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In areas with large Asian populations, look for an Indian dude with a big beard and a turban (he's most likely a Sikh).
Ask directions to the temple (called a "Gurdwara"), they have a thing called "Langar" (translates to 'kitchen') and it is the term used in Sikh for the community kitchen in a Gurdwara where a free meal is served to all the visitors, without distinction of religion, caste, gender, economic status or ethnicity. The free meal is always vegetarian and sometimes vegan. On top of which, you get to hang out with some of the most humble and chilled people ever!!!
But it's ethical .
I don't give a sikh, it's un-american in its current definition so that's good enough for me. Really restoring comment, faith in humanity was getting a little low.
I'm Sikh and we allow anyone who is hungry can visit the gurdwara to feed themselves, everyone is welcome in a gurdwara no matter their race, caste, or sexuality
I didn't know that! I might check that out
eattalotta cheese I want to have a conversation about this. More accepting than the others how? I’m truly curious, I have only traveled to Canada which is extremely accepting.
You can in fact get away with a lot of things if you look like you’re supposed to be doing it.
I once saw a report on some guys stealing ATM while they were dressed with working clothes and wore basecaps ... they just walked up to it, loaded the machine into a truck and drove off, no one stopped them or even asked. they were not caught back then (don't knos if they later got caught, but the police had no clues as the cameras didn't show license plate or face etc.)
Gecko 2.6
Whoa...so they just...stole an ATM? In broad daylight?
@@MrDevil-jb1fl exactly and it worked since they just looked like they were supposed to do it
This is very true, I own a construction company and one time accidentally sent my painting crew the address to a hotel right beside the one they were actually supposed to be painting at, didn't find out until they said they were done but the manager at the right hotel said they hadn't been there at all, the employees at the wrong hotel just let them in and gave them keys to the room with the same number without asking anything, if someone was in that room at the time they might not have let them in but since it was empty no one cared and they got a 2 bedroom room painted for free...
@Torin Nathan
Why would you need to hack her insta smh 😒 doesn’t seem like you trust her
I remember hearing a story about a dude doing the press pass thing for free lunches. He'd talk with the real journalists at lunch so as not to stand out. Eventually, he got on friendly terms with some of his local journalists. Then they began asking him to cover for them when they were busy or offering him work, and he did it, 'cause hey, all he had to do was write a bit and he got money.
Long story short, he ended up having a successful career in journalism, all because he wanted some food and was bad at telling people "no."
that's bloody awesome
When you lie so much about being a journalist that you actually become a journalist
That's awesome
The “Treat your boss as an equal” trick is fucking real. It goes for literally anyone with higher status than you. A teacher, professor, senior coworker, boss, etc.
And be careful with it, you aren’t treating them like they are equal to you! You are treating yourself like YOU are equal to THEM! There is a difference.
This is the acceptable standard procedure in Finland.
i tried this to my first sergeant and he slapped me
@@AhDollar Good for him! Serves you right! LOL
@@inconnu4961 those bastards lied to me
i have treated my bosses as equals, and i still got a good review when i left the company, even though i felt i was super lazy. But i spoke my mind and took part in evolving some company procedures and otherwise seemed interested in my work (which i was)
In college I put old parking tickets on my windshield so I could park anywhere☺️. Did this for 2 years.
Warden comes past - "Oh we already did that car........ WAIT A MINUTE!"
Tim Lewis teehee 🙃
In Germany you don't get real parking tickets any more. They just write your plate in their device and you get the ticket 2 weeks later in your mail.
🤣😂😅 - That one is cheeky.
Imagine the dude going to court over a non existent ticket
That title makes it sound like the hacks would be
“Neighbor’s dog barking too much? *Shoot it”*
RELEASE THE GEESE UPON THEM
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What’s unethical is places like Office Depot charging 60$ for printer toner cartridges smh
True. When I moved out, my parents gave me a printer. I almost never used it to save ink and tried to print out important stuff at work when I can.
