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Advice please! More random the better

127 replies

HeidiHoNeighbour · 23/03/2021 15:43

I’m bored and waiting for a delivery

Give me some advice on anything and everything.
Please so bored....

OP posts:
DahliaMacNamara · 23/03/2021 23:45

If you can't get to sleep, set your brain to work on trying to recall the names of old classmates/colleagues/your auntie's next door neighbour's children, but be sure to pick a group that won't trigger seething memories of how bloody awful they were to you. You want to divert your thoughts, not give yourself a stroke.

Gobbeldegook · 23/03/2021 23:50

Sunlight removes red stains like magic

Happenchance · 23/03/2021 23:51

Listen to Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen.

noodledoodler · 23/03/2021 23:51

LOVE this thread. Oh and don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work

areyoumeop · 24/03/2021 00:05

If it is dark outside and light inside people can see into your bedroom so shut your curtains

Returnoftheowl · 24/03/2021 00:07

Put a metal kebab skew through the middle of a jacket potato then put it in the oven... Cooks in half the time.

OzziePopPop · 24/03/2021 00:21

Don’t do drugs, mmmmmkay!

ByeByeMissAmericanPie · 24/03/2021 00:32

Empty out the bottom draw of the dishwasher first, once the cycle has finished.

Sockmonkeysloth · 24/03/2021 00:35

@MrsMoastyToasty

You cannot fall off the floor.
I bloody can...
2late2fixate · 24/03/2021 00:49

When everything feels a bit rubbish, watch Dean and Nala on YouTube 💕

ViciousJackdaw · 24/03/2021 00:59

If ever faced with a loose, angry ape, crouch down, bow your head and extend your arm with your palm facing upwards and cupped. Don't show your teeth and do not look it in the eye.

Stichintime · 24/03/2021 00:59

Common sense is not common.

If you cant sleep open your eyes wide, count to 4, close eyes repeat, open eyes repeat. Should feel eye lids getting heavy.
If you need to wake someone up touch them along their collar bone.

SeaToSki · 24/03/2021 01:11

The 80:20 rule

20 % of the effort gets you 80% of the result and the last 80% of you effort only gets you 20% of the result.

So for most things its sensible to stop when its 80% complete.

Landing a plane does NOT fit into this category

Wendyhause · 24/03/2021 01:18

If you see a nun approaching in the street never start walking like a penguin.
If the young man at the checkout in Asda asks what you have planned for the rest of the day just say "am off to my pole dancing class then calling in to my boyfriend's place for a quick shag."

Fromage · 24/03/2021 01:34

@ViciousJackdaw I think we've all learnt that one the hard way.

We used to have a cat called Paisley and I lament not getting a carpet to match his name, at least. Stripey ginger carpets being hard to come by, even in the 1980s.

Fromage · 24/03/2021 01:37

If you see a penguin approaching you can, however, walk like a nun. Penguins don't give a shit.

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 24/03/2021 18:12

To remove spilled wax from soft furnishings use blotting paper and an iron. Do not try and substitute toilet roll.

If you cook like me, locate the smoke alarm well away from your kitchen. A timer works better and will not alert the fire brigade.

Terriers can climb.

Never read the side effects warnings.

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 24/03/2021 18:14

@Wendyhause

If you see a nun approaching in the street never start walking like a penguin. If the young man at the checkout in Asda asks what you have planned for the rest of the day just say "am off to my pole dancing class then calling in to my boyfriend's place for a quick shag."
😂😂😂
OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 24/03/2021 18:21

Do not hoover out your bird cage with the budgie still in it.

budgie was recovered and went on to live a long and healthy life

LadyOfTheCanyon · 24/03/2021 18:35

Sage advice

Advice please! More random the better
bellabride · 24/03/2021 19:56

More people are flattered into virtue than are bullied out of vice.

AmberItsACertainty · 24/03/2021 21:40

@OnceUponAMidnightBeery

Do not hoover out your bird cage with the budgie still in it.

budgie was recovered and went on to live a long and healthy life

😂😂
MargaretThursday · 24/03/2021 23:08

@OnceUponAMidnightBeery

Do not hoover out your bird cage with the budgie still in it.

budgie was recovered and went on to live a long and healthy life

If ds seems this post he'll be throwing our hoover away.
AnneTwackie · 24/03/2021 23:22

@Fromage love this!

CatsHairEverywhere · 25/03/2021 07:38

Make sure your cat is a different colour to your carpet.

And your sofa.

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