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Cheap Food - Take your groceries through the self serve checkout. Enter your vegies under carrots as carrots are dirt cheap & your 5-6 bread rolls as '1' when asked the quantity. When buying anything that needs weighing basically, put it through as 1 for quantity or the cheapest food you can think of. To get away with this, try to get the register furthest away from the attendant so you won't be caught.

Free/Cheap Train Ride - When you see the conductor coming to check tickets, simply duck off to the toilet for a few minutes and wait until they walk through to the other carriage. The majority won't check the toilets for passengers. Or if that's too risky for you, buy a ticket that will take you half the way to your destination. For example, when I travel to Melbourne from Geelong I purchase a ticket to Werribee because the ticket checks are done just after Lara. When coming back, I purchase a ticket to Lara as the checks are done after Werribee. I save $5 each way which is handy when you travel 2-3 times a month.

Dry Shower exit. No Bath mat required! - To the people saying your feet will get wet again once dried, the way to go about it is like this.
Hang your towel close to the shower. When ready to get out, grab the towel whilst in the shower still and briefly dry off. Open the door and place 1/3 of the towel on the floor. Step onto the towel and dry off any water around the feet. Success!

Returning Clothes for Cash, not Credit - When purchasing new clothes, the second the tags are ripped off, its hard to get your money back. You may find after a few days the item isn't what you thought you wanted after all. Here's how to get your money back. Using a sharp knife, begin removing the stitching around the cuff or some other area where holes are likely to appear. The key is to not hack away at it as it should look like the stitching has come apart, not that you've gotten it caught on something. Return the top expressing how disappointed you are in discovering the hole. As the item is thought to have been sold with a hole or has come apart you are entitled by law to get your money back upon request.

Never Sleep in again - This is probably quite common, but setting an alarm far enough from your bed that you have to get out of bed to switch it off is how to never sleep in again.

Never pay for razors again - Purchase a beard trimmer. $50 once only payment > $20 every 4-6 weeks.

Never pay for a gym membership ever again - Most gyms allow their staff to come & go without paying so either learn to take Group Fitness classes (BodyPump, Boxing, RPM etc) & secure yourself a permanent class, become a PT or gym instructor or get work in their admin/reception area.
 
Cheap Food - Take your groceries through the self serve checkout. Enter your vegies under carrots as carrots are dirt cheap & your 5-6 bread rolls as '1' when asked the quantity. When buying anything that needs weighing basically, put it through as 1 for quantity or the cheapest food you can think of. To get away with this, try to get the register furthest away from the attendant so you won't be caught.

Free/Cheap Train Ride - When you see the conductor coming to check tickets, simply duck off to the toilet for a few minutes and wait until they walk through to the other carriage. The majority won't check the toilets for passengers. Or if that's too risky for you, buy a ticket that will take you half the way to your destination. For example, when I travel to Melbourne from Geelong I purchase a ticket to Werribee because the ticket checks are done just after Lara. When coming back, I purchase a ticket to Lara as the checks are done after Werribee. I save $5 each way which is handy when you travel 2-3 times a month.


Returning Clothes for Cash, not Credit - When purchasing new clothes, the second the tags are ripped off, its hard to get your money back. You may find after a few days the item isn't what you thought you wanted after all. Here's how to get your money back. Using a sharp knife, begin removing the stitching around the cuff or some other area where holes are likely to appear. The key is to not hack away at it as it should look like the stitching has come apart, not that you've gotten it caught on something. Return the top expressing how disappointed you are in discovering the hole. As the item is thought to have been sold with a hole or has come apart you are entitled by law to get your money back upon request.

Another great trick along the same topic is to walk into JB HiFi or a similar store wearing a coat with large pockets. Stuff as many blu-ray disks into the pockets as you can fit, without the pockets bulging too much so you get noticed. The trick is to walk slowly towards the exit, and when the alarm goes off to break into a full on sprint, so the security guard can't catch you. A great trick for getting free movies. Obviously it's important to get the balance right so you get enough movies to make it worthwhile, but not too many that they slow you down so much that you get caught.
 

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Cheap Food - Take your groceries through the self serve checkout. Enter your vegies under carrots as carrots are dirt cheap & your 5-6 bread rolls as '1' when asked the quantity. When buying anything that needs weighing basically, put it through as 1 for quantity or the cheapest food you can think of. To get away with this, try to get the register furthest away from the attendant so you won't be caught.

