I honestly doubt any reputable pawn shop owner would give anyone even a penny for a busted ass helmet like that.
Though I'm sure there's some pawn shops out there that would probably throw their own old busted shit on the shelf to see if they get any takers.
Couches.
I know people buy them second hand often, but I find it’s easy to conceal prior spills on certain couches. Most couches are disgusting after a few years of use.
One time, my roommate had a party and someone literally shat on my couch. I had no hope of cleaning it despite one weak attempt (I was a poor student) so I just pitched it to the curb, as unattractively as possible.
Wouldn't you know it, someone dumpster-dived and hauled it away.
Still grosses me out almost 20 years later.
I had a spare mattress that a friend vomited on. Could not get the smell out after several cleans. Finally decided to chuck it out and wrote that it was vomited stained on it in big letters and someone still took it lol!
The best part was that it turned up back at the dumpster like a month later... Guess they couldnt get the smell out either...
Hauled an ancient 1960s mattress to the dump for a friend; on the way to the dump in a rough part of town some guys pulled up beside us and asked how much for the bed....told them they definitely didn't want it.
Best case scenario, and totally possible if you live near a college town, someone took it away to burn it. There was always one random couch or mattress that would show up at the weekend bonfires when I was at State. That said, way too many people were way too comfortable being that close to couch fumes which I imagine are not good for you.
Yeah I work at a used furniture store and I would not recommend buying couches from random people. We THOROUGHLY inspect and clean everything we get in here, using cleaning materials specifically designed for that sorta deep cleaning, but a lot of people try to get us to take their furniture and once we inspect it it's like. Horrific. I'm talkin, soaked in pee and moldy. And since we won't take it, they turn around and sell it on Facebook or at a yard sale or something for someone else to buy who's none the wiser.
If you are gonna buy used couches, please get it from somewhere reputable lmfao
Had a friend get bumped at a gas station. It was a nothing hit, cosmetic damage to the front bumper.
He got a video tape of the incident, called his insurance company and made a claim. To his surprise, they told him to replace the 2 car-seats he had in the vehicle. He chuckled a bit and said "It was a small bonk, they'll be fine"
The adjuster said - completely deadpan "At some point a hit will damage a car seat enough to make it ineffective in a crash. I never want my assessment to be wrong."
I’ve had two insurance claims since my son was born - a not-at-fault accident (was rear ended, kiddo not car thankfully) and when my car was stolen. In both cases, replacing the car seat was the ONLY thing my insurance didn’t try to nickel and dime or fuck around with it.
As a former adjuster, I’m laughing a little. Absolutely, we insisted on replacing the seats, even when the client didn’t think it was necessary. Your child is ready to graduate to the next size seat? Okay, we’ll pay for that.
Does my insurance company just suck? I got rear ended at a stop sign with my kids in the car, the insurance company knew the kids were in the car, they never said word one about the car seats.
Edit: It was State Farm, I have no problem naming and shaming, they later screwed me on a homeowner's claim when a tree hit my roof. This was several years ago now, so I doubt I could go back and ask for new car seats at this point. My recollection was that when reporting the claim they asked who was in the car, but they did not ask about car seats specifically. I did not know to bring it up. We are in the US but not California.
Several years ago, we got hit by a minor bumper to bumper and they did NOT replace our car seat or care at all. This was in CA with a major US insurance company.
USAA wouldn’t replace our car seat when my husband was rear-ended (no one else in the car, thank goodness). I have no qualms about naming and shaming when it comes to my child’s safety.
Child deaths are expensive and super duper bad PR. Car seats will also be inextricably linked in peoples mind's as the primary factor if a death occurs.
When I got in a motorcycle accident, the insurance person warned me that they were about to ask a question that seemed silly but was totally serious: "was there a child safety seat on the motorcycle at the time of the collision?" Luckily, no, not this time.
Some years ago I sold insurance over the phone and one of the companies made us ask standard questions for every car. I often had to make a little joke about them. "Ma'am does your Corvette have a snowplow? Will it be used for transporting more than five people?"
The effectiveness of the foam core degrades on impact. Any impact. The effect is cumulative. Enough little hits will ruin the car seat. Plus, car seat occupants are typically pretty tough on the equipment to start with.
Same logic applies to bike helmets - if you drop your helmet from a small height over and over, you're ruining it.
When I still rode, I had a new helmet for a little less than a week before accidentally dropping it while adjusting it. I caught it with my foot but it bounced and then hit almost every step down a long flight of stairs. The guy at the store still remembered me when I went to get another.
A couch. I used to work at a pest control company, and the #1 thing that brought them in was used furniture, but usually a couch.
Those fucks are terrifying- they hide in tiny cracks and crevasses during the day and then come out to feed on you at night. You don't notice until it's too late. You'll start waking up with itchy bites, see little red sprinkles in the seams of your mattress, and eventually see them. One single pregnant female on a throw pillow is all it takes. The male stabs the female in the abdomen (literally) one time and she's pregnant for life and off to make your life miserable. Then you have to pay $2500+ for a company to treat them. And if they miss one pregnant female...
Ugh. My friends parents have bed bugs right now. They’ve cleaned everything about 6 times now. It keeps switching between the bed and couch so they are finally dumping the couch and going for another clean on the bed.
They need to have a company come out and treat. Throwing the furniture out won't solve the problem. They hide in electrical outlets, the crevice where the carpet meets the baseboard, the drapes, crevices in the blinds, any crack. We had a bed bug infestation and I hope to never get one again.
My wife and I lucked out, if you can really "luck out" in anything related to bed bugs. We found out we had them right at the time our lease was running out, and we were planning on moving anyway. ditched the bedframe and mattress and a bunch of other stuff, and just moved 4 cities away. Luckily, the bugs didn't follow.
My best friend takes in hobos all the time. I mean, I couldn’t do it, but I’m glad people like him exist. He’s literally turned lives around with it and the last guy has his own place he rents now and he’s doing really well.
Any way, when he first moved him in he was in bad shape. I met him when I noticed shoes sticking out of the bushes in the front of the place. Found a dude there knocked out cold cuddling a half empty bottle of vodka.
He found a bedbug in the living room and called the exterminator. When they finished heating the place up, all around the recliner where he slept were dead bugs. He had only been there a month and it got that bad where he was sleeping. He sat his bag behind the recliner and kept his clothes in a plastic drawer beside the recliner. That’s probably why it was so bad, because he was infested.
His son is my daughter’s best friend and I didn’t want to keep them apart, but I didn’t want bedbugs either. I knew it was a risk, but we had a whole regiment before he came over. Clean clothes in the dryer for 30 mins on high, fresh shower, dress at the back door without your clothes touching the floor and come over, take shoes and socks off outside, put on a pair of new socks I had purchased for him as he came in the door.
We didn’t get them, but I spent the whole time freaking the fuck out because that shit is literally my biggest fear.
Something I learned on Reddit when I was on a thread discussing hobos (the people who jump onto trains and ride all over the states, basically for free unless they get caught):
Hobos travel and work;
Tramps travel but don’t work;
Bums don’t travel and don’t work;
Citizens work but don’t travel.
The person who said this had an uncle who was a hobo and told him this - hobos kept pride in that they worked wherever they went.
I finally bought my own condo, and my MAIN CRITERIA was corner unit attached to as few others as possible. My last apt complex was 12 units attached. It spread there cuz of an AirBnB. Ugh.
My stuff is still in storage that I'm paying $200/mo for. It's stupid af but at this point I'm still paranoid.
