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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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

191 replies

notmumnettyenough · 24/03/2024 19:26

I don’t think I am so I’ll start and if you want to you can share your own mumsnet ‘failings/crimes’ in the comments 🤷‍♀️😂

I am not married
I am a SAHM
I don’t shower every day
My showers are at least 15 minutes long
I can’t drive
I don’t own a house or have a mortgage
I do things with my child even though they won’t remember it
I will have a big age gap between my children as we’re not planning to have another one before the first starts school
I am still breastfeeding
We co-sleep
I am not no-contact with either of my child’s grandparents
I enjoyed Baby Sensory
I don’t like wine
I don’t spend all my free time cleaning/tidying
I don’t mind making my partner lunch
I haven’t been to a wedding as an adult
I enjoy the toddler stage
I can’t make a chicken last multiple meals
I start buying Christmas presents on Boxing Day
I keep cards
I don’t limit screen time
We always go food shopping together
Me and dp always go to bed at the same time
I take my child with me when I meet up with friends
I don’t mind if the house gets messy/there’s toys everywhere as my little one plays
I feed my child food that I know they will eat
I parent as child-led as possible (if it’s not safe or harmful to anyone then I step in but other than that I encourage independence)
We don’t have a dishwasher or tumble dryer

There’s probably more 😂

OP posts:
Fannyfiggs · 24/03/2024 22:42

BigFluffyHoodie · 24/03/2024 20:30

Well you're certainly smug enough to be on Mumsnet.

Away you back to slagging off Harry and Megan 👋

mrlistersgelfbride · 24/03/2024 22:39

Then again:

I find answering the door can be a nuisance
I like Boden
My in-laws, especially MIL, are difficult
I find school mum cliques tricky
My partner could be described as lazy and useless, with niche hobbies

Femme2804 · 24/03/2024 22:29

I dont know if i am or not.

i’m 35 years old and never worked in my entire life.

i’m a SAHM

DH is high earner thats why i’m not working and i’m not bother to work.

shower three times a week

still co sleep with my 4 years old while DH sleep in other room with other son because the bed too small for 3 of us 😂

i’m breastfeeding until 3yo

I dont limit screen time

married but didnt take DH name

my kids eat cereal everyday

i let my mother in law live with us and turns out i hate it

i dont have mental health issues

i’m happily marriage

Yesyoucant · 24/03/2024 22:29

Helloandgoodmorning2 · 24/03/2024 20:19

I love friends popping over.

I always answer the door

I happily take parcels in for neighbours and pop them round when I know
that they are home.

I will always ask someone to move their bag if it is on a seat on a train or bus.

I like Aldi candles and all the other dupes (I once got complemented on my lovely JM Pomegranate Noir perfume by a woman who claimed she could recognise it anywhere; it was Aldi pomegranate hand gel I had just used!!!!)

My family gnaw a chicken bare in an instant

As I sit in my Aldi pomegranate fragranced room, I whole heartedly agree with you!

mrlistersgelfbride · 24/03/2024 22:27

I'm from a shit northern town and rarely go south of the midlands
I think 100k is a lot of money and a big combined wage
I get on with men better than women
My kid has plenty of screen time
I drink alcohol and have the occasional cigarette

Shetlands · 24/03/2024 22:16

I have no idea what the typical MNetter is! You all seem so different in many ways. Here's my sixpenn'orth:

Working class childhood - middle class profession & lifestyle
I hate cooking so I don't do it
I hate housework so I pay someone else to do it
I hated breastfeeding so stopped asap
I weaned my babies at 4mths
I love babies but toddlers are boring
My adult children seem to like me!
My carbon footprint is low but I love a bit of luxury
I used to read a lot but now it's all audio books
My screen time is excessive
I hate yoga
I'm a leftie who can't stand Corbyn & his tribe
I'm gender critical - gender is a social construct
I'm an atheist
I like most men as much as I like most women
I could be here all night but I've already bored myself!

hernamewaslolashewasaslowgal · 24/03/2024 22:11

Don't drive
In debt
Don't think all French women are universally stylish
Think most of what you get in Toast these days is overpriced and you can get similar in Sainsburys
Adored my MIL
Vegetarian (kids too / 1 is vegan)
Like teachers, think they do a great job
Hate spa days

Catsmere · 24/03/2024 22:06

I’m single, childfree, Australian, answer the door, don’t cook, don’t shower daily, don’t scour my bathroom, don’t drink alcohol, don’t smoke or vape and never have, and don’t feel remotely guilty about having put my mother into residential care after seven years as her carer.

maddiemookins16mum · 24/03/2024 22:04

I don’t have, never have had and unlikely to ever have a cleaner.
I smoke.
I earn less than 23K a year - full time.
I like my work colleagues very much.

