To ask what the most BRILLIANT advice/suggestion you've seen on here is?

[SpikySausage]

Inspired by the other thread with a similar title!

Maybe not advice/suggestion as such, but I wouldn't have got my Mirena coil had I not been persuaded by the balance of views on here and enough positive feedback that it could work out well. It has been lifechanging, I wish I had done it 20 years ago, I could have avoided years of pain.

My new one is tretinoin. It's only been a few weeks but I already think I will be using this for the rest of my life. Why have I spent so much money on expensive and less efficacious creams?

Without wanting to control the direction of the thread, I wasn't thinking of LTB type advice. More immediately implementable things that someone could try today! (Although MN has definitely educated me in matters such as 'the script', narcissism, emotional abuse, and trans/gender critical matters!)

The one that sticks out for me is someone helpfully pointing out that if you have a king size or super king bed then the duvet goes ACROSS the bed horizontally, rather than vertically (if that makes sense).

I am ashamed to admit I've spent roughly 30 years with a superking bed, assuming that the stitching on the duvet ran from head to foot and grumbling that my duvet never fitted properly inside the cover.

Turning the duvet 90 degrees inside it's cover was life changing!

See a mortgage broker. I had spent years faffing around with this and that doing my own mortgage with the bank, now I just get all the options presented to me, choose one and somebody else does all the faffing about!"

Those pins to keep a king sized duvet in place inside the cover.

To use a spoon not a knife to remove avocado stones and also the flesh from the skin rather than trying to peel it. Saved me from many middle class injuries since I found that one as I am clumsy and on blood thinners.

Citronella tea lights by the back door to reduce the number of flying bastards trying to enter the house in summer.

@SpikySausagei thought that about tret. Developed an allergy to it after 6 months. Devastating.

@Sunseeker83 noooo! What a blow.

Where do you get your tretinoin please OP?

It was the breastfeeding advice for me. I didn't think I'd be able to breastfeed after my daughter spent her first two weeks in NICU. The NCT advice was useless and the hospital support was okay but only available on certain days/times. I often feel I'm living in a different universe to most Mumsnet posters and always seem to be going against the grain opinions wise but I'll always be grateful for the advice back then.

Silver wrapping paper for all occasions (birthday, Christmas, wedding etc). Always keep a stash in the house.

I always say this on this type of thread .... the phrase I first heard from here ; 'Not my circus, not my monkeys'. Literally changed my life. I always got absorbed into other peoples dramas out of people pleasing and wanting to be a good friend; daughter; colleague. Now I just don't allow myself to get involved. This has been particularly useful in trying to negotiate my way through the very difficult relationship through my mother- aged 75 and my aunt aged 85.

I can't remember anything brilliant but I often adopt ideas. Someone here suggested putting a paint roller onto the broom handle to paint high ceilings. I did exactly that. A long time ago I read about soda crystals here and have used them ever since, in fact I bulk buy.

I'm sure there are more.

@forrestfrankfan I'm trying skin + me and dermatica - I scoured posts on here and couldn't determine which people prefer, seemed to be personal. However, I haven't started the dermatica yet as they sent me 0.025 from the outset, which is much stronger than skin + me start you on, and even that is giving me some redness. But I'm open minded to switching, think I'll start trying the dermatica from next month. Prefer the skin + me presentation/packaging etc and the simplicity of their very limited other products. Dermatica is marginally cheaper but I'm not phased by the cost of skin + me, seems pretty good value considering you can't use all the other expensive products alongside. E.g. it saved me c£60 replacing my Sunday Riley Good Genes this week as they would be too much used together.

OOh! Similar- the gift cupboard. Buy in the sales and throughout the year. Last year it saved me hundreds of pounds.

that chatgpt can give alot more refined answers rather than half of mumsnet suggestions

to edit : chatgpt was suggested by others and when i tried it i was hooked

@hatty65 do you mean you put the duvet in the cover horizontally ?

@Flytrap01 chatgpt is quite helpful on the subject of skincare as it turns out, but ultimately it won't really give an opinion or any real feedback (as you'd expect, given it doesn't have skin or a face).

I first read about Mounjaro on here. Ten months and over four stone later, it's the best thing I've done.

I was introduced to the pick-me dance on here - if I'd known about that when I was much younger, my life would have been very different. I was also introduced to the concept of hysterical bonding, which absolutely blew my mind. Both of these things were happening to me over the years (same guy) and I truly believed that a lot of sex after the discovery of infidelity meant we were made for each other.

The relationships forum would have been life-changing for me years ago. I think just writing out the problem would have made me realise what an idiot I was, but hearing tough and hard-hitting advice would have been really good for me.

to me it has the practical knowledge, bit like looking up eg skincare via wikipedia and in many ways no different than many users in a sense

ChatGPT, is brilliant for holiday itineraries

This is a bit of a TMI one….but I’m forever grateful to the Mumsnetter who gave me the advice 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

After the birth of my first baby 10 years ago, I had a few internal stitches that didn’t bother me in the slightest. BUT I had several external lacerations that the Dr ummed and ahhhed over whether they needed stitching or not. In the end she decided not stitch them……which meant every time I went for a wee, the pain was excruciating. Felt like I was peeing battery acid. Every trip to the loo ended with me in tears for the first few days.
But then some wonderful Mumsnetter came to my rescue and told me to sit on the toilet normally, but place my palms on the floor in front of me. Makes the pee flow directly backwards into the toilet instead of running down my sore lady bits 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

@marmiteandminticecream Yes. Apparently if you have a KS or over bed then the duvet SHOULD have the seams running across the bed. I had always just assumed that any size of duvet had the stitching running from head to foot - but apparently not. Apparently on a single or double bed then the duvet should have the long side going down the bed - but on KS and over then the longest side of the duvet goes horizontally across the bed.

@MounjaroOnMyMind well done on the weight loss! I have also lost a (non dramatic) amount of weight recently, just through drinking less alcohol and eating home cooked meals. Annoying when the advice that you discounted 20 years ago turns out to have been correct!

@Flytrap01 I think the more you know about a subject the more you realise Chat GPT doesn't know yet. Every time I make a suggestion, it agrees with me and changes its mind. So MN users haven't been made redundant yet - famously difficult to get an entrenched MNetter to change their mind!

Two double duvets on a king size bed is a game changer - means there's no cover-hogging and there's a toasty bit in the middle where they overlap but cooler bits on the edges where it's singular.

When you sign up for anything, out the company name as your middle name (e.g., Jane Waitrose Smith or Susan Mumsnet Jones) that way if you start getting junk mail or dodgy communications, you'll know exactly which company has sold your information.

as long as the prompt is good or then you reword it as needed or the source infomation used is good then it can be very useful program

@Hatty65 this seams thing is new news. I have been battling this issue. I think I got my recent ones from linen bundle who helpfully put a tab in saying short side and long side, but I still end up a bit flummoxed - would have been even better if they put in head/foot and side!