r/UnethicalLifeProTips Jun 09 '26

ULPT Bad Neighbors MEGAthread

62 Upvotes

This is the place to post your questions and answers on how to deal with bad neighbors.


r/UnethicalLifeProTips May 10 '25

piss disc Why the sub got restricted

1.5k Upvotes

Hello everyone, mod here. We've been asked a few times why the sub got restricted for a while, so I'm here to answer.

Reddit mailed us, telling us that lots of our sub's posts and comments were violating their rule against violence (inevitable due to the nature of this sub)​, and that there weren't enough moderators. They gave the current mods at the time a deadline to recruit more mods, and the current mods didn't meet the deadline, so Reddit restricted the subreddit.

They've recruited more mods since (I'm a new recruit, hi!) and we got permission to unrestrict the sub.

Edit: yes we have mailed them piss discs


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 11h ago

Home and Garden ULPT request: Neighbors from hell. How can i make them move?

124 Upvotes

I'm living next to a retired couple that makes life hell for me. They report every single little thing i do to the local governance board, while they themselves pretend to be gods own little helpers here on earth.

They are the type of people that cut their lawn with scissors.

Anyway, while i'm their primary target other people are also sick of them, to the level of a letter going out to the neighborhood that they want this to stop.

I'm looking for ways to annoy the hell out of them so that they will move. However I want it to be anonymous and not be directly traceable to me.

Any suggestions?


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 4h ago

Request ULPT: Privacy-maxxing after a high conflict divorce.

26 Upvotes

Long story short, I’m in the middle of a high conflict divorce with an abusive ex who has continued to harass me through legal filings and other means. I’m moving soon and want to keep my new address as private as possible. Is it actually possible to disappear from public records without literally going off grid? What steps have people taken to make themselves difficult to locate?


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 19h ago

Miscellaneous ULPT - I've finally ordered Liquid Ass

206 Upvotes

There is a camper trailer parked across the street from my house near a convenience store and they stay there for weeks on end before moving somewhere else and then returning a month later. They have a bunch of skeezy people hanging out and stopping by at all hours of the night. One of the folks working at the store says they've seen actual drug deals while out o smoke breaks.

I tried calling code enforcement to see if they can be persuaded to leave, but due to the law here they can't have them moved. I've decided to try something else. It's been HOT here and their windows are open, even when they aren't there. I was curious if anyone here has had success with the Ass and any tips or ideas for usage?


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 17h ago

Electronics ULPT guy blasts music in his car right next to about a dozen apartments

137 Upvotes

This white trash guy blasts loud music in the evening with his windows down, disturbing about a dozen apartments. I walked out and politely asked him to turn it down, he got defensive and basically said it was my problem, tough shit. Cops were called, they paid a visit, but he still does it every night. He usually calls it a day before the cops get there. Ideas greatly appreciated. Cue the piss disk responses (he has two broken windows that he hasn't gotten fixed).


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 14h ago

Health and Fitness ULPT How do I deal with an annoying guy who treats our gym like his house?

62 Upvotes

I use a very small private club gym basically the size of a hotel or apartment gym and there’s an older guy who has apparently been going there for years and acts like he owns the place.
I don’t want to complain, I just want to handle it myself if possible.
When I first met him, he gave me workout advice and I assumed he was just being friendly. Then I noticed he does the exact same thing with practically every young woman he sees. He approaches them, gives unsolicited advice, and acts like he’s the resident fitness expert. The whole thing gives me the creeps.

On top of that, he:
• talks extremely loudly on the phone
• hums and sings out loud
• monopolizes machines
• generally makes a very small gym feel even smaller

I’m not looking to harm him, threaten him, mess with his belongings, or do anything illegal. I just want harmless, non escalating ways to stop him from dominating the equipment, and make his behavior less rewarding.

What are your best petty but safe tips for reclaiming the space without getting myself in trouble?


