Things you should not do...

VJsmum

Don't cook your chicken or turkey with the plastic bag of giblets still in it.

Don't leave furniture polish on your dressing table and then mistake for hairspray

Don't put knives with plastic handles into your jacket spuds to speed up the cooking :eek:

sillyvixen

i remember a family holiday in my childhood, we stayed in a very posh cottage belonging to my gran's boss. my mum took our melamine caravan plates (we used those as all the plates provided were very expensive and were worried about breakages). my Dad had gone on a walk and was expected back anytime. we went and got fish and chips expecting him to be back when we got back. unfortunatly Dad got lost and my gran put his fish and chips between 2 melamine plates to keep warm in the oven! the plates melted and combined with the fish and chips creating a right mess. it took the rest of the week for the smell of burning plastic to clear.

sillyvixen

when your printer has run out of ink you find a recipe on line dont be tempted to take an apple laptop (that you will never be able to afford to replace) into the kitchen to follow the recipe. whilst creaming the butter and sugar i caught the lappy with my elbow and it shattered on the tiled floor!! not only that i made up the rest of the recipe and it came out as a blackened solid mass.
not only had i trashed my beloved lappy i wasted several items in my baking cupboard.
i now have a stack of recipes written on the back of envelopes.

kboss2010

Don't buy the sunscreen with the "odd coloured brown label" if you're a bloke. My OH did this and, once applied, he stepped out into the sunlight... And was sparkling like Edward Cullen (the vampire from Twilight!) lol. All the way out the door all I heard was "who puts glittery s*** in sun cream?!"

He didn't have time to shower as he was off to meet a bunch of his mates to climb a cliff face - he still hasn't lived it down to this day!

savetosave

New_start wrote: »

Mine was putting the pot of my slow cooker in the oven with the lid on to try to speed up the heating up of the contents, but I completely forgot that lid had a plastic handle!

Omg I did exactly the same thing, I felt a right
idiot.

RuthnJasper

pigpen wrote: »

or germolene.


and don't hand cream your feet before running down carpeted stairs..

Especially if you have a moulting dog...

RuthnJasper

Artytarty wrote: »

Don't mistake the bottle of fluoride for baby drops on the bedside table table for errrr.....lubricant.

This one brought tears to my eyes... Ouwwwch!

atolaas

sillyvixen wrote: »

i remember a family holiday in my childhood, we stayed in a very posh cottage belonging to my gran's boss. my mum took our melamine caravan plates (we used those as all the plates provided were very expensive and were worried about breakages). my Dad had gone on a walk and was expected back anytime. we went and got fish and chips expecting him to be back when we got back. unfortunatly Dad got lost and my gran put his fish and chips between 2 melamine plates to keep warm in the oven! the plates melted and combined with the fish and chips creating a right mess. it took the rest of the week for the smell of burning plastic to clear.

This reminded me of an incident from my childhood too...my Mum had melamine plates that she used at BBQ's to stop our everyday ones getting covered in charred pieces of meat etc. We has an electric oven with halogen hobs. I didn't realise that my Mum had not long finished cooking on the hobs and put my melamine plate down on the hobs so I could help Mum in the kitchen. When I came back to get my plate it had melted, cooled and stuck fast to the hobs!!! We never did get all the plastic off the hobs :eek:

RuthnJasper

atolaas wrote: »

This reminded me of an incident from my childhood too...my Mum had melamine plates that she used at BBQ's to stop our everyday ones getting covered in charred pieces of meat etc. We has an electric oven with halogen hobs. I didn't realise that my Mum had not long finished cooking on the hobs and put my melamine plate down on the hobs so I could help Mum in the kitchen. When I came back to get my plate it had melted, cooled and stuck fast to the hobs!!! We never did get all the plastic off the hobs :eek:

I've done that one. Also set fire to a tea-cosy when I put it on top the grill unit... Thankfully learned from experience

trailingspouse

From OH - don't put after-sun on in the dark (to avoid turning on the light in the en-suite and waking me up). The next morning he realised it was, in fact, my self-tan...

From me - don't leave the bottle of home-made sloe gin in the bottle with the dodgy lid, given as a Christmas present, in the living room where the kids can knock it over and it can slowly spill out onto the carpet during the entire Christmas period before anyone gets round to tidying up. We never did manage to get rid of the sticky patch.