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What stupid thing do you keep doing?

136 replies

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 06/03/2019 20:02

I'll start. Despite putting moisturiser on my face every morning for the last 40 odd years, I constantly squeeze out too much, resulting in a face that makes my mascara run, or greasy hands from rubbing it into them to use the excess. What's yours?

OP posts:
LancashireTea · 06/03/2019 20:45

Gawping at my co-worker who I fancy like mad.
Being untidy.
Spending too much time on my phone.

Harrietsferrets · 06/03/2019 22:30

Boil the kettle, look at it and wonder if it has boiled so put my hand on the metal body kettle, realise its boiled because it hurts when i hold my hand on it.

At least twice a week.

Historydweeb · 06/03/2019 22:31

Burning hand on oven. Daily for the last 20 years 😕

ILoveMaxiBondi · 06/03/2019 22:33

Forgetting there is a wash in the machine. So it gets left for another day. And sometimes another.

Forgetting to set something out to defrost for tomorrow’s dinner. Far too often.

I used to forget that the DC had to go to bed until I started setting an alarm reminder on my phone for every evening. It still catches me by surprise 4/7 nights Blush

Beamur · 06/03/2019 22:34

Buying the large bags of crisps and imaging I'm not going to eat them all in one go.
Ditto nice ice cream.

SpawnChorus · 06/03/2019 22:37

Failing to be blunt/honest when I need people to leave/stop chatting to me. I just can't seem to do it.

Needallthesleep · 06/03/2019 22:38

Watching ‘worst flight disasters’ style documentaries when I am already terrified of flying.

FetchezLaVache · 06/03/2019 22:39

Taking shopping list to supermarket; forgetting to consult shopping list while doing shopping. Every bloody time.

Jeffjefftyjeff · 06/03/2019 22:40

Never working out the upstairs/ downstairs light switches that are next to each other on the landing and always turning on (or off) the wrong one.

WFTisgoingoninmyhead · 06/03/2019 22:40

Eating too much food 😩

TokyoSushi · 06/03/2019 22:44

Scratching a little patch of eczema in my ear until it bleeds because it feels so good. Then it stings for hours, heals over a tiny bit and then I start again. So sore, but so good, been doing it for the last 5 years. I'm sure if I let it real completely it would be much better, but I don't!

Mumsymumphy · 06/03/2019 23:01

Going out with silly men. Story of my life.

RickOShay · 06/03/2019 23:14

Jeff i do the exact same thing Grin

ICouldBeSomebodyYouKnow · 06/03/2019 23:15

Expecting colleague to be reasonable about allocation of work.

MollysLips · 06/03/2019 23:20

Getting married

Reaa · 06/03/2019 23:21

Walk into the corner of my bed almost every night, the bed is about 7 years old and I should really know to avoid the corner by now!

Girlinstripedpyjamas · 06/03/2019 23:29

Burning fingers taking teabags out by hand. Use a spoon woman!

RedHatsDoNotSuitMe · 07/03/2019 00:06

Opening my gob!

MrsTumbletap · 07/03/2019 00:15

@GrubbyHipsterBeard get a 30 minute timer plug off Amazon. They are about a tenner. Plug your straighteners in to that permanently. It will only ever be on for 30 minutes and no more panicking as you drive to work.

It changed me life!!

Parly · 07/03/2019 02:16

Ignoring my fuel warning light.

When it tells me I am low and need to refuel it makes me "Hold my beer a minute. Challenge accepted"

Also cleaning, hoovering and mopping the floors when it's throwing it down and the dogs are outside. Every time they come hurtling through the place and leave a trail of muddy prints I wonder what the hell possessed me.

lottielady · 07/03/2019 02:59

Picking up my phone when I wake up in the night.

BrizzleMint · 07/03/2019 03:57

Trying to improve myself when it's obvious I'll never succeed.

Izzy24 · 07/03/2019 04:06

Ditto Lottielady!

OutOntheTilez · 07/03/2019 04:41

Making French fries (crisps) and telling my sons, “I’m just going to have a couple; you can have the rest” and then eating two and then four and then eight and then a dozen and then more until I’ve eaten three-fourths of the bag. Then I ask my sons, “Well, why didn’t you take any?” Then I have to drink a massive amount of water because I’m thirsty from all the salt. But I can only drink so much because I’m full, yet I’m still thirsty.

I did it again this evening.

Goes for water

Justagirlwholovesaboy · 07/03/2019 04:47

Commenting honestly on here and making myself into the antichrist 😂

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