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

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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:
helsteeth · 04/02/2009 21:58

Definitely Plantsitter - although it would definitely take some teeth gritting on my part, it would be worth it for the comedy value!

TheOldestCat · 04/02/2009 22:02

I vote for Paperchase - made me snort with laughter (despite having a stuffed-up nose!)

whinegums · 04/02/2009 22:16

Habbibu gets my vote - if you've got cold, stay at home!

Spockster · 04/02/2009 22:17

Hassled.
Some of these are totally nuts. Have we progressed not at all in the last century?

mummypig · 04/02/2009 22:31

I vote for Rhubarb
but I think I'm the first one to do so.

TheBurnsifiedEffect · 04/02/2009 22:32

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GrimbleTheResourceful · 04/02/2009 22:39

Oh it has to be StarlightMcKenzie, disgusting but brilliant.

Rachmumoftwo · 04/02/2009 22:44

3littlefrogs (tip 1)

Washing hands is such a simple thing, but so effective. I recently worked at a school that had antibacterial gel in every room and had the best attendence record in the county.

morocco · 04/02/2009 22:45

paperchase gets my vote

Olipop · 05/02/2009 07:16

rhubarb...the tonic idea for kids is great.

Tiggiwinkle · 05/02/2009 07:24

Tonyalmeida

MotherOfGirls · 05/02/2009 07:46

Plantsitter - looking forward to trying this one!

DisasterArea · 05/02/2009 07:57

Paperchase

'offer to get gun and shoot them'

am priming rifle a i speak..... look out for newspaper headlines.

hel9a · 05/02/2009 08:33

Sidge's tip

(Echinea tincture really does seem to prevent the virus from taking hold if you take it at the first sign of a cold)

fatzak · 05/02/2009 08:38

Habbibu- agree that we should accept that we need to stay at home to avoid spreading a cold.

MaryBSnowing · 05/02/2009 08:45

I vote for Habbibu

SlubberdegullionMaNaMaNa · 05/02/2009 08:52

Habbibu

meep · 05/02/2009 09:06

paperchase

purplemonkeydishwasher · 05/02/2009 09:12

Paperchase

kslatts · 05/02/2009 11:14

paperchase

Lemontart · 05/02/2009 14:06

Thumbwitch Tip 2 - oh so true. Convinced that is where I picked up my next round of viruses from!

laurensam · 05/02/2009 14:13

I'm voting Paperchase

NormaLeighLucid · 05/02/2009 14:26

Parachutes, all they way, makes me want to go and make one and sooth myself, sounds yummy.

troutpout · 05/02/2009 14:32

Zazen ..aka jack bauer (tip 1)

Libra · 05/02/2009 14:32

Stay at home. I'd rather one person was off work briefly than seven people sneezing and groaning all round me because of the extra infection. Work at home, I say! Habbibu