For example, I 3d printed a box over my outlet to protect my cables from my bed pushing against it. In addition, my cables never fall to the floor so they’re much easier to grab.
I bought 20 pairs of identical socks.Now every sock matches and makes putting away laundry easier.
Eliminated Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and all of the affiliate companies and services for the mentioned ones, from my life. Now all I have is Linux based and self-hosted. My life’s toxicity levels dropped to pretty much nothing since then.
Woah woah woah, the post said one small thing. This would be a monster task for me as my whole life lives in Google drive.
But it was 1 thing, just includes multiple sub-things 🤣🤣
What do you use for search?
I have my own self-hosted instances of Ecosia, Searx and Whoogle.
When going on vacations abroad, we bring a power strip from home. With it, you’ll only need a single international converter to power multiple devices.
I do this as well, but add in a 10 port USB charger and some USB cables so I can charge all my devices.
And you also add your own portable electrical dam
Labelled bag clips on all the stuff in the freezer. When something runs out, the clip goes onto a bit of string, hanging from the bottom of a cupboard. Instant freezer shopping list.
Edit to note: The only weakness is that you only add things to your shopping list when they run out. The workaround is to have 2 bags of everything, though this wouldn’t suit everyone.
Basically a system where the clips act as Kanban-cards. Simple and effective!
I went on a T-shirt wholesale website and ordered 20 navy blue shirts for a few bucks apiece. I look like this now. Get over it.
I do this with socks. Mostly because I hate taking the time to match socks when I’m doing laundry. And when I inevitably lose a sock I’m not left with one sock that doesn’t match any other sock.
Me too! The only bummer is when they all wear out at the same time and you have to buy 2 dozen socks at once. I’m at that stage right now, which is only a drag because I bought shitty socks last time and need to find a new brand.
I hear that. I just bought a bunch of Darn Tough stocks. I’m hoping they hold up for as long as I hear they do. I wear out socks really fast!
Expensive but worth it.
I love them. They fit well and feel and look nice.
One thing you can do with quality stuff is to just buy one or two every month (or however much you can afford). Assuming it’s good quality and holds up, you’ll have a good amount after a year or so. I do this with underwear as well.
What brand socks do you buy?
One time I bought Calvin Klien and they were pretty good. This time I think I got Mark’s Work wear house brand and they were crap. I used to buy one pack to see if I liked them but this time I bought a bunch and got burnt.
tom scott arch nemesis
When I was in college I had zero knowledge of how to cook so I relied on what my mom packed me and takeaways.
I decided to learn how to make basic stuff, like pasta, eggs, baked potatoes, etc and it saved me tons of money.
I’m not a good cook by a long shot but I can feed myself and to this day I enjoy some quality time in the kitchen.
It’s crazy to me how people dont know this.
Cooking saves so much money, its incredible.
This also makes you good dating material, for anyone out there who could use the advice 😉
Pretty great 2nd date in my experience, not a great idea for an initial date unless you know the person ahead of time. But can pretty quickly reveal if they can cook too!
Try and find a cheap deal for a meal service like hellofresh or blue apron or any other service. I didn’t want to, but my spouse did. I’ve learned some good techniques and used ingredients I would not normally use. Don’t sign up long term, just get a box or two or whatever and cancel. Once you’ve learned your lesson you can extrapolate that.
Bitwarden.
Honestly? I switched from Windows to Linux. I was working for several years at a Windows-centric computer magazine and realized a couple of years ago that many of the articles I was writing were about how to make Windows behave less like Windows. So I installed some Linux distro in a virtual machine on my work PC to play around with it for a bit. And soon after I installed Manjaro on my PC at home. Today, four years later, I’ve installed various Linux distros on all my PCs, and I’m much less annoyed by computer issues on a regular basis.
Yes Linux sort of feels like a car from the 1980s or earlier, where you can open the hood and understand it, and Windows feels like a car from the 2020s where you simply can’t understand everything the car is doing because of all the computers onboard.
you simply can’t understand everything
ironically neither can the car (windows), which is what always ends up making it run like horse shit after a few years of use
Except instead of the car being old, it is modern and fast.
Overstock.
Buy two bottles of cleaner. One in the kitchen, one in the bathroom. Tool box lives in the garage, but I have spares in the kitchen drawer. Trash can in every room. Extra shoelaces sitting on the shoe rack. It doesn’t take up a lot of space and it makes life much easier when you don’t have to look for something.
Started distancing myself from friends who become political extremists and life is much calmer
Deleting my social media accounts, migrating from yahoo/google mail, using a password manager, using an ad blocker, frequent backups, all kinds of scripting automations for work, Plex, home automation, learning to fix stuff around the house by myself (some plumbing, some electrical, whatever is safe and easier - it’s hard to come by a good, available specialist these days).
In my experience, most of that is the opposite of making your life “easier,” but instead makes your life better in other ways at the expense of ease.
I stopped listening to news radio in the morning. Music is the way to go to start the day.
I started doing things immediately when I see that they need to be done to look out for Future Me. It sucked at first, but it’s a habit now. I haven’t been putting things off as much as I used to. Future Me always appreciates it.
I bought about ten command hooks of various sizes.
I use one of them to hang up my jeans at the end of the day. A few more hooks use other bits of clothing I’ve worn but might wear again.
It’s separate from the hangers so it’s clear which clothes are pristine laundered, and which ones are in transition: clothes that can be worn again.
I always had an in between pile for the same reason. Clothes that weren’t freshly washed but weren’t dirty enough to wash. I like your idea of hooks. I might try it out.
Glow in the dark tape on the front and back of my phone and on the tips of the chargers to make them easier to find in the dark.
For the same reason my phone case is the brightest colored one I could find.
I had to get some clear heat shrink tubing to put over the charging cable ends to hold the tape in place otherwise it unravels after a few days use.
Sure they make lit USB cables but not in 20ft+
I’d really have preferred to have a bright solid glow in the dark phone case but for whatever reason barring I have one 3d printed (which will then not have the same protection of a normal cheap rubberized case) there isn’t anything like that available.
There’s your million dollar idea
