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@Lil Yeet the quality of life doesn’t sound like trash at all. He had his own little bat cave, a bed, a laptop with WiFi and lived in a premium area with restaurant meals all while going to college. What makes you say that is trash?
He could have saved even more if he was smart enough to find somewhere to park that doesn't cost $300, that's absurd to me. Or living in any city that's considered expensive... sounds like a place you shouldn't live in but so many people do for some reason.
There was a rule in the monopoly rule book that said you didn't have to pay for property if someone didn't remind you, i got free monopoly ptoperty for years until my sisters noticed
In high school we used to be able to show the attendance secretary a text message from our parents to verify an “approved absence”. I saved myself in my phone as “Dad” and would send myself texts, delete the sent text until it looked like we were having regular conversations. In those conversations I’d excuse myself for frequent doctors appointments. I’d even yell at myself as my Dad for other things like not taking out the garbage. It worked all 4 years of high school. In my last year I only went to one of my classes 10 times all year and nobody said a word.
Extreme couponing was wonderful! I would get $300 worth of groceries for $9. I did this for a few years until the grocery store cracked down on the perfectly legal practice. Once, a cashier even lost her job for refusing my extreme couponing. The manager said it was perfectly legal and she had to do it. She refused and was fired.
@Pineapple Head You combine coupons together that do not state, "Not valid with other coupons and offers." Then you also get coupons that take a percentage of your total sale off. Hold off temptation to use your combined coupons and total percentage off until you are going to make a larger purchase. Keep adding little coupons to your planned purchase here and there as the time of your bigger purchase comes close. Also, look out for dates when you get a percentage off your total purchase. Look for buy 2 get one free. Of course, switching to a cheaper brand that provides an identical product is always good but it is not extreme couponing. But why buy a ridiculous Nike shirt when the Target one is identical and made in the same Chinese sweat shop the Nike shirt was made? The stupid little check mark symbol, Nike features, is not worth double the equal product. Getting a gift card from the store you are going to make your purchase will often get you a percentage off from your purchase when you use your gift card. This one is a very big one. Do not pay cash, credit, nor cheque for your purchase. Use the gift card. Those insignificant discounts compound and make for incredible, totally legal, purchases.
@Pineapple Head It could be from magazines, newspapers, sometimes they just have coupons around the store, just grab them whenever you see them. Remember to watch for the expiration dates
Former cashier here. I normally hated couponer's because they were rude and when their coupons didn't work, they would leave me with 10+ items to put back on the shelves. I was perfectly fine helping them "scam" the company, they made the coupon in the first place, I just didn't like dealing with rude jerks who didn't listen.
@@littledragonchild1757 I automatically hate anybody that is rude to those that serve the public daily. Those people deserve to be sentenced to work with the public, like server, cashier, technical support, maid, and the such.
My dad bought a lifetime membership for a gym in philidelphia for $500 25 years ago. All he had to do was pay $15 per year for matinance. LA fitness bought out the gym but because he continued paying the $15 per year they had to honor the membership and he now has a lifetime membership to LA fitness for a $15 per year matinance fee.
Any pizza place near my work is extremely expensive, like 40$ for a "large" 16 inch with a couple toppings, just one. However the gas station across the street has a full kitchen and they make pizza better than most other pizza places but apparently I'm the only person that knows this. Their meat lovers 18" pizza is only 9$ so at lunch I order 2 to 4 pizzas for our work van and everyone chips in 5$ for the pizza. It comes in a generic box exactly like the most expensive pizza place so everyone thinks that's what I'm getting and say how great it is, but when they go get it themselves they complain how expensive it is and how they always mess up the order. Consequently they all believe I'm some great guy losing money buying everyone lunch and have some inside secret to getting them to make the good pizza when I'm actually just getting gas station pizza. It's been 7 years.
What hell do you live in where a single pizza costs $40? Seriously, if Domino’s ever charged me that much for ONE pizza, it had better be made with a cheese-stuffed garlic crust, cooked in a fancy brick oven, and topped with cheese from a unicorn. (Either that or it comes with a free t-shirt and a lint roller)
Holy shit, the first guy is totally me!!! Lived in a van, payed 10$ membership for planet fitness open 24 hours was able to shower anytime, worked at the taco bell so I ate for free and I parked my van at for free, ran an electrical line from the light pole I parked next too, also connected too the free taco bell wifi. Holy shit this guy is my double or something.
incredible ain't it? the resourcefulness of people to be able to just make it comfortably but just barely and still find some kind of joy in it? some of my best time were like this.
I live in a one bedroom apartment by myself with two TVs: one in the living room and one in my bedroom. I had cable but only had one cable box, which was for the living room tv, but was able to get cable on both TVs. Back sometime between 2009-2011 (it's been so long I don't remember how long ago I did this), I decided to cut my cable subscription since I was barely watching it. I turned in my cable box and started using a hand me down antenna from a friend for the TV in the living room. I assumed the TV in the bedroom wouldn't work at all so anymore so I never turned it on. Then after a couple months, I turned on the bedroom TV so I could watch a DVD and discovered that I was still getting cable on it (I never disconnected the cable from the wall). I connect a cable from the wall to the living room TV and discover that it works on that one as well. I call the cable company and tell them that I'm still getting cable even though I cancelled and am no longer paying for it. They asked if I live in an apartment complex and I tell them yes and they say, "That explains it. We don't send technicians to apartment complexes solely for disconnects, they only do disconnects if they are already out there for a connection." I tell them, "Ok. I just wanted to let you know so I don't get accused of stealing it in the future." It's now 2021 and the free ride finally ended yesterday and only because the cable company is ending all analog channel service and switching to solely digital channels.
Had something similar in my first apartement. I had a TV with a DVD player but never watched cable. As I never payed for it I just assumed it wouldn't work plugging it in. When I finally moved out the cable company called (not related to me moving out) and asked if they couild send someone to seal the outlet. Told them I assumed it didn't work and that it's no use now because the renter after me might want it. They laughed, and thanked me. They even said that I seemed so baffled that they believed me that I didn't use it. And they were right. But still ^^
At a small factory , years ago. I used to punch in an hour early, to make coffee and turn all the lights on ( no one asked me to) got 5 hours of OT , after a couple weeks I started staying an hour late every day too . After about a year my manager and his boss came to see me about it. I told them what I was doing for those hours- the big boss looked at the manger and said if he was any good at his job he would have commended me for my commitment to the company- I worked the 10 hour shift for the 13 years I worked there.