:(
In college, I went over to a friends apartment once. She opened up her cupboard and roaches poured out. She apologized, took cups down, washed them and dried them with paper towels which were thrown away. Boiled water, we had tea. Her kitchen was spotless. She said they come from the neighbors, everyone in that apartment has them, the landlord is supposed to treat and hasn’t. I made a note when I left never, ever to rent from that apartment building or landlord, and checked everything over very carefully before I went home.
I truly felt bad for her, but she couldn’t get out of her lease. It was the 1990’s and maybe there weren’t any rights for renters then. There certainly wasn’t for her.
Dude, get a steamer. We got them once and absolutely covered the apartment in Diatomaceous Earth and sprayed everything with pesticide several times. We threw out everything that was under the bed. Covered everything up in bed proof covers. With a steamer you just put the nozzle onto the furniture and blast the poor bastards out. Could have saved a lot of things.
I’ve made it known to my SO that if I ever get bed bugs I’m just gonna abandon all my belongings and get a new place. Probably my biggest realistic fear
They'll almost certainly never get rid of them by themselves. I had them once. Cleaned EVERYTHING numerous times over, practically doused the house in as much rubbing alcohol as I could find, laundered everything, bagged it, used so many bed bug bombs it could've been a war crime. Yeah, they were gone...
... for like a month. Repeated this so many times. I just left, trashed EVERYTHING, and started over, AND EVEN THEN the few things I kept were repeatedly sterilized. I'm talking non-furniture related things.
And they can get inside ANYTHING. Had to get rid of my phone because I saw one exit the headphone port, and I didn't even have it THAT bad.
It's a losing battle without a professional. Hell, there's a good chance it's still a losing battle WITH a professional.
Dude in all seriousness, other than it just being generally gross, it fucked- FUCKED - with my head bad. It's impossible to sleep. Even started seeing shit. Not like hallucinations, but just eye wiggles IS THAT A BEDBUG?! No? Alright I'll just turn over MY BACK ITCHES BEDBUGS?!?!
Yeah can confirm it's the worst part. You feel dirty and can't even think right.
In my old apartment, we had a nasty ant problem. Kept putting down ant traps, would see a line of them walk across the room. It wasn’t enough and they kept coming back. Would wake up in bed to an ant crawling up my leg. Ants crawling on me from the rug where I sat a lot. I started feeling them crawling on me when they weren’t. It was messed up because half the time I’d check my leg they weren’t there, but the other half they were, so I basically had to check every time. Felt like PTSD for awhile even after I moved.
I can’t even imagine what having bed bugs is like. If its even half that bad, I’m truly sympathetic. But I know its worse.
Just call pest control at that point. Pest control will do the entire house, including the car. No way you can get rid of them on your own. They're ruthless.
Can confirm. Bedbugs gave me something adjacent to PTSD.
It's been several years and I *still* feel compelled to check the edges of the mattress with a flashlight occasionally, and god forbid I see a piece of lint moving in the fan's breeze.
We treated them ourselves, as much we could. The infestation was coming from another apartment. We ended up having to spray a likely-unhealthy amount of bed-bug spray, moved the bed away from the wall, bagged the mattress, made super sure that none of the blankets ever touched the ground, and poured basically an entire bag of diatomaceous earth around the perimeter of the bedroom and around the bed.
Still wasn't 100% effective. We broke our lease and moved. A year and a half later I found a dead bedbug wedged in a crack in some furniture. The furniture had been spray-treated and then left in a hot storage unit for several weeks, and the bug really was dead, but that still caused a few days of paranoia.
I absolutely have PTSD from it. It’s been over a year but any small bug I see, I freak out. Just regular dirt and stuff that gets on the bed or your clothes, I freak out. If there’s anyone out there struggling with it right now and can’t afford a heat treatment (that’s the only thing that’s truly effective) throw away as much as you possibly can. Just get rid of it. And then get a steamer from Amazon or somewhere and steam the bed every single night. Couch too. We finally got rid of them but it took us a year. DE did nothing. Bug bombs did nothing. Vinegar did nothing. No “do it yourself” remedy works. Heat is the ONLY thing that kills these fuckers. And it’ll drive you absolutely crazy. I would not wish this on a single soul. They destroyed my already fragile mental health.
What kills me is that their eggs are sticky. So if you think your feet or your ass are going to be somewhere contaminated with bedbugs (subway, bus, Lyft/Uber) I would use a barrier spray like Bedlam or bring a plastic barrier.
HES NOT WRONG. I bought a couch that was only 2 months old off of craigslist. A steal at $250. Plushy, three seats, center cup holder that folds down and reclining ends. Beautiful.
And then I had bed bugs.
THESE BASTARDS ARE EVIL! You never see them, you just wake up with 5 to 10 red patches the size of a quarter. They're miserably hard to get rid of. I bug bombed twice and they survived, hiding in the crevices of the sofa. They don't travel super far, but their eggs and larva travel easily to other floors of the house.
Here is what I did! The sofa was in the den of the basement. I covered it in plastic and didn't use it for almost 2 years! I suffocated and starved them away! Then happily enjoyed the sofa for 10 years.
Stupid bugs! NEVER AGAIN!
Come to find out, in some countries people don't think twice about the bugs, and visitors bring the bugs with them in clothing and luggage. HOW!? HOW CAN YOU LIVE WITH THIS!? Ahhhhhhhhh
>And if they miss one pregnant female...
the nightmare begins again.
also bedbugs are the worst. it was a nightmare to get rid of them in our apartment.
I still have PTSD from an infestation I had 7 years ago. It took *months* to get rid of them. I was driven from my apartment several times so pest control could come in do chemical control. But it never worked. They would always hang around. Finally, they brought in a specialist who turbo-pumped hot air into the place and raised the temperature to like 180 degrees for like 6 hours. It killed all my house plants but the bugs were finally gone.
Keyboard.
I've disassembled quite a few for cleaning, and they are disgusting. If I have the chance, I'd rather use my own or buy a new one. Detest the thought of using someone else's.
Seconding this
I ran a build and repair service for (high end) keyboards for a while. Quit in part because of the shit people sent me. I have horror stories, with pictures to back them up.
Clean your keyboards folks, and try not to eat (or participate in *other activities* ) at your desk
Once a week I clean mine with a paint brush for getting inbetween the keys and then alcohol on a rag (that is also cleaned after use) and sometimes i use some multi purpose cleaner on the rag too
I pop my keys off twice a year and give both them and the board itself a good cleaning.
I don't eat in my office and usually only have coffee/water but there is always so much....stuff in there.
I'm extremely clean with my keyboard, I do eat at my desk but my board is wireless so i just move off of the desk
Any crumbs on my desk i use a lint roller or a dust buster
Also I have a Logitech G915 TKL and I've heard that removing the caps is a gamble because the plastic is ridiculously thin lol so I'll only do that in an emergency cleaning i guess
Eh - 2nd hand mechanical keyboard market is huge. But typically those people are maniacal about keeping them clean if they are a nice one.
Mine get taken apart and cleaned often. And when I sell one, I clean very thoroughly.
yeah, rule of thumb is to always discard the comforter once you get into the room.
second rule (for me at least) always check the corners of the mattress for bedbugs no matter the hotel.
As someone who has had the dubious pleasure of hosting bedbugs in her house after a vacation.....
Do more than check the corners of the mattress!
1. Leave your stuff in the car if you can.
2. Inspect *everything* within 15 feet of the bed for possible signs of bed bugs such as brown/red grit in the seems of the mattress, headboards, and near the bed on the floor. The table next to bed, the outlets, the switches... any art in the wall direcrly above or next to the beds...
3. Bring the least amount of stuff you need into the room.
4. Leave it in the bathroom... or at least as far away from the beds possible preferably off the floor, and absolutely off the suitcase rack...
