If you've ever worked in retail or sales, then you know the concept of 'upselling'.
Upgrading to a better product at a higher price can be hit or miss.
But sometimes, the upgrades are totally worth it.
Check out the best ones right here!
Redditor firstcruiser asked:
"What 'upgrade' was totally worth the price?"
THIS IS SO TRUE.
"Paying professional movers instead of renting a U-Haul. $500 was totally worth not having to schlep my own crap down from a third-floor walkup and it took less than half the time. They showed up at 7AM and the move was done by 1PM."
PseudonymIncognito
"I did the half/half version. Moved daughter about 450 miles. We packed the small stuff in boxes hired some guys thru U-haul and they loaded the U-haul truck for $150. I drove the truck to new destination and scheduled another crew through U-haul to unload at destination. Probably the best $300 plus $60 in tips I have ever spent."
bigforknspoon
Nothing better than that.
"A really nice pair of headphones for when I'm at work. Makes time fly and the day overall becomes much more enjoyable."
Funkbass
"For me it was a good pair of wireless headphones. Sound simple, but it changed everything. I can do chores around the house while listening to a podcast or good music, never losing the audio quality. Truly life-changing."
anon0066
Cotton sheets are A+
"Ever since I bought super thick and soft 100% cotton blankets, I've been having my best sleep ever."
TimDuncanCanDunk
"My friends and family roll their eyes at me for getting 100 % cotton sheets but I will never go back. It's also the only thing I spend time on ironing. It's just so soft and smooth. They even call me a snob for it (I am from Yorkshire). The jokes on them though, stupid polyester peasant sleepers."
katya_tractor
A great investment.
"Weighted blanket. It only comes out on Sundays, though, because it made it too hard to get out of bed."
Greycation
"I dragged my feet on one of these for so long. But single living for the first time in a decade absolutely killed my ability to sleep, I was maybe getting three or four hours a night, was just dead after months of this.
"I fall asleep within ten minutes now and I f**king STAY asleep. Mine's just a 'cheap' 'Target one, I'll have to get a cooling duvet cover for it come summer time because it does get hot as balls if my room isn't chilly."
grumpyoldowl
SOOOO worth it.
"First class (or whatever they called the upper class) on the train from Amsterdam to Paris. It cost only slightly more but gave good wifi, nice seats, free food, and it was very quiet. On the return trip I was on the other side of the car and didn't even have a seat beside me."
waterloograd
Good advice.
"Computer chair. Went from a wooden kitchen chair to a proper office chair (not one of those cheap ones, a proper comfy one) and my back stopped aching within a week. I'd thought it was my bed that was causing me issues! NOPE!"
Jcraft153
"Gonna add to this... if you decide to get a nice chair, skip the racing/'gaming' chairs, and opt for a nice office chair."
"A lot of people like the Herman Miller Aeron, but I'm a bigger fan of the Steelcase Think. These chairs are expensive, no doubt (I paid $825 for my Steelcase Think), but they're comfortable as all hell, but more importantly, DURABLE. The Steelcase Think chairs we have at work are all over 5 years old and still all in like-new condition. The cushions are still plush, the raise/lower cylinders still hold air, and the mesh backing isn't sagging."
Sohcahtoa82
Seems legit.
"Laser eye surgery. The best 10 minutes I've ever spent money on. The recovery time wasn't that bad, and it was a legitimate excuse to sleep!"
PM_ME_YOUR_ODYSSEY
"I spent about 5k on it too, when all was said and done (including prescriptions, etc...). I went to bed the night before the surgery and had to keep my phone in the bed because I couldn't read the alarm clock on the night stand."
"The day after the surgery, I could see the time on the cable box from across the room. It was like I spent my whole life behind a window and was seeing things for the first time."
JoshSidekick
The best.
"High speed internet."
oddballout3
"Exactly this. I went from 10/5 to 500/300. It was amazing. Unfortunately this means I rage every time i have bad reception on my phone since it takes so long to load."
