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LPT: Send all your loved ones to voicemail.

No problem! Also, if you need a program to play the audio file on the computer, I typically recommend VLC media player. It's open source/free, and works with a ton of different audio/video files

THANK YOU!! wish i could pin this for others, because others have expressed their sadness after losing voicemails of loved ones.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-permanently-save-voicemails-in-ios-and-android/

This website has the steps to move voicemails to local storage on your phone, whether it's iOS or Android. Once you've done that you can just back them up to a thumb drive using a computer & a USB cable!

this is inspiring to record a video of my mom. saying happy birthday merry christmas, and maybe even a future video for her grandchildren if i ever decide to have kids. even if she’s out of it, i think ill still cherish the moments.

god, the small things become so important down the road. thank you for sharing

For years I held on to my dads last text to me. And his last voicemail. Then I had to switch phones once and everything backed up except texts and voicemails. All gone. Bums me out when I think about it. After he died, I found some old vhs tapes that I think contain home videos. I haven’t been able to watch them yet. Mom died 10 years before and I haven’t heard her voice since. I may be ready to see the videos one day, but not yet.

what did you use to back them up? i’d like to do this! i don’t have extra income to pay some monthly service, tho.

Will add to this: Backup your voicemails to a secondary or even tertiary location. Voicemails on mobile devices are saved by default to cloud storage. When my wife & I changed carriers from Verizon to Cricket we hadn't saved her voicemails, and Verizon deleted those voicemails immediately after we changed providers, so my wife lost her voicemails, including ones from several close relatives who had passed.

They could just not be showing you their weirdness, but if not I guess that lack of personality is pretty weird in itself.

>just wipe out your dick

Main character, "Everyone at school thinks I'm a freak.I just want to be normal."

Sassy old grandpa before he dies in a later scene, "Being normal is over rated."

IF you are not actively or passively harming anyone with your weirdness (physical, mental, or emotionally) then your weirdness is perfectly fine.

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#StayWeird

aw, thank you for sharing. a sudden death is so tragic in so many ways. my moms slow long death is hard, but at least i can be there for the slow decline.

❤️you’ll see her again, eventually ❤️

Actually not how social interaction works.

Are they comfortable with that?

Are they a captive audience while you are making them uncomfortable for reasons out of their control?

You saying I’ll be how I want totally disregards that the other person is meeting you on an agreed social interaction level but you are disrespecting that, in this case purposefully. There is PLENTY of room to be yourself.

If your weirdness infringes on the liberty and enjoyment of others though. Please stop with it immediately.

Every time I read this kind of "encouragement" I have to think: "Oh great! Finally, someone who gets it! Let's go out and abduct some people to turn them into my genetically enhanced cat girls with which I gonna take over the world!"

thanking of your father, i hope it gets easier for you. my mom hasn’t even passed and i’m a M E S S.

After my mother died suddenly, months later I found an voicemail telling me she’d gone home, and “if you need me, I’ll be home.” I saved it everywhere I could. I can hear it in my head whenever I miss her. One day I’ll meet her at home.

Can confirm. I have recordings of my father who passed in August that I'll likely forever cherish.

Wound is still fresh on this one but I'm thankful to have messages from him saying hi before he went downhill.

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If they don't want me to pronounce it like fake aide they shouldnt spell it that way

Everyone is weird or boring*

So my last bottle of whiskey was 14 hours of work.

And it's still in the box!