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Self improvement is a noble pursuit, and all of us could use some advice here and there to help us live our lives better. Wherever that advice is, it won't be found here. These are all just dumb and bad life pro tips to not do. Maybe you'll get some directions on how to alienate your friends or make your life worse, but that's where the fun is.

So many of us are prone to impulse buys during the holiday season. It's a time where we can fork over some of that hard-earned dough, and buy special gifts for the human beings we're grateful to share this strange existence with. With that being said, we've got to be careful to not cave for the irrational pet purchases. You've really got to think things through before bringing a new family member on board. Especially if it's a bird that's about to stir up a loud ruckus in your home. 

There are a few experiences out there that are probably better to avoid. Maybe it's because they're super difficult or crazy stupid, but people find out really quickly what stuff to not do again. Sometimes a situation is jus so frustrating you have to be like "screw this, I'm out." Also, avoid three-hour-long amateur musicals.

For a lot of people, daily life doesn't look like how it used to, and it won't go back to normal tomorrow or the next day. Aisha Ahmad explains that part of getting through it is having a strategy to deal with that 6 month wall and learning how to adapt to a somehow stagnating but also everchanging reality. If it's worth anything, here are some wholesome memes.

Leave it to Tumblr to take a quirky superhero idea and turn it up to eleven, like this thread where a mystified man is able to identify superheroes. It seems like every villain would be some kind of expert in whatever their field of villainy, so they wouldn't necessarily be bad at giving advice.

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the lessons that people learned too late in life. Let's read up on these, and not muddle through life not knowing things that we can learn from others that have already been there. 

Many of us suffer from some kind of self encouraged amnesia, involving our well being and various medications/supplements/etc that we use to maintain that well being. For whatever reason, the process of time crawling along invites in us a terribly self-destructive forgetfulness. In this particular, quick Tumblr thread we see a couple solid points made about the importance of Head and Shoulders shampoo/conditioner for the dry and itchy scalp, as well as the life saving role played by medications for anyone who has had a liver transplant. 

It'd be nice if we were all given instruction manuals on how to life most efficiently, but we're not that lucky. Instead, we learn through experience and those good old fails. The following collection of life pro tips could help you avoid unwanted circumstances, without having to learn too late. If these life pro tips got you going, we might recommend checking out some intentionally bad life pro tips for the existential crisis that we don't advise actually trying.

This guy thought he'd be able to run around and have a good time with whoever he fancied, and then just return home eventually to swoop up his ex girlfriend. My dude, that is not how the world works. People move on. Self respect is a thing. This guy got his reality check in the end, and it clearly stung. But hey, it's better to learn late than never at all. If he really valued her happiness above all else, he'd leave her be, and appreciate the fact that she was able to move on, and find someone that brought her happiness. 

Sure, there's a lot of great advice out there in the form of life pro tips. But don't be fooled by all the comically bad life pro tips with zero shame.  We don't support the use of these tips, be they illegal, completely wrong or just ridiculously stupid. That said if you can't tell the difference between these and actual good advice, there may not be much hope for you.

Sex is a confusing topic for many school districts, teachers, and students, and sometimes folks are taught things that don't end up being exactly correct, or helpful. Sometimes kids ask hilariously awkward sex ed questions, and other times everyone just leaves confused.

Ah, yes, some wonderful, intentionally terrible life pro tips. Just the kind of life hacks that could end up getting you in some very hot water. Or, the kind of hacks that nobody with a half decent conscience could actually use. That being said, they are ridiculous and it does make one wonder, if there is some shameless scoundrel out there getting a leg up on life by using the shortcuts that nobody with a moral compass would dare use. 

Saag Jaan's Twitter thread about the crucial things to consider before marriage went viral, and it's no wonder. So many folks can fall prey to the pain of realizations about their partners, that simply came too late into the game. You'd never want to find yourself married to someone, only to realize that if you'd had a few more eye-opening conversations about the heavier topics that really matter in the long run, you'd both have realized things just weren't going to work out. Maybe this list will help couples avoid those unfortunate moments. 

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the best bits of life advice that people have ever received. At the very least the following sentiments can serve as shortcuts toward absorbing the kind of wisdom we'd otherwise have to wait to learn till later in life. Many of these might already sound like common sense, but it's amazing how we can overlook the simplest answers to some of life's most "complicated" problems. 

These free legal tips shouldn't come as a surprise. Honestly, if these bits of advice are anything but funny to you, there's a decent chance you're gonna find yourself in jail for a dumb reason. Sure there are dumb laws that get enforced from time to time, but lawyers see tons of crazy and dumb stuff that no right-minded person should ever find themselves experiencing.

Unless your an unmovable cynic or a mayfly, you probably want to have a long and healthy life. So basically the gist is save some money, exercise, take care of your friends and teeth, but also don't stress out about it too much. For some pieces of advice that don't take decades to pay off, here are some life pro tips. For a wholesome tale about life and relationships, here's a story about a grandpa who hated banana bread but ate it for years out of love.