Trek15
Always nice to have.
"A 10ft braided charging cable for my phone. It wasn't really that expensive, but holy sh*t it's nice to have a really long charging cable."
-eDgAR-
"Just one? I've bought two 3 packs on Amazon for like 20$ total. Room, living room, bag, work, car, computer. Not looking for chargers is equally as good as not having to move closer to the socket."
JayCDee
Always get the good trash bags.
"This is going to sound dumb. But I spent money on good garbage bags instead of the Walmart brand for inside the house and the outdoor can. Life is better."
PM-ME-XBOX-MONEYCODE
"That was the #1 piece of advice that always stuck with me from high school. In senior year my English teacher said:"
"Every other teacher is going to aim high and give you advice about finances, and ambition, and family life, and all those big things... and you won't listen to a word of it, because you just gotta learn that it for yourself. I'm gonna give you some advice you might actually use- but the good trash bags. It's an extra $2 per box, and it's worth it."
"Think about it this way- even if you're lucky and the store brand bags only rip once a month, that's still about an hour wasted picking up spilled trash all over your yard. Even if you work minimum wage that's $7 worth of your time. Buy the good bags and you just came out $5 ahead. So you come out ahead AND you don't spend an hour picking up spilled trash at 11PM on a Tuesday in the rain. Buy the good bags, and thank me later."
"Mr. Barrier was right- I didn't listen to most of the big life advice from my teachers (and a lot of it experience has shown to be flat wrong). But even today, 10 years later, I buy the good trash bags. And I don't pick up spilled garbage at night in the rain."
Pyrhhus
TRUE FACTS.
"Actually paying for cable and WiFi in my apartment. My partner and I lasted a year just watching Netflix and using our computers through the personal hotspots on our phones. It was time consuming to connect every day and loading shows was generally slow. First world problem there but being able to just turn on the tv and pick something or open my computer and use it right away is well worth it."
paychardonnay
Good idea.
"Bose bluetooth ear buds! I've spent $2 up to $50 for wired headphones just for them to break regardless of price or brand. Splurged on Bose when they were on sale ($70 off, came to about $210 with taxes) and I have never been more satisfied!"
angrymunequita
Worth it?
"Buying a brand new car. Debatable, I know. But it was my second car ever. I had my first from 17 to 27 and it was a 98 Honda Accord. And I put money into fixing something in it every month it felt like. It's just been nice having a car with zero problems so far. I'm still paying it off. Will be for 3 more years. But it's peace of mind. Worth it."
smcfuzzy
More detail is always better.
"For me, buying a new graphics card to replace the one that came in my prebuilt. Not only I could I see MUCH more detail in games like GTA5, but modern games that had 'slow' character movement (GTA5, Hitman, Mafia 3) suddenly felt 'right.' as they were much more responsive."
smellincoffee
Awwww.
"Just used 50K miles and spend $1000 to upgrade my wife and I from business to first for LAX to Hong Kong in December. She does not know yet. It will be glorious. Alas, business is the nicest class on our flight back. Oh well."
UnknownQTY
Crusader Kings
"I wanted an SSD for my PC for ages but kept putting it off. My bf bought me one as a gift and honestly it's like a brand new computer. It turns on instantly, and games which usually took a long time to load like Crusader Kings for example, loaded in seconds."
lukelhg
Booted
"Good boots. I've been in the military, fire service/EMS, all jobs that require boots. When I was in the military, I bought a $200 pair of Rockies. Lasted for years. Firefighter/EMT: Haix boots for $260, they last forever. They last long and are comfortable. Any time I bought $60 boots from Walmart they fall apart in 6 months, and the only time I've had a plantar fasciitis flare up is in the cheap boots."
TheVoiceOfRiesen
SURPRISE!!
