and would be VERY tired during lectures, while driving, really anything monotonous. Since I got my CPAP machine, I am one of the most alert folks around. Changed my life.",
"Go somewhere where you won't distract anyone and take your notes standing up. In boot camp that's the only way I stayed awake for most of my classes.",
"Eat a well-balanced healthy breakfast. I used to fall asleep all the time. For example, I eat about a cup of oat groats with hemp seeds and pomegranate seeds. Then I eat a handful of raw almonds. I have a cup of tea (no milk or sugar) and an apple on my way out. This will really give your brain a ton of energy and you'll only need a small lunch. It also regulates your bowels like you wouldn't believe.\n",
"Chewing gum. For some reason trident mango gum keeps me noticeably more alert, no other gums I tried do that",
"Bring water with you, always. When you feel yourself dozing, take a sip but don't swallow. The act of keeping the water in your mouth will keep you from falling asleep, and if you do the water will drip down your chin waking you up.",
"Be genuinely interested in the material.\n\nTake notes by hand. If you're finding yourself bored, sketch in the margins with a problem you're trying to solve or something you're trying to design. I studied architecture, so if I found geography 150 to be slow I'd just work out my studio project in the margins.",
"you have to keep telling yourself the subject is interesting and you WANT to learn, now matter how boring it actually is. This works with anything.",
"hold a pen or pencil slightly above a sheet of paper. If you drop the pen it'll wake you up enough to notice that you're falling asleep",
"do what they teach you in the military. If you feel like falling asleep is iminent, go to the rear of the classroom, take whatever notetaking device you have with yout, and stand for a while. Usually professors or instructors will take this as a sign of respect that you are at least making an effort to stay awake (and you can explain it to them if you like) and they should not have an issue with it. You are more likely to not fall asleep while standing, although it CAN happen, don't lock your knees ;)",
"When you start to feel sleepy, try to make yourself aware of sitting in the chair. Feel it conform to your legs and back (and fix your damn posture).\n\nIt's weird, but it would work for me in college.",
"Whats your diet like? Coffee is bad idea you should have a really healthy diet and youll never get tired. ",
"Typical understimulation. Your brain is used to processing a lot of information be it sound, video etc and during a lexture the difference is so vast compared to last night that your brain thinks its sleepy time. Limit the amount of media intake for a while and use some of the suggestions in here.",
"Tug on your earlobes and drink a ton of icewater during class. Drinking a lot of water, especially really cold water, helps you wake up, as does tugging on your earlobes.",
"Tips I've found: \n* Stay warm. If you don't want to wear a thick coat, try a hat. \n* Sit in the back of the class, and stand up. Most teachers would rather see this than a sleeping student, especially if you warn them first \n* Drink something. I find a beverage helps a lot. \n* Take notes if you can, or just doodle a little bit. \n\nAs far as getting better sleep, try these: \n* Exercise an hour before you go to sleep. I've found that this helps \"tire me out\", and I sleep more deeply as a result. \n* put a fan blowing air on your head. Cooling your head helps about 85% of insomniacs sleep more deeply, and has helped me immensely. ",
"Tickle the roof of your mouth with your tongue when you start to drift off. Tickles like crazy, keeps me awake.",
"This one really works for me: Ask an embarrassing question intentionally. Like, something the professor said a moment ago but you missed because you were dozing. You might quickly look like the dumbest kid in the class, but the embarrassment instantly wakes you.",
"This helps me out before. Raise your hand and volunteer in class. It forces you to think and if you get nervous answering questions in class, your nerves will definitely jolt you wake and get your blood pumping.",
"Teach the class. I find it very difficult to fall asleep when I am standing in front of a class full of students, even if they are asleep.",
"Take notes. I write down whatever the teacher says, even if it's irrelevant. Careful not to fuck up though, cause then when you're studying for an exam, you'll have to weed out the bullshit wall of text to get to the meat of the notes you took, so you need to be efficient. You really need to be organized though cause if you mess it up, it'll take you way more time to read through the notes when studying for the final. Also, if you know more than one languages, fool around a bit and write in another language. I find it amusing when my friends take my notes and end up seeing a bunch of languages they do not recognize. \n\nIn the end, what you want to do is keep your brain occupied and running. Only listening while you're holding your head with one hand against your desk will not help. ",
