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What makes you un-mumsnetty?

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GlummyMcGlummerson · 01/01/2021 13:47

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?

OP posts:
Kanaloa · 01/01/2021 15:09

I don’t think having a name like Kacie or Tyler sets your child up for a life on the dole and bars them from jobs like lawyers/doctors.

I have a toilet brush in all our toilets.

My kids get lots of Christmas and birthday gifts, I don’t get them something to wear/read/need or whatever else it is.

I don’t have any drama with in-laws or friends. If someone genuinely annoys or upsets me, I either tell them or stop seeing them.

DayBath · 01/01/2021 15:11

@trappedsincesundaymorn

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 don't know if this is mumsnetty or not but it certainly makes you an awesome step parent in my view!
maddiemookins16mum · 01/01/2021 15:13

I earn under 18K full time. MN tend to think that’s part time if you ever dare admit that income.

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maddiemookins16mum · 01/01/2021 15:14

Oh and I adore my MIL.

ObliviouslyIgnorant · 01/01/2021 15:15

I don't really like sex. It's certainly not a 'treat' I'd be giving any man. I'm not a commodity.

I don't have a husband and never have had.
I'm thin, drink too much and smoke.
I've never actually seen a Waitrose, much less, been in one.
I like Jeremy Corbyn.
I find it hard not to swear in posts.

Ninkanink · 01/01/2021 15:16

I am a mass of contradictions in MN terms...

I change our bedding weekly (I don’t always do it - DH does it just as often as me but lately he has been unwell/hospitalitised/recovering so I’m doing it), more often if we’ve had a sweaty night or otherwise necessitated it). Otherwise I’ll clean when I feel like it, which isn’t all that often. Kitchen hygiene is obviously important and I keep on top of that. Same with toilet/sink/shower. But anything over and beyond that gets done here and there. A little bit of dust doesn’t bother me too much. My DH likes things to be done more often, so he’s welcome to do a deep clean of the bathroom, or whatever, whenever he wants, and he does. I don’t like zoflora, I don’t like overuse of bleach, I’m not freaked out by dirt or bacteria.

I don’t like ad hoc visits - I like to be asked if it’s convenient for me. It’s rude to just turn up and expect people to host (unless that’s how everyone in your family/friendship group likes it and has always done it that way). Especially if you then stay hours and hours and hours and hours.

I don’t ask people to take their shoes off in our home, but they’re welcome to do so if they want.

I am very strong on LTB, because honestly most of the time it’s warranted. But I’m not automatically on the woman’s side in every single scenario.

A medium chicken genuinely does do the two of us three meals plus a soup or stock from the carcass. I hate food waste (which is also money waste) and absolutely wont throw anything away unless it’s truly inedible. I use all leftovers and make delicious meals out of them, not slop on a plate. No matter how much or how little money I have, I will never, ever throw away perfectly good food when so many people don’t have enough. That just offends my sensibilities.

I buy clothing on eBay or sometimes from charity shops. But I also like to buy from higher end high street, and will happily pay a lot (for me) for good quