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I'm a college student in Texas and I keep getting hit by those tiny convenience purchases between classes and errands. Not big splurges - a bottled drink, a coffee, a quick snack, then later a $2-$5 in-app purchase while I'm killing time. Harmless in the moment, but by the end of the week it really adds up.

I want a system that actually works on campus, not some perfect meal-prep fantasy.

What I've tried so far:

- Carrying a refillable water bottle (helps - until I forget it at home).

- Packing granola bars (I get tired of them after a couple days).

- Deleting delivery apps (this wasn't the core issue; it's the gas station and campus stops).

What I'm thinking of doing:

- A small "between-classes" pouch in my backpack with shelf-stable snacks I won't hate after two days (nuts, jerky, peanut-butter crackers, etc.).

- A weekly cash envelope for on-campus spending so I actually feel the money leaving my hands.

- Swapping paid time-waster apps for a couple offline games I already own to avoid microtransactions.

If you've broken this habit, what actually worked for you? I'm looking for low-effort ideas that don't rely on daily willpower.

I'm trying to reset my spending after a rough few months - my parents separated and everything's felt chaotic. When I'm stressed I default to small buys that add up: coffee runs, convenience-store snacks, and then it snowballs into takeout.

I don't want a joyless no-fun budget, because that's usually when I rebound and spend more. I'm looking for low-cost, repeatable ways to treat myself at the end of a long day that still feel a little special.

Constraints: I live with roommates and have a tiny freezer (no room for bulk meals), I'm in school so time is limited, and I want to keep things simple - I'm fine cooking basic stuff but not complicated meal prep. Also trying not to buy more stuff just to look frugal.

Things I've already tried: iced coffee at home, popcorn on the stove, and a cheap face-mask night. Those helped for a while but I get bored and then the urge to go out comes back.

What are your go-to low-cost treats that actually scratch the takeout/impulse itch? Bonus if it's something you can turn into a routine so I don't have to decide every time. I'd love ideas that feel a little special without sneaking in extra spending.

I'm at my wit's end. I've spent the last week trying to be frugal by using vinegar, baking soda, and even acetone on a stubborn carpet stain. The result? My house smells like a salad bar, the stain is now a weird gray smudge, and I'm pretty sure I'm damaging the fibers. I've already spent about $50 on different miracle DIY ingredients, and I feel like I'm just throwing money down the drain.

I'm starting to think that DIY chemicals are a trap and might end up costing me a fortune in carpet replacement.

Should I just invest in a dedicated cleaning machine? Is there a machine that actually works without needing expensive chemical refills? I've heard about high-temp steam extractors, are they worth the investment? I want something that lasts and is actually frugal in the long run.

Please help me stop the DIY madness. What do you guys use to keep your carpets clean without ruining them?

Hi, sorry I have been able to see ghost since I was a child, and I have had bad experience in the past with different entities when a learn how to guard myself but recently I have been followed by these two entities and I can just feel that it’s just something wrong with them. I can’t tell you what it is but it is off about them. They just sit and stare all day. They don’t do anything else I have contacted a few other people on the other side that’s the only thing that seemed to get rid of them not my guarding help me telling them to leave. I’m just at appoint but I don’t leave me alone. They have been grabbing me, but I don’t know what to do because I can use incense because of my building. I can’t use anything with smoke because it will have to fire alarm I’ve tried everything. I could possibly think of to get rid of them but they just came on coming back. I’m just wondering if anyone knew anything to help me with them. I haven’t done anything that was draw the attention to me. I haven’t used an Ouija board or any rituals. I just don’t know why they have attached to me if you know anything to get rid of them that would be amazing because I can’t seem to get through to them. They won’t talk to me. They won’t show me what they want. They just sit there and stare

Ctesiphon (Pictured above) was an important city in the middle east during antiquity and the early middle ages, however its relevance would fade until it became a set of ruins as it is today, being replaced by other cities like Baghdad.

What are some other examples of cities which have undergone similar fates?

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I followed your advice and want to thank everyone who commented on my post to help me. I am overwhelmed with the results and now have a fully furnished apartment and fully stocked kitchen all from donations.

I posted on Facebook for friends and family and received some kitchen ware and some furniture from my parents and other family members.

I posted on three buy nothing groups on Facebook and received more kitchen items. A man who has a junk hauling business saw my post and told me he gets a lot of nice furniture that people throw away and asked me what I needed. I gave him a list. Yesterday he delivered a sofabed loveseat (like new), a dining room table with four chairs, a brand new area rug, a coffee table, a file cabinet and an office chair. And he didn’t charge me for delivery or anything!!

The only thing I didn’t get was a set of patio furniture but I can afford to get that on my own. I am blown away you guys by people’s generosity. People were giving me candles, towels….all kinds of stuff!! It literally saved me thousands of dollars in furniture and housewares.

Back story is I work at a very old university. I also work in film and scout locations for movies and tv shows. This was captured in a serious of photos taken for a building scout. I was with the person when they took this photo and saw nothing but this is a 1930s or 40s building and the photo really caught me off guard.

So I went for a walk with my friend to a lake but before we proceeded I always take a photo with my iPhone 14 night mode camera just in case if there is anyone. Now I took this zoomed and saw as shown in the first image. And I have no clue if it’s the night mode camera or ofc a ghost. So I took another and this thing did not appear. But there is no was that’s a human and there are no shadows or trees to corse this! So A it’s the camera or B it’s a ghost (also I’m unsure of the history of this lake so someone could have died!)

So I do talk to spirits sometimes with a spirit box app since I can't buy one yet, but I dunno how long I should wait for, can I do it twice a day or do I have to wait for tomorrow? I really don't want to anger or rush spirits!

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Ok so I live in a 200 year old house In a very historical location in New England. However, we believe that parts of my house(my room!) were moved here from someplace else and could be much older. This already says that A)it has a TON of history and B)it’s old so my experiences could probably be explained by normal old house stuff.

But a few times over the last year, I’ve heard family members call my name when they were either in a different part of the house or not even home. And it sounds just like how they would call my name normally.

Then, 3 days ago it happened again and it sounded like my sister but it came from the opposite direction of her room. The next day I heard my mom call me by her nickname for me when she was out getting groceries. That night when I was sitting in bed I heard a weird sound coming from the door of my bed that sounded like a mix between a knock and a click. It happened twice and then a charger that was on my desk and plugged into my computer fell off my desk and landed 2 feet away as if someone unplugged it and pushed it. Then the sound happened 3 more times. Honestly I don’t know if it was just that fact that weird stuff had been happening but I did NOT feel alone that night after what happened.

So my question is, is something supernatural happening in my house or is it just my imagination and an old creaky house? I know this isn’t the most interesting story but thanks for reading and I appreciate any responses or advice!

My family got woken up by a noise at around 5.50am.

Can someone confirm this is NOT a ghost and perhaps just an animal.

I enjoy Japanese aesthetics and nothing beats the paranormal investigations and shows on Japanese tv tho

from BenjaminDa91346 on twitter then

"The “creepy CD that changes its sound every time you listen” sent to Waratte Iitomo is insanely terrifying

When they played it again later, a sound they’d never heard before started playing, and the entire studio was enveloped in fear

And then, after Tamori messed around with it, something horrifying happened"

from NicoleA18060980 on twitter

It's hilarious and terrifying—the creepy CD that was sent to us that changes its audio every time you listen to it is freaking scary as hell.
It was originally a CD of B'z's album RISKY.

A few days later, when I tried playing it again, completely unfamiliar sounds started flowing out, and the studio was enveloped in terror.

And after Tamori messed around with it, something horrifying happens.

Title says it all, my birthday is coming up and I’d like to do a bit of ghost hunting for myself as it is something I’ve wanted to do for years. Just never really had the chance. Are there any abandoned or haunted locations in Plano, TX that I won’t get in trouble for walking around late into the evening? Public property preferred.

Think it was year 2005-2006 me and my brother were driving down a road with a church with a cemetery not too far away. It was on a highway with a grass median two lanes on each side. I was 14 he was 17 or 18 and on the opposite side we see a shadow that's the figure of a man that was almost translucent running across the two lanes on the opposite side and running into the woods. I still think about it and know people call these shadow people.

First movement at 8:30 at night 3 hours after leaving, knocked over an hour later at 9:30

Posting here because I had a weird experience last night in Hotel Allegro. I heard what I thought was a wailing crying lady. We had the tv on (in low volume) and my partner was watching tik tok videos (in moderate volume) when all of a sudden I heard like a lady crying. It was brief and it sounded like it was coming from the room next door. It was about 10 p.m. on the 19th floor. My partner was too focused on his tik tok videos but I am certain it wasn’t the tv and it wasn’t his videos. I’m still staying in the hotel for another 2 nights so I’ll keep you all posted. I am a believer of the paranormal but I also like to think of plausible situations and realistic things before resorting to thinking it’s paranormal. I’m interested if anyone else has had experiences here considering I saw a post also about a crying lady in the same hotel a few years back. Surely there must be some history in this old building?

There seems to be a ghost or spirit or something attached to me. It is changing the reality around me. Cigarettes are appearing out of seemingly nowhere. Shoes are being found in places that they weren’t before. Lighters are showing up out of nowhere. It is interacting with my reality and changing things around me. I don’t know how to get rid of it. It’s driving me up the walls. I’ve been hospitalized because of it. Any ideas on how to get rid of it?