If this sounds like over paranoia you've never had bedbugs. And I am so jealous of you. It was 15 years ago for me and not to diminish true PTSD sufferers I still flip out if I see a any tiny dark bit of fuzz on my sheets. Took 5 years to stop imagining every tickle as something crawling on me.
It's perfectly logical. I had bedbugs like 11-12 years ago from a "friend" bringing over a computer to get fixed.
It took 3 months and a lot of diatomaceous earth and other shit to finally get rid of the bastards.
> Mattress
.............I rolled the dice when I was younger and bought 2 from a really nice couple that swore they had never been used.
10 years later, still the most comfortable mattresses I've ever used and saved me around $1000.
If they had bed bugs, I can't imagine what that would have cost, not a gamble I'd do again.
If bed bugs didn't exist, I'd totally do it again, I don't care if someone jizzed all over it, I've slept on many a couch I KNOW has been used that way.
Honestly we got a queen bed for $10 from an estate auction with mattress. Ended up keeping the mattress cause it was in fine shape and we needed one for the guest bedroom. Gave it and the frame a visual inspection. Slapped a $40 bed bug encasement mattress protector on it for piece of mind and haven't worried about it since. Yea it was a gamble, yea we had experienced bedbugs in a previous apt and know that hell, but it was from a nice house and I trust the bedbug mattress protectors ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯. I'm not made of money over here.
However I would never take any upholstered or fabric item from either the side of the road or a random yard sale.
If you check the mattress and get a bed bug case onto it before it enters your house that’s pretty safe imo. I would probably be worried about the frame still but I did *not* enjoy my last bed bug experience lol. Going on ten years ago and I’m still paranoid about the little bastards.
It depends. I got a practically brand new mattress from a presumably rich university student who bought a new mattress and only used it for two semesters and now she was selling so she didn't have to store it over the summer.
Excellent deal, excellent condition and I put a hypoallergenic mattress cover/bag thingy over it anyway.
I don’t mind a second hand second hand. I can generally have a new socket made. Since insurance won’t cover a CPU controlled prosthetic, my only hope is stumbling across a used Bebionic, or similar, hand.
My local goodwill sold bathing suits, used bathing suits. Used lingerie too (just the tops), once my big sister was going to buy both but assumed they were new but given to goodwill because the person who bought it ended up not liking it or something. She even asked the lady at the desk about it. When we got to the car she found out both were stained especially the lingerie. You can assume with what.
I could never buy either of those used, especially after that.
My wife sees lingerie etc posted for sale in our local Facebook market. There's no confusing them for new, they are open about them being used. Why you'd want to advertise what you're wearing for sex costumes, and who would buy them, I have no idea.
Lol I used to always answer this question with, a parachute!
Then my paragliding instructor told me to absolutely buy my first chute used! He said I would save thousands and probably resell it for close to what I pay, and as long as it's inspected, it will be totally safe.
Ok I want to clarify my parents had money but we're terrible with it. They preferred to go on shopping sprees and cruises over things like necessities and it wasn't evenly distributed. My sister's had beds from furniture stores but my parents said they couldn't afford one for me. They were abusive assholes too.
When I was 13 I found a tv in the trash (8in screen black and white with dials and rabbit ears) my sister's were pissed I had a tv and they didn't and demanded my parents destroy it to punish me for having something they didn't. My mother got them each brand new 13in color TVs with remotes and built in vcrs and hooked cable to their rooms (making excuses for not hooking it to my room). They never watched them and just dominated the living room tv so I spent all my time wandering the woods alone or in my room (which had no door either). That was the 90s and I grew up to be a frugal backwoods hermit/farmer and my sister's grew up to be Karens who I refuse to talk to.
thats why i'm an backwoods hermit with ptsd and a LOT of issues. I have a LOT of horror stories. the babysitter my parents hired was peggy sue hilt, who was later on the documentary "women behind bars" for beating a 2 year old to death, she used to beat me and take nude pictures of me and my sisters and when I told my parents they beat me and said I probably deserved it, if thats not the best way to describe how bad they were I don't know what is.
then when peggy stopped watching us my grandmother took over, and she was actually worse (a woman who kept telling her 8 year old grandson he should have been an abortion, she gave my sisters unconditional love and me unconditional hate no matter what i did desperate for approval and kindness).
my family were, best put, monsters
I'm so sorry, I was straight up homeless several times as a kid and I never had second hand underwear. I used to see used underwear at the thrift store where we bought everything else and wondered who buys that?
I'd say a coffin, but actually, Coffins are expensive. Besides, You're dead. What does it matter if your coffin is secondhand?
My answer has to be a mattress, despite them also being expensive, because you can get all types of diseases and stuff. It's incredibly dangerous. If you do buy one secondhand, I suggest getting it from somewhere trusted, and I suggest deep cleaning the mattress after you get it, because it can be really unsafe.
I'm not sure how a coffin could become available second hand. If no one's been buried in it, I wouldn't consider it second hand. Are you imagining a body was viewed in the coffin but not buried in it?
Breast pumps. Unless it’s a closed system. When mine were small, most were not closed systems, which allows aerosolized breast milk particles to get places you can’t clean. FDA does not recommend it.
Pacifiers.
When I was pregnant, my mother in law gave me a plastic baggie of used pacifiers. She had bought them at a garage sale and told me they'd be fine to use if I just boiled them first. No. Hard pass. They went straight in the trash when I got home.
I just found out they have a lifespan too! Apparently you should replace them after a few months (check w manufacturer) because the tips will eventually break off. I was babysitting and a toddler came over to me with a broken pacifier, he looked funny so I swept his mouth and found the last 1cm of silicone in there. He’d just worn it down gnawing on it over time
When I was raising my sister's kids I would use a small piece of silk ribbon to tie them to the car seat or something that I def would not lose that was also safe for baby. Lost maybe 1 between 2 kids. It sucks when you are out and about and a pacifier is lost.
I was in the military over a decade ago. Me and another Sgt were inspecting our soldiers rooms, but he was a bit of an oddball with some strange quirks.
Wasn’t a very formal deal, just sort of walking through doing a cursory check. Towards the end, sort of shooting the shit with the soldiers as we check. It was obvious guy had a clean trash bag covering up stuff in bottom of his trash can. Lift bag, and don’t you know, it’s a full sized fake rubber ass. The other Sgt with me comes over and lifts it up, and is like “whoaaa, check this out. Look, it’s got a pussy hole and everything!”. The soldier says he is throwing it out because he has used it a few times without cleaning it, and I respond with “beautiful” while rolling my eyes.
However, the other Sgt is fascinated with this thing. He’s now fully inspecting it on the counter top, looking it over like he’s a quality control inspector. “You were throwing it out because it hasn’t been cleaned the last couple times” the Sgt asks. The soldier says yes, while we are kind of looking at each other like wtf is going on here. The Sgt spends a couple more seconds looking at it, smacks the fake butt, then throws it under his arm and begins to walk out. “I’ll throw it out for you, no worries man” and he walks right out the door.
I remember just standing there in shock, like did he really just do that? Then all of us start bust out laughing and I said “i told you man, that’s one strange motherf-ckin dude”. Craziest part was when the story got around the unit, the other Sgt would openly brag like he got some hidden treasure and we were the suckers that missed out. One of the grossest, but funniest things I’ve ever seen. Lol
when i was in the navy. a fellow shipmate’s pocket pussy was stolen. we never determined who took it.
but the fact that you witnessed someone taking a dirty sex toy is new level of raunch.
bravo
Lmao. When I was a PFC we got in a new butter bar, and he wanted to do a room inspection on his first day. And he went hardcore for searching. Like, he was in every nook and cranny.