"Smelling saltsor smelling ammonia.... I've never tried this during class but that will definitely work",
"Personal experience here. \n\nTo wake yourself up if you're drifting off hold a pen in one hand, when you start to drop off you'll drop the pen which will wake you up!\n\nWhat worked better for me was a goo sleep pattern. I always try to wake and sleep at the same time each day. It really works!",
"Paint eyes onto the outside of your eyelids. That way, people will think you're awake, while you actually are catching up on well needed sleep. In reality, you're probably not missing much in the lecture anyway",
"My favourite way to do it, if the chairs aren't fixed to the tables: balance on the two back legs. If you start to fall asleep, your brain will wake you up to prevent you from falling.",
"IDK if this will work for you because im in highschool. \nWhat gets me to wake up, is if I actively participate. I raise my hand, I ask questions, and the simple act of speech usually starts to wake me up.",
"I've got a few methods I use, since this happens to me too.\n\n-Drink heavily caffeinated beverages before class (not the best option, but it works).\n\n-Keep a sketchpad, draw whatever comes to mind, whether its ponies, robots, or your teacher/professor.\n\n-Hold a little weight of sorts tied to your finger. If you doze off and your grip relaxes, the weight will fall and tug your finger, which could very easily pull you back into consciousness.\n\n-Get a buddy who's aware of the situation and can help you when you start falling asleep.\n\nI can probably think of more ideas myself, but I've gotta get to class right now.",
"I would go for normalizing sleeping habits. Go to sleep so you get 8 hours and wake up at least 2 hours before the class (if the class is a morning one) so you'll be awake long before arriving. If you body is used to a repeating sleep schedule you'll do better at not crashing during class. This was also mentioned in a post about regulating your sleep schedule but get the sun in your eyes when you wake up if possible. It does quite a bit to your brain when you see the sun at the start of your day.",
"I used to have this problem, then I started eating breakfast again and all was good.\n\nmake sure you eat something before you go to class, even something as small as a granola bar. ",
"I occasionally have this problem during my 3 hour lectures. If it got really bad (like my head constantly nodding forward), I'd excuse myself as if to go to the bathroom and do a few laps up and down the stairs to get my blood pumping. It always works! ",
"I had a class last year that everyone (including me) constantly fell asleep in. It's really weird, because I get insomnia on a very regular basis and it usually takes me a long time to fall asleep, but in this particular class I'd always get incredibly sleepy. Maybe it was because it was a small class with a lot of people in it or something, or maybe it was a government conspiracy (probably).\n\nAnyway, I used to ask to be excused every now and then and go to the vending machine to get some coke/a chocolate bar. The sugar would wake me up a lot of the time.",
"I fell asleep every day in college, whether I was enjoying the class or not. Sleeping longer at night didn't do anything for me. What ended up working was getting a 20 oz. coffee in the morning and drinking it through the first class. This would keep me alert until about halfway through the second class, and I would have a Monster drink with me to keep me alert for the rest of the class. I think I spent more on energy drinks/coffee per semester than on textbooks.",
"I can see several possibilities for why you fall asleep in class.\n* Your diet induces sleepiness.\n* You are not actually as well rested as you believe.\n* You have an inconsistent sleep schedule.\n* Your class is not relevant to you, or you don't know why it is relevant.\n* Your judge whether an activity is worthwhile solely by how entertaining it is, thus excluding unentertaining but useful actions.",
"Have mints that actually contain wintergreen. It will most definitely keep you up. While at the Russian Academy over the summer, I kept falling asleep no matter how hard I tried, eventually, the professor gave me a pack of mints, and since then they've always kept me up. I had tried drinking water and chewing gum, but I ended up almost choking in my sleep on the gum. ",
"Exercise, use your schools rec center and do 3 45-60 min workouts every week! You'll sleep better at night and have a bit more energy in the day! Also check what you are eating. Junk food = lazy & tired!",
"Exercise just before class. I always cycle there, and I *never* get sleepy any more. Quite the opposite.",
