What makes you un-mumsnetty?

[GlummyMcGlummerson]

For me

• I park in parent and child spaces when I have my kids with me. I don't make my life harder by parking in a tiny normal space just in case that childless bloke in the Porsche 911 who runs into Asda like Linford Christie might have a better reason for it than me

• if I have a bad experience I complain. If I find my £40 steak swimming in fat with a pube in it, I don't refrain from saying anything just in case the chef has had a bad day.

• I go to the supermarket during the pandemic, I don't leave shaking and sobbing and riddled with guilt over it because I bought a Galaxy. I even take my kids with me.

• I don't "seethe" if, when the secret Santa budget is £5, I get a Bayliss and Harding gift set. I accept that £5 means limited options and I say thanks, move on and don't take it as a personal alight for years to come. I don't have the hump becauSe they didn't personally whittle a keyring from wood in the oak tree that tenderly grows in their back garden

What makes you unmumsnetty?

[firstimemamma]

@CrochetToTheMoon that's just crazy if you're as daring as me I bet you don't even have a running away fund.

[Toomuchtooyoung01]

Oh and I didnt spend either pregnancy "craving" gin etc, in fact I've been teetotal ever since I first got pregnant

[fussychica]

I'm older than the average user, have been married forever and only have one child
I don't drive
I like to shop in a shop and pick my own products rather than online which is just as well because delivery slots are like hens teeth since the first lockdown.
I live in a bungalow and love it, an Edwardian semi may look lovely but I'd have neighbours and stairs, no thanks.
I think there's nothing wrong with leaving sensible secondary school age children alone all day.
I have a loo brush, don't use Zoflora and change my towels/bedding/pjs after several uses rather than one.

[DioneTheDiabolist]

I'm working class.
I understand humour.
I love diversity in society.

[paisleybandana]

I obviously haven't been on here long enough to absorb what being 'Mumsnetty' means

A lot of people mentioning bedsheets...

[SimonJT]

@BillMasen

I’m a man

This.

There are far too many other reasons to list.

[Inthenetto]

I don't have a lot of money.

I enjoy high culture.

I don't think fireworks should be banned.

[Progress2019]

I don’t use D abbreviations

All my loos have a loo brush and all my bathrooms have a bin

No isn’t a complete sentence

Once a delivery driver asked if he could use my toilet, and I LET him.

[LaMarschallin]

I think going "NC" with close family members is really weird and the sort of thing I assumed only happened in soap operas before finding MN.

I don't believe that everyone who makes a spelling mistake/grammatical error and subsequently has it pointed out to them is dyslexic.

I do wash my legs in the shower (but I use a toilet brush to do so).

[waterlane]

I have never shopped in Boden, Jack Wills or Joules.
I love going on holiday to Dubai (although all the z listers and influencers there at the moment is putting me off.)
I dress my daughter in pink and blue a lot but shock horror she also loves dinosaurs and other typical 'boy' things and vice versa and I couldn't give a shit when people say 'oh that's such a cliche.' Those colours suit them, I like them, they look cute, get over yourself.
I never paid 'keep' to live at home.
I spoil my kids at Christmas.
I didn't find hypnobirthing very helpful.
I don't flirt with the idea of becoming a vegan.
I'm a SAHM and don't feel guilty, bored, undermined, like I'm letting the sisterhood down.

[Bluesmartiesandpandapop]

I have a toilet brush
And a bathroom bin

I liked the amateur firework displays that lit up my neighbourhood. It felt like I was not alone.

I have more than 2 kids because obviously I don't give a shit about the planet, right?

I love tacky Christmases and Halloween outfits and naff valentines days and Easter egg hunts. Also conga lines and the okie cokie etc. I just like to join in, really.

I like to cook best when the freezer section does most of the work. Ssh!

I've never earned more than just above minimum wage and probably never will. & I'm ok with that.

I fucking love musicals.

[Deathraystare]

No kids, no partner, no in laws, no pets, no pearls to clutch, no car - so no parking issues!.

I do use Zoflora but have done forever (before Mumsnet).

Scuse an typos - I am not wearing my glases.