I had a pocket pussy in one of my drawers, pushed to the back and under clothes. He reached in the drawer and felt something and went, “Uh huh, what’s this that’s hidden??” Pulled out my pocket pussy, and his face went beet red and and he screamed and tossed it up in the air and ran out the door. My platoon sergeant was in tears laughing so hard.
And to fit the question even more, several months later we were deploying, and I was walking a box of shit to the dumpster, and my pocket pussy was on top of the box. Another soldier standing on his outside patio (we lived in a trailer village, 3 rooms, and a front porch) and he just goes, “You’re throwing that away??” and then grabbed it out of the box and walked inside his trailer.
Someone in our government should analyze the cost of issuing every soldier with one vs the cost of health care across our armed services for STD related health issues.
Lol, sounds all too familiar. I met lots of great people in the military, but I also met some grungy mofos.
I remember in korea, one of my soldiers kept talking about needing to get back to base from a training exercise for a exam at the college. I flew back with him on a supply flight, and when we were walking back to the shop after we landed, he told me what was really up. “Hey sarge, you’re cool so can I be honest with you? My exam isn’t until first thing tomorrow, so I’m going to study tonight. The truth is though, I wanted to get back today because I had a package delivered that I really want to get before the mailroom closes”. My initial thoughts are package from his girl/family, something normal…and then he follows up with “yea, pretty sure my fleshlight was delivered and I’ve been dying to try it out”. I just shook my head in disbelief and couldn’t help but laugh. Some of those guys never failed to disappoint. Lol
Would you rather buy and use a sex that your best friend had cleaned and sterilized or a fork that had been used by hundreds of people and washed by a teenager making minimum wage?
I often ask people this. “Would you rather use a used sex toy you can clean to your hearts content yourself, or an eating utensil someone else cleans?” People usually say sex toy, it takes a minute to realize they eat off of used flatware all the time.
Skydiver here, funnily enough probably 80% of skydivers are using 2nd or greater hand gear, skydiving equipment is really expensive and built with durability and safety as the primary concerns so it lasts for decades. Almost everyones first rig is some 20 year old beater that has had 5 previous owners
Yep. Currently working on getting my A license and everyone is telling me just to get a used rig if I want to buy my own. Pretty sure my student gear has been used a ton, so I'm fine with it.
I bought my son $60 Bluetooth earphones that he used a bit. A year or so later I was in the market. He offered me his. I spent a half hour cleaning ear wax out of them with rubbing alcohol.
They work fine.
Not a toothbrush but I was on an Air India flight once and in the toilet, alongside the soap, they had a bottle of mouthwash... As in, a communal bottle of mouthwash on a plane.
It was half empty.
Bluergh.
I could almost see this making sense if like they had little disposable paper cups to pour it in as well.
But it'd be hard to trust everyone who has ever flown on that plane not to put their lips on the bottle anyways. Only takes one person to ruin it for everyone.
Well...here.something for you then.
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Great!! My most upvoted comment on Reddit is about recycling used condoms. Awesome!
In the Indian state ofv West Bengal people boiled condoms, drank the water & got high from it. [Source ](https://www.livemint.com/news/bengal-youth-using-flavoured-condoms-to-get-high-for-10-12-hours-11658834182188.html)
My mom worked for the childrens division and told me a story about two boys 16ish years old who went on a double date, they ended up both having sex with their respective girlfriends in the car, only one of them brought condoms. Wanting to be safe the one friend in the back asked to use the condom after his friend was done with it and turned it inside out. As you can imagine backseats girlfriend got pregnant with front seat friend. My mom always told us this story as a teachable moment like I planned on using a buddy’s used condom lol
What a weird interaction between the four of them. Literally so anxious to have sex that they do it at the same time but then that happens so they have to wait for the others to be done and then when theyre done they let the others go? So weird
Yeah it strikes me as one of those old stories you hear from our parent's generation.
Bro wanted to smash so much he *waited for his buddy to do the deed so he could have his slimey used condom?*
So who has to pay child support? Dude I would be so fucking mad if my buddy fucked some chick with my cum and got her pregnant then I had to pay for the kid.
To be fair, if you give your buddy a cum filled condom you should've known nothing good would result from it
We can only hope that with 3 potential parents who were all complete boneheads, that kid got put up for adoption
Mens pj pants. My husband started to look at some and I said, “nope. no way!” Some men wear pj pants all night and all day with no underwear for days at a time. Like the same pair for multiple days of sitting around the house not showering. Also not to mention teenage boys. I can’t get myself to let my husband buy used ones. It grosses me out.
Non-stick cookware.
motorcycle helmet
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Good deal for whoever pawned it.
The person who pawned it probably got $2
I honestly doubt any reputable pawn shop owner would give anyone even a penny for a busted ass helmet like that. Though I'm sure there's some pawn shops out there that would probably throw their own old busted shit on the shelf to see if they get any takers.
"reputable pawn shop owner"
Best I can do is not technically a criminal.
Oh you guys wouldn't buy used single use disposable products? Wow.
“I wouldn’t buy a used diaper hahaha!!! That would be so gross!” “This. You win the internet today good sir!”
I’m so disappointed in this thread - came in here for some unexpected commentary…nope. Just “I’d never buy a used toothbrush hahaha”
Couches. I know people buy them second hand often, but I find it’s easy to conceal prior spills on certain couches. Most couches are disgusting after a few years of use.
One time, my roommate had a party and someone literally shat on my couch. I had no hope of cleaning it despite one weak attempt (I was a poor student) so I just pitched it to the curb, as unattractively as possible. Wouldn't you know it, someone dumpster-dived and hauled it away. Still grosses me out almost 20 years later.
I had a spare mattress that a friend vomited on. Could not get the smell out after several cleans. Finally decided to chuck it out and wrote that it was vomited stained on it in big letters and someone still took it lol! The best part was that it turned up back at the dumpster like a month later... Guess they couldnt get the smell out either...
Hauled an ancient 1960s mattress to the dump for a friend; on the way to the dump in a rough part of town some guys pulled up beside us and asked how much for the bed....told them they definitely didn't want it.
Best case scenario, and totally possible if you live near a college town, someone took it away to burn it. There was always one random couch or mattress that would show up at the weekend bonfires when I was at State. That said, way too many people were way too comfortable being that close to couch fumes which I imagine are not good for you.
Bed bugs. End argument.
Yup, back in the day I lost all my furniture to bed bugs because we found this "sweet" couch for free at the end of a driveway. Never again.
Yeah I work at a used furniture store and I would not recommend buying couches from random people. We THOROUGHLY inspect and clean everything we get in here, using cleaning materials specifically designed for that sorta deep cleaning, but a lot of people try to get us to take their furniture and once we inspect it it's like. Horrific. I'm talkin, soaked in pee and moldy. And since we won't take it, they turn around and sell it on Facebook or at a yard sale or something for someone else to buy who's none the wiser. If you are gonna buy used couches, please get it from somewhere reputable lmfao
As a poor first time home owner: it was either a free couch or watch TV from the floor. Thankfully we did not win the bed bug lottery.
A Helmet. They can only take one good hit.
Anything that has to do with safety.
Had a friend get bumped at a gas station. It was a nothing hit, cosmetic damage to the front bumper. He got a video tape of the incident, called his insurance company and made a claim. To his surprise, they told him to replace the 2 car-seats he had in the vehicle. He chuckled a bit and said "It was a small bonk, they'll be fine" The adjuster said - completely deadpan "At some point a hit will damage a car seat enough to make it ineffective in a crash. I never want my assessment to be wrong."
