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How many years have you been a member on mumsnet?

64 replies

OneUmberJoker · 24/08/2025 15:06

First year for me

OP posts:
Laiste · 24/08/2025 21:22

3 or 4 names

Laiste · 24/08/2025 21:22

2006 here too.

I found AIBU by accident and read a thread about someone taking a pAir of trousers back to a shop. I was hooked 🤪

strawlight · 24/08/2025 21:21

18 years and, I just checked, 17 usernames. My very first one was my actual name, doh. Time for a new one!

TheNinthLockUnlocked · 24/08/2025 21:17

Since 2006. But several name changes and de-registered a few times (but always end up getting sucked back in)

PermanentTemporary · 24/08/2025 21:13

21 years. Ds was born in 2004 🥰

summerday25 · 24/08/2025 21:13

Over 19 years, under numerous new names and accounts. I don’t post as much or comment now very much at all, but I do still browse.

elQuintoConyo · 24/08/2025 21:11

2011, under a different username. I was sucked in by baby ISBN's arrival (can't remember the OP's name, but she owned a bookshop, hence the very cute 'bump' name).

PractisingMyTelekenipsis · 24/08/2025 19:39

GreenAndWhiteStripes · 24/08/2025 16:44

Can you remember your first username? If so you can check using advanced search.

Yes but it doesnt find any posts and I know I posted. IIRC all posts only lasted a certain number of days so they aren't available anymore

ETA: oh it finds them now. 2009 it would seem.

RedRobyn24 · 24/08/2025 19:26

5

Kreepture · 24/08/2025 19:26

2006ish here. would have been when my oldest was a newborn.

Gladysknightjustwalkinmyshoes · 24/08/2025 19:06

5 years..many name change's same as a pp overshare on certain topics.

Oblomov25 · 24/08/2025 17:29

20 years I think.

AccidentallyOnTrend · 24/08/2025 17:13

Nearly 20.

HarrietSchulenberg · 24/08/2025 17:03

Having searched my old name it seems I've been posting since 2003. I have a feeling I joined the year before that but lurked.

Secondishspring · 24/08/2025 16:50

Oh actually no it was 2001.

Secondishspring · 24/08/2025 16:49

I think it was 2002. Lots of name and life changes since then.

NinePoppadomsAndASaagAloo · 24/08/2025 16:49

24 years! 😱 I wanted to read about vaccines for my small child who is now 27. So many name changes I’ve lost count.

TomeTome · 24/08/2025 16:48

24 years

DramaAlpaca · 24/08/2025 16:47

Since around 2011, I think.

GreenAndWhiteStripes · 24/08/2025 16:44

PractisingMyTelekenipsis · 24/08/2025 16:04

No idea. 16 years maybe. Is there a way to find out?

Can you remember your first username? If so you can check using advanced search.

MsDDxx · 24/08/2025 16:35

14 years for me.

PractisingMyTelekenipsis · 24/08/2025 16:04

No idea. 16 years maybe. Is there a way to find out?

HappiestSleeping · 24/08/2025 16:04

Using MN since the early 2000's. In those days it was a great source of information. I was a single man, and my friend (also a single man) put me on to it for the great reviews and recommendations for products of various types. We wanted to know about domestic products and the source of information was fabulous, and both he and I benefited enormously. There really wasn't anything else of its type at that time.

Didn't use it for many years, and more recently, my wife reintroduced me to it. It is way more of an abuse a discussion board now, and once one has sorted through the drivel, there are some very engaging debates and discussions. Fortunately, still a good deal of excellent product suggestions and reviews too.

Channel4IsShit · 24/08/2025 16:04

I joined in 1911. It was much more limited then. We had to send posts by street urchin runners or, if you were on Style and Beauty, by footman.

Things have changed. I don’t really recognise much of the current discussions. Though the gripes about husbands are terribly familiar.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 24/08/2025 16:03

Ten. But not all under the same name.