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    If your bank can only deposit a certain amount of a check the same day and you need it all just cash it and deposit the cash

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        It’s still valid today.
        Payroll fucked up and I didn’t get a deposit a few weeks back. They gave me the choice of waiting 2 weeks and having the deposit added to my next paycheck, which is totally undoable, or they would cut me a paper check that day.
        I took the paper check.
        I decided it would be easiest if I could use my Bank apps Mobile deposit but it only allowed me to access $500 of it that day, the rest had to wait until the next business day which was Monday.
        If I would have thought about it I would have done it this way so I could have had access to the whole check before the weekend.

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          You still don’t necessarily get the full amount. Depending on the bank writing the check, you may only get a person available today. Payroll checks might give you all of it, but I’ve had checks deposited in person that only let me have the first 3-500 available immediately.

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          Sorry, can’t imagine having a banking system that’s a decade behind fuckin Eritrea or Kazakhstan and thinking it’s the norm 😂

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    If you get married the tradition is for one partner to change their last name to match so both have the same last name.

    We didn’t do that, so we have different last names.

    So when you sign up for services that offer (x) months free or discounted cost per unique household, you use one name, cancel, and sign up under the other name. They don’t know you’re married, don’t know if it’s a rental, or don’t know if it’s a roommate thing. So when we were poor AF we could save a lot of $ on services at least for a few months or so. Usually cable tv that offered a 6-month discount.

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      Even with the same last name they don’t know you’re married. We share a last name and have done this a few times before.

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        Eh, this was years ago we played this game. We tried to keep it on the DL by not changing immediately after the discount, usually several months later. We also had separate checking accounts and cards, so that probably helped. The policy may have updated since then, but I don’t see how they’d know if one person canceled the policy and another with an entirely different name and payment account opened a new one.

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          yeah and actually if its a single family home I have gamed the system by putting apt 1a, 1b, etc but I have not tried it when I actually have an apt/unit/whatnot

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      Where I live you can freely use your maiden name or your spouse’s name and switch between them whenever you want.

      We didn’t like either of our last names so before getting married I legally changed mine so my Spouse could adopt it after the wedding, instead of both of us legally changing it after the wedding.

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    Tried cancelling adobe. They wanted to charge for the rest of the year or something as a cancellation fee. Instead, I “upgraded” to a more expensive package, giving me their 14 day refund policy and was able to cancel immediately and still gave me access to the rest of the month. Fuck adobe

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    I had a pager that I didn’t want to pay the bill on when I went out of the country. I called them to turn the service off while I was gone. Instead of turning it off they just quit charging me. I realized that when I got back and had a bunch of pages. That continues for several years until I traded it away, still working, still not costing anything.

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      Nice! But I would call that a screwup on their part, whereas a loophole is a glitch built into the system.

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    I don’t know if it’s a “loophole,” but I find my phone to be a pretty good eReader. I did the same with an old tablet (just has the eReader and the book(s)). I’ve never had a real eReader so I can’t really comment on the difference, but if you’re just trying to read, a good app costs a couple bucks, way cheaper.

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      Doesn’t it strain your eyes tho? I thought the appeal of having an e-reader is having the screen easy on the eyes.

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        Not that I’ve noticed. I can usually fiddle with the settings (some even let you program a day and night mode). But I also state at screens all day, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

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        I’ve always used Android tablets. You need an app that allows you to fiddle with the colors. Mine is dark orange on a black background.

        eReader Prestigio has been good to me.

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    Many years back, at a caravan park games-room they had ping-pong, pinballs, pool, and a cocktail table Space Invaders.

    I had little money for the videogames and pinball.

    Some older kids had figured out that going to Space Invaders and flicking the wall power switch off, for a tenth of a second, would sometimes give an odd-number of free credits.

    We played 7, 21, and then maxed out the registers at 99 credits.

    Everyone played in rotation all day and turned it off with about 20 left.

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    I enjoyed paying $1.50/mo for YouTube premium by signing up with a VPN to Turkey 🇹🇷 but that’s not a thing anymore 😢

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    My brother-in-law didn’t want to carry his jacket around at Disney World, and he didn’t want to get a locker for it, so he had his dad turn it in to lost and found. At the end of the day, before leaving the park, he picked it back up.

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      Somebody else could’ve taken that.

      The lost and found at my school sometimes gathers interest on some items. Umbrella on a rainy day got 4 people claiming it’s theirs. But a golden chain is still winning at 8 people claiming it as theirs.

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        That’s why you hide the item and get the person claiming it’s theirs to tell you a piece of identifying information about the item so they can prove it’s theirs.

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            That’s a different problem entirely, your school needs to rethink things. Kind of funny though!

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              Why does the school need to rethink things?
              It’s in their interest to get rid of the items quickly so they don’t have to store them.
              Who gets them doesn’t matter to the school.

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                Because it’s unethical, and because if they just said “hey we have a lost object; if you are missing anything, come by and describe it” it would help reunite more items with their rightful owners.

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                  Yeah and also if the school really doesn’t care about it getting back to the rightful owner, they should just throw everything out.

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      Ingenius! Even more ingenious: every time you leave go to lost and found and pick up a free random jacket.

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    I remember there was a time when you could use the self-serve kiosk at McDonald’s, order a bunch of plain cheeseburgers and remove everything so it was just a bun and it would credit back enough money that you could get a whole meal (plus a bunch of empty buns) for free.

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    “Walmart rentals”

    If you need a product for a project but can’t afford it, go buy it at Walmart, use it, and when you’re done return it. Their return policy is pretty no questions asked, especially if you have a receipt. I had a roommate do this with an iPad he needed for a semester in college. I think it was a 14 day return policy, so he’d back it up and take it back every 13 days, then just buy a new one and repeat until the semester was over.

    Even if you don’t have a receipt, actually. I’ve returned things I bought at Target to Walmart and gotten a refund. Granted, that was a few years ago.