Some Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, At Least According To These 89 Unethical Life Hacks

99% of items you purchase either have no serial number linking them to your purchase or the serial numbers will never be checked.

Because of this, there’s no way to really know if the item a company like Amazon or Walmart receives in a return is the one that was actually purchased during the transaction in question. M

This would allow a person to purchase an item they need. Use that item as they wish and, in the event that the item breaks for whatever reason, a second item can be purchased. The broken item can then be returned under the assumption that it was the second item that arrived broken, since the second item has a new return period associated with it.

For a free breakfast get dressed in business casual and go to any hotel offering a free breakfast.

stop feeling guilty for saying no, matching peoples energy and putting yourself first. not every situation deserves your time or explanation.

You can...or used to be able to..earn ridiculous amounts of airmiles for free by buying money itself from the US Mint.

If you had an airmiles credit card that gave you miles for spend, especially one that gave you 3x per dollar, you could order cash from the US Mint at a 1 to 1 rate plus postage. Use the credit card to buy the cash. Use the cash to pay the credit card. Earn the miles in the transation.

This is basically a net 0 spend of cash for miles, except for the postage which is negligible anyhow. A few dollars.

The first few folks to do this earned MILLIONS of airmiles using this trick. Flew first class all the time.

But then the airlines found out and started blocking transactions from certain vendors, including the US Mint, from earning miles.

Never buy something immediately aafter seeing it. Wait 48 hours. Half the time you'll realise you didn't want it; you just wanted a little dopamine.

Not really unethical: get a soda at Costco and a vanilla ice cream cup. Fill the soda cup with root beer. Scoop out a big hunk of ice cream and pour half the root beer into the ice cream cup. Deposit scooped ice cream into soda cup. Voila! For dirt cheap, you get two root beer floats!

Cancel all your streaming subscriptions. Use iptv instead and get everything for 1/10th of the price. Yeah youre enabling criminals but you were already doing that anyway.

I’m sure it depends on the management of the particular store, and this was like 25 years ago when I was a broke college student, but there was a Popeye’s Chicken right off campus where if you went in like 15 minutes before close, they were always throwing tons of extra food in your order because they were just going to have to throw it out if they didn’t. I’d order a two-piece box and walk out of there with 10 pieces, 5 biscuits, and like a quart of some red beans and rice.

I’d eat for days off of a $5 order.

Volunteer to make the work meeting lunch arrangements. Use a place where you can get points, i.e. free food. At one point I had over 20,000 Chick fil a points and $100 in Panera vouchers and a smattering of points all over the place. Helped me get through a rough patch when I had a large expensive repair on my house.

Use AI to review your credit card bills and look for savings.

It pointed out my discover card offers 5% discount on utilities for the 4th quarter and I can actually pay in advance on my bills for the year during that window. $4,000 in gas, electric, and internet for the year, spread out over three monthly payments in October, November, & December means I saved $200. Plus when confirming this with utility companies, I was informed by paying in advance, I was eligible for 10% discount from the utility companies, another $400 saved.

Borderline unethical bc lie, but if there are some charitable organizations or whatever trying to collect donations from you, briefly look at the name of the organization and say „I‘m already a member, thanks “.

If you’re going to visit someone at the hospital, or on a date, or whatever and the florist is closed (or you just need to save some money)- stop by the nearest cemetery, they have several free bouquets on display for you to choose between.

Most Food Pantries, including the ones run by Churches, take all the good food and name brands for themselves. They also keep donated supplies, appliances, furniture, tvs etc. and sell them in their corner grocery stores, their thrift stores or on the internet. If being a heartless, POS greedy thief appeals to you, go work at a Food Pantry.

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Save business cards of people you don't like. When you ding a car in a parking lot, leave their card under the windshield wiper.

if its Secret Santa, you dont actually have to activate the gift card.

I don't know if this is a universal rule, but if you are still in your work uniform and dig for your wallet enough before crying a little and bashing your forehead on the streering wheel, Chick Fil A will give you your food for free.

Walmart has a zero-dollar restocking fee, and electronics (excluding phones) have a 30 day return policy. Save your receipt for returning your product rental.

When I was a kid I thought my parents were so dumb for not picking up all the money left on the table at restaurants when people paid their check and left some cash behind..

If you set your VPN to Albania, you won't have advertisment on YouTube.

I buy lettuce a lot for myself and a bunny. Quite often the green leaf is more expensive than the red leaf despite looking almost exactly the same.

It's also "price per head" so I grab all the extra leaves that have been knocked off by other people.