People Share 50 Personal Life Hacks That Have Considerably Improved Their Everyday Routine

My sister did this for her son with Cars. She quickly realized she’s sick of hearing it in Spanish too. Still a great idea, though!

Did you know that children rewatch movies because they're learning to find deeper meaning with every iteration?

Yeah, doesn't work. I used to watch oddball foreign movies constantly when I was a tiny kid. My dad's a weirdo. He only read to me in German. He bought me German Asterix comics, which I read. I used to watch Norwegian cartoons. There was an Italian cartoon, who's name escapes me, that I was obsessed with. I gained only the ability to parrot languages and recognize languages well. I suppose, it's a baseline if anything for further study, but passive learning doesn't get you fluency.

oooohh, awesome

I do the same thing for myself with Friends Blu-rays :)

I've found that meeting a racist comment with silence only allows the racism to grow. That s**t needs to be met head on and called out. I hope it makes them uncomfortable. It should.

Innocently fail to understand the joke and ask them to explain.

The problem with the second approach is that when someone says the N-word, I have no interest in repeating it.

What do you do after he punches you ?

My fave has been: "Did you just say x?" Walking away after is even better.

My dude and I have a queen sized bed and 2 twin sized comforters. It's great! No more tugging blankets off each other at night.

I actually get blankets one size smaller because I hate thrashing around with all that extra fabric at night. But I sleep alone.

This was a game changer for me.

You’re single, right ?

Yes!!! I always buy king size sheets for queen size beds too; it eliminates the thievery lol.

I have fatigue issues and do this. Whenever I get to a new room I look about and make a note of anything that needs taking elsewhere. It's really helped me keep on top of things better with only a small extra energy expenditure.

My trouble is I forget there's a cup there. My eyes don't see it. When I wonder where all of the drinking vessels have gotten to, my spouse just sighs and heads off to my home office. The one I just left to get a drink in the kitchen. It's like the dastardly cups and glasses are taunting me!

I do a variation of this where I try and make the room I enter a little cleaner before I leave. Generally nothing crazy but even just putting a jar away or picking up an errant piece of cat food.

Never walk empty-handed

used to be called a Matron's load ... as nurses never when anywhere empty handed

Tell yourself you will just walk halfway down the block. When you get that far, you can make it to the end. Having fought major depression all of my life I can tell you this works. If nothing else you will have walked up and down in front of your house. At best you will walk a couple of blocks.

Erik Schrerder, a Dutch neuroscientist, promotes this a lot. Getting your heartbeat a bit up(so walk with a firm tempo) and using your muscles is good for your brain. It activates parts. Also keep learning new things/skills to keep your brain challenged, it makes you brain more resistant to memory related issues.

Treadmill & music.

This doesn’t work if you have chronic fatigue. But you can try sitting outside and get as much daylight on your skin as possible - and don’t wear sunglasses. Obviously if it’s very sunny it’s better to be outside and in the shade, but I’m talking about the UK where is impossible to even get burnt in the sun 11.5 months of the year! I’d be so interested to know if fatigue affects as many people where it is sunnier? As it always helps me if it’s not too hot and sunny and I’d love to move abroad.

I'm such an urbanite I'd be worried about my carbon monoxide level falling.

I was talking to Rocket mortgage trying to get a loan to buy the house we were renting at the time. Told the guy on Friday I was taking a weekend with my family and would not be taking calls until the next Tuesday. He called 5x every day. 2nd call Monday I answered and told him to lose my number, I was going with a different bank. I don't do pressure sales, even for something I need. I'll find a different vendor before I give them a dime

You’re not including ER drivers, are you ?

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This is the best way for me too. Finding a friend for the sake of having a friend is but a good friend to start a relationship. You want to be with like-minded people, and if a friendship follows, that's a bonus.