Watch me do my morning routine!!!

I am so glad that I dont have to monetise my life like this. I was way ahead of all of the decluttering and tidying fashion thing. I just loved doing it since I was a child and enjoy helping people without having to post about it on SM or IG or whatever. I am very glad my life is not up for criticism in the public eye. Just to add I do also have a paying NHS Clinical job.

I see these ‘glamorous’ influencers all around London with teams of usually 2 individuals, a tent to get changed to, so they can then pretend online it was different days, filming shameless content, doing several takes of some insipid shit. All nauseating and shows the sad reality of SM in general.

I don’t get up at 5 but I do try to write in my journal each morning - dog, cat and kids permitting. I often don’t succeed.

Do you not shower?

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made me laugh !

I have a head routine and also a RL routine , I live in hope

That’s such a strange confusion to have. It’s obvious people like different things isn’t it? People like banal drivel, it’s a bit of light hey escapism. I don’t understand what draws people to radio 4, or heavy metal, or Minecraft or CoD, but I am aware that other people enjoy it without being “seriously confused”

Same here - Love the routine for my mornings. Minus the filming!

I’m seriously confused by these videos. I know it’s fake and the “influencers” make money going through this ridiculous charade but even if it was really what they do every day, why on earth would anyone want to watch them doing it?
I’m not on instagram or TikTok so I’m not the target demographic clearly but with so much in the world to watch or listen to, why would you subject yourself to this banal drivel?

Many are airbnbs they rent out for content

The big influencers make good money doing what they do. It's honestly not all from their husbands or inheritance. If you hit the right algorithm and have a decent following, you're pretty set as long as you can be bothered to keep going with it.

One of the many reasons I deleted Instagram 😂 I am without children and my morning routine resembles nothing like that.

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This made me think of a video reel I saw on Facebook of someone taking the piss out of influencers
By doing a video of drinking a glass of water so the most boring thing but saying all these amazing things about it
It really made me laugh cos I saw so much truth in it 😆😆

Your morning routine sounds much nicer I must say!

My ‘morning routine’ isn’t too dissimilar. I get up early to work out for an hour, then walk the dogs, make breakfast for everyone some mornings, look after myself in terms of skincare, have a nice lifestyle, house etc. I don’t film it for social media but there are lots of people like me who have this ‘routine’. I wouldn’t want to be putting my life on insta but if people want to and they make money from people watching then 🤷🏻‍♀️ I do hate it when people put their kids online though.

I don’t think anyone is failing at life if they’re not living in the same way. Routine, being healthy, exercising etc keeps my mental and physical health good so that’s why I do it.

it doesn't make them happy, it makes them money!

Yes we know its fake but it still appeals to some people or else they wouldn't post these type of videos. I don't engage and would encourage others not to either. I find it all nauseating. No one is perfect. No one's life is perfect.

I recommend watching some of Celeste Barber’s videos. It’s not ‘morning routine’ based, but she does her own parody versions of ridiculously perfect SM posts and they are so funny and really help put things in perspective.

I have no idea why people watch people do this type of thing. I get it if it’s Taylor Swift or Brad Pitt & it’s a sneak peek into a crazy unique world but a mum going to do Pilates?!

It sounds like you need to spend less time on your phone and the cesspit which is Instagram.

I think people should start doing REAL, uncut and uncensored "watch me do my morning routine" or "get ready with me!" (#GRWM) videos. Leave everything in - each time you snooze with the alarm on pause, your shower and shit from start to finish, the WHOLE Peppa Pig episode, the search for clean underwear, the entire internet surfing session, the full footage of tooth brushing and face washing and hair detangling and clothes wrangling for each child, feeding the pets, emptying the litter box. Include all the nagging, the bickering, the false starts, the mindless chatter, and the endless queries about things misplaced or forgotten.

mine is

alarm goes off at 7am
snooze

alarm goes off at 7.10am
snooze

Alarm goes off at 7.20am
snooze

this goes on till about 8am

Then I doom scroll with a brew in bed and kick myself for not being rich. Peel myself out of bed at about 9am and then do a soul destroying WFH job till 5pm. I may or may not cry a few times in between.

seems to be working for me.

After work when I'm so tired I am in bed by 8pm scrolling for an hour 😂

So when do you have time to watch videos

I love these. They're so fake! Who the fuck is willingly getting up at 5.30am to tap their nails on serum bottles in front of a camera?!