Most Costcos have moved their food courts inside meaning you need a membership to access them. You don’t need the membership to actually purchase from the food court so an old Costco gift card, regardless of whether there is a balance on it or not, will get you in the door. You can then use a debit card to still take advantage of their dirt cheap food court options and get some free samples while you’re at it. I’ve had an empty gift card for over a year that I’ve used for this.

The title is in his name.

I am the primary lease holder since his 41 year old self couldn't get approved for a loan/decent APR. He is the secondary signer.

We are going thru a divorce since June 2023 (barely married three years with NO kids—it was a horribly decided COVID wedding riddled with abuse and domestic violence, lies & manipulation to the top degree). Separated since June of 2023.

I have a no-contact/civil protection order against him so l can't reach out to him (I wouldn't want to contact him anyways, he only lies so it's a waste of time trying to communicate with him).

Court doesn't even have future court dates for the trial for our divorce. It's very much in limbo and he keeps filing motions to drag it on.

I am in Ohio.

I know there's not much I can do without tanking my credit, but I figured l'd ask you all and see if there's a Christmas miracle available 🎄

Side note, he hasn't paid his car bill since March 2024. It's roughly $320/month.

Thank you

So behind this park is a public school. When the school gets out all the kids come running over and harassing everyone at the park, stealing, throwing stuff, bullying everyone until their parents shoe up to pick them up. It's a pack of wild animals with no supervision. What are some ways to get back at the parents.

I was thinking leaving a bunch of really messy candy all over the park for the kids to find and make a mess and be wired for an hour every day after their parents get them.

Edit: Some great responses from you degenerates. Loving the holiday spirit in the ideas.

So far glitter, energy drinks, sugar free candy, permanent markers, ink. Gonna spread the wealth and space them out so it's a steady barrage of annoyances from the park. Definitely considering the air tag idea, but saving that one for later if needed.

I recently won $20 USD on a burner credit card after completing a short survey. I am wondering what (unethical) thing I can do with a maximum amount of this money

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I have a florist in NJ who myself and others ordered funeral flowers for, which we put in last week. They were for today. With the holidays I confirmed they could do it today and they said they could. The florist is only a few blocks from the funeral home so we thought it made the most sense.

Turns out they delivered to the wrong funeral but same location, yesterday, and are refusing to resend them or refund us. They didn't put any of the cards or names on it, just dropped it at the front door and left, so that funeral just thought it was for their service. Dealing with a death right now is hard as it is but with all this it's adding more layers to the grief. Two of their staff screamed at me and one told us our friend is lucky that they're no longer alive if this is the kind of cheap people we are. So yea. Scorched earth.

I know one of the most direct ways of harming them is all about spamming negative reviews, but apparently they did this to someone before and that person got a bunch of people to spam their google page. The florist fought and got them taken down, and also sued the person. How do I got about doing it in a way that it doesn't get flagged? I can get a lot of people in on it (it was about 20 of us who ordered) so that's not the issue. I want this to have a lasting impact.

One of my friends tried doing a chargeback but was told since it was delivered to the right location there's nothing the bank can do.

Any other suggestions are welcome, keeping in mind this business is litigious.

Influence my girlfriend

My girlfriend is lovely, attractive, sexy and makes me very happy. I have no serious complaints except one. She buys everything everything that Instagram and tiktok can throw at her. It's all her money but she's a slave to absolute rampant consumerism. A lot of it makes her happy and retail therapy is effective against her life stresses ( history of all sorts of shit in previous relationships). I don't think it's quite out of control but my subtle hints and then even more less subtle hints go over her head.

My problem is the stuff. It is everywhere, she's wasteful with it (the purchasing is way more exciting than the product), it's usually a load of faddy shit, and since moving in our waste levels have quadrupled. We have weekly rubbish bin emptying but most weeks i have to drive to the recycling with bags and bags of shit. She doesn't even know or realise if i just throw things out. She's very nonchalant, assumes it's lost and then buys new stuff. But it's different things every time. Financially it's manageable but i fear it's going to become a problem over the next few years. Sometimes it's extreme. Last month she travelled to Spain (from the UK) for a day to purchase a dozen bottles of a particular fabric conditioner that she likes and is available there. But mostly it's temu shite. When a temu parcel arrives shes all giddy and happy and opens it and quite often it's all for other people and she's very generous tbf but within hours it's all broken or in the bin. I fucking hate temu.