"Drink something. It doesn't have to be coffee. There's a vending machine right outside my lecture hall, so whenever I'm feeling drowsy I just take a swig of Dr. Pepper.",
"Drink some coffee gradually in a thermos and simply take the best notes you can. They both help to distract you from feeling the urge to sleep.",
"Don't plant your feet on the ground. Keep them hovered slightly off the floor. It's a huge pain in the ass but you won't conk out. ",
"Bring something to drink, it doesn't have to be coffee, even water works well. The activity of sipping something helps immensely in experience. ",
"Bring a large bottle of cold water. Take a big drink every time you start to feel like you're about to pass out. \n\nMy friend also pops caffeine pills. I can't recommend that, but I can say that people do that, same with adderal. \n\nYou could see the school doctor maybe you have a sleep disorder like I did. The cold water trick worked for me, but if it didn't I would have gotten adderal. ",
"Best advice I can offer:\nBring an iPod and listen QUIETLY to music you know by heart. You'll end up focusing harder to listen to the prof, and you'll never have the distractions around you bother you.",
"Being in the military and getting minimal sleep I have found 2 methods that work well for me. \n\n1. Either drink coffee before class or water during class. Hydrating works well for me. \n\n2. Either chew gum or eat sunflower seeds during class. Sunflower seeds will naturally help you stay awake and they also give you something to do. ",
"Adderall. Suddenly class will become the most interesting thing in the world! Of course when you crash 4 hours later and want to kill yourself and then realize a few months down the road that you're a drug addict... you'll have a bigger problem. ",
"A good way to stay awake period is drink something cold, preferably apple juice or regular water. Apple juice will actually wake you up better than coffee will, but it usually has a lot of sugar, so water is a healthier choice.\n\nWhen I know I'm going to be working long hours or haven't gotten any sleep, I half freeze a bottle of water and bring it with me, and start sipping on it when I start to get tired. It works really well.",
"1.Don't rest your head on your hand, even for a second. \n\n2. Eat before class. As long as your body is actively digesting, it's a lot harder to fall asleep.\n\nHARDCORE MODE: Drink tons of coffee and water, staying on the verge of pissing yourself without relief for hours. That way, if you fall asleep, you'll piss yourself and the laughter will wake you up.",
"i work at night. when im feeling tired close to the time i have to go to work let's say I leave at 7 at 5 i go to sleep for 30 minutes. and if you are really tired 30 min is all it takes to feel like you slept a whole night. if you need an alarm go [here](http://onlineclock.net/) open 1 or 2 windows and minimize them so that when you wake up you have to use your brain to look up the window and shut the alarm off. i do this every time i only sleep 5 hours or less on my bed time. it works every time",
"don't put your head down, don't wear warm clothing, chew gum, drink something sweet, sit in a hard chair.",
"Red bull always works for me. And if that doesn't work you can just straight-up freebase crack cocaine.",
"Important question: Is it only during class that you feel this way? Fluorescent lights can cause this feeling. Try wearing sunglasses indoors if possible, I think you might need special ones. An ex of mine had this problem, apparently it's real and can produce all kinds of weird symptoms, including coughing but usually sleepiness.",
"One word. Adderall. go see any psychiatrist, its impossible to pass their ADD tests. or if your an adult just ask for some uppers."
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"How to be more positive at work? The other day at work, one of my coworkers was ranting about how she didn't want to do something for work. She had a fairly valid excuse, but her words and negativity were over the top and just got to me. I later told my other coworker, we'll call her Jane, that maybe I would like my job more if people weren't so negative all the time. (I do like my job, but it is mentally and physically draining and people get burnt out fast.) I casually mentioned to Jane that we should make a pact to just be positive on the days we work together, even if it comes out in the form of sarcasm (for example, saying \"I am the definition of brilliant\" instead of \"Ugh, I'm such an idiot.\") She agreed to this and even mentioned it the next day (in the form of a [meme](https://www.instagram.com/p/B9IBiH5J8PV/?epik=dj0yJnU9UDFIX2RxQWcycU5IbmlvbS1fczlNSHRVYlRzblM5MFQmcD0wJm49UTdWVHRQSXkzeFZPSm50Zjl2WTB0ZyZ0PUFBQUFBR0ZqM1VB), so idk if that really counts lol), so I really want to do something to enforce the pact and not just let it get forgotten. Jane and I do have a tendency to talk about deep topics like the state of the world right now and HR issues and stuff. I don't really want to give those conversations up because I really value Jane's opinions and insight. I feel like I can learn a lot from her. (And I guess in a way, I want to be positive as a way to give back to her.)