"Getting a divorce and remarried. I was actually surprised that you can live with someone and still like them."
spacelincoln
Puffed
"Pillows! I bought a pair of the fancy bamboo cover, memory foam king-size pillows at an arena Home Show a few years ago -- they are the only pillows I've ever owned that don't go flat after a few months!"
virginia-d-entata
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It's another ordinary day in America.
So of course that means we've already had a mass shooting or two before brunch.
And aside from the mass shootings, the number of single gunshot wounds or deaths is too high to count.
So let's discuss the aftermath.
Let's hear from the people who have faced the barrel of a loaded gun, or were just a casualty going about their day.
What happens after the bullet lands?
***CAUTION - SENSITIVE MATERIAL AHEAD - TRIGGER WARNING***
Redditor notaninterestingacc wanted to hear from the people who have lived the nightmare. They asked:
"Gunshot survivors of Reddit - What does it feel like to get shot?"
Guns are not a joke. Please educate yourself before you purchase.
Then the pin hit...
"I took a 7.62 to the stomach in Afghanistan. Felt like somebody had smacked with like, I dunno, a flyswatter or something. A short sharp smack. Didn’t feel much until I tried to come out of cover and I just... couldn’t. Couldn’t make my body listen to me. Then the pain hit. I’d put it at like, I dunno, an 11/10. Bullet blew off half my liver."
eyeCinfinitee
Thank you EMS...
"Chest, .357 magnum, through sternum, lung, ricochet off of rib, through scapula. Still have half under my shouldblade. Felt like I was stabbed in the chest with a hot fire poker mounted to the bottom of someone's foot when they drop kicked me. Was not expected to survive (severe blood loss), of course. Very good EMS team kept the liquids where they were supposed to and great doctors and nurses kept me going."
mndyerf**kinbusiness
Knocked Back
"I didn't really feel either of mine until about 10 minutes later. Took a grazing shot off my left arm and one in the right hip that went out my back thankfully missing my kidney. The arm felt like a bee sting the hip knocked me back a step the adrenalin at the time masked the pain."
richwith9
The Masked Men
"I was shot during a home robbery. I’m probably one of The luckiest people alive. The bullet no joke scratched my cheek and then went through the top of my ear and also a bullet grazed my wrist and opened it up. I didn’t feel anything but just liquid running down my face and my wrist was burning."
"Scariest night of my life and RIP Christian. Miss you so much buddy. Here is proof. We... https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/katy/crime-courts/article/Man-charged-in-attempted-burglary-apartment-6236325.php Authorities said Burke and Brandon Fries, 21, fought the suspects for their guns, which were fired during the struggle."
"The two masked men fled, and investigators initially did not have any information about which direction they went or whether they escaped from the scene by car. Both Burke and Fries had been shot and were transported to Hermann Memorial Hospital in Katy. Burke was pronounced dead upon arrival at the emergency room, less than four miles away.”
Brandonfries28
Like a Rock
"I got shot in the ankle when I was 10. Honestly I thought a rock hit me. Just a slight stinging feeling. Didn't really hurt, I even kept running with my bike. Later at the hospital was a different story. The doctor tried to remove the bullet without putting me under."
"He said the pain medicine would make me forget everything. He gave up after a few minutes of hell. And, whatever he gave me didn't work as described, but it did oddly make everyone look purple from what I remember. So maybe it half worked? lol."
adamchilders
People really? How in the world do y'all get firearms?
Fleshed Off...
"Right thigh, 9mm, grazing shot across the front of the leg about 4 inches above the knee. It plowed a channel of skin and some flesh off the front. It felt searing hot like someone had laid a hot piece of metal on my leg for a second. Then, the pain went away for a while until the adrenaline wore off. It honestly hurt worse 6 hours later than it did when it happened."
morgen_benner
A slight pinch...
"I was randomly shot while walking down the street with my girlfriend in 2013. I didn't fall to the ground or anything like that. Walked into a store and told them to call the cops. It didn't hurt too bad at first. A slight pinch. The heat builds up and the pain comes in. Some throbbing as the blood pumps out. I was extremely lucky as the bullet lodged between my lower right ribs in the back just above my kidney."
