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

@samarrange @DoobleDecker We don't have Landfill anymore (I think maybe one county still has it?) all waste is now burnt and converted into electricity. It astonishes me how few people know this.

Some of these posts are so heartening!!

You don't like mcdonalds 😲

Haha same. Apparently weddings abroad are awful and you should automatically decline them. You should also not have a baby shower even if it’s a normal thing in your circle of friends.

Things I do that are wrong:

Showering only once a day
Owning a toilet brush
Not liking McDonald's, people seem to love it on here
Liking my family
No giving a shit if people drive or not

I did LTB though, ha!

Yes and I've definitely become more trans friendly partially due to the aggression on the FWR threads. Heartened to hear there are others.

Definitely do mascara wrong when I wear it. But then I'm old so not only did we mascara our bottom lashes but people also used eyeliner to paint on "Twiggy Lashes".

It also surprises me to see people on social media clips putting their eye make up on before their 93 thick layers of foundation, highlighter, lowlights, contour this and that. In my mind its foundation first!

@Hyperbowl , you don't put bleach down the loo, you chuck it.

@EngineEngineNumber9 , and you should shower before and after DTD.

That my DH is a CMS dodging wanker and is just pretending to actually love his children by having them 50%. He cannot possibly just like being a dad and want to see his children as much as possible, it's all motivated by the money. Fact.

What on earth do you need to wipe your trolley down for?! Even if a kid has been stood in it, your food comes in packaging! Even fruit & veg goes in bags and most of it has natural packaging ie: skins!
Also, do you not wash your hands when you get in from being out & you've put all the shopping away?!
I just don't get the need. The trolleys are hardly dripping with filth! I bet you don't sanitize your steering wheel & car door? What about your dinner plates & cutlery? A dishwasher gets hot yes, but doesn't sanitize! Heat resistant bacteria! Do you sanitize your oven?! Fridge? 🙄😆

This also..

That it’s a huge deal sharing a bathroom with a trans person.., I don’t think I’ve ever looked at strangers in a public bathroom nor have I ever worried what way they do their business in the cubicle beside me.

Recently, I walked into the men’s bathroom at a huge London train station, did my business and only realised while washing my hands where I was. Nobody seemed to care but assuming maybe some thought I was trans. All was fine, life went on…

Came here to say exactly this! Cheers!

Never worrying in the slightest about other mums on the school run. I thought you just breezed in, waved and smiled at people you know, drop your child, pass pleasantries with anyone who approaches you and scarper fast to get to work, on with jobs on days off or to the shops, etc.

It's taught me that I'm actually rude

I've had posts deleted that I'm still baffled about

And I read some of the posts on here calling others rude which have left me totally nonplussed. It usually all seems entirely reasonable

Not that I learned from MN that how I wiped my bum was 'wrong' but i'd always wiped my bum front to back for hygiene reasons while seated on the toilet but only found out from MN that apparently, lots of people stand up to wipe their bum.

Which to me, seems an inefficient and unhygienic way to wipe the anal area but MN told me loads of people do it apparently, and think it's weird that people other people wipe their bum while seated on the toilet.

I could have listed these too. So glad to know I’m not the only outlier. Fucking love my in-laws. And good G&T whenever the mood takes me! It’s the only way to contend with the DCs who are over 18 and still living at home…

Oh loads

That children shouldn’t eat cereal for breakfast or they’ll starve

That children should be gentle parented and never sleep trained or disciplined… and that when you have a child you should just give up your life,relationship, career, sleep and basic needs otherwise you’re a bad mother.

That wanting friends as an adult is needy

That talking to strangers in public is prying or strange

oh and if your child misbehaves (even if due to gentle parenting) they clearly have ADHD/ Autism/ dyspraxia despite specialists finding no such evidence in assessment.

I told my immediate family and closest friends I was pregnant before 12 weeks!

Celebrating birthdays and Christmas.

Opening my door to strangers, a door that actually locks by itself.

Sending my kids to private school.

Not kicking my kids out at 18.

Accepting wedding invitations.

Enjoying weddings.

Giving my kids advice.

Liking and getting on with my in-laws.

Buying presents for in-laws.

Not restricting myself to a soupçon of alcohol once every eleventy billion years.

I’ve learnt that some people have the most hideous taste in clothes and baby names judging by some of the fashion and baby name threads.

I do actually wish I’d been privy to MN twenty (and more) years ago as I think it can be really good for opening your eyes to how low you set your bar with men (as I did at times). I would have found it so useful instead of putting up with some of the crap I did (huge regret in my life).

I had no idea. I have just googled it. Now I get it. And wow, what an unbelievably inappropriate gift!

I didn't.

Because when I started using tampons in the early 90s it was on the leaflet that you could flush not only the tampon but the applicator too.

I didn't and don't use public toilets very often so missed the public service announcement on toilets.

I do this. I do not care about disapproval. They are exposed outside. They can be run over by rats, shit on by pigeons etc. They are not clean. My children's feet are not dirtying it. I anti bac their hands when they come out. It is enough trauma containing my toddler in there, I am not dealing with running loose. Just do what suits and ignore any crap about it.

OMG - really? I have loathsome brushes and copious bottle of bleach too. Off to google alternative ways to keep your loo clean with two teenagers who struggle to flush or get it all it the pan now…