\n\nI was wondering what I can do to just make the mood more light. What kind of little things can we say or do to just get ourselves in a positive mind set and prevent burn out? Just between the 2 of us for now, but would love to spread throughout the workplace once we find something that works.\n\nI'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for from you all, but something did just come to mind that I could try. Kinda silly, but I know there are studies that show that scents like vanilla and lavender are calming and relaxing. I can't light a candle, but I'm sure I could figure something out. Jane is also really into things like crystals and stones for anxiety etc. I don't really believe in that kind of thing, but even a placebo effect could be nice.",
"How to be more positive at work? The other day at work, one of my coworkers was ranting about how she didn't want to do something for work. She had a fairly valid excuse, but her words and negativity were over the top and just got to me. I later told my other coworker, we'll call her Jane, that maybe I would like my job more if people weren't so negative all the time. (I do like my job, but it is mentally and physically draining and people get burnt out fast.) I casually mentioned to Jane that we should make a pact to just be positive on the days we work together, even if it comes out in the form of sarcasm (for example, saying \"I am the definition of brilliant\" instead of \"Ugh, I'm such an idiot.\") She agreed to this and even mentioned it the next day (in the form of a [meme](https://www.instagram.com/p/B9IBiH5J8PV/?epik=dj0yJnU9UDFIX2RxQWcycU5IbmlvbS1fczlNSHRVYlRzblM5MFQmcD0wJm49UTdWVHRQSXkzeFZPSm50Zjl2WTB0ZyZ0PUFBQUFBR0ZqM1VB), so idk if that really counts lol), so I really want to do something to enforce the pact and not just let it get forgotten. Jane and I do have a tendency to talk about deep topics like the state of the world right now and HR issues and stuff. I don't really want to give those conversations up because I really value Jane's opinions and insight. I feel like I can learn a lot from her. (And I guess in a way, I want to be positive as a way to give back to her.)\n\nI was wondering what I can do to just make the mood more light. What kind of little things can we say or do to just get ourselves in a positive mind set and prevent burn out? Just between the 2 of us for now, but would love to spread throughout the workplace once we find something that works.\n\nI'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for from you all, but something did just come to mind that I could try. Kinda silly, but I know there are studies that show that scents like vanilla and lavender are calming and relaxing. I can't light a candle, but I'm sure I could figure something out. Jane is also really into things like crystals and stones for anxiety etc. I don't really believe in that kind of thing, but even a placebo effect could be nice.",
"How to be more positive at work? The other day at work, one of my coworkers was ranting about how she didn't want to do something for work. She had a fairly valid excuse, but her words and negativity were over the top and just got to me. I later told my other coworker, we'll call her Jane, that maybe I would like my job more if people weren't so negative all the time. (I do like my job, but it is mentally and physically draining and people get burnt out fast.) I casually mentioned to Jane that we should make a pact to just be positive on the days we work together, even if it comes out in the form of sarcasm (for example, saying \"I am the definition of brilliant\" instead of \"Ugh, I'm such an idiot.\") She agreed to this and even mentioned it the next day (in the form of a [meme](https://www.instagram.com/p/B9IBiH5J8PV/?epik=dj0yJnU9UDFIX2RxQWcycU5IbmlvbS1fczlNSHRVYlRzblM5MFQmcD0wJm49UTdWVHRQSXkzeFZPSm50Zjl2WTB0ZyZ0PUFBQUFBR0ZqM1VB), so idk if that really counts lol), so I really want to do something to enforce the pact and not just let it get forgotten. Jane and I do have a tendency to talk about deep topics like the state of the world right now and HR issues and stuff. I don't really want to give those conversations up because I really value Jane's opinions and insight. I feel like I can learn a lot from her. (And I guess in a way, I want to be positive as a way to give back to her.)\n\nI was wondering what I can do to just make the mood more light. What kind of little things can we say or do to just get ourselves in a positive mind set and prevent burn out? Just between the 2 of us for now, but would love to spread throughout the workplace once we find something that works.\n\nI'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for from you all, but something did just come to mind that I could try. Kinda silly, but I know there are studies that show that scents like vanilla and lavender are calming and relaxing. I can't light a candle, but I'm sure I could figure something out. Jane is also really into things like crystals and stones for anxiety etc. I don't really believe in that kind of thing, but even a placebo effect could be nice.",