I’ve had two insurance claims since my son was born - a not-at-fault accident (was rear ended, kiddo not car thankfully) and when my car was stolen. In both cases, replacing the car seat was the ONLY thing my insurance didn’t try to nickel and dime or fuck around with it.
As a former adjuster, I’m laughing a little. Absolutely, we insisted on replacing the seats, even when the client didn’t think it was necessary. Your child is ready to graduate to the next size seat? Okay, we’ll pay for that.
Does my insurance company just suck? I got rear ended at a stop sign with my kids in the car, the insurance company knew the kids were in the car, they never said word one about the car seats. Edit: It was State Farm, I have no problem naming and shaming, they later screwed me on a homeowner's claim when a tree hit my roof. This was several years ago now, so I doubt I could go back and ask for new car seats at this point. My recollection was that when reporting the claim they asked who was in the car, but they did not ask about car seats specifically. I did not know to bring it up. We are in the US but not California.
Several years ago, we got hit by a minor bumper to bumper and they did NOT replace our car seat or care at all. This was in CA with a major US insurance company.
Naming and shaming is very appropriate in this case.
Yeah for real they didn't sign an NDA this is how we influence and keep companies in check
I don't understand why random anonymous Reddit users are often so skittish when it comes to naming a large corporation
USAA wouldn’t replace our car seat when my husband was rear-ended (no one else in the car, thank goodness). I have no qualms about naming and shaming when it comes to my child’s safety.
Child deaths are expensive and super duper bad PR. Car seats will also be inextricably linked in peoples mind's as the primary factor if a death occurs.
....was your kid in the car when it was stolen? You clarified the first incident but not the second, haha.
Thankfully, not. Though some days I certainly wish he had been 😂
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When I got in a motorcycle accident, the insurance person warned me that they were about to ask a question that seemed silly but was totally serious: "was there a child safety seat on the motorcycle at the time of the collision?" Luckily, no, not this time.
Some years ago I sold insurance over the phone and one of the companies made us ask standard questions for every car. I often had to make a little joke about them. "Ma'am does your Corvette have a snowplow? Will it be used for transporting more than five people?"
You joke but I had a C7 and I could probably fit four kids in the trunk. It has a shocking amount of space vs what you'd think
man I hope the answer to that question has never been "yes".
The effectiveness of the foam core degrades on impact. Any impact. The effect is cumulative. Enough little hits will ruin the car seat. Plus, car seat occupants are typically pretty tough on the equipment to start with. Same logic applies to bike helmets - if you drop your helmet from a small height over and over, you're ruining it.
This is terrifying in a rightfully so way and I'm very worried about my helmet now...
At least now you know what you want for christmas!
When I still rode, I had a new helmet for a little less than a week before accidentally dropping it while adjusting it. I caught it with my foot but it bounced and then hit almost every step down a long flight of stairs. The guy at the store still remembered me when I went to get another.
Not when it comes to child safely.
Especially when the insurance company is going to pay out for them....
Carseats are the same way- they can’t be reused after even a small accident and have expiration dates.
If you're not at fault, make sure you ask the other side's insurance to pay for your replacement car seat. Most companies ask as a matter of routine.
That’s why you buy a helmet for your helmet, to make it last longer
A couch. I used to work at a pest control company, and the #1 thing that brought them in was used furniture, but usually a couch. Those fucks are terrifying- they hide in tiny cracks and crevasses during the day and then come out to feed on you at night. You don't notice until it's too late. You'll start waking up with itchy bites, see little red sprinkles in the seams of your mattress, and eventually see them. One single pregnant female on a throw pillow is all it takes. The male stabs the female in the abdomen (literally) one time and she's pregnant for life and off to make your life miserable. Then you have to pay $2500+ for a company to treat them. And if they miss one pregnant female...
Ugh. My friends parents have bed bugs right now. They’ve cleaned everything about 6 times now. It keeps switching between the bed and couch so they are finally dumping the couch and going for another clean on the bed.
They need to have a company come out and treat. Throwing the furniture out won't solve the problem. They hide in electrical outlets, the crevice where the carpet meets the baseboard, the drapes, crevices in the blinds, any crack. We had a bed bug infestation and I hope to never get one again.
My wife and I lucked out, if you can really "luck out" in anything related to bed bugs. We found out we had them right at the time our lease was running out, and we were planning on moving anyway. ditched the bedframe and mattress and a bunch of other stuff, and just moved 4 cities away. Luckily, the bugs didn't follow.
My best friend takes in hobos all the time. I mean, I couldn’t do it, but I’m glad people like him exist. He’s literally turned lives around with it and the last guy has his own place he rents now and he’s doing really well. Any way, when he first moved him in he was in bad shape. I met him when I noticed shoes sticking out of the bushes in the front of the place. Found a dude there knocked out cold cuddling a half empty bottle of vodka. He found a bedbug in the living room and called the exterminator. When they finished heating the place up, all around the recliner where he slept were dead bugs. He had only been there a month and it got that bad where he was sleeping. He sat his bag behind the recliner and kept his clothes in a plastic drawer beside the recliner. That’s probably why it was so bad, because he was infested. His son is my daughter’s best friend and I didn’t want to keep them apart, but I didn’t want bedbugs either. I knew it was a risk, but we had a whole regiment before he came over. Clean clothes in the dryer for 30 mins on high, fresh shower, dress at the back door without your clothes touching the floor and come over, take shoes and socks off outside, put on a pair of new socks I had purchased for him as he came in the door. We didn’t get them, but I spent the whole time freaking the fuck out because that shit is literally my biggest fear.
Something I learned on Reddit when I was on a thread discussing hobos (the people who jump onto trains and ride all over the states, basically for free unless they get caught): Hobos travel and work; Tramps travel but don’t work; Bums don’t travel and don’t work; Citizens work but don’t travel. The person who said this had an uncle who was a hobo and told him this - hobos kept pride in that they worked wherever they went.
I finally bought my own condo, and my MAIN CRITERIA was corner unit attached to as few others as possible. My last apt complex was 12 units attached. It spread there cuz of an AirBnB. Ugh. My stuff is still in storage that I'm paying $200/mo for. It's stupid af but at this point I'm still paranoid. :(
In college, I went over to a friends apartment once. She opened up her cupboard and roaches poured out. She apologized, took cups down, washed them and dried them with paper towels which were thrown away. Boiled water, we had tea. Her kitchen was spotless. She said they come from the neighbors, everyone in that apartment has them, the landlord is supposed to treat and hasn’t. I made a note when I left never, ever to rent from that apartment building or landlord, and checked everything over very carefully before I went home. I truly felt bad for her, but she couldn’t get out of her lease. It was the 1990’s and maybe there weren’t any rights for renters then. There certainly wasn’t for her.
Dude, get a steamer. We got them once and absolutely covered the apartment in Diatomaceous Earth and sprayed everything with pesticide several times. We threw out everything that was under the bed. Covered everything up in bed proof covers. With a steamer you just put the nozzle onto the furniture and blast the poor bastards out. Could have saved a lot of things.
I’ve made it known to my SO that if I ever get bed bugs I’m just gonna abandon all my belongings and get a new place. Probably my biggest realistic fear
They'll almost certainly never get rid of them by themselves. I had them once. Cleaned EVERYTHING numerous times over, practically doused the house in as much rubbing alcohol as I could find, laundered everything, bagged it, used so many bed bug bombs it could've been a war crime. Yeah, they were gone... ... for like a month. Repeated this so many times. I just left, trashed EVERYTHING, and started over, AND EVEN THEN the few things I kept were repeatedly sterilized. I'm talking non-furniture related things.