Turns out this isn't a great idea either because at some point, the ink cartridge can dry out and not work, so you'll have to buy a new one too. Absolutely annoying and I don't understand how they justify selling them for these prices.
For those asking, the code 4011 is for bananas at self checkouts in grocery stores
*All checkouts
My wife and I received a Walmart giftcard for our 1st or second anniversary. This was right around the time self checkouts became a thing. She went to the store and complained how crappy the self checkout was, it kept beeping at her. A few days later, I asked her if the card had any money left and could I burn it up. She said sure, its only about 3-4 dollars so whatever. I checked out and it still had $50 on it. She had somehow actually stolen 46ish dollars of merchandise without meaning to. I still tease her about it and call her a thief sometimes.
Regarding the receipt thing, my parents were notoriously cheap, and once bought a ceiling fan that burned out after about 6 months. They had saved their receipt, and returned it for a new one. I think it was from K-Mart, don't remember I was a kid. Anyway, the replacement fan burned out as well. Somehow, a combination of store ineptitude and questionable morals on my father's part mostly, resulted in a string of new ceiling fans about once a year. I guess you could say this was justified as maybe the fan was a lemon since they kept burning out, but honestly I always thought it was due to the sketchy wiring in our 50+ year old house and a bit of a dodge.
@@johns9652 crappy electrical wiring can't really burn out a motor, that was just a pos ceiling fan
(Electrical engineer)
Work at a supermarket in the uk can confirm
Is it the same everywhere? I learned that when I was working at a grocery store and had weeks without groceries.
I always used a “borrow and invest” trick, so basically I’d borrow like 5 or 6 dollars from my friend then buy something with it. Then after that I’d sell the item I bought to the pawn shop for 2 or 3 dollars more then I borrowed and if they accepted I’d return the money then get the profit. But if that doesn’t work or the pawn shop won’t accept, I’d always do a yard sale. And that is my borrow and invest trick.
some people make a living by doing the same thing with houses.
Moosevision
That’s only when you get to the higher levels.
It seems like the unethical life hack is to borrow money from a friend and not pay it back. I need new friends lol.
This is similar to how short-selling works on the stock market! You could make a living doing this.
this is what hedge funds do HAHA
Just so you all know most fast food places will fire workers for giving away unsold food because people WILL ALWAYS start taking advantage of it.
I use to work at a chick fil a when I was younger, the manager didn't care if we took food home at the end of the day or gave it away because we would just throw it out. That was until probably started dropping full bags of nuggets 20 mins before closing so they could take them home
but what's a shelter gonna do? as long as th Don't know the address where it coming from it should be a non issue.
I always assumed it was out of fear for suing the company if someone were to get sick.
@@lolsmol - That too. A restaurant used to give all its leftovers to a homeless shelter until one jackass tried to sue the place after he choked on something, now all its leftovers go in the dumpster.
Ethical life hack that sounds unethical: go through e-waste for a school/buisness, and there’s almost certainly devices with working parts. You save them money because they don’t have to pay to get it disposed of, and get free hard drives and things like that. Many times if you get caught, they won’t care because it’s saving them money, and if you do decide to ask first, they’ll almost always say yes.
Alexis Harper
why would e-waste bins be in reach of unauthorized people.
genuinely asking cause i thought that was illegal.
(+-HiddenCracks-) Some places just have them out back like a dumpster. My high school just had a big bin behind the school, so my friends and I would go get free electronic components during lunch for fun. We got “caught” a couple times, but the teacher that usually found us would just let us off the hook because we were just saving the school money so why should they care. My friend found 3 working hard drives in one week once by just taking apart the broken computers in the bin and trying all the drives out. They built up 2 terabytes of storage for free across the school year.
The continental breakfast bit, If you go to a commuter college, fifteen minutes work on Google, all the local hotels for a few cents worth of gas if you shuffle them, never hit one More than once a week than a on your way to school you can get breakfast and lunch for free, if you are from a poor home you can live off it for years. Give a buck or two when you have it to the staff you will never get hassled.
