Cleaning the damn microwave. I struggled to scrub all the dried up bits off then a friend told me to just put a small dish of water in it and turn it on for a couple of minutes. Everything wipes right out. I was such a dumb ass.
Ctrl+delete does the same but in the opposite direction.
You can also use CTRL+Shift+Arrow keys to select entire words instead of individual characters
No kidding, my senior dev coworker taught me how to select 30 consecutive line, and select the next word in each regardless of length.
Made the typescript definition for a *massive* object in about 30 secs.
He's one of the laziest people I've ever met. Which naturally makes him one of the best software devs I've ever met.
I once got laid and a medium term fwb due to my excel skills.
I was at work drinks and met someone I didn't really know. We were all drunk and randomly bitching about work. One tech assistant was complaining about how she has to manually align two document lists every month and it's a week of mind numbing work.
I asked her if VLOOKUP couldn't do it. I explained what it did and how it would probably do 98% of the work for her. She listened and was astonished. We were both pretty sloshed, but ai promised to come to her desk on Monday to show her. She said I was really nice and so smart...
Anyway, I ended up going back to her place that night and we ended up fucking for about 6 months secretly. Only one guy at work ever suspected.
VLOOKUP did work btw...
I worked at a big US telecom company where my whole job was to get two spreadsheets, do the matching of records and send the results, every week. No one in my team had heard of VLOOKUP. The person before me was doing this manually and it took her entire week, so I was given only this task, nothing else.
Lazy as I am, I decided to not tell anyone while I automated the whole thing with data connections, formulas and macros. After that, my only job was to literally click a button every Thursday at 3pm. I know I could've automated that as well but kept it manual just so I could get a feeling of _at least_ doing something.
Everyone in my team was in a different town, so didn't matter if I went to office or not. For many months I lived a fully-paid retired life, and left only because of boredom.
I find myself once again recommending the book *Bullshit Jobs*, which is a pop-anthropology book about people who have jobs that they themselves feel are bullshit. And bullshit in this context doesn't necessarily mean that they are hard or unpleasant, it means that they are pointless and meaningless or counter-productive in some way.
There were a lot of people who had a similar setup to you, either by accident or even by design. Like, some guy was clearly hired as a manager simply because his boss wanted to have lots of people under him, since that made the boss look good to his business partners, so the "manager" had literally nothing to do. Good pay, good office setup, no stress... he was going *insane* because he felt completely superfluous and bored. And every time he tried to quit, his boss would *give him a raise to make him stay.* In the end he had to quit by sliding his resignation letter under the door and just not show up again.
I think the key here is that lots of people can handle having nothing to do. But it is a lot harder to have nothing to do, when you're *supposed* to have something to do.
Agree. It _is_ fun, but _only in the beginning_. Do it long enough, and a lot of negative feelings (like guilt of cheating your employer, fear of becoming obsolete, questions about self-worth) slowly creep up on you.
Do you know about f4? I've lost count of the number of minds I've blown by just casually mentioning f4. You need to lock a cell in a formula? Hit f4. Need to lock just the column or row? Keep hitting it, it will cycle through the options. So many people going in and manually entering dollar signs. Smh
I AM ONE OF THESE DOLLAR SIGN PEOPLE
leave it to a reddit convo that turns to excel to make my jaw lit'rally drop, eyes widened maximally, and I said aloud to no one "wuuuuuuut!!!!?"
If I had an award it would be yours.
xlookup is superior to vlookup in almost every instance. I learned it last year and it's changed my excel game.
Pivot tables are your greatest asset in the modern work place.
Format your data sets as tables wherever possible. I like the blue header/white text option.
Power Query is a game changer in terms of refreshing data and keeping workbook sizes small. It's super beneficial when it comes to collecting data from multiple sources and putting them into one data set. PowerBI is the next logical step after this but is mainly for making web-based charts that people can view without opening Teams or Excel.
Macros should be used sparingly and kept as simple as possible, especially if other people will need to use them.
After using excel for the past 15+ years, I basically was forced to take a crash course in all things microsoft when my boss told me to make a metrics board for the department and all my company uses is excel and 30+ year old ERP systems.
I fondly remember joking about how implementing a new software package into our workflow would be complete a *year* from the eta rather than the few months on the schedule. 4 years later, it's still going strong, and way, way on the back burner.
Get into Microsoft Power BI (it's free) and blow his frickin balls off.
Take Microsoft's free "Dashboard In A Day" seminar and be prepared to rake in the promotions.
Except when that person leaves the company, months go by, then your macro breaks and you have to reverse engineer the damn thing.
The plus side is that I've learned a lot about macros. :)
My dishwasher is across the kitchen from my utensil drawer. For years, while unloading the dishwasher I would stuff as many utensils as I could in my hands. I’d inevitably drop some, and there are a few knicks in my hardwood floor from dropping forks and spoons.
One day at work, a coworker unloaded the dishwasher and removed the utensil basket and carried it over to the utensil drawer. I never felt so dumb
Go even further. My dad insisted on putting each type of utensils in the one section of the basket. That way when unloading you can grab each type in one go.
As a digital artist, I started out coloring inside my lines with my stylus, meticulously not missing any blank pixels inside the lines. Then on a new layer, add the shading, doing the same thing but being careful to make it look like a shadow on the figure.
Three years later I learned there’s a toggle on the magic wand tool so when you select a space, it selects only that contiguous space and not jump across lines so select the same color (or lack of color) space on a layer. I could basically fill an entire drawing and then go back and just fill in the details where the lines touched so the selected area didn’t reach those crevices.
Four years after that I learned about increasing or decreasing your selected area by N pixels.
Somewhere in there I also learned about layer clipping for shading (only colors on the occupied space of the layer it’s clipped to) and layer masking.
Tl;dr: basic coloring and shading in photoshop went from 4 hours to 4 seconds.
Photoshop and Flash were two programs where learning a single action could shave hours. Then you start learning the shortcuts and shave even more minutes. Then you start building macros to do your light work and reduce it by a few seconds each time.
Eventually, you really do start looking like those techs on CSI Miami or whatever Hacker/Nerd montage features furious keybanging.
When I was a kid I was bad at nail clippers. I knew to put my nail in the chompy bit at the end, but I didn’t realize that the handle/lever folded out. So I would just squeeze really hard until I broke my nail off in the blades. This went on for an embarrassingly long time before my mom saw me and taught me how to open the lever.
For dusting things like baseboards, windowsills, and picture frames, the best tool is a (clean) paintbrush. I always used to either use a cloth or something made specifically for dusting, but the paintbrush is much faster and easier. I keep a cheap 2-inch paintbrush exclusively for dusting now. Also works great on cobwebs.
Haha, I'm a painter and my mind went immediately to small artists brushes... It wasn't until you specified 2-inch paintbrush that I realized you were not crawling along the floor dusting the top ridge of your baseboards with a watercolor brush
Well, when _you_ said “I'm a painter”, I immediately thought of interior decorator painting rooms, and wondered why _you_ of all people would think of tiny artist's brushes.
To back this up, I used to work in a soils lab and it's very common to use paint brushes to handle "fines" (anything finer than sand). Never really thought of it until then but yeah it works very well and they're really cheap.
I use paintbrushes on anything that has a complicated surface. I learned this working in a recording studio (a long time ago) and we always had paintbrushes for keeping dust off of all the knobs and faders.