"The aftermath was a really achey back. What I remember most was how everyone around me except for my girlfriend just walked around us like nothing happened. I was suffering and potentially dying and everyone just ignored it. 'Not my problem' I suppose. I lost a lot of faith in people that day."
SoggyPastaPants
Not the Head
"I accidentally discharged my 9 and I was hit in the head. While it was going on I honestly did not feel any pain but everything slowed way down. Healing and recooperating was the hardest. My mouth and jaw was wired shut for several months. Had to have complete facial reconstruction surgery."
"Had to take a piece of bone from my skull and graph it to my nose just so I could have a nose. I also had to have a feeding tube for almost a whole year. I've recovered fully and I'm very lucky. I remember mostly everything. Something's from the incident I don't remember, but for the most part, I have my memories in tact."
No-Kick1632
It Burns...
"My gf was shot, not me, but she said it felt hot and like impact but not particularly painful until much later. She was in shock and went to the hospital, after hours she said it started to hurt."
DntShadowBanMeDaddy
"This was my response too. It feels incredibly hot. It's like getting hit with a bee that's on fire. It burns like hell. But then, and only later, does is f**king hurt. The part two is that you might think you understand pressure, but get shot. It doesn't just hurt, it mashes into you."
trebuchetfight
Ricochet
"A good friend of mine got hit with a ricochet from a 9mm that hit his calf, there was drive by about a block down. He was outside of the bar smoking a cig when it happened, ran inside and felt his leg burning but decided to keep drinking. He had about 3 more drinks before someone mentioned he was bleeding… went to the ER absolutely hammered and was fine after surgery."
PM_Me_UrRightNipple
Please stay sober when handling a weapon. Please be careful in general.
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It's never attractive to gloat.
Nor does superiority ever come off as a particularly attractive attribute.
But, consciously or not, some people speak or behave in a way that immediately suggests that they think they deserve to be treated differently, i.e better than others.
Or that they believe they simply are better than other people.
A recent Redditor was curious what sort of behavior struck other people as elitist or arrogant behavior by asking:
"What screams "I am entitled"?"
Where's the fire?
"Impatience in situations where it should be just universally understood that you need patience".- c7hu1hu.
Positions of power.
"I will have you fired!"- Vergo27.
"Generally just leaving something for someone else to deal with."- Splatty_boi_420.
Sorry, but I was here first.
"People who cut in line."- Chad_Farthousse.
"People who ignore lines and cut in the front, like their time is more important than every other person patiently queueing."- ofsquire.
No one loves a tattletale.
“I’ll call my dad and tell him what you did!”- ROAM300.
Ever heard of quid pro quo?
"When they do something to you and think it’s fine but when you do it in return and they freak out."- Silvero129.
Name your price.
"I work as a ticket seller for a ski resort."
"My favorite entitled person is the guy who, upon finding out that the kid's ski lesson was sold out, offered to pay extra if I would kick someone else's kid out so his kid could have a spot."- Floranagirl.
Perhaps one of the most obvious ways to unwittingly show off your entitlement?
By being oblivious to how entitled you are.
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There's something about the woods that creeps me out. Listen here, people: I'm a city guy. The idea of getting lost out there freaks me out. No thank you. I wasn't made for that. The rest of you who like to go camping and stuff? You do you. I'll stick with my running water.
But maybe I've seen too many horror movies. After all, if I saw some creepy stuff in the woods I'd definitely run in the other direction. And so would you, right? Right?
People shared their best stories with us after Redditor shantics asked the online community,
"What have you seen in the woods that you can’t explain?"
"I stepped on what I thought was a small rock but it turned out to be weird and gelatinous. I've also seen tombstones in the woods."
his_eminence56
You just suprised it. Rocks are soft and squishy, they just tense up when you touch them! /s
"I was hiking through the remnants..."