"How to be more positive at work? The other day at work, one of my coworkers was ranting about how she didn't want to do something for work. She had a fairly valid excuse, but her words and negativity were over the top and just got to me. I later told my other coworker, we'll call her Jane, that maybe I would like my job more if people weren't so negative all the time. (I do like my job, but it is mentally and physically draining and people get burnt out fast.) I casually mentioned to Jane that we should make a pact to just be positive on the days we work together, even if it comes out in the form of sarcasm (for example, saying \"I am the definition of brilliant\" instead of \"Ugh, I'm such an idiot.\") She agreed to this and even mentioned it the next day (in the form of a [meme](https://www.instagram.com/p/B9IBiH5J8PV/?epik=dj0yJnU9UDFIX2RxQWcycU5IbmlvbS1fczlNSHRVYlRzblM5MFQmcD0wJm49UTdWVHRQSXkzeFZPSm50Zjl2WTB0ZyZ0PUFBQUFBR0ZqM1VB), so idk if that really counts lol), so I really want to do something to enforce the pact and not just let it get forgotten. Jane and I do have a tendency to talk about deep topics like the state of the world right now and HR issues and stuff. I don't really want to give those conversations up because I really value Jane's opinions and insight. I feel like I can learn a lot from her. (And I guess in a way, I want to be positive as a way to give back to her.)\n\nI was wondering what I can do to just make the mood more light. What kind of little things can we say or do to just get ourselves in a positive mind set and prevent burn out? Just between the 2 of us for now, but would love to spread throughout the workplace once we find something that works.\n\nI'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for from you all, but something did just come to mind that I could try. Kinda silly, but I know there are studies that show that scents like vanilla and lavender are calming and relaxing. I can't light a candle, but I'm sure I could figure something out. Jane is also really into things like crystals and stones for anxiety etc. I don't really believe in that kind of thing, but even a placebo effect could be nice."
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"More compliment for the work well done.\nSometimes bring some food at work like cake or cookies , little surprises always make smile people",
"Tell your coworkers that you're trying to practice gratitude, then match negativity with gratitude statements. You still acknowledge when something sucks, but you have something positive too. So \"ugh today is the worst I can't believe that customer talked to us like that.\" \"Ya that was so uncalled for. I'm glad we were able to stay calm and get them out of here quickly.\"",
"Smile. Don't say negative things. Say positive things. Say hello and good morning to everyone you go near.\n\nReally little things help. I'm working in a teenager and young adults cancer ward. I also have to go to the toilet and have a little elbow scream and shake the negativity away once or twice a day.",
"Several years ago I adopted telling the first 12 people who asked me \"how is your day going?\", \"how to are you doing today?\", \"how is it going?\", \"how are you?\" or any similar question I say back \"I'm doing great!\", \"I'm awesome!\", \"it's a great day today!\", or something similar! I make sure I smile (even when wearing a mask in these times) when replying. Even if it's a really not great day, for what ever reason, I just say something positive! Before I know it my day seems to be going lots better and I feel better in general - I actually start believing myself that it's a great day! I don't even have to get to replying to 6-8 people and I already start feeling happier! Doesn't matter who the person is, if they are on the phone or in person I still do this.\n\nAt work there are four of us who regularly talk about \"leaving your personal life at the door!\" That doesn't mean you can't bring your life to work, but it does mean you have to leave the bad stuff, the drama and every day stressors at the door! It really bothers us when coworkers bring their baggage into work and make us all deal with it. We stand together and speak out against it and we try to be good roll models. We do share what is going on in our lives: what we are planning on days off, what we are doing on vacation, birthdays, anniversary, children/grandchildren news, holidays, etc. It makes for a better, more positive work place that is already stressful!"