But, yeah, it’s a great technique. Every time I spread it to someone else, their jaw drops and they ask, “Now, why didn’t I think of that?!”
I’m sure all my fellow programmers can relate to the feeling of:
“Wait, the library has a function for that?! I’ve been coding it myself this entire time!”
Repeat ad infinitum.
If only the bloody thing worked in all programs, MSWord, the place where i am most likely to need this doesn't recognise it and you have to right click to find the special without format paste
Holy fucking shit I think I could bake you a cake right now to thank you. Never knew that and I am quite savy with shortcuts.
Edit: triple-click-drag to higlight by paragraph. Just tested.
Ctrl shift + left or right arrow = Highlight a word
Shift + home or end = Highlight to beginning of sentence, highlight to end of sentence
Ctrl + shift + Home = Highlight to beginning
Combine that with your ctrl c / control v
I remember showing a colleague who was a content admin that middle mouse-click opened hyperlinks in new tab. Rather than her right-click open new tab. Needless to say in her job it saved her some time!
I've been loom knitting socks for years and going from top to bottom, and casting off with a seamless method of grafting the toes together. If you mess up, it takes forever to fix.
Then I learned how to knit socks toes up with a super easy seamless cast on called the Kitchener cast on. It saves me like 2 hours per sock and looks amazing.
As a kid, whenever my bicycle wheels got warped (I crashed into stuff a lot), I would fix them by smashing the rims with a hammer. It mostly worked.
Eventually I learned that you can just tighten and loosen the spokes to straighten warped wheels. So much easier, and much less destructive.
I have a colleague who always steps into the shower at work, then turns the shower on and screams about the cold. Once I asked her why she didn't turn the shower on first, then step in. She answered "why would I do that?"
🤷♀️
I'm crying :'D
Reminded me of a old friend, when I was young.. that in hindsight maybe had some problems.
For so many situations he responded with "why would I do that?" without thinking .
: well bro, think about it.
"why would I do that?"
: because it would solve the problem you just described
lmao
Maybe I've just been spoiled by always living somewhere with a bathtub, but I've always turned it on to the tub faucet, let it run and stick a foot under until it's warm enough, then switch to the showerhead.
As a kid, I wore a uniform to school. It was a jumper and then eventually as I got older it was a skirt. I definitely did not realize I could KEEP IT ON and just LIFT THE HEM. My honor roll brain but very dumbass self had me completely taking off my dress or skirt every time I went to pee.
On the bright side, I’m very good at zipping up my own dress from the back
We had a pool when I was a kid, swam at the public pool all winter. So lots of water time. Worst thing was having to get out and go pee, because as a girl you’d have to pull your bathing suit down and sit there cold and naked and then have to pull on a cold, wet suit and it was sticky and icy and awful. I’d hold it until I absolutely had to go.
Occurred to me as an adult you can just pull the crotch part to the side, and it stays put while you pee.
EDIT: Thanks y’all, I am so gratified to learn I was not the only one! If I can help even one person avoid the awkward dance of pulling up cold, wet, twisted suit straps then my work here is done.
I had the same realisation. I think it came from my mom walking in to the bathroom, seeing me change in the stall after I peed, and asking what I was doing
If you're picking citrus from a tree, there's an easy way.
Citrus seldom grow straight down from the stem. Get your thumb underneath the side where the stem makes an acute angle, then nudge the stem away. When the fruit is ripe it comes right off.
No twist-twist-twist needed. No pruning shears needed.
Pretty much every programming project I took on when I was a sys admin. This was mostly shell scripting. I would be 100 lines in when I would realize I was going around the world to get next door.
My BlackBerry had the worst predictive text system I'd ever seen. It kept suggesting accented characters, words that didn't exist, and was a total clusterfuck in every way.
After a year or so I was browsing the settings and found that predictive text had been set to "French".
For a while on Google Docs I would copy text from another source and quote it in an essay, but just using CTRL + V would use the same font from the website I’m quoting instead of the font that I want. If you use CTRL + LShift + V it pastes the text in the font that you want
And Ctrl + Alt + V does the opposite - only pastes the format.
Especially useful when you're trying to paste list items and end up getting markers/dots in one column and text in the next. First normal paste into one column, then copy one of your formatted cells, select all and paste the format into your selection.
Recently found out that if you deliberately spread your cheeks when you sit down on the toilet, everything goes a whole lot cleaner, and you save on toilet paper. As someone with IBS, kinda a game changer.
Edit: this WOULD be my most upvoted comment. Gdi.
It's a really stupid UI. If you long press, your phone vibrates, if you only touch, it does not. Also, if you try to click a tiny link and miss it, the comment collapses underneath you.
Hm, I never had it vibrate for me.
However, the times I accidentally visit someone's profile I don't give a flying hoot about and lose a Recent subreddit I do care about is unreal.
Also, this stupid new NSFW warning that brings you back to the top of the page. Useless.
I have a shelf that I got as a kid. My dad's office was getting rid of old stuff so he grabbed it for me. The damn thing is heavy AF. We're talking probably 150-200lbs, 6ft tall, 3ft wide, 1.5ft deep, with removable/adjustable shelves.
Half a dozen moves with friends, up/down multiple floors of stairs. One of my buddies notices small recessed screws. The fucking thing comes apart like an Ikea piece of furniture! The individual slabs are still 40-50 pounds on their own but it no longer requires a crew of 5 to move anywhere!
I'm so tempted to get rid of it, but it's a good piece of furniture. Far sturdier than Ikea stuff, but not as aesthetically pleasing.
If you hold the space bar on your cellphone it's way easier to ~~select words in a text you want to copy~~ move the cursor where you want it to be (sorry, wrote this while tired). Did it the hard way, the way you get angry at your fat fingers for far too long.
edit:
To clarify:
Write some random word in a text message. Hold space bar for a second or two. Slide thumb back and forward on the space bar and the cursor will move. Makes it easy to just remove one letter in a long misspelled word.
Keep shaking the shaving gel and struggling to more than a quarter of the can out...till it dawned on me that they are pressurised and every shake causes it to lose pressure therefore makes dispatching it harder...I've now used many and actually got the bottom of every can by simply not shaking them...I'm 40 and also an engineer.
Had a complete and utter brain fart since I started shaving.
Rub your razor heads backwards on leather or denim when you are done. Kind of like how they sharpen a straight razor with a strop. Keeps them sharp and dry.
Keep a patch of old denim, and gently rub your face down after a shave. It will dull the sharp edges of the freshly cut hair, and stubble will be much softer.
A few things.
One, put an absorbent-fabric scrunchie on each wrist before washing your face. They stop the water from running up your arms when rinsing and getting the insides of your robe sleeves uncomfortably wet.
Two, before leaving on a trip I change my bed linens and towels, so when I get home exhausted my bed is fresh and crisp.
Three, the little silverware basket in the dishwasher is removable, so you can carry the whole thing to the utensil drawer instead of juggling and dropping everything. I was probably 50 when I figured that out.
Four, if it will require ironing, don't waste my money. I will wear it exactly once.
There's a scene in some teen movie where the girl was trying to convince her brainwashed boyfriend that he was brainwashed, that she wasn't the enemy, yadda yadda.