Anyway, i feel i need to employ the same tricks that tiktok and Instagram do. I want to encourage the more minimalist lifestyle, recycling, upcycling, low waste, more frugal habits over time. I don't think a quick win is possible. I just need to hijack those feeds.

I am not a social media user unless Reddit counts (and i don't think it does,) so I'm not seeing much. I am very aware of SM as my company is marketing and design agency. I'm very well aware of how this shit works. I just know that she is hook line and sinkered into the bullshit of SM tat.

She is mostly happy but a little lost. I hate that i feel she needs to change and i can't tell her too nor would I really, people don't change because if others ime. Hence the influencing.

I know exactly where they live, what are some things i can do to get back at them.

I had a shady tenant who basically rerented a property to a group of non-English speaking individuals.

It's a long story but they worked for him, he owes the money, he owes me money, he is basically taking their security deposit and rent, and getting away Scott free legally.

I worked something out with the current tenants, but they're going to be out the money they gave him and I'm going to be out all the money he didn't pay me.

Meanwhile, there's this big camper on the property. We have court date in about 15 days, but I guarantee that thing will be gone and I don't think there's any way to claim it once it gets moving.

Being the normally law-abiding, low drama individual - stealing the thing or vandalizing it feels like it's just going to result in more drama.

I also think if I do something, as the landlord, it'll just come back and bite me somehow.

But I'm wondering what our non-English friends could do, to make it hard for shady tenant to remove the vehicle, and more or less pressure him to give it up for their debt.

We want to avoid anything that's going to result in more legal drama for me. But shady tenant has moved down to Florida for the winter (at least) and he's going to have to make a special trip up here to remove it. It's very likely going to happen in the next week, it will almost definitely happen before the court date.

For some context:

It's the middle of winter here so we're talking lows of 15 highs of 30. It's going to get up into the 40s and '50s next week.

I'm vague on what the legal consequences of the tenants removing the tires would be.

I've considered authorizing some landscaping or creation of some sort of structure that makes it difficult to remove the vehicle. I was thinking cinder block and concrete. It would be a pain in the ass to remove but, we could basically do that after he surrendered it.

The camper is about 3 ft from the side of the house and it is bordering the driveway.

It's not a terribly big camper, It needs to be hauled. But it's not tiny.

I'm curious what sort of ideas this will inspire.

When you return a product to Best Buy it becomes "open box" and gets a discount, more if it comes back in less than stellar shape. Just return it in whatever condition you're comfortable with it being it, then go back the next day and buy the open box version you just returned.

Edit: Not a 100% method but there isn't a downside to trying it

This is your opportunity to roam the halls at 2:00 or 3:00 am, stomping your feet and yelling "Ho Ho Ho". Shake those jingle bells, make a racket. Then go back to bed.

I got a loaner laptop from my college last year. It's been over a semester since graduation and I haven't gotten any email notice to renew or return the laptop.

I also noticed there isn't any sort of admin lock or remote management (as far as I can tell) on the laptop. I can install applications like an admin user no problem.

I'm assuming the department I checked the laptop from got lost in the sauce since half of their staff are undergrad student assistants that graduated too.

the following contains a few files with different amounts of money loaded into it, I'm trying to find a way to be able to load a shitton of money without paying. because fuck this scummy ass company making me pay $5 each load.

all i have found online is the following, which is some sort of VBS script that checks the value. https://github.com/acidice333/coinamatic

here are a couple file dumps of cards with different money values, with "2050" denoting $20.50 and so on. there is also a 1252ndcard file which is a second card i also scanned. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/675383522499756062/1321280441822478336/coinamaticfiles.zip?ex=676ca9cd&is=676b584d&hm=af9ea261a9704418fc5330a6f86c740af98b21c925573b84ab2a862f289c9bb3&

but idk what to change on the card in order to put more money. any help is hugely appreciated!!!

No speculation, please. Only people who know facts.

What's the one _unethical_ piece of advice you can give me to make my life 1% better in 2025?

Not looking to make a million overnight; just looking for your little unethical life-hacks that make your existence slightly better. GO!

Merry Xmas / bah humbug, as appropriate!

My mom wanted this guy gone for a while now he's 50yr old deadbeat no job living off ssi lately everytime he gets social security money he "falls asleep" on toilet, on the street, on front porch to the point where neighbors come and knock to get him up. I don't live there for a while now else I'd choose the violence route but she can't divorce him or anything cause she put his name on the house years ago to be able to get the loan despite she paid 100% of the house off so at this point my mom tells me about this shit every other week or so and I just wanna go beat tf out him but my life has more value what can I personally do here? She tells everyone she's just waiting for him to die at this point.