At my elementary school before covid I would get a discount on food like lunch costs 4 dollars(?) I would only pay 40 cents because my family didn't make that much.
I used to work as a note taker at my university (for students with disabilities). The pay rate was quite good, and we got paid for lecture hours and typing hours (same number of hours as lecture). There were some 3 hour lectures that were finished in less than one hour, and took less than 15 minutes to type up the notes. About 60-70 minutes of work for 6 hours of pay. Lucrative deal. On some days, I could clock 10-12 hours after having done about 2-3 hours of actual work.
Back in my college days I interned for one of the Representatives in my state, because my job required a lot of running, he loaned me his legislator parking placard (he never used it) that let me park in a special lot reserved for only state Representatives, Senators and other elected officials. Free prime parking right next to the Capitol steps. Well after my internship was done, I got offered a job at a state agency across the street from the Capitol. When I left the internship I didn't turn in the placard, honestly I just forgot and he never asked for it. Well parking was horrible, cheapest lot you could find was $85 a month and that required you to park over a mile away and take a bus. Sooo...I just kept parking in the Legislator parking lot, did it for six years until I got another job, and then I told one of my buddies about it and passed the placard down. Saved over $6,000 in parking and while everybody else was taking the bus or walking in the rain, I had a leisurely stroll across a parking lot.
The one at 19:34 made me nervous. I had a legitimate parking pass at college that I paid for, but it didn't fit around my rearview mirror stem like it was supposed to because of my mirror's design. I made a (Good-looking almost original) copy of the pass so that I wouldn't feel bad about tearing it a little to put it on the mirror. The very day I hung the copy up, my car was booted when I left class to go home. I had to take my legitimate parking pass to the security office and explain why I made a copy and that no one else was using the original pass. Had to show that the car was registered in the same name as the pass itself, and they were still suspicious. They finally unbooted my car, but I think they even charged me the fee that they pay a towing company for booting/unbooting. Complete pain!
i did the same with the free small coffee coupons that printed every five or so transactions when i worked at udf. i gave almost everyone free coffee lol you cannot believe how long i lived on the little creamer pods instead of buying a bottle of it, when i left the job my friends still let me take creamers for free :)
i had a free coupon to chick fil a for something that sounded gross and something that sounded good so i got the good thing and gave the gross coupon to a homeless guy. they where only good on a specific date (not the same date) witch i found really bazar
i heard a story where some random person got a company card in the mail and could spend $200 on it every month before it would get declined. the person telling the story said he worked at the company and asid that there was nothing they could do but deactivate it. he heard it though the grape vine.
If some outfit accidentally sends you a card without you agreeing to the terms, it's difficult for them to collect on it. It's not a collectable debt, their only option is to sue you for fraud. (which they could probably win) But usually it's just not worth their effort to do so. Their legal group is set up for collecting on non-payment, not that sort of fraud, so you'd require the exclusive attention of one of their attorneys. Considering the sheer amount he got though, I'm surprised they didn't go after him.
@@virt1one Honestly dude I'd think it's not real, credit cards are so easily traced to the stores where money was spent and almost every store has cameras, although they perpetrated that it was "many moons ago" I dunno, I just think it's all "too easy" in that case.
@@FakieStreams Well, it sounds like the employee just took the card and sent him on his way, so they no longer had any way of verifying who he was. Furthermore, the bank is not the police, so I highly doubt they have the authority to search store security cameras. And the amount of time and effort that would take wouldn't be worth it for the company. And since the only way to get the money at that point is through a court, the cardholder would have a pretty strong defense of "they never charged me."
When I was in high school, I would drive to the store in the morning and buy boxes of cosmic brownies for around $2 each, I would then get to school and sell each brownie to random students for $1 each, each package had 6 brownies. I made well over $400 before the school threatened to sue me for selling food items without a license. I think they were just mad because I screwed over their overpriced fundraisers. I continued to sell brownies in the parking lot before school because it wasn’t on school property until I graduated.
In high school I used to sell single shot bottles of alcohol for 5 bucks when I used to get them in a case of 12 for 10 bucks. I'd easily go through 6-10 cases a week. I didn't have the pressure on me like the drug dealers did because the drug dogs they walked through the lockers didn't sniff for alcohol.
The US Mint had difficulty in getting mass adoption -- at a cultural level, I mean -- for the $1 coins. So they were allowing people to buy them from the mint at face value. People would purchase thousands of dollars worth on a credit-card, then deposit the currency into their bank, pay off the balance, but keep the airline miles. It was a great loophole scam for a while.
Back in the 90's I remember both Sprite and Pepsi/Mt Dew did a thing where you could win a free 20 oz by looking under the bottle cap. But, if you held the bottle to the light you could actually see right through the cap to tell which ones were winners! I think it was Sprite that added an additional plastic piece under the cap so you couldn't do it AS EASILY, but still very possible. We really would go through all the sodas, holding them up to the light, then buy just one and use that cap to get another which had a winning cap then use that cap to get another with a winning cap and so on. All you needed was to buy that first winner 🤣🤣🤣
Holy freaking crap!! I randomly was recommended this video and was thinking about the late 90’s, early 2000’s when my grandpa would buy me a soda. I’d literally have infinite sodas off of one purchase. Nice to know I wasn’t the only person that discovered this.
I got into an argument once, arguing that I should be able to count ELA as a foreign language, since technically the US doesn't have an official language, making all languages foreign. I still had to take spanish
The college in the same town I went to high school in had a stated admission requirement of "two years of foreign language or proof of proficiency". Didn't bother to say that the test for proficiency tested two years of the *same* language, so In high school I took a year of German and a year of Latin (concurrently). I finally got them to agree that Fortran counted as a foreign language, probably because it was developed in Toronto.
I take cat naps in church while at work. Finding peace and quiet during break is basically impossible in a hospital and I have yet to meet a single person in there. Been doing it for years.
