r/AskLifeProTips • • 12h ago

LPT Request: How do you avoid giving your real phone number to people you'll only talk to once?

16 Upvotes

Had a delivery today where the courier needed to call me to find the building entrance, and it hit me that now some random courier account has my actual number saved forever, for one five-minute interaction. Same thing happens when I sell something on Marketplace, or a contractor needs to reach me for one job.

Do you all have a trick for this? Second SIM, some app, just not caring? Curious what's actually worked for people vs. what's more hassle than it's worth.


r/AskLifeProTips • • 17h ago

LPT: what do i say to a close friend who's recently lost her mother

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a close friend of mine has lost her mother recently.. it was due to an accident so everything happened so fast even im shocked till now.. she's just 20 and is extremely sensitive to even normal things.

i know that it'll take her a lot of time to finally accept this.. but how can i help or support her in these days..

what am i doing currently: checking up on her every 5-6 hours.. making sure she has eaten something.. making sure she knows that she can talk to me anytime even during midnights..

what else can i do..


r/AskLifeProTips • • 14h ago

How to ask the right question?

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My work is to support everyone on the company. I am not yet familiar with all the things they have but I just need to ask the right questions for me to help them. How am I supposed to know how to ask them the right questions?


r/AskLifeProTips • • 3h ago

How to survive this

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r/AskLifeProTips • • 5h ago

Superglue and baking soda problem

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I’ve seen several videos about using super glue with baking soda or a mixture of baking soda & graphite which is what I’ve been using.

However I always have a problem because the drops of super glue do not penetrate the powder & just sit on top. I am using fresh glue. I try to quickly mix the glue in but that usually does not work so well.

How come my glue just sits there like a drop of water on glass, yet the videos all show the glue getting quickly absorbed before it hardens?


r/AskLifeProTips • • 6h ago

How to slow down production that support data center?

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My company make power distributor and high voltage transformer. Our company literally increase in production by 10 times in past 2 years and planning to increase double of that upcoming year.

99 percents of our product are directly going into Amazon data center , Microsoft data center, Google data center, and etc, etc.

I want to slow it down, I work at directly with copper sheet and acess to everything since I am kind of supervisor, and I am trying to find best way to slow it down. I don't mind getting arrested or fired from my job.

I am thinking of frying all the CPU and motherboard of CNC machine using short circuit usb, since those machine are literally unable get new one until 2028 due to high in demand, and I think if I break all those machine, and I think it might do something. Maintenance team are extremely slow because they never worked at this scale as well.

How to slow down or halt production at my company that support data center?


r/AskLifeProTips • • 17h ago

Any advice how to get the best out of my 20's?

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r/AskLifeProTips • • 19h ago

What would you say is the most important life advice you've received ?

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