Here are some important hacks I've learned throughout my life:
- Always carry a pen with you, especially when traveling (you know that sometimes you won't have another option).
- When you see an animal crossing the road, be sure to stop, look, and wait. There will probably be a few more animals following.
- Use your foot to stop your phone from falling if you drop it (never try this with the Nokia 3310, you could seriously injure yourself).
- When you get together with your family, discuss common scams and life hacks that you know about but they don't.
- If a guest or host asks you if you'd like to take some leftover food home, always say yes. It will likely make them very happy.
- Answer the door wearing a coat. If it's someone you like, you can say you just got home. If it's someone you don't like, you can say you were just leaving.
- If you're selling something on eBay, offer free shipping and add the shipping cost to the main price.
- When sending a long string of numbers to someone, break it into groups of three or four digits separated by spaces to make it more readable.
- If you solve a problem that you yourself posted on a forum, add the solution so that others can use it for the same problem.
- Don't take other people's business more seriously than they take it themselves.
- If someone is introducing you to a song you really like, don't talk during the song unless it's about the music itself or something urgent. That song might mean a lot to the other person, and talking in the middle of it shows that you think your ideas are more important than theirs.
- Pay attention to how your house smells when you return from a trip – it's how it smells to guests all the time, you've just gotten used to it.
- When offering your condolences to someone who is grieving, focus on the PERSON and avoid talking too much about who they lost.