And I have another comment; I actually did have a teacher tell me this but it was just a story she told the class. If you write a well worded, calm, collected complaint, in writing to company; they’ll give you a TON of free shit. Like she got a can of chef boyardee and it was the kind with the twisty noodles and beef, but hers had no noodles, so she wrote a letter to the corporate office and they sent her like four boxes of the stuff for free. They really really really should teach this to homeless people, one letter could feed an entire camp for a month.
Send a company a compliment...you get nothing.
Send a company a complaint...get free stuff.
4011 is the code for bananas, so to use it make sure is with items that are charged by weight, not by units! Also the self check out machine says "Weight your bananas" and if they're obviously not bananas and the person in charge notices it you might be in trouble....
just always have a thing of bananas at the ready, perhaps adding or subtracting one or two bananas in each bunch to give the illusion of variation, as if you were buying several things of bananas
the flipside of course is that, as time progresses, you'll end up with a fridge full of bananas
Walking around briskly holding cables and boxes can get you into alot of places and get around unnoticed if you walk with purpose
A friend of mine worked at a local fast food chain and kept a receipt of an order over $25 from the drive through. The manager made him mad for some reason and wrote the managers name on the receipt. He gave me ticket and said if a managers name is on it, they replace the whole meal. The next day I go through the drive through, generically explain the situation how my order was messed up and said manager wrote their name on the receipt for a free meal replacement. Worked like a charm. I mean they 100% didn’t believe me but there was a managers name on it so they didn’t question. 10/10 would recommend.
18:59 I wish I had known this when I started my career. In business, it's true that all that matters are your connections and confidence. You can have a MBA and constantly work overtime hoping someone will notice all your hard work and dedication- but the people that get ahead are related to someone at the company or are people who are very confident. I used to work through my lunch break until one day, I meant to call my dad during my break but didn't, because I was working through my lunch and my dad died the next day. My extra work was never noticed but I'll never get to call my dad again.
3:50 - WHO THE HELL SUES SOMEONE OVER GIVING FOOD TO NEEDY PEOPLE INSTEAD OF THROWING IT IN THE TRASH? Seriously, some people have problems. I can't wrap my head around what's going through the mind of someone who would rather food go to the trash than get donated.
June 3, 2020 12:59 am
Honestly it is fucked up. I used to work in a grocery store deli and taking home anything that needs to be thrown away even if it’s good is considered stealing 🙄
Great old American thinking
@@kristynkazumi nah, not only in america... sadly in many other countries the stores do that too. In my country some are finally "waking up" and give the food away to those in dire need...
I agree but did you quote yourself
The Greggs in my town sends any unsold food to homeless shelters etc. About time companies done this more. Im sure i remember being told that the reason they have to throw away food is because of health & safety rules, in case someone eats out of date food & gets sick.
I had a girlfriend that worked at a Family Dollar around 2010. They had a toy's for tot's bin inside of the place, after Thanksgiving near x mas, and they threw out 2 dumpster's full of toy's because they needed room for new christmas toy's and supplies. We went dumpster diving, filled up two trucks, and donated them at a different location. I don't think she ever got in trouble but they have had chain's and lock's on the dumpsters ever since.. smh.
Edit: these were not gross food dumpsters. Very clean. for cardboard and packaging waste dumpsters.
The safety vest only work for men. When I worked as an electrician everybody talked to me because they were not used to see a woman in this job.
The homework thing is so true. Find a subject you always get high grades on, say to your client that if they get a B or lower they don’t have to pay anything, and if they get an A, they have to give you $____. Never gotten below a B, tons of money.
Go to a store and pick up the item you want and buy it. KEEP YOUR RECEIPT. Return to the store a week later with your receipt and pick up the same item that you bought. Return the item that you just picked up off the shelf/ rack. Get your money back from the return and keep the item you bought the week before.