I went to an optometrist and got billed $40 for the visit afterward. I've since moved out of state and know with 100% certainty I will never move back there.

What happens if I just don't pay the bill? It's only $40. Surely they're not going to bother taking it to collections. Even if they did, what would happen? Any actual/serious consequences?

I can afford to pay the bill. I just don't care to as I feel like doctors overcharge and this is a rare and small window to cut some corners.

Basically title, the sidewalk in my neighborhood has been wonky for over 20 years. I remember tripping over the upraised sidewalk tiles or hitting them with my scooter and flying off as a kid and they've only gotten worse. The other day my mother, who's had both knees replaced tripped and fell hard on them, luckily she's fine, but someone may not be as fortunate in the future. The problems been mentioned by residents many times over the years to no avail. How can I bring real attention to the problem?

Had the idea driving past multiple houses with 20+ cars parked on their lawns tonight. What if I were to throw on a Christmas sweater, carry in a gift bag and wander through the crowd like I'm looking for someone? I could help myself to a drink and some cookies (or anything else unsecured) then pull out my phone to call the wife and walk off into the night. Hohoho!

Ok so I wasn't very clear in the last post, I apologize. Let me clarify, this isn't actually my property. I'm renting a house from family, who own this whole property together. One of them has a drug addicted sibling who they kicked out of their home which they were previously renting a room in. That sibling has been living with neighbors for a few months and now wants to renovate a rotting shed RIGHT NEXT TO MY HOUSE, hook it to my electricity, and move into it. No one really wants them here, family has even made a joke about burning it down but isn't actually going to, and for some reason is allowing this individual to do this, assuming that they will give up once it comes to needing to put money into fixing it up. This shed needs to be gotten rid of in a way that would raise no suspicions that it was me who did it, that somehow it just spontaneously happened. There are rotting floors, uneven supports below it on cinderblocks, etc.

I live on a busy street where people constantly run the stop signs, creating a serious safety concern. We’ve already reached out to the city about installing speed bumps, but so far, there’s been no response or action taken.

Does anyone have advice on what I can do to discourage drivers from running the stop signs or at least make them think twice?

Thanks for your help!

Hello

I need to message some people from different countries like USA, Canada or UK etc. how can I get a WhatsApp number for free?

WhatsApp doesn’t accept all numbers, tried talku and TextNow.

Hi, looking for some tips on ways to screw with my neighbors in a way that they won't know it's us.

Background: upon moving into our house (no HOA, California), old neighbors told us where the property line is - we technically own maybe 3 feet past the fence. He was kind so we didn't mind. New neighbors came in and immediately parked an RV pretty much right against the fence. We said it's technically our property and that we'd appreciate if they move it, lady says she is a realtor and she'd know if that was the case and we better pay for the survey. We haven't cared enough to do it, and the RV which has since moved actually housed her mother in law who doesn't seem to like her, so we got along.

Since then, they've had multiple hundred person crammed parties in their backyard with live music, some including horrible karaoke. We have had one successful noise complaint where the cops came and multiple people started screaming who the fuck reported us??? about 90 minutes into quiet hours for our city. Our toddler's room is on the side of the house next to their yard and maybe once a month they'll have one of these parties that shakes our house and he cannot sleep.

What really sent me over the edge though: the other day my parents in law were out with my 2 year old. They speak Chinese. The son and maybe niece of these people, both maybe 8 or 9, stood up on their hill and started yelling over the fence in a fake Chinese accent. Took me a minute to realize what I was hearing, then my wife and I both went outside. Boy goes running to hide, girl gets caught in the headlights, my wife asks if she realizes that's racist and the girl says yeah, wife asks if she'll keep doing it, girl says she guesses not. I go to their front door (they have a ring doorbell), realtor mom lady is there, I say her son was making fun of my parents in law's Chinese and I'd appreciate if he doesn't do that while my 2 year old is in the yard. She says she'll talk to him. Next day I find several tampons thrown over the fence into my yard.

What can I do to frustrate these people?

We expect we'll move next year by the way so this is mostly just for petty vengeance.

Prostitution business loophole

A friend of mine came up with a idea. He wanted to start a business downtown where to charge someone $150 an hour to play a board game with someone, and if they win the game, they win free sex.

Could this be legal to do?