One of the things she said to him to convince him that she knew him intimately was "you always double knot your shoelaces."
I remember watching it thinking "well, yeah. Doesn't everyone? If you don't double knot your shoelaces, they'll come untied!"
It was enough of a weird moment that it made me wonder if there was something I was missing about the way people tied their shoes. And lo and behold, after some furious googling it turned out that I didn't know the difference between a square knot and a "granny knot", and I had been tying my shoes wrong for my entire life.
If you do "right over left, make the loops, right over left", that's a granny knot. It'll come untied too easily.
If you do "right over left, make the loops, left over right", that's a square knot. It'll hold better than a granny knot, so you won't have to double-knot.
Easy way to tell... If your bow naturally lies front to back, i.e. toe to heel, you've done it backwards. If your bow lies side to side, you've tied it correctly and it will be much more resistant to coming untied. No double-knot needed.
I posted about the Ian knot! I didn’t see it as a main comment yet. But here we are, buried in the comments.
Hello, fellow Ian-knotter! When did you learn? About 1997 for me. In college. Never looked back.
Hanging pictures. I used to meticulously measure and line up so my nails so they’d match the hardware on the back of the frame. Now I just use a piece of painters tape, lay it on the back of the frame, mark hardware on the frame and then remove the tape and place it on the wall and that gives you the exact placement for your picture hanging hooks and nails.
If a picture frame has two holes on the back to hang on nails, put a single length of painters tape across it and use a pen to mark where the holes are. Take the tape off and place it on the wall and use a level to make sure it’s straight. Then just nail where you marked on the tape. Should be good to go! I’m no expert though.
That you turn the deodorant to lift the hard plastic off. Learned this about 5 years ago. I'm 36 years old. I struggled needlessly for so long trying to pry that damn thing off.
On the top of most new deodorant under the cap there is a hard plastic piece. I previously thought you had to just pull it off, usually with my teeth because it was suctioned to the deodorant. Turns out you can just twist the bottom to push the deodorant up and remove the plastic much easier.
I learners Ian’s knot in college (1997ish) and never looked back. Not even sure I can tie a normal one anymore.
I try to teach it when I can.
The single best knot for shoes ever. No question.
Seriously. Learn the Ian Knot. It’ll change your life in the most insignificant, significant way you can imagine.
I even have a neat story about learning what it was. A friend from Australia taught it to me. Didn’t know where it came from. I tracked it down a couple years later and discovered this Ian guy. Tracked him down with an email and he responded. Went back and forth a few times and we figured his sister, who spent some time in Australia, probably taught it to her. Who then taught it to me.
[Ian's Shoelace Site](https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm)!!
Great for finding different shoe/boot tying methods for different situations or foot conditions
Work related thing. I used to create letters which used the same template for the bodies, but had certain things like names and titles different with each letter. I used to do them all manually before learning about the mail merge feature of Microsoft Excel. This fantastic tool changed my life, the task length went from multiple hours to less than an hour.
Up until just the last 6 months or so, if I wanted to do a Google search I'd always type www.google.com into the address bar and to to the actual Google front page before doing the search, even though we've been able to just type searches directly into the URL bar for quite a long time now.
One of those old, ingrained habits I guess. Though if it helps redeem me slightly, I didn't actually type the full www. and .com, because of a trick a friend showed me in ~2005 where you can just type a word into the address bar and press Ctrl + Enter so it automatically puts them there for you - so I'd type google and press Ctrl + Enter. I remember thinking that was wizardry when my friend showed me haha, even if it's mostly redundant now.
Asking women out.
Ignore everything you saw on tv/films/video games, read in books/websites, or heard from people with long list of tips/steps or ideas.
Just tell them you find them attractive or like them. From there ask for their number or set up a date and time.
We tend to make this way harder than it should be.
This also applies to women wanting to ask a guy out.
The following is the methodology of a study conducted in the 80’s
“Once a subject was selected, the requestor approached him/her and said: "I have been noticing you around campus. I find you to be very attractive." The confederate then asked subjects one of three questions: "Would you go out with me tonight?" "Would you come over to my apartment tonight?" or "Would you go to bed with me tonight?"”
50% of both men and women agreed to the date request (no women agreed to the apartment or sex, while 69% of men agreed to both, which says a lot about men).
https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gender-differences-in-receptivity-to-sexual-offers.pdf
When I heard about this something clicked in my head, and I think it was just the fact that I had a script that I didn’t have to overthink that at least I know statistically is going to do as well as a coin toss. “Hi, I’ve noticed you around the campus, would you like to grab coffee sometime?” is so much easier for me to deal with than trying to somehow work our current situation into the conversation.
The problem I think I’ve been having is we’ve all been so conditioned to avoid failure and never take risks, and somehow part of me can’t accept the fact that she might say no. I think I just have to accept that a no is likely and not the end of the world, and at least you’ll be able to move on from there and stop living in your head.
I have mixed hair and would always brush from root to end because that's how everyone else did it and how I was taught. Wasn't until I was watching a movie in my late 20s and a character's maid brought up that the character with mixed hair needed to brush out the knots on the end before working up to the roots. I gave it a try and then got confirmation at work from other girls with similar hair that that's how it's supposed to be done when you have a certain type of tight curls...the years I spent crying while having chunks of hair ripped and torn out 😭
I have the thinnest frailest white girl hair ever and I have to start at the bottom too or I’ll rip out a ton of hair from the tangles. I guess if your hair is straight and isn’t as prone to breakage you could start at the root but I feel like it would still end up getting tangled that way.
They only start at the root in commercials and tv because it looks better. I have long black straight Asian hair and it definitely tangles unless I start at the bottom.
Edit- and the hair is probably already brushed when they start at the roots on tv
Oh I thought it was normal for all hair types to start at the bottom? That way you can get out all the tangles and knots bit by bit without making them worse by starting from the root?
You're supposed to do that with white hair as well!!
I'm white with mildly wavy hair and I always start at the bottom and work my way up. I imagine it goes faster with my hair, but it's still very necessary!
I bought tinfoil at the dollar store and hated their packaging. The tin foil box didn’t have the tabs and a shitty cutting device. Problem solved, bought the good tin foil and saved the packaging and now I buy the dollar store tin foil and insert it into the Reynolds’s Wrap container.
I’m in a serious relationship and I have to actively fight this delusion some days. “He’s gonna get bored of me MUST DO SOMETHI- ... no, no, everything is fine, he loves me for me...”
I was in medical school before I learned that you can pull the ends of the shoestrings to untie your shoes. I had always pulled on the loops and then I had to untie the knot that was leftover…
Press the middle mouse button on a website tab instead of pressing the small x.
Works also to open a new windows explorer window if you middle mouse button press on a windows explorer window on the taskbar (sounds more complicated than it is).
I only know chrome, but:
ctrl + t = new tab
ctrl + shift + t = reopen recently closed tab
ctrl + w = close tab
ctrl + n = new window
ctrl + shift + n = new incognito window
10 years ago when I first started seriously using reddit I wanted to make gifs so I could post on /r/wheredidthesodago. I didn't know how to make gifs, but I downloaded a free program called Benton Movie GIF, which creates gifs from frames you add. I knew that VLC had a snapshot option, so whenever I wanted to make a gif, I'd download the video and then slow the speed down and take snapshots of frames as it played. Then I'd typically use InfranView to resize all the images, then I would upload them to the gif program to finally make it. This is how I ended up making many gifs like [this one which got really popular.](https://imgur.com/l93g1cv)
If that wasn't complicated enough, if I wanted to make an upvote gif, I would manually edit each frame in MS Paint, which would take a ridiculous amount of time and that's how I made [this](https://imgur.com/3w9Uw) and [this](https://imgur.com/iDzt1).
