diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
deleted file mode 100644
index 20b2e56beb..0000000000
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "stylesheets/snippets"]
-	path = stylesheets/snippets
-	url = git://github.com/lenon/Sass-Snippets.git
diff --git a/README b/README
index 1f34bacf9e..382ab7d643 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Add git-achievements to your path and alias git to git-achievements
 
 For example add the following to the end of your ~/.bash_profile
 
-export PATH="$PATH:~/git/git-achievements"
+export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/git/git-achievements"
 alias git="git-achievements"
 
 You can get your first achievement by running