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When asking for advice, there’s always a chance you’ll hear something ridiculous that will most likely be of no help. After all, people say all kinds of things, and not every single thing is meant to be taken seriously.

However, every once in a while, you might hear some advice that seems really dumb and useless until you try it and, to your surprise, find out it actually works. These happenings are usually not only good learning experiences but also make for great stories. So when someone online asked Redditors to share these experiences, they filled the comments with some exciting answers. Scroll down to see what they wrote!

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It Housemate lost her cat, was devastated, put up missing posters. An anonymous person contacted her and told her to go out in the middle of the night, yell the cat’s name, and then be quiet and listen. She found the cat, it was stuck in the neighbor’s shed.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a cat parent, this is my worst nightmare....

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It I worked for a courier company and this happened to my boss. He was on a long delivery out in the country. We're from Virginia, but he's currently in Kentucky. We're pretty country ourselves, but not like this. This is pre-smartphone era, so he stops to talk to a local for directions.

Guy said "Go as far as you can see, twice, and there's your turn."

My boss stared with bewilderment at the level of Deliverance that just came out of this guy's mouth. But... he fixed his eyes on a spot as far as he could see. He drove to that spot and made a mental note of the next farthest spot he could see. Upon arriving at the 2nd spot, dead on was the little unmarked turn he was looking for.

We still quote it to this day... "Go as far as you can see, twice..."

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It If you drop something and can’t find it, drop another and watch where it falls.  

Worked GREAT twice while tiling my bathroom. 

 Didn’t work so good when I dropped a winch handle off the boat 

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now I want to know what was dropped trying to find the winch handle.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It If you can’t get rid of your sore throat, get a new toothbrush.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It I had a headache at work (years ago, at a previous job). I almost never get headaches, so it was pissing me off because I couldn't ignore it.

My coworker: "I can get rid of it. Come here, I'll squeeze your head."

Me: "... What."

"I'll squeeze your head." And sure enough, he grabbed my head and squeezed the sides so hard I thought he was going to fracture my skull. Then he squeezed from front and back.

Him: "Better?"

That headache was GONE and never came back. Now I go around curing my coworkers' headaches. Everyone thinks I'm nuts until it works

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'mma need a step-by-step for this one. What exactly are the pressure points? Asking for a friend

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It Got a fuel pump for a very old S10. Put it in the truck, it did not work. Googled problem, lots of other people having same issue with same fuel pump and no answer.

Some random guy on a S10 forum, that I found on page 3 of google, posted 10 years ago that the instructions were wrong on that fuel pump. You needed connect the red wire to the black one, and not the green one like the instructions said.

Worked instantly

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those old mechanics' & woodworkers' blogs are full of golden knowledge. Terrible formatting, hard to find the stuff, but great resources.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It That the 10c per copy xerox machine at my high school (that gave change for dollars in dimes) would accept xeroxed dollar bills in the bill changer. The Secret service gave the school a visit to explain to us how bad a crime counterfeiting was.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It One day I came home from work and there was this little white box sitting on the counter. I asked my wife, "What is this thing?"


She said, "It's a box that emits a high pitched sound that only cats can hear and it will keep Spike off the counters."


Me: "How much did you pay for this magic box?"


Wife: "It was fifty bucks."


Me: "FIFTY DOLLARS FOR A MAGIC BOX THAT'S NOT GOING TO WORK? CAN YOU RETURN IT?"


Wife: "Let's just see if it works and I'll return it if it doesn't."


I ate my f*****g words. This was 10 years ago, and my cat got up on the counter ONE time after we got the box and then never again. The box doesn't even work anymore. I think it's not even plugged in anyway. Still, the cat won't go near it. Sorcery.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is the matter with you monsters? Those are OUR counters, and we have every right to jump on them, or anything else, we please! Bad! Bad! Bad soft can-openers! No cookies for you!

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It Is your dog afraid of the vacuum cleaner? Punish the vacuum in front of the dog. Hit it and tell it how bad it is. Get really mad at it. Put it in its place. I can't believe this actually works, but it does.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It My therapist told me to “give myself permission to grieve later” because I was grieving something that hadn’t happened yet. It sounded so obvious when she said it, because she said “you’re going to grieve it later. It hasn’t happened yet. So give yourself permission to grieve later, and to not right now.”

