Watch me do my morning routine!!!

Thing is no one lives like that - it's fictional content

The big houses and cars (when they have them) paid for by husbands job, or inheritance I suppose.

Don't imagine they're doing that everyday?

Also the dumbness of waking up at 5am to ‘journal’. Who does that crap?

My mornings can be a bit like this but I'd never dream of posting them on social media - and my evenings generally consist of lying under a blanket, eating crisps and watching re-runs of shit TV shows

Sounds like a load of fake BS to me! I sometimes went swimming after drop off when I was working p/t. That’s about it!

But you watched it so the algorithm sends you more. “It” doesn’t know you didnt like it.

6am alarm snooze a couple of times scan headlines
wake eldest teen - that’s fun
inevitably say “the train won’t wait for you” get teen out of house
have 10 minute coffee drinking time
wake younger teen
inevitably say “this is why I suggest we pack bags the night before”
eventually get youngster on bike

in between all this am making flasks of tea and soup for lunches, toast, finding shin pads, unblocking printer paper, checking everyone has their phone “just in case”

but hey I love being their mum, I like taking a tea up waking them gently “come on time to get going” starting the day with them even grumpy teenage them is better than having a day without

but no one wants to see this online they want to watch this unobtainable supposed perfection - there is just as much love and movement going on in millions of households every morning - it’s just interspersed with “well did you bring them back from training?” questions

I love these videos! I'm 47 (my DD jokes that the flicky videos are like crack for Generation X mums)

I generally get the gorgeous 20something 'girlies' who have incredible jobs in the city.

However I am also a morning person, so while my morning isn't as glamorous, it is similar. I always get up between 4.30/5am because that works for me. Dog walks/wees, then I workout in my filthy dusty open fronted garage where I have to wear gloves as my weights have condensation on them and I get leaves in my hair.

Then I do the school run at 7am, straight to work where I eat my oats/chia/flax/creatine/kefir breakfast with my decaf coffee.

In my lunch half hour I walk outdoors irrespective of the weather or I swim.

So not a million miles away! (and I lived and worked in the square mile in my mid 20s so I like the aspirational part of the videos).

Poor woman 🥲 is she better now?

I think it probably is their real life but only on their very, very best day. When I'm having a good spell it can be like that and I float around in my Alo yoga wear with everything running smoothly and feeling very virtuous- but most of the time it isn't.

I had a friend like this . Her Instagram was all green juice, meditation, exercise etc

She came to stay with me. I suggested going out for a run , she didn’t want to know. All she wanted to do was sit around.

I had stocked up my fridge with healthy food, as I thought that was what she liked, and she just kept saying haven’t you got any chocolate/ crisps etc!

She later had a breakdown and turned out to be really struggling mentally.

It’s all fake .

Oh and I have a big house/am slim / going to the gym a lot. But my morning routine is still get up at 7, wolf down a microwave porridge, rush DC to school looking like a mess!

Hahaha, that is absolutely not real life!

Today, I had a phone call just after midnight from a friend who just wanted to chat. My phone was on silent but I happened to be scrolling funny dog videos.

Woken up at 7.30am on the dot by my dog doing yoga poses on the bed and who then did a bit of digging on my head reminding me she wanted her breakfast.

Breakfast done, back to bed for me.

10am, got up properly as I needed a wee. Reluctantly did ablutions half heartedly, got dressed. Went downstairs.

Watched Emmerdale.

Told myself that today will be the day I'll rescue my jeans from the washing machine which has been stuck on an error code since Saturday.

Tried watching some other stuff with the 'when this has finished I will...'. Had a bag of crisps.

Looked at dog who was snoring, decided her walk can wait a bit longer.

Had another bag of crisps.

Looked at washing machine, gave the door a little tug, nope, still not opening. Put some rubbish in a bag because the bin is full. Can't empty bin because the outside bin is also full.

Looked at Netflix with the renewed idea of finding something to watch and 'then I will...'.

Now it's after 3pm. Dog not walked, jeans are still locked in the washing machine, house is a tip because of never ending bathroom renovations, I've not made my bed or delivered neighbours Christmas cards and I'm wondering how early I can go back to bed 😆😂

Think you might be the last person to realise social media is fake.

Ha ha, this is more like me except I don’t smoke. I’m retired and unless I have anything organised which means I have to be up, dressed and out in the morning, my days normally start around lunch time.

I wake up naturally at around 5:45/6 most days…I get up get dressed, go downstairs and make breakfast and kids packed lunches,sort my bag for work. Sit in my sunroom and enjoy a cuppa in peace. Wake up the dc. They get ready…run out the door etc. the big difference is no gym and I don’t post it on social media. 😅

They're not real. Probably filmed on multiple different days and at different times of day.

It may be possible for them to go everything they say they are doing in the time they say they are doing it but not if they are filming. They have to set the camera up, review the footage, perhaps do several takes, go back get the camera from wherever they placed it to get the perfect shot and move onto setting up the next shot.

They're usually just marketing videos anyway.

Oh one I do watch though is the woman who does american family meal deals but mainly to see how much lovely food they can get in a takeaway there compared to what I can get where I am. Always these fabulous looking salads and all the rolls and huge portions and it costs about 50dollars. Where I am that is nearly the cost of the bloody delivery fee.

I have actually watched a few of the 'plate dinner with me' ones and I find it amusing that they have so many followers where they have made say a roast dinner but it gets plated up and can only be fucking freezing being put on the table with the amount of time it takes to record etc. Also there is no way some of them are size 6 and eat HUGE portions of dinner every day.

Oh ha I love that they are all perfectly made up etc first thing. For the first 2 hours of my morning I look like I live under a bridge doling out insults to passers by.

I do see those sometimes and it always cracks me up because they know we know that they had to set up the camera to get these shots, and there is a very real chance that none of it is even the first take! It's all been captured deliberately, edited heavily, and then consumed and forgotten within 24 hours. Bonkers!
Personally the worst ones are when they try to keep it real and film themselves breaking down in tears like they didn't just set the tripod up. It feels so gross, like every moment and every emotion is for sale.

… work for five hours stopping intermittently to each more biscuits
realise it’s nearly lunchtime

You managed to do FIVE hours of work BEFORE LUNCH…!!!!

I'm impressed 🤗

You’ve also got to remember they’ve had to set up every shot to film their so-called routine. So you see them skipping merrily along loading the kids into the car, they’ve already been out and set up the camera, pressed record and walked back out. It’s all fake and utterly ridiculous

I agree OP. I don't know anyone whose lives reflect the stories on social media.
In reality, those who post about their wonderful lives are covering up the reality of everyday life

I get up at 6, dress, make cups of tea
Ask child nicely to get dressed ×5
Tell child to get dressed with slightly menacing tone
Walk dog and child in the pissing rain through deeply unpleasant council estate
Make breakfast and lunches
Do hair, do face, do child's hair
Feed dog
Take child to school
Go to work.

I don't think it'll make me my fortune on Instagram.

Honestly why are people still comparing themselves to influencers on Instagram? Everyone knows its fake. It's been around a few years now, we all know the deal. YABU to waste your time looking at this rubbish.

I needed to see this post 😄😄

Was feeling so guilty about our mornings but honestly, i am tired!