Important tips we might not know.

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There are social tariffs for broadband and water if your on some benefits.
If you have Plantar Facilitis a Cortisone injection can be given free at the doctors and helps relieve the pain.
Tell us something we might not know that can help us?

The reason graves of murder victims are often located is because they are levelled flat t hide them, and as the body and the earth sinks the shape of the grave can be seen. If you look at a recent burial in a churchyard, it'll have a mound of earth over it to allow for the sinking - and that mound of course would give away the grave of a murder victim.

So yes, good idea from your DD. Except you'd have to make sure the grave was deep enough and murderers don't always have the luxury of enough time to do that. Let alone kill an animal as well.

Never thought about that.

Never buy lilies for someone who has a cat.

Lots of plants are not great for cats, but most of the time they will just take one bite, spit it out, and survive. What makes lilies so much more dangerous is that they can walk past a vase, get pollen on their coat, lick if off and even a tiny amount is deadly.

The vast majority of florists will do a 'cat safe' or 'no lily' bouquet if asked. 😊

Dress your kids predominantly in bright colours and crazy patterns and they're easier to locate in the playground too

If you have a universal footmuff for your buggy and you're fed up of it forever slipping down, clip some of those plastic bag seals to the harness and slide to the base of it so that it pins the footmuff in place.

Since the bear tips are so popular on here, here are the REAL arctic bear tips you all need (misses point of thread entirely!) But I have been in the Arctic, all over it in fact. Honestly, I really have......

Of all the bears, the white ones are the most dangerous. Y'know, the polar ones.
All the other bears generally attack when surprised/defending young. Polar bears actively hunt humans if they're hungry, very few other animals will.

If you're off to the Arctic on holiday, you'll only meet those white bears in Greenland, Arctic Canada/Alaska or Svalbard. Taking the kids to Lapland might be the Arctic Circle but trust me, you won't meet any wild polar bears. They don't live that far south in the wild.

You will never outrun a polar bear. Your huskies might scare it. You are better trying to scare it while it is still far away - loud noise or shooting your gun in the air. You can only actually shoot a polar bear if it's about to eat you as it's a protected species. And if you kill it and save your own life, there'll still have to be an inquisition....that's for the polar bear, not you.

Do NOT eat any part of your shot polar bear. It is highly carcinogenic. The Inuit hunters in Greenland and Canada (who can apply for licences and quotas to kill polar bears as part of their indigenous cultural rights) have to boil the meat for 9 hours before they can eat it. This is due to modern pollution which gets into the food chain and builds up in polar bear meat, it never used to be this way...

In Svalbard there are 1800 people and 3000 polar bears. It is therefore law that you cannot leave Longyearbyen (main town) without carrying a gun or being with someone carrying a gun as protection.
You will also learn to carry flares in your belt to frighten the bears away.
TOP TIP: ALAWAYS aim your flare at the bear's feet; amateurs aim their flare without thinking....it flies over the bear and lands the other side of it, and makes the scared bear run towards you instead of away from you. Typical newbie mistake!!

Sorry that was long.....but so many people don't seem to have proper white bear experience these days!!

This made me laugh out loud

When you go out for the day with family always agree a place to meet up if you get lost.

that's the best and most useful information i have ever ever seen on mumsnet and i think you should get some kind of award

the bear stuff !!!

If you work for the NHS, there is a simple online form you can complete to nominate an unmarried partner as the beneficiary for your pension if you die.

I'm someone that gives cortisone injections in a hospital. Most GPs do not have the training/experience to do this (it's not a standard part of GP training).

My self defence instructor also told me the nose picking trick. He also said if an attacker comes up behind you and tries to pull you backward, don't resist or pull forward against them. Instead run backwards towards the way they are pulling. They will not expect this and will fall back with their own momentum giving you a chance to escape.

Same for Local Government.

We use clothes pegs for much the same purpose, cheap and easy to get hold of in quantity too.

Get a crochet hook as a general household tool for threading anything through anything, even if you don’t crochet. Our last ‘exotic’ use was to pull electrical wire through a cavity. My dh has nicked mine for bike cables in the past. I have to search for them everywhere when I want them!

@MeanderingGently Very useful information. Thank you.

If buying something from AO, say ‘no thanks’ to their offer to take away your old appliance for £50. They will then just offer to take it for free instead.

This one is slightly gross but useful.

if you have a kid for whom you often need to use wet soapy tissue to wipe their bum or it doesn't get clean enough, keep a ziplo with toilet paper soaksd in baby oil in your bag for when you're out and in a cubicle with no sink. Poo clings to the baby oil on the tissue and works a treat, plus can be flushed, unlike wipes.

I like the cut of your jib, answering my bear question and being a fan of the binturong.

He also said if an attacker comes up behind you and tries to pull you backward, don't resist or pull forward against them

Also do not attempt to knee an attacker in the groin, as they can grab your leg and tip you over.

😂😂😂 Genius

If you have a pair of shoes that are starting to hurt, a sanitary towel works as well as a comfort insole.
It's as well as I saw this thread you know, as there I was fancying some bear liver for dinner....

I thought it’s “a shark will only attack you as it thinks your a seal, once it realises your not it will let go!”

My doctor gave me one and it's relieved the pain. She told me she has given out quite a few.

Also it's a small target which you can easily miss which will make no difference at all.

Try kneeing hard on the outside of the leg a few inches above the knee cap. It will give them a dead leg. In fact you don't even need to do it that hard, as my DH found it when I was showing him my new moves 😀