Wal marts system isn’t smart enough to know if the item had been scanned. Lowe’s hardwares system used to not be able to a few years ago
Source: I was a contractor for both at some point
Super common way to steal, very much on their radar and not worth it
Necessity is the mother of invention... or downright strategic insanity with benefits.
I personally use the visa gift card trick all the time. Its great for getting free trial's when you don't want to worry about forgetting to cancel
Try the drywall thing in Europe. Where many houses are made of solid brick...... with only some drywall
Lmfaooo “half of these life hacks are literally just “steal something” haha
For the CV hack, use the resumes sent as a template. Edit it by removing skills you cannot lie about and add in yours.
I don't get the laptop one. Isn't the store just gonna give you a new but identical laptop? Even if they give you cash, it doesn't seem worth blowing up your computer for.
You have to have backups to do this
The point is to have a brand new laptop just as the warranty is about to expire
If you do this with a Dell monitor, they often send you the new version if they have run out of stock.
You can use a laser to make a few dead pixels if you are on their premium panel warrenty.
TI-83/84 graphing calculators have a programming language. Not only is this useful if you want to solve repetitive functions but it can also just store general text. The only thing stopping you from keeping notes in your calculator is your ability to type on the thing
Reason why a lot of restaurants don't like donating excess food is primarily the same reason why it is technically illegal for you to give out homemade food to the homeless without a certified kitchen. A person can get 'sick' and then try to sue. There maybe a bit of documented truth to it happening but the law exists more to 'protect' the donor. Personally, I think it's just an over reach on government
Wait... if you're paying more for moonshine, then you really don't get the whole purpose of moonshine...
That is the point. It is unethical.
The selling candy at school one: does not work well if you are not in school. They are super suspicious.
Walmart stopped doing price matching about 5 years ago for discounts. It used to work but you can no longer use it to manipulate the system.
My wife and I ordered burger king from Uber eats one night. They forgot our drinks, I complained to uber eats, and they refunded me everything, since the drink was suppose to be included in the meal.
If you want the organic or expensive produce at a grocery store but don’t want the price, just peel off the sticker or scratch it to be unreadable and well just assume it’s the cheapest variety. Also if you scan everything at self check most cashiers won’t notice if you’re actually ringing it up right, you could scan everything as bananas and they’d never know. I work at a grocery store you didn’t hear it from me
Too dangerous ...
people have cake.... at funerals???
Maybe they mean the wake? I've never had cake at a funeral, but that might just be cultural
Yeah. In my country we have nuts with sugar, cake and coffee
Food of some sort accompanies funerals in most cultures!
I mean we’ve had a luncheon after everything with little dessert cookies and pastries but not a cake. We celebrate their life. But yea idk about cake.
Look up "Funeral Potatoes"
Little trick with claw machines that you keep going on until you win:
Catch your prize before it hits the floor at the bottom of the little hatch. There’s sensors in the floor of it, and once that’s touched, game over, get ur prize and go. If it isn’t touched however, you still get one prize, and you can go again to get another, and another, and another, and over and over again until you either fail to catch it, or you get caught
Not done with the video so dunno if it's in it or not.
I got one. If you first meet new people and you know you have to see them more.
Tell a bad lie. If they think you can't lie properly they will believe every lie you tell them in the future.
You’re evil
Must be a good one if two people thought of it.
My tactic is to just be a generally oblivious and kind person, who always speaks the truth because I “naively” think it’s better than a lie. People fall for it bc I am autistic and can be a bit over-truthful sometimes. People don’t even expect that I’m an amazing liar...
Printers in general are made to make you spend more money. The settings are defaulted to not print if there's not enough ink so you have to buy a new cartridge, which are always kinda pricy. In worst situations, the printer breaks itself due to some idiocy from the cartridge so you need to buy a new printer altogether.
