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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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Sparklingbrook · 23/11/2013 17:52

Thank you Stuart

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StuartMumsnet · 23/11/2013 17:40

Standard shipping rate (UK, 1st class) is £2.99. Orders over £50 are free.

Sparklingbrook · 23/11/2013 16:43

What are the P&P charges likely to be?

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StuartMumsnet · 23/11/2013 16:42

Store should be going live a week on Monday.

ProphetOfDoom · 23/11/2013 14:21

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FeedMeFeederer · 23/11/2013 14:02

TSSDNCOP in full is a quote from The West Wing, not sure if you can use it. Isn't it a copyright thing?

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StuartMumsnet · 23/11/2013 13:47

Got it, thanks.

ILoveAFullFridge - nothing to stop us doing a no logo version. We could do both and see which sells best.

K8Middleton · 23/11/2013 13:36

Yes the creepy wee brackets are popular for suggesting actions on here because the double asterisk popular on Twitter doesn't work because of the formatting.

Square brackets like this [ are only for emoticons really aren't they?

Can't believe you've never noticed Stuart Hmm

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KoalaFace · 23/11/2013 11:51
Sparklingbrook · 23/11/2013 11:33
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scottishmummy · 23/11/2013 11:31

Oh Christ alive creepy wee brackets!and bold it's too much

Sparklingbrook · 23/11/2013 11:27
scottishmummy · 23/11/2013 11:19

Creepy wee brackets,the act of stage direction,embellishment to a message
It's dreadfully wanky I'm afraid
Esp when done in a bum licky way on a thread

PickleFish · 23/11/2013 09:52

creepy wee brackets is pretty common elsewhere too, though I don't think they are usually called 'creepy', so maybe that's the MN specific bit!!

Sparklingbrook · 23/11/2013 09:35

basically the TSSDNCOP is used by MNHQ when anything is asked about how they know somebody was a troll.

IslaValargeone · 23/11/2013 09:29

Never heard of it either.

Panzee · 23/11/2013 09:27

I'd never heard of that Secret Service one until this thread.

Sparklingbrook · 23/11/2013 08:32

I don't think TSSDNCOP is widely understood on MN TBH.

Bradsplit · 23/11/2013 08:30

well that TSSDNCOP is a HILARIOUS in joke that about three people find funny,, just like pombears

ILoveAFullFridge · 23/11/2013 08:28

Something for you to think about...could you resist the temptation to put the MN logo on everything? Because I know you'll be focussed on branding...but it would be so much more engaging if it's MN phrases/acronyms and you're leaving it up to the public to go 'oo is that from MN?' Adds a nice masonic element and reinforces the community idea.

Exactly! Use the MN colours and fonts. Can you put the logo elsewhere? On the base of the mug, or the hem of the T-shirt at the back or side?

Not come across TSSDNCOP, but like it.

TheDoctrineOfWho · 23/11/2013 08:09

Creepy wee brackets are used for asides, Stuart - like Achy did up there with . It could be an action or something else.

TheDoctrineOfWho · 23/11/2013 08:07

It means The Secret Service Does Not Comment On Procedure.

stinkingbishop · 23/11/2013 07:39

Bag for Life with 'Off to buy some naice ham and Pombears' on it.

Something for you to think about...could you resist the temptation to put the MN logo on everything? Because I know you'll be focussed on branding...but it would be so much more engaging if it's MN phrases/acronyms and you're leaving it up to the public to go 'oo is that from MN?' Adds a nice masonic element and reinforces the community idea.

Definitely need a scarf. Could you do it with a design that, from a distance, looks a bit Joules-like, with a little horseshoe or something, but up close is made up of the letters L, T and B?

ILoveAFullFridge · 23/11/2013 07:30

What does TSSDNCOP mean?

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StuartMumsnet · 23/11/2013 06:36

achyfox - TSSDNCOP coming soon. Square brackets + text for the others too, actual drawn emoticons in the 2nd wave.

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