Bizarrely, it worked (for the most part). And I “give myself permission” to do other things later, too (worry, get mad, cry, etc). Somehow the act of consciously telling myself I can do it later makes it not so overwhelming right now.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My therapist told me to envision the stern voices that you use to put all those rules onto yourself as a board of directors, and then make yourself leave the board meeting if the 'directors' start to be too controlling over your life. I now mentally leave meetings I don't want to be in with a 'I'll read the minutes OK BYE' and it really helps.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It I read a newspaper article about a guy who went to his local convenience store and bought two lottery tickets. Most people in that situation would play different numbers on each ticket, in order to double their minuscule chance of winning.

Not this guy. He was interviewed, and said he believed that playing the same numbers on *both* tickets would "double down" his chance, showing somehow that he was really serious about wanting those numbers to win.

So that's what he did. But it turned out that he actually did have the winning numbers for that drawing, and he owned two out of the three winning tickets. Therefore he was entitled to walk home with two thirds of the jackpot, instead of just half.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read an interesting one. No combination of numbers will increase your odds of winning, but some will increase how much you win if you do. If you choose things no-one else would pick, like consecutive numbers or those bigger than 31, or round the outside of the ticket, then if those numbers come up, you are less likely to have to share. Thought that was fascinating.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It If your cat loses interest in his cat bed or scratching post don’t get rid of it! Just move it to a new location in your house.  The cat will find it and use it again.  

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It My husband and I used to live in an apartment 4th-floor apartment with a balcony that was over a greenhouse. The actual greenhouse had walls around it and was gated. Never saw anyone going in or out of there.

One day while I was out having a smoke, a strong gust of wind came and blew my cap off my head, which did a boomerang in the wind for a moment before dropping directly below me on the roof of the greenhouse. I really loved that hat. It was a beautiful, purple, full round ball cap that I got travelling.

I go inside to tell my husband, who doesn’t seem to care much. I quickly scramble for ideas on how to get it back. I can’t think of a single thing, and realize that unless I get the gates unlocked and a ladder, there’s no way I’m getting it back. I would have made peace with this if the hat wasn’t DIRECTLY in my line of vision. So I’d have to stare at it every day.
A storm was coming, so I knew if I just waited until tomorrow to see if I could find my way in, the hat would be ruined anyway. I’d consider jumping off my balcony to get it, but it was a glass roof, so no bueno.

My husband then comes up with this idea. This was in Japan, so we had these things which are futon clamps. A lot of folks in Japan sleep on ‘futons’ which are like douvets crossed with mattresses. In the morning people usually throw them over the railing to air out and use a “futon clamp” to anchor them.

Husband grabs the clamp, opens it up
And holds the teeth open with a chopstick. He then ties two bath towel belts together, and fastened it to the clamp. He tells
Me he’s going to throw the clamp into the wind, so that when it lands on my hat, it will knock the chopstick out and fasten to the hat.

I was upset; so I told him to f**k off and went to mope. 2 minutes later he comes back with my hat.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It If you accidentally use permanent marker on a white board, draw over it with a whiteboard marker and wipe away immediately.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It If you can't find something and you know it's right in front of you somewhere, walk away for a minute or two then come back. You'll find it right away.

It's easy to get tunnel vision when looking for something, especially when you get frustrated. Stepping back to reset your brain does wonders. Then you get kinda mad since whatever you were looking for is sitting right there where you were looking.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This can also be true when you're trying to figure something out and you can't. Walk away and come back. It's like a mental reset.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It When my firstborn was an infant, a friend told me that an old Native woman said that to keep your baby from crying when you lay them in their crib to sleep, you should move your hand in a circle in the air near them, while slowly backing up and widening the circle until you leave the room. It sounded like a bunch of hooey, but my friend swore by it, and danged if it didn't work every time! No idea why, but my kids were all good sleepers. Side note that I certainly always would respond if they woke up and cried, because I wanted them to know that I was there if they needed me, but that didn't happen much either.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe this is why I fell asleep during the Doctor Strange film...

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It When having anxiety or a panic attack, put your hands in cold running water. It helps with causing a sensory ground, you focus on the sensation of the cold water

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It My 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Thrillkill (her real name), told us that if you want to remember something, repeat it quickly in your mind at least three times or more and you will remember it. I've used this trick successfuly for 50 years.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't believe nobody has commented on that absolute legend of a name. I mean, I would do some seriously questionable things to get a ring on my finger if I ever met a Mr Thrillkill, and I'm an extremely introverted, PTSD'd Aspie.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It if you find yourself obsessing about something, set a date and stretch of time to 'worry' about it. I have no idea why, but that was the only thing let me set something down in my mind and sleep one night. It was a piece of advice my mother gave me a few days earlier. ironically, it was something else she'd said to me that was the source of the worry.

