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!)

THIS! Complete life changer! I say it at least 4 or 5 times a day!

@Hatty65OMG - I wish I’d known this years ago! Hated the ‘empty’ bits of cover 😂 Wow.

Oh, I love this one! Thank you…

Mine is a different type of tip (less general life-hack, more specific idea) but I'm very grateful to the person who recommended Beth (PaperYarnandThread on Instagram) whose beautiful digital drawings make great gifts. I saved the details till I needed them and she did a lovely picture for me last summer. Actually I use gift inspiration threads quite a lot and have had some good suggestions over the years

Wirarpa knickers. Brilliant!

Is it a John Lewis duvet? Our one has the stitching the wrong way too, I forget every single time I make the bed. I really should write on the label.

Snap and I am definitely not well suited to the colour recommendation it gave me. I know the lighting makes a difference but it was an odd suggestion. I might try it for a travel itinerary later in the year

To buy a huge roll of tin foil - cost £27 in 2022 and I just finished it.

To plot up in the bath and pee in it as necessary whilst stricken with a UTI. It felt as if barbed wire was being pulled out of my pee-pipe! It was so awful that I ordered every single cystitis treatment from deliveroo groceries and took a month's worth of codeine in a week. I actually said "thanks mumsnet" as I sat in my pissy bath.

For the same post partum issue, I read on here to keep a jug in bathroom to fill with warm water and add a couple of drops of natural lavender and tea tree oil - each time you go for a wee pour between legs. It was honestly the best advice ever and I did it after both my 2nd and 3rd births! Really helped aid healing too.

Agree. So obvious and the only way, but not automatic . DC also take it onboard, when told to.

I liked the advice to have a kindle book wish list. Makes it so quick to see which books I want have dropped in price.

Mine is rather specific but back in 2014 someone had written a post about how to fold up the model of tent we'd bought. I took a screenshot and every time we've camped since the tent has gone back into its hold-all first time, every time. It's a large tent and that one post has saved us from hours of faffing and arguing over the years!

Once you sign up they send you your prescription details and it’s also on the box/doser when you receive it

What what what??? I need these pins. Have bought new duvet. Half of it disappears down inside the cover before morning…. What are these magical things?

When you wash bedding, once it's dried, put the whole set inside 1 pillowcase, so other pillowcase, bedsheet and duvet cover.

Absolute gamechanger. So simple and can't believe I'd never thought of it before.

This is what I got. You don't feel them at all. One in each corner and a middle one on the sides.

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Haha I feel this way too. Sometimes I’ll be reading a thread and I’ll think “oh she’s DEFINITELY being unreasonable”, will confidently click it, and then it’s like 2% agree with me 😂🫠 We must be outliers.

Derailing the thread but confused at how many people have been putting the duvet in the cover the wrong way, don't you lie it out on top and see it is too long one way and too short the other and turn it? But I do agree that labels on it would help loads as it is a pain to have to 'work it out' each time with a massive heavy duvet.

One for me - early days of breastfeeding putting a flannel/wash cloth in a zip lock bag in the fridge and then using it for soothing the pain whilst baby is getting used to latch/your nipples are getting used to being gnawed.

Love this, really similar to something I read in The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin: if it takes less than 5 minutes to do, just do it now. It really stuck with me!

Not advice or suggestions as such but I had some lovely support when I posted about a problem I was having. The kindness and concern of strangers made me feel less alone

Claude is supposed to be more ethical too. There was a really interesting interview with one of the owners on a tech podcast on Times Radio in the middle of the night, now that I no longer sleep...

That green peppers taste like shite because they are not ripe? And peppers go through green to yellow to red as they ripen. It was brand new information to me and I've not bought a horrible
green pepper since!

The John Major chicken recipe

I have been doing that for years (I'm not sure where I learnt it), and yes, it is a total gamechanger for alleviating the tedium of organising bedding. Packing it all away when dry also saves space in the airing cupboard and time when the dreaded bed-changing day rolls around.