@@thelastkushbendr7091 Imagine thinking going to Hell is bad. Try sacrificing a goat or two and actually have a chat with Lucifer, he's a super chill dude. Y'all mfers been going to church every weekend for milennia when you could just embrace the Dark Lord and enjoy eternity in Hell.
Back in the day when cigarette machines were common, the was an older brand of machine that was completely mechanical so they could put them anywhere because they didn't have to be plugged in. You would put your money in the coin slot, and then pull the handle below the brand you wanted (the handle pulled out about a foot), and when you let the handle go, it slammed back into place and your cigarettes dropped into the tray. If instead of just letting the handle go, you very slowly pushed it back in, you could stop it just as the cigarettes fell, then pull it back out and it would reset and load another pack. As long as you could keep hitting that sweet spot where it would reset, you could get pack after pack for the price of one pack. If you went a hair too far, it didn't work. I could usually get at least two or three free packs, and my record was six. Haven't seen one of those particular machines for years, but I bet there's still a few around, and that trick still works.
I remember those old machines, there used to be one in the laundromat my mother went to, sometimes when I was bored I would pull on those knobs just to see how it worked and to make noise. This was far enough back that I still remember my mother saying when they raised the soda machine price to a quarter that she would never buy one again.
My school actually has a foreign language requirement, at least 2 years of one to graduate. I took Data Processing at the Vocational school (comprised of many different schools in the area) my 11th and 12th grade but still had to meet our "home school" requirements. Little did they know that in the requirement section it was specified that a computer language was considered a "foreign language". Part of Data Processing were the languages of DOS, Basic, FORTRAN, COBOL, and RPG, yup graduated with 5 separate foreign language credits, and at the time only knew how to count to 10 in Japanese because my Father was stationed in Okinawa at one point in his service, and not a single lick of anything other than English.
Back when cassette tapes were the thing and we used to copy tapes from friends’ collections or make mix tapes, I saw an ad from the Mormon church where you could call a 1-800 number and they would send you a free cassette tape called ‘God’s Holy Plan.’ It was pretty long and had some religious stories on it. We would make multiple calls and give them our address but say a different name each time. They never caught on and we would get dozens of free tapes to erase and record over
LMFAO I used to do the same thing but with free mail order religious introductory VHS tapes so that I could use them to record broadcast movies... Lol. Also, I had learned early as a kid that I could hook my rooms' VCR up to the living room VCR in series to not only copy VHS tapes from the library/blockbuster, but also trim the commercial breaks from broadcast recordings.
I worked at a large supermarket as one of those people who give out free samples, but I was employed by a different company altogether. [That is, I wasn't actually a grocery store employee.] Since I had no coworkers, and my boss only came around about once a month (at the end of my shift) to check on things, I could go sit in the break room or go to the back room area where my work equipment was stored, and I could basically do jack-all for the whole shift, if I wanted, and get paid for it. The supermarket managers had nothing to do with me, and they were so busy managing the store that they didn't keep tabs on anything I did. It came in very handy on days when I had migraines or was too stressed out to deal with people for the day. I didn't do this too often, but when you feel like your head's going to explode, being able to take a nap behind some shelves while getting paid is quite nice. Also, I got to keep all the freebies that didn't get given out, so I frequently had free stir fry, soap, yogurt, ice cream, pizza, and more, on top of everything else.
Damn this is awesome. I work as a covid screener so I basically do the bare minimum during my shifts, so I got time to watch movies, scroll through social media, or if I’m feeling productive I get some school work done
@Lil Yeet It didn't happen often, and sometimes you just have to take a break, especially when your skull feels like it's made of glass and an army is doing the Mexican Hat Dance in there. While wielding hammers.
Moved into an apartment with my wife, lived there 6 months , decided to hook up the cable line, just for giggles. It worked, cable company had no regulation, and apartment complex didn't know what to do. Buddy gave me a digital cable box, cause everything was going digital. So we had free cable for 3 years. It was nice.
I did security at a low end 🏘 place in metro Orlando FL, 2000s. I had a good relationship with a cable tech, free lance guy. He said a few times, if I wanted basic cable, he'd install it 📺 then add all the cable premium channels; Showtime, HBO, Cinemax, Starz, etc. ✔ I used a regular antenna but the offer was 🤔....
had a similar experience to the last one in highschool They required 2 out of three classes (physical science, Physics, or Chemistry) took physical science in 9th grade which was a mix of both and learned that I sucked at chemistry so I took physics my Junior year and avoided Chemistry. My senior year I got called into the office and was told I didn't have the Chemistry credit so i needed to take that class pointed out that i had the other two of the three and got out of it. Had it explained to me later why they were confused the wording was in there because physics was considered an advanced class so there was supposed to be an option between physics and physical science but they didn't expect anyone to take physics to avoid chemistry so it was all worded together as science credits.
@@theresat1776 So important that I have never used it outside of a science class. Maybe it's important if you're a chemist. Same with most math, not important, hardly used and if used, have calculator, that thing they told you that you won't always have even though you actually will.
In college, I once took an art appreciation class. In the next room over was the same class taught by a different professor. One of his students threw a massive tantrum that we could hear through the wall separating us and got kicked out of the class. Since we used the same textbook and I couldn't afford one from the campus book store, he was willing to sell me his for $10. Turns out he had rented the book for $230. At the end of the semester, I took it to the campus book store to see what would happen and they bought it back for $88 and he got billed hundreds for not returning his rental textbook. I bought the textbook for 1/23 of the price and sold it back for 880% profit, and that idiot had no choice but to pay the school a huge amount of money because he can't return his book.
@@turtles3 yeah i know right? taking advantage of dumb decisions is evil, doesn't matter what people say. Slow autistic adults make bad decisions all the time, does that make it okay to take advantage of them every second of the way? What type of society or morality encourages taking advantage of people when they have a moment of weakness? Doesn't matter who the person is, 2 bads don't make a right
I use to "rent" games for free. I purchased used games at GameStop, play them for a few days, and returned them on the 7th day, purchase them again, and repeat until I either beat the game or wanted to trade them. Did this all throughout middle school and most of 9th grade until I got old enough to get a job. For almost 4 years I've played at least 40 games and spent about $120.