Aside from the Force Print option, a good hack is to get the whole printer modded and set it up to be continuous. You never have to buy another cartridge again, unless it specifically breaks. You just need to buy ink and refill the exterior cartridges, which are cheaper than the original cartridge and it will last you for hella longer.
Total accident but I was shopping with my new born and had her in a bassinet on the cart. I was shoving stuff all over in the cart. I got outside and realized I had like 80 bucks wort of stuff like headphones and baby wipes and xyz under the bassinet. I went back in and paid. I felt grimly involving my daughter in a crime
back then when video stores where still exist l used to rent SEGA cartidges and change the inside electronic plate from another game l didnt want or it didnt work,they never actually checked if the game worked cause by that time no one rented 16 bit games anymore.l have done this at least 5 times.Even with one that had a sticker on the sides to specifically avoid this situation lol
Many of these are a lot of effort and risk for very little benefit. Some of these seem useful.
Some sound downright illegal. 😕
I used to work in a college town and we had doughnuts left over every night. Need to buy questionable items? A few boxes of leftover doughnuts will go a long way!
Used to make $50-$150 a day selling snacks at school
I definitely do the thing where I pretend to be a bad liar and feign ignorance even if it sometimes makes me look bad. But now everyone thinks I’m an even bigger air head than I am, and so feigning ignorance on things that do matter suddenly seems totally legit.
I used to have a worse memory than I currently do, my difficulty remembering things has led to no one questioning me much if I say I can't remember something. Sometimes I actually can't remember, others it's just I don't want to get in trouble for not doing something and so "I forgot".
Interestingly, I seem to have developed a decent skill-level in lying (and a reputation for minimal lying). The ability to stay calm and feign-confusion lets me easily get away with it if I need to. Of course the fact there have been times I've told the "truth" but actually have forgotten what I did, making it a "true falsehood" all signs point to the truth (because I believe it), but history points to false (because I did it). It's a bit odd.
(+Draconic Duelist) Yep. If you can build up a good reputation of not lying then it just makes it all the easier.
we need an unethical life hack corporate version where corporations tell us all the hacks they do to make more money
I have a friend who buys the same kind of speaker at Costco every year and when the new one comes out returns the old one and gets the new one, main point is Costco has a really relaxed return policy
I always treat my bosses and coworkers as equals. I also defer to expertise, so I don’t have to have all the answers. One coworker was trying to make me feel guilty for not respecting the CEO’s time. My thought is, I have as much or more education than he does. I’m every bit as important. Also, I have a great job with great people.
as a capital one employee, don't try the 'travel hacking' bs, you'll just get your account closed lmao
It baffles me how many people don’t know about the GameStop return policy whenever I tell somebody about this they give me a look of puzzled disbelief, but I can’t possibly be true. I’ve been known to buy a game, beat it within the week, then return it for full price.
3:45 this shit always breaks my heart. Luckily my store has began donating extra rolls unsold food to food banks during. Also my church's school kid feeding program got donations from Panera
I remember going to free lunch at my former high school at least 5-6 times in my 20's. Also I did pay "child fee" (below 18y old) on the bus until I was 25, then it simply stopped working.
I'm not sure why some fast food places are supposed to waste leftover food instead of handing it out, but it could be to stop everyone showing up last minute for vast quantities of free items they could have sold earlier if people weren't trying to game the system. It still seems a terrible shame though.
Same with pizza places - colleagues getting their friends to order pizza and not show up, so they can blag a free (albeit lukewarm) pizza at the end of the shift. Paying card over the phone could fix this option though. I never understood people that pre-ordered collection and took hours to show up. I like my pizza after it's just out of the oven!
Because food banks, restaurants, and anyone selling/ handing out food can be held liable for food poisoning, at least in most cities.
