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!)

what’s Trentinoin?

Someone shared the best advice they’d ever had on here a few months back which I’ve quietly adopted as my mantra:
‘this too shall pass’
..about everything

Following a thread I had on here about how my daft DH had managed to forget to empty the safe in our hotel in Crete when we were on holiday last year, leaving behind our passports, my purse and my jewellery, someone suggested putting one of the shoes we would be travelling home in in the safe. We are going back to the same hotel this summer and I will be doing this. I never want to go through stress like that again! It took two weeks to get my jewellery home but luckily I did due to our fabulous hotel.

Regarding duvet advice mentioned earlier. I've never been a fan of duvets. I much prefer a good quality thick cotton quilted bedspread in the winter & a lighter one in the summer.

Frozen Mash! I had never heard if it. The ingredients are just potato's, butter, milk, salt & pepper, and when i add a bit of extra butter and milk it tastes indistinguishable to homemade mash. Way better than microwave mash. Thank you mumsnet!

Mine is that spiders will be put off living in your home for a full season if you spray your home with Indorex flea spray. It works!!! I am eternally grateful to my fellow mumsnetters for that one. Autumn has been a happier time in my home these last two years.

Same here, I wash my coverless duvet only when I swap the winter one for the summer weight one. I use a top sheet which gets washed regularly but the duvet does not touch my body so does not get dirty - I live alone, don’t have pets and tend not to sit on the bed so the duvet remains clean.

When I was 18, I spent a ski season working in holiday chalets in Austria and we did not use duvet covers, just top sheets. At change over day, we stripped the sheets and hung the duvet outside in the covered balcony for a few hours before putting it back on the bed. All the ski hotels did this back in the 1980s!

I've always thought coverless duvets are a bit skanky, and I'm by no means a 'wash your towel after every use' kind of person.

It never moves and I tend to tuck the duvet under my feet. Duvet is brushed cotton though so I can't say how well it'd work with a different duvet. I fold a bit over the top just because I prefer how it feels though.

Fair enough. according to DP, and I can't deny it, I am a 'mobile' sleeper, so it wouldn't work for me at all. Horses for courses.

That you only need to put conditioner in the lengths of your hair rather than all over (in roots). The advice I was given was ‘ears and below’.
I genuinely never knew this and my hair is far less greasy since applying it.

About twenty years ago, someone on here said “meet your child at the school gate with food in your hand”.

Best advice ever.

Got a king size last year and have been enraged with the duvet situation. THANK YOU!!

I read a thread about young children and bowel problems ..recognised symptoms for coeliac disease with grandchild, persuaded daughter to get child tested,blood test was conclusive without any further investigation. Thank you MN 😊

That one who asked why her throat bleeds and was told it's cancer.

I do this. I then had a three day power cut and I still can't face opening the freezer 😅

Clean the bathroom whilst the (young, have to be supervised) kids are in the bath

How does this work? Maybe I’ve been doing it wrong too but Surely it wouldn’t fit in the cover if you turn sideways 🙈

When trying to get a sandwich into a Tupperware, place the Tupperware on top of the sandwich, then turn the cutting board with the sandwich on, over.

Saves mincing around trying to get the sandwich into the Tupperware without spilling all the fillings

That Chat GPT helped me get clarity on a situation in one afternoon than the therapist I was talking to - truly life changing I couldn’t believe it.

I cut the top off a bag of say frozen chips/peas and use it to secure the open bag. Fucking genius idea. Thank you Mumsnet.

Buy socks in large batches of identical socks so they all match. It saves time not having to match up your socks once they’re washed and dried!

Could you not just set a reminder on your phone to empty the safe?

We have the lines going vertically and it’s definitely the right way round (king size) so this advice makes no sense to me. Maybe depends on the make.

Yeah this tip belongs in the worst advice thread!!