Makes me feel a bit faint, just thinking about it...
I suffer from skin tags around my neck. Nothing serious, just looks like I'm wearing a necklace of moles and sticky-out bits of skin, sometimes. So once, I had a big one that was getting on my tits - it was rubbing against my collar, and catching when I took my top off. This has to go, thought I.

Given that I couldn't be bothered to go to the doctor for such a piffling trifle, I decided to do it myself. The method of tying string around it didn't work - it just slipped off and irritated it even more. Then, whilst cutting my toenails, I had a marvellous idea.

A pair of toenail clippers have sharp blades, upon which quite a lot of pressure can be exerted. Enough, I can guarantee, to cut off a skin tag from one's neck. It didn't hurt too much - a bit of a nip, and it was gone.

However, what I hadn't banked on was the amount of blood that would then pour from the wound. I had to sit down on the bed. My missus had to do likewise, because the sight of me looking like I'd been necking with Dracula was making her feel woozy too.

Eventually I managed to get up and get a tissue, but by this time there was quite a bit blood stain on the bed. A couple of plasters soon stemmed the flow, but I'd learnt my lesson. Now I just wait for them to die and fall off naturally - they look a bit like tiny raisins, or dried out bogies after a night on the snuff.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:54, 9 replies)

Yeah I have a couple of them. It was only the other day when the girlfriend said what's that on your neck etc? Said I have had these for years, oh I never noticed them before then she thought it would be ok to start picking at it with her nails. WTF are you doing woman!?!
(Headsbollockskuntz, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 16:04, closed)

I cut one off with a pair of scissors once...
.... for a little thing it didn't half bleed too.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 16:07, closed)

Same here
Did exactly the same thing to a skin tag on my eye-lid with a pair of nail clippers when I was about 14.

It bled so much I had to tie a towel to the side of my head and let it bleed out. My mum came back from work and went absolutely fucking ballistic. She thought I'd cut my eyelid off for some reason.
(geegee, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 16:42, closed)

A friend of the family who had them used to call them coco-pops
Nasty. Apparently the trick is to tie them up with very fine string (i.e. fishing cord) and they'll drop off overnight.

I presume you can then have them with a bowl of milk for breakfast.
( John Q Wagonwheel Spent, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 16:48, closed)

I call them rice krispies
After reading several pages of this qotw I'm trying to persuade Mr Box to let me try and get rid of his
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Sat 22 Jan 2011, 0:20, closed)

I had a long thin one hanging under my armpit
which caught on clothes and bled now and then.

One day, I nipped it off nice and cleanly with the nail clipper. Examined it, fascinated, for ten minutes - it was like a tiny turd - while I pinched the wound shut, and then slapped some nice stingy surgical spirit around.

I was warned that it might grow again but have had no further trouble, either then or in the 30 years since.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 17:07, closed)

Apparently, ones under the armpit are often supernumerary nipples - I hope you didn't accidentally lop off a nip :S
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 19:29, closed)

Yeah, I've got them too
Occasionally one will start to turn dark coloured and fall off. A few months back I had one which was quite big and doing just that. I decided to cut it off. To that end, I got a hold of it betwixt thumb and forefinger, and pulled gently to see where it was attached.

It disintegrated. Half of it came away in my hand. The remaining half started to bleed. So I took a pair of sharp scissors, sterilised them with hand gel(!) and cut off the rest of it. It was surprisingly painless. Bled like hell though.

A couple of sticking plasters and all was well. It healed in a couple of days and the scar was pretty much invisible thereafter.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 18:17, closed)

Same here!
On my neck - bit of blood, but a hot piece of metal cauterised it!
(Iggy Pop's Teeth, Sat 22 Jan 2011, 2:14, closed)