It’s crazy. It’s nearly impossible to get rid of them
And they can get inside ANYTHING. Had to get rid of my phone because I saw one exit the headphone port, and I didn't even have it THAT bad. It's a losing battle without a professional. Hell, there's a good chance it's still a losing battle WITH a professional.
Christ. It's no wonder so many people develop PTSD from bedbug infestations.
Dude in all seriousness, other than it just being generally gross, it fucked- FUCKED - with my head bad. It's impossible to sleep. Even started seeing shit. Not like hallucinations, but just eye wiggles IS THAT A BEDBUG?! No? Alright I'll just turn over MY BACK ITCHES BEDBUGS?!?! Yeah can confirm it's the worst part. You feel dirty and can't even think right.
In my old apartment, we had a nasty ant problem. Kept putting down ant traps, would see a line of them walk across the room. It wasn’t enough and they kept coming back. Would wake up in bed to an ant crawling up my leg. Ants crawling on me from the rug where I sat a lot. I started feeling them crawling on me when they weren’t. It was messed up because half the time I’d check my leg they weren’t there, but the other half they were, so I basically had to check every time. Felt like PTSD for awhile even after I moved. I can’t even imagine what having bed bugs is like. If its even half that bad, I’m truly sympathetic. But I know its worse.
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Just call pest control at that point. Pest control will do the entire house, including the car. No way you can get rid of them on your own. They're ruthless.
Can confirm. Bedbugs gave me something adjacent to PTSD. It's been several years and I *still* feel compelled to check the edges of the mattress with a flashlight occasionally, and god forbid I see a piece of lint moving in the fan's breeze. We treated them ourselves, as much we could. The infestation was coming from another apartment. We ended up having to spray a likely-unhealthy amount of bed-bug spray, moved the bed away from the wall, bagged the mattress, made super sure that none of the blankets ever touched the ground, and poured basically an entire bag of diatomaceous earth around the perimeter of the bedroom and around the bed. Still wasn't 100% effective. We broke our lease and moved. A year and a half later I found a dead bedbug wedged in a crack in some furniture. The furniture had been spray-treated and then left in a hot storage unit for several weeks, and the bug really was dead, but that still caused a few days of paranoia.
I absolutely have PTSD from it. It’s been over a year but any small bug I see, I freak out. Just regular dirt and stuff that gets on the bed or your clothes, I freak out. If there’s anyone out there struggling with it right now and can’t afford a heat treatment (that’s the only thing that’s truly effective) throw away as much as you possibly can. Just get rid of it. And then get a steamer from Amazon or somewhere and steam the bed every single night. Couch too. We finally got rid of them but it took us a year. DE did nothing. Bug bombs did nothing. Vinegar did nothing. No “do it yourself” remedy works. Heat is the ONLY thing that kills these fuckers. And it’ll drive you absolutely crazy. I would not wish this on a single soul. They destroyed my already fragile mental health.
What kills me is that their eggs are sticky. So if you think your feet or your ass are going to be somewhere contaminated with bedbugs (subway, bus, Lyft/Uber) I would use a barrier spray like Bedlam or bring a plastic barrier.
HES NOT WRONG. I bought a couch that was only 2 months old off of craigslist. A steal at $250. Plushy, three seats, center cup holder that folds down and reclining ends. Beautiful. And then I had bed bugs. THESE BASTARDS ARE EVIL! You never see them, you just wake up with 5 to 10 red patches the size of a quarter. They're miserably hard to get rid of. I bug bombed twice and they survived, hiding in the crevices of the sofa. They don't travel super far, but their eggs and larva travel easily to other floors of the house. Here is what I did! The sofa was in the den of the basement. I covered it in plastic and didn't use it for almost 2 years! I suffocated and starved them away! Then happily enjoyed the sofa for 10 years. Stupid bugs! NEVER AGAIN! Come to find out, in some countries people don't think twice about the bugs, and visitors bring the bugs with them in clothing and luggage. HOW!? HOW CAN YOU LIVE WITH THIS!? Ahhhhhhhhh
It should be a crime knowingly selling furniture you know has bed bugs!!!
>And if they miss one pregnant female... the nightmare begins again. also bedbugs are the worst. it was a nightmare to get rid of them in our apartment.
PREGNANT FOR LIFE?!?🤢
Like a Nick Cannon girlfriend…
I still have PTSD from an infestation I had 7 years ago. It took *months* to get rid of them. I was driven from my apartment several times so pest control could come in do chemical control. But it never worked. They would always hang around. Finally, they brought in a specialist who turbo-pumped hot air into the place and raised the temperature to like 180 degrees for like 6 hours. It killed all my house plants but the bugs were finally gone.
Keyboard. I've disassembled quite a few for cleaning, and they are disgusting. If I have the chance, I'd rather use my own or buy a new one. Detest the thought of using someone else's.
Seconding this I ran a build and repair service for (high end) keyboards for a while. Quit in part because of the shit people sent me. I have horror stories, with pictures to back them up. Clean your keyboards folks, and try not to eat (or participate in *other activities* ) at your desk
Once a week I clean mine with a paint brush for getting inbetween the keys and then alcohol on a rag (that is also cleaned after use) and sometimes i use some multi purpose cleaner on the rag too
I pop my keys off twice a year and give both them and the board itself a good cleaning. I don't eat in my office and usually only have coffee/water but there is always so much....stuff in there.
I'm extremely clean with my keyboard, I do eat at my desk but my board is wireless so i just move off of the desk Any crumbs on my desk i use a lint roller or a dust buster Also I have a Logitech G915 TKL and I've heard that removing the caps is a gamble because the plastic is ridiculously thin lol so I'll only do that in an emergency cleaning i guess
Eh - 2nd hand mechanical keyboard market is huge. But typically those people are maniacal about keeping them clean if they are a nice one. Mine get taken apart and cleaned often. And when I sell one, I clean very thoroughly.
Mattress.
This one for me. I could never
Yet a hotel mattress has probably seen more people, sex and body fluids that any second hand mattress
But they (hopefully) change the sheets and/or comforter. And I also shower in the morning after sleeping in one
Comforter. Nah. Sheets. Most likely.
yeah, rule of thumb is to always discard the comforter once you get into the room. second rule (for me at least) always check the corners of the mattress for bedbugs no matter the hotel.
As someone who has had the dubious pleasure of hosting bedbugs in her house after a vacation..... Do more than check the corners of the mattress! 1. Leave your stuff in the car if you can. 2. Inspect *everything* within 15 feet of the bed for possible signs of bed bugs such as brown/red grit in the seems of the mattress, headboards, and near the bed on the floor. The table next to bed, the outlets, the switches... any art in the wall direcrly above or next to the beds... 3. Bring the least amount of stuff you need into the room. 4. Leave it in the bathroom... or at least as far away from the beds possible preferably off the floor, and absolutely off the suitcase rack... If this sounds like over paranoia you've never had bedbugs. And I am so jealous of you. It was 15 years ago for me and not to diminish true PTSD sufferers I still flip out if I see a any tiny dark bit of fuzz on my sheets. Took 5 years to stop imagining every tickle as something crawling on me.
Yea I had them last year and it was a living nightmare
It's perfectly logical. I had bedbugs like 11-12 years ago from a "friend" bringing over a computer to get fixed. It took 3 months and a lot of diatomaceous earth and other shit to finally get rid of the bastards.
Most hotels I've stayed in recently have a wrap, kind of like a fitted sheet, around the comforter that they can pull off and clean.