Free/Cheap Train Ride - When you see the conductor coming to check tickets, simply duck off to the toilet for a few minutes and wait until they walk through to the other carriage. The majority won't check the toilets for passengers. Or if that's too risky for you, buy a ticket that will take you half the way to your destination. For example, when I travel to Melbourne from Geelong I purchase a ticket to Werribee because the ticket checks are done just after Lara. When coming back, I purchase a ticket to Lara as the checks are done after Werribee. I save $5 each way which is handy when you travel 2-3 times a month.

Dry Shower exit. No Bath mat required! - To the people saying your feet will get wet again once dried, the way to go about it is like this.
Hang your towel close to the shower. When ready to get out, grab the towel whilst in the shower still and briefly dry off. Open the door and place 1/3 of the towel on the floor. Step onto the towel and dry off any water around the feet. Success!

Returning Clothes for Cash, not Credit - When purchasing new clothes, the second the tags are ripped off, its hard to get your money back. You may find after a few days the item isn't what you thought you wanted after all. Here's how to get your money back. Using a sharp knife, begin removing the stitching around the cuff or some other area where holes are likely to appear. The key is to not hack away at it as it should look like the stitching has come apart, not that you've gotten it caught on something. Return the top expressing how disappointed you are in discovering the hole. As the item is thought to have been sold with a hole or has come apart you are entitled by law to get your money back upon request.

Never Sleep in again - This is probably quite common, but setting an alarm far enough from your bed that you have to get out of bed to switch it off is how to never sleep in again.

Never pay for razors again - Purchase a beard trimmer. $50 once only payment > $20 every 4-6 weeks.

Never pay for a gym membership ever again - Most gyms allow their staff to come & go without paying so either learn to take Group Fitness classes (BodyPump, Boxing, RPM etc) & secure yourself a permanent class, become a PT or gym instructor or get work in their admin/reception area.

Yeah... most of them aren’t so much “tricks”, more theft or light fraud.
 
Speaking of which, I used to work in Coles Deli and whenever someone I knew quite well came through... I'd put whatever meat they were getting as Devon or Smiley Meat or something. A bloke I worked with got caught once though when the packaging was super big and bulky and he put it through as something shitty like a tub of olives. He wasn't the sharpest tool I will admit.


Back to life tricks;
Not sure if this has been mentioned but at my house, I collected the bread plastic end things and then place them around power plugs with appropriate tags on them such as "PS3" or "TV."
Helps you not plug out the wrong things which I always had a habit of doing especially living with housemates with about twenty plugs at our TV*

*Slight exaggeration
 
Multiplying by 11 - add the two numbers you're multiplying 11 by together and put that number in the middle of them.

E.g:
45x11 4+5 = 9 so 45x11 = 495

62x11 6+2 = 8 so 62x11 = 682

When the added number goes over 10 just add 1 to the first number.

57x11 5+7 = 12 so add 1 to the 5 and put 2 in the middle - 57x11 = 627
96x11 9+6 = 15 so 96x11 = 1056
 
If you are adding up a long list of numbers and you have a discrepancy, first check the total of the variance.

If it's divisible by 9, there is a good chance that your mistake is a transposition error (getting two digits the wrong way around), e.g.

Adding 72 instead of 27: difference is 45 which is divisible by 9
Adding 253 instead of 523: difference is -270 which is divisible by 9
Adding 18,321 instead of 13,821: difference is -4,500 which is divisible by 9

Works for any transposition mistake. Try it.

If you're an accounting trainee it will save you a lot of time.
 
If you want to subtract a decimal number from 1 (I learned this in the context of finding normal distribution probabilities) just add a number to make each digit 9 and then add the number to make the last digit 10.

I.e. 1 - .2927
2+7 9+0 2+7 7+3

so 1 - .2927 is .7073

If the last digit is a 0 you just add to make the second last digit 10. i.e. 1 - .3480 is 3+6 4+5 8+2 .652(0)

Works equally well for subtracting a smaller number from any number 10^n where n is an integer.
 

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if you want to know if a number is divisible by 3 add the numbers together and then see if that is divisible by 3.

e.g. 81=> 8+1=9 which is divisible by 3, so 81 is as well
1253==> 1+2+5+3 = 11, not divisible by 3
 
For those using BF at work when they are supposed to be doing something else winkey+d ;)
I just always have another window handy for Alt + Tabbing. An employee staring at a blank desktop seems pretty suss.

Alternatively, if you have a long article you want to read, copy and paste it into Word.
 

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If you wear glasses and cook I find putting contact lenses stops them from fogging up (duh :p ). Another positive is when chopping onions you dont get teary.
 
The times tables can be hard to remember. However, it's easier if you remember the nines if you know that the two number in each one add up to 9.

9
18 --- 1+8=9
27 --- 2+7=9
36 --- 3+6=9
 

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