2:07 Another thing, the three credit reporting bureaus have 30 days to respond to a dispute. If they miss the deadline, the disputed charge is removed. So what you do is get a copy of your credit report, find everything in there you don't want, and file a dispute BY MAIL since it takes longer for them to process. And even then it takes time to follow up on the information with whatever companies are involved. So mail in your dispute in the middle of December. Right when everyone and their grandma is taking vacation, what with Christmas and New Year's. It's not perfect, but it really increases your odds of them missing the 30-day cutoff, and at that point everything you disputed is gone.
9:37 I did the same thing with cigarettes in high school after I turned 18 lol. A pack of Pall Mall 100's was $1.99, which came to $2.10 after tax. I'd sell them for a quarter each, earning me just shy of 3 bucks per pack of cigarettes.
16:00 OK while that is technically a way to get a truck for a day to move something, you can literally rent a truck for a day for like 25 bucks from places like Menards. I'd rather just pay the 25 bucks and not have to deal with all that nonsense.
I can confirm that the last hack for Gamestop will only work for a limited amount of time. They DO track all of their returns, and if they see too many they WILL ban you for abusing their return policy.
Sorry, they're NOT LL Bean.
Please don't have random pictures of small children in your wallet.
8:20 will not work in most European states. Since health insurance is mandatory in most of the countries and you will have different „numbers“ when married/ have kid so you either pay a bit lower insurance or less tax( wich will both be subtracted before you even get your money).
And these information will come from a official database. So no tricking you are married oder have kids here, cause your employer will know. Different stories with your coworkers though, since your boss isn’t allowed to share any of those information with most of them( if needed e.g for booking there he is allowed to)
Regarding the college parking, most college parking tickets are not legally enforced, perhaps not even enforceable in some areas. I was dating a girl and parked at her dorm area, I never parked there again and was not pursued.
Of course not. They actually threaten current students with their degree.
The first one is true I work at a super 8
Noone likes super 8 breakfast (source: was homeless)
They are nice though
In middle school I used to buy smarties and dum dums and the bags were $3-4 and sell them 1 for $0.25 or 5 for $1 and it was really easy to make profit😂
Love your style.
Ethical hack: I pretend to be tactless and people don’t expect me to do things just because it’s how things are done there.
19:46 if you do this enough times the store can catch on and ban you from returns. just so you know. be prepared to pay at some point
4:21 a pizza does almost the same thing as this. You have no idea how many concerts I've been able to get backstage at with a domino's pizza.
Totally not advocating this but the returning electronics like Xboxes or Switches with a brick in the box still works. You have to be smart, but most have a bar code window, you've gotta take that off the new and functioning device and get it perfect in the window fie the scanner and weight the bow right, but they usually don't break the se as long on new returns. If you are 40+ years old, clean and come in nicely dressed and tell them about how it was a duplicate present for an ungrateful kid you don't get a second look. Buy a game for your free system with your profits. Don't do it in your town, when the next customer who comes in to return that box of rocks you just screwed them with gets boned for your crime cry yourself to sleep. Yeah, somebody gets wrecked when you do bad things and it's usually not the billion dollar corporation.
Good idea but i would honestly feel so guilty
@@aidanl1230 agreed, I only do it anymore to replace systems that die out of warranty. Red light of death type stuff that is due to poor manufacturing quality. Buy new unit, clean old one, carefully open the box using the glued tabs on the bottom keeping the factory seals intact, swap bar code sticker onto dead console, return. Games top and other game system specific places all know this trick but you can still get away with it at most big box retailers. Again though, karmic retribution cause, you know some kid or teen mom will end up with your dead system and a headache trying to get it replaced.
most devices at goodwill that are game systems are still under warranty. I just buy them, clean them and sell on eBay. use money to continue and buy electronics I want from profits. My goodwill always has a wii or Xbox 360 or sometimes a sewing machine. Holy shit ladies go nuts for old sewing machines.
@@aftersexhighfives Love your username!
Hope I didn't get the "Aftersex HIV!"
