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

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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!)

Thanks! I'll try Unibond then.

Why can’t I understand this 😩😂 my super king duvet never ever fits in the sheet, it’s always too small and gets bunched one end!

I do this

They come in S M L. They do have a size chart. L is size 14 to 16 IME.

Similarly, a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda dissolved in water to fend off cystitis. Drink a glass every 3-4hrs. My elderly mum has used this remedy for years.

One thing I've read, and wished I'd known about it years ago, is to set up an email account when a child or grandchild is born. Over the years, send it snippets of information, photos, memories etc. then when the child reaches 18, hand them the access to the email so they can look back at a "scrapbook" of their childhood from birth to coming of age.

On Amazon they have them from XS right up to 5XL.

Thank you. I’m a wobbly 14 and carry for weight on my thighs, stomach and hips, so large might be for me.

Someone once asked for parenting advice they wished they'd known.

One answer: 'on a sticker sheet, peel the surround off then the stickers are far easier for children to peel off' stuck with me

Not only is it genius but it summed up what looking after young children is really like - lots of little annoying problems/ donkeywork etc, more so than the 'big stuff'.

I am having childhood flashbacks to bread and dripping now....Probably not in favour on MN but to us it was food of the gods!

My Mum would save the fat and jelly from things and use them to add flavour to many dishes. No bones were ever wasted, they were boiled to make fabulous stock.

My dad kept the fat in a bowl with a plate on in the fridge. Regularly updated with new fat. I tried not to think about it too much, but he did make the best chips in town, all my friends said so. I just never divulged what made them so great

Using a broom handle on a roller helps you do walls faster too as can cover more area a lot quicker ☺

I think this tip is saying the "long" side of a super king duvet goes across the bed not up and down it. The duvet covers are designed this way around. The poppers are on a long side , which obviously goes at the foot of the bed. I am surprised people didn't realise this, which apparently makes me nasty.

This is what I understand happens when people complain about duvet being in the cover the wrong way. I don't understand why it happens, but that will explain bunched duvets and empty covers.

I dunno ... it suggested stuff that was permanently closed to me :(

I am the only person who has not lost weight, by not drinking alcohol any more, it’s so sad

Does anyone have a link for the 'other' thread that has inspired this FABULOUS thread?

Thank you OP!

Apologies if I missed this earlier but now invested!

Thank you MN!

x

@TeaAndStrumpets i have a Dorma duvet cover. It has a zip fastening that goes across the whole bottom of the cover - much easier to change and no annoying poppers.

Robotic vacuum cleaner and store your plastic tubs with lid on.

One I thought of myself was to hang onto large mayo jars and jam jars and then any thing like cream or yoghurt that doesn’t come with a lid anymore are put in a jar with a lid. It’s quite surprising how long things last when stored like this.

Just recently, I’ve also started putting grapes into a tub with a snap lid and I’m finding that this improves the length of time they last as well.

A King size is 230x220 (WxL) so maybe not that obvious just by looking?

If you lay it out & pull one corner down diagonally though it'll be easy to see which is which.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I learnt this on Mumsnet and I think of it often.

Flying bastards! Love it! But not them!

I had absolutely no idea!!! Why does nobody ever tell you this 😂😂

I’m literally going upstairs now to change this - this could honestly change my life! Thank you!!

Well I found out that javelin arse if definitely a thing. I always wondered what was happening! However I had to wait until menopause to find it out!