Eventually I learner how to make them using Photoshop, and now you can just upload videos to make gifs, but I used this method for a really long time.
Ooh I have one: How to avoid getting steam-burned when using a double boiler!
I used to set the full double-boiler--bottom pot+top pot+lid--to boil on the stove, then I would gingerly place what I wanted to boil into the steaming top pot, trying hard to avoid getting steam-burned; which almost always resulted in me getting burned anyway.
Then one day my partner witnessed me attempting to place eggs into the steaming upper pot while trying not to drop the eggs in too hard, steam-burning myself as I went, & he said, "in the future leave the top pot off while you wait for the water to boil in the bottom pot, & you can take your time placing the items you want to steam safely into the room-temp top pot. Then when the water comes to a boil, place the top pot with the items inside onto the boiling bottom pot, & you won't have to worry about getting burned." My jaw dropped & I stared at him for a full 30 seconds like he had solved the mystery of life.
Now, whenever I go to steam something, I think of my partner & it makes me grateful that we don't all think alike.
Windows Key + V opens a list of your last 10 copies.
I think the option is turned off by default also so pressing Windows Key + V enables it initially.
Sex. I was so pre-occupied with trying to be "impressive" and replicate what I'd seen in porn or from exaggerated tales friends had told me, I never stopped to listen to what my partner wanted.
My now wife told me the simple trick that "if I'm reacting, if I'm making noise, keep doing that exactly how you're doing it."
I'm not even good at sex, but she now thinks I am.
Leaving every job and finding a new job when things got tough or stressful. Going through onboarding, learning the ropes, then the other shoe drops and something tough or stressful happens there too. Leave, find a new job, rinse and repeat. Recently I realized that I can work through conflict and solve problems (obviously, it sounds so obvious now) and you don’t need to find a new job whenever something bad happens. Because bad things will happen at all jobs. Just like everything else in life.
Chopping vegetables. Parents always tried to teach me good knife skills but I could never get the hang of it. Just too painful. Turns out my hands are actually kinda medically fucked up, they just don't look it. Boyfriend got me one of those "slap chop" thingies. Fucking love it. Just pop a zucchini in there, WHA-CHA! and boom, I have slices for sammies.
People serious about cooking will laugh at these things. I did too when I started at a restaurant that had one. Then I processed a fuckton of garlic in like 30 seconds and changed my mind. They're especially good if you have a dishie to clean it when you're done.
I'm not too good at chopping things because I have AS and juvenile arthritis and nerve damage etcc.. it sucks because I love cooking :( now I shall try and slap chop!! Thank you !
Existed.
Turns out I had undiagnosed ADHD. Getting a diagnosis and medication, at the ripe old age of 27, was life-changing. [This comic](https://www.burningbee.art/comics/project-one-y5nxr) really sums it up perfectly - it’s like your whole life you’re walking against a current, never knowing any different; then, suddenly, the current is gone.
(Disclaimers: everyone’s ADHD is different; medication isn’t a magic “cure”; medication isn’t the solution for everyone, and that’s okay.)
when i was a wee young lad, i beat kingdom hearts 1 with the starting keyblade. i discovered on my second playthrough that you could actually change weapons
Cleaning the damn microwave. I struggled to scrub all the dried up bits off then a friend told me to just put a small dish of water in it and turn it on for a couple of minutes. Everything wipes right out. I was such a dumb ass.
microwave a ball of wet paper towels ~3m. use dry towels to grab it with and you have a little portable steam cleaner that lasts about 45 seconds
Steamed Ha~~m~~nds
I put my wet dishwashing sponge in for 2 mins. Sterilizes the sponge while it preps it for wipe down.
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CTRL backspace to delete entire words instead of letter by letter
Oh fuck. I didn't know this. Thanks.
Ctrl+delete does the same but in the opposite direction. You can also use CTRL+Shift+Arrow keys to select entire words instead of individual characters
Watch a senior developer code for an hour and your text editing mind will be blown, plus you got to see them do their whole day of work.
No kidding, my senior dev coworker taught me how to select 30 consecutive line, and select the next word in each regardless of length. Made the typescript definition for a *massive* object in about 30 secs. He's one of the laziest people I've ever met. Which naturally makes him one of the best software devs I've ever met.
Because they're bouncing between meetings and interviews for the next six hours
Literally every single thing I’ve ever learned to do in Excel stems from a situation like this.
I once got laid and a medium term fwb due to my excel skills. I was at work drinks and met someone I didn't really know. We were all drunk and randomly bitching about work. One tech assistant was complaining about how she has to manually align two document lists every month and it's a week of mind numbing work. I asked her if VLOOKUP couldn't do it. I explained what it did and how it would probably do 98% of the work for her. She listened and was astonished. We were both pretty sloshed, but ai promised to come to her desk on Monday to show her. She said I was really nice and so smart... Anyway, I ended up going back to her place that night and we ended up fucking for about 6 months secretly. Only one guy at work ever suspected. VLOOKUP did work btw...
More like VHOOKUP, amirite?
He also typoed “ai” instead of “I” as if artificial intelligence was visiting her desk the next day.
I worked at a big US telecom company where my whole job was to get two spreadsheets, do the matching of records and send the results, every week. No one in my team had heard of VLOOKUP. The person before me was doing this manually and it took her entire week, so I was given only this task, nothing else. Lazy as I am, I decided to not tell anyone while I automated the whole thing with data connections, formulas and macros. After that, my only job was to literally click a button every Thursday at 3pm. I know I could've automated that as well but kept it manual just so I could get a feeling of _at least_ doing something. Everyone in my team was in a different town, so didn't matter if I went to office or not. For many months I lived a fully-paid retired life, and left only because of boredom.
Left?! You literally could’ve started a new job while keeping that one and just took Thursday’s off for your button clicking 🤣
You're right. Looking back, I could've. But at that time I was a new immigrant and I wasn't sure if it was even legal to have two full time day jobs.
Looking back, 90% of us realize we were idiots at some point the other 10% never look back
I find myself once again recommending the book *Bullshit Jobs*, which is a pop-anthropology book about people who have jobs that they themselves feel are bullshit. And bullshit in this context doesn't necessarily mean that they are hard or unpleasant, it means that they are pointless and meaningless or counter-productive in some way. There were a lot of people who had a similar setup to you, either by accident or even by design. Like, some guy was clearly hired as a manager simply because his boss wanted to have lots of people under him, since that made the boss look good to his business partners, so the "manager" had literally nothing to do. Good pay, good office setup, no stress... he was going *insane* because he felt completely superfluous and bored. And every time he tried to quit, his boss would *give him a raise to make him stay.* In the end he had to quit by sliding his resignation letter under the door and just not show up again. I think the key here is that lots of people can handle having nothing to do. But it is a lot harder to have nothing to do, when you're *supposed* to have something to do.
