‘Here’s Something I Didn’t Know Until I Was In My 30s’: Guy Is Sharing 27 Useful Tips People Wish They Had Known Sooner

The very 1st time we all knew. We just keep doing it for some odd reason.

Till his thirties, so... figure 10 years times 150 times a year...?

A shade under TWO DECADES 😂

Until I was in my 30s!

Lots 🤣 at least until I was 28

Too many times (I don't drink but have seen alcoholics even among my relatives so ... even one time is too many)

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Me too. 😂

I have that soooo bad. Don't drink because of it. Wish I learned that earlier

You're the first person i heard from who got this too! Its the reason i stopped drinking a few years ago! Didnt know that this is a thing!!!

Where?

Some do, some don't. If it has one, you should clean it. ;-)

And dryer. If you don't clean it often the lint will accumulate around the tumbler and the machine will get damaged and you'll probably have to get a new one.

The newer washing machines do not have a filter than you can easily access. It is typically at the back of the machine where the water from the house meets the washing machine. My old reliable Maytags had the lint filter right underneath where you added the softener (in the center agitator. I have 3 cats and worry about that lint filter I cannot get to.

Ours doesn't. I checked the manual. There is no lint filter to clean.

Oh that’s why my house exploded

Not in the US. We have self cleaning pumps with filters.

I've opened the filter to my washing machine several times, there's never been anything clogging it. :shrug:

Just looked... my washing machine does NOT appear to have a filter. Where should I look? It's a (horrible) 25+ year old stackable unit, in my apartment. (Washer on the bottom, connected dryer on top.)

Really??? Where???

Really? How do you access it? I have a top loader.

My old washer (mid 80s?) had a self-cleaning filter under the agitator that I needed to clean once about 6 years ago. It's replacement (used) has a self-cleaning filter that I have yet to find.

Works when it's a new. Machine Most homes you buy or rent already have the dishwasher.. no manual. I've had the same dishwasher for about 8 years got a new one last year landlord never left the manual

No manual, if you live in an apartment, like me. Maintenance guys are supposed to have all the appliance manuals... But they do not.

Because it’s still worth it and he still learned it after 30. He didn’t claim it to be more affordable. He just said it isn’t a waste of money.

Movers here cost a few hundred dollars. For maximum cost effectiveness, pack everything yourself in boxes you can easily lift, and move those yourself/with friends, then get movers to move all the furniture. Minimum price, maximum effectiveness (does not apply to people who can barely lift anything, sorry)

True. However, when moving your furniture means your back and your friends' backs are going to be hurting for a couple of days, setting some money aside to pay for movers gets more attractive. Especially when you consider the fact that, if I have say 3 friends helping me move, I'm working 4 moves because I owe them. People here are saying getting your friends to help you just costs beer and pizza. No. It's beer, pizza, and reciprocity. Figure I get a couple days of back pain for each of those and now I have 4 days of moving and 8 days of bad back. I've also never had a professional mover scratch my furniture or not notice when I've written "Fragile" on a box.

I make 12$ an hour working fast food yet hired movers last time i moved, my roommate had broken leg and i couldn't do it myself. Definitely don't make "enough money" but it was worth paying most of one of my bimonthly paychecks to not maneuver my couches or armoire through doors

I've moved so many times due to renting and landlords selling property etc, that I'm definitely 100% taking this as advice!

Before 30, it sounds easier to get our friends to (help) move us, and beer and pizza sounds cheaper, but we don't consider all of the other difficulties of doing it ourselves.

After our last move, I'll find the money, I'll save specifically for hiring movers, Never again. It absolutely destroyed my body. My degenerative disc desease was so aggravated, my osteoarthritis on my knees were all that was left of my knees. I was in so much pain. I told my fiance they only way ill move again is if I don't have to ruin my body in they process.

I guess by your 30s you're supposed to have money?

I have moved multiple times — it takes less time, less money & less wear & tear on your body & psyche to hire it done than to do it yourself

For long distance moves it can be cheaper

Spot on

YEP

Exactly!

Took me days and days to pack up a 900 square foot apartment (not including the furniture). The two moving men had the entire apartment down four flights of stairs in the uhaul within an hour. 😲. Totally worth the $300.

Hence the list states things one learns over 30. Also, your friends can help you, but it's nothing too pleasant for them. Therefore it is *worth it* to hire movers and leave your friends alone, if you can afford it, clearly pizza is cheaper. That's the entire idea behind this life hack

Yeah it's cheaper but you really should stop relying on friends to help you move. It's a huge hassle to move someone for essentially half a $10 pizza.

Didn't say that the movers had to drive the truck. You can hire professional movers by the hour just to load/unload the truck...And most of the time, it is completely worth spending the money.

Sounds more like a cross country move. I did a cross country move by myself and it cost me easily 5,000.00 when adding in truck, gas, motels, etc. Had to load and unload by myself. 1 bedroom, 1 person. Worst experience ever, I would have gladly paid 10,000.

I learned early (19 y.o.) when my soon-to-be-ex-roommates helped me move my upright piano up a steep incline between two Victorians to a rickety set of stairs of a four-unit mother-in-law apartment, and mine was the one farthest away. My friends got it up the rickety stairs, at which point things went sideways because there wasn’t enough clearance up the inside stairway because the living room jutted out over the stairway and made it impossible to get the piano up. I used professional piano movers thereafter until I finally stopped playing piano and turned to choral singing instead.

Who reads the refrigerator manual?

Your estimation on people who have bought their own fridge is pretty high. If you’ve rented all your life this isn’t so.