Bought a 13 month warranty on an expensive pair of shades for $19 the worker literally told me to break them purposefully on the 12th month and I’ll be able to pick out the same or equivalent priced pair. Definitely doing that.
Did it work?
Well did it?
🤔
When you start a new job, all your grandparents are alive.
If you shop somewhere like Dirt Cheap and it’s something missing parts you can typically get a discount and call the store they got it from and get all the missing parts for free as long as you tell them you bought it a while back and don’t have the receipt anymore but you can read off the item number we have helped multiple customers do this in store where I work
I laughed so hard at the 1/16 Cherokee, cuz I’m actually 1/8 Shoshone then a bunch of German, Dutch, and I’m assuming British for my maternal grandpa. Utah
Broken returns for new items and online credit with certain companies work 👍
Also dumpster diving in the big containers on military bases; potential goldmines and strudy cardboard boxes for moving. Trust.
I have a good one. When your Xbox control breaks... Go to store get the same one with warranty, come back to store a month later and tell them it's not working. Get it replaced BAM two working controllers
need a graphing calculator for school? grab your asian friend and go to their CS/ engineering department in your college. Have him/her (mostly him) to go to their department and say i lost my graphic calculator in one of the classes. They'll usually take out 2-3 of them, and just pretend you're looking through each one and then be super happy that you founds yours.
An old Generation X life hack:
On the old 1980's & 1990's built Coke Cola vending machines "bouncing" the drink select button in a split second would cause the machine to dispense the paid for drink plus 1 or 2 additional free drinks. This was due to a software bug in the machine's software code.
It takes practice but can become second nature to perform.
At my old apartment complex our thing was so janky my friend kicked it out of frustration and the whole thing just opened and we could just take anything we wanted. It wouldn’t close either.
At my university the vending machines would often fail to actually dispense the items because the coil wouldn't always spin quite enough to fully release the item. Instead of people stealing from the machines, the machines were essentially stealing people's money. I guess that in itself was an unethical lifehack for whoever gets the money from the machine lol. Idk if anyone's tried to fix them before since while I've seen official people working on them they may have just been restocking them. If it was the 90s your unethical hack probably would've worked to make the machines just work correctly there, thus nullifying the (probably unintentional) unethical lifehack already in place by the machines and thus making it wrap around back to ethical. Of course that's providing that it can't work when not needed, which is unlikely.
On the college ID discount one. When I was in high school my buddy that went to the college in town had a second school ID so he gave me one to get discounts. Never went to college there
If you ever pass a coin star, vending machine, arcade machine or anything of the sort, check the return spot/ around it, 9/10 times there's some change there, not unethical and not too useful but just build it up and eventually turn it in, I think it's worth it! (Just turned in $132 from mostly this reason, after less than a year!)
Also check for silver coins
Go onto a website selling something you want. Right click on the page and click "View Source". Navigate to price of the item and change it to the price you want to pay. Print off the sheet. Take it to a store that will price match and give them the sheet. The sheet won't look doctored as the web address will be on the header/footer and the new price will be in the same font.
I don't know about that last one, I mean, ripping off GameStop? Turnabout is fair play...
In my office we have a small multi function colour printer (scans, prints, photocopies and emails) that is hooked up to the internet and we get our replacement toner cartridges sent to us automatically when the machine tells the company that we are running low on whatever colour.
But the printer company is greedy and the machine starts warning you the toner is low when there’s still 20% toner left. As I’m the admin, the guys I work with leave it to me to manage that kind of stuff. So I wait until the toner cartridge is at 1% and then swap it out for the one we received weeks before. I didn’t know how to dispose of the empty one safely so I took it home.
I managed to easily pry it open and to my utter delight I discovered there was still tons of toner left. I transferred the powder to a glass container with a screw on lid and now I use the toner for my arts and crafts. I’ve been doing this for a while now and I’m so proud of myself for my frugality and upcycling skills.
