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!)

clothes airer?

Oops roasting tin, although a toasting tin sounds intriguing!

When the DC are young/poorly, layer their bed with plastic sheet, bedsheet, plastic sheet, bedsheet.

If your DC wets the bed in the night/throws up in bed, you can whip off the top bed sheet and plastic sheet and get them back into bed quicker.

Since posters on here know a lot about duvets, could I ask if there is a make of duvet cover that has really good accessibility? I have a few covers where the slit at the bottom is much too short. Also a zipped cover would be fabulous!

Protect ‘n’ Glow Radiance booster SPF 30 | Simple® Skincare

Mentioned this one earlier
I usually pick it up when on offer in boots or superdrug for around £7-£8
small bottle, but I use it every day and it lasts for ages

Best advice from mumsnet were quessia bark chips for getting rid of headlice. Worked like a miracle and kept up with weekly rinses until mid primary. Was totally worn down with endless combing of DDs hair at every bathtime, frequent use of chemical treatments to keep away the bastards but they just kept coming back for years! I think the recommendation for hairspray was also a mumsnet piece of advice for keeping them away.

The other life changer was D-mannose for UTIs. Took them every day for over a year and it kept symptoms at bay. Then started HRT (also mumsnet advice) and I have mostly no symptoms at all.

Best advice , 2 single duvets on double or king size bed.
Easy to change, can be matching designs.
Each person gets tog./ warmth they want .

When my daughter was 6 days old. It was 4am. I hadn't had a wink of sleep for 24 hours. Some mumsnetters were awake and kept me sane.

Also, heated clothes dryer. Brilliant.

Also a savings account from birth.

Set up a direct debit with £10-£20 a month which becomes just like every other bill and chuck in birthday money etc when the kids are young especially and they don’t really want/need anything.

My kids are now in the Uni era and both have several thousand pounds to start them off, which makes a massive difference.

Those years go so much faster than you think and education is pricey nowadays.

Sorry,I was half asleep when I wrote that and misread it

No,I typed in my hair colour,eye colour and skin tone

It asked me a few questions and came up with either warm summer or cool summer

I dug a bit further on Google and it said 'cool'

Sorry for my mistunderstanding-I'd had a shit day at work

It's not obvious.
A single duvet has the stripes down the length so why wouldn't it be the same for other sizes?

The duvet on the spare bed has a grid of seams, but it's feathers and maybe that's why.

Hotel style duvet covers.

Completely open ( no fastenings at all) at the bottom, long so that they tuck under the mattress with the sheet, at the end of the bed. Must be made for easy and quickness of changing beds.

This company’s sheets are also great. Colour coded stitching by size, stitching along the sides so that it is easy to tell which way the sheet goes. Duvet covers also have the same hidden coloured stitching. My linen cupboard looks like a hotel store!

Richard Haworth hotel bedding

@mrpenny @TheWorminLabyrinth agree - it's prescription only in many places I think but apparently can be bought in Spain. However my plan is to let my skin get used to it and build up to a 'normal' dose using skin + me etc, since they also include niacinamide and azelaic acid in my daily doser, then when I'm up to 0.025 or 0.050 I might try a generic product and find a similar serum to layer with. But I'm on a tiny dose at the moment that I doubt they sell in a pharmacy.

I just got them off amazon. But I’m sure Harry Corry’s etc. or other online retailers have them.

Another one that was a life saver. Last minute wrapping of DCs Christmas presents late on Christmas Eve and I realised I had bought very little for DD compared to her brother. Shops were closed and I was despairing. So many great ideas. Best one was to make a voucher for an activity or day out. I made one for a series of horse riding lessons. Found a very cute illustration online of a girl that looked like DD with a pony and found some pretty craft card to stick it on. Remember hoping DC wouldn't wake up as very noisy printer cranked into life at about 4am. It was her best present and still remembered to this day.

@ilovesushi - what do you do with the bark chips?! I haven't had nits in my kids yet but feel this could come in handy!

