I go through stuff and set aside in boxes anything that I think might be useful, but I don’t really want or need. This brings that item into my mind, the same way throwing it out does. I label the boxes with the date, and either donate or trash, and put stuff in accordingly.

If a box sits unopened for 6 months, I toss it or donate it without opening it and seeing what’s inside. If I open a box to use something, I put the new date on it and reset the clock.

Then there’s no pain from actually getting rid of stuff. There’s no “man I just threw that out!” regret.

[+] itsnotits -8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you'd* better believe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

How does "had" add anything? how does one "had better." how is that grammar, how is it semantically useful. Its just an extra verb someone decided sounded good in middle english that weve been lugging around all this time. Its also not the correct tense for that sentence; for the future perfect tense in which the sentence was written, shouldnt it be "you've better?" or perhaps "you will have better?" even that isn't grammar though, and it doesn't actually semantically mean "you would be better to believe..." which is what both "you better" and "you'd better" are intended to be understood as. In my opinion.

tl;dr:

you* better believe

[–] feedum_sneedson 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's more of a collocation, with the implication being "you'd better believe it (or else)". But it's not obligatory, I agree. More of a variant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Huh. Yeah, I guess "or else" makes more sense than "would be better."