Asking 'stupid' questions.........?

Grr, posted too soon. Once a month a lady comes in to buy this jewellery. She makes new pieces of jewellery using the old pieces. I take in anything I have which is no longer wearable.

Franski one possible answer to the earing question.....a charity shop near me accepts broken, oddments of jewellery

Thsnks so much for the loo advice.

Here's another couple of stupid (trivial) questions!

Hanging up laundry on the line. I do what I have always seen other people do which is not to stretch the clothes out with the pegs but to leave some 'give' - j presume it's to catch the breeze and dry more easily. Or is it just to save space on the line?

What do people do with: an earring that's lost its pair? I have a box of about 30 odd earrings saved over the years....too nice to throw away and the other one might turn up- but never does.

Bleach bottles and toilet cleaners have an extended neck which easily reach under the rim as you squirt the bleach/cleaner around the rim.

And for some reason our local Tesco stopped some time ago the DUCK fresh brush replacement pads. Then for some reason I thought I'd have a look on Amazon - and there they were! I agree with you Mabon1 - they're the most hygienic to use.

Can you still get Brillo pads? I must say I haven't seen them for a long time. Used to use them for so many things.

Exactly. If you don't know the answer, it can't be a stupid question.

Buy the DUCK fresh brush with refills. You can use the cleaning pads under the rim. I hate lavatory brushes but these cleaning pads are great and you can flush them down the lavatory. I've been using them for ages, do a wonderful job

For the loo I use Steradent. Put acouple of tablets down every night and brush some of the resulting sollution round the rim, This is not instant by any means but does work and can also remove the deposits round old taps.

I always remember a teacher saying there was no such thing as a stupid question! Every question was valid.

As a lecturer for most of my working life, I used to tell students that "the only stupid question is the one you don't ask!".

I believe I did a good job - and in fact I loved to think of alternative ways of explaining things to anyone who hadn't "got it" first time round.

Harpic Power Plus is very effective on stained limescale marks. It has an angled spout which will squirt "up and under". It's much stronger than bleach and needs very careful handling. I left a bottle on the loo lid and a dribble melted the plastic.

Clean with Brillo pad and marigolds on.

And plenty of bleach.

When next the desire to sit on the bathroom floor pounces upon me, I shall take good care to do so, where I cannot see up under the rim of the toilet bowl, after reading this.

I often wonder who the misguided parents , teachers, nannies or governesses were who invented the "stupid" question.

I have spent forty years or thereabouts telling school-children that yes, there are stupid questions - all those you don't ask, for fear of sounding stupid.

Asking for information or help can never be stupid. Not doing so, often is.

I was taught that the only 'stupid question', is the one that you don't ask.

It's only a form of words. Like the British thing of saying 'sorry' even when someone else walks into you. It didn't stop us building an Empire!

The only stupid question is the one you don't ask and make a wrong decision as a result of assuming something

I am going to try Dripak citric acid crystals in our loo. Well reviewed. I will shoosh the water out of the bowl with a loo brush and follow the instructions. Hopefully it will be ok to use some diluted on a sponge or brush round the rim. But I will read the instructions and make sure
Hard water in this area is the main problem.

When DD moved into a rental property the loo was awful. We bought some concentrated descaler from Ebay then emptied the water to add some product to the bowl and stuffed cotton wool soaked with it under the rim. It took a few attempts but came up like new.

Me too Calendargirl

How many of us didn’t put our hands up in school to ask a question, because we thought we were the only stupid one who didn’t understand what the teacher had told us?

Me, for one.

windmill1

You have to be very, very wary of Googling information about anything to do with health.

A lot of sites are set up to sell you a product which claims to work wonders (with plenty of caveats), and many are just outright quackery by pseudo "medics".

But, sometimes, there are nuggets of sound advice - but you really have to dig for it.

I always look at the NHS website. Thus bypassing the advertising and misinformation sites.

Isn’t bleach squirted under the rim, the way to clean it? A rimless loo sounds good.

You have to be very, very wary of Googling information about anything to do with health.

A lot of sites are set up to sell you a product which claims to work wonders (with plenty of caveats), and many are just outright quackery by pseudo "medics".

But, sometimes, there are nuggets of sound advice - but you really have to dig for it.