To ask if you’re mumsnetty enough to be on mumsnet? 😂

Where is hq?

I don't have a car. I live in a flat.

Though in terms of income, aspirations, and politics, I probably am typical. I even live under 10 miles from mumsnet hq!

They very strong views feel very mumsnet to me

I love dogs. I actively prefer pubs and cafes that allow dogs.
My dds were never nightmare teens.
I change bedding when I think about it, could be a month.
Ditto towels, unless they actually look grubby.

We are a shoes-on house.
I don’t need anyone making a fuss on ordinary adult birthdays.
We have 3 toilet brushes in this house.
When we had a dog, I always let her lick plates and dishes before they went in the dishwasher. Roasting tins and fish pie dishes were her favourites. 🐶. She was as good as a Brillo pad.
I’d run a mile from any spa day or any other ‘pampering’ treatment that would involve being mauled about.
As far as I’m concerned, a ‘deep clean’ is a term correctly applied only to operating theatres.

I will however confess to getting 3 meals out of a chicken.

I answer the phone and the front door
I don't take my bra off when I get home
I don't wear pyjamas all day if I'm not going anywhere
I don't have an iPhone

I don't earn six figures
I don't mind my MIL
I don't care if people get my title wrong
I like dogs
I'm not orthorexic

I dont hate people or find them all exhausting or 'drama' so that's my MN badge revoked.
I live in a flat because I like living in a flat.
I won't be charging my DC rent
I dont think the UK is as terrible as many say it is
Lots of other stuff but these will do for now

What I love about these threads is how the items lists of things the poster does or is that they think are un-mumsnetty completely contradict other items on other lists of apparently un-mumsnetty things.

It's absolutely gold when a post comes directly after another and is the exact opposite of it.

I use elderly loo brushes to clean toilets (possibly not quite as elderly as those of @Catsmere though 😅)
I don't obsess about house cleanliness at all and don't recall me or anyone else in the house ever washing skirting boards.
Perfectly happy to share towels with other family members.
Get on well with our neighbours and happily help out, take in parcels etc.
Always answer the door.
Look forward to unexpected guests.
I happily eat out of code food without checking on MN if I'm likely to die.
Have four cats but only one litter tray.
Don't bother with pet insurance.
My biggest MN sin however is that I'm male.

Not sure about 6 meals from a chicken & all that, the only thing I’ve noticed over the years is that the typical mumsnetter is:

female.
heterosexual.
has children.
politically left leaning.
working class with middle / uppercase aspirations. Although many are very middle class & nothing wrong with that.
25 - 55 age range.

and that’s it.
so in that respect I’m a typical mumsnetter.

I eat more than 3 calories worth of food a day
im absolutely fking skint and earn less than 30k a year and live in a flat

I work full time but my salary is £27K a year, not 6 figures (wish it was!).

I have 4 children by two different men, I have a good relationship with both of them and we go on holidays all together. They pay me maintenance and see their kids every weekend.

My husband is 20 years older than me, he's not a perv and I'm not a gold digger, we just fell in love. I don't hate him, our relationship is wonderful and our sex life is great.

We rent, mainly because it's almost impossible for us to get a mortgage without the monthly repayments crippling us.

One of my kids won't eat any veg, yes I worry he'll die of scurvy but I don't force the issue.

I smoke (not near the kids though!)

I hate alcohol and rarely drink.

Most of my friends are men, not for sexual reasons, there's no underlying sexual tension from any of them, I just 'gel' better with men and find women or female groups hard to bond with.

I wash my towels weekly.

I shop in Aldi.

I love my elderly catholic mother in law and my sister in law. Both have always been warm and welcoming and have never overstepped boundaries or tried to push between myself and my husband.

A roast chicken only lasts for one meal in my home

Yeah, some of them are. There are people saying "I work full time" and "I'm a SAHM" there's a pretty good mix of each on MN so I don't think working status is really relevant!

Also people saying "my house isn't spotless" that's not anti MN at all, if anything it's the other way round.

There’s so much of the MN crap in this thread that’s supposed to be unMN.

See I’m reading a lot of these supposedly un-MN things and thinking how very MN, so that just goes to show how perceptions of a place can differ.

I love that shirt 😆

https://www.boden.co.uk/en-gb/sienna-embroidered-shirt-passion-fruit-lemons/sty-t1555-mlt

£90 for this horrible shirt. I just don’t get it.

I EAT WITH MY KNIFE IN MY LEFT HAND.

I think joint bank accounts are stupid.

Struggling to potty train my 3 year old.

I hardly drink any alcohol.

Couldn’t give less of a fuck about UPF.

DC1 had A LOT of jars and pouches.

I am yet to take my 3 year old to a single ‘class’.

During a job interview, the manager mentioned they really liked Boden. I nodded along, but had never heard of it. 7 years later it’s still out of my price range.

I'm not mumsnetty enough

-I don't hate state school
-I don't hate private school
-I take hour long baths and do deep exfoliation
-I don't take two minute showers and wash myself with my hand
-I'm a SAHM
-I love and like DH
-DH does 50% of housework outside of office hours
-DD10 has a phone and an iPad

-I have the ability to comprehend that people who are significantly better off than I am, still struggle with things, including finances
-I recognise that "get a better (insert product, job or lifestyle here)" isn't always feasible for lots of people.
-I don't judge those who are worse off than me
-I don't take enjoyment in kicking people who are worse off than me while they're already down

I am not a misandrist.
As this seems to be the absolute golden rule on here, I'll shut the door on my way out

I don't have kids.
Don't like giving head a wobble.
Don't do joint finances.
DH earns enough, no management ambitions.
Neither of us drives.
I wouldn't have a clue how to make a chicken feed 5,000 for 6 meals.

I hate the chicken joke that always rolls out in these threads. Every.Single.Time.

Not amusing in the slightest, probably never even happened.

😂😂😂

I don't have children
I don't own a house
I don't drive
I don't always shower every day, change my towels/clothes after each use/wear
I have long showers
I eat UPFs and beige food
I'm not vegan/vegetarian
I answer the door
I don't live in the UK
I'm not houseproud
I don't really like cooking and I hate baking
I don't blame my parents for everything wrong in my life
I don't think everything is "grim" or "disgusting"
If a man I don't know speaks to me I don't have a fit

No dishwasher or tumble dryer (my space is tiny).
No driving licence.
No 6 figure salary.
I brought my child up in a flat.
No air fryer. Yet.
I change my sheets when I think about it. Maybe 2-3 weeks.
I shower every other day.
My daughter had unlimited screen time from the age of 11.