I did the card thing with cards received from my mum in the last years of her life - I could never quite bring myself to throw them away. When she was dying of cancer, I told her that, because of my 'stash', I would always have a card from her on my birthday and at Christmas. She loved it!

@SpikySausage They are truly a life saver. I got a massive bag of them from amazon with no instructions, so I found my own way. I put a few handfuls in a mixing bowl and added boiling water then left them to infuse for maybe 20 minutes or until the water had soaked up whatever is in the bark. You can tell by the colour. I then scooped out the water into a jug and poured it over DC's hair, maybe 2 - 3 jugs - after having already washed, conditioned, nit combed and thoroughly rinsed. I wasn't too fussy about straining the bits of bark. I used it as a final rinse. I found some bark was better than others. You want the stuff that is real really disgustingly bitter that if you even get a drop of it on your lip you are spitting it away. Hope it works for you!

I mean I get it that you might but the duvet cover on the actual bed the wrong way and wonder why it's extra long, but too narrow.

But putting the duvet into the cover, once you see that it's bunched up one way but cover is empty the other way, surely that is quite obvious that you need to rotate the duvet inside 90 degrees?

@Picklepower @Spankmeonthebottomwithawomansweekly I always peel avocado. Exactly, for slices, but also to not waste any.

Step 1, cut in half.
Step 2, very important step, cut a little bit off the narrow end to get a straight edge.
Step 3, prise skin up at the straight edge.
Step 4, peel whole skin off in one.

Doesn't work unless avocado is ripe but not too ripe.

Do coverless duvets look nice? Or do you CD fans not mind that. I like the look of a nice white duvet cover, no pattern. I don't want to see the (horizontal!) lines of my duvet.

But putting the duvet into the cover, once you see that it's bunched up one way but cover is empty the other way, surely that is quite obvious that you need to rotate the duvet inside 90 degrees?

Ah that's what was meant!

I read it as deliberately putting it in wrong before placing it horizontally.😊😂

There are only singles & doubles in this house.

That's my excuse & I'm sticking to it!

So much. I've been here since 2006 and I think I've only very rarely come a cropper through advice or something suggested here. I view myself as benignly radicalised by MN feminists . I became very informed about HRT choices and options, and was able to go to the GP armed with the correct and most up-to-date reviews and guidance, in the face of my GP's terribly outdated information and stance. I was able to read about how horribly some women suffer with an outpatient hysteroscopy without adequate pain relief, and therefore pushed to have mine under GA. I used to find the SEN pages hugely useful in the early years with my younger child, though I did find that the same sort of line was being pushed WRT autism. Perhaps it's not any more.

Random things I have bought/done because of MN: Turkish haman towels for camping and general bathroom use - so quick to dry, pack down tiny!

The MN 'flying squirrel' jumpsuit.

The MN scarf, a few moons ago.

Lagenlook linen clothing for the dumpier of stature.

My blessed mooncup.

Using Buttery in Victoria Sponges rather than all butter (makes for a much lighter, less greasy cake and you honestly cannot tell).

Making village show prize-winning Victoria Sponges thanks to a vintage thread started by Slubber. Also thanks to her, actually buying and cooking with and loving PFB in stews etc.

Picking random shopping lists out of trolleys and regaling my bored family with them.

Lots of weight-loss information and support (it can be a bit bewildering on the weightloss boards though).

Cat help - that brilliant enzyme spray you use if they pee somewhere bad.

My wool pillow.

Treating myself to an M&S beauty advent calendar in December.

Innumerable camping gadgets and objets - the admirable IceyTek chiller, the importance of using a self-inflating foam mattress rather than an air-filled inflatable one, a Camping Gaz stove that comes inside its own huge saucepan, Delta Pegs, the superiority and warmth/coolness of cotton canvas over nylon.

What is the enzyme spray called please? I'm currently in a war of attrition with a furry bastard.

This is nonsense @Icequeen01how did you get home without your passports?