Unlock Life’s Hidden “Cheat Codes”: 42 Surprising Hacks That Change Everything
Now imagine if everyone did this. Not a ton, just a little here and there. How much less stressful would this crisis be if everyone had 6 months of stored food at all times – kinda like their grandparents lived. It’s actually not that hard either. Some stuff is hard, but some stuff is stupid easy, like Jerusalem Artichokes, strawberries, fruit trees, etc.
When it looks like someone isn’t going to give you space on the side walk, I stop walking and pretend I’ve stopped walking because something on my phone caught my attention.
We’re now no longer playing king of the side walk. They’re faced with the choice of walking into someone standing still, or moving to their side. I’ve never had someone not give me appropriate room doing this.
Count to 5 before opening your mouth, does magic, sometimes you’ll discover that you don’t even have to open it.
If you want food to taste good, butter.
I used to think there was something restaurants did to make food so delicious and they must be amazing cooks. I’m sure some of them are.
But when my daughter was a toddler, she was underweight and the doctor told me to add twice as much butter to my cooking for her to get extra calories. Turns out, butter is amazing. Half the time when you eat something that is just heavenly, it isn’t magic or crazy skills or exotic ingredients. It’s just butter, and lots of it.
Edit: This isn’t to discredit people who are actually great cooks! Butter isnt the end-all of good cooking. But it is really difficult to make good food with only minimal fat and it is really easy to make good food with a lot of fat. If you want to be a 10/10 cook, go to culinary school. If you want to take your cooking from 3/10 to 7/10, add butter.
If anything seems too big or too difficult break it down into small steps.
Use your local area code + 867-5309 as the membership id at almost every grocery store and it will work. You get the discount without having to sign up because someone else already signed up with that number.
Shout out to Tommy Tutone.
For college kids: if you need a bunch of sources for a paper just go to the Wikipedia page and go to the bottom where the sources are. There’s usually more than 50 PROPER sources in citation format.
Please, make sure to at least briefly read over the source to make sure it’s relevant to your topic.
Brushing your teeth when you’re young and continuing to do so throughout your life will save you a lot of money after 30.
Everyone in these comments is calling buffs and starting traits “cheat codes.” It’s like they’ve never played video games. I’ll give you a couple real ones.
Compliment your friends behind their back, your relationships will improve magically.
If you ask someone you don’t know well for something small, like to borrow a pen, they will actually like you just a bit more. (for best results, return pen) (does not stack)
Dont ask your wife what she wants 2 eat, instead, tell her to guess where you’re taking her then take her to the first place she guesses.
Buy ingredients and cook for yourself. I started recently, and I’ve spent 30$ for over 10 meals. A fast food burger and fries is around $7-8, and bad for you too. Not only that, but cooking for yourself is an excellent skill that earns brownie points.
For getting people to like you: be genuinely interested in their personal life. Not embarrassing things, but things they enjoy about their own life. Ask about their kids, dog, etc. And (this is key) remember details for the next time you talk. If they tell you they are potty training, then ask how it’s coming along. Only offer advice if it is truly helpful, not for the satisfaction of giving advice.
Also, learn their name as quick as possible. For many people, their favorite word is their name.
Write it down. Whatever it is. Then you don’t have to focus on remembering it or worrying about it. The simple act of writing it down makes it more real. I always have a pen on me and paper close at hand. Make lists, keep a budget, tell someone you love them, jot a reminder, doodle.
I find that if I drink water when I wake up, and then drink coffee later, that I feel better and have more energy throughout the day
Give children a choice when you want them to do something, like instead of saying “can you clean up your mess?” Say “would you like to either clean up your mess or do the dishes?” Make the second one a lot more likely for them not to choose.
Pay daily expenses and bills with a rewards credit card and pay it all off each month. No interest that way but you keep the rewards. Just make sure you can pay your bills and daily spending.
Press 0 to get a human.
Ever have to dial a hotline and have to go through Press 1 for, Press 2 for, Press 3 for, etc? A lot of time when you want to speak immediately to someone on those prerecorded telephone hotlines you can just hit 0 for a human. Now some places they are really smart. Hitting 0 just ends the call, which by then you mentally implode.
