We all know what a life hack is—a brilliant, yet simple solution to those painfully irritating dilemmas that feel like a pain in the rear. But not every hack is created equal. You’ve probably heard of life-changing hacks that are surprising in their brutal simplicity, but there are also totally useless hacks and hacks that sound like a big pile of turd, for lack of a better word.
So today, we’d like to welcome you to the new era of life hacks that verge on the border of brilliance and moral deficiency. And the border is one slippery slope right there. Thanks to the social media influencer and TikToker Andrew, better known by his handle @andrewivx2.0, we now have a precious list of the most “unethical hacks” that feel both good and kinda illegal to know.
In a series of viral videos, Andrew has been sharing his ideas for unethical go-arounds and oh boy, his 2.6M followers seem to love ‘em. So let’s see how to get our lives sorted in a blessed and cursed masterclass, Andrew style.
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#1
If you’re trying to meet someone that’s far away from you, tell them you’re twice as far from them as you actually are, and offer to meet them halfway. And then you can just sit your butt down and wait for them to walk to you.
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#2
If you want to eliminate competition for a job, post a fake advertisement and push it out to all your competitors and then schedule the interview time for the same time as your real job. That way, you’ll pull some people to that fake interview
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#3
To get a better hotel room, make your prefix when registering “Dr.” Even though you’re not actually a doctor, they tend to give you a better room.
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#4
When buying something off Craigslist, send in a bunch of fake phone calls from different phone numbers, giving super low offers. That way they think their product is useless. And when you swoop in with an even higher offer, they’re guaranteed to take it.
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#5
If you ever live in a city that has really expensive parking, drive your car to an automotive repair shop, then request the cheapest service they have, which is usually cheaper than parking in some major cities, you can pick it up the next day. And best of all, they give you a service and they basically guard your car from robberies.
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#6
If you ever go to a buffet and you’re around 16 or 15 years old, just tell them you’re 12. Even though most waiters know you’re probably not 12, they don’t actually give a damn and they’ll just let you dine at a discount anyways.
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#7
If you ever find yourself wanting to go on a date and want some expensive clothes, just buy the clothes, wear them and return it, saying it didn’t fit.
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#8
If you ever head into Europe from the , Canada, any of the countries that aren’t from Europe, make yourself a fake student I.D. This gives you a big discount on all museums. And because you’re from a different country, they can’t really verify this information.
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#9
If you ever buy windshield wipers from a store or any replacement part in general, what you could do is buy the same exact model, take the new one, replace it, and then put the old one back in the packaging after cleaning it. Most people can’t really tell.
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#10
If you are in a movie theater and the drinks are way too expensive, go to the trashcan and fish out a drink cup and then go to the concession stand and tell them you dropped your drink. They’ll usually just replace it with a new cup without asking for a receipt.
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#11
If you accidentally scratched someone’s car, write in your non dominant hand in really bad handwriting, “I’m only five years old and five dollars is all I have” and glue five dollars to the car. Generally, they’ll forgive you because they think you’re only five.
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#12
If you’re the last one onto a flight, just sit in a random first class seat. Sometimes the flight attendants will kick you off, but other times will just let you stay.
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#13
If you find yourself always falling asleep at work or at school, put a Band-Aid on the crook of your arm and then fall asleep on your arm. If your boss or your teacher comes to wake you up, you can simply tell them the blood bank told you that you might fall asleep after a blood donation. They can’t really s**t on you for that.
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#14
If you pop a flat tire, make sure to save it so then you can send it into your workplace when you do need a break.
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#15
If you ever want to skip school, but the school requires that your parents have an email, go to the office and tell them your parents got a new email and then just give them a fake email that you created, hopefully in a name similar to theirs. Then you could send yourself all the emails you want excusing yourself.
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#16
If you’re out at a job recruitment fair, there’s a bunch of applicants walking around, try to gather the worst possible applicants you can. That way, when the employers look at you, you’ll look like a much greater applicant.
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#17
If your teacher is ever picking someone to read or answer a question and you have no idea, pretend to be sick. They actually did a study to see who the teacher is most likely to pick. And most teachers are least likely to pick the student that appears sick or sleepy.
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#18
if you ever at a party and you’re not really sure if you should be there or not wear a pizza delivery uniform. You can actually buy plenty of these on the Internet. And with this, if the cops ever show up and bust your party, you can just walk away and say you’re just delivering some pizza.
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#19
If you are getting a coffee from Starbucks before school, what you could do is tell them that your order was taken despite you never placing an order. Usually employees are trained to just give in to their customers’ demand because it’s simply more efficient to give in to the demand than fight it.
