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?

I feel so sorry for the men trapped here dealing with "double standards". Poor loves.

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

I can never understand why men do that on here, except in the Sex Topic where I believe it's positively encouraged.

I’m a happy stay at home mum. Oh and I like elf on the shelf, Christmas Eve boxes and shock horror... attending baby showers and gender reveals!

I answer my front door & don’t mind unannounced visitors.
I quite like my family and don’t overthink boundaries.
I try and accommodate things that probably ‘don’t work for me’.

@Youngatheart00

I’ve never used zoflora!

Oh just go now!!!! Hahah I love my zoflora, but I think what makes me un-mumsnetty is i buy it from poundland 🤣

Also I like to think I'm not judgey and I've never stated LTB in any of my responses (at least I dont think so!)

And lastly, dare I admit to it again in the hope there is no backlash, I do not intend on having the covid vaccine!

I don't buy our clothes from charity shops.

I don't drive a 25 year old car. I do drive a 7 seater 4x4, bit it's not brand new either.

I don't live in a big house, have a tumble dryer, dishwasher, dining room etc.

I thought the shark hoover that everyone loves on here was shit and I sent it back.

I bottle fed 2 of my children. Didn't even try breast feeding with the second.

My boys ate typical boys, they like typical boy toys, clothes activities, and I wouldn't allow them to go out or go to school wearing a dress, skirt or anything else that would be "girlie". I am expecting a girl soon and have bought very typical girls clothes. Lots of pink, which I said I wouldn't, but they are so cute.

I'm not married, I don't plan on getting married, and my partner doesn't earn 6 figures.

I have never tried to maintain a relationship with my eldest biological father for him, or claimed maintenance from him.

My children mostly refuse to eat fruit and veg (I have tried very hard).

I don't meal plan. I don't even do a weekly shop.

I guess I’m also unmumsnetty as a bloke that I have my kids a lot (not 50:50 but more like 40/60). I’m flexible when my ex wants to rearranged or swap around. I pay more than CMS and think it’s vital these payments are reliable. I also know that whilst it’s for my kids, my ex may benefit a bit, and that’s ok.

So not a mumsnetty man (I hope). I do recognise a lot of us out there are pretty shitty and I apologise for them,

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.

No, that one makenyou very mumsnetty.

I don’t own a car and live a fulfilling life. I occasionally get lifts from people, who seem only to happy to offer.

I consider schools to be childcare.

I love working and could afford to stay at home but would find this much harder than working.

I’m a lot messier than my DH, who sees housework as a joint responsibility.

I’m a size 14 and feel neither massively huge nor slim. If I weighed 10 stone I would look pretty thin.

I shout at my kids quite a lot.

I have toilet brushes, infact 2 in one toilet.
I occasionally wash my body in the shower.
Im fat
I sometimes dress dcs in designer clothes
I spent alot on my dcs xmas
I dont wish to be friend’s with the school parents and dont care what they think of me
I like ugg boots

I am a Brexiter.

Oh bed covers get changed when I remember and have the energy, towels when they smell or are visably dirty

I call people 'hun' quite a lot irl and I actually do think in general (but obviously not in all cases) that there are natural differences between boys and girls (teachers, HV, midwives etc have told me the same despite what MN say).

We eat the parts of the chicken we want for one meal then throw it

Ooh this is making me look at all my life choices twice!

I drive a new range rover (not a trashy white Evoque)
I got married aged 20 to a man much older than me and we're still together
I have real life friends who I go to for advice, I don't come on here and ask if IABU to flush the kid's goldfish down the loo instead of buying it a casket and a plot in the local churchyard
I spent a huge amount on my kids at Christmas, and they all had different amounts and values of gifts. Even my 10mo got loads of gifts
I'm pregnant and DH hasn't gone off me, forced me to clean the house from top to bottom or demanded we name the baby Colgate

I don’t swear
I vote conservative
I iron my clothes/bed linen
Apparently I must be ‘one of the stuck ups’ because I don’t really like sexual innuendo, if you must do it, keep it private
I don’t understand being proud to be a MN ‘slattern’ as they like to call themselves........I could go on

I try to forgive people.

Me and my husband don't keep a schedule of who's turn it is for a lie in. One of us just gets up first with the kids if we're all off work. Sometimes it's me sometimes it's him 🤷‍♀️

@Ninkanink

"The usual...I have a toilet brush."
Haha snap! I was genuinely shocked by that post where someone denied ever needing a toilet brush?! What is this, some peoples poo literally never Mark's their toilets?!!!! How?! I have a toilet brush next to every toilet, in the house. They all get used daily!

@Tillsforthrills

I don’t pick apart any persons post, itching to catch them out just because.

person's

I don't have kids for a start

I love and choose to buy Baylis & Harding. I don't think all men should be left if they veer even slightly off the MN path of sainthood (he must still fancy, respect and adore you even if you put on 50lbs and scream all day long). I loved my mother-in-law and never felt she was interfering if she dared to want to cuddle my baby or comment on how she did things differently in her day.

• I'm from a working class background

• I have a tattoo

• I have a unique name which I love and hasn't let me down in my life

• I eat in bed

• I love my DH and would never even consider leaving him over some of the minor discretions you see on here.

• I don't give a hoot if people break COVID rules.

Does this class as being un-mumsnetty?......I went for, and was granted, primary residence (as it was then), of my, then, 12 year old SD (who had lived with me and her dad for 7 years ), after her father buggered off with OW and her mother was in jail for dealing, and I cared not a fuck what either parent thought about it.

I love this thread!
I too have toilet brushes, I also own a 'Mama' Hoodie