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Watch me do my morning routine!!!

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Stockingsonthewall · 16/12/2025 12:35

Lay in bed this morning and it’s all coming up
on my Ig feed. Mums with huge houses, gardens & cars. Waking at 5 am, getting dressed, taking their huge water/juice/coffee bottle flask thingies and driving in the cold and dark to the gym, working out then doing pilates in the morning. We see the step by step account, the perfect outfits, the perfect skincare routine, back home making eggs & pancake and fruit for their child/children.

Whose morning routine is like this? Am I just failing at life 😂

My morning routine today-Dd woke me at 7, I stayed in bed for ten minutes later as didn’t want to leave my warm bed, then felt guilty as Dd desperate to see what the elves had done
Came down-coffee, Dd opened advent calendar & watched tv. Made Dd Ready brek and a banana, scrolled my phone. Pulled on leggings and fleece, sorted Dds bag, did her hair, droped her at school, back home, lay on sofa-(work in evenings)

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Anonanonanonagain · 16/12/2025 14:43

Hmm mine is as follows:
Alarm at 6.30.
Downstairs with dogs out for a wee, fill up their food, first coffee and a scroll.
7am put chicken/rolls/waffles whatever the kids are having for breakfast and taking to school for lunch, make own breakfast/lunch to take to work. Have second coffee.
Say goodbye to little cherubs at 7.30 (they are up since 6.30 showering as all teens)
7.35am My shower, do hair/makeup/get dressed and into car for 8.15 to drive to work.

I have not and will not ever exercise before work. Even if i had time it would not happen. Mostly does not happen after work either though,,,

Littlebuddh · 16/12/2025 13:12

Rolled out of bed at 10.30.
Had a gallon of coffee about 10 fag's.
Had a shower clean pjs.
Changed my bedding that was a workout in its self.
Put the washing on pop it in the dryer when it's done.
Now having more coffee waiting for eggs to boil.
Nothing else to do to day.

MotherofPufflings · 16/12/2025 12:55

Fair play if it makes them happy. I genuinely feel lucky that it wouldn't make me any happier to live like that. I am quite content with my slightly saggy body if it means I can stay in bed later.

user927464 · 16/12/2025 12:50

I am in my early 50s and a recent empty nester. My morning routine on an ideal week is like this:

wake up at 6am
drink collagen and creatine. Take multi vitamin and NMN plus extra magnesium and vitamin D
walk dog
eat two boiled eggs and a grapefruit
go to gym for reformer pilates
sauna, shower, full body lotion, make up and hair in bendy rollers
healthy smoothie on way home
undo hair so it has some wave
couple of hours of work
have lunch with DH

My alternative routine is:
wake up late because I've had a shit night's sleep
immediately realise I don't feel like reformer so try to cancel slot
take the dog out to go to the loo very briefly because its pissing with rain and its cold and dark
ditch the gym and have two coffees with four biscuits
work for five hours stopping intermittently to each more biscuits
realise its nearly lunchtime and I'm still in my PJs
quickly shower and leave my hair wet.
ask DH if he wants a sandwich but he's too busy to stop working so we both just grab toast and a bag of crisps and work through.

Guess which one happens most often.

MintTwirl · 16/12/2025 12:46

It’s their job to create a facade and make others feel inferior so they can be seen as better and hold influence over their viewers. I prefer to watch more realistic people (or none at all!).

Stockingsonthewall · 16/12/2025 12:45

Mulledjuice · 16/12/2025 12:39

The more you watch the more you will get.

I don’t actually watch these normally so no idea why so many came up this morning. I did see a Sunday night reset thing the other week with thousands of likes, it was so boring to watch

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InSpainTheRain · 16/12/2025 12:45

I don't have anything like that in my feed as it's not the sort of thing I watch - and @Mulledjuice is right, the more you watch the more you will get.

I think that many people who do these sorts of posts/content are actually struggling themselves (not all but many). I think they use it as a lever to make themselves do things that otherwise they feel they would fail at.

I was chatting to a girl on a city break recently who had live-streamed her breakfast (yes really!) she said that she had to do it because otherwise she would lay in bed all day and do nothing apart from be depressed. This set me thinking that perhaps many people struggle with life so they create this view online then have to keep it up. Just my thoughts.

Dexies · 16/12/2025 12:44

its sales and marketing

WafflingDreamer · 16/12/2025 12:44

Lots of these things all over SM I do indulge sometimes in the mindlessness of it all. My most annoying ones are GRWM when the 'influencer' seems to be unable to buy clothes in a size that actually fit them. No-one would watch my morning routine it generally involves rushing around trying to get 3 primary aged kids ready for school without forgetting anything. They are generally all a modern version of the Avon lady and are just trying to sell you something whether its obvious or not

Stockingsonthewall · 16/12/2025 12:44

BeforeSigourneyWeaverTheyWoveTheirOwnSigourneys · 16/12/2025 12:38

It's a job for them.

Nobody would choose to get up at 6am and clean toilets, or stock shelves, or drive a lorry for hours either unless they were getting paid.

My morning routine wouldn't do well online either though, nor would my nighttime routine.

I just have visions of them on normal days rolling out of bed a mess, shouting at the kids to get up, slamming down a box of cereal etc 😅
The change to setting all this bs up for the camera

It’s all so fake

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Mulledjuice · 16/12/2025 12:39

The more you watch the more you will get.

BeforeSigourneyWeaverTheyWoveTheirOwnSigourneys · 16/12/2025 12:38

It's a job for them.

Nobody would choose to get up at 6am and clean toilets, or stock shelves, or drive a lorry for hours either unless they were getting paid.

My morning routine wouldn't do well online either though, nor would my nighttime routine.