Overheard a guy at the Austin airport say he saves $200 a year by eating hotel breakfasts twice

I was waiting for my flight and this dude was on the phone bragging about hitting up the free breakfast at different hotels even when he wasn't staying there. He said he just walks in like he belongs, grabs a plate, and leaves. Never even crossed my mind to try that. Seems kinda sketchy but also smart if you're near a tourist area with big hotels. Anyone else ever pull something like that?

Saved $50 a month just by switching my grocery store trips to Wednesday mornings

I was doing my usual Saturday grocery run for years and always blowing past my $400 budget. Then my coworker told me she does her shopping on Wednesday mornings because that's when the store marks down meat and bread that's close to the sell-by date. I figured it was worth a shot and went last Wednesday around 8am. The discount section was packed with stuff I normally buy, like chicken breasts marked down 30% and loaves of bread for 99 cents. I grabbed enough to meal prep for the week and my total came out to $312, which is almost $90 under my usual. I've been doing it for three weeks now and it's consistently saving me $50-60 each trip. Has anyone else noticed a big difference just from changing what day they go?

Customer support chat had me convinced I was talking to a bot

Last Tuesday I was trying to cancel a subscription for a service I barely used. The chat person kept responding in perfect sentences with no typos and always used my full name. Every answer looped back to offers or discounts no matter what I typed. I asked three times just to cancel and got the same scripted response each time. After 20 minutes I asked if they were a real human and they said "I am a trained agent" without any emotion. I finally called the phone line and a real person cancelled me in 2 minutes flat. Has anyone else gotten that eerie feeling where a support chat feels too robotic to be real?

Wasted $300 on a fancy torque wrench that clicked way too late

Honestly I tried to save money with a cheap digital torque wrench from Amazon on a critical engine mount job in Phoenix and it didn't click until I was way past spec, has anyone else had a torque wrench fail on them like that?

Finally caved and deleted my 47 unused browser extensions last night

I always figured keeping them around didn't hurt anything, but after my laptop started taking 5 minutes to boot up for no reason, I tried it and now it's actually snappy again. Anyone else notice a real difference after trimming that junk off?.

I finally tried cooking dried beans instead of canned ones for a month straight

I got tired of spending $2.50 a can on black beans at the grocery store here in Portland, so I bought a 5 pound bag of dried ones for $4.50. The trade off is you have to soak them overnight and cook them for like 90 minutes, but I swear they taste way better and you get way more for your money. My question is: is the extra time and effort actually worth it for you, or do you stick with canned for convenience?

Changed my mind about using tag lines for every lift

I used to think tag lines were just extra hassle on smaller jobs. Then last month on a site in Phoenix, I watched a guy drop a steel beam because the wind caught it and he had no control. OSHA came in and shut us down for two days. After that, I started using tag lines on everything over 500 pounds. Has anyone else had a close call that made you switch up your routine?

Went to the courthouse for a speeding ticket and noticed something weird about who got let off the hook

Spent two years soldering harnesses wrong before a QC guy showed me the right way

I was at a shop in Phoenix for about two years doing avionics installs. I always twisted my wires before tinning them. Last month a QC guy comes over and says hey why are you doing that. He told me twisting before tinning actually creates weak points. I felt like an idiot. Has anyone else had a basic thing they did wrong for way too long?

That furniture store markdown I found was actually a 12 year old floor model