"I was hiking through the remnants of a remote, long-abandoned town and the surrounding area. To get to as far into the woods as I was, you had to cross fallen trees over a creek three times. I had just crossed the third "bridge" and was about five miles in and something blue caught my eye just ahead of me."
"There was a man, in his sixties at least, wearing blue satin pajamas, sitting in a tree. The closer I got to him the louder he laughed; it wasn't a maniacal laugh, but it set off all the alarms in my head nevertheless. He also wasn't wearing any shoes and looked well-groomed/cleaned."
"I gave him a friendly nod as I passed and he just kept laughing. Then it stopped. I turned and he was gone. There was no branch cracking, plants rustling, nothing... He was just gone."
"Still rubs me the wrong way. The area I was in was a pretty rough hike, very secluded. Not very many people venture as deep as I was that day. No idea what was going on there."
mrwitch
“Over the Third Bridge” would be a great title for a spooky book or movie.
"Neat as a pin..."
"Fully decorated Xmas tree. Middle of summer. Neat as a pin it was, as if it had just been finished. Who ever did it came back at some point and cleaned it up, because it wasn't there next I did that trail a week or so later."
OldWomanintheWoods
This one’s not that uncommon actually. Lots of folks will decorate a tree in remembrance of someone out in the woods. Sucks when they don’t clean them up though.
"It's an interesting..."
"In Japan. A hotel was abandoned before it was ever finished being built. It only became a cement skeleton, about 5 stories high. It was left that way to eventually mold back into the forest around it."
It’s an interesting small building to explore. There are halls that are unlevel to the point of hitting your head on the ceiling (think: Willy Wonka)."
"There are stairwells that lead to nothing and one that leads to an unintentional hole in a cement wall. And on the top floor (but “inside” - as in, under the “roof”), is an old car - all smashed up - with seemingly no reason or method to have been up there."
[deleted]
This reminds me of those old abandoned amusement parks that pretty much exist to destroy me mentally.
"I once walked..."
"I once walked through the undergrowth (i.e. off the trail) with my then-girlfriend when we came across this spot where a few empty plastic bags were lying on the ground (strange because the woods are otherwise super clean), a pair of gloves and, most confusingly, the official ID card (= passport) of a young woman."
Minister_of_Joy
I would freak out and call the cops. That sounds like a murder scene.
"Many plastic bags..."
"Many plastic bags with nothing really in them but random odd things tied to trees. Sure, it could have been a homeless person but us kids att (like 12+) of us lived in those small woods behind the church every single day. We never saw anyone like that, ever. Passing through I guess, but why so many bags...still wonder."
WiseOwlBear
Do we want to know what was in them? Probably not.
"When I was a teenager..."
"When I was a teenager, I worked at a fireworks stand that was run by my friend's family. It was in a rural area: they owned a few acres of land, had the fireworks tent at the front of the property and the house towards the back, but no lights in between. My friend's mother would prepare dinner for all the workers and we'd take turns going back to the house for dinner."
"One night, I was going to the house for dinner by myself. I felt something on my arm. I thought a bug might have landed on me, but it was really dark so I couldn't see anything. I stopped walking for a second. Then I started hearing this low, raspy breathing right next to me."
"There weren't any people around me and it didn't sound anything like a bug. It was like a slow, asthmatic wheeze."
"I started getting really freaked out. I reached my hand down to my arm and felt... something larger than I expected. I furiously rubbed my hands all across my body to try and dislodge whatever this thing was, then ran as fast as I could to the house. When I finally got to the safety of the house, I could see a small red mark on my arm, but that was it."
"To this day, it's probably the most freaked out I've ever been."
[deleted]
Chills reading this! Nooo thank you!
"Several very large holes..."
"Really big holes. Several very large holes, fairly close to each other, that seem to serve no purpose. Ten feet wide, deep enough that if you jumped in you’d have to have help getting out. Was someone preparing to bury a bunch of people? Was someone punishing their kid by making them dig holes? Did they hear there was buried treasure out there?"
