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Anouk Badwolf • upvoted an item 1 month ago

Loki-Don reply

My wife and I bought a nice house in a middle/slightly upper middle class neighborhood. Not many European cars, parents didn’t send their kids to private schools. Everyone was doing fine, but seemingly not rich.

One day, a neighbors kid (age 6) passed out. Went to the hospital and within a few days was diagnosed with brain cancer of a type that was pretty much a death sentence. He was given 6 months to live.

A week later there was the previously scheduled block party and Frank (single guy, mid 60s, quiet neighbor 6 houses down) shows up and overhears people talking about the neighbor kid with cancer.

He asked me if I had the parents phone number, which I did and gave it to him.

The next day Frank had flown the entire family on his private jet across the country to a research center in California to meet with his best friend / former college roommate who happened to be conducting cutting edge immunotherapy research (basically reprogramming your body’s cells to fight specific strains of cancer).

As it turns out, Frank, the quiet guy living down the street who drove a 7 year old Toyota Camry was worth $750M (he started a company in the 90s that was bought by Oracle in the early 2000s and made him ultra rich).

Fast forward 5 months. Frank had paid for the entire family to move to CA for treatment which cost him just over $2.2M out of pocket. The kid was in remission after some next level, Star Trek crazy medical treatment. For a family he didn’t even know. Amazingly enough that wasn’t the extent of it…

Come to find out, we all learned Frank was sponsoring orphans in the system in our state and paying for college or trade school educations for every single orphan in the system in the state and had been for 20 years. He had sent more than 1,500 orphans to college or a trade school of their choice, spending $230M to do so.

The quiet dude down the street driving an old Toyota. He died 2 years ago. Left all his money to his foundation to continue to send state orphans to college.

The world would a significantly better place if only a fraction of the world’s ultra wealthy followed his example.

Anouk Badwolf • upvoted 27 items 4 months ago

podster12 reply

When in a jungle or forest, the noisy animals is safe. It's when they suddenly got quiet that it is creepy or scary.

anything_butt reply

My father's school did a guided tour through the woods searching and learning about local herbs. A few years later, my father was still a child, police showed up and asked him if he recognised the man in a picture that they showed him. My father explained that he was the herbalist tour guide. Apparently, the guy had murdered several boys and had my father's name and address in his car. The police had caught the guy by this point. I think he killed himself or died in suspicious circumstances...

podster12 reply

When in a jungle or forest, the noisy animals is safe. It's when they suddenly got quiet that it is creepy or scary.

anything_butt reply

“I'm Grateful That I Woke Up Blind”: 30 Secrets People Are Keeping To Themselves

Just soldier on. Went through this 2 years ago. Just do it. At the end they're a miserable shell of their previous selves but it's still them. And be there for them

permabandisdick reply

I won the lottery last month. Nobody knows. I hired a money manager and invested it all. My wife's birthday is next month and I plan to surprise her with the news that we are debt free and can retire immediately.

theSchmooFarmer reply

In 6th grade, I peed in a bottle of coca cola that had 1/4 of it's content remaining. You see, this a*****e of a bully often tries to forcefully take my snack during recess, so I handed him that bottle of cola. He did make a comment that it had an awful after taste, but nothing too crazy of a reaction. At that moment, I felt like I would burst into laughter, but if I did, he would suspect something was wrong with the cola. I also knew i would be in a world of trouble if the teachers knew I did something horrendous like that. So i kept my mouth shut and walked away. Till this day, I haven't seen him since 6th grade, and I'm currently in my first year of college.

247mumbles reply

I told my best friend I won a holiday in a raffle and wanted her to come with me free of charge. We stayed in a nice hostel, did lots of fun activities and I paid for it all with a “pre paid credit card from the raffle”. I didn’t win anything, I booked it all myself and paid everything for her because she deserved a break and I knew she couldn’t afford it nor would she have accepted me paying for her. I would do it again 10x over, she deserves the absolute world.