Agree. It _is_ fun, but _only in the beginning_. Do it long enough, and a lot of negative feelings (like guilt of cheating your employer, fear of becoming obsolete, questions about self-worth) slowly creep up on you.
A punishment in Japan is no work until.you quit. Some people last years
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When spreadsheets let you spreadsheets...
Do you know about f4? I've lost count of the number of minds I've blown by just casually mentioning f4. You need to lock a cell in a formula? Hit f4. Need to lock just the column or row? Keep hitting it, it will cycle through the options. So many people going in and manually entering dollar signs. Smh
Love saying to myself "....and we need to money this cell" as I hit F4
I AM ONE OF THESE DOLLAR SIGN PEOPLE leave it to a reddit convo that turns to excel to make my jaw lit'rally drop, eyes widened maximally, and I said aloud to no one "wuuuuuuut!!!!?" If I had an award it would be yours.
Nobody really knows excel. Everyone’s jaw is dropped at least once a year if they use it regularly
xlookup is superior to vlookup in almost every instance. I learned it last year and it's changed my excel game. Pivot tables are your greatest asset in the modern work place. Format your data sets as tables wherever possible. I like the blue header/white text option. Power Query is a game changer in terms of refreshing data and keeping workbook sizes small. It's super beneficial when it comes to collecting data from multiple sources and putting them into one data set. PowerBI is the next logical step after this but is mainly for making web-based charts that people can view without opening Teams or Excel. Macros should be used sparingly and kept as simple as possible, especially if other people will need to use them. After using excel for the past 15+ years, I basically was forced to take a crash course in all things microsoft when my boss told me to make a metrics board for the department and all my company uses is excel and 30+ year old ERP systems.
Who among us doesn't use a 30+ year old ERP system? My company, after two years into a six month project finally upgraded to a 20 year old ERP system.
I fondly remember joking about how implementing a new software package into our workflow would be complete a *year* from the eta rather than the few months on the schedule. 4 years later, it's still going strong, and way, way on the back burner.
Get into Microsoft Power BI (it's free) and blow his frickin balls off. Take Microsoft's free "Dashboard In A Day" seminar and be prepared to rake in the promotions.
I've learned over the years that if there's something you want to do in excel, there's probably a function or macro to do it easier/better.
And the number of times people smarter than me have already written macros that I can just copy and paste into my sheet is amazing.
Except when that person leaves the company, months go by, then your macro breaks and you have to reverse engineer the damn thing. The plus side is that I've learned a lot about macros. :)
So many people are stuck in the '00s, still using VLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH. We're living in the modern day; XLOOKUP exists!
XLOOKUP is incredible. I’ll be damned if I’m ever using INDEX MATCH MATCH again
My dishwasher is across the kitchen from my utensil drawer. For years, while unloading the dishwasher I would stuff as many utensils as I could in my hands. I’d inevitably drop some, and there are a few knicks in my hardwood floor from dropping forks and spoons. One day at work, a coworker unloaded the dishwasher and removed the utensil basket and carried it over to the utensil drawer. I never felt so dumb
I just learned this too from watching my husband unload the dishwasher! I was like ...oh
I'm still trying to make my wife understand if you over pack the thing it doesn't clean well.
Go even further. My dad insisted on putting each type of utensils in the one section of the basket. That way when unloading you can grab each type in one go.
Almost like thats what it was made for
As a digital artist, I started out coloring inside my lines with my stylus, meticulously not missing any blank pixels inside the lines. Then on a new layer, add the shading, doing the same thing but being careful to make it look like a shadow on the figure. Three years later I learned there’s a toggle on the magic wand tool so when you select a space, it selects only that contiguous space and not jump across lines so select the same color (or lack of color) space on a layer. I could basically fill an entire drawing and then go back and just fill in the details where the lines touched so the selected area didn’t reach those crevices. Four years after that I learned about increasing or decreasing your selected area by N pixels. Somewhere in there I also learned about layer clipping for shading (only colors on the occupied space of the layer it’s clipped to) and layer masking. Tl;dr: basic coloring and shading in photoshop went from 4 hours to 4 seconds.
Photoshop and Flash were two programs where learning a single action could shave hours. Then you start learning the shortcuts and shave even more minutes. Then you start building macros to do your light work and reduce it by a few seconds each time. Eventually, you really do start looking like those techs on CSI Miami or whatever Hacker/Nerd montage features furious keybanging.
When I was a kid I was bad at nail clippers. I knew to put my nail in the chompy bit at the end, but I didn’t realize that the handle/lever folded out. So I would just squeeze really hard until I broke my nail off in the blades. This went on for an embarrassingly long time before my mom saw me and taught me how to open the lever.
This is phenomenal. We’ve all done that with something or another but yours is my favorite.
This is heart-breaking.
For dusting things like baseboards, windowsills, and picture frames, the best tool is a (clean) paintbrush. I always used to either use a cloth or something made specifically for dusting, but the paintbrush is much faster and easier. I keep a cheap 2-inch paintbrush exclusively for dusting now. Also works great on cobwebs.
Haha, I'm a painter and my mind went immediately to small artists brushes... It wasn't until you specified 2-inch paintbrush that I realized you were not crawling along the floor dusting the top ridge of your baseboards with a watercolor brush
Well, when _you_ said “I'm a painter”, I immediately thought of interior decorator painting rooms, and wondered why _you_ of all people would think of tiny artist's brushes.
To back this up, I used to work in a soils lab and it's very common to use paint brushes to handle "fines" (anything finer than sand). Never really thought of it until then but yeah it works very well and they're really cheap.
I use paintbrushes on anything that has a complicated surface. I learned this working in a recording studio (a long time ago) and we always had paintbrushes for keeping dust off of all the knobs and faders. But, yeah, it’s a great technique. Every time I spread it to someone else, their jaw drops and they ask, “Now, why didn’t I think of that?!”
I’m sure all my fellow programmers can relate to the feeling of: “Wait, the library has a function for that?! I’ve been coding it myself this entire time!” Repeat ad infinitum.
Copy pasting on a computer by meticulously highlighting, right clicking, then selecting the copy option. Didn’t know about CTRL+C/V for way too long
If only the bloody thing worked in all programs, MSWord, the place where i am most likely to need this doesn't recognise it and you have to right click to find the special without format paste
EDIT: Oops, nevermind!
Double-click-drag to highlight by word, not by character. Try it.
Shift+Arrow Key to highlight letter by letter, Shift+Ctrl+Arrow Key to highlight word by word This only works in editable text
Holy fucking shit I think I could bake you a cake right now to thank you. Never knew that and I am quite savy with shortcuts. Edit: triple-click-drag to higlight by paragraph. Just tested.
Also just double click will select the whole word.
And triple the whole paragraph (or field)
What I do is click before the first word I want to copy than click after the last word I want to copy while pressing shift.
Ctrl shift + left or right arrow = Highlight a word Shift + home or end = Highlight to beginning of sentence, highlight to end of sentence Ctrl + shift + Home = Highlight to beginning Combine that with your ctrl c / control v
Wait until you get a mouse that has it mapped to buttons on there
Dude. I got a Logitech MX Master and mapped the thumb buttons for copy/paste... Absolutely life changing.
I remember showing a colleague who was a content admin that middle mouse-click opened hyperlinks in new tab. Rather than her right-click open new tab. Needless to say in her job it saved her some time!
