Tips/hacks that just dont work for you

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Another failure has inspired me to start this thread! Just tried heating dinner plates by keeping them in hot water..just got a slightly warm plate for the first few seconds, yet I always read this tip around Christmas time.

White vinegar and dish soap to attract and kill little black flies - nope

Bicarb of soda in boiling water to give extra crisp roasties - no discernible difference!

Getting a bit of eggshell out using a bigger piece - nope!

PuppyMonkey · Today 17:52

Using baking powder to clean my thermos flask - does absolutely bugger all.

Alka Seltzer may do it, I found out that it cleaned the stubborn tea stains off my favourite cup. I tried with my stainless flask and forgot about it. It was much cleaner the following day.

If you cannot get motivated to exercise, just take the first step and put your trainers on...
Even in the old days when you wouldnt have worn trainers every day of the week, who the hell was this working for??

😂😂

Similary..”putting on matching underwear makes you feel better”..eh? What is this matching underwear of which they speak?

Ditto to the inside-out duvet cover changing. The only way I can do it on my own (a king and a super king) is with a set of giant plastic clothes pegs - fasten two bottom duvet corners into cover with pegs, fasten the top two, give a really good shake, button it, bingo.

It must be a heavy tog, oh and I have one each and I can fit them both in. Ones 7 and the other 3.5

Have you tried using Milton tablets?

DH tried to defrost my car with a food bag full of warm water.
It melted the ice which hardened again instantly.
Made it worse.

I agree!! Basically it was an activity to pass the time before the hiccups went naturally.
Actually I came across something that I have found does work, for me: a tiny tiny taste of vinegar, almost just a smell of it, not a teaspoon or even a sip, just a tiny bit, say, on the pad of your little finger: works! Tried it once, brilliant, tried again didn't work but realised I was taking a sip, so tried again with the tiniest amount (a drop smaller than the size of a ladybird): worked!

As in, it's a fantasy which happens when you are asleep but isn't there in real life?

I think we are twins separated at birth!😂

I came on to say this - all it did was dye the limescale pale brown. 🤮

The dishwasher tablet tip must be made up by Finish tablet makers to sell more product…just doesn’t bloody work!

I agree with the batch cooking.

Batch-anything actually. I’ve concluded that doing something boring for 5 minutes here and there is much better than doing something boring over and over again, for a long time.

Another one here who has never got fizzy coke to clean anything. No shiny gold pound coins for me.

I never make sandwiches the night before. If I do, they are either soggy or dry and unappealing. I have been known to just keep a loaf of bread and jar of peanut butter in the drawer of the desk and make lunch in the office at lunchtime....

You want a strong solution of soda crystals in very hot water - leave overnight - it's witchcraft - all the stains will just rinse out.

Also works on teacups and teaspoons.

The cola does stain the loo limescale brown, which does eventually clean it.

Because it's now sodding brown and looks like 💩so you work that much harder to scrub it off

I've got a vommy cat. I get up the solids (bleurgh), spray with diluted carpet shampoo (50% shampoo/50% water) then scrub the carpet with a cheapo washing-up brush (kept specifically for cat sick stains, of course)..... works every time!

Anything with coke here too- never cleaned anything for me! Also once saw a tik tok that said to use shaving foam to use your bath and toilet- like someone said above, only worked because then you have to clean forever to get the scum it leaves off!! Disgusting!!!!

Glad to have met so many kindred spirits!

I sometimes use denture cleaning tablets for tea stains etc. If it’s good enough to clean my DD’s retainer. Also cleaning a thermos. Cheap as chips in places like Savers.
Nancy Birtwhistle was reminding people about the bi carb and vinegar doing absolutely nothing!

Will read the thread in a sec but using honey, water and dishsoap in a ramekin covered with cling film, pieced with little holes is amazing for catching flies.

Probably been said several times already on the thread but my memory isn't great and I'll forget to share.

The most crazy useless hack I ever saw was a woman who was spreading peanut butter on clingfilm and freezing it in slices and then when she wanted to make a peanut butter sandwich she peeled a frozen slice off the clingfilm. But it literally takes 10 seconds to spread the peanut butter directly on the bread!!

Hacks that work-

Hiccups- hold your nose and drink a pint of water

Cramp- gargle with a tablespoon of vinegar. I promise it works but probably won’t do your teeth much good so prob only do it if you can’t walk it off!

Pudmyboy · Today 19:18

a drop smaller than the size of a ladybird

I hope the papers take this up as another standard measure, alongside a London bus, an Olympic swimming pool and Wales!

Spraying white vinegar and bicarb on stuff to make it stop smelling. It always just smells like vinegar.

Getting whites super white and stain free by handing them on the washing line on a sunny day. The sun has never helped make my whites whiter. Dry fast? yes. Be whiter and get rid of stains? No.