What is that One Trick that "THEY" Really Don't Want You to Know?

Am I the Genius?

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

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0:00.0	What's that one trick that they really don't want you to know?
0:05.0	Mr. Clean Magic Erasers are just melamine sponges. You can buy them like $10 for a dollar on eBay.
0:12.2	If you want to cancel your hotel room last minute but there's a cancellation fee,
0:16.4	call and change your reservation to a few weeks later. Then call later and cancel it. I call it around
0:22.2	midday to change. Give a legitimate sounding reason like the meetings rescheduled or I misremembered
0:27.1	the flight date. This will hopefully ensure the agent doesn't make a note in the internal
0:31.6	notes only field. Then you call back to cancel at least eight hours later. It's unlikely the hotel
0:37.4	has agents on eight-plus
0:38.9	hour shifts. Most of the dulling that occurs with cartridge razor blades is not a result of shaving,
0:45.0	but rather water being left to evaporate on the blades. I've been using the same cartridge for
0:50.5	the past eight months by running the blades upwards, like in the opposite direction you would
0:54.1	when shaving, on a towel 15 times after rinsing it off, and then blowing on it for a few
0:59.2	seconds. Eight months later, this blade still barely pulls at all. I have a small mason jar
1:04.7	filled with rubbing alcohol that I swish the blade in after I shave. That drives the water off
1:09.7	the blades, and when I put the shaver
1:11.0	down, the alcohol then evaporates. Didn't reach your eight-month record, but I had a blade
1:15.8	cartridge last five months. You can file a complaint with the FCC if a telecom company jerks
1:22.5	you around, and then you'll get the results you should have to begin with. You can just go to
1:26.7	the consumer complaints page on the FCC website. I used this when AT&T charged me local taxes and fees for a state
1:33.5	I hadn't set foot in for 14 months. I painstakingly crafted a Google Doc of every single penny
1:38.9	and called them and asked for a refund. They told me that they can't refund taxes and that there was no one I could escalate to and offered me a one-time refund of 25 bucks.
1:49.0	I filed a complaint with the FCC and a few days later I got a voicemail from executive customer support asking for a call back.
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