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"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? ",
"How to better understand mumbling talkers I have recent started a job which requires me to talk to new people over the phone every single day. I am not even remotely deaf, but I have massively trouble understanding what people are saying extremely often. After having to ask someone two or three times to repeat themselves I can sometimes feel rude.\n\nVariably this can be with people of different accents, as well as people whose first language is English. Does anyone have any tips that could help me overcome this? "
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"repeat is not the right request, ask them to speak louder. speaking louder will force them mouths to open so they can't mumble.",
"Mild hearing loss in certain frequencies where speech is ([the speech banana!](http://www.agbell.org/uploadedImages/Professionals/Healthcare_Providers/Speech_Banana.gif)) can make talking on the phone very difficult, as a)we hear better using both ears and b)you don't have visual clues to help understand. \n\nYou don't have to be deaf to not hear well. Many people with very mild loss feel they hear fine but often say others are mumbling, or don't realize they to use context of conversations/sentences to connect words (or parts of words) they have missed. \n\nI'm not saying you necessarily have hearing loss - I don't know how you do in your day to day life aside from these few words in this post. I just had a little flag pop up in my head. I've had *so many* of my patients first words to me be \"I'm not deaf at all! People are always mumbling. Back in my day we were taught to enunciate when we spoke!\" \n\nPersonally if I'm having trouble understanding someone on the phone I'll let them know that they're very quiet. Sometimes they're on a headset and the mic has slipped, or it just has bad sound quality. ",
"Give yourself time to adjust to their tone/accent with a bit of conversation which it doesn't matter if you understand each other perfectly or not. This may also relax them and so reduce any shyness mumbling.",
"Been there. I used to just put the volume at max, press the headphone against my ears and really focus on what they were saying, exactly like you said: especially accents can be very difficult. \n\nTwo things you can do:\n\n- Tell them the line is not very well on your end for whatever reason, or whatever to make them speak up without making them the cause of the problem\n\n- Repeat what you think they're saying back to them. So where you usually go \"hm, hm\" or \"yeah\", you go: \"Right, so you want the fizzerbuster into the flopzop for added effect?\". That way you're not asking to repeat themselves per se, you're asking them if you understood correctly.",
"I get customers over the phone constantly who either mumble, speak softly or have thick accents to where I absolutely can't understand anything. After the 2nd or 3rd time of really not being able to understand them I'll say,\" im really sorry but I can barely hear you or I'm very sorry but it's really hard to understand you\". It's always worked for me, either they will speak up, hang up or the thick accent people will try to enunciate as clearly as they can and its often really easy from there. Or sometimes they'll get someone on the phone that can speak English better than them OR very little of the time they say they'll call back.",
"As one of the (self proclaimed) best English to English translators in the world, my advice is to have a few drinks first. Totally eliminates the need for translation. Not only will you both be mumbling, but you also wont care if you misunderstood them and in turn didn't do your job right",
"use context for clues.\nrepeat what you thought you heard and ask for confirmation.\nask them to speak louder, and slower. \nMake up an excuse like \"bad connection\".\n",
"These are all great suggestions, I work in a very loud environment and when I leave work I I listen to the radio, When I get back into my car the next morning my radio is blasting, so one suggestion is to keep your morning very quite. ",
"My new team lead, nice person but sometimes talks almost into a whisper. My hearing isn't the best, but I am embarrassed to keep saying \"pardon\". Help.",
"I worked in a call center where we spoke with foreigners often. Generally, our questions and their responses were very similar if not exactly the same from one call to the next, so mumbling and other accents could be understood through context.\n\nIf I missed a detail, I would complete what work I could with them on the line and then ask for clarification in complete sentences about the information I didn't have. \n\n\"Can you tell me that confirmation number one more time? I missed it the first go around.\"\n\nSomething to that effect. If you're using a phone through a computer, try changing your Volume Mixer settings on Windows (and I'm sure there's an equivalent on Mac, if not, I would not be surprised) to allow for the volume of your calling program to be raised above other programs running, or just in general. Bugs would creep into our call center software all the time and lower the volume. Restarting and doing general troubleshooting always fixed the problem. I often would still use the volume mixer fix to balance all the audio happening, because of course I was listening to music or watching a show while working. DUH",
"I can be awkward/uncomfortable to repeatedly ask someone to repeat something. The key is to keep things light hearted and let them know you really can't understand them but want to. ",
"I am on the phone quite a bit at work and this works well for me.\n\nI repeat what I think I heard them say. Even if it doesn't make sense and sounds funny; I will still repeat it to them in a manner that it is not critical. It's more of an innocent tone. This lets them know for whatever reason, I am unable to understand them. This will usually lighten the conversation and they will try enunciate more clearly.\n\nIt doesn't work every time but it does make my job easier.",
"As someone who used to be on the phone with customers all day long, what would help me was to simply close my eyes. It forced me to listen more closely and be lees distracted.",
"As someone who often mumbles my speech. Just ask me to speak up. Most of the time I'm not even aware I'm mumbling, as I can hear myself just fine. ",
"Also stop asking them to repeat. Ask them to clarify, say back to them what you thought you herd. Then they will use different language when which maybe easier to understand. Many times the change in words is better then hearing the same thing over and over.",
"Not sure if my method would work, but you can mumble a little bit yourself. Maybe if they have to ask you to repeat yourself, they may not feel so awkward if they have to also repeat themselves so you can understand.\n\nOn the plus side, the more you hear different accents, the easier it becomes to understand any new accent."