How can you be sure you get the same game with your saved progresses the next time you purchase them? Or do you like just return and then immediately rent again on a machine?
@@izzyr9590 the game data was saved on my 360. You don't need to get the same exact disc. But yeah, I would get it the same day... With cash. Don't loose your receipt, and don't forget to take it back on or before the 7th day
There is a guy on youtube that raids the dumpsters behind GameStops for excess used games they threw away, then sells it back to the store. Perfectly legal too.
During high school, they had an anti-electronics policy. It was an accumulative system; if you got caught with your phone, you had to go to the main office and give up your phone until the end of the school day. Second offense, third offense, etc. It's been so long that I don't remember it all anymore. The important part is that there was way too many kids for them to care enough to make sure the phone was actually yours. So I just gave them one of my old broken smartphones and kept the one I was using
@@virt1one thing is, some school districts in Texas count ComSci as either a math or language credit. It's more of an issue when you get to college admissions
Dude that was a mistake. You should've learned a 2nd language for real, it's so easy when you're young. When you're older it becomes twice harder to learn a new language.
This one was HUGE: a couple years ago I worked in a POS company (credit card machines). They had this partnership with some banks, and when a small company or a freelancer opens an account, they would offer them a POS machine. Some business categories had a very special privilege: receiving payment from cards generated by government financing landed by the same banks, destined to agribusiness and infrastructure companies. A couple guys working in one of the banks' agencies found out that they could create POS machines to ghost/inactive accounts and used this to generate those kind of cards and pass through those POS with huge limits with no questions asked. They used to wash and clean A LOT of money for god knows who. Around 15 million bucks in 6 months or so. Until I started to see a pattern in some of the accounts that we receive it in our minimum wage call center and collect enough data to bust the scheme. Was totally automatic, no one had to approve or verify those ghost accounts and the movimentation of millions created by government banking. No one noticed before myself. They're in jail now.
When I worked at the convenience store I noticed a pattern to scratch offs. Usually every few tickets on the roll was a small winner but there would be bigger prizes after a group of losers. If there were a lot of losses in a row I'd buy 1 ticket at a time until I won something, if it was a small prize it was the wrong pattern so I stopped no matter what I won. I didn't make a lot doing that, it wasn't the big big prizes it was the $25 or $50 wins on the $1 tickets but I definitely made more than I lost. They eventually made rules to stop it so I guess I wasn't the only one that noticed and took advantage.
As an active heroin user I used to exploit the loop hole of love and care from others. Its real easy...you get addicted then lie and rob and manipulate everyone around you and you use their love and care for you to keep it going until they get fed up and evict you from their lives permanently. But it took a real long time, like 20 years before that loop hole closed up on me. May God have mercy on my sad soul.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups had a sweepstakes when I was a kid, I don't remember the details just that it had to do with some racecar driver. Anyway, there was a chance to win a huge prize, but there was also the lesser more common prize of winning another free pack of the peanut butter cups. My friend figured out that if you held them up to the light you could see through the packaging and see which ones gave free packs. For the price of 1 pack my friend and I ate at least 2-3lb of them before the store banned us... they couldn't figure out how we kept winning.
Just remembered another "loop hole" I'm not proud of this one as I am about getting unlimited peanut butter cups but it goes like this... I was in the principal's office in 6th grade about to be suspended for fighting when I overheard the vice principal and principal talking about how due to California budget cuts they couldn't afford to hold kids back regardless of their grades. This was at the beginning of the school year, after hearing that I put it to the test and didn't do 1 homework assignment for the rest of the year and still advanced to the next grade the following year with almost a 0 gpa.
Last one I promise lol... So some of you might remember a game called Gunbound that was popular 10+ years ago, similar to the game Worms. Well, they had an event in which every time you ranked up you were rewarded with cash shop items like epic attack modifiers... the thing is they didn't take into account that you lost exp for leaving matches... aka you could derank and the very next match level up again and receive the cash shop reward again. A friend and I farmed this exploit like no tomorrow and both ended up with over $50,000 worth of free cash shop items. We both became top players in the game because we could literally use the items every single turn.
When I was a kid the old 80s style gum ball machines at hannaford were always broken. Likely from kids breaking the hand cranks trying to see if someone accidentally left a quarter inside of it. It was always a good treat because hannaford refused to fix them so for the 6 years I lived in that area myself and my siblings would get as much ‘free’ skittles, m&m’s, gum balls and cheap toys from those machines as our hands can carry. It got soo bad that hannaford had to pull staffing just to keep watch over the machines to scold parents for having their kids stealing candy. Years later when i moved back into the area as a teenager in a foster home, I found out that the crankshafts were still broken. But this time, absolutely no one cared. So having some concept of how bad theft was, I left that gum ball in the machine and left with a smile thinking about all the times I got free candy.
Used to put the same parking ticket under my windshield wiper every day when I was at college. The ticket writers assumed I had already been written up. Never once got a “second” ticket. Parked in teachers only parking areas for my last two years. Probably saved me 10 minutes of walking per day.
For that last one about foreign language in high school. My high school was the same way. 2 years of a foreign language wasn't actually required to graduate, but it was HIGHLY encouraged to the point where it was almost required because it was either a requirement to get into college, or it would just look really really bad on your college application if you didn't have those two years.
That one feels more like shooting yourself in the foot than a loophole. Out of all the classes you could skip in High School, you choose one of the few that will actually give an applicable real world skill.
@@AnglosArentHuman I thought the same. But regardless, he took a real risk with that. While technically they might be breaking the rules, they might have just changed it in retrospect, launched an endless investigation etc. There's a lot of ways to make an informal rule not worth breaking.
I had a teacher that used quizzes that came with the textbook website. I discovered this early on and always made A’s on the quizzes. Didn’t tell my classmates because if we all suddenly made A’s he would catch on.
We have an english homework workbook that we do in an app. i found out that u can change the color of the pages and the answers show up in white. I haven’t had to do my homework all year.
