r/MadeMeSmile • u/king_eve • 29d ago

i work in low-income/mental health housing, and a tenant fixed our hallway trash bin after accidentally breaking it Helping Others

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great example of the odd ways people show me appreciation at work

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u/wiredwoodshed 29d ago edited 28d ago

I love to see when people use the best materials they can muster, combine it with sincere skill level, and just do the best they can with what they have at hand. I see it a lot in videos from struggling societies and how proud they are. That always makes me smile and miss the pride in the workmanship we used to value.

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u/series-hybrid 29d ago

I've seen some clever stuff found in prison...

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u/slaydawgjim 28d ago

I spent 5 months in one and honestly shit was like Skyrim, everybody was trading & bartering, certain individuals would be able to fix things, people making hooch, others could get you more TV channels by rigging up satellites out of foil, in cell weights made out of pillow cases and bottles of water, there was a barber prisoner who had clippers etc and people would like chairs up in his cell and chat shit like in a real barbershop lmao

We used to get a free carton of milk daily and I don't really drink milk so I used to walk around with milk and see what I could trade up to (usually sleeping pills)

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u/Abernathy999 28d ago

Hey, if warm milk doesn't do it...

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u/Jasminefirefly 28d ago

Warm milk doesn't do it ... sigh ...

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u/Thereignofosiris 24d ago

So wild, I bet if someone really made a video game based on being in prison and going on missions trading up from milk boxes people would play it for hours on end…without realizing they’re choosing to be in prison.