Crap Tips

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

'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.

On the hacking up books page - this lady put stickers on each of the wires coming out of her router so she could remember where each went.

Sounds clever until you remember each hole is a different shape! Doesn't take a genius to work out which bit goes where then, does it...

I use this little bag to carry extra things I need everyday. This makes its so much easier when I have lots to carry in the morning, and when the bag is empty I can simply fold it up and put it in my larger bag. Perfect!
Amy Smith, Cleveland

A bag IN a bag? Genius!

The one about free condiments from restaurants on pge 58. Erm does she mean free or stolen?

extra bag
'for the extra things I need' - what a twat.

Thank you, thank you for this thread. Haven't laughed like this since the swearing one.

My mother keeps a toilet roll on a toilet roll holder IN THE KITCHEN

in case the spill is not big enough for a full sheet of KITCHEN ROLL

Oops, sorry Boco - x post.

There's a Sun Readers' Tips page (I'm not making it up). Angela Marriott has posted this gem there here

"It always seemed such a shame to throw away nice birthday and Christmas cards I'd been sent. So I cut them out, covered them in sticky back plastic and used them as coasters."

Those who know Wallasey will be aware that Angela is probably NFW.

Ladies... don't throw away your used tampons. Hang them outside of a night for the vampires to suck on. This prevents them having to break in and bite your neck!!

Loving Angela Marriott. Trying to imagine what her house is like. How her friends must dread hearing her latest discovery.

Cool down hot drinks!
Thursday 20th November 2008
If you're in a rush in the morning, but need to have a cup of tea or coffee, just stir a little cold water into your hot drink and it won't be quite so hot for you to drink!

Oh my gosh, on the Sun page

SNAKE IN THE GRASS
A trick to keep cats off your flower bed is to put a snake there.

Radio 4

SET IT STRAIGHT
I always panicked half way to work that I?d left my hair straighteners on and had to risk being late for work to go back and check. But now I?ve started taking a snap of my unplugged straighteners before I leave the house in the morning. So when my heart begins to pound I can look at my phone pic with the time and date underneath. No more worrying about burning the place down!

It can't be serious?

For the Brussel Sprout one, it looks like she also used some carrots. I wonder if they were stored in soil prior to use?

Don't ask me about it, I can't talk about it.

Peg Bag

Cut the top off a plastic milk container and make a slit in each side. Feed an old belt through the slits and you can wear it around your waist to keep all your pegs in when you hang out your washing. It save you having to bend down every time you need one.

Anita Saunders, 60, Pentrebach

What's Radio 4?

POSH BROLLY
If it's pouring with rain when you're off for a night out and your umbrella clashes with your clothes, simply borrow a colour-co-ordinating tie. You can slip it over the umbrella when you arrive and you clashing fashion faux pas will stay a secret.

The Sun ones are quite funny too.

If it's pouring with rain when you're off for a night out and your umbrella clashes with your clothes, simply borrow a colour-co-ordinating tie. You can slip it over the umbrella when you arrive and you clashing fashion faux pas will stay a secret.

spooky crossed post!

to stop your mirrors steaming up, just spray some of your fella´s shaving foam on it - err surely you wouldn´t them be able to see anything in said mirror.

Ohhhh I saw one a while back a woman had lived next door to a nursing home when it closed she nicked all the walking sticks from their skip and used them as curtain rails .

It looked very very odd.

Do you always spend ages hunting for your car in massive car parks? Why not attach a brightly coloured balloon to your aerial so you?ll spot the vehicle a mile off.

I am assuming there is some Radio 4 based conspiracy to fill up these things with ridiculous tips? [Sherlock emoticon]

If you really need to remember something, write it on a post it note and stick it to your knickers. Don?t remove it until the jobs done.

I'm assuming it is Rhubarbs fourth minute of fame re the david tennant thing.

SNAP TO IT

When you?re driving alone thread the handle of your handbag through the seat belt of the passenger seat and clip it in. It stops thieves snatching your bag at traffic lights.

Tatiana Dovgan, 25, Aberdeen, Scotland

my car locks .....