I had a ton of teachers in high school who just used quizzes that had all of the answers available online. Tons of kids knew about this and would cheat, especially since a lot of the quizzes were even taken online since this was only around five years ago and each student had a school laptop, and a lot of the teachers would just sit at the front of the room without ever wandering around the room to be able to see that they had Quizlet or whatever pulled up on their screen while taking the quiz. Plenty of the teachers knew about this but just didn't get paid enough to give a fuck
We had this science teacher in middle school that used the quizes that you could find on internet. Immediately everyone in my classroom became aware of this, so we printed every exam we could find and solved together, explaining eachother our solutions. At first my teacher did not liked it, but later allowed us to do this as we tend to work together as a group. Whats more ridiculous is that we had a national middle school graduation exam, and every question we had was taken straight from internet and our coursebooks. I had like only 3 wrong answers, 2 from history, 1 from English language. I am an English Teacher and having my PHD on history right now.
@@hannibalburgers477 mock tests make great study guides if you are trying to learn the material. Sounds like you had a teacher that didn’t stand in the way of you learning the material.
Lawsuits are not easy and not lucrative. Unless you are suing a big corporation you will never get 1 cent of any lawsuit regardless if you win. Poor people will just laugh at you and tell you to get in line behind their collection agencies. And normal people will just empty their banks and file for bankruptcy.
@@alexandercrush exactly lol. It's so easy to file for bankruptcy if you don't have that much in the bank, and not like the electric payments affect credits point to worry you.
The two languages requirement is even worst for deaf people, at least from my experience. So I grew up already knowing English, SEE, ASL, was learning bits of different languages and sign languages in other countries. In high school, they told me I had to take a language class, I asked why? " I have to take it, its a requirement. " I'm staring at my interpreter and them. In my mind, I'm thinking "is sign language not a valid language???" So I told them, I already know English, SEE, and ASL (since they were the languages I was most proficient in if they had to test me) "They asked me to prove it. " A bit of backstory. I was in their school system from 2 years of preschool then K-12 while having interpreters they provided and being taught Engilsh and sign languages in their school. I had very good interpreters over the years, looking back, I realize they were extremely educated, I believe they all had degrees and was probably more than qualified than the teachers at the school on every subject. Anyway, I had to get the certifications from home that I knew they had in their system. They didn't accept it so I asked them can you prove you know English?? This just went into borderline argument until I caved in and just gave up to accept a Spanish class. The school would not let me take any class except a languages class, I believe they enforce this just because schools needed budget money. Schools get more money allocated to their budget per student in classes as well different subjects.
I worked at the gas station for like 2 yrs. They have a program where employees take training will be rewarded with discount price on gas (like saving 0.03/gallon). Then I found out you could do the training as many times as you like so I could stack up all those discounts to make it literally $0/gallon. I did this for my families and friends for like whole year until they took the training program down.
have free internet and cable tv for like 7 years now 'cause they just didn't blocked it after parents stoped paying, even sending technicians to repair it when we have issues, just this years we got new internet 'cause the old one had a lot of issues when it rained. Free internet baby
Back in the early 2000's before you needed a box to decode the signal, we canceled the TV service and they never came to cut the cable, had free $90 TV for over 10 years, then they switched to coded signal or something and the screen said you needed to rent a box to watch.
still working loophole: when you're playing games, don't want to watch ads and don't want to turn internet off, you can set the play store/browser to never open anything by standard, so when you click the add, it will ask you if you want to open it in play store or your browser, and stop playing the add (because you technically you already opened it) but you can press back/press anywhere in the screen to close the popup, and the game will resume without the add, works with unity ads, as far i tested
@@lilacbuni in settings, it's different from phone to phone, mine is a samsung and this setting is in apps>play store>open by default(or set default, mine is in portuguese so idk in english)>go to supported URLs>always ask, i hope it's useful :>
also if it's not a game you need to be online to play (think Flow instead of Farmville) you can just switch off your wifi and it will not display ads because it *can't*
During Highschool when used to catch the train, I was using the old hole-punch ticketing system 🎫 Whenever the inspector would puncture my ticket, I’d pick up the paper stamp from the ground and stick it back into my ticket with a bit of saliva. This would work on the same ticket up to 2-3 times before the ticket looked too munted. This one month we were low on funds, so I had to prolong my ticket’s life. I managed to put my ticket back together 7 times with a great amount of precision, until one day the inspector came along to stamp my ticket, and he did it on an angle where the ticket literally exploded into confetti. He stared at his hands for a good 5 seconds utterly bewildered what just happened, then back at me with a strange look. I blamed the ticket straight away and he gave me a new one with the same amount of stamps.
Once when I was younger I signed up for Universal Credit, a support system in the UK that would pay you for searching for work. You had a work coach who would check in and make sure you were actually searching for work. Anyway, after a few weeks, before I even got the first payment, which was £250 a month, so about $325, I got bored and decided to just stop and told the work coach as much. Apparently they forgot to actually cancel my payments because a few weeks later, I received £250. Same time next month, another £250. I stayed silent, and about a year later the payments stopped. For the next few weeks I practically stared at the mailbox expecting a letter telling me I owe them somewhere about £3,000, never got a word about it.
The parking meters in the next town over are the old coin type. They don't have enough in their budget for a meter maid so nobody really pays for parking and nobody cares.
If you have a book that is about to expire on your iPad kindle or whatever just put it in airplane mode and it won't take the book back until it connects to the wifi
Books "expire"? And they still laugh at those of us who want paper... I do have a Windows 10 computer I never take online, though. It's increasingly regular warnings about "viruses" are somewhat amusing.
@@worldcomicsreview354 oh no I definitely understand paper but for some travelers books are too heavy and a kindle is the best choice I personally just bring a book
I used this to get free textbooks for college. Just refund the books and disconnect the internet before reopening kindle, and it'll be stuck in offline mode with your textbooks until you tell it to reconnect! 👌
The foreign language one is more of a strong suggestion for going straight to a university. I took 3 years of German and barely know how to make a sentence a 3 year old could say
My current loophole: I work minimum wage for 8 1/2 hours at a grocery store while I save for a pc and school because I was lucky and my stimmy paid for my car plus 200 dollars. You can leave 7 minutes before you're scheduled to leave and you get paid for the full hour Ex: 7:23 when I was scheduled for 7:30
Winco had a promotion through my college which included 2 free pringles cans, 2 free 5 lb. bags of cereal, 2 free beef jerky, 2 free containers of winco brand cookies, 2 free 12 packs of cup noodles, and 2 free boxes of clif bars... no purchase necessary. So I snuck to a nearby building and grabbed a few hundred fliers then got all 11 of my roommates to go to winco with me. We took 4 trucks and filled the backs of all of them entirely without spending a single cent. Literally had enough food for all 12 of us for the entire year and made gave tons to local homeless people as well.
