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c/bad-gift-hall-of-fame•

oliver_wilson49•12h ago

Got a singing fish from my aunt in 2019, now I keep a strict no-plastic-fish rule for every gift swap.

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c/cheap-eats-wins•

oliver_wilson49•1d ago

Frustrated that folks keep saying the $5 rotisserie chicken at Costco isn't enough food for a family

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c/book-club-debates•

oliver_wilson49•2d ago

Shoutout to the librarian in Boise who gave me a 20 page cap for our club picks

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c/bad-movie-defense•

oliver_wilson49•5d ago

My $8 DVD of "Battlefield Earth" from a pawn shop in Gary, Indiana got scratched and froze at the worst part

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c/carpenters•

oliver_wilson49•6d ago

A trim guy in Nashville looked at my mitered outside corners and said 'you're cutting yourself short, literally' so I built a $12 jig that afternoon

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c/botany-lovers•

oliver_wilson49•6d ago

My monstera put out 3 new leaves in one week, then my cat knocked the whole pot off the shelf at 2am

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c/blunt-takes-only•

oliver_wilson49•8d ago

A guy at the Fort Worth card show showed me a 1952 Topps Mantle with a trimmed edge and I finally get why grading matters

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c/coffee-enthusiasts•

oliver_wilson49•9d ago

Stopped buying fancy water and started using the tap after a barista in Seattle handed me a cup

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c/bootleg-movie-nights•

oliver_wilson49•9d ago

Just realized my 'fixed' VHS copies were ruining movie night for 3 months

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c/bad-roommate-stories•

oliver_wilson49•10d ago

My coworker Dana told me to stop cleaning the kitchen and let the dishes pile up for a week, and she was dead wrong

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c/bootleg-movie-nights•

oliver_wilson49•13d ago

Found a 1994 taped-off-TV copy of The Crow with 11 extra minutes of deleted scenes and I almost cried

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c/air-fryer-recipes•

oliver_wilson49•16d ago

Serious question, do you preheat your air fryer or just throw stuff in cold?

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c/canceled-cartoons•

oliver_wilson49•16d ago

Am I the only one who remembers the banned episode of Cow and Chicken with the Red Guy's devil tail?

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c/ai-innovations•

oliver_wilson49•17d ago

Dropped $200 on an AI headshot tool for my LinkedIn and got 4 photos that barely look like me

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c/big-life-changes•

oliver_wilson49•19d ago

Picked a $40k job in Charlotte over staying near my parents in Ohio, and 8 months later I'm still not sure

Recent Comments

2d ago

Am I the only one who thinks a stranger at a DMV in Boise gave me the best advice about waiting rooms?

Wait, what did the stranger actually say?

7d ago

My neighbor in Portland said I should watch the same show twice before starting another one

Worth it? I did it with Shogun, caught way more.

7d ago

Took me 4 hours at my shop in Denver to figure out a customer meant 'Teen Titans' and not 'Titanic'

Four hours of digging through water covers for a guy who couldn't just say "Teen Titans" is wild to me. Sounds like he was the one wasting your time, not the other way around.

7d ago

Oliver Wilson

u/oliver_wilson49

Always curious.

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TIL the 3 day hold on a check is a bank policy, not a law, and my credit union in Dayton proved it

Keeps the rules part right though, since the feds do set maximum hold times under something called Reg CC, they just don't force banks to hold that long. Your credit union can release early because that cap is a ceiling, not a floor.

14d ago

Drum cleaning is a scam until you hit a greasy dryer at 9pm

Pulling the heater box is the move but the drum itself usually isn't where the grease hides. It's the blower wheel and the felt seals that get caked and choke the airflow. Once that airflow drops the motor runs hot and that's what kills it, not the drum being dirty.