30 Times People Tried Out “Stupid” Life Hacks And Realized They Were Actually Pretty Useful

I find a nice walk in the woods to be very relaxing. The fact that I'm dragging a body behind me is completely irrelevant.

My counsellor I had when I had my first bad fibromyalgia flareup encouraged me to start small, just walk to the letterbox every day. Then I started walking around the wetlands next door again, which I hadn't done much since I was in my teens. I still struggled, especially when I was trying to fit it around work or I was really anxious. It was only when I started walking with my mum and her friend once a week coming out of my last flare up that I got the full benefits. It not only helped calm my thoughts, I felt less anxious going as a group and I was getting the sort of exercise that helped with my fibro.

Better yet, they've already shat their pants and are going super fast, super aggressively because they don't want it to seep into the seat.

This. I do this all the time. Or I say something happened to a loved one and they are rushing to the hospital to see them. I try hard to see the good in them.

Or are trying to get to a hospital

No one knows what the other person is going through in life. They could be a good person just having a bad day.

I once had to drive our sick pet bird (birds mask symptoms - if you can *see* they are sick, they are *dying*) to the nearest emergency exotic vet...about a 40-minute drive. I used some pretty aggressive driving tactics to make it there in 25 minutes. I apologize to those I annoyed, but Pilot appreciates your sacrifice almost seven years later!

I transferred universities junior year. New uni was out of state. That same semester, my parents got divorced and my dad moved back to his home state, which just so happened to be the same state as my new college. We wrote a letter to the university explaining the change, expecting to have resident rates for the new semester. They retroactively applied in-state status to me, and REFUNDED the difference of out-of-state tuition to us for that first semester! Never would have expected that! :)

International students in Canada pays as much as 3x the student fees.

Interstate. Try the next county over, my son wanted a class our county did not provide so he drove 30 minutes to go to another county & take the class a saved thousands . Then he got another degree but our county offered it we decided he should stay where he was for school & paid double because he lived out of that county

My cat gets a treat two times a day. She reminds me at least every hour. Would'n work here.

Or simply put an alarm/reminder on your phone.

Just be mindful of pets that are fast when you drop things. Don't want puppers scarfing down random pills you accidentally drop

I did this with my cat, and she'd "remind" me repeatedly throughout the day. Set an alarm on your phone to remind you to take your meds, then take a picture of them in your hand, so you can check your camera roll if you question yourself. If you are really bad with your ADHD, set a follow up alarm "Check you took your meds"

Don't do the oposite, the treat is for the cat, not the pills.

It's certainly immoral, and should be illegal, for hospitals and doctors offices to charge their patients obcene prices to park. Period.

If the parking fee is so expensive, then maybe it would be cheaper to take a taxi (or even better public transport if available). This way you don't have the stress on the street when already stressed about the hospital situation and don't crowd the parking lot

If you have a family member who needs to stay in hospital for longer than 5 days, you can get a special parking ticket at a very reduced price. I'm not sure if that's just because the parking people are nice guys or that someone somewhere realises that patients having visitors can make those patients feel better sooner so that they can be discharged earlier so that care costs are lower.

Won't work for me, I'm anemic. But pretty smart for OP. But I can't help but wonder if number one son meant his first son, or his favorite son... And why say son instead of child? Was there a daughter before this one? Lots of things to think about...

they must not have had much blood left after 10 days!

That's absolutely beautiful

This is very wholesome.

That's great!

I'd meet up with the ex and his new honey to do the kid exchange (shared custody) and I'd be SO NICE to them. Confused the cr@p out of them but why not? The kid don't need to see us being nasty to each other. Also, I was happy to see ex happy at last and thought stepmom was cool :) So let's be adults.

Boring. Try killing them with petty revenge.

As far as I know no one hates me, so I guess I can skip this one. (I don't hate anyone either. There are some people I don't care to spend time with, but I don't hate them.)

Living a good life is the best revenge.

A better reason to do this is that it often results in the other person altering their mood to more closely match yours. If two people are fired up, it will just continue to escalate, but one person's demeanor can frequently affect the other person in a positive way. Just don't be phony about it, because that won't work.

I like to mix things up by saying "Every phenomena exists in a temporal ontology by virtue of its occurrence." Just a silly way of saying "stuff" happens.

I started saying to myself "it'll go how it will go, and that's how it will go" to myself when psyching myself up with anxiety for social situations. Totally brought me back down to Earth.

It is the one phrase that I hate more than any other string of words in any language.We may not be able to change a situation but can still have control to 1) try, 2) change our outlook/ approach, or 3) walk away. But, hey, if it reduces someone’s stress….

I often respond "but not because it has to be"

Check out Stoicism. It's a philosophical school that pretty much follows this kind of thinking but in more detail. Helped me to learn to accept the situation beyond my control and focus on the present moment instead of worrying about the past or future all the time.