"We’ve never figured it out."
theyarnilama
How far apart? How neat were the holes? In a plantation or natural wood? Accessible by a small excavator?
"I once saw a huge pile of cat and dog skulls and bones about 100m from my cabin so we sold the cabin as soon as we could. It was creepy."
[deleted]
This definitely sounds like the beginning of a horror film. Did the ghosts follow you? Please report back.
"There's a small patch..."
"There's a small patch of woods where I live. You could walk across it in less than an hour. It's entirely safe and has marked trails. People somehow manage to get lost in there and I can't explain that."
ThadisJones
Did they stumble across the bounds of time and space? That might explain it. But you might be underestimating how many people lack a sense of direction.
None of this makes you want to go out into the woods, huh? Yeah, we thought so. We'll pass the next time we get an offer to go camping somewhere.
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We're all not geniuses.
Everybody has varying degrees of knowledge and brain power.
And that is ok.
Though some of us are really lacking in any sense and every once and awhile people like to sugarcoat that fact when they call us out.
"Bless your heart."
That's a big one in the South. Means... "I like you, but Lord are you missing marbles."
Redditor MrMadJoker wanted to know the most creative ways to describe people who lack a few IQ points.
They asked:
"What's your favorite euphemism for a dumb person?"
"You're missing a few pieces of the puzzle."
Said to me from my Geometry teacher. Now I know what he meant.
And... he was right.
Cents
"I could give them a penny for their thoughts and I'd get change back."
hopefulsite126
The Cells
"He's got 2 brain cells left, and they're fighting for 3rd place."
Striking_Yoghurt_690
"One more neuron and he'd have a synapse."
Bad Wheel
"The wheel is spinning but the hamster's dead."
ofsquire
"My old english teacher used to say 'I can smell the hamster burning.'"
cardew-vascular
"Bruh how u gonna do hamsters like that. Im dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"
Mulberry0
YOU
"You're the reason we have warning labels."
ofsquire
"My bosses comment about my non-too bright coworker 'you can’t get mad at her- she’s the reason shampoo has directions and she probably still f**ked it up…'”
Smoopiebear
"You see? Because of me, they have a warning label."
WantToBeBetterAtSex
Ok... some of this is some good comedy.
Or Puppet...
"I'm an American, but I love when British folks call people Muppets. For a long time Europe has led the way in insult innovation, and I think it's time we caught up."
JonSnow31391
Vanilla?
"Less useful than a chocolate teapot."
Pokeybumfun
"My Physics teacher used to say 'more pointless than a chocolate fireguard' whenever we had pencils that were too blunt for graph drawing hahaha."
ElegantEagle13
"German version of that is 'dumber than a piece of bread.'"
00192737292
I Like Turkey
"Shouldn't be left in charge of a ham sandwich."
accomplished_loaf
"I had a college professor who had met Gaddafi (God have mercy on him), the late dictator of Libya, and his impression was 'it would've been a shame to put that lunatic in charge of 10 chickens.'"
thefuzzybunny1
"Lol... for some reason this reminds me of Gordon Ramsay saying on Kitchen Nightmares that he wouldn’t trust a guy to run his bath, let alone his restaurant 😅."
thxitsthedepression
No Top Floor
"Your elevator doesn't go to the top floor. You're as sharp as a marble. You'd be stuck for an answer at hello (that's from Classy Freddie Blassie you pencil necked geeks)."
ferox965
"People tell me my elevator doesn't go the whole way to the top floor but I don't even HAVE an elevator."
"People tell me that too! We should go buy one~"
one_angry_custodian
Space
"My grandpa says: 'A lot of space between them ears.' Which is my absolute favorite, because a lot of people don't get it at first and just enforces the meaning."
Blobfish_Blues
Not all of us are going to break IQ records. That's ok. But these descriptions are funny.
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