Hello! I’m almost 8 months pregnant with my second baby and some strange things have been happening. For the past two nights I’ve woken up after seeing the most horrific things happening to my first born child. When I woke up the second time (this morning) the room was still dark but there was a large black mass near the ceiling close to me and it had a buzz to it. Like energy was floating from me into it and it was the scariest thing. It wasnt par*lysis because I could move and was trying to wake my husband up. (On top of this, for the past week I’ll hear people I know screaming at me when I’m on the verge of waking up and then the next day I’ll have a message from them.)

When I was pregnant with my first, I was in bed and I could hear someone walk into the house, go up the stairs, down the hall, and go straight into my room, and then stop dead center at the foot of the bed. My husband shot up out of bed and started screaming. He said he physically saw this whole thing happen and saw them stop at the foot of the bed. I called the priest in town when this one happened but never followed through with him coming over.

Is this just pregnancy hormones or this actually supernatural? Should I put this in a different reddit page?

A few years ago I was in a Cineplex watching a movie. I believe this was shortly after the pandemic. As I was watching the movie I saw a man wearing a top hat watching the screen. The man looked completely white and somewhat transparent.

I saw the thing and I looked down at my phone to take a picture, but after loading up my camera the ghost was gone.

So, I texted my friend, and I texted my brother-in-law about what I saw. To my surprise, my friend said "Ghosts are real, dude," and my BIL said "Ghosts seem to like movie theaters," and I had a conversation with both of them where they both acted like it wasn't all that special, that apparently seeing ghosts is a normal thing.

It felt weird. Normally, both of them dismiss all things supernatural including ghosts, but it felt like I was talking to completely different people as they just nonchalantly stated that ghosts are real, and that it's common knowledge that ghosts are real.

I don't know why I thought about this encounter randomly, but sometimes I think back to that message. "Ghosts are real, dude."

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Trial & Error was a mockumentary-style sitcom that aired on NBC, created by Jeff Astrof and Matthew Miller, about a young New York lawyer who moves to a small Southern town to join a quirky legal team in a taxidermy shop, tackling absurd murder cases with a cast of eccentric characters. The show, which premiered in 2017, is known for its humor, which is loosely based on true crime stories, and its unique setting in East Peck, South Carolina.

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The overwhelming majority of orbs have nothing to do with the paranormal. The incessant parade of dust, bugs, and other debris posted is proof of that reality. Therefore, it is necessary to revisit this problem. If you have a video of an 'orb' and you believe it's paranormal, it is strongly recommended that you read this post first.

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So you found a photo that you think has a spirit or ghost on it, before you post it and get upset about 30 people saying it’s a piece of dust or a bug, you may want to read this!

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BEFORE DOING ANYTHING

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Do read the posts

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comments/deki6k/explanation_of_orbs_aka_backscatter/

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comments/icziuc/ring_doorbells_security_camera_videos_and_false/

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As these really do have useful information on how to spot particle orbs, lens flare and insects crawling over lenses which do make up most of the post in this Reddit community channel.

It is common for people who believe they are haunted to take lots of photos and assume that any “orbs” must be related to this. In fact, it’s quite easy to photograph orbs. If you can’t see the orb then it’s not there. People might say that cameras can pick up ‘orb’ energy but a lot of them just don’t understand why digital cameras tend to easily pick up particles (dust, dander, hair, insects).

If you have read the above and are sure (or not quite sure) then read on.

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BEFORE POSTING

Make sure you have the original photo downloaded or posted from the same device the picture was taken from. Having a photo shared from a social media site, screen grabbed on a phone, photographed from a screen or been email shared will likely to be low resolution and suffer from further compression which destroys any fine detail and will generally be useless.

If the photo is just a photo then scan the photo in at least 300 DPI and save it as a “.PNG” image. If you don’t have access to a scanner then you can take a photo of it but take it in a brightly lit room and don’t use a flash to reduce reflections on the photo.

Use the original resolution of the photo, do not rescale, resize, brighten the image to make posting easier.

If you have to edit the photo to remove people then draw the smallest black filled box you can to hide their face or them. Don’t crop the picture or remove large chunks of the picture. Keep the picture the same same size. Once edited, save / export the image as a “.PNG” image as this will keep the JPEG image as it is (if you resave it as a JPEG it recompresses the image in a lossy way so that fine detail tends to get lost) if the paint program has it then make sure that “Save resolution” is checked and that you save “EXIF information”.

