If you (still) feel the need to discuss Moldies, please do it here so folks can hide this if they want to.

custy
are you crazy

my ds1 was packing bags for charity there yesterday and it took farking hours just to drop him off and pick him up.

Custy - you are insane to go to Tesco, with child, on Christmas eve.

i have no sqabbling children, in fact one is sill asleep, and t'other is gonna help me shop at ....TESCO!

arrrrrrghhhhhhh
pray for me REV, i may not survive

I cant be bothered to go outside it is cold. We have watched a DVD this morning which kept them quiet, and now they are making a christmas card for baby annabel . Will be short-lived peace though.

Peachy, lots of us will still post on both. I would never leave Mumsnet - the SN boards in particular.

p.s. thread hijack but I saw your posts about your DS3 - I think I have your email address on my home PC - would you mind if I emailed you? As you know my DS3 is similar age and DX. But I don't want to email you if you would rather not hear from me, or not hear from me atm anyway.

I have many squabbling children. I shall be marching them around outside in wellies after lunch

peachy - I think that sort of clause would be unwieldy (imagine defining all the words - product/contacting/contact" etc and a nightmare to enforce - and could potentially restrict all sorts of things like people with small card making/jewellery biz etc. besides which since moldies is a private non-commercial board, so wouldn't really be a rival "product" would it?

at daftpunk
pragmatic and festive yet still letigious

How many of you have squabbling children today?

And what do I do about it?

it's christmas eve....we'll get the lawyers in on jan 2nd....

So glad that my stocking present wrapping wasnt in vein.

Peachy - I dont think that the demographic of MN will alter significantly. What % of MN users do the Moldies represent. Obviously most were prolific posters but the vacuum will be filled with new prolific posters, many of whom I expect will be a similar demographic. And FWIW - I received BF advice from you and TikTok many moons ago and I remain grateful

OK can I ask a very sane level question about something I don't understand?

Think of Moldies as an organic corner shop and MN as Waitrose
(rather apt IMO LOL)

Now Waitrose ain't gonna care if said corner sho opens and will likely ignore it and remain unaffected

And so indeed the Moldies have a complete right to exista s a separate website

What I don't understand is this

The cherry picking recruitment metod smacks of corner shop standing in waitrose foyer with leaflets

Now I understand that MN makes 'cash' by advertisinga n selling its demographiic

the demographic, from the trading partners listed, is a certain kiddle class affluent type represented by boden / white company / GLTC

The Moldies seem to me to be on the whole theat demographic (we shall henceforth call them boden-shaggers but in a light hearted way).

So what happens as MN's main demographioc falls? Do we end up with a site instead sponsored by SMA and Cow & Gate?

In which case people like myslef, tiktok and VS (I suspect- only a guess) will vanish

I shall refer to us the 'New Look-shaggers )

Seriously- is ther e a clause in mn user agreement about not contacting contacts made through mn for marketing of products including rival websites? If nt ten I suggest it might be a consideration?

YAY its Christmas Eve.........! ONE more sleep

Merry Christmas Moldies and Mnetters

Thank you Flihgtattendant - sorry I missed it first time around but will pass it on.

And a very happy Christmas to all!

I am trying to do real life but moving will mean I have to clean the cooker

Ok here I go.....................................

I need to go and do Christmas in RL now so am signing off for a couple of days.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

To Moldies - have a good one and remember to come back often.

To the rest - Let's remember MN is still a good place to come and moan, laugh and give and receive support.

To MNHQ - Thanks for providing a platform for the above!

Now off to wrap and get squiffy

Morning all; you all cheered me up last night Have a fab day!

thanks cornsilk, I'm trying - DS's are very excited that it's Christmas Eve, I'm still pretending to be excited and Christmassy so I don't let them down.

Unfortunately most of today is going to be filled with very mundane boring stuff (like tidying) - although I've put a Christmassy spin on it by telling them they'll have to help me (either by picking bits up, or playing with DS3 to keep him occupied) so that it's easier for FC to creep in and put the presents under the tree.

Nah, don't bother mamadiva...it ain't worth the time it'd take you...plus the other 5 1000+ threads!!

WTF? I cant actually be arsed reading through whole thread.

What the hell is all this about the moldies?

This thread cheered me up last night Cheers to all that unknowingly helped to lift my christmas spirit! Hope you're feeling a bit more christmassy today FAQ!

I'm just wondering if we'll get a card off them on Christmas day...

Will have to start calling them the 'Down from Moldies'. DFM's.

How does that sound?

Happy Christmas Moldies by the way...in case Six hasn't passed on my message.

I am feeling all Christmassy.

TBH i think people posting about OP have missed the point that this thread has happily become a completely irrelevant thread

and hurrah for that

FFS don't you lot sleep?????

Stocking presents must be wrapped, my kids would be really dissapointed if they weren't and the more they are wrapped the longer they take to open them while I still try to sleep

On the subject of Moldies, this is my first and last post on it as I feel it would really affect my RL if I let it so I won't