Weirdest tip ever?

competitionscafe

Save money on expensive personalised car number plates by simply changing your name to match your existing plate.
- Mr. KVL 741Y,

Don't waste money buying expensive binoculars. Simply stand closer to the object you wish to view.

Cheer loudly at 8.00pm each Saturday to fool the neighbours into thinking you have won the Lottery. '

Make shopkeepers feel like criminals and con men by carefully checking their change and holding bank notes up to the light before accepting them.

qwiksave

Thanks for reviving this thread I started way back in Feb! There's been some great additions! :rotfl:

On our way back from school one day we saw an unused tampon and this other mum and I were dreading any of our young kids picking it up as we may have some 'explaining to do'. But then the other mum told me that her older son had used some he found at home to make a log cabin! :rotfl::eek:

competitionscafe

Save money at Christmas by returning last year's cards to the sender with the simple inscription "Same to you".

Take one grape to the till. It won't register on the low-tech, insensitive scales so you will get it for free. Repeat this procedure 100 times or so and you have yourself a free bunch of grapes.

When visiting a motorway service station for a cup of tea and a slice of cake, make sure you arrange your bank loan or second mortgage before you get to the tills, saving time and embarrassment.

Only use the loo at work. Not only will you save money on toilet paper, but you'll also be getting paid.

For a new gambling opportunity, try sending £50 to yourself by Royal Mail.

Worried that your teeth will be stained after a heavy night drinking red I wine? Drink a bottle of white wine before going to bed, to remove the stains.

betheebee

Just read this in our local under looking back, Yesteryear

HOME HINT Where porridge is used as the food of hard working men it may be made thick and massy; but for children and young people (for whom it should be a daily dish) very thick porridge is too heavy.
It heats the blood and impairs the texture of the skin and can cause fainting, be sure to thin with water.

I wonder if they were OSing way back then and trying to make it go further.

Love this thread. Thanks QUICKSAVE for starting it.

cuca

This is an excellent thread :rotfl:

I just wanted to comment on the clothes that werent to be worn straight from the line - well this is still this case in some places :eek: . In the hot countries (like here in South Africa) the Putsi fly lays eggs in damp washing that is getting nice and warm on the line and then after a couple of days when you go to wear it, the little so and so's bury into your skin :eek: You need to iron to kill the blighters..



I cant top these funnies, but boy did I have some laughs..........

FairyElephant_2

My mum (via my Nan and Great-Gran I believe) still comes out with some weird superstitions:

Don't cross the knives on a dinner plate.

Don't pass someone else going the other way on the stairs (Ithink this is just at home, as it would be darn hard to avoid in work!).

Don't pair up the wrong socks together.

Don't put shoes on the table.

NEVER open an umbrella indoors.

If you spill salt, throw some over your left shoulder with your right hand.

Always say 'Good Morning Mr Blackbird' if you see one in the morning. Don't know why you don't have to acknowledge them in the afternoons......

...all the above are supposed to cause dire consequences, but no-one ever said WHAT these would be....

Never gives knives or scissors as a wedding present - it will 'split' the marriage within a year!

Don't ever give a purse as a gift without a coin in it - or the person will always be broke!

Don't have a bath or wash hair during 'that' TOTM - but never told why?

Don't go out with wet hair, you'll catch your death of cold! (I'm sure I learned in school that a cold was a virus - isn't it?).

MrsBartolozzi

FairyElephant wrote: »

My mum (via my Nan and Great-Gran I believe) still comes out with some weird superstitions:



Don't have a bath or wash hair during 'that' TOTM - but never told why?

).

I remember reading somewhere that this started when bath day was once a week and families shared bathwater, kinda makes sense then..:eek:

This is a great thread thanks guys,
MrsB.

Bongedone

FairyElephant wrote: »

Never gives knives or scissors as a wedding present - it will 'split' the marriage within a year!

My mother bought somebody a rolling pin for a wedding present inscribed with "To keep him in control". Within a week she had hit him across the head with it. He ended up needing stitches.

tessie_bear

squash loo rolls so kids find it harder to pull off more sheets

Skint_Catt

tessie_bear wrote: »

squash loo rolls so kids find it harder to pull off more sheets

Not a strange tip at all - all the Old Stylers know this one - and yes it works!