This year sees Eish! launching a brand new competition. We would like you, our readers, to send in your best tips. These can range from how to use an old shoe to start a lawnmower to using two old shoes to stop said lawnmower.

Old shoes? Really? No, of course not.

Let’s get serious: your tips should actually work and should have been tried (successfully) by you. If not, they may cause irreparable physical or emotional damage to the members of the Eish! editorial team who are going to test your tips and probably make a video clip of the best one.

How much money can you win? Oh dear. Due to the national FeesMustFall campaign, our collective purse strings are tied, so money isn’t part of the deal. BUT: what we can offer you is fame – if your tip is the best of the bunch, you will be crowned as our Top Tipster.

So, if you have a winning tip, send it to nelia.engelbrecht@nwu.ac.za , together with an explanation of when and why you’ve used the tip that you’ve entered. And please, don’t use the words “old shoes” and “lawnmower” in the same sentence ...

TOP TIPS:

new Eish! competition

Here are the results:

The Bushveld  17%

The seaside  76%

Home sweet home 7%