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9 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I use this technique, it's called a worry box- the worries live in that box until the scheduled time to take them out and worry about them; set a timer so that you don't overwhelm yourself, maybe 15 minutes. When time is up, they go back in the box, and I'm not allowed to take them out again for 24 hours.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My kid was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder when she was 4, and the worry box was a huge deal. I don't know that she used it in her mind, but any time she would ask me things like what we were going to do if the moon fell out of the sky, I could tell her that we would talk about it at worry time. She's 13 now, and her anxiety is stable.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually do something similar, not a "worry time slot" but more like a planning/solving time slot. Whenever I have a lot on my plate, and you know, stuff nees mental energy too, not just physical energy, and I have something to figure out, in my head I take it as a task, a chore, and assign a time slot to it. Like "figure out holiday vacation/family visit/project finish schedule on Saturday". Then I don't worry about that during the week, I just do my things, and work, and go to the gym and dedicate my brain processing power to other things, and when the time comes, I sit down with a cup of coffee and figure out the thing. I do this with smaller things too - How to go about a thing for my side project? Well if I know that I have an hour in my car, or on public transport, I assign that time to it.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But but but... what happens when the assigned worry period runs out?

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Worry box technique allows you to schedule a short period of time (about 15 minutes) every 24 hours to worry about the things that are making you anxious. When your time runs out, you just remind yourself that those worries will be right where you left them when it's time to take them out again tomorrow.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a bonus, if you also have ADHD, you'll completely forget to worry about it when the time comes.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about it tomorrow.”

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do this, I don't know why or when I started it but it's always helped.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I also use the elastic on the wrist and checkmark on a piece of paper, it helps you to notice the thoughts, the snap stops the thought and then you can see you are getting better.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It I tell people this - sick and congested?

Salsa. Hot salsa. Have some good hot salsa and chips. It cleared my congestion for a few hours, and nothing at the drug store would even touch it. Plus there’s no dosage limit - have as much as you like!

Hot and sour soup also works well.

Any spicy food should work, really.

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I have ADHD and seriously struggle with remembering to brush my teeth before bed. 


Someone told me to put my toothpaste in the sink so I would have to physically pick it up and move it out of the way to use the sink. Once toothpaste is in my hand, it'll remind me to actually use it. 


Sure enough, totally works. I usually have to use the bathroom around the time I get ready for bed. 

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, if you have a hard time remebering to take your pills, put them in a pill-minder and place them on the sink next to your toothbrush.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It I got a ganglion cyst on my wrist.  The medical professionals recommended surgery. My mom's wife (a nurse) recommended hitting it with a book. The book worked.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My bff attempted this. It turned out her wrist was actually broken and the "cyst" was a bit of bone.

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I couldn’t figure out how to keep my cat from jumping up onto my shelf and yeeting my plants off the shelf. They were hardy plants, so they survived, but they took quite a beating. My aunt suggested I buy some citrus scented air freshener, and spray the shelf every few days.

I thought “ain’t no goddamn way,” but I didn’t want my plants to die so I tried it. Be damned if it didn’t work flawlessly. It’s worked for 3 whole years now.

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9 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The citrus smell is overwhelming to cats. Same goes for mint or so I read

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It So, someone once swore that talking to plants would make them grow faster. I thought it was a load of horticultural hooey, but in a moment of desperation, I gave it a shot. Lo and behold, my ficus started thriving like it had won the plant lottery! Turns out, my green pals just needed some sweet nothings and motivational speeches.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's more "Talk kindly to something and you'll get attached to it and take better care of it."

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It When you experience bad turbulence on an airplane, lift your feet up. The movement of your feet messes with you mind and makes it freak out. So if you lift them your anxiety goes down instantly.

Always works for me, but if it doesn’t quite do the trick I recommend ordering a few beers in quick succession.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure that ordering them will do much good, but drinking them might, I suppose...

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It If you make a list of everything you have to do, and always write down anything that comes to your mind on the same list, you will not worry about forgetting things. Once it’s written down on a list that you know you’re going to look at, your brain stops keeping an “open tab” for it.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It Put human hair down a gopher hole and the gophers will leave.

It worked!!

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

put HUMAN ENTRAILS down a gopher hole and the gophers will not only leave, but they'll have PTSD for life!!

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It I officiate golf tournaments. This involves long hours of sitting in a golf cart. Then when I had to get out I’d be very stiff.

A friend told me to put a towel down and sit on it and I wouldn’t be as stiff. How could that work, I’m just sitting there not moving, not even driving the cart around.

Well it does work. I’d get out and I wouldn’t be stiff.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It As a welder, an old welder told me if your eyes get flash burned to put raw potato slices on your eyes and it will stop the pain.

