r/AskLifeProTips

So I get lost frequently and feel disconnected with my surroundings. When I try to figure out where to go, I make dumb decisions and when I ask people, their instructions make me confused. I follow the instructions and always get lost and go in the wrong direction.

This gets humiliating and embarassing. Recently I got lost within a mall and spent 30 minutes looking for a restaurant until my friends came looking for me.

How do I improve this?

Not looking for obvious answers like “a phone” or “a good mattress.” I mean surprisingly useful purchases, habits, tools, apps, kitchen gadgets, subscriptions, etc. that made everyday life noticeably better.
Could be anything:
something that saves time
improves sleep
reduces stress
makes work easier
helps you stay organized
just makes life more enjoyable
What’s the best under-$50 upgrade you’ve found, and why?

So I've seen around that a dehumidifier is good for cooling off rooms and whatnot. And my room is relatively small, it used to be a small storage closet. The only problem is that it gets way too hot in here, and my fan isn't strong enough to cool it off fully. So would a dehumidifier help me out more if I put it in front of my fan?

EDIT: Thank you to those who responded, I appreciate it, I was thinking about getting it but then now with the new knowledge here I get to save 23$ before making a purchase ty!!

I recently graduated high school and after a few months I will study abroad, my problem is I don't know how to dress?? what I mean is that I don't know what is considered plausible for be to wear when attending lectures. And I want to know because I don't want to give my parents the chance to tell me how to dress as they please so I want to know everything I can.

if it does make any difference I am going to attend a university in malaysia

Thank you for reading.

I've only ever flown 2-3 hour flights so I have no clue what I'll need for 12+ hours. Any tips?

I want to move on asap in a second I can't take it anymore

I usually either exposing that I'm a bit to eager to escape, ("Thanks! Bye!) or I do this weird double-tap ("Thanks." "You're welcome" ... "bye." "bye")

Is there a good template for this? Perhaps "SHIT my dogs on fire again! BYE!"

What’s something you got really into that really changed your life for the better?

I keep giving myself an excuse to keep smoking. Example

Helps with pain from training/mma/lifting

It prevents dementia and good cancer prevention.

It helps with stress and anxiety.. blah the blah the fuck blah. Then I relapse because I believe my excuses.

Then I quit because I review the negatives. Lung health, brain health and heart health. Not to mention the overeating.

The real problem is, I resort to weed for stress and anxiety. We all are going to die, and say fuck it.. might as well be high right? Wrong means I’m a bitch and rely on weed to deal with my problems. So I smoke. I’ve been smoking multiple times a day. I know I can regulate myself to only a joint a night before bed.. but all day I’ll be thinking of that weed at the end of the day. Is it a reward? Or is it addiction? It’s addiction because I’m chasing a high outside my baseline. I’ve been reading a lot about the hedonic latter. It all resorts to baseline. Research state that drug users always chase the high outside of baseline because, well, it’s easily accessible. So we rush to get out of baseline because we know we can, in doing so, messes with our hedonic latter.. (cough, cough) addiction. We are stuck on repeat messing with our natural baseline because we tell ourselves, this helps, this relieves, when all it is, is we are programming our hedonic latter to to accept weed as a the only way to reach “relief, happiness”. Where as if weed wasn’t accepted as a “happy” reward, our hedonic latter will create a “happy” feeling naturally by adopting our adaptation to our environment as our stimuli, and not weed.

I understand this.. but when I start thinking of bad shit, death of my parents.. my addictive brain/messed up hedonic latter will resort to heavy blazing.

I’m at the point where I need to get back to baseline. And reset my hedonic latter. Sure we all die, but I believe our body can naturally deal with different emotions/tragedies and the sort without the “quick” dopamine hit.

Sorry for my rant. All the help would appreciated because my hardest accepting is death itself and “so what” if I smoke weed attitude. I don’t want to keep bitching out to weed for quick dopamine hit. I want my baseline to provide me with those dopamine hits..even during tragic events.

Even if I were to smoke a joint a night, I would most likely develop a dependency rather than let my body naturally decompress with out “get me to happy heights, and everything will be ok”.

Has any of you had success on regulating your consumption

Cheers

Hey y’all,

I’m hoping to get some clear and concise advice.
I haven’t made a will myself, but hoping this question will help me set one up in the process.

My parents are getting older in age and each time I see them, they’re a bit worse. I was wondering what’s the best, clearest, and overall way to establish a will for them. Ultimately, I know responsibility will lie on me in terms of the repercussions, so I wanted to talk about the hard stuff now. I would also like to limit the bickering amongst my siblings.
Who would be involved? What is the span/scope? Documentation? Legal repercussions that fall on me from an ill-written will Etc.

Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

I had this art teacher that I took lessons with and he was a very harsh person who often made fun of me in front of the rest of the class and he was critiquing me in a humiliating way. Through the years I had a lot more art teachers many that were strict but no one was so horrible as he was.... I had a lot of teachers after that give me critiques so it's not a matter of me being unable to take criticism. I am just unable at handling having a toxic grown man shouting at me and making condescending comments about my work.