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Lucite furniture. I in general don't like clear furniture or clear surfaces. Lucite is better suited in your bathroom drawers, to help organize your products, not to be used to dine on or as a coffee table.

Interior-Design-Icks

'Boho chic aesthetic.' It's so trying too hard. The whole aspect of bohemian style is going with the wind, travelling, eclectic and this is too much. It looks like a lot of nail salons. Just go more simple, you don't need to nail a basket to your wall.

Interior-Design-Icks

Bedroom sets (all from the same exact collection). In theory it seems like the obvious solution having a very cohesive space, they all go together, but it feels way less unique and is so much more expensive.

Interior-Design-Icks

Overdoing the theme. I love a beach house, but people get too literal. You don't need a 'beach' sign to prove that you like the beach.

Interior-Design-Icks

Making everything a moment. Your appliances don't need to be a moment. Now I'm seeing squiggle light switch covers, your light switch doesn't need to be a moment. Some things can just be simple.

Interior-Design-Icks

Following the home decor bandwagon. I feel like social media said white kitchens are horrible, I still think a white kitchen can be so beautiful. Also when shiplap got put into every single home. It's gorgeous in a beach cottage or in a lake house, I don't know why it got brought into high rises in like Denver or Los Angeles. Follow trends carefully and ask yourself 'is this right for my space?' and 'am I just getting this because it's trendy or do I love it?'

Interior-Design-Icks

A pop of color (in an all white/beige/grey space). I'm talking about those all neutral rooms with three teal pillows. Color intertwined throughout your space is way better.

Interior-Design-Icks

Tambour. It doesn't fit the vibe of many homes and it's way too overdone. Every piece of furniture has it now. Unless you're into loom or really japanese looking style home.

Interior-Design-Icks

(Bad) vinyl flooring. House flippers are buying the coolest homes and absolutely destroying them, and the flooring is the one that I see most often. These really high contrast, printed looking vinyl wood floors - it's bad. Your floor doesn't need to make a statement.

Interior-Design-Icks

Keeping old Aesop / Le Labo soap bottles and refilling them with cheaper alternatives. If you want an attractive soap situation in your bathroom there are plenty of cool refillable soap dispenser options.

Interior-Design-Icks

Furniture that has technology built into it (charging ports, recliners, ect.). It has never sat right with me. In theory it seems like such a good idea, having a charging port that close to you is great, but what happens a year later when the fuse burns out on that? Or the plug type changes?

Interior-Design-Icks

Indoor furniture that looks like outdoor furniture. That powder coated black steel silhouette or any furniture that looks too concrete or bulky. They look like they're meant to be on someone's back patio with a fire pit between them.

Interior-Design-Icks

Displaying toiletries as decor. Toiletries, nail polish, makeup if you're over 14 years old. I don't need to see your Essie nail polish collection stacked like it's a spice rack.

Interior-Design-Icks

Peel and stick / amateur DIY project. Overly DIY'ed spaces. I don't want to have the edges of my countertops peeling. It just feels so temporary.

Interior-Design-Icks

Overly industrial/minimalistic spaces. This got really popular with the Kanye and Kim house, everything was concrete or plain metal. It feels so cold and detached, it's not comfortable.

Interior-Design-Icks

Color coded book shelves. A home needs character, needs charm, mix-match looks good, don't do smallest to largest, just put them in order of weather you've read them or not.

Interior-Design-Icks

Mass produced quirky art prints. These are the new 'Live, Laugh, Love' signs. They're always a food pun or a cowboy hat. An art print of 12 pickle jars? You can do better

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Anouk Badwolf • commented on 2 posts 4 months ago

34 Interior Design Icks That Might Make You Feel Called Out

the reason why i dislike such organisation is first, i may not remember the edition of the book i own (maybe i replace it at some point, so if for example a red covered book of mine is damaged so i replace it with a white edition of it then shall i place it differently?), second i have lots of different books in different genres, id find it bizarre to place contemporary poetry next to a novel by balzac next to a comic book. it just doesnt add up, they have different sizes, textures, etc. despite having a similar color they do not even match

34 Interior Design Icks That Might Make You Feel Called Out

it may be true. tbh when someone uses a bookcase for displaying such items is so weird.