It works, but don't ask me why.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cold tea or cold used tea bags (tea, not fruit stuff) helps with welders' arc eye. It's the tannins in the case of tea; no idea what part of the potato helps.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It Turn it off then on again.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It Touch the key fob to your chin to increase range

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#32

If you put a damp paper towel around a can/bottle before putting it in the freezer it will chill faster

I thought it was stupid until I tried it, then I realised it actually kind of makes sense because the water in the paper towel is essentially acting as a conductor for the cold air temperature in the freezer

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a good reason not to wear a wet shirt when it's cold out. Evaporation is an endothermic reaction (adsorbs heat-from your body in this case) Water will continue to evaporate as long as the air is not saturated.

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That jumping up and down on a foot cramp fixes it. Really pissed me off that it works and I didn't know sooner.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you have a really severe cramp over-exertion might simple tear the muscle. Be careful folks.

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If you put a paper towel around a sandwich before putting in a ziplock bag, it won’t get soggy (like jelly or other sauces)

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or wrap it in tinfoil. Thought my husband was crazy for this but it works!

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#35

Folding a ‘drawing from a hat’ style ticket accordion style increases its volume in the bag and prevents from being stuck between others. I used it in middle school and won a cd player.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It If you peel a banana from the bottom it is significantly easier than from the top

Me: yeah...okay...

Me later: OMG...what even is my life?

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seen this many times and I still don't get it. I've never in my life found it remotely difficult to peel a banana from the stalk end, why would I be trying to make easier something that is already as easy as it could be?

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Holding a small stone to the beak on a chicken, then moving it away slowly will hypnotize it.
We had chickens at one point, a joker at work told me this. I didn't believe it for the longest time but finally tried it and I'll be damned, it worked. Weird.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It Old UK stuff, but when youngish, I was told that if you held 8 10 pence coins together and wrapped them two and a half times with black electricians tape and then sliced through with a razor blade (that's how old this is), vending machines would accept them as 50 pence coins. A five fold increase. We didn't believe it, but tried it and experimented with a jukebox in a pub, and it actually worked. The only problem was that a guy turned up to empty the moneybox while we were there. He picked them up and looked suspiciously around the pub while we pretended not to notice. I believe there were a number of other related incidents around the Leicester area at the time.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To people confused - you’re not putting all 8 10p pieces in the machine in one big chunk! You’re wrapping them in tape then slicing them apart, so each coin has a thin layer of tape around the edge, making it roughly the size of a 50p.

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#39

Put plastic wrap in the freezer and it will come off the roll without wadding up into a ball of itself. Of course, you have to let it warm up to room temperature to wrap your food, but it doesn’t take too long.

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Sniff rubbing alcohol to cure nausea.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...unless you're nauseated because you're smashed, in which case you'll probably chunder.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It Backseat while a friend of a friend was driving us somewhere in downtown Philly. We're trying to find parking and see a space finally-- the wrong end of a one way street though.

I tell the friend of a friend to just throw it in reverse and back up down the one way, jokingly.

She slams it into reverse.

We back it up; she parallel parks it just fine.

A cop sitting on the street watched the whole thing and didn't move a muscle.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right. Don't try this one at home, kids. A one-way street doesn't care if you're in reverse or not.

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Exit the walk-in freezer backwards if you wear glasses. Keeps them from fogging up.

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To hold my phone under running cold water from the tap to rinse it off, after it suffered an unfortunate incident with some lemonade and stopped working.

The phone was not waterproof. It still worked.

Disclaimer, this was an old Nokia and those things were indestructible.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shouldn't have done that, you might have dropped the phone in the sink and broken your sink

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It I was traveling for work and at the Pittsburgh airport. Made a stop in the restroom that has those automatic sink fixtures. The sink wasn't dispensing water or soap, and the custodian told me to hit it until it works. I was successful in my attempts to beat automatic sink fixtures to dispense water and soap with a slap or two from then on🤣🤣🤣

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Toilet with autoflush. Won't stop running, and I mean running with a flow and force that could generate electricity. I just booted it and it stopped!

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#45

If you plug your ears and chug water it gets rid of hiccups.

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30 Times People Were Given Advice That They Thought Was A Joke Until They Decided To Try It General knowledge: My father, when I was a kid: "If you want to know if the spaghetti is done, throw some at the wall. If it sticks, it's done."

Personal anecdote: Me in 1992, to a friend: "Hey, you said I can borrow your truck, just need the keys."

"No you don't, use your keys. They'll work."

And they did. Lots of keys would start his truck.

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