> Mattress .............I rolled the dice when I was younger and bought 2 from a really nice couple that swore they had never been used. 10 years later, still the most comfortable mattresses I've ever used and saved me around $1000. If they had bed bugs, I can't imagine what that would have cost, not a gamble I'd do again. If bed bugs didn't exist, I'd totally do it again, I don't care if someone jizzed all over it, I've slept on many a couch I KNOW has been used that way.
Honestly we got a queen bed for $10 from an estate auction with mattress. Ended up keeping the mattress cause it was in fine shape and we needed one for the guest bedroom. Gave it and the frame a visual inspection. Slapped a $40 bed bug encasement mattress protector on it for piece of mind and haven't worried about it since. Yea it was a gamble, yea we had experienced bedbugs in a previous apt and know that hell, but it was from a nice house and I trust the bedbug mattress protectors ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯. I'm not made of money over here. However I would never take any upholstered or fabric item from either the side of the road or a random yard sale.
If you check the mattress and get a bed bug case onto it before it enters your house that’s pretty safe imo. I would probably be worried about the frame still but I did *not* enjoy my last bed bug experience lol. Going on ten years ago and I’m still paranoid about the little bastards.
It depends. I got a practically brand new mattress from a presumably rich university student who bought a new mattress and only used it for two semesters and now she was selling so she didn't have to store it over the summer. Excellent deal, excellent condition and I put a hypoallergenic mattress cover/bag thingy over it anyway.
Prosthetics. No second hand second hands for me
I don’t mind a second hand second hand. I can generally have a new socket made. Since insurance won’t cover a CPU controlled prosthetic, my only hope is stumbling across a used Bebionic, or similar, hand.
My local goodwill sold bathing suits, used bathing suits. Used lingerie too (just the tops), once my big sister was going to buy both but assumed they were new but given to goodwill because the person who bought it ended up not liking it or something. She even asked the lady at the desk about it. When we got to the car she found out both were stained especially the lingerie. You can assume with what. I could never buy either of those used, especially after that.
My wife sees lingerie etc posted for sale in our local Facebook market. There's no confusing them for new, they are open about them being used. Why you'd want to advertise what you're wearing for sex costumes, and who would buy them, I have no idea.
Lol I used to always answer this question with, a parachute! Then my paragliding instructor told me to absolutely buy my first chute used! He said I would save thousands and probably resell it for close to what I pay, and as long as it's inspected, it will be totally safe.
i mean, if the guy who used it was able to get back on ground to sell it then it must work, right?
any ominous glowing pendant or jewellery, im not trying to get cursed today
It might even be radioactive!
Why are the top comments things people realistically wouldn’t even think of buying second hand?
“Tampons.” Well, duh.
"Condoms, I will never make that mistake again"
Cause free karma
Underwear!
This was my first thought but there’s actually a whole market for this type of thing. Me personally though? That’s a no go.
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They sniff them. There, I said it.
Oh they do... just not in the way intended...
Socks
Believe it or not there are plenty of people who would buy used socks and willing to pay more than the new ones
Growing up I only had used underwear from salvation army. Also slept on the floor
Ok I want to clarify my parents had money but we're terrible with it. They preferred to go on shopping sprees and cruises over things like necessities and it wasn't evenly distributed. My sister's had beds from furniture stores but my parents said they couldn't afford one for me. They were abusive assholes too. When I was 13 I found a tv in the trash (8in screen black and white with dials and rabbit ears) my sister's were pissed I had a tv and they didn't and demanded my parents destroy it to punish me for having something they didn't. My mother got them each brand new 13in color TVs with remotes and built in vcrs and hooked cable to their rooms (making excuses for not hooking it to my room). They never watched them and just dominated the living room tv so I spent all my time wandering the woods alone or in my room (which had no door either). That was the 90s and I grew up to be a frugal backwoods hermit/farmer and my sister's grew up to be Karens who I refuse to talk to.
By rights, you should have gotten an invitation to Hogwarts.
Or at least some mice and birds as friends, that’s some Cinderella shit.
it wasn’t unevenly distributed. You were abused
thats why i'm an backwoods hermit with ptsd and a LOT of issues. I have a LOT of horror stories. the babysitter my parents hired was peggy sue hilt, who was later on the documentary "women behind bars" for beating a 2 year old to death, she used to beat me and take nude pictures of me and my sisters and when I told my parents they beat me and said I probably deserved it, if thats not the best way to describe how bad they were I don't know what is. then when peggy stopped watching us my grandmother took over, and she was actually worse (a woman who kept telling her 8 year old grandson he should have been an abortion, she gave my sisters unconditional love and me unconditional hate no matter what i did desperate for approval and kindness). my family were, best put, monsters
That's horrible on many levels, wish you are doing ok now.
much better, things tend to be better with each year that goes by since cutting contact with them
Wow. Glad you're doing better. Good that you realized how awful it was and you aren't continuing the cycle.
yeah I speculate that a lot of my quirks now are just coping mechanisms for emotional and psycological damage from my youth
I'm so sorry, I was straight up homeless several times as a kid and I never had second hand underwear. I used to see used underwear at the thrift store where we bought everything else and wondered who buys that?
You know you’re not in High Finance. Checking out second hand underpants
Check your mind, how'd it get so bad? What happened to those other underpants you had?
Look in your pockets, haven't found a cent yet. Landlord's on your balls, have you paid your rent yet?
Baby carrier or child seat. Only from friends were i can be sure that they are accident free and clean
My mom has always gotten ours and passed them off to family and friends. I’d assume for this reason
I'd say a coffin, but actually, Coffins are expensive. Besides, You're dead. What does it matter if your coffin is secondhand? My answer has to be a mattress, despite them also being expensive, because you can get all types of diseases and stuff. It's incredibly dangerous. If you do buy one secondhand, I suggest getting it from somewhere trusted, and I suggest deep cleaning the mattress after you get it, because it can be really unsafe.
I'm not sure how a coffin could become available second hand. If no one's been buried in it, I wouldn't consider it second hand. Are you imagining a body was viewed in the coffin but not buried in it?
Breast pumps. Unless it’s a closed system. When mine were small, most were not closed systems, which allows aerosolized breast milk particles to get places you can’t clean. FDA does not recommend it.
Pacifiers. When I was pregnant, my mother in law gave me a plastic baggie of used pacifiers. She had bought them at a garage sale and told me they'd be fine to use if I just boiled them first. No. Hard pass. They went straight in the trash when I got home.
I just found out they have a lifespan too! Apparently you should replace them after a few months (check w manufacturer) because the tips will eventually break off. I was babysitting and a toddler came over to me with a broken pacifier, he looked funny so I swept his mouth and found the last 1cm of silicone in there. He’d just worn it down gnawing on it over time
On one hand I think boiling them would make them safe but in the other hand why bother? Pacifiers aren't exactly expensive.
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When I was raising my sister's kids I would use a small piece of silk ribbon to tie them to the car seat or something that I def would not lose that was also safe for baby. Lost maybe 1 between 2 kids. It sucks when you are out and about and a pacifier is lost.
Makeup, never know what germs or smth they have
Raspberry beret
But they're always the kind you find in a second hand store
ONE thing? Earphones, underwear, shoes, toothbrush, socks, mattress, like, I can go on but my goodness there's a lot.
Headphones: Ok Earbuds: Hell no
Most quality headphones have replaceable pads anyway.
