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.

Spider-free

Magnet Magic - no parent has ever thought of doing that before.

I would like to enbaressingly admit that I have read a few tips that would actually be of some use to me!

Thanks for this thread, have died laughing reading it

Visit to the doc!
Sunday 2nd November 2008

Once a month I take my last 4 copies of Pick Me Up to my local doctor's surgery for their waiting room. I can think of no better 'pick me up' than reading your excellent magazine to make someone feel better!
Ian Laird, Merseyside

We found our culprit re: the waiting room thread !

VIDEO BAG

Get a hot new look with your old video cases. Simply attach a shoe lace to the empty video box on either side and slip in your favourite articles where the cover used to be. Chuck in your things, snap it shut and sling it over your shoulder. And if you get bored your can re-read your fave mag?s stories.

Pat Tipps, 44, Hove, East Sussex
MIRROR, MIRROR

My old steering wheel cover didn?t fit my new car but I couldn?t bear to part with it. So I used it to jazz up an old round mirror. It looks great and has pride of place on my bedroom wall.

Jodie Anthony, 19, Ystylafera, Swansea

OUT IN THE COLD

To save room in your freezer, take food out of big, bulky boxes, cut out the cooking instructions and using a fridge magnet, stick them to the freezer door. This will save you room for more ice cream!

Ally Stewart, 42, Dunfermline, Fife
Must be a MNer!

This is a good one though - ROLL SUN

Fill an empty roll on deodorant tub with sun cream. It's a convenient size to pop into your handbag or child?s school bag to ensure you always have sun protection at hand.

Lynne Newton, 40, Spennymoor, Durham

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!

Karen Ramsey-Hampshire, 23, Northampton

Bonkers! Wonder how many times she checks the pic. Why not but a timer for the plug??

LOW, missed you on property twats night!

BOF - The Match was on Sky +ed it though, will watch and read thread

I was juvenilely crude as usual

Great! Roll on the weekend so I can watch/read it

I've got a really GOOD tip actually if anyone wants it. When you have old crib sheets left from a moses basket, don't throw them away. They make really good hair towels - you can wrap them twice round your hair after washing it, the elastic keeps it on your head and it's not heavy like a proper towel - you can EVEN get dressed with it still on as it's less bulky.

And it's far more absorbent.

I use big old fitted cot sheets for the children, they love tow rap themselves up completely and roll around pretending to be 'moths'

but they do soak up water quickly.

Oh and my olny other tip. Might as well share! When a baby is jusat waking up, say you need to wake them to go out quickly - have their trousers ready when you do it. The first thing they will do is stretch their legs out and you can just bung on the trousers really easily!!

Oh I do that with crib sheets, very handy. I dyed them red though as they were a bit grubby after countless washes (I'm crap at seperating whites, slattern)

The videobag is hilarious, sounds like the sort of thing I would have made in my 'experimental' teenage years.

Someone actually sent in a tip to cut Xs in the bottom of sprouts?!?!? No one does that any more! Its totally pointless.

Great thread BTW! Needs to go into MN Classics.

Bag a bargain!
Tuesday 11th November 2008

Recycle an old pillow case by cutting strips from it and sewing them back on for a bag with straps.
Kathleen Masson, Forres, Moray

Tres chic, non?

The new issue of pick me up is out today, I'l buy it later and report back.

all the links on thei thread are now 1 page out as there are new tips at the start. including

"Pop an unwrapped bar of your favourite smelling soap into the little bag that comes with washing powder tablets. Then hang it in your wardrobe to keep your clothes smelling fresh!
Ruth Newton, Durham"

and

"Pop a bar of soap into the little bag that comes with your washing powder tablets, and hang it over your garden tap. Now you can easily wash your dirty hands before coming into the house, after working in the garden or garage!
Stephen Newton, Durham"

Lol at filling up old roll on deodorant tubs with sun cream.

How in the name of moses do you remove the roll on ball to put anything in it??

I looked at my roll-on bottle this morning (oh dear god in heaven I am actually trying out Pick me Up tips) and you would need a degree in Materials Science to be able to work out how to remove tha ball and fill it.

MUMSNET TOWERS please ensure this goes into mumsnet classics so it doesn't disappear after 30 days. This is genius and is as funny (funnier?) than the shopping lists thread.

Oh I would burst with excitement if it did. Bit gutted my curtsey thread is gone now.

the problem is that none of the links will be right As soon as they add new tips at the front, all the links go out of date.

Oh yeah I just noticed that, poo!

Maybe I should write in and complain 'disgruntled of mumsnet'

Hm. Ruth and Stephen Newton of Durham must have CRAZY evenings, coming up with new and inventive uses for washing powder tablet bags and soap

Oh never mind about the links being out of date, we can discover new crap tips that way

Perhaps we should copy and paste naff tips in future. Oh but then we don't get the benefit of the cringesome pictures

DWP I am going to go and buy Take a Break and Pick Me Up from now on