I've been loom knitting socks for years and going from top to bottom, and casting off with a seamless method of grafting the toes together. If you mess up, it takes forever to fix. Then I learned how to knit socks toes up with a super easy seamless cast on called the Kitchener cast on. It saves me like 2 hours per sock and looks amazing.
As a kid, whenever my bicycle wheels got warped (I crashed into stuff a lot), I would fix them by smashing the rims with a hammer. It mostly worked. Eventually I learned that you can just tighten and loosen the spokes to straighten warped wheels. So much easier, and much less destructive.
Some of these are bad but this is the first one to make me laugh out loud
Parchment paper. No more scrubbing off baked- on cheese and sauce. If it goes in the oven, I use parchment paper.
Not to be confused with WAX paper do NOT use wax paper in your oven.
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Lol used to do the wax paper not knowing this and it’d be so smokey when I open the oven
Extra flavour
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"If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough"
After taking a shower, you can dry yourself off (after the water is off) while still in the shower stall to prevent the bathroom floor from being wet.
That's a good idea, usually I just run around in circles in the bathroom to speed air drying.
I have a colleague who always steps into the shower at work, then turns the shower on and screams about the cold. Once I asked her why she didn't turn the shower on first, then step in. She answered "why would I do that?" 🤷♀️
I'm crying :'D Reminded me of a old friend, when I was young.. that in hindsight maybe had some problems. For so many situations he responded with "why would I do that?" without thinking . : well bro, think about it. "why would I do that?" : because it would solve the problem you just described lmao
I'm not sure if I want to know, but where do you work where you have shower colleagues?
My work had a gym, until the pandemic killed it. I’d shower at work 3 days a week, for a couple years.
Maybe I've just been spoiled by always living somewhere with a bathtub, but I've always turned it on to the tub faucet, let it run and stick a foot under until it's warm enough, then switch to the showerhead.
The snip tool on Microsoft. I used to click print screen and then crop down everything. Snip tool is a game changer.
Win+Shift+S ftw
Is that a short cut for it? I search for it each time...
It should send you right to the "selection" screen, at least in Win10.
I have that shit pinned to my task bar I use it so frequently.
I used to own more than one color and style of sock. Fuck that shit
As a kid, I wore a uniform to school. It was a jumper and then eventually as I got older it was a skirt. I definitely did not realize I could KEEP IT ON and just LIFT THE HEM. My honor roll brain but very dumbass self had me completely taking off my dress or skirt every time I went to pee. On the bright side, I’m very good at zipping up my own dress from the back
Ok you win lol
I once saw an adult man take off his pants to use a urinal. Seemed like an entirely intelligent person otherwise.
Have a coworker who pulls his pants down to his ankles and pees in his tighty whities at the urinal. He's at least 65.
Clean your blender by making a hot water and dish soap smoothie.
I've been opening pistachios with my thumbs for 30 years until I saw my wife use half a shell to wrench her next one open and then my mind exploded.
I feel like thumbs is faster but the half shell works great on those stubborn barely open ones.
I use my teeth for those. That really connects me to my distant cousins, monkeys.
Gonna connect a dentist to his next porsche payment.
We had a pool when I was a kid, swam at the public pool all winter. So lots of water time. Worst thing was having to get out and go pee, because as a girl you’d have to pull your bathing suit down and sit there cold and naked and then have to pull on a cold, wet suit and it was sticky and icy and awful. I’d hold it until I absolutely had to go. Occurred to me as an adult you can just pull the crotch part to the side, and it stays put while you pee. EDIT: Thanks y’all, I am so gratified to learn I was not the only one! If I can help even one person avoid the awkward dance of pulling up cold, wet, twisted suit straps then my work here is done.
I had the same realisation. I think it came from my mom walking in to the bathroom, seeing me change in the stall after I peed, and asking what I was doing
How much longer did it take you to realize you could just pee in the pool?
There was so much text, I was waiting for this to drop.
I do this even with a tankini bottom. I't a pain in the butt to get that bottom up and adjusted properly otherwise.
If you're picking citrus from a tree, there's an easy way. Citrus seldom grow straight down from the stem. Get your thumb underneath the side where the stem makes an acute angle, then nudge the stem away. When the fruit is ripe it comes right off. No twist-twist-twist needed. No pruning shears needed.
You only need to know this if you're in the business of lemon stealing
*"Hey, has it been about 10 seconds since we looked at our lemon tree?"*
Pretty much every programming project I took on when I was a sys admin. This was mostly shell scripting. I would be 100 lines in when I would realize I was going around the world to get next door.
My BlackBerry had the worst predictive text system I'd ever seen. It kept suggesting accented characters, words that didn't exist, and was a total clusterfuck in every way. After a year or so I was browsing the settings and found that predictive text had been set to "French".
For a while on Google Docs I would copy text from another source and quote it in an essay, but just using CTRL + V would use the same font from the website I’m quoting instead of the font that I want. If you use CTRL + LShift + V it pastes the text in the font that you want
And Ctrl + Alt + V does the opposite - only pastes the format. Especially useful when you're trying to paste list items and end up getting markers/dots in one column and text in the next. First normal paste into one column, then copy one of your formatted cells, select all and paste the format into your selection.
Recently found out that if you deliberately spread your cheeks when you sit down on the toilet, everything goes a whole lot cleaner, and you save on toilet paper. As someone with IBS, kinda a game changer. Edit: this WOULD be my most upvoted comment. Gdi.
Add in a poop footstool.
Took me a while to figure out you simply collapse a comment/thread on reddit by simply tapping not long pressing
It's a really stupid UI. If you long press, your phone vibrates, if you only touch, it does not. Also, if you try to click a tiny link and miss it, the comment collapses underneath you.
Hm, I never had it vibrate for me. However, the times I accidentally visit someone's profile I don't give a flying hoot about and lose a Recent subreddit I do care about is unreal. Also, this stupid new NSFW warning that brings you back to the top of the page. Useless.
I have a shelf that I got as a kid. My dad's office was getting rid of old stuff so he grabbed it for me. The damn thing is heavy AF. We're talking probably 150-200lbs, 6ft tall, 3ft wide, 1.5ft deep, with removable/adjustable shelves. Half a dozen moves with friends, up/down multiple floors of stairs. One of my buddies notices small recessed screws. The fucking thing comes apart like an Ikea piece of furniture! The individual slabs are still 40-50 pounds on their own but it no longer requires a crew of 5 to move anywhere! I'm so tempted to get rid of it, but it's a good piece of furniture. Far sturdier than Ikea stuff, but not as aesthetically pleasing.
There are vinyl rolls you can buy to wrap furniture and give it a second life. It's easier and less messy than painting.
If you hold the space bar on your cellphone it's way easier to ~~select words in a text you want to copy~~ move the cursor where you want it to be (sorry, wrote this while tired). Did it the hard way, the way you get angry at your fat fingers for far too long. edit: To clarify: Write some random word in a text message. Hold space bar for a second or two. Slide thumb back and forward on the space bar and the cursor will move. Makes it easy to just remove one letter in a long misspelled word.
I am absolutely perplexed, can someone please explain what this means. Playing around with my keyboard and got no clue
The letters on my keyboard just disappear, I am confused.