If you must highlight anything in the picture (to show where you think the paranormal image is) then use a bright colour that can be seen easily, use a transparent box with thin lines and draw it in the general area of what you want us to see, do not cover anything nearby. Save it as a “.PNG” as above. If you do this then make sure you post the original too.

If you want to change the contrast or brightness of a photo then again do so but save as a “.PNG” as above and post the original for comparison. If you have other pictures from the same area that were taken at the same time then post these too as comparison photos.

If the photo is from a place you can visit again easily then take more pictures of the same area using the same camera, try to take it at different times of the day and try to take a picture at the same time of day the original was at. Also, take pictures of the surrounding area and close up images of the original location.

It is important to note that even “taking the picture in the same place” is going to mean that you will be taking the picture at different angles, heights and places which will cause images to change.

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POSTING THE PHOTO

Post as an image within the Reddit post so people can see it, you can also post any comparison posts at the same time.

If the photo is too large then rescale it and save as a “.PNG” to post on Reddit but upload the original it to a file-sharing site like Google Drive or Dropbox, as this will not rescale the image.

Don’t just upload them to Imgur as most photo sharing websites will recompress the image and destroy fine detail in the picture.

Make sure the title is short but informative. “Possible ghost image from a cell in Alcatraz” is a good title, “GHOST!!?!?!?” is not.

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ALSO SUPER IMPORTANT!!!! CONTEXT! CONTEXT! CONTEXT!

After you have posted the images. Make a comment in the post you have just created and put in as much context as possible!!! Too many photos tend to have the photo and some poor description and we have zero ideas of what we should be looking at.

Examples of what to include are…

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• Where the photo was taken. You don’t have to give the address but a location or rough area (if a private address) helps.

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• When the photo was taken, give the date and time if possible, if not known or you can’t remember then give what information you can (I.e In the winter in the early evening).

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• Who took the photo. It should be you or someone you know. Something like ‘Taken by A friend of a girlfriend that is friends with a baker, that my 2nd cousins' hairdresser visits every 3 months is not good’ means it is hard to ask follow up questions.

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• What you were trying to take. (I.e Ghosts, a high school prom or of your granny on her 97th Birthday)

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• If you (or they) were with other people. Also mention strangers.

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• What the weather was like. Was it sunny, cloudy, raining, hot, cold, warm?

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• Description of the location. If in a home, details about the place, I.e, If it is a house, apartment, cabin located 200 miles from civilizational, etc as well as if you are near a road or other places like a pub or bar, major flight path, etc. Else just whatever you can describe the place.

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• What did you feel at the time? I.e cold, scared, fearful, happy, sad, etc.

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• Why do you think it is paranormal? Describe this as best as you can.

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• Anything spooky that happen before or after. Within the same time frame, something that happens 3 months before is probably not related.

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So good examples would be…

“This photo was taken at the Alcatraz prison in San Francisco. It is a picture of Cell 13 of cell block D in the cell house. It was taken on Sunday the 13th of May 2018 at around 2pm. It was mostly sunny but there were thick clouds, it was reasonably warm at around 65f and there were strong breezes every so often.

The photo was taken by myself, although I was with my girlfriend at the time. It was quite busy but no one was nearby when I took the photo. I was trying to take a picture of my girlfriend as she stood at the door but I noticed a strange white figure behind her. There was no one in the cell as we had waited for another couple to finish taking their picture before we took ours. I took 3 photos and you can see that the figure is in 2 of the pictures but is not in the third picture.

My girlfriend did say she felt cold in the cell, we had taken a picture in another cell (134 in Cell Block C) and she did not feel anything. The rest of the day was fine though and we enjoyed our trip.”

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“A photo of a chair my grandmother used to sit on, in our house in Stirling, Scotland. It was taken on the 1st June 2015, in the wee hours of the morning at 6.30am. I remember it was very cold and it was dark grey and cold outside like a typical morning in Scotland. I had the lights on as although it was morning outside, it was dark in the room.

I took the photo as I felt a presence and I was drawn to the chair. I took 2 photos and you can see a grey mist around the chair. I would have taken more but my phone just drained of power and switched off, not sure why this happens as I am pretty sure I charged it overnight. I don’t smoke, didn’t have any hot drinks. I was in the room all alone as my parents and sister were still in bed and my dog was still on the sofa sleeping peacefully.

Once I charged my phone and saw the pictures, I was filled with deep happiness, I tried to take more photos but the mist never came back. What do you think it is.”

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Bad examples are…

“Ghosts?!???!!?!?!”

“I took this photo whilst in an abandoned building, do you think it is a ghost?”

“Whilst trying to contact my dead aunt to ask where she left her cash, I took lots of photos and all of them had orbs and I heard some moans, screams and creaking coming from my cousins' bedroom but her door was locked!!! Is the house haunted?”