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Adding vinegar to the end of the tomato ketchup bottle...

Using matches to space the tiles when tiling the bathroom...

Putting an egg in the car radiator when it was leaking...

Putting girls hair in rags at night...

Making a fray bentos pie feed four of you...

Rubbing doc leaves on nettle stings...


I'm sure there are loads more

I still do that!  Never works though.

Doc leaves is a classic.I fell head first in nettles when i was about 6.My parents spent hours looking for doc's .

I have been tidying the farmhouse garden for the weekend and been going through a lot of nettles and thus making use of the doc leaves, it does work but you really have to crush up the leaves not just spit on them.

I had a similar experience.  I was learning to ride my bike without the stablisers on and had just got the hang of it - I was going along fast and steady and my mum shouted out  'that's brilliant - don't stop'.  Being an obediant child I didn't stop, even when the fence was right in front of me with a big growth of nettles in front of it :(

they never found any then?

my dad swore u should use egg whites on burns

our cure for hiccups was a teaspoon of sugar and vinegar - yum :)

Another one has to be, certainly with my generation (probably not the, ahem, older blondes) is parents loved to collect ornaments, we dont!

tell me about it, my mum's house is full of the horrible things  ::)

Errr I collect ornaments...does that make me old?

 ;whistle; ;shame;

Your going to have to explain this to me.

I have been creating all sorts of ideas / images and can't come up with a sensible one.

Frying an egg on a car bonet / engine I have heard of.

Is it cracked into it to somehow seal the leak  :dontask:?

Only classy ones though...........ok I confess I LOVE Lladro, probably you young uns wont get it but Lladro is Spanish porcelain and the detail, work and love that go into these pieces is breathtaking. They are all hand made and the craftmen have to be trained for 10 years before they get on the floor.

I dont have the money to buy what I would like but I can honestly say I get real pleasure just looking at those I have.

My mum used to send me to the shops for a packet of Dr Whites and "make sure he puts it in a bag" only found out a couple of years ago what it was.

Yup, if the radiator leaked, stick some raw eggs in, especially if you are about to sell it to some prospective buyer. Cheaper than Radweld. And some heavy grade oil would temporarily help with oil leaks & big end rattles.

They're still looking...

Where is Reddog when you need him?
This is just his kind of post - and I bet he stills does things like the vinegar in the sauce bottle.
In fact he could probably do a whole article on what to use vinegar for.
I'll start off - cleaning windows..... 

We use to mend punctured bike tyres with a mixture of milk and flour. It worked great, but if you happened to have another puncture in the same tyre a few months later, the escaping air smelled like it was coming directly from Satan's bottom.

It happened to my brother Tracy once, a fine spray of foulest liquid you could ever imagine spurted from his front wheel and traced a thin line right through the middle of his face, some of it finding it's way into his mouth as he opened it to say "wtf?"

He almost sicked himself inside out. Happy days.

making you sit at the table until you finnished eating whatever mum had decided to cook, wether yoy liked it or not. i can remember sitting for hours..

now this wouldnt bother me too much, at least i was getting fed, but now when my son stays at his grans she ASKS HIM what he wants!!!

sitting at the table is a novelty nowadays
mothers cooking is a novelty nowadays
family meals are a novelty nowaday

not in my house, no tvs in the bedroom either!!!

I once had a TV in the bedroom,
I got the shock of my life.

 rotflmfao

 :redcard: don't go there.

Proper LOL, Kids all want to know what i'm laughing at.

putting sixpence peices in xmas pudding

stopping half way to the seaside for a picnic

changing channels when anything risque came on tv

have kippers for breakfast sunday morning

know the names of most of their neighbours

visit or have my grandparents over on a sunday

My Dads says his Aces always used to stand up.

Some people get flaccid with old age.

MY DAD USE TO SPIT ON HIS HANKIE TO CLEAN OUR FACES IF WE WERE OUT SOMEWHERE.

MY SON WOULD CALL CHILD LINE IF I DID THAT TO HIM...

we always had to call ppl older than us aunty and uncle whoever they were.

always have fish on a friday and stew on a saturday.