People have been sharing the most useless ‘life hacks’ that they’ve seen someone actually take seriously – 18 proper eye-openers
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Putting Vicks on your feet for congestion. Like, sure it might help soothe a sore foot muscle, but it will do diddly squat for a stuffy nose.
alphaturducken
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Putting Irish Spring or dryer sheets somewhere (like an RV) to repel mice. Spoiler: they do not repel mice. The mice will eat the soap and make bedding out of the dryer sheets. But you will have fluffy, cling free, lovely smelling mice with green poop.
Puzzleheaded_Age6550
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I remember watching a show about people who went to extremes to save money. The one thing that stuck with me was someone who would buy the cheapest two-ply toilet paper they could get, then taking the time to unroll it and split it into one-ply since it was two rolls in one.
Strongit
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A few years back, me and my girlfriend spent a week at my mom’s house. We were completely out of clean clothes, since we got snowed in and had to stay longer than anticipated.
Well, the day of our departure coincided with my mom’s decision to replace her normal laundry detergent with some homemade all-natural ‘detergent’ she had seen on Instagram.
Long story short, all our clothes were ruined. There were enormous greasy spots on everything and they smelled terrible. We had to go make the eight hour drive home wearing borrowed clothes from my parents. My dad’s 48/30 pants (I wear 36/34), and my petite girlfriend had to wear one of my mom’s rather large house dresses.
We looked like circus clowns.
onefellswoop70
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Going to the hospital by ambulance will get you seen faster. No, all you’re doing is tying up an ambulance. If your complaint is routine and non-emergent, you’re still going to the waiting room, but at least you get to ride on the stretcher till they find a wheelchair!
FlipZer0
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‘You’re not a cop right? Because, by law, you have to tell me if you are.’ Yeah, that doesn’t work in any way.
ClownfishSoup
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Storing onions in your socks to pull out toxins.
LunaElexerx
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A friend’s mom did not let us drink the water before it was properly ‘demagnetised’. Meaning sticking a bottle between two permanent magnets and letting it sit for an appropriate time. We were guests in her house. So I just nodded and went along with it.
LordTengil
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Renting the model of car that you own and swapping the tyres so you have a set of new tyres. They caught him in the dealership and called the police for robbery and fraud I think.
tyxon42
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My brother, whom I love very dearly, blows onto the butt end of his cigarettes, and has for years. Why, you ask? Because he was once told that the filter is made of some form of fibreglass. And when they cut it, there are sharp ends left in it, and when you first inhale, they can cause damage to your lungs. So he blows on the ends of his cigarettes before he smokes them. To protect his lungs.
shaidyn
Source: Ask Reddit