Helpisso · 24/03/2024 21:57

I smoke
Enjoy alcohol
Have never used the word boundaries IRL …so patronising particularly when talking about GPs
Got on with MIL
Allowed my children to go to sleepovers and reciprocated
Never stayed at parties,drop of and run was normal

Ididivfama · 24/03/2024 21:55

Crazycatlady79 · 24/03/2024 20:20

  • I'm on disability benefits and live in an housing association flat with my DC
  • Despite being absolutely covered in tattoos, I'm articulate and highly intelligent
  • I don't drive
  • I don't drink
  • I am divorced, have no DP and have been happily single and celibate
  • I have healthy friendships, with zero drama
  • I like myself, despite my many flaws
  • I hate Boden and White Stuff
  • I don't helicopter parent, over-schedule or vet my DC's friendships
  • I'm not transphobic
  • I cringe every time someone mentions Penis Beaker
  • I think MN HQ are robots or male civil servants
  • Troll Hunters are heroes
  • I think big salads are fucking brilliant
  • I love the school run, when my health enables me to do it
  • I don't gentle parent, nor am I obsessed with 'punishing' minor infractions
  • my twins had Tablets when they were 2
  • I don't automatically assume everyone is Autistic or has ADHD
  • I have nothing negative to say about the NHS
  • I think teachers are great
  • I can't wait for my children to grow up, although I love them dearly
  • I have never had a negative experience with a Bully XL
  • I like children
  • Big salads are brilliant
  • Most of this is tangential
  • I hate labradorite and cocker spaniels
  • I love Jeremy Corbyn

You mentioned big salads twice! 🤣

Im not mumsnetty because Im not obsessed with a massive salad and don’t think you need to see children’s ribs. I eat sugar, probably far too much. No way will I be posting on those threads!
I don’t work full time.
I think it’s ok to be a sahm.
I don’t think you should give kids alcohol at a party.
I don’t think you should give a cup of tea to a toddler.
I also don’t hate surrogacy.
Im not anti trans although I do like JKR. (I know, not possible is it!)
I don’t like to attack the op when they’ve posted in AIBU because they are almost always vulnerable.

However, I am an introvert and terrible at answering the door or phone to an unknown!
I also almost always think the op should LTB. The relationship threads are dire.
I don’t like dogs in all cafes and jumping in my face.

QueSyrahSyrah · 24/03/2024 21:54

Now you mention it, I don't think I am.

  • We live in a one bedroom flat, will live here with our first baby and will upgrade to a two bedroom flat when we can.
  • We own 1 car between us and it's not an SUV nor on finance
  • I don't have a pension
  • DH is neither a waste of space nor abusive
  • He does not have a niche and outing hobby
  • He is fully in charge of all gifts, cards and social arrangements with his own family
  • Sometimes I go a day between showers
  • We struggle to make a roast chicken last 3 days between two people
  • I used to smoke and I loved it (other than the health implications)
  • I can polish off a bottle of red wine in a sitting and not be falling down drunk
  • I consider friends to be a blessing to be cherished, not an inconvenience to be tolerated
  • I love weddings
  • They'll need to peel my skinny jeans off my cold dead legs
GingerLiberalFeminist · 24/03/2024 21:52

I am married (second time)
I work full time
I don’t shower every day
My showers are at least 15 minutes long
I can drive
I own a house with a mortgage
I do things with my child even though they won’t remember it
I will only have 1 child but she has a posh name
I only breastfed for 12 weeks (kept getting thrush)
I never co-sleep
I enjoyed Baby Sensory
I don’t like wine (or booze at all)
I don’t spend all my free time cleaning/tidying
I don’t mind making my partner lunch
!no idea about toddler stage yet!
I do make a chicken last multiple meals
I start buying Christmas presents on Boxing Day
I keep cards
I enforce no screen time
We always go food shopping together
Me and dp always go to bed at the same time
I take my child with me when I meet up with friends
I do mind if the house gets messy/there’s toys everywhere as my little one plays
I feed my child food that I know they will eat
We do have a dishwasher and tumble dryer

MargaretOliphant · 24/03/2024 21:50

I absolutely LOVE my fake plastic grass. It’s a game changer. I also loved, and miss, my inflatable hot tub, which was never a sex pond (I can’t afford to run it any more)

