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

The solution to any disagreement with DH over any matter, no matter how trivial, is to LTB. He's definitely shagging six other women anyway.

Parenting. Though I haven't been doing it all my adult life.
I seem to parent very different to most people.
Being terrified of saying hello to anyone in case they are in a "click".
Travelling solo or eating solo in case tye waiter thinks you are strange, God forbid

My kids don't bathe every day. I should apparently listen to MN regarding this, and not to the medical professionals who say that 3 times a week is plenty for their skin and immune systems.

That you’re supposed to empty nappies into toilets. It’s been years since I had to deal with them, but the practicalities of managing a wriggling baby/young toddler, wipes (can’t go in toilet) and poo (MUST go in toilet) are beyond me. I know the idea of them sitting full of poo in landfills for years is gross, but that’s the whole point of disposable nappies, I thought!

Ah @ScottishPosterSpotter answered my question as I was typing!

I've noticed this so much recently - the task needs done, the sofa for sale needs gone today etc, is it a local dialect thing? My old Scottish boss talked like this a lot

My whole life is wrong! Thigs I should/shouldn't have done:

• Learn to drive as soon as I was out of nappies because it is "essential life skill". Just how I managed to live without this essential life skill until the ripe age of 38 is something historians are going to ponder for millenia
• Was towels after every use
• Under no circumstances should I have been reheating rice. It's apparently against every food hygiene standard (even though a perfectly legal microwavable rice is available in every supermarket in the country)
• Wear smoky eye over the age of 40
• Wear thongs at any age at all
• Have a phone conversation with a single man, or a married man. Better not to have any communications with men unless they are part of your family. Unless it's you BIL because it is weird to be talking to them without your sister in attendance as well.
• Switch your phone off ever. Red flag if you do, apparently
• Communicate with anyone about anything. They should guess what I need if they really care.
• I shouldn't take my dog to public places, including parks with children and runners because it is unsafe and disgusting. But I also shouldn't keep her at home at all times because it is cruel.
• I should never ever to ask my wider family or older children to help with the baby because it's not their fault that I chose to have them.
• Similarly, I should never let my child with grandparents unsupervised because they are senile and unsafe. In fact, I should listen to my mother's instinct and not even let them visit. But at the same time, I shouldn't complain when they don't want to see their grandchildren because they don't have a relationship with them.

I could go on...

There's a current thread about Christmas stuffing. I can't get my head around it at all!

Ditto on the mascara thing - why would you only wear it on half your eye?

Scottish

Ah but it does solve the problem of where to hang all the towels and bedding to get it all dry...

Be really really insecure about class. I don't care what class people think I am and all the rigmarole that goes with that.

Being seen as 'rude'. "A man is currently treading on my foot. Is it rude of me to ask him to get off?" Not speaking up seems to be de rigour.

Being a skivvy.

Not enjoying sex. It's something you endure through gritted teeth every six months.

I answer the front door AND take parcels in for my neighbours. And it doesn't bother or upset me at all!

I’ve been saying things need to be done. Apparently I should have been saying x “needs done”.

Regarding the mascara on lower lashes issue, I feel I look 'unfinished' if I don't apply it to the lower lashes. Does it actually make you look better forgoing it then?

Why don’t we wear mascara on bottom lashes? Definitely missed that memo! I always do it and mine are like spider legs so probably don’t really need it

My friend goes in about 'life admin' and how hard it is as she is single. And I asked what she meant and it was this. It's just getting on with being an adult!

Hahaha I’m here to say that MN taught me I was singlehandedly driving climate change and creating global drought by having two two minute showers a day. Apparently I should either go to bed dirty or go to work dirty!

Thinking that noone could possibly want to talk about washing, cleaning or Christmas ' bits' in August

Always used a loo brush and just change the brush bit ( now and again ) and clean out the bit it sits in.
The children not standing or sitting in trollies I do agree with ( unless it's the actual chair part )
It was nice over lockdown they provided sanitizer and blue paper to wipe them down , but hard to source these days unless you take your own.
Towels / sheets once a week here and shower every other day ( but I do wash every day!)
Don't do mascara on the bottom as can't seem to get that right. Ditto eye liner.
It smudges on me anyway
Will answer the door , but wary if on my own or late at night and it's not expected
Life admin is a pain and creeps up on me , but the internet has made it a bit easier to navigate and you get more reminders now.
Never can make any chicken last a week , maybe two days tops.

Yes, me too.

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

🤣🤣🤣

I didn't realise what an oversharer I was 🙈

Exactly. It's just basic stuff

I was unaware how often you need to change towels, bedding, sheets and shower yourself. No wonder I don't have piles and piles of laundry cause I'm a disgusting pig.