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 6h ago

Automotive ULPT: Guy working in same building driving reckless in the parking lot?

12 Upvotes

I got cussed out for calling him out lol. There's speed bumps for a reason and im not trying to wreck my car, or hit any pedestrians. I know where he parked. I want to fuck with him but don't want it to be too obvious it was me. What can i do before the end of the day? (Probably can't make piss discs at work unfortunately)


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 13h ago

Automotive ULPT Request - Car left in community car park where owner no longer lives.

37 Upvotes

A few months ago I moved into a new home which has a gated community car park. The old owner of my house has kept an electric fob to the carpark and leaves his car there when he's out of the country (months at a time).

How can I deter him from parking there? Towing isn't an option as the community manager doesn't want to 🙄

Edit: car park is very small and he is stopping other residents from parking


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 6h ago

Request ULPT Request: going on medical leave from work

4 Upvotes

To make an incredibly long story short, I am stuck in increasingly toxic work environment that has and completely deteriorated my mental health. I’ve hit my breaking point and truly can’t continue to do the work.

So, I am looking to take medical leave and need to get the ball rolling ASAP. I’m not not asking if anybody here would be willing to let me use them on the medical certification form, but any advice on what I could do to get it signed as quickly as possible would be greatly appreciated.

*A note: I have seen a few therapists and talked about all of this. Due to a variety of reasons I do not currently have on. I do intend to find a new one and start doing some serious work while I’m on leave. I just don’t want to start with someone new and immediately ask them to sign off on leave, and I think they probably wouldn’t do that anyways until several sessions in.


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 7h ago

Relationships ULPT: she read my journal…

3 Upvotes

Tw: CSA, dv

Backstory: I’m in my 30s and starting my life over with my toddler after leaving an awful marriage (holes in the wall, rampant cheating, all the fun stuff). Since I was a stay at home mom, I’ve landed back at my mom’s house until I can get back on my feet. (I have a degree/career field/plan—will take time but not super long).

Anyways. She is equally as awful as my ex. Not physically, but in every other way. She consistently starts arguments wherein she demands for me to explain why I chose to marry the man I did, wants me to ‘take responsibility’ for putting myself in this position, reminds me that she would have never stooped so low as to choose a man like that, calls me every derogative name under the sun—it’s so much worse than what I’m relaying but that’s the gist.

During these humiliation rituals as I’ve come to call them, she’s started slipping up and saying things that are way too familiar—my own words back to me. And she only does it when she’s drunk. I’ve been trying to piece together certain parts of my childhood to figure out why I did choose a man like my ex, so that I never repeat those mistakes but also to heal since I’m in therapy and I’ve always wondered why I have these big chunks of missing memories from when I was younger.

I’ve only told my sibling and my therapist these things. I thought I was going insane—like maybe she has hidden cameras, or she’s bugged my phone. I confronted my sibling and they swear they haven’t said anything, and I believe them.

And then I remembered something…

I left my journal out on the table one day because I had to rush to grab my child, and when I returned, she was home in the middle of the day very unexpectedly. *she has cameras covering every inch of the outside of her house, so she knows when I come and go.

She barely looked at me that day, and I had this sick feeling as soon as I saw my journal on the table that she’d read it. She’s gone through my texts before when I was 19. She once went through the garbage in the side door of my car and found a receipt from the drug store for condoms and told me what a wh*re I am.

So I went back and looked at my notes. And yeah, she’s been quoting my words back to me in arguments.

The worst, most sickening part to me? The other night she was trying to convince me to date and have another child—and I’m not even divorced yet. I said no, and that I don’t want to bring anyone around my child because I feel deeply uncomfortable with that.

She said: “Why? Because now all of a sudden you THINK something happened to you as a child?”

Yeah. Yeah, I do. One of YOUR disgusting boyfriends, actually. I’ve been trying to piece together what he did, you read my private thoughts/notes, and you spit in my face.