Years later I thought I was doing well and I had kinda forgotten about him but the last few years (since 2024) he has been colaborating with one of my friends on a comic book. I see my friend's post about the book.... I usually like the posts to show support for my friend but I feel a rage inside me everytime I see my old teacher's name tagged. I don't follow him and I never will unless someone puts a gun in my head to do it. How do I get over this resentment and move on? It's been 11 years and I still feel this way

I'm dealing with bad infections and can't sit on public toilets. I'm constipated as fuck and in so much pain I need release. How do I poop ASAP URGENTLY

Hello! I am preparing for a move about 11-12 hours away. I have researched my 3 options (ubox, U-Haul, pickup towing trailer) and would love a 2nd and 3rd opinion.

The move is basically a full 5x5x8 storage unit comprised mostly of a crap ton of those heavy duty plastic storage bags and containers, a desk, and like one disassembled storage unit.

I ruled the ubox out because it’s a longer wait time so I am debating between: • 10’ U-Haul truck ~ $870 • pickup rental towing a 5x8 or 6x12 trailer ~ $993 (Truck Rental ~ $459, 5x8 trailer~ $308, 6x12 trailer ~ $534)

I’ve used the 10’ U-Haul to move this stuff into storage so I’m comfortable driving it but for almost 12 hrs is a different ballgame.

I do think think the pickup rental would be a more comfortable and enjoyable drive overall but i am completely new to towing.

For people who’ve done long interstate moves, I’d love your insight to what you’ve done related to my options here or what you’d do in my case? Thanks in advance!!

A family member is graduating high school and I want to put together a small gift basket for him. Not the typical gift basket, though. A gift basket of items that will help with the parts of adulting that people don't usually think of.

More context: My nephew is graduating high school, and I haven't been very involved in his life for most of it. To be honest, I barely know him even though we've always known each other. I'm writing him a letter to let him know that I love him very much and that he can always call if he ever needs anything at all. And I want to give him something meaningful, not just snacks or dorm supplies or silly decor.... something actually helpful that will benefit him later on. We're from a small town in a rural area - life here is rather sheltered. Farm kids are tougher and more resourceful than most, so I know he's gonna be fine. But still I want to come up with some meaningful items.

The ideas I have....

A budget book

Hoping to find a short book about attachment styles

Naloxone

Naloxone because he's moving to a city and because college kids party, and inevitably, some of them will try various substances, and these days fentanyl is turning up in everything. I find it unlikely that he would try anything himself. But with the insane numbers of overdoses in this country, EVERYONE should have fentanyl.

I need more ideas, please help!

Chat… I swear, I have tried everything. Alarms, windows, stress, I literally cannot get up. It’s like painful to get up (not physically)… how do you morning people do it? Like truthfully. I wanna be better at getting up on time and not hitting snooze but it’s like a toxic relationship… it’s so bad for you but fuhhhh it’s also so good 💔. Plz help a shawty out ong. I’m willing to try anything atp

18M i looking for a side hustle while studying at uni.

I’ve got around $2k to $3k to start. I want something physical and skill based where the skill compounds over time.

I like businesses like barbering because:

• flexible hours
• work from home possible
• repeat customers
• long-term skill growth
• large market (every guy no matter the age needs a haircut)

The problem is everyone here around my age seems to do:

• detailing
• pressure washing
• clothing brands
• window cleaning
• barbering

What are some underrated service-based or hands-on side hustles you’ve seen people succeed?

I know this is off topic, but I can't find another sub thats very relevant for this questions. The majority in this sub are fitness enthusiast.

For a few years, I woke up at 4am to workout. Did it pretty easily and only missed a few days. Fast forward many years, life changed.

I started a family, got a high stress job, and my fitness goals changed. I went a few years again getting up at 5am to train for my first half. I got injured, still ran, and then spent another year waking up early to train again for the next half. All went well, I beat my goal, and then wanted a break.

During the second training block, my job got super stressful, I went back to finish school, and then my only kid was diagnosed with cancer. After the half, I decided I needed a break, my body was telling me it was ready to break down.

Now, things are in a much better place. I'm ready to start training again. I have 36 weeks until the next half. The problem? I'm finding it very hard to wake up early again. I am missing more days in the first 3 week than I did the entire training block.

What ways do you keep yourself motivated and ensure you actually get out of bed to workout/run?

I am just wondering if someone could explain to me why every time I make a post anywhere on Reddit, it gets deleted saying I broke some rule. I made a simple post on a computer help community just asking for advice on why my laptop is running slowly. I read the rules before I posted and even made the title a question per the rules. I did not swear or say anything negative, it was just asking for advice on my laptop. So what is up with the deleting of my posts? This has happened to me more than once and it just seems weird that it continues to happen. What am I doing wrong when I post according the rules? I am guessing no one will have a chance to tell me my wrongdoing because I am sure this will be deleted as well.

So our freezer is messed up and won't close, it's just solid full of ice and I have no idea why. Live in a shared house with 4 of us total, and we can't turn the freezer off without turning the connected fridge off too, and there's not much room for the two people that share that fridge to move their food into ours.

Sacrifices will have to be made, but what's the best thing to do here? Just unplug it and leave it open until it melts - maybe outside for what water to drip onto?

tell me