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[โ€“] [email protected] 72 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)
  1. Safety razors - I've got thick growth and I was spending more and more on expensive multi-blade razors trying to find a decent shave without the blade going dull after 3 uses. The answer was to have less, better quality blades rather than the expensive trash in the market. A safety razor multipack costs a pittance and has lasted me over a year. Each blade is 2 sided and can be flipped. And when you're done with it, it can be recycled with no plastic waste. There's literally no down side if you wet shave.
  1. Electric screwdriver - it doesn't matter how much DIY you do or how rarely you make IKEA furniture, you still need an electric screwdriver.
  1. Brain hacks - your brain and body are predictable physical objects that are programmed a certain way. If you take the time to learn how they work, you can use that to your advantage. e.g. If you know that procrastination isn't a time management problem, but rather an emotional regulation problem about the task that's due; then you can start addressing the cause. Or if you want to build a new habit, you can combine it with something you like, to make you look forward to it (e.g. pick a TV show you really want to watch and only allow yourself to watch it while you're on the treadmill). Or realise that discipline and motivation are finite resources in the day. There's too much info to cover here, but I learn about these things from podacsts mostly:

https://www.drlauriesantos.com/happiness-lab-podcast

https://www.schwab.com/learn/choiceology

https://youarenotsosmart.com/podcast/

https://hiddenbrain.org/

  1. "Good enough" tech - You will save a lot of money if you define your use case for tech and then buy a product that is good enough to do the job (and preferably secondhand). I'm currently writing this out on a laptop I bought last week for ยฃ150 from eBay, brand new condition Dell, Intel 8th gen i7, 16GB RAM and half TB NVME drive. My gym TV is a ยฃ30 IPS Dell monitor with a Fire TV stick.
  1. Facebook Marketplace - make a dummy account for a facebook marketplace. I have bought tons of "like new" things in brand new condition (e.g. a whole home weights gym setup) for a fraction of brand new price. Also if there's anything I want to get rid of, then I just post it for sale. I have had a completely worn out, cosmetically destroyed desk that I posted online for ยฃ1. Someone came and collected it the same day. It saved me a trip to the junkyard by having someone come collect it and saved the waste by going to someone who will use it. 2nd pro tip: never post anything for free. Scumbag entitled people monitor facebook for free deals and you will have a bad time. Post things for ยฃ1 and you'll get serious people who will be grateful.
  1. Accept what you can't change - your life will be much better if you stop spending energy pushing against things you can't influence. Traffic cop walking away after giving you a ticket? Accept the hit and walk away. You took a risk not paying for parking, it didn't work out. Go home and tell your spouse about it; then move on with your life.
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

your brain and body are predictable

Now that implies a lot

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

How about "Your brain and body are often predictable, more than most people realize"?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Other people are more different respect to you that you think. People are more similar than they think

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I have given away things I state are broken but if someone wants to try and fix them it's free on Marketplace. I did not have to take one thing to the dump when I moved last time this way. The guy messaged me later and said he was able to get a new pump for my old espresso machine and get it working nicely, so good for him.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I fully agree on the safety razor! I got so frustrated with the multiblade razors. Since I tried the safety razor, I never looked back. And as a woman, I don't have a beard or super thick hair, they work their charm just the same :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I bought a 50 pack of feather blades and a 12 pack of arko sticks in 2014 and I'm still going through them. I've been shaving for a decade on like a $30 expense.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Great list! Thank you!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do you make a dummy account for fb market place? I've tried and they always want a lot of verification.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I've got a pre-paid, burner sim card for bullshit like this so I don't have to use my real number for anything.

Keep a bullshit number, bullshit email address and keep bullshit name/DoB. The pro-tip there is to start valuing your privacy and stop giving companies your data.