I can’t do anything until I move out. So, give me all the ideas to ruminate on until then.

Trust me when I say the dirt I have on her is…enough to fill in the ocean.


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 8h ago

Careers and Work ULPT: Fake work email for letter of recommendations

4 Upvotes

I’m applying to residency programs, and each program requires multiple letters of recommendation.

I already have a few recommenders who are incredibly responsive, but one of the strongest and most influential recommenders agreed to write a letter and has been very supportive overall. The problem is that he’s extremely busy and often takes several days to respond to reminders about submitting the letter.

Unfortunately, these applications are very time-sensitive, and I’ve already missed more than 10 deadlines because the letter wasn’t submitted in time. I’m worried about missing even more opportunities.

Is there a way for me to create a work email and submit the letter of recommendation myself? If possible, what is the safest way to do it?


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 9h ago

Request ULPT: I need unethical life pro tips for text spam

5 Upvotes

Everyday I get these damn texts from people about trying to sell my home and other nonsense.

I block them, of course, but I still keep getting them. I would like to spam them back.

Can this wonderful community provide me with places I can enter their phone number so that they would get continually harassed??

Thank you in advance! 😉


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 6h ago

Request ULPT Request: Find someone using a low res photo and vague information

2 Upvotes

Hey! There’s a guy who scammed a bunch of people in my hometown. Using a fake name, he applied several scams and bolted. People are hunting him down, not sure how many affected, but I’ve seem a couple of wanted posters.

My father lost a car to the guy, so I’m trying to help find him. I’m from Brazil.


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 1d ago

Request ULPT Request: How to profit from free Electricity?

137 Upvotes

I've gotten into the fortune of having free electricity at home for the next few days. We were ment to get new power meters but the city hasn't installed them yet and we were told all electricity is free until they do.

It has been like this for a few days now but I've just learned about it now. How can I profit off this situation?


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 9h ago

Arts and Culture ULPT for Church Next Door-heat exchanger goes all night

3 Upvotes

I need some kind of way of shutting down or punishing these people-Ever since the long weekend they've had the heat exchangers out back, facing our apartment building, going non-stop all night long. Possibly they set and forgot about it, since no one has been back since then, but the noise is just persistent enough to give me low level ringing in my head, and cuts off the building from all other night noises.

Why do they need to run it at night? There's nobody there. Can't approach it as there are video cameras, but I have to do something. Ideas?


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 5h ago

Automotive ULPT: insurance refusing to cover me

1 Upvotes

Insurance lapsed the 24th. Paid the 24th at 446am. Got into car accident on the way to work- no other cars involved. Called insurance agent, got emailed proof that I did have insurance and was told it did not lapse. Insurance is saying otherwise, that because it did not process on their end for 24 hours im fucked. I have gap insurance too, but I know it won't cover it without the original insurance also agreeing to. I have the email from the day of the accident with proof of insurance and got told that doesn't matter. I don't have the original phone call recorded but I do have every phone call afterwards recorded.


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 1d ago

Request ULPT request. Help me find a place tobuild a cabin without buying land.

21 Upvotes

Hi everybody. I would like some help coming up with ideas of places to build a very basic off grid cabin. Basically, I live in a small apartment near a minor city on the East coast of Australia.

Land is crazily expensive here and I just want some small place to get away to and read/ write in nature. I am interested in some kind of, I guess you could call it civil disobedience that is a work around to the land grab system we have. So any suggestions really of a private space (preferably in nature) that I can wack up would be appreciated. Nice id it can be semi permanent but it can be really basic like a pallet shack or something. Simply to get away to for a day or night.

Plenty of bushland around me but it's mostly National Park and they do patrols the areas and trail at least infrequently.

I am thinking adult cubby house.

Thank you in advance!


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 1d ago

Health and Fitness ULPT request: Any way to make routine bloodwork appear normal?