RampantIvy · 24/03/2024 21:28

I don't have a handbag fetish
I don't like beige clothes camel coats
I don't have huge boobs
I don't find bras uncomfortable
I love my job
I like and get on with all of my family
husband and I have been happily married for over 40 years
I don't think that skinny jeans are unfashionable
I'm not an introvert
I don't hate summer
I don't have a problem engaging with strangers
I'm assertive but never rude or confrontational
I have never been invited to a hen do it wedding abroad
I don't have any unreasonable friends or family
I don't earn a 6 figure salary

BobbyBiscuits · 24/03/2024 21:24

I'm on benefits
I have no issue with trans people and am related to 2 of them.
No kids by choice
Not legally married
Hardly ever clean
Never go on holiday
Never really moan about money
I get the kind of middle class, English village kind of thing, and find it amusing despite living in central London and being an immigrant.
I have no siblings (at all)
or friends with kids, except neighbours

Not sure how Mumsnet or not that is...haha.

notmumnettyenough · 24/03/2024 21:20

Just going to add some more after reading the comments 😂
My partner doesn’t play golf or have an outing hobby
I say haitch and never thought that wasn’t right and still don’t 😂
We eat takeaways/fast food more than we should
I know I should eat less and exercise more but I don’t have the energy for that 🙈
I don’t have a pension
I don’t have any savings
I have autism
We have our own towels and don’t wash them after every use
I didn’t finish university (MH issues) so I don’t have a degree
I don’t understand fashion
I don’t wear make up
I live in leggings
Brushing my hair is my version of ‘doing my hair’
I don’t dye my hair (I used to but haven’t for years)

OP posts:
StBernie · 24/03/2024 21:20

I love my in-laws. I look forward to visiting them and them visiting us. In fact I like having visitors over in general and I like them making themselves at home, helping themselves to things etc.

I always eat way more than any of the posters on those ‘What have you eaten today?’ threads. Can’t tell if I’m just greedy or whether those threads are skewed because people are more likely to post if they eat healthily…

theduchessofspork · 24/03/2024 21:18

I have step kids and love them

Get on well with their mother /my partners ex

Always worked full time and wouldn’t want not to

Had v short mat leaves, pretty much non-existent in one instance (small business)

Did not breastfeed or want to

Had routines from the start, not actual Gina Ford but baby whisperer

Co-sleeping: work of the devil

My teens board

I don’t batch cook or cook from scratch we eat preprepped M and S type things

I get on with all my family and my in laws and my step kids mum’s family, no one is low contact or no contact or grey rocking

I have drifted apart from friends but no friend dramas as an adult ever

I am messy and my cleaner tidies and well as cleans, I don’t feel embarrassed about this

I have no position on loo brushes or showering habits

I do schedule sex (with my partner, not randomers) because the alternative is hardly ever having it and I think that is a relationship wrecker

I am quite happy to eat in restaurants alone, go to the cinema alone

We have family meetings (I don’t know if that’s unmumsnetty but people really rip the piss IRL)

PinkPelicans · 24/03/2024 21:11

I roll my eyes in disbelief at 99% of the threads and posts on them, so not very Mumsnet I suppose.

skippy67 · 24/03/2024 21:08

I had dc with. (now dh) before we got married. We also had a house together prior to getting married
We don't share finances.
I love football.
I don't drink tea.
I love wine.
I don't mind dh going out without me.
We've never scheduled (forced) "family time."

Airyfairy99 · 24/03/2024 21:06

I just dont give a fck to be honest. I love mumsnet and its helped me immensely over the past 18 years ! Dont care if i fit in or not.

Poachedeggavocado · 24/03/2024 21:04

daisychain01 · 24/03/2024 19:44

Oh yes you do. I've changed the roolz ❤️

I second this motion, therefore you're officially 'in' forever x

Simonjt · 24/03/2024 21:02

I’m a man
I genuinely love everything about my husband, including the fact that he has hobbies
I don’t have a tinkly laugh
I eat more than a thimble of food at each meal
I smoke and vape
Our children sometimes misbehave

ZenNudist · 24/03/2024 21:02

Mumsnet is a very broad church. There's all sorts on here. I always think it's strange when people start claiming they aren't like all the other girls (& boys). There's even a very long running "witches" thread for example.

Also when media treat Mumsnet like There's a prevailing opinion (see all the Tory and Labour stooges here trying to win the election by stealth). Spend 5 minutes on any thread and you'll see that diversity of views is the order of the day.

Swipe left for the next trending thread