At university, a bar down the street from campus that was actually relatively expensive as it was one of those bougie inner city bars, ran a promotion outside where a guy would give you a paper wristband with a buy any drink, get another free token printed on it... They cut the wristband off when it was redeemed. Anyway, me and a few friends on graduation night turned up as the promoter was finishing his shift and he handed me basically a stack of these wristbands he'd been given to hand out. There were about 10 bar staff members working that night, so what we did was after the offer was redeemed, went back to our table, slapped another wristband on and got served by another staff member to get another set of drinks for very little. Apart from the fact I shared them out with my friends and lecturers, I can't remember much about the night past that point except that the deal was applying to their cocktails too.
@@localboys7449 To be honest, I think a lot of lecturers would love to jump on any chance to legally screw over those "fancy" bars that feel like taking extra for absolutely nothing else than pure decorations.
There was a glitch in the Sims Freeplay (mobile) that let you buy free baby cribs from the baby store, that you could then sell for 500 simoleons. I exploited this to the MAX, my little sims were living large, and I lived vicariously through them. Unfortunately, I lost the phone with that save and I believe they patched it in another update. Ill always remember those good times ♥️
I haven't gone to a library since I was about 11. Taught myself programming this way too. Basically most every bookstore has a 15 - or 30-day return policy. You pay cash, rent the book out, don't earmark it ever, return the book within the allotted period, buy a different book with cash so there isn't any purchase history, rinse and repeat. If the cashiers are lazy or the shift changes when you are there, you can just return the book and then buy it again on the same day. Add as many parallel book rents as you like.
About 20 years ago I lived in a small town with an independent cable company, they would once a year send out a bill with 12 tickets on it, you tear off each month's ticket and send it in with your monthly payment. In January one year the cable company changed hands and when the new company sent out the payment book it showed I had premium service (at that time about $60 per month) I had been paying for basic. I flipped through the payment book and noticed that for each month it showed I owed $0.00 each month. Being the honest idiot that I was at the time I went in and explained that this was wrong, I was supposed to be paying $34.95 for basic cable and this showed I owed nothing for the entire year. The girl pulled up my info on the computer, made some changes and told me my corrected ticket book would be sent out in the next couple of days. When it arrived it showed that I still had premium service and owed $0 for the year, I scanned through the cable channels and discovered that the premium service had been turned on. For the next 2.5 years I got free cable, the error was only caught when the another new company took over. They turned off my cable and left a note that I would have to pay a re-connect fee and the first month's bill in advance.
My friend was an electrician and I told him that I thought I was getting ripped off on electricity by my landlord in my apt building in 2001. We went to the basement and he hooked up the electric in reverse so I received credits each month until the balance was paid. Didn't pay electric for a couple of years until I moved out. The sane guy climbed a telephone pole and hooked me up with free cable in 1999. The neighbor came out and started yelling because his was cut off. He climbed the pole again and fixed it.
While going to college and registering for classes, the college would want a payment schedule set up or for the fees to be payed under the balance of $1000 dollars before the first month of classes were over or else they would kick me out of classes. I never has the money but I figured out that if you set up a payment schedule and cancelled it a couple days after, then you only had to pay the beginning payment and they couldnt kick me out of classes since it was past that specific date. I would then have the entire semester to gather money slowly to pay the college and do it all over again the following semester. The first few times I did this I had also found out that I could make a payment schedule, cancel it, and make a payment schedule for the same balance that was due the previous semester. This allowed me to get halfway through college before they moved their payment plans to a 3rd party that cannot be exploited this way.
In college one of my classmates used to own vending machines so he knew how to operate the menus of the machines and so one day he decided to treat us all with ice cream by changing all the prices to 10¢. We ran the machine dry and when the guy came to collect and restock he couldn’t believe his eyes because what should have been 100’s of dollars (they had a lot of ice cream) was barely $5
I had a moment like this when burger king first opened in my country they had a promo on your receipt where you do survey for a free whopper burger with your next purchase . The catch is its was with any purchase. When me and my girlfriend discovered this randomly when we went there for some soft serve and ended up staying there for the next hour ordering cones and doing surveys with the new receipt and came home with 20 free whoppers that night. Even the cashier was so impressed that they agreed to give all of the cones once we decided we were done. Gave her a genorous tip as a thank you. When we got to my house my family started screaming "Oprah, Oprah Oprah Oprah" like that Trevor noah joke the promotion continued for a about a year switching it the items out every couple of months. TLDR: Me and girlfriend went for some ice-cream and accidentally became Oprah
@@salsa221 pfft yeah, exactly. Just adding a voice to all the threads of r/askreddit and uploading them on youtube. It's kinda convenient because I don't really have to scroll all the way down to read the older ones. But still, he's crediting the authors so it's not that bad
My school never cancelled my gsuite account so I can continue to get all those free educational account offers till today, and I have unlimited gdrive storage. I graduated 6 years ago hehe
When i went to Penn State, they forgot to remove me from several resource sites when i graduated. Until halfway through 2019, 7 years after i graduated, i could access all the latest medical course resources, for free, by just logging in. I mean, i could have paid to access the site, but if the account that was paid for in part by my tuition was still working...
When my dad went to college or something there was a soda machine around the corner of his school and if you put $1 it would give you your soda of choice, plus $2 in change. The soda was ¢50.
My college was full of rich kids, and it was exprnsive to attend. We, bunch of poor kids with high scores attended there for free. For months the soda machine was broken and gave both the money you put in and the soda. There was always bunch of money in the change hole, so we just put our hands there and got free change whenever we want. Good times
When I was at elementary school (up to year 6 here) we had "projects" once a week that didn't took place in our usual classes, but with a mix of different classes, also with students from a year above or below. I figured that the teachers in those projects never checked up if students had been missing for the entire day or just this lesson. So as long as it was JUST you and nobody else from your usual class in that project, nobody would be able to tell them, you just skipped. I took advantage of that twice in like 5th grade. Never came out.
