Threads that have stayed with you

Riven, who had a severely disabled DD and one day she posted that she was so desperate that she was considering putting her DD into care.

It was a classic example of how things can go wrong when people take to social media. Mn’ers tagged all the tabloids on twitter and before too long Riven had the tabloids outside her house.

She left MN shortly after that because by posting about her on SM she, and her vulnerable DD, had become identifiable.

Always wonder what happened to her. Her DD would be an adult now I think.

Misdee whose DH had a heart transplant, he got the call one night and mn’ers were on tenterhooks to see if it would go ahead. This was back in the day when MN was smaller and everyone knew who everyone was. I often wonder what happened to her DH, If I remember rightly they had loads more kids after his transplant.

Yonks ago now but the threads about a large building being built in the garden next door, when it really wasn't big enough for the size of the building.
I think it built as a garden gym but was clearly going to be used as a residence.

Also the poster who had a shared garden where all the surrounding properties had just windows looking onto it, and someone had changed the window to a door, leading to structural problems.

Lastly, wasn't there a guy who got miffed and wanted onto the poster's essay?

Pom bears was around the time I joined Mumsnet. I only stayed for that, lol!!

Ooh please link the fashion one!

There was a brilliantly funny one a few years ago; a poster's road was being resurfaced next day, warnings not to park everywhere, idiots kept parking. She warned two young men who were then rude to her, telling her to mind her own business. Later, she watched cars being craned, towed etc. Almost live updates.
It showed some people's entitlement very well. I was rocking with laughter. She also wrote very well, which helps. Would love to read it again.

If someone could link these threads for us 'reasonably' new MNers I'd be very grateful 😀

I'd like to add, one that resurrected lately, a lady posted asking for a handhold. Found out she was pregnant after a long journey of losses, the thread was updated right up to the healthy little girls birth. When I saw her photo I burst into tears. She added a family photo too, including her and their dog, the image of a perfect family, you wouldn't guess what they'd been through and she was the picture of health.

Has anyone mentioned the Xmas thread where the OP was sneaking out at night and decorating a neighbours garden / pavement every night and including pics with updates

Think it was centred round a small ‘No Parking’ sign he had for the space outside his house

Her kids didn’t even know it was her doing it even though she was creating the scene using their old toys

Ohh I re read the Savernake forest one recently, I kept thinking about it for the rest of the week. Then scared myself walking in the woods 🤣

I also wonder about the poster who didn’t pass a bowel movement for a month or something but the post was removed. I hope if it was real she was ok!

Barbara, the allotment squatter. Think that was a trilogy thread in the end?

Haven’t RTFT yet, only got half way through, but wanted to add one that always sticks in my mind. It was a lady who had emigrated to New Zealand with her DH and kids, he was from there and I think they either lived with his family or were very involved with his family, who were very controlling and abusive, a family business was involved too, and she wanted to leave him and take the kids back to London as she hated it so much, but couldn’t. It went on for a few years, she kept updating it and had made progress and moved to her own place but was still stuck in NZ. Last time I checked I think she hadn’t updated since lockdown and I often wonder how she’s doing now.

Mexican house theif regularly gets mentioned but it was never a thread just one post on a very long thread about cheeky fuckers

There was a really sad one. A mum called something like sea of sadness. She had her kids taken into care for neglect and was obviously devastated. I think she was a bit in denial of what the issues were but I hope she resolved things and got her daughters back. It was really heartbreaking.

The lady who's daughter died after having tonsillitis always sticks with me it was heartbreaking.

There was a thread on her about 6 years ago from a lady who's 2 year old daughter fell from a bunk bed and passed away from her injuries 😢. It was removed at her request not long after and she hasn't posted on here since. I never see it mentioned on these kind of threads but it's always stuck with me poor woman. I hope she's doing ok.

She’s already posted on this thread! Page 11!

The girl who was going to a Greek wedding maybe earlier this month? She was supposed to stay a few days with a guy she was seeing there and the wedding party got in touch to see if someone can stay in her room but the guy she was seeing got weird with her? Does anyone know the outcome been wondering if she dumped him 😂 x

Yes - such a sad situation! I remember OP posting that they'd broken up and her son was doing much better.

Just thought of another Tilly's thread about getting a golden retriever and every other post was along the lines of, "do you know about the hair?"

I spent a long time exclusively in the TTC, IVF, and infertility boards and never came onto the regular boards until I found the thread where a woman wanted to extend her kitchen into a shared passage.
She was in a terrace house where you have a passage between the houses to access the garden. Her neighbour didn’t use the passage as he was the end off the terrace. She wanted to extend her kitchen into the passage and couldn’t understand why she couldn’t do that.

One that sticks with me was a thread from a mum complaining that her 8 year old was sneaking cheese from the fridge. Not just the odd slice, but eating entire blocks of cheddar on a daily basis. She said he had a good diet otherwise but a compulsion to eat huge quantities of cheese and then deny it.

One day she walked in while he was doing it and although he was standing in front of her with his cheeks bulging with cheese to the extent that it was oozing out through the gaps in his teeth he still insisted he hadn't eaten any.

The reason it sticks with me is that her final question was not 'why is he doing this?', but "should I put a lock on the fridge?'

Not that long ago there was a thread about noises in the kitchen and the poster thought it was a mouse. She did post a few updates but then stopped. So don't know if it was a mouse or what happened.

The lady who found her 2 year old had passed, Pamela and I think the lady's name was gojetter who lost her little boy utterly heartbreaking 💔

The shaggers in the hedge, the op was advised to turn the hose on them or clap.

The recent thread with the soon to be mature XW who couldn't see she was controlling and greedy.

Re the Savenake Forest posts. I lived near there. My family for hundreds of years. There are many people buried there. Very creepy when the light starts to fade.
There wete historic covens including the clergy. I'm blinking glad I don't live there anymore.

Softzilla, where a mother A got mother B stalking her because mother B thought mother A ought to pay the entrance fee for child B at a soft play centre.

Wow! Has anyone got a link for this??