Does anyone have weekends like this anymore?

I'll take yours any day!

huh?

I don't want to have a go at the OP, but all they've done is pretty much watch tv all weekend and cook 😂

In a month when most families are either packing for their Christmas holidays,and/ or running from one kids party to another party and going to all the usual Panto/ Grotto/ Christmas days out, you really can't see why someone would feel they don't do much?

Nothing stops YOU from doing exactly the same, stay in your pjs and watch tv, how hard can that be?

Of all the posters to be jealous of, this is the most bizarre one. You are on MN, so I am sure you are able to watch movies from home 😂

Stealth boast 😂Sounds like a perfect weekend.

My weekends are slightly different, I live on my own and every other Saturday I visit DS 14, sometimes with DM. Last Saturday we went to McDonald's and the cinema, next time we want to do something Christmassy as it'll be the last one before Christmas. When my DC were at home we did Winter Wonderland every year but that was it.

Wasn't sure how to vote but that is a lovely, quality weekend.

The oldest is 11 (girl) and the youngest is 8.

I think some of what's been said on this thread re OP supposedly being 'smug' is ridiculous. It's like some people just have to snipe and be snide, and if there's nothing to snipe at they'll invent something. What a waste of everyone's time including their own.

Go and find another thread then if it’s really that bad.

You sound nice….

See through what? She’s just sharing her weekend which looked like a nice cosy weekend.

i wouldn’t want to do the same thing every weekend but it sounded nice

why do people have to cause a fight on here?! Like the poster who asked if she always does the cooking. That’s a loaded question to cause a pile on.

Because, it isn't the activity. Its the fact that she was smugly going on about her family life, and went into excessive detail about it and then had the neck to look for people to plump up her feathers.

It was smarmy and cringeworthy to read

Sounds like a lovely weekend!! Quite jealous.

we didn’t do anything exciting but was busy with various house jobs.

id like to go for a long walk in the woods or beach soon. But the weather has been pants. And yes I know (before someone says) that I ca put a coat and wellies on…..but that’s not quite the same. Hate being wet and out in the cold wind

Why is it?

Mumsnet is an anonymous forum. I could post here about how I just won the Nobel prize and got voted the most beautiful and wonderful woman in Europe, and it would remain meaningless because there’s no name, no face. I can’t advertise myself when there’s no identity to advertise. Unlike Instagram, which is all about self-advertising

Ah ok so it's the fact that it's anonymous that means it's ok to you. That's fair I guess. I find the curated stuff equally dishonest either way but I do see why someone might not.

why smug? That's not my idea of a good time, that's how I spend a weekend if I am stuck with covid or the flu 😂

If people are jealous, it's not exactly difficult to replicate.

I know what my kids' friends do at the weekend, and it's not potter around doing not much, so am not sure why "smug" applies here?

Yes OP nobody does what you do snd your missing it.😂🙄

You gave your 7 year old a wonderful weekend that was very fitting for her age. She is having a childhood and that is unbeatable when it comes to child development. Don't beat yourself up, you are an excellent mum.

Growing up, we VERY rarely did anything for the weekend.
I'd go to Saturday morning music school, between about 9 and 12, which was a 5 minute walk from my house. I'd walk myself home just in time for lunch. In the afternoon I'd read that weeks Bunty comic, maybe do some drawing, play in my room. In later years I'd have an hour on the family computer, playing something like Settlers, Doom or Duke Nukem. Perhaps I'd walk down to the local shop and get a magazine and a chocolate bar with my pocket money.
Between the ages of about 8 and 11, I'd spend most of Sunday out with my two friends who lived down the road. We had such adventures together and I look back on those days very fondly.

We rarely went out anywhere as a family. And if we did it was seen as a proper treat.

We didn't do anything special in the build up to Christmas. We might go to the panto in the "big" town over from us, but we certainly didn't go every year. There were no trips to Santas grotto, or to see the lights or anything.

We tidied Saturday, I made a nice dinner our son had friends for a cabin sleepover in the evening. DH and I watched a movie. Then Sunday morning I made a nice breakfast for everyone, we relaxed and DD played Xbox. I watched YouTube, planning some Christmas shopping, played some retro games, hubby playing guitar and his Xbox. in the afternoon 8 made a chilli, we all put up Christmas decorations and the tree, and under blankets we all watched Home Alone with mint whipped hot chocolate and the lovely chilli afterwards. Then DS sorted all his homework and gamed with a friend, I was reading in bed and hubby watching Vikings or something. Very little spent , although we could but we choose not to.

Your weekend sounds divine and so much better than the instagram nonsense

Maybe rewording your post would have been helpful. Maybe if you wanted tips on saving throughout the year to afford Christmas or cheap/low cost ideas this could have been posted here or on the Christmas board where there are lots of nice suggestions.

You said your DD did have a playdate this weekend, so that ticks off seeing a friend.
You could invite your own friends round for drinks if you didn't want to/couldn't afford to go out.
Going round looking at Christmas lights on houses is a free evening activity
Christmas crafts making gifts and then delivering them to family would mean you still see them.
Local organisations do pay as you feel/low cost Santas grottos, so you can still take DD to see them (and the local charity near me do this for free if you speak to them about not being able to afford it).

It is unclear other than the mention now of money what your barriers are, as many things you could still do for free or low cost so not sure why you can't see family or friends.

This post is smug as hell, I don't know how people don't see through it.

Comparison is the thief of joy. And…people only ever post the good times.

don't make it a competition, what matters is what makes YOU happy.

Many people would hate my weekends, so what? Your weekends, pj/ cooking/ watching tv are weekends when i am too ill to do anything at all to be honest. I'd go mad being locked up inside doing nothing. But that's just me.

We are out every weekend, but that includes sports and some Christmas activities (spread out, so Panto, Lights show, grotto). I am bored at home and my kids would be bored just going for " a walk"

It's not even about money, there are a lot of places that are free or near free, it's not all Lapland UK.

why does it matter what other people do? Some people like TV and craft, others are bored to death about them. Neither are superior.

No, that was her safety back up response when she saw people saw through her smug post.

As somebody else said, it is not a huge deal or a crime.

However, she put up a post, people saw it for what it was, and they called it out for what it was.