One time in like 8th grade, it was a mythology class I think, and for one project we had to compile a small portfolio of literature with mythological references in it. And nothing simple like song lyrics or shoe brands--it had to be actual literature or poetry. And we had to have a *lot* of references. So I started asking questions about what qualified---Could I count multiple references within a single work? Are contemporary authors off the table? Does it matter who the author is? It didn't matter who the author was. And yes, multiple references *could* count within the same work. So I made myself the author. I wrote my own friggin' huge poem with all the references I needed, and---since she had said herself the author didn't matter---she let it pass. But she never let anyone do that again. XD
They answer. You ask if (your own name) is there and they say "yes, but they're out rn." You say " OK, well when they return, tell him that some fuckwit broke into their house. Actually, on second thought, he already knows. YOU'RE TALKING TO HIM RIGHT NOW ASSHOLE!"
There was a slot machine at a casino that always gave me a minimum of $30 dollars. There were times where I would win $70.00 Eventually they removed the machine from the casino 😞
I have Tourettes' syndrome, which I included a few noisy tics. In high school, my teachers were told that if my Tourrete's started acting up, I could be sent to "detention". In detention there were little rooms with nothing but a desk and computer. This way if we had assignments that required the internet, I wouldn't be left behind. So, naturally, whenever we had a quiz or test in any of my classes I would purposely trigger my Tourettes, get sent to the detention hall with my exams--and then proceed to Google every last answer for a near perfect score (to ease suspicion), and then wipe the internet history. Never got caught.
There was a soda pop machine at a retail store that sold the retailer's own soda brand. If you put in a nickel it gave you back a quarter. Could turn a 2 dollar roll of nickels into 10 dollars. Also a penny would give you a dime, the dime would get you a nickel and the nickel would get you the quarter. Super exploit. Did this through all of highschool until they removed the machines in the mid 2000s.
Had this pizza/food delivery app/website i noticed pretty quickly that you could switch an item on the pizza for another item without changeing the cost so if you got the cheapest pizza with the most ingridients, which was ironically the vegetarian pizza so i switched every vegtable to diffrent kins of meat or whatever i wanted on the pizza making it very very not vegetarian. I had the dude at the pizza place tell me that i should have been paying like 50% more but he just laughed it off ^^ Website and app has updated since this so it no longer works :3
14:12 Law-firm billing thing. (From another RU-vid vid; can't claim credit: ) Lawyer dies at age 50 and goes to heaven. At the Pearly Gates, he tells St. Peter, "I'm only 50! I'm too young to die!" St. Peter checks his Big Book and says, "Strange. Based on your billings, you should be at least 83."
My parents got away with barely paying any electric bill for 3 years. Back in 2014 out of nowhere their bill dropped from almost 400 Reais a month to between 40 and 80. Mind you, this made their huge house where five people lived in pay _less_ for electricity than my tiny ass apartment with 1 occupant. Their electricity meter had simply broken. They felt it could be dangerous and lead to malfunction and they didn't really want the trouble that could come from this, even legally whenever the company realized it, so the next time the meter was taken they warned the officer of the problem... Officer basically said "'k imma look into it" and never did so. They warned three more officers over the next months and even called the company to inform them that something had to be wrong with their energy meter... The company basically didn't bother with it, and at this time they already knew for sure whatever had broken in the meter wasn't affecting the house electricity at all, so they just gave up and accepted it. It took three years for someone in the company to notice _something_ was wrong, at which point they tried to demand my parents pay up for the projected missing money (which at this point was around 20 thousand bucks) and for a new meter... But they gave up on that once they were given all the protocols for calls and emails my parents had sent asking them to fix it. So the company changed the meter to one that actually works now and that was the end of it.
I got one that saves me a ton of money (or technically time and effort) on beer. I live like a minute drive away from a dashmart warehouse that charges less based on the popularity of some items with dashpass, like beer. Most people apparently want to get a good bang for their buck when using doordash so usually the 24+ cases are a good deal more per ounce than the 12 cases because they're more commonly bought. It's to the point where it's cheaper than most grocery stores if you get the 12s. There's no limit on number of items even "on sale or couponed" items so I just order a bunch of the 12cases. I also have a friend who lives in my neighborhood that works for doordash. Can you see where this is going? Long story short, they get doordash's wage, my 5 dollar tip for like 5 minutes of work and I get tons of beer delivered to me for the same price as if I went out to get it myself. Everyone, except doordash, wins.
I basically don’t pay for drinks at fastfood chains I order my food thru their screens they have in store and walk up to the counter to ask for a cup of drink lmao
‘Buy a gift card and get the next one 50% off!’ I used the gift card to buy another one and got about 3 gift cards 50% off before they stopped me. Edit:Grammar
there was a black friday deal for the entire month where the store had gift cards where if you bought enough they would give you some free. all i remember is you could buy something that was $300 for $250. well we went on the second or third week and they lady told me they rotate out there gift cards every week even though it was not mentioned on the ad and the gift card we wanted was on the ad that was f'king annoying and my friends layer dad told us later that she was wrong but it was not worth doing anything.
I've NEVER seen a coupon like that which doesn't state "not valid on gift cards". Someone really screwed that one up. But you can still buy yourself gift cards to use when someone sends you an offer for a discounted gift card, and gift cards almost always can be used WITH coupons, so in effect they're letting you stack discounts. I just received an email from Subway yesterday to get a $20 gift card for $15. Buy-one-get-one-half-off, that's 25% discount. Pay for it on a card you got for 25% off, that's half-price. Too bad they cut their hours and I can't swing by on the way to work in the morning anymore. :(
In the third grade we had little papers almost like tickets that were given to us and the more we had the more points we could get on our lowest grades. Well they were on a white sheet of paper so I took them, threw them in the printer, and had enough copies to maintain an A average for everything. Eventually however, they started numbering them..