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"Avoid Afternoon Fatigue Most days, I get really tired in the afternoon ~4pm, then get a second wind around 6 or 7. During this time, I find it difficult to accomplish my goals for the day.\n\nOther than the obvious, pump myself full of caffeine or sugar how can I mitigate or eliminate that afternoon exhaustion? ",
"Avoid Afternoon Fatigue Most days, I get really tired in the afternoon ~4pm, then get a second wind around 6 or 7. During this time, I find it difficult to accomplish my goals for the day.\n\nOther than the obvious, pump myself full of caffeine or sugar how can I mitigate or eliminate that afternoon exhaustion? ",
"Avoid Afternoon Fatigue Most days, I get really tired in the afternoon ~4pm, then get a second wind around 6 or 7. During this time, I find it difficult to accomplish my goals for the day.\n\nOther than the obvious, pump myself full of caffeine or sugar how can I mitigate or eliminate that afternoon exhaustion? ",
"Avoid Afternoon Fatigue Most days, I get really tired in the afternoon ~4pm, then get a second wind around 6 or 7. During this time, I find it difficult to accomplish my goals for the day.\n\nOther than the obvious, pump myself full of caffeine or sugar how can I mitigate or eliminate that afternoon exhaustion? ",
"Avoid Afternoon Fatigue Most days, I get really tired in the afternoon ~4pm, then get a second wind around 6 or 7. During this time, I find it difficult to accomplish my goals for the day.\n\nOther than the obvious, pump myself full of caffeine or sugar how can I mitigate or eliminate that afternoon exhaustion? ",
"Avoid Afternoon Fatigue Most days, I get really tired in the afternoon ~4pm, then get a second wind around 6 or 7. During this time, I find it difficult to accomplish my goals for the day.\n\nOther than the obvious, pump myself full of caffeine or sugar how can I mitigate or eliminate that afternoon exhaustion? "
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"OK, I can actually help here because I used to get this really bad. I've got three answers for you, none of which you will like that much, and they might not all be relevant\n1: change your lunch diet to take out heavy foods such as bread and pastry and replace with salads and proteins. Protein wakes you up, carbs (except sugar) slow you down\n2: get more exercise. If you go to the gym 3x per week this problem will likely go away\n3: go and do exercise in the disabled toilet. If you do 15 squats, and15 push-ups/offs against the wall, you will get blood flowing to all your major muscles and get more oxygen round your body in general.\n\nSource: personal experience plus \"the 4h body\" by Tim ferris.",
"> Other than the obvious, pump myself full of caffeine or sugar how can I mitigate or eliminate that afternoon exhaustion? \n\nOne option that worked for me was the exact opposite. Drain yourself of caffeine and sugar. I only drink water now, at least during the day, at first you feel like complete shit having withdrawal symptoms from what you're used to, I can't offer advice how to ween yourself down but I would guess you don't want to make a sudden change, I was never a caffeine drinker.\n\nAfter you get past the first obstacle, with persistence, determination and most importantly, self discipline you start feeling happier, more energetic and consistent, which allows you to continue more easily. My productivity and energy don't peak as high as they used to but I'm on a much higher average. It's easy to slip back into the old habit though, but I wouldn't want to go back.",
"I recommend a treadmill desk. I have felt more energized throughout the day since switching to a treadmill desk two years ago and rarely feel tired in the afternoon, most likely due to a slightly elevated heart rate. I'm not walking fast enough to break a sweat, it's just a slow easy pace. This is my first [DIY treadmill desk](http://i.imgur.com/IfRiVIW.jpg) and a year ago I bought [this one](http://i.imgur.com/nutMh09.jpg) which has a lot more desk area and is much quieter, allowing me to be on conference calls while still walking slowly. You don't have to walk all day. At first I split my time roughly equally between walking, standing and sitting and now I probably only sit an hour a day. ",
"Caffeine nap will rock your world. Slam an expresso/coffee, etc and take a 30 minute nap. Caffeine takes about that long to hit the bloodstream, wake up refreshed from the sleep plus the boost of the caffeine. ",
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"I am having trouble planning my birthday. I really need your help/advice. I'll turn 18 this year. I want to make a birthday dinner. But I have one problem.\n\nI have 2 friend groups. They don't really know each other. We can even say that they don't even know each other. I want to merge them because I'll not be able to make 2 birthday parties. How do I merge them without it being awkward/weird. I also have a friend that doesn't even know these people. I don't want that friend to feel left out. \n\nShould I cancel with a group I haven't told them that I'll make a dinner yet.",