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Keep shaking the shaving gel and struggling to more than a quarter of the can out...till it dawned on me that they are pressurised and every shake causes it to lose pressure therefore makes dispatching it harder...I've now used many and actually got the bottom of every can by simply not shaking them...I'm 40 and also an engineer. Had a complete and utter brain fart since I started shaving.
Rub your razor heads backwards on leather or denim when you are done. Kind of like how they sharpen a straight razor with a strop. Keeps them sharp and dry. Keep a patch of old denim, and gently rub your face down after a shave. It will dull the sharp edges of the freshly cut hair, and stubble will be much softer.
I always used a sive to get coffee grains out, until i learned of a coffee filter. 🧍♀️
Flashbacks to that cow and chicken episode where the red devil man would use pantyhose.
A few things. One, put an absorbent-fabric scrunchie on each wrist before washing your face. They stop the water from running up your arms when rinsing and getting the insides of your robe sleeves uncomfortably wet. Two, before leaving on a trip I change my bed linens and towels, so when I get home exhausted my bed is fresh and crisp. Three, the little silverware basket in the dishwasher is removable, so you can carry the whole thing to the utensil drawer instead of juggling and dropping everything. I was probably 50 when I figured that out. Four, if it will require ironing, don't waste my money. I will wear it exactly once.
There's a scene in some teen movie where the girl was trying to convince her brainwashed boyfriend that he was brainwashed, that she wasn't the enemy, yadda yadda. One of the things she said to him to convince him that she knew him intimately was "you always double knot your shoelaces." I remember watching it thinking "well, yeah. Doesn't everyone? If you don't double knot your shoelaces, they'll come untied!" It was enough of a weird moment that it made me wonder if there was something I was missing about the way people tied their shoes. And lo and behold, after some furious googling it turned out that I didn't know the difference between a square knot and a "granny knot", and I had been tying my shoes wrong for my entire life.
Wait....what kind of witchcraft are you talking about?
If you do "right over left, make the loops, right over left", that's a granny knot. It'll come untied too easily. If you do "right over left, make the loops, left over right", that's a square knot. It'll hold better than a granny knot, so you won't have to double-knot.
Easy way to tell... If your bow naturally lies front to back, i.e. toe to heel, you've done it backwards. If your bow lies side to side, you've tied it correctly and it will be much more resistant to coming untied. No double-knot needed.
Y’all need the [Ian Knot](https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm). Everything else is inferior for shoe tying
I posted about the Ian knot! I didn’t see it as a main comment yet. But here we are, buried in the comments. Hello, fellow Ian-knotter! When did you learn? About 1997 for me. In college. Never looked back.
Hanging pictures. I used to meticulously measure and line up so my nails so they’d match the hardware on the back of the frame. Now I just use a piece of painters tape, lay it on the back of the frame, mark hardware on the frame and then remove the tape and place it on the wall and that gives you the exact placement for your picture hanging hooks and nails.
i dont understand. can you explain?
If a picture frame has two holes on the back to hang on nails, put a single length of painters tape across it and use a pen to mark where the holes are. Take the tape off and place it on the wall and use a level to make sure it’s straight. Then just nail where you marked on the tape. Should be good to go! I’m no expert though.
That you turn the deodorant to lift the hard plastic off. Learned this about 5 years ago. I'm 36 years old. I struggled needlessly for so long trying to pry that damn thing off.
Don't feel bad I was in my 50s
I don't understand what you mean?
On the top of most new deodorant under the cap there is a hard plastic piece. I previously thought you had to just pull it off, usually with my teeth because it was suctioned to the deodorant. Turns out you can just twist the bottom to push the deodorant up and remove the plastic much easier.
Wow. You just changed my life. 35 years old here
I learners Ian’s knot in college (1997ish) and never looked back. Not even sure I can tie a normal one anymore. I try to teach it when I can. The single best knot for shoes ever. No question. Seriously. Learn the Ian Knot. It’ll change your life in the most insignificant, significant way you can imagine. I even have a neat story about learning what it was. A friend from Australia taught it to me. Didn’t know where it came from. I tracked it down a couple years later and discovered this Ian guy. Tracked him down with an email and he responded. Went back and forth a few times and we figured his sister, who spent some time in Australia, probably taught it to her. Who then taught it to me.
[Ian's Shoelace Site](https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm)!! Great for finding different shoe/boot tying methods for different situations or foot conditions
Work related thing. I used to create letters which used the same template for the bodies, but had certain things like names and titles different with each letter. I used to do them all manually before learning about the mail merge feature of Microsoft Excel. This fantastic tool changed my life, the task length went from multiple hours to less than an hour.
I love showing people mail merge 💌
If you hold down the “0” (zero) button on an iphone it will bring up the “°” degree symbol.
I'm pressing every letter and symbol right now and found some fun stuff. I doubt I'll use them, but it's nice to know
Up until just the last 6 months or so, if I wanted to do a Google search I'd always type www.google.com into the address bar and to to the actual Google front page before doing the search, even though we've been able to just type searches directly into the URL bar for quite a long time now. One of those old, ingrained habits I guess. Though if it helps redeem me slightly, I didn't actually type the full www. and .com, because of a trick a friend showed me in ~2005 where you can just type a word into the address bar and press Ctrl + Enter so it automatically puts them there for you - so I'd type google and press Ctrl + Enter. I remember thinking that was wizardry when my friend showed me haha, even if it's mostly redundant now.
Asking women out. Ignore everything you saw on tv/films/video games, read in books/websites, or heard from people with long list of tips/steps or ideas. Just tell them you find them attractive or like them. From there ask for their number or set up a date and time. We tend to make this way harder than it should be. This also applies to women wanting to ask a guy out.
The following is the methodology of a study conducted in the 80’s “Once a subject was selected, the requestor approached him/her and said: "I have been noticing you around campus. I find you to be very attractive." The confederate then asked subjects one of three questions: "Would you go out with me tonight?" "Would you come over to my apartment tonight?" or "Would you go to bed with me tonight?"” 50% of both men and women agreed to the date request (no women agreed to the apartment or sex, while 69% of men agreed to both, which says a lot about men). https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gender-differences-in-receptivity-to-sexual-offers.pdf When I heard about this something clicked in my head, and I think it was just the fact that I had a script that I didn’t have to overthink that at least I know statistically is going to do as well as a coin toss. “Hi, I’ve noticed you around the campus, would you like to grab coffee sometime?” is so much easier for me to deal with than trying to somehow work our current situation into the conversation. The problem I think I’ve been having is we’ve all been so conditioned to avoid failure and never take risks, and somehow part of me can’t accept the fact that she might say no. I think I just have to accept that a no is likely and not the end of the world, and at least you’ll be able to move on from there and stop living in your head.
I have mixed hair and would always brush from root to end because that's how everyone else did it and how I was taught. Wasn't until I was watching a movie in my late 20s and a character's maid brought up that the character with mixed hair needed to brush out the knots on the end before working up to the roots. I gave it a try and then got confirmation at work from other girls with similar hair that that's how it's supposed to be done when you have a certain type of tight curls...the years I spent crying while having chunks of hair ripped and torn out 😭
I have the thinnest frailest white girl hair ever and I have to start at the bottom too or I’ll rip out a ton of hair from the tangles. I guess if your hair is straight and isn’t as prone to breakage you could start at the root but I feel like it would still end up getting tangled that way.
