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Mumsnet merchandise - your input needed please

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JustineMumsnet · 15/11/2013 12:02

Hi all

After years of being asked to come up with MN merchandise and (aside from some incredibly tight t-shirts with virtual mother on them way back in the early-2000s) pretty much sticking our collective fingers in our ears, we've finally found someone who can help us produce and sell a qualiteee online range - hopefully available in time for Christmas. And we're looking for your input.

We reckon a range of T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and mugs with Mumsnet in-jokes/ popular phrases - which is what folks have mentioned in the past - but is there anything else we've collectively missed? And what do you want on them? A T-shirt telling all and sundry to LTB? A mug asking whether YABU? A hoody announcing that it' really best to RTFT?

Ideas very much welcome please Grin

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500internalerror · 16/11/2013 09:08

But i would be embarrassed to wear a slogan t shirt, of any sort, not just mn GrinGrin

500internalerror · 16/11/2013 09:06

Sparkling, I wouldn't track them down, I wouldn't care less. But years ago, I had someone I thought was a close friend deliberately find me on here & delight in repeating everything I'd said. It was just creepy. That was also in the days before I learnt not to give away too many thoughts & identifying things online. I'm not at all embarrassed about mn - I'm just embarrassed that I didn't realise how careful you need to be about privacy, when your innermost feelings stay online forever.

Tee2072 · 16/11/2013 09:06

Sorry, still don't get it. Never will.

In any case, did we scare Stuart off or does he get weekends off? He's not a true HQ member until he's around on a weekend night... Grin

TheDoctrineOfWho · 16/11/2013 09:02

Tee, it's not about being embarrassed to be here. It's more about wondering if people would try and guess your username by your posts if they knew you were a regular here and therefore read things you wouldn't want "de-anonymised"

Tee2072 · 16/11/2013 08:41

Hmm to people who think of MN as a dirty little secret.

If you are so embarrassed to be here, why are you here?

JollySeriousGiant · 16/11/2013 08:32

I agree with the money going to Woolly Hugs :)

SpencerPercival · 16/11/2013 08:19

Really? A hoody ?

I just don't see why!

AmandaCooper · 16/11/2013 08:19

"Baby grows with PFB on?"

Yes I was astonished not to be able to buy one when DS was born. Thought about having one made but obv hadn't the time what with PFB and everything!

Sparklingbrook · 16/11/2013 08:19

If you did see someone in the playground with YABU on a hoodie how would you go about tracking them down on here?

500internalerror · 16/11/2013 08:16

I think pin badges & things are great for identifying fellow mbetters in shops etc. but really, would you really want anything that identifies you as a mn user in the playground? Really? I'd be mortified to think people that knew me could poke around on here and find me. Hence so many name changes.

CbeebiesIsMyLife · 16/11/2013 08:06

I would buy and wear a hoody with YABU on the front in small letters (maybe to one side) or TSSDNCOP but then I'm pregnant, not fitting into clothes and cold! So maybe only for the next 6 months or so!

SpencerPercival · 16/11/2013 07:59

I hate did you mean to be so rude. It's naff.

coffeeandcream · 16/11/2013 07:59

Bloody phone! Atrocious cunt that it is!

I would like the following:
Bag for life with shopping list design with lots of MN references
PFB baby gro
Small Biscuit enamel pin < my fave idea so far

Don't like the clothing range at all apart Tom a MN scarf

And proceeds should def go to Wooly Hugs

SpencerPercival · 16/11/2013 07:58

Tbh. I wouldn't buy any of if. (Didn't even buy the mug last time with me on it but apparently Olivia mumsnet did!)

I don't share my use of Mumsnet. .

coffeeandcream · 16/11/2013 07:55

I cim

ILoveAFullFridge · 16/11/2013 07:24

I think you are begging for trouble paying a commission to individual MNers - I can hear the fighting now about whose idea this was and who came up with it first etc. If MN can spare the funds to pay 'the designer' I think it would be FARRRRRRRRRRR better to go to Woolly Hugs or a different charity each month

Completely agree.

Let the 'designer' prize be a free one or more of their design instead of a regular commission.

I really like the idea of supporting Woolly Hugs. It's a home-grown cause, pure MN, very appropriate.

How about a multicoloured hot water bottle cover with a "Woolly Hugs" logo? Or a microwaveable hottie pad (unscented, please!). Supporting WH, of course!

DollyTwat · 16/11/2013 04:37

What about a mouse mat with 'just words on a screen' scottishmummy? You'd buy be, I know you would Grin

JollySeriousGiant · 16/11/2013 02:05

A pin badge with "I've googled dragon butter" would certainly terrify passers by.

Rockinhippy · 16/11/2013 01:58

Grin @ MrsShrek

MrsCakesPremonition · 16/11/2013 01:54

Yeah - DeepThought, I've been missing the little guy.

DeepThought · 16/11/2013 00:33

omg omg I've got it

perfection, non?

DeepThought · 16/11/2013 00:31

or how about

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DeepThought · 16/11/2013 00:31

Has this thing kicked off yet?*

*my goodness only the really oldies will get that ref lol

scottishmummy · 16/11/2013 00:28

God almighty I can see a stack of mn penis beakers in poundland if you persist with this
Think about it,why would participation in online chat site translate to associated products

BOF · 16/11/2013 00:27

Oh yes, I'd buy that.