Things people on MN don't like/do that seems popular in real life!

[MidwifeyForLifey]

Well, I say real life, I mean in person.

I'll start

Eat excessive amounts of food without considering the calories

Let their DC off school for holidays

Wear leggings or Uggs

Let their children play 18+ games in Year 6/7

Puppy I assume most people come on to announce their dislike for her because she's gorgeous and thin

I still see my ds22 as my child . On mumsnet as soon as they turn 18 they are adults and should do everything for themselves and not get a penny from you .

Not forgetting all the three year olds putting a load of washing on and cooking dinner Biffs. You have to start them early ready for abandonment at 18.

Park in parent and child when you have a child. On MN it's a no-no because, even if you have a set of quads and 2 older children, there will DEFINITELY be someone along soon with no kids but a hidden disability who needs the space more than you. And don't even think about raising an eyebrow when they leg it into Asda like Linford Christie while you graze your child's belly squeezing them out a car, there's definitely a reason that childless person parked there

IRL people with children park in parent and child spaces and get pissed off when people without kids park there too

Most of the kids biggest dd was friends with have half decent jobs from hairdressers to police officers with a few nurses in between only on mumsnet are these jobs not for their Dc it is really odd

Im RL I think nobody polices anyone else's parking and just gets on with their shopping.

On MN all these busy, in a hurry parents suddenly have time for a bit of car park policing and a slanging match before they go in.

Everyone I know in RL lies about their kids ages to get in to places for free.

I am sometimes an asshole and get stuff wrong.

None of my children have any sort of special needs.

I love DHs family and get on with then very very well (when SIL met me she said she knew I was one of them!)

I love DH!

My kids can be assholes and not always perfectly sweet and innocent.

We have no spare money

We have no cleaner

I am a SAHM and you can tell by our lack of stuff/money. DH is not a high earner, we just go with out a fucking lot.

I am 100% sure DH won't run off with a younger model and chuck me and DCs on to the streets to die a hungry, cold and painful death because we chose for me to SAH.

I would like to know where some MNetters live where "did you mean to be so rude" is seen as the ultimate insult that shuts the convo down. In my working class circle it would get a "well obviously dickhead" Type response! 😂

What happens then?

Definitely clean my own house!!
Also dds lunch box contains 2 x biscuits or a bag of crisps every day. EVERY DAY! Also has a portion of fruit and a portion of veg I will add!

Actually I find people on Mumsnet either earn hardly anything and live hand to mouth (exaggeration obviously), OR they are filthy rich.
Similarly, people either despise their DPs/DHs or fancy the pants off them, their DHs are perfect, etc.

I throw balls back to children who kicked them over the fence. This is a massive no no.

I have 2 loo brushes and a bin in both bathrooms.
My kids don't have any special needs etc, i don't have anxiety.
My OH can be a twat at times, but his good points outweigh the bad.
I like a Maccy D or a KFC now and again.
I clean my own home.
I answer the door when it asks me a question someone knocks on it, likewise the phone when it rings, well i do if i'm not otherwise er, occupied with my OH.
I don't mind people dropping in.
I enjoy being with both mine and my OH family and i love my MIL.
I used to give my kids to my mother or MIL every saturday night from birth so i could have a night out with my OH.
I've never worn brands that others on here seem to favour, such as Boden etc. I wouldn't know a Boden if it bit me on the arse.

I don't meal plan or cook from scratch either.

HaventGotAllDay, I think I luv you.

The meal planning threads are so amusing, surely other people do what we did last night & one of us had left over lasagne from Sat night & the other had a quick fry up of bacon & eggs & as there wasn’t enough lasagne for two .

But of course there are some Mumsnetters who would never eat leftovers .

I meal plan every week! It's helps me stay on track with my diet and makes sure I'm only buying the stuff we need at the supermarket rather than random ingredients. I plan in left over meals too though, this Friday we won't be getting in home until after 10pm so it will be a random mix of lasagne, cottage pie and sweet and sour for everyone 😂

I like Greggs coffee!
I also attend church.

To be utterly delighted when my neighbours/mil/dsc/extended family think to pop in - without prior notice, phone call, smoke signal or carrier pidgin announcing the impending visit... then again , I get even more reckless.. when someone knocks at the door. I answer it !!

I managed this amazing feat whilst parenting three dcs , working full time with a DH working night shifts.. I know, I know - my OBE is in the post ..

No bin in the bathroom

Nobody I know in real life has kids over the age of 20-22 who actually live at home- because they're either at university in different towns, or have been working for 3-4 years and have moved out to do the living with flatmates/girlfriends thing.
I now realise that as if knowing every piece of dd's homework until she is 18 isn't enough (I don't, it's not my homework, I'm not at school anymore, her homework, her problem) I'm also expected to put a tracker on them at university? And expect them to come home every weekend? And ring me every night? (or whatsapp me or whatever)
Maybe I'm a neglectful parent, but I always thought, prior to MN that university was when we give them wings and let them fly, not tie them to the apron strings even tighter than they ever were before. I find the emotional blackmail of parents of university age kids on MN unsettling- it wavers between the "we've paid for it so we get to interfere in it" and "empty nest wah wah he must facetime me every evening or I'm getting in the car and fetching him back" It's very unhealthy.

I love the fact that 2 of my kids have moved out. Just need to get rid of the 3rd. I don't expect daily phone calls/visits . I don't have Facebook. I voted leave, read the daily mail, have voted Tory. Don't meal plan or batch cook. Have take away a weekly. Drink. Smoke. Don't exercise but still lost 3 stone. Don't have a cleaner. Cleaned my own oven. Don't have a tv licence. Don't have a land line , so no phone calls. Answer my door. Not got a wood burner . No extension. And my house is worthy of Pinterest or instagram. I live in an ex council house.

I don't literally cry with laughter if I read a funny post but I may let out a sort of amused "Hah!" noise.
I also don't think I'd literally cry with laughter if someone disagreed with me.
I don't use the word "literally" when I mean "figuratively".
I don't ask lots of people if I'm being unreasonable when it's patently obvious that I'm not.

What no 'spitting tea over your keyboard', or waking the baby laughing LaMarschallin, you aren't trying.

I know, Sparkling, I'm a failure.
I've not even choked on my Gregg's chicken bake (I prefer them to the steak ones - see! I can do controversial).
I did once literally cry laughing over something I'd read ("Hopscotch and Handbags" by Lucy Mangan). It was in a airport and my husband and children wouldn't sit next to me.