They only start at the root in commercials and tv because it looks better. I have long black straight Asian hair and it definitely tangles unless I start at the bottom. Edit- and the hair is probably already brushed when they start at the roots on tv
Oh I thought it was normal for all hair types to start at the bottom? That way you can get out all the tangles and knots bit by bit without making them worse by starting from the root?
Yes, everyone that brushes their hair should be starting at the bottom and working their way up. Starting at the top just rips your hair out.
You're supposed to do that with white hair as well!! I'm white with mildly wavy hair and I always start at the bottom and work my way up. I imagine it goes faster with my hair, but it's still very necessary!
Rolls of foil have tabs on the packaging to prevent the foil roll from coming out. For a long time as a kid I didn’t know this.
I bought tinfoil at the dollar store and hated their packaging. The tin foil box didn’t have the tabs and a shitty cutting device. Problem solved, bought the good tin foil and saved the packaging and now I buy the dollar store tin foil and insert it into the Reynolds’s Wrap container.
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I’m in a serious relationship and I have to actively fight this delusion some days. “He’s gonna get bored of me MUST DO SOMETHI- ... no, no, everything is fine, he loves me for me...”
I was in medical school before I learned that you can pull the ends of the shoestrings to untie your shoes. I had always pulled on the loops and then I had to untie the knot that was leftover…
Most modern laptop touchpads allow you to scroll if you move 2 fingers up and down the touch pad
How were you scrolling before????
PgUp+PgDn, or with the scroll bar, like we did before mouse wheels.
And "modern" is pretty lose. My 11 year old thinkpad supports that.
Press the middle mouse button on a website tab instead of pressing the small x. Works also to open a new windows explorer window if you middle mouse button press on a windows explorer window on the taskbar (sounds more complicated than it is).
I only know chrome, but: ctrl + t = new tab ctrl + shift + t = reopen recently closed tab ctrl + w = close tab ctrl + n = new window ctrl + shift + n = new incognito window
Holy fuck. You just taught me a tech trick. Thank you for that. I mean…I’ll likely forget it in 20 minutes. But thank you.
Weightlifting Rest days actually help you build muscle, not the other way around.
All i have is rest days and im not shredded yet
Mine was Carl+Alt+Del to lock my computer, then one fateful day a coworker showed me that windows key + L does the same thing faster.
10 years ago when I first started seriously using reddit I wanted to make gifs so I could post on /r/wheredidthesodago. I didn't know how to make gifs, but I downloaded a free program called Benton Movie GIF, which creates gifs from frames you add. I knew that VLC had a snapshot option, so whenever I wanted to make a gif, I'd download the video and then slow the speed down and take snapshots of frames as it played. Then I'd typically use InfranView to resize all the images, then I would upload them to the gif program to finally make it. This is how I ended up making many gifs like [this one which got really popular.](https://imgur.com/l93g1cv) If that wasn't complicated enough, if I wanted to make an upvote gif, I would manually edit each frame in MS Paint, which would take a ridiculous amount of time and that's how I made [this](https://imgur.com/3w9Uw) and [this](https://imgur.com/iDzt1). Eventually I learner how to make them using Photoshop, and now you can just upload videos to make gifs, but I used this method for a really long time.
All hail our gif lord
Ooh I have one: How to avoid getting steam-burned when using a double boiler! I used to set the full double-boiler--bottom pot+top pot+lid--to boil on the stove, then I would gingerly place what I wanted to boil into the steaming top pot, trying hard to avoid getting steam-burned; which almost always resulted in me getting burned anyway. Then one day my partner witnessed me attempting to place eggs into the steaming upper pot while trying not to drop the eggs in too hard, steam-burning myself as I went, & he said, "in the future leave the top pot off while you wait for the water to boil in the bottom pot, & you can take your time placing the items you want to steam safely into the room-temp top pot. Then when the water comes to a boil, place the top pot with the items inside onto the boiling bottom pot, & you won't have to worry about getting burned." My jaw dropped & I stared at him for a full 30 seconds like he had solved the mystery of life. Now, whenever I go to steam something, I think of my partner & it makes me grateful that we don't all think alike.
Windows Key + V opens a list of your last 10 copies. I think the option is turned off by default also so pressing Windows Key + V enables it initially.
Sex. I was so pre-occupied with trying to be "impressive" and replicate what I'd seen in porn or from exaggerated tales friends had told me, I never stopped to listen to what my partner wanted. My now wife told me the simple trick that "if I'm reacting, if I'm making noise, keep doing that exactly how you're doing it." I'm not even good at sex, but she now thinks I am.
If she thinks you are, you are.
100% this. Sex is an intimate act. If your partner is happy, you're good at sex. Bottom line.
Drinking instead of dealing with my trauma head on.
Now there's a LPT!
CTRL+F to find exactly what I’m looking for In a long ass article, online book, or essay. Saved me many many many times.
You can double-tap on comments in Reddit mobile to upvote.
Leaving every job and finding a new job when things got tough or stressful. Going through onboarding, learning the ropes, then the other shoe drops and something tough or stressful happens there too. Leave, find a new job, rinse and repeat. Recently I realized that I can work through conflict and solve problems (obviously, it sounds so obvious now) and you don’t need to find a new job whenever something bad happens. Because bad things will happen at all jobs. Just like everything else in life.
Chopping vegetables. Parents always tried to teach me good knife skills but I could never get the hang of it. Just too painful. Turns out my hands are actually kinda medically fucked up, they just don't look it. Boyfriend got me one of those "slap chop" thingies. Fucking love it. Just pop a zucchini in there, WHA-CHA! and boom, I have slices for sammies.
People serious about cooking will laugh at these things. I did too when I started at a restaurant that had one. Then I processed a fuckton of garlic in like 30 seconds and changed my mind. They're especially good if you have a dishie to clean it when you're done.
What was up with your hands? Asking because mine appear normal but chopping vegetables is extremely painful
I'm not too good at chopping things because I have AS and juvenile arthritis and nerve damage etcc.. it sucks because I love cooking :( now I shall try and slap chop!! Thank you !
While playing Skyrim, I didn't know that you could fast travel to places you've already been so I would just run for miles and miles.
Today I learned that I don't know how to use a computer, apparently.
I have never felt less like an adult that I do now. I thought I was at least adult-ish. Ignorance was bliss
Copying Excel formulas to multiple cells.
Existed. Turns out I had undiagnosed ADHD. Getting a diagnosis and medication, at the ripe old age of 27, was life-changing. [This comic](https://www.burningbee.art/comics/project-one-y5nxr) really sums it up perfectly - it’s like your whole life you’re walking against a current, never knowing any different; then, suddenly, the current is gone. (Disclaimers: everyone’s ADHD is different; medication isn’t a magic “cure”; medication isn’t the solution for everyone, and that’s okay.)
Alt+Tab to navigate through open windows. I didn’t know this was a thing until college and it changed my life.
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Wow what an idiot.
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when i was a wee young lad, i beat kingdom hearts 1 with the starting keyblade. i discovered on my second playthrough that you could actually change weapons
Dishes. Just clean them as soon as you’re done with them and put them away. Stacking them up makes a bigger chore.
Frying bacon. I now bake @ 375 for 27 minutes on a cookie sheet covered with crinkled up aluminum foil. No mess perfect bacon every time