Tips you read in magazines years ago that you swear by to this day

[AtomicBlondeRose]

I was just getting a glass of water before bed and had a few mouthfuls when I remembered reading in a magazine, circa 1997, that Kate Moss said that after a night out, you should have at least one big gulp of water for every alcoholic drink you had that night. And honestly I still try and do that today! I have had hangovers since 1997 though so I can’t swear it works but I think of it every time.

What gems of wisdom have you acquired from magazines and never forgot?

Literally came to post this @Mangotango39 🤣 seals the follicle or something?!

To put sunscreen on my face every day to prevent wrinkles.

I started doing this 30 years ago, people thought it was a bit strange then!

I've said this before.

One of the things I brought back from a holiday was a rosary for each of my parents. They were made of string with knots instead of beads.

My mother said, "These are good to keep in your purse, i case of an emergency".

I can think of times when you could need a knife, a rope, a parachute even, but emergency rosary beads?

Take a four gang extension lead on holiday. Absolute game changer.

@AutumnCrow this hurt my book loving heart 🤣🤣🤣

@ToriTheStoryteller oh my gosh More! I loved that magazine and bought it weekly. The position of the week was so funny.

Wine makers - use a fork to remove all those tiny elderberries from the stems.

Throw a piece of spaghetti at the wall. If it sticks, it's ready.

if you need to get rid of a large white goods item, put it on the pavement outside your house with a sign on it: “For Sale - £40”.
It will disappear overnight.

Use a 10p size blob of shampoo and 50p size blob of conditioner. Of course these now need to be translated to 90s-sized money.

Save money on expensive binoculars by simply moving closer to the item you wish to view.

That was a genuine lol moment 😂😆

My puppy did that for me. Amazingly she only tore out the pages I had read. Unfortunately, I couldn’t reuse those pages as she had chewed them into a thousand pieces. This was 15 years ago and she’s in doggy heaven now. She was an amazing dog. 🐾

Another viz one
Save money on buying an address book.
Simply get the local phone book and cross out all the people you don’t know

Want a personalised number plate, but it’s too expensive? Change your name by deed poll to your car’s number plate.

Drink 2 glasses of water before every meal. You get fuller much faster.

Still lolling at this 😂

The Viz tips are superb, what a great thread 🍿

Is the emergency the unironed handkerchief?

I can only imagine you haven't realised this because you've never been in the precarious situation of being just about to go out and discovering your handkerchief is unironed!

However, thankfully if you found yourself in this situation you realise you actually know the highly random! quick fix to damp it and put it on a mirror.

Never use soap on your face. Cleanse, tone and moisturise daily and drink lots of water. Read this in Jackie when I was 13 and have been doing it without fail ever since. I'm a few weeks shy of 50 but most people assume I'm early 40s because my skin is in really good nick.