[BillMasen]

Offers @SimonJT a manly handshake rather than an “unmumsnetty hug”

Yep lots of other reasons I’m a square peg in a round hole here sometimes, but I must feel oddly at home to still be here after almost a decade...

[Sparklingbrook]

@BillMasen

I’m a man

I don't think that's un-mumsnetty there's men all over the place on here these days.

[AndNoneForGretchenWieners]

I don't wear knickers in bed

DS has always had unlimited screen time and never had his phone checked (the threat of me being able to check it at a moments notice has been enough that I can trust him)

DS has been allowed to drink alcohol since he first asked for it underage - not bingeing - and has developed a healthy attitude to it

Most of my parenting has been inclined more towards benign neglect than helicopter parenting

My step kids love me and are still close to me despite their dad dying and so me not being technically related to them any more

[Gliblet]

I don't keep my doors locked, and if someone I don't know knocks, I open the door and find out why.

I genuinely like DH.

I own two toilet brushes (one for each loo).

If someone irritates me, upsets me, offends me, I tell them.

If my parents need help and DH is free, he helps them. If DMIL or DSIL need something and I'm free, I help them. Likewise if I were offended by something they'd done i wouldn't expect DH to 'handle' it just because they're 'his'.

I work FT and don't get lie ins. DH doesn't work and does get lie ins. I couldn't give a shit.

[EssentialHummus]

I can't distinguish Lidl from Aldi and tbh I'm quite sure that quality-wise I couldn't distinguish Fortnum's from Asda, let alone anything in the middle.

[GlummyMcGlummerson]

And on MN that means you're automatically in the wrong

I'm a die hard feminist but the double standards on here are weird.

There's a thread at the moment about a poster's DP who got the train to see her at Xmas and she made him walk the half mile from the station to her house, without meeting him there or picking him up. She also didn't drop him at the station or see him off. He was annoyed about this.

Loss of posters telling OP he needs to grow up and stop being so pathetic.

I imagine if the sexes were reversed, and OP posted that when she visited her DP he made her walk in the cold because he couldn't be arsed driving to pick her up, she'd be told he's being abusive and she needs to LTB

[Waxonwaxoff0]

I don't care what the school mums think of me and I'm not interested in being friends with them.

I am happily single and don't believe monogamy works for me.

I had DS young and I'm glad I did.

I'm house proud and I think people with untidy houses are lazy.

I hate wine and gin.

[Spidey66]

I don't take my shoes off before I enter my house.

The only food I clean is salad stuff that grows in mud e.g. lettuce or celery. Certainly not times of beans, even with the pandemic.

I let tradesmen use my toilet, which i clean with a toilet brush.

My dog prewashes the plates as they go in the dishwasher, with my main concern that the food is dog safe.

[cushioncovers]

I eat pot noodles And I love um 😁

[Spidey66]

Tins of beans, not times of beans.

[kursaalflyer]

@GlummyMcGlummerson

And on MN that means you're automatically in the wrong

I'm a die hard feminist but the double standards on here are weird.

There's a thread at the moment about a poster's DP who got the train to see her at Xmas and she made him walk the half mile from the station to her house, without meeting him there or picking him up. She also didn't drop him at the station or see him off. He was annoyed about this.

Loss of posters telling OP he needs to grow up and stop being so pathetic.

I imagine if the sexes were reversed, and OP posted that when she visited her DP he made her walk in the cold because he couldn't be arsed driving to pick her up, she'd be told he's being abusive and she needs to LTB

That's very selective! The DP stayed 8 days, didn't lift a finger and spent most of the time on his laptop. He's dumped now thank goodness.

[BillMasen]

@CrochetToTheMoon

BillMasen

Oh how brave of you, on any other thread we’d have “a man has entered” comments

I considered starting with “as a man... “ but decided against it

[XmasGridlock]

I sometimes park in Parent and Child Spaces even when I don't have my kid with me. It horribly embarrasses DH who gets upset when he sees people without kids parking in them.

I have a toilet brush. I go far too long between towel and bedding changes.

I'm overweight, drink lots of energy drinks and smoke.

I can mooch around the house in my PJs for days.