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.

When you've finished reading The Sun, why not do your bit for recycling and wipe your arse with it?

To save time, wipe your arse on the Sun before reading it. It is, after all, a pile of shit.

take your old take-a-breaks to the drs surgery 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&1&4&5& 6&7&8&9&0&3&4&5&6&7&8&9&0&1&2&3&4&5&6&7&8&9&0&1&2&3&4&5&6&7&page=78

There is MN thread about this running today. Someone saying that it is THE worst magazine for a drs surgery to have hanging around

Crying with laughter here.

the one entitled Easy Cheesy has just made me howl - thank God she doesn't have to suffer the misery of unequally sliced cheese any more... (that one surely must be a wind up?!)

I was about to submit a tip but you actually have to add a photo!

Could I send the Bat and suggest saving on easter decorations by attaching rabbit ears to any stuffed animals you already own?

I'm not sure the picture has to actually have any connection with the tip. I've just seen one about removing sticky labels using a cotton bud dipped in olive oil. The attached pic was of a random pyrex jug sat on a teatowel [scratches head]

oh - how about MNers submit tips, but we ALL attach the bat picture? This way we will know each other

The book one is excellent. Why would you not know what to do with it when you've finished it?

How long before they publish it do you think?

ROFL at this "privacy curtain" - "...You can then decorate as you like!" ... it looks like one has murdered the other - talk about sibling rivalry!

Oh I absolutely love this, I ache from laughing!! These people are deranged. I will now be cutting my cheese with a potato peeler, that's genius.

My God though, that woman with a stuffed dragon nailed to her living room wall.
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I'm not sure she's going to make it into 25 Beautiful Homes any time soon.

And on the same page, who the hell would go tto the trouble of cutting out tin foil sheets to fit over their hob just to save the 2 minutes it would take to wipe it clean?

Oh yes kettlechip that tinfoil was funny... also, it looked like a GAS hob... I hope they remembered to cut holes in the foil for the gas to come out of!

I have that exact same dragon (it's from Ikea). I may try this out later.

now I'd NEVER have thought of this.....

"If, like me, you can't get your hand into the bottom of a cup or glass when washing it, simply use a utensil with a long handle, such as a fork. Push the cloth to the bottom and rub around and your cups will come out perfectly clean."

My favourite 'tip' from Take a Break was from a woman who didn't have enough room to store her CDs, so she stuck the CDs onto her ceiling with Blu Tack. There was a photo of the CDs stuck to the ceiling, arranged in a ring around a hideous tassled lampshade (just the discs not the cases - presumably she used those for a giant scrabble set).

PMSL at this thread..... is this all for real? Must buy Pick-me-up tomorrow for a laugh as have never bought it before. TBH I haven't bought a magazine since DD (4 mths)was born but am still buying the Sunday Times in vain and putting it in the recycling a week later almost completely unread!

thankyou for this thread, i am 38 weeks pregnant and surely all the laughing will make me go into labour!

The best MN tip was from Collette who puts a pair of toddlers tights on her head, tucks the phone between the tights and her ear and ties the legs under her chin. This enables her to carryon with the housework whilst talking to her mother.

I think that, with photo of tights on head, would get in!

To avoid he embarrassment of dashing across the landing when naked, keep your shower gel handy in the shower!

I'm so I found this thread. I actually love the room with the dragon. Should I be worried?

Oh no, you only get the £25 if they print it in the magazine, not just online. There goes my money-making plan!

"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..."

cherrychoc, you'd really think so, wouldn't you - but I've lost count of the number of times I've had a teacher tell me their interactive whiteboard isn't working & I'd find they'd plugged the USB into the network cable port.

Maybe I should get a subscription to Pick me up for the staff room....

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