Anouk Badwolf • upvoted an item 5 months ago

50 Hilarious Posts Of Ridiculous Home Decor And DIY With Funny Sarcastic Commentary

Just pretend they're vegan burgers. I mean they basically look the same anyway.

Anouk Badwolf • submitted a list addition 7 months ago

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Anouk Badwolf • commented on a post 7 months ago

40 People Call Out Highly Cringeworthy Things That Have Snuck Into Everyday Life

I completely agree with you! I myself bake my own bread make my own food etc if I had a family then I'd do it for them as well because I want quality food for cheap. There is nothing aesthetic about putting your hands into dough for a daily basis

Anouk Badwolf • upvoted an item 7 months ago

40 People Call Out Highly Cringeworthy Things That Have Snuck Into Everyday Life

The problem is toxic narcissist behaviour is getting more and more common. Attitudes totally frowned upon some years ago seem to be so widespread now!

Anouk Badwolf • upvoted 6 items 8 months ago

TheNatureOfTheGame reply

The whole concept of "influencers" on social media. Pics and videos of their spotless huge houses, adorable well-behaved kids, cute pets. As if they don't wear Crocs and a messy bun to scoop dog poo off their perfectly manicured lawns. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to bunch my hair into a bun, put on my "dirty work" shoes, and scoop the dog s**t out of my mud pit of a back yard. I'm not going to make a video of it, but I guarantee it would be far more entertaining (and contain a lot more profanity) than any influencer video.

OwlEastSage reply

The whole homesteading trad wife thing thats super trendy is so weird. "i am subservient to my husband, i hate feminism, i only wear cotton dresses, i dont have opinions that my husband doesnt share, i use beef fat as moisturizer, heres my $4000 stove that looks like its from colonial america, buy my online sourdough recipe course and learn how to be a traditional wife" and it always follows this guilt-shamy approach to women who dont want to or cant do the same. its mostly cringey because women are acting like this is how they've been all their lives but its very obviously just following a trend. women who've actually lived like this arent posting about it all over the internet i cook for my boyfriend, ill do his laundry, i want children, im a catholic, i bake bread, its not abnormal for women to want to follow this lifestyle of being traditional but the weird anti-feminism super privileged aesthetic thats following it is just so cringe. feminism is the reason that i have the choice to do or not do these things, feminism is the reason you can post about it on the internet. you can be a "traditional" wife but dont degrade your entire sex in the process.

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Bulky-Rush-1392 reply

"Unalive" or "unaliving," it's admittedly a funny way of referring to death, but people are using it in incredibly serious contexts. It comes off as insensitive.

Icy_Elf_of_frost reply

Throughout history fad medical issues have been a thing. Some king of England had an a**l fistula and all the lords and ladies suddenly had one. Today’s modern version of this is the spectrum and neurodivergence. Don’t like how something feels yucky on your hands, on the spectrum! Do you get confused or distracted sometimes on the spectrum! Do you not always enjoy everyone’s company all the time? It’s neurodivergence for SURE!!! Now everybody can pretend to be special and self diagnose, or wise and tell everyone else what condition they have. Leaving the actual people with neurodivergence still ignored in a corner with out proper support because Billy has a fad case of the attentions.

levieleven reply

I’m bipolar, diagnosed and medicated. Whenever it comes up someone in earshot will say “me too! I’m so moody.” Like guy, do you climb the walls at 3 AM? Do you laugh one minute and cry the next? Do you stay in bed for weeks? Get out of here with that trendy b******t.

No_Objective9634 reply

TikTok disorder fakers. I have autism. I *cannot* understand these people and why they seem to WANT these disabilities/mental illnesses. It's disgusting and I hate it.

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Anouk Badwolf • upvoted an item 1 month ago