What was the first thread you read on Mumsnet?

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Mine was along the line of 'WIBU to start moisturising my baby so she doesn't get wrinkles' ... I assume it was lighthearted

I can't remember the first thread I read, it was years ago; similar to PPs I'd Googled something and came across a MN thread so then started to lurk my way around some of the topics. Continued lurking and joined a couple of months later. I do remember the first thread I posted on, which was a 'chicken pox at a wedding' thread in AIBU which was turning into a bunfight - my comment was was neutral and ignored!

A long thread about vaccination and the usual batshit arguments by people who won't vaccinate their children.
I'd been reading a similar thread on the old Bounty forum when they decided to "update" their service - ie completely break it.
I then remained.

It was about farrow and ball paint. Came up on a Google search and I've been around ever since. Think it was about 2 years ago

It was a posting of a woman with an alcoholic husband who had a 14 year old daughter. The girl used to go to the neighbours house to find a safe place. It was heartbreaking. In the end, the husband died when he had a bad fall down the stairs.

I often think it

Its in classics now about what you was led to believe was posh as a child but now it's really not!

Ellaroos river of sweetcorn. I cried laughing.

Cats were shitting all over my garden. A Google search led me to a Mumsnet thread about it, and that was that.

Re penis beaker, I think a friend must have shared me the link while it was going on, in a kind of "can you believe this" way..., and I've stayed ever since.

2 had me hooked, eventually turning out to be trolls which I had never heard of before.

Ophelia Rose, twins, affair etc.

The one where the woman, who was running a business with her husband, found out her husband was having an affair with a neighbour, big dramas, got lots of support and even met with people in real life, several threads later, she was somehow outed as not being who she said she was and had actually stolen the identify of someone else, but added the affair bit which had not actually happened to the couple whose identity she stole. It was all very bizarre.

I stumbled across mumsnet when I was googling pelvic floor exercises whilst pregnant. I lost a whole afternoon’s work to reading it and trying not to cry with laughter at my desk.

i was on a night shift and got engrossed in a thread about a lady who had found a bag of women's clothes and a wig in her loft and thought they were her DH's

I had originally gone onto mumsnet to look at breastfeeding advice.

I'd found H20's website about BLW. There was a link to Mumsnet... Can't remember which thread specifically, but would have been BLW related. Been lurking ever since 😀

I followed a link (on Horse and Hound online forum of all places) , the thread was about does spunk taste different if your partner's been eating spicy food.
Then read a thread about someone in Pizza Hut letting her child use the potty underneath the table instead of going into the toilets.
Mumsnet has opened up a whole new world to me!

Gluezilla.

An amazing CF wedding one about 8 or 9 years ago, where the groom sent a Facebook message to hundreds of friends, who were not invited to either the wedding or the evening do, asking them to send contributions towards a digital camera for the happy couple to use on their honeymoon. Lots of the friends interpreted this to mean that they were, in fact, invited to the wedding, resulting in hilarious huffy messages from the groom trying to defend his own cheekiness in asking them all for money. It was brilliant!

Through a link on a Digital Spy to a thread about a 'tradesman' asking to go to the loo then taking a shit in someone's downstairs toilet.

Little did I know that there would be at least a thread a month on the same topic with a slight variation i.e 'the supermarket delivery man'/'my builder'/'the plumber'.

I joined because of IamZombie and then got sucked in.

@troubleswillbeoutofsight I remember one where the bride decided not to go through with it and was sitting in the hotel room wondering how to tell everyone? It was about 3 years ago?

The one I read which made me join was the Riven thread

Mine are really boring! Should you wash a chicken? How to make your own Baileys. Don't know why it made me stay and explore further but glad I did!

The bobble plate

The AIBU about the cutted up pear is the first one I remember. Had me crying laughing. But I probably went on to mumsnet with the intention of finding out "is this normal?" for breastfeeding a newborn (nearly 8 years ago now).

2007 I think ,was googling about a storm in the Dominican to see if it would effect flights.
A link came up for a thread from a MNetter who was posting during the storm!

Can’t remember, it was 12 years ago but I was probably looking for SEN advice regarding my DS who was being diagnosed with AS. I got a lot of help.

I can't actually remember what got me here, but the first thread that I was invested in was a poster who had play equipment in her garden and neighbours were coming in and using it without permissio. I think it came to a head when her DSS accidentally locked some random children in their garden.