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Crap Tips

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 11/03/2009 15:15

'Things to do with...plastic cd cases. Save lots and paint them with letters for a giant scrabble board'

This handy tip was in last weeks Pick me Up magazine. Why!? and What!?

Share some please, real or made up. I need cheering up.

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Wigglesworth · 11/03/2009 16:28

I want Teresa Cornwall from Norwich to come and decorate my DS's room, how shite is that!

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 11/03/2009 16:29

Instead of using a microwave to defrost food, get into the habit of defrosting your food by putting it in the fridge the night before you need it. It'll save you from having to use the microwave and, as it defrosts overnight, it'll help to keep your fridge cold and reduce its power consumption.

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Wigglesworth · 11/03/2009 16:30

Soup dragon if you look really carefully you can see the piss and skid stains in his undies. WTF would any self respecting man allow his DW to photo that let alone send it in to a magazine.

Boco · 11/03/2009 16:31

Are there really such things as 'expensive fake tan removal creams'? I wonder HOW she realised that potato worked. Do you think while cooking she looked down at her streaked skin and in despair, grabbed handfuls of potato skins and started grinding them into her luminous flesh?

Made2OrderJelly · 11/03/2009 16:31

If i put something in my fridge over night it is still frozen the next day

Maybe i need to 'up' the temp in it

BitOfFun · 11/03/2009 16:31

Wow, her DP must be thrilled to appear in print on the toilet...I cant stop laughing now

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 11/03/2009 16:33

Why indeed? People are strange.

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Wigglesworth · 11/03/2009 16:33

Oh god the one about the shredded paper in your plants is a good one. So he solves his problem by spreading litter in his garden, nice one mate those bastard slugs won't get the better of you eh!

Rhubarb · 11/03/2009 16:33

Radio 4

TsarChasm · 11/03/2009 16:37

I love the viz ones. Especially 'Minor skin grafts can be performed on pigs by covering any cuts and
grazes with thin strips of bacon.' Rofl

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 11/03/2009 16:37

www.pickmeupmagazine.co.uk/tip_offs/index.php?&&&&&&&&0&2&3&4&5&6&7&8&9&0&1&2&3&6&9&2&5&8&9&0&page=4 1

Check out this lady on holiday, she's red too.

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Made2OrderJelly · 11/03/2009 16:37

radio 4???

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 11/03/2009 16:39

Radio 4?

Are you hinting that we are all menopausal?

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themoon66 · 11/03/2009 16:40

To save money on expensive freezer storage-bags and clips, just snip the top of the bag of food and tie it around the opening. This will keep your freezer food neat and tightly sealed.
Joanne Nadin, Cheshire

Really? So I don't have to dispense all my frozen food into different bags before putting in my freezer then? Who'd have thought it! And there was me, thinking it was slutty keeping the peas in their original Birds Eye bag

TrillianAstra · 11/03/2009 16:41

That red lady on holiday hangs up her sarongs.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 11/03/2009 16:42

I could never hack books up!

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Made2OrderJelly · 11/03/2009 16:42

I am too young to be menopausal [young thing emoticon]

Wigglesworth · 11/03/2009 16:43

Oh god the red lady has 3rd degree burns, she needs a skin graft, pass the bacon!

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 11/03/2009 16:45

To keep your potatoes fresh for longer, and to prevent them from going green, place them in the black plastic bags given to you by fashion shops.

Fashion shops?

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Wigglesworth · 11/03/2009 16:48

Ladies don't get rid of those used tampons, give them to your cat to play with, she'll think it's a mouse.

Wigglesworth · 11/03/2009 16:50

Angela Marriot wraps her friends gifts in her old copies of pick me up. Do you reckon she wipes her arse on newspaper as well?

Wigglesworth · 11/03/2009 16:53

Darren Woods has nicked Angela Marriots idea, do you reckon he still got his tip money?

GetOrfMoiLand · 11/03/2009 16:55

PMSl at this thread - it's great. Mumsnet classic.

Black bags from fashion shops! Do you think she regularly shops on Bond Street?

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 11/03/2009 16:57

Place Brussel sprouts in rows, in pyramids or in circles around candles, arrange with mistletoe leaves and add berries for contrast.

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Wigglesworth · 11/03/2009 17:00

Wow devil that one is a real find. If anyone is getting married I would defo recommend that, if I went to a celebration and they had that on the tables I don't think I could physically stop myself from ROFL.