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What seemingly backwards solutions have worked for you in life? (fedia.io)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I have all of those... Except my to-do lists are not actually long because I never get around to adding stuff to them.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Hahaha.

    I used to have a home office room, and I bought and installed a whiteboard on the wall, for noting things down, planning, to-do list etc.

    For five years, it had a single scrap of paper blue-tacked to it, which read "1) Buy a whiteboard pen".

    I eventually solved it by moving house.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Thanks for the reminder. I put up whiteboards for my kids a bunch of years back, and all the pens are dead.

    Of course, both kids are in college and I have no use for those so maybe the boards should come down

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