My boyfriend works at a hotel they have a couple homeless people that come in the mornings to eat the breakfast they don’t mind as long as they don’t bother anyone and leave after.
Near the end it mentions always treating your boss as your equal. I do that naturally, because we're all just human beings and nobody is better than anyone else, at least in a work environment. So far (35+ years of adulting), nobody has questioned my behavior in that regard.
“Is someone ask u about ur wife just look like ur gonna cry and they won’t ask again “ I laugh so hard at that I just imagine the guy going all depressed , gloomy and dramatic and the person asking going all like oh shit ok I’ll never ask that again lmao 😂
I used to buy Monster and sell it for $4 a can during high school for weed money. In reality, i always got the 2 for $4 deals from 7/11 or even borrowed them from stores on occasion
17:10 OMG I DO This all the time! Everyone's always like:."omg you're such a bad liar, I can always tell it right away!" but when it actually matters no one knows I lie! :D
The beer one is actually genius
I sell often on Kijiji, the Canadian Craigslist. I've suspected people of lowballing from multiple accounts it doesn't persuade me in the slighest.
In fact the opposite has a better chance of working. If you receive a decent offer tell them that you have another offer for asking price and they're waiting to get paid but it's first come first served.
If they really want the item they'll pay up.
4:52 no you won't. The thing just turns off if it overheats.
If i go to a large store like Target, Walmart, etc. And there is NO cashiers, only self checkout, i give myself an "employee discount."
15:00 I used to do parking enforcement. I'd probably see around 5 -10 people a day try this. Once I had someone even altar the date on the citation. It never worked on me.
The breakfast thing for real tho, my friend rented a room and I just came with her for the free breakfast
It was my grandfather’s secret to catching fish quickly is whatever bait or lure you’re using you give it a little spray of WD-40 and it will carry a scent trail through the water that leads back to your bait and increasing the chances of bites to occur more often.
It isn’t a good thing to be putting chemicals into the water though and thankfully they have many baits that do similar effects now or using even a cooking oil that is near the same density (API) as water.
depending on the part of certain towns you can literally just walk into any McDonalds and take dozens of straws. also napkins. and plastic forks. some areas are stupid so you have to ask for singular ketchup packets. if you get lucky and find one in a good area that isnt lame take like a third of the ketchup packets. its very useful. im poor and like one of 7 dont judge me
For men: if a single mom is really into you and you want her gone, pretend to like kids a little TOO much. Nothing can happen to you because you didn't outright incriminate yourself or soil your reputation, you'll just seem "suspicious" for no provable reason and she'll leave you alone.
9:59 What if the store brand Poptarts have something in them that name brand doesn’t, and someone is allergic to that thing? Different brands of food products contain different ingredients all the time, and food allergies can be very serious, so if this happened, the person selling store brand as name brand would not just be scamming their fellow students out of money but could potentially be killing one of them (or more than one if more than one kid has the same allergy).
yes kids, this is what we call a "karen in the wild"
When I was couch hopping in Seattle, I used to go to continental breakfasts at hotels and just chill.
Worked at Dunkin' many many years ago. We gave lots of donuts to a couple regular homeless. We all thought it was bullshit that we couldn't donate them. You'd be outraged and disgusted if you knew how much food Dunkin' throws out every day.
Holy sheet thats incredible
The Dunkin’ near me closes at 10 but if you walk in there at 8 or anytime past that and they are already starting to close up they don’t charge you anything even if you get food, donuts and drinks for 3 people.
The hotel one might not work even with full confidence if they ask for the room number and last name?
My house is old and the drywall has a weird layer of cement mixed with metal. So sadly it’s not easy to cut through it :(
Unfortunately I don’t live in America anymore. But the continental breakfast thing will always work because the employees don’t get paid enough to give a fuck.
I can assure you the concession stand trick of standing there like you’re waiting in something DOES NOT work if it’s a place that has their s*** together. I’ve worked one for over 15 years and we serve quickly. I order and serve so I know what has went out.