r/AskReddit • u/Previous-Ad3911 • 5d ago

You can have 5000 of anything that starts with Y. What do you choose?

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u/Humble-Ad-7170 5d ago edited 4d ago

Yesterdays. I wish I can get back 5,000 days of my life

Edit: Holy shit!! This comment went crazy!!! Thank you guys for all the positive responses. And to the people who berated and hated. I hope you find peace lol jeez

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u/Addendum709 5d ago

Fun fact: 5000 days ago will take you back to October 17, 2010

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u/Stewieman123 5d ago

Thank you- 2010 was the perfect year

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u/Entropic_Alloy 5d ago

Middle of college. Perfect opportunity to turn it all around...

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 5d ago

I’d end up just doing what I did back then in college. Just sit around getting stoned and playing video games lol.

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u/nerevisigoth 5d ago

Yeah but you'd also buy a bunch of Bitcoin for like 3 cents and be set for life.

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u/terminatoreagle 4d ago

I wouldn't be able to buy bitcoin since I was 9 then.

Maybe if I could convince my parents to buy some...

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u/LastChans1 4d ago

Mom, Dad, really; it'll be the cheapest birthday gift by far. For my 10th birthday, just 10 dollars of Bitcoin.

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u/Woemmmer 4d ago

Reminds me of this story about this kid who asked his parents to buy him bitcoins for his birthday present and ended up getting a skateboard... (I forgot the full story, but it was probably somewhere in a random Instagram comment 😂)

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u/TiredRightNowALot 4d ago

Back then you sure could. Localbitcoin.com

All you’d have to do is grab some cash, set up a meeting and then show up to the location with cash, have that shady character off the internet take your money and hope that they sent it to your wallet.

Crypto was a wee bit different back then.

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u/Lord-Lobster 4d ago

Just don‘t pay a pizza with

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u/Entropic_Alloy 5d ago

If I could back, it'd be early in my junior year. But I'd probably switch majors and actually buckle the fuck down instead of barely skirting by. I'd also do the obvious investments, because I'd need another year and I'd rather not put that burden on my parents. And I could help my sister more with her own college. Also, having 14 more years to get in shape and learn more skills in my prime would be so nice.

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 5d ago

That’s probably a far better use of time travel. In October of 2010, I would have been a sophomore. Not the worst year but I could have definitely worked harder and did a lot more.

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u/Spare-Sky1322 4d ago

so Tuesday.....

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u/SirHovaOfBrooklyn 5d ago

Man, i'm suddenly feeling nostalgic for my college years. 2010 still feels so fresh in my mind.

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u/Fragrant_Tangerine61 5d ago

Damn I was 10 😭

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u/Entropic_Alloy 5d ago

I'm a fossil.

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u/Fragrant_Tangerine61 5d ago

HAHAHA

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u/II-lI 5d ago

I was 6! Right before my family had a big move

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u/ukiyo__e 5d ago

I was also 6! 2004? December for me.

edit: I was technically 5 in October :)

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u/rckid13 4d ago

It's kind of crazy to me that there are people well established in their careers right now who have never been of working age in a recession. Both the 2001 and 2008 recessions really messed with my career progression.

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u/ChriSaito 5d ago

I was 14. I think I’d be okay starting back from there with what I know today. It would be a struggle but less of one than I have today.

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u/boltzmannman 4d ago

If I could go back to being 10 with all I've learned now I would have done so much differently

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u/thecursedcoffee 5d ago

Part of me thinks I could go back and buy a fuck ton of bitcoin so I’d be set for life.

The other part of me knows I would never mentally survive secondary school and university all over again. I would most definitely eat a bullet over doing that again.

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u/HrLewakaasSenior 4d ago

If you're a Bitcoin gazillionaire, maybe you don't need to. Buy a mansion or five and just enjoy your uneducated life lol

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u/max_power1000 4d ago

You still have to ride out a decade of life before you dump it all in late 2020. granted, the 2010s were a pretty awesome decade all things considered. Also, don't forget to buy a good amount of ethereum in mid-2018 too after the crash.

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u/TheGauchoAmigo84 5d ago

Yes, 2010 was the middle of college. Perfect.

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u/ThePubening 5d ago

Yep, I was twenty. I wish I did career/ education differently, but my personal life was great from the end of that year on.

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u/IPlayTeemoSupport 5d ago

... And make it worse

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u/OldSpiceSmellsNice 4d ago

14 days after meeting my ex. Same!!

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u/Low-Classroom-1530 4d ago

You could turn it all around now… just a thought

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u/F1_Legend 4d ago

Or just give up and buy bitcoin from the money saved.

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u/Canopenerdude 4d ago

It was a month before I met my wife. Id be too stressed about not fucking it up.

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u/max_power1000 4d ago

I could undo a good number of poor career choices. Granted, it would be before my kids were born too, but most of the damage had already been done at that point. I'd be devastated initially, but I think I could deal with different kids given what I could do with the rest of my life career and finance-wise.

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u/superdooperdutch 4d ago

I would have just graduated high school! Oh the things I'd have done differently..