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What has Mumsnet taught you you've been doing wrong all of your adult life without realising?!

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harriethoyle · 24/09/2024 11:17

Inspired by a recent thread, in which I read multiple posters saying you shouldn't wear mascara on your bottom lashes (which I have been doing for the last 30 years 😂) what has Mumsnet told or taught you you've been doing wrong?

The irritating thing is then I made one eye up as usual and made one up without mascara on the bottom lashes and DH preferred the without eye! Don't even get me started on my inability to make a chicken last a week...

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Thistooshallpass24 · 24/09/2024 17:06

Thistooshallpass24 · 24/09/2024 16:54

That you can spout any old shite as long as you include the phrase "everyone knows it" it's true facts and can be left up on threads, when its actually nonsense.

I sent too early
whereas in real life you have to be able to back up what your saying or accept you are wrong.

TheGrimSqueakersFlea · 24/09/2024 17:04

@bringincrazyback I'm wondering why you came on to a clearly lighthearted thread to find something to be offended by. Life admin is up there with picky bits, holybobs, naice, hot choccy, and other wanky ways to say things. Everything involved in it is just life. It's doing the same as everyone else does.

We don't have to agree on anything. I'm not sure why you needed an explanation.

I was having a good today, then you came along

Pooeyskewy · 24/09/2024 17:01

I call friends/ family for a chat without pre booking via text and I answer the door!

Soditsally · 24/09/2024 17:01

Don't know if this has already been mentioned .. I learned how to fit my king size duvet in the cover the right way round by paying attention to the vertical lines
Never knew this until I saw it here 😂

Doingmybest12 · 24/09/2024 16:55

I did not know that you shouldn't clink glasses when you say 'cheers !'with friends. Other than a formal toast ,I have never seen it where people don't clink.

Thistooshallpass24 · 24/09/2024 16:54

That you can spout any old shite as long as you include the phrase "everyone knows it" it's true facts and can be left up on threads, when its actually nonsense.

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 24/09/2024 16:54

p.s. as it has been at least a decade and a half since I have used tampons ( too much info there ) I have no reason / need to be reading the packaging or instructions.

bringincrazyback · 24/09/2024 16:52

I'm supposed to wear makeup and dye my hair.

See, I've seen a lot of the opposite on here: we should embrace the grey and eschew makeup because the male gaze. And not wear heels because the male gaze. Oh, and most importantly, shroud ourselves in baggy Toast dresses at least a size too large because the male gaze...

PuppyMonkey · 24/09/2024 16:52

@OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon what does the packet say these days?

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 24/09/2024 16:51

Bins in toilets at work and other places are for pads, and for the wrapper belonging to a tampon - tampons were flushable decades ago ...

JohnCravensNewsround · 24/09/2024 16:49

That everyone is on a pathway to a diagnosis.

bringincrazyback · 24/09/2024 16:49

30percent · 24/09/2024 16:43

I hope you've tried quinoa or we may have to bar you

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Eek, that's me out I'm afraid 😄

AnonymousBleep · 24/09/2024 16:44

RobinEllacotStrike · 24/09/2024 16:30

I wash my clothes on 20 or 30 degrees.
I don't use a tumble drier and often leave my clothes out on the line overnight.

Therefore all my clothes, sheets, towels etc stink and are hideously stained. My family are filthy fuckers not clean or fresh enough to be in polite society.

or something.

Genuinely, though, how have you managed to dry everything this summer? I think I've used my washing line less than 10 times this so-called summer, due to the endless rain, and even when I've put it on, I've ended up having to take it back inside due to said rain and put it in the tumble drier!

Laszlomydarling · 24/09/2024 16:44

Doggymummar · 24/09/2024 11:36

That there was a right way round to wear a party liner ! 55 and I never knew

Ooh please share! I didn't know there was a right way. Surely just in your pants is correct?

PuppyMonkey · 24/09/2024 16:44

Sorry if Ive quoted the wrong person there, the quote bit has gone a bit Confused

30percent · 24/09/2024 16:43

bringincrazyback · 24/09/2024 16:41

Going by many of the food threads recently, I'm tempted to conclude I'm doing life wrong because I have never tasted harissa.

I hope you've tried quinoa or we may have to bar you

PuppyMonkey · 24/09/2024 16:43

@OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon so you must be absolutely baffled about why there are little bins in your toilet cubicles at work. For putting sweet wrappers in? Grin

Look, I get it. I’m ancient enough to remember when the advice was to tear your sanitary towel in half and flush those down the loo too. But the advice has been not to shove sanitary products down there for at least 30 years now. Don’t you even look at what it says on the package?

bringincrazyback · 24/09/2024 16:41

Going by many of the food threads recently, I'm tempted to conclude I'm doing life wrong because I have never tasted harissa.

30percent · 24/09/2024 16:39

Your husband should position his bum directly over the middle of the toilet so the poo goes down without leaving any smears. Therefore no need to purchase bleach or a toilet brush. If he deviates from this he is an inconsiderate narcissist and you should LTB.

birdglasspen2 · 24/09/2024 16:39

ChristmasCookie123 · 24/09/2024 13:16

I didn't know till MN that there are apparently adults (there's always one or a few on every thread discussing it) who were so traumatised by discovering that their parents had lied to them about the existence of Father Christmas that they never trusted their parents or any other individuals again and subsequently had a horrible traumatised life unable to trust anyone and would never do that to their or any other children.

Did you know that there are adults who grew up not believing who loved Christmas and still do! Santa make believe doesn’t make Christmas! And no I’m not Christian. Just like then holiday, food, presents and occasion!

Bluebellsinthewind · 24/09/2024 16:36

I've learnt from Mumsnet that under no circumstances should you wear skinny jeans.

youheard · 24/09/2024 16:35

Other school-gate mums are bitchy vixens and should be ignored at all costs, before that I'd been to parties at some of their houses, even on holiday with a few, and some weren't very nice I just avoided them.

That my children would be doomed to failure if they didn't get in to Oxbridge ...

That my dh is a narcissistic controller because we had a row once over how best to deal with a dc

broccolienthusiast · 24/09/2024 16:35

No one gets fat from eating too much

Crumpleton · 24/09/2024 16:35

AllTheChaos · 24/09/2024 16:17

Wait, what? There is?!

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Yep....Sticky side down.

mathanxiety · 24/09/2024 16:31

I have learned:
That the vast majority of MNers don't know squat about statistics, leading to all sorts of anxiety about elements of daily life that are perfectly benign.