"I am having trouble planning my birthday. I really need your help/advice. I'll turn 18 this year. I want to make a birthday dinner. But I have one problem.\n\nI have 2 friend groups. They don't really know each other. We can even say that they don't even know each other. I want to merge them because I'll not be able to make 2 birthday parties. How do I merge them without it being awkward/weird. I also have a friend that doesn't even know these people. I don't want that friend to feel left out. \n\nShould I cancel with a group I haven't told them that I'll make a dinner yet.",
"I am having trouble planning my birthday. I really need your help/advice. I'll turn 18 this year. I want to make a birthday dinner. But I have one problem.\n\nI have 2 friend groups. They don't really know each other. We can even say that they don't even know each other. I want to merge them because I'll not be able to make 2 birthday parties. How do I merge them without it being awkward/weird. I also have a friend that doesn't even know these people. I don't want that friend to feel left out. \n\nShould I cancel with a group I haven't told them that I'll make a dinner yet.",
"I am having trouble planning my birthday. I really need your help/advice. I'll turn 18 this year. I want to make a birthday dinner. But I have one problem.\n\nI have 2 friend groups. They don't really know each other. We can even say that they don't even know each other. I want to merge them because I'll not be able to make 2 birthday parties. How do I merge them without it being awkward/weird. I also have a friend that doesn't even know these people. I don't want that friend to feel left out. \n\nShould I cancel with a group I haven't told them that I'll make a dinner yet.",
"I am having trouble planning my birthday. I really need your help/advice. I'll turn 18 this year. I want to make a birthday dinner. But I have one problem.\n\nI have 2 friend groups. They don't really know each other. We can even say that they don't even know each other. I want to merge them because I'll not be able to make 2 birthday parties. How do I merge them without it being awkward/weird. I also have a friend that doesn't even know these people. I don't want that friend to feel left out. \n\nShould I cancel with a group I haven't told them that I'll make a dinner yet."
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"Welcome to adulthood. Having two group of friends is usual the older you get, e.g., work and personal friends groups. \n\nHave a single party, unless you don’t want these two groups meeting at all.\n\nMake sure you arrange in a place such that people can move around, so they are not stuck in a table all evening with people they don’t know.",
"Have a big BBQ at a park. If you don't cook BBQ, ask one of your friends to do it. People will mingle and meet on their own. You might be surprised who knows who.",
"When I and my roomates do the party, we have very different groups of people who don’t know each other. We plan a theme (optional) and then write a lot of random and party theme related questions on a card. We call it “conversation themes” it’s sounds goofy but it really works! Every time when a party starts a lot of people stumble around and then one person always notice the card ( put it where you are sure someone will notice) and all join to the conversation. Especially if you put some questions that you surely now will have different opinions. Short discussions and laughter guaranteed. It really helps to break the ice and guest don’t need to worry how to start akward conversation with a stranger. Did this for every party and there wasn’t a time when conversation card wasn’t used!\nOh and it’s a small detail, but play music in the backround, so there is no real silence if nobody talks at the moment.",
"Invite everyone. It probably will be a little awkward, but not as bad as you're thinking. \n\nSome different ideas:\n\nYou can do a pizza dinner. You can play board games, video games, cornhole, dartboard, or a multiple other type of games that you guys are interested in.\n\nOr you can go bowling. Nice way for people to talk to each other and get to know each other as well.\n\nOr you can have a pot luck where everyone brings a meal over. That way you're trying different foods with everyone which can be an icebreaker. \n\nJust make sure it's somewhere multiple people can move around.",
"Don't over think it, invite both groups and let them get on with it. Assuming beers will be flowing so all will be well"
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