Weirdest tip ever?

parsonswife8

Tiger_greeneyes wrote: »

A friend of mine years ago had a run of nosebleeds. I happened to pop around to see him one day out of the blue and he was sat looking very sorry for himself, with two of his mum's tampons up his nostrils.

I've still got tears of laughter in my eyes about the looped sanitary towel! I've given myself a headache through laughing so hard!

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I hope they weren't the super duper plus size, as it could have taken his nostrils quite a while to shrink back to normal size, if he'd had the tampons bunged up there for some time!

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Great thread!

KAAT_LADY

Hi there guys

I have never laughed so much reading these posts
and thought I would tell you about when I used to make wine and needed corks in the bottles I had spare.. I needed very clean corks and the only thing I could use ( so I thought) were tampons,,and you can imagine a row of bottles with tampon thread sticking out of them ,,its seemed to put people off ,,I dont know why ,,

DH has just said that to let a good bottle of claret breathe stick a tampon in the top to stop fruit flies in

KAAT xx

lauren_1

Stop it my sides are hurting!


I do however remember a while back when my brother tripped over his shoes lace at the top of the stairs, he fell in to the hoover which he was asked to put away and unfortunatly didnt wind up the lead and now has quite a funny 3 pin scar! He got some very awkward looks hobbling in to a&e with a newborn nappy gaffa taped to his bum cheek (with plug still in place)

betheebee

aloiseb wrote: »

I have several 1970s book of moneysaving tips, - i can't remember now if this one was in the Dave Hamilton one or the Jo Hatcher one. It's a tip for bargain Christmas decorations : - (sorry, a bit early even for us frugal people!.)
.:money:
"Get offcuts of metal from your local canning factory - where they have cut the circles out for the can bases, the leftover pieces are star shapes. Cut them apart and they make lovely shiny stars to hang on your tree!"
(...and now turn to pg 96 for tips on how to staunch the bleeding..... :eek:)

Oh ALOISEB, You have made me laugh so much my ribs are acheing, best laugh I've had in ages Thanks :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

bubbs

omg!!! i have been laughing soooooooooo much.
Mum used to say to us dont sit with your back to the fire you will be sick.......i mean bloomin heck as if!!!
Another 1 dont got out with wet hair you will catch a cold or
Dont go bed with wet hair you will catch a cold!!....the only thing i get if i go bed with wet hair is messy hair sticking up everywhere in the morning lmao

Beccatje

bubbs wrote: »

omg!!! i have been laughing soooooooooo much.
Mum used to say to us dont sit with your back to the fire you will be sick.......i mean bloomin heck as if!!!
Another 1 dont got out with wet hair you will catch a cold or
Dont go bed with wet hair you will catch a cold!!....the only thing i get if i go bed with wet hair is messy hair sticking up everywhere in the morning lmao

yep that was a biggun at our house as well; don't go out with wet hair, you'll be ill!! somehow that idea still sticks with a lot of people though. I heard a mum (my age) complain to the teacher at school. she didn't want her kid to shower after p.e. because they then had to walk back from the p.e. building to the school (a 5 minute walk) with wet hair!!
:rolleyes:

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

fluffalo wrote: »

Another ST one, I'm afraid.. I used to work in the sundry shop of a posh hotel and once when there was a fashion show on, two of the stylists came running in to buy ST for the male models - to stick in their armpits to stop sweat stains from showing on the clothes!

My mum told me of a woman she knew who used ST's in the bottom of her bra cups as she suffered from a "sweaty undercarriage".......unfortunately people only found out she used them for this purpose this after she drunkenly removed her bra at a Christmas party and left it on the floor of the hotel reception........:eek:

Cornishpixie_2

Myself and DD ill, so gave kids a treat, breakfast in the front room. Anyhoo little one making a right mess, so in exasperation I said "If you feed the sofa it will bit your bum. Naughty mummy!. Ofcourse he flicked all the crumbs onto the carpet and said oh never mind the sofa might eat them:rotfl: That boy will go far. My Cousins daughter fund little mice to play with in mummy's handbag, the morning after she had gone clubbing. I as babysitter took my role very seriously and nearly wet myself laughing.:D

grandma

I would like to say a big thank you to all the people who have contributed to this thread.I was feeling a bit low when I began but I feel great after laughing at some of the posts.
Re the person who gets the name of family members,my youngest son(child number 4) was always called everybody elses name before I got to his, sometimes his name came after the cat's.

JayJay14

I always thought the daftest thing my mum used to say was that you couldn't wear clothes straight off the washing line as they had to be 'aired' in the airing cupboard - I mean how much air does clothing need and doesn't it get enough outside:rotfl:

My mil once dragged a t shirt off my oh's back (literaly!!!) and insisted it had to go in the tumble drier as he culdn't wear it off the line - then she ironed it with a steam iron - it was damper when she had finished than when she started.