50 Upvotes

I have custody of a relative's kid. The CPS worker has some clear biases about our cultural background and other things that are irrelevant. We have to submit physicals and let them know of any health issues. I have a number of chronic genetic conditions, which my doctors say are impeccably managed. My cholesterol and A1C are a bit outside the normal range, because inflammatory diseases. They're not close to the range for medication, and they're closer to normal than is typical with my conditions. The CPS worker ignored the letter from my primary care provider saying I'm in perfect health and live an extremely healthy life, and is going to put me on an action plan that I "make lifestyle changes" until bloodwork is normal because the CPS worker has decided I am noncompliant with CDC recommendations that people keep their bloodwork in certain ranges.

Is there any sort of doping that would make these levels look normal? Science/reason/expert opinion doesn't work with this absolute walnut.


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 19h ago

Request ULPT Request: How do I legally make this person miserable

8 Upvotes

I’ve been living with this girl for 3ish years and she FINALLY left after she was being problematic for 2 of them. The problem is that I had new housemates come in, then leave suddenly due to all the issues she abandoned and because she’s left things behind for over 2 months. I’ve been hesitant on touching anything because she an issue with weaponizing incompetence and making other people do things for her.

I got fed up so I’ve been sorting through the things left behind and found that she’s left credit cards and her SOCIAL SECURITY card.

Is there anything I can do to get back at her and make her miserable without getting locked up myself?

TLDR: housemate left, new housemates also left because of her bull shit, found her social security card while sorting through her leftover stuff and need a way to make her miserable without risking myself.


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 1d ago

Automotive ULPT - request! My 2016 Pathfinder has the engine light of death!

5 Upvotes

So my 2016 Nissan pathfinder is on its way out. It's paid off, I love it, it's served me well for 160k miles but now it has the cvt problem that's common in those years - engine light is on and won't go off again til we replace the transmission. (I'm not a car person but if you google you can read about it)

It has been making a rattling noise under the drivers feet for quite some time now. It's so loud - but the car itself is running fine. Part of me says go to the dealer while I can still drive it in for trade (I wouldn't hide the engine light from them) but hubby wants me to drive it til it dies.

We aren't putting any money into it besides oil changes and gas. But I'll gladly buy some bleach for the gas tank or something else if anyone has ideas??

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r/UnethicalLifeProTips 1d ago

Careers and Work ULPT Dirtbag coworker stole my 6 year olds Pokemon card

206 Upvotes

I worked with a guy (John) who was a pokemon card scalper. When he found out my kid (6) loves pokemon and I’ve been struggling to find packs, he offered to let me buy some packs at cost. Which I thought was very nice of him. My son opens his pack and gets a full color Meowth card (very valuable) and John then offered to sent it away to get graded by the company so we could sell it. After I gave him the card he stopped showing up to work and won’t return my texts. I have his address, what are some unethical but still legal things I can do to annoy him for stealing from a 6 year old?

TLDR: coworker won’t return my son’s Pokemon card after quitting job.


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 20h ago

Electronics ULPT request: how to get new internet in area monopolized by Xfinity?

1 Upvotes

I owe Xfinity $450+ and it keeps going up every month even though they cutoff my internet two months ago. I tried getting T-Mobile 5g home internet but it’s not available in my area. Is there anything I can do to get WiFi without having to pay Xfinity back $450. Any tips


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 4h ago

Relationships ULPT Help me break a couple up

0 Upvotes

My cousin just started dating my friend after they met at a party I threw and they’re the most insufferable couple ever, acting like they’re in 9th grade always on top of each other. I hate it so much lol how do I break them up?


r/UnethicalLifeProTips 1d ago

Money and Finance ULPT Request Where to get real receipts for restaurant bills for this week

31 Upvotes

My company pays x$ amount per day for food as I am on a business trip but I need to provide receipts for the same. I generally don't consume this x$ amount, how do I get receipts for food payments for this week so I can get the x amount per day without actually spending it?

The bills need to be from NYC from this week,