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

872 replies

SpikySausage · 22/04/2025 15:48

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!)

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Poppymeldrum · 22/04/2025 17:17

Someone on a thread said they'd asked chatgpt what her colours where

I headed upstairs and did the same thing

I'm a cool summer,I've binned so many 'wrong' colours (shoved in a pile for the charity shop) and am only buying 'my' colours (from vinted)

It's changed my whole wardrobe

I've always been sweaty-since I was a teenager,but it's got worse as I've got older

Someone said to switch to soap as shower gel just smears the BO germs about but soap kills them

Game changer-within a week,I was less sweaty and much fresher through my day

I passed on the baby vest tip to ds when my gd was a baby

He looked at me like I was mental

'She's tiny,just look at how tiny she is!she won't do massive shits!'

I got the text about a week later to say I was right...

murasaki · 22/04/2025 17:18

DecafDodger · 22/04/2025 17:16

@murasaki you mean the pen, not needle? If the latter, tell her also to get extra needles or an insuline syringe and not re-use the used ones fished out of the bin.

Yes, sorry, the pen, she had extra needles and I was clear on that. Didn't know it was called an pen, but told her to use a new needle.

murasaki · 22/04/2025 17:18

Picklepower · 22/04/2025 17:17

I have never come across anyone trying to peel an avocado 😂

Me for mumble number of years. Yes, I am an idiot. I had cut it in half first.

LittleMissLego · 22/04/2025 17:19

The frozen potato waffles fit perfectly in a toaster.

wrongthinker · 22/04/2025 17:19

Flytrap01 · 22/04/2025 16:51

i tryed better ways to control society to prevent people being criminals chat via chatgpt and it kept trying to offer different spins on why people are the way they are

Try Claude. It might take a few different ways of formulating the question but I find it kind of gets on a level with you after a bit of back and forth. I'm using Claude as a kind of life coach - it's actually really good at it!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa · 22/04/2025 17:20

Poppymeldrum · 22/04/2025 17:17

Someone on a thread said they'd asked chatgpt what her colours where

I headed upstairs and did the same thing

I'm a cool summer,I've binned so many 'wrong' colours (shoved in a pile for the charity shop) and am only buying 'my' colours (from vinted)

It's changed my whole wardrobe

I've always been sweaty-since I was a teenager,but it's got worse as I've got older

Someone said to switch to soap as shower gel just smears the BO germs about but soap kills them

Game changer-within a week,I was less sweaty and much fresher through my day

I passed on the baby vest tip to ds when my gd was a baby

He looked at me like I was mental

'She's tiny,just look at how tiny she is!she won't do massive shits!'

I got the text about a week later to say I was right...

Did you just up load a photo? I’m very excited by this idea.

Neurodiversitydoctor · 22/04/2025 17:23

Serve DCs a raw vegetable starter while you prepare their meal. Odds are they will eat it then as they are hungry beforw their meal. DD is 18 and still chops up cucumber and pepper when she gets in from sixth form.

Energe · 22/04/2025 17:31

No is a complete sentence. I no longer explain unless I want to.

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 22/04/2025 17:36

You're going to think I am a total moron. But the advice which has stuck is wipe your mouth after brushing teeth - with water. Rather than on the hand towel.
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Hatty65 · 22/04/2025 17:36

Somethingsnapped · 22/04/2025 17:14

Thank you!!

And do the poppers on the cover run along the bottom?

Yes, they do. But the duvet needs putting in 'sideways' if that makes sense!

Floatlikeafeather2 · 22/04/2025 17:44

Maitri108 · 22/04/2025 16:15

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.

Slight side step, but where do you bulk buy them from, please? They are all I have used in my washing machine for a few years now but I've never found anywhere to buy them from like this. My real beef is supermarkets who clearly don't know how to store them and have a shelf full of rock hard packets that I then have to get someone to bash up for me.

Maitri108 · 22/04/2025 17:46

Floatlikeafeather2 · 22/04/2025 17:44

Slight side step, but where do you bulk buy them from, please? They are all I have used in my washing machine for a few years now but I've never found anywhere to buy them from like this. My real beef is supermarkets who clearly don't know how to store them and have a shelf full of rock hard packets that I then have to get someone to bash up for me.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0744GZDMK?psc=1&ref=ppxpopmobbasintitle

They're nice and soft.

Anewdawnanewname · 22/04/2025 17:49

Another one who tried Mounjaro because of here; mumsnet literally improved my life.

Secretsquirels · 22/04/2025 17:50

The best tip I’ve had on here is use your dirty towels (not disgusting obviously- just used for the week) for swimming instead of taking separate swimming towels.

I do it every Saturday for the kids lessons - saves me a load of washing every single week!

PuppyMonkey · 22/04/2025 17:52

Mine’s from ages ago but those Vileda instant spray mops with washable microfibre pads.

Poppymeldrum · 22/04/2025 17:52

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa · 22/04/2025 17:20

Did you just up load a photo? I’m very excited by this idea.

I've not uploaded any photo
(Unless my fat fingers did!)

TheWorminLabyrinth · 22/04/2025 17:53

OP, can I ask how you managed to get tret? I've done the "consultations" on skin + me, and also on Dermatica, but they never seem to tell you what you are getting - skin + me just says "your daily dose" - so how do you know it is tret you are getting? Sorry to derail.

Poledra · 22/04/2025 17:55

Storage of bed linen. Put the correct-size sheet, duvet cover and pillow case(s) inside one of the pillowcases. When a bed needs changed, just grab the complete set out the airing cupboard. It was revolutionary for me - no more rummaging through bedsheets trying to find the right size!

Needhelp101 · 22/04/2025 17:55

Neurodiversitydoctor · 22/04/2025 17:23

Serve DCs a raw vegetable starter while you prepare their meal. Odds are they will eat it then as they are hungry beforw their meal. DD is 18 and still chops up cucumber and pepper when she gets in from sixth form.

And this! My sons are in their teens and prepare this for themselves.

nzeire · 22/04/2025 17:56

Hatty65 · 22/04/2025 16:00

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!

OMG!!!!

SoOxon · 22/04/2025 17:56

MugsyBalonz · 22/04/2025 16:25

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.

Brilliant! (names). YEARS ago I opened a regular account with Natwest, used a decoy email account, assured by the clerk that all would be confidential - Ha !
within the week! I was inundated with junk mail, geared towards my age gender, address, so I challenged the bank branch, assured, no no no, closed account.

I do use the same decoy account so always know - the worst was the AA btw.

This is a terrific ploy and I’m a little miffed that I didn’t think of it myself, thanks.

SoOxon · 22/04/2025 17:57

SomethingFun · 22/04/2025 16:31

Don’t put it down, put it away. Best advice ever for a tidy home

and don’t go upstairs empty handed

Idrinklotsofcoffee · 22/04/2025 17:59

That when hanging washing on the line you should hang it “top bottom, bottom top”.

Upstartled · 22/04/2025 18:00

You can put potato waffles in the toaster, full blast twice, and they're done.

HumerousHumous · 22/04/2025 18:04

Hatty65 · 22/04/2025 16:00

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!

Oh dear. That’s quite funny actually, @Hatty65Grin.

Didn’t you wonder why you felt chilly all the time? Were you sharing with a partner so there were duvet wars?