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#20
If you have cable or some sort of Wi-Fi company, call them and tell them you’re about to leave to another company. They’ll usually hit you up with like a 10 percent discount or something.
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#21
Go to eBay and go to the broken appliances section. They basically sell you broken appliances for a big discount, hoping that your repair it yourself. However, instead of repairing it, we’re going to do is buy a broken appliance, go to the store and buy an identical one that’s working and just swap them out and return it, saying that it’s broken when you bought it. They’ll give you a full discount almost every time.
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#22
A lot of electronic stores such as Best Buy have this thing known as the open box offer. Basically, if someone opens something and returns it, they’ll give the whoever buys the open box a discount. So what you can do is buy something, open it, return it, and then buy it again at the open box discount.
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#23
if you’re ever traveling abroad and you forgot to bring a charger and you don’t want to buy a new one, go down to the hotel staff and told them you recently lost your charger. They’ll ask you what it looks like and you just say it’s a white iPhone charger and because there’s plenty of those, they’ll probably just give one to you.
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#24
If you’re ever hired to a new job, the one-month period from when you’re hired is where they watch you the closest. So what you want to do is work as hard as you possibly can during this one month, and then you can slowly decrease the quality of work over the rest of your career.
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#25
If the neighbor’s annoying kids are always being loud and playing on your yard, post a little sign saying there’s a child predator that’s seen nearby, then their parents will see that sign and pull them inside.
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#26
If you want study guides from your friends, but they’ll only give it to you if you give them theirs, what you do is send a mass email to everyone inside your class and then instead of going to make your own study guide, you just edit out their name and send them each other’s study guides.
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#27
If you want to get something cheap off Craigslist, make sure to search with the key terms new baby, divorce, death, something like that, because these people are usually quite desperate to get rid of their stuff in a short amount of time.
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#28
if you ever need to mail something for a school project but you don’t have stamps, make the return address the destination. You want to send it that way after they return it back to that location for not having stamps, it’ll just be delivered.
#29
If you ever really need parking for a short while, but you don’t want to get a ticket, get traffic cones and put them around your car, they’ll usually take a while investigating what the traffic cones are for before they give you a ticket, getting you more time to get back to your car.
#30
Always get a Visa gift card with zero dollars in it. You can always use this card to start free trials on stuff such as Amazon.
#31
Next time you go to a major event, you could save the money on tickets. If you dress like a photographer, carry out an expensive camera and just get a random pass that says press on it. It doesn’t even have to be for the event. Usually they’ll just let you go in.
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#32
If a hot girl ever asks you for help on her slow computer, but you don’t know what the hell to do, simply go to settings and turn up the cursor speed. Show the computer got way faster, even though nothing really changed other than the cursor speed.
#33
If your plane is being held up because it’s missing one or two passengers, just tell the pilot you know those passengers personally and that they won’t be coming, then the plane will just take off without them. And you won’t have to wait for those slow f**ks anymore.
#34
A way you can finesse money from the airlines is always choose the most popular flights because these flights are often overbooked. This is good because airlines often give out vouchers in cash that are three to four times the price of the flight sometimes. And what you can do is take this voucher and just get one day later flight or something like that.
#35
If you’re ever getting divorced, make sure to schedule a consultation with every single divorce agency in the area, because then the second time you go back during a real divorce, they’ll be more biased and want to help you.
#36
If you’re sitting at a movie theater, spill drinks in the seats next to you, that way no one can sit next to you. And also, if you want, you can even spill a drink on your old seat and ask the manager for a refund. Generally speaking, most movie theaters will give you a refund if your viewing experience was not optimal.
#37
If you want to manipulate one of your friends or family into taking shorter showers, turn on the hot water in every other room. That way, when they realize the hot water has run out, they’ll feel like they’ve taken way too long and they’ll hurry the hell up.
#38
if you don’t want to make a call to someone, but you want to show a call on the record to show that you at least tried to make that call, turn your phone on airplane mode and then try to make that call. It all appear on the call record, but the call will never go through.
#39
If you’re ever staying at one of those cheap motels or hotels that don’t provide you with a fridge, tell them you need a portable fridge to freeze your insulin and they’ll always bring you up one free of charge.
#40
If you’re ever shopping online and you’re about to buy a bunch of stuff, add all of it to your cart and don’t touch it for the rest of the day. They’ll send you an email, giving you a promo code and asking you to please complete your order.
