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NOW CLOSED: Vote for your top sniffle-busting tip - and you could win £500 of Center Parcs vouchers!

469 replies

HelenMumsnet · 03/02/2009 16:04

Hello. A while ago, all you lovely Mumsnetters gave us some brilliant tips for surviving winter colds and sniffles. Well, now we want to know which of those tips you think is the very best of all.

And, thanks to the very nice folk at Kleenex Anti-Viral Tissues, everyone who votes for their top tip will be in with the chance to win £500 of Center Parcs vouchers.

All you need to do is check out the tips and then click on the link at the bottom to come back to this thread and post the name of the Mumsnetter whose tip you liked best. (Some Mumsnetters have got more than one tip on the list, so if you're voting for one of them, please specify tip 1 or tip 2).

All votes must be posted on this thread by the closing date: midnight on Tuesday 24th February. Good luck!

OP posts:
fossa · 04/02/2009 13:22

Whomovedmychocolate (tip 1)

hophophippidtyhop · 04/02/2009 13:43

I vote for sidge, didn't realise how well the echinacea worked til I couldn't take it when pregnant!

renaldo · 04/02/2009 14:35

MrsGrouchoMarxMerryHenry has to have the top tip!

whomovedmychocolate · 04/02/2009 14:42

I'm voting for myself and advocating not licking toddlers (as a general rule as well as when they have colds!)

I learned early on blow the sore bits away rather than kiss it better.

andyrobo237 · 04/02/2009 14:44

Leoness - I vote for that one!!! Having just 'suferef' amn lu, I wish I had see this earlier

herbietea · 04/02/2009 14:49

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IwishIwasmoreorganised · 04/02/2009 14:52

MrsGrouchoMarxMerryHenry gets my vote!

flamingtoaster · 04/02/2009 14:54

Plantsitter because it made me laugh - it's a great tip and laughing is good for the immune system.

theboob · 04/02/2009 14:56

whomovedmychocolate (tip2)

redmum2 · 04/02/2009 15:34

I vote for Zazen (tip 1) - love the thought of everyone wandering around with their gloves on!

JacksShepherdess · 04/02/2009 16:26

I'm with paperchase!

silverfrog · 04/02/2009 16:36

MrsGrouchoMarxMerryHenry (tip 2)

MrsE · 04/02/2009 16:40

paperchase

Stretch · 04/02/2009 16:49

HuwEdwards

Hangingbellyofbabylon · 04/02/2009 16:53

paperchase. My dh always says 'if you were a dog I'd have you put to sleep' when I'm complaining about being ill..

Cantandwont · 04/02/2009 16:58

Starlightmackenzie's toast tip - I am now a much happier camper as a result of some slowly eaten dry toast...

mistlethrush · 04/02/2009 17:01

Flossish - online deliveries, mn and stay in!

hewlettsdaughter · 04/02/2009 18:44

Threadworm

iMum · 04/02/2009 18:51

If you've got gunk at the back of your throat that's preventing you sleeping, nibble at dry toast without chewing it much. It kinda 'scrapes' the gunk down with it and gives your throat a nice gentle scratch at the same time. StarlightMcKenzie

ScummyMummy · 04/02/2009 18:59

slur's garlic, lemon and honey tip is my favourite. I like that it doesn't involve going out to find special ingredients .

SmallShips · 04/02/2009 20:42

Paperchase.

MamaG · 04/02/2009 20:46

PAperchase

travellingwilbury · 04/02/2009 20:49

I am voting for whomovedmyhocolate too but I don't want to win .

£500 in Centre parcs vouchers will get me about a day and a half there in the school holidays

Maybe 2 1/2 days but still not enough for my liking

stephla · 04/02/2009 21:09

Thumbwitch (tip 2) gets my vote

lyra41 · 04/02/2009 21:21

I vote for 3littlefrogs (tip 2 )

hope I win, I always wondered what centreparcs was like, but felt it was too expensive to try.