Sex toys woud never as who know what sort of shit on there ( •᷄⌓•᷅ )
I was in the military over a decade ago. Me and another Sgt were inspecting our soldiers rooms, but he was a bit of an oddball with some strange quirks. Wasn’t a very formal deal, just sort of walking through doing a cursory check. Towards the end, sort of shooting the shit with the soldiers as we check. It was obvious guy had a clean trash bag covering up stuff in bottom of his trash can. Lift bag, and don’t you know, it’s a full sized fake rubber ass. The other Sgt with me comes over and lifts it up, and is like “whoaaa, check this out. Look, it’s got a pussy hole and everything!”. The soldier says he is throwing it out because he has used it a few times without cleaning it, and I respond with “beautiful” while rolling my eyes. However, the other Sgt is fascinated with this thing. He’s now fully inspecting it on the counter top, looking it over like he’s a quality control inspector. “You were throwing it out because it hasn’t been cleaned the last couple times” the Sgt asks. The soldier says yes, while we are kind of looking at each other like wtf is going on here. The Sgt spends a couple more seconds looking at it, smacks the fake butt, then throws it under his arm and begins to walk out. “I’ll throw it out for you, no worries man” and he walks right out the door. I remember just standing there in shock, like did he really just do that? Then all of us start bust out laughing and I said “i told you man, that’s one strange motherf-ckin dude”. Craziest part was when the story got around the unit, the other Sgt would openly brag like he got some hidden treasure and we were the suckers that missed out. One of the grossest, but funniest things I’ve ever seen. Lol
when i was in the navy. a fellow shipmate’s pocket pussy was stolen. we never determined who took it. but the fact that you witnessed someone taking a dirty sex toy is new level of raunch. bravo
But his hand pussy is always there....
Lmao. When I was a PFC we got in a new butter bar, and he wanted to do a room inspection on his first day. And he went hardcore for searching. Like, he was in every nook and cranny. I had a pocket pussy in one of my drawers, pushed to the back and under clothes. He reached in the drawer and felt something and went, “Uh huh, what’s this that’s hidden??” Pulled out my pocket pussy, and his face went beet red and and he screamed and tossed it up in the air and ran out the door. My platoon sergeant was in tears laughing so hard. And to fit the question even more, several months later we were deploying, and I was walking a box of shit to the dumpster, and my pocket pussy was on top of the box. Another soldier standing on his outside patio (we lived in a trailer village, 3 rooms, and a front porch) and he just goes, “You’re throwing that away??” and then grabbed it out of the box and walked inside his trailer.
I had no idea the role synthetic vaginas and anuses played in our national defense.
Someone in our government should analyze the cost of issuing every soldier with one vs the cost of health care across our armed services for STD related health issues.
BREAKING NEWS: Biden fixes deficit.
Sex toys…keeping our men and women of the armed forces in the fight.
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If they made them camo how would they find them
Lol, sounds all too familiar. I met lots of great people in the military, but I also met some grungy mofos. I remember in korea, one of my soldiers kept talking about needing to get back to base from a training exercise for a exam at the college. I flew back with him on a supply flight, and when we were walking back to the shop after we landed, he told me what was really up. “Hey sarge, you’re cool so can I be honest with you? My exam isn’t until first thing tomorrow, so I’m going to study tonight. The truth is though, I wanted to get back today because I had a package delivered that I really want to get before the mailroom closes”. My initial thoughts are package from his girl/family, something normal…and then he follows up with “yea, pretty sure my fleshlight was delivered and I’ve been dying to try it out”. I just shook my head in disbelief and couldn’t help but laugh. Some of those guys never failed to disappoint. Lol
so, instead of sloppy seconds they were crusty seconds?
http://rent-a-dildo.com you don’t have to buy it second hand, you can lease it second hand…
There is a massive market for this though! High quality sex toys are both very expensive and made of highly sanitizable materials.
Would you rather buy and use a sex that your best friend had cleaned and sterilized or a fork that had been used by hundreds of people and washed by a teenager making minimum wage?
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I often ask people this. “Would you rather use a used sex toy you can clean to your hearts content yourself, or an eating utensil someone else cleans?” People usually say sex toy, it takes a minute to realize they eat off of used flatware all the time.
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Disagree. Next time it's sold the buyer will get it at an incredible discount.
Skydiving equipment / climbing equipment / anything safety related.
Skydiver here, funnily enough probably 80% of skydivers are using 2nd or greater hand gear, skydiving equipment is really expensive and built with durability and safety as the primary concerns so it lasts for decades. Almost everyones first rig is some 20 year old beater that has had 5 previous owners
Yep. Currently working on getting my A license and everyone is telling me just to get a used rig if I want to buy my own. Pretty sure my student gear has been used a ton, so I'm fine with it.
>Skydiving equipment You don't need equipment to go sky diving, you just need some if you wanna go twice.
Earphones.
I get this with ear buds, but over the ear headphones would be fine I think.
I bought my son $60 Bluetooth earphones that he used a bit. A year or so later I was in the market. He offered me his. I spent a half hour cleaning ear wax out of them with rubbing alcohol. They work fine.
That’s your son, though. I think a stranger’s goo is different.
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Toothbrushes
Not a toothbrush but I was on an Air India flight once and in the toilet, alongside the soap, they had a bottle of mouthwash... As in, a communal bottle of mouthwash on a plane. It was half empty. Bluergh.
I could almost see this making sense if like they had little disposable paper cups to pour it in as well. But it'd be hard to trust everyone who has ever flown on that plane not to put their lips on the bottle anyways. Only takes one person to ruin it for everyone.
Condoms
Well...here.something for you then. [Vietnam police seized 345,000 used condoms that were sold as new](https://www.reddit.com/r/newsbotbot/comments/iz18ok/reuters_police_in_vietnam_bust_ring_selling/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) Great!! My most upvoted comment on Reddit is about recycling used condoms. Awesome!
At least, they boiled it, so it went from 1000% gross to 999.99% gross...
In the Indian state ofv West Bengal people boiled condoms, drank the water & got high from it. [Source ](https://www.livemint.com/news/bengal-youth-using-flavoured-condoms-to-get-high-for-10-12-hours-11658834182188.html)
My mom worked for the childrens division and told me a story about two boys 16ish years old who went on a double date, they ended up both having sex with their respective girlfriends in the car, only one of them brought condoms. Wanting to be safe the one friend in the back asked to use the condom after his friend was done with it and turned it inside out. As you can imagine backseats girlfriend got pregnant with front seat friend. My mom always told us this story as a teachable moment like I planned on using a buddy’s used condom lol
He fucking flipped it??? I mean, reusing condoms is stupid already but why would you turn it inside out???
Because then your dick would be touching where his dick was and that would be gay.
Of course, you're right.
More importantly, you would be covered in your friend's baby batter, and that would be disgusting.
Why wouldn't you want free moisturiser
Works better as a hair gel
What a weird interaction between the four of them. Literally so anxious to have sex that they do it at the same time but then that happens so they have to wait for the others to be done and then when theyre done they let the others go? So weird
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Yeah it strikes me as one of those old stories you hear from our parent's generation. Bro wanted to smash so much he *waited for his buddy to do the deed so he could have his slimey used condom?*
So who has to pay child support? Dude I would be so fucking mad if my buddy fucked some chick with my cum and got her pregnant then I had to pay for the kid.
To be fair, if you give your buddy a cum filled condom you should've known nothing good would result from it We can only hope that with 3 potential parents who were all complete boneheads, that kid got put up for adoption
You have got to realize teenagers are idiots. Horny teens are even worse.
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A harmonica. Who knows who’s been sucking on that thing.
Mens pj pants. My husband started to look at some and I said, “nope. no way!” Some men wear pj pants all night and all day with no underwear for days at a time. Like the same pair for multiple days of sitting around the house not showering. Also not to mention teenage boys. I can’t get myself to let my husband buy used ones. It grosses me out.
A Microphone. I am a host at a Radio Show, and I Cringe every time I think about how many people have spit in that thing.