#41
If you ever use the service Audible, which is a free ebook reading website, tell them you’re about to cancel your subscription and they’ll give you a 50 percent off for the next three months.
#42
if you don’t know what this is, this is a Coinstar machine. Basically what it does is you put a bunch of Queensland accounts, all the coins, and then he gives you a gift card equal to the value of the coins. And it takes like five percent and five percent is how it makes money. But did you know if you unplug the Ethernet cord from the back, it doesn’t take the five percent.
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#43
If you have ever parked in one of those expensive parking garages where they force you to take a ticket and then on your way out, you have to scan the ticket and that’s how much money you pay, what we want to do is drive past the meter, grab a ticket park, do whatever you need to do at the mall. But before you leave, do not just leave with the ticket and let it charge you money. Instead, go to the meter and grab a fresh ticket and then on your way out, use this fresh ticket. Usually they have a grace period, meaning they won’t even charge you.
#44
If you want to extra carry-on baggage on your flight, they usually only allow you to bring one. However, if you have a gift bag, they usually allow you to just ask for a gift bag and put whatever you want in it.
#45
McDonald’s sometimes sells reusable soda cups. If they do, definitely buy one, you can keep it in your car and just get soda whenever the hell you feel like it.
#46
If you ever want to get more likes or more upvotes on Reddit, studies show that if you go to a leftist article and then ask a bunch of questions relating to race, you’ll get more likes.
#47
If you ever get into a car accident, take a picture of it and don’t tell anyone in your school. And then if your teacher ever asks you why you missed a test or missed class, then show them the picture and tell them you got in a car accident.
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#48
If your mom, dad or significant other is always nagging on you for spending way too much money, the next time you buy something at the store, ask to gift wrap it for you and then say the present is for your boss and they can’t really do anything about it. Or if you don’t have a boss, just say it’s for a really close friend that you haven’t seen in a while.
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#49
If you’re at a job that’s relatively lenient on when you can take your lunch, take it exactly one hour before your supervisor takes his lunch. So while you’re taking his lunch, you can also take a second lunch break when your supervisor is taking his lunch break.
#50
If you ever get randomly drug tested for opioids and you fail, tell them you had poppy seed. Poppy is 100% legal and causes the test to come out as positive.
#51
If you’re feeling extremely unethical and you find a vending machine, block the slot that gives out change. And at the end of the day, just remove the blockage and collect all the change for yourself.
#52
If you’re ever feeling lonely, what you can do is go to Tinder and set up a bunch of fake Tinder profiles and have them all meet in the same place. And once everyone realizes that they didn’t actually have a dinner date to go to, you can all go drinking together and bond over the experience.
#53
According to former Target employees, if a product is less than twenty dollars and you argue with them to lower the price, they’re trained to let you lower it.
#54
If you ever become a dictator of a small or large country, stage a fake coup. That way you can justify killing off your political enemies.
#55
If you ever want to get more times off than you might need from a doctor’s note, before the doctor writes a note, tell them you work in the food industry or go to culinary school. Because you handle food, they’ll likely give you more time off than you need as an extra precaution.
#56
If you’re tired of paying for a girl’s dinner at a date, just be freakin single. It worked for me.
#57
If your roommates or family are always hogging the Internet, making gaming or streaming movies extremely slow, download a bunch of massive documents to completely slow down the Internet. Once they leave the house to do whatever else out of frustration that the Internet isn’t working, you can cancel the downloads and use the Internet all to yourself.
#58
If you want to manipulate your friends and family into buying you free food, all you have to do is say ‘I’ve never tried a certain type of dish before.’ Sometimes they’ll say, Oh, let me buy it for you.
#59
If you have a super gullible friend that always falls for online scams, what you want to do is open an anonymous account and scam them out of money; not only this way will you be getting money, you also teach them to not get scammed by the same thing.
#60
If you’re in a coffee shop near some sort of office building with lots of employees, you can ask one of your employees to sneak in and pull the fire alarm while everyone evacuates. They might take a break at your coffee store.
#61
If you ever find yourself needing a quick meal, but you don’t actually have any money or a place to stay, just go to your local hotel at around eight o’clock. They have breakfast that’s usually unsupervised. No one usually checks cards. You can just walk in and eat a free breakfast.
#62
If you ever want your neighbors to trust you more and you see a package on their porch, just write a little note saying, oh, I saw this on my porch, but it’s actually yours. So I gave it to you. Even though you technically didn’t do anything, the neighbors will naturally trust you more. So they think you brought them the package.
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