My previous workplace gave all their employees a tax free "grocery pay card". They would deposit about 9 USD on it for every workday, only usable for grocery shopping at some of the big stores in town. Maybe 9 USD a day doesn't sound much, it could total to about 1600 or 2000 USD a year saved on groceries. I quit that company one year later, for their ridiculous amounts of bureaucracy. My manager reassured me that the left over money on my companies grocery card remained valid and accessible to me after leaving, but no new deposits would be made. I checked the remaining budget on my card three months later and noticed that my previous employer never stopped depositing those 9 USD a day. Send them 5 emails and called three times for the issue, and even suggested I wanted to return those three months of faulty deposits. They repeatedly replied me they're looking into the issue, but can't legally reclaim the money they already deposited to my card. I gave up after a couple of weeks sending emails and calling them, knowing the ridiculous amounts of bureaucracy at that company. Took them 3 years to resolve the problem, they financed about 40% of my families groceries during that whole time.
With the 5:00 "program to keep the mouse running", if you put a laser mouse on a wristwatch the second hand counts as motion and wont trigger the 'away' status
A minecraft server had a large shopping center and you could buy most things and sell things too That including logs, and planks I bought tons of logs and turned them into planks, The logs sold for the same amount as planks so i was getting about 4x the money i originally had
I had a loophole once. When Amazon was still somewhat new, they put out coupons for $10 with no minimum on what you purchased, and you only needed an email address to use the coupon. I bought a whole bunch of $10 stuff. Of course, Amazon was mostly books back then, but I did get a few other things like a cribbage board.
At my old school they had these things called “Giffon bands” they were just these colored bands that you could get things such as “get the teachers chair or get to sit next to another lunch table” so I went to hobby lobby with my mom and then I saw a 600 band bag of bands that looked exactly like the “gryphon bands” for like 3$ and that’s how to cruypt power
When I was an undergrad I majored in Journalism. Journalism majors had 24 hour keycard access to area where the TV studio, control room, greenroom, newsroom, and main journalism classrooms were located. The newsroom, control room, and each classroom had a printer. I lived in campus. I did not have a printer. The libraries charged for printing. Many of my profs outside of my major still wanted printed papers. I know I wasn't the only Journalism major who took freedom of the press to include the freedom of the printers. (All black and white laser printers, but most college term papers and essays are black and white anyway.). And as long as we reloaded the paper trays as needed, no one said anything.
Transferred schools over Christmas break when my family moved and my science teacher gave me the full credit for only taking half the class. But my new school gave me a full math credit for taking the second half of a personal finance class as well. The next year I transferred again and for some reason, my transcript wouldn't show up on my new school's computer so they had me write down all the classes I had taken. I gave myself enough credits as a junior to graduate early. Nobody caught on until the last week of school when my school administrator tried to tell me I wouldn't be walking because I was a junior but when she checked her computer she only had the now digitalized transcript I wrote out at the beginning of the year with the old transcript nowhere to be found. She was so stuck up she told me I couldn't graduate because I needed 4 years of bible credits (private Christian school), to which I said fine. I had her print out my transcript with the missing bible credits, went down to the Local Highschool, and explained that my school was trying to stop me from graduating because of religious reasons. The administrator gave me a test that I filled out on the spot and passed and she handed me a diploma. In short, I graduated a year early because my teachers didn't keep records.
2016: papa ginos has a reward if you bought a gift card, you would get a free pizza. They didn’t however have any rules that you couldn’t buy a gift card with gift card. I had a lot of papa ginos pizza in 2016.
I remember the time at my elementary school where there was reading logs (you’re parents had to sign the amount of time that you read and put it into a log). I’m a lazy person so I really didn’t want to read at the time but I had to. One day the teacher assigned jobs. There was jobs like table monitors, material monitors, chair monitors, teachers assistant and more. I remember there was one called log monitor. Most of the class wanted teachers assistant and material monitor. I didn’t have time to fill out my card so the teacher gave me the leftover jobs. The next day I saw my job and it was homework monitor. I figured that if I just put a check mark on myself every month I would get an A. I did that for FIVE years before I left the school. I have the highest reading level in my high school for 9th grade and I don’t even know how. I guess I was never caught but it worked out.
I worked for a security company for 4 years. They required us to check restrooms to see if they needed toilet paper or graffiti scrubbed off the walls. I refused to do it because I didn't apply to be a janitor. I quickly learned they didn't check the reports for the restrooms. Like ever. After 4 years of them never checking the restroom reports, we got a bomb threat over the phone. The man said he placed the bomb in the restrooms. So they went back to check the reports and noticed I didn't check the restrooms in 4 years. I immediately was terminated from the company. Two other guards also never checked them, but they were fairly new so they got let off the hook. In the end, I'd do it again. The amount of time I saved not restocking toilet paper or scrubbing graffiti had to add up to at least 100 hours. And I excelled at every other thing I did. Made detailed reports, monitored security cameras closely, checked ID's very carefully. Never let anyone walk around the metal detector. That damn guy had to say the bomb was in the restroom 😂😂
It would be cool if they still existed. Set it up on a Raspberry Pi computer and automate mouse movement on it. A Raspberry Pi barely uses any power, so all earnings would be rather great from it.
This was the early 2000s, wasn't it? VM technology back then... the way I remember it it drained ressources too much. You'd need quite an expensive machine and if you could afford that you'd probably neither need those bucks nor still live at home.
McDs have 'buy 7 hot drinks, get 1 free' sticker redemption cards. A friend that was a night manager would just take the cards that were redeemed that day and give them to his friends. I got free coffees for years
Had a similar story to the foreign language guy. They told us we needed a 2nd internship I didn't get on time. My class teacher told me I had to get it done in my free time before I finish school or or otherwise I wouldn't get to. Turns out I still didn't do it and yet I'm studying CS today.
Peter Theil was one of the founders of Paypal. He invested in Paypal through his Roth IRA. When he sold his stake for $30million, he did not have to pay anything in taxes. Later he was the first outside investor in Facebook and did the same thing.
I was at a campground with my family. There was an arcade with about nothing except for an air hockey table. I accidentally pressed the start button and it started to play. My cousin was there and we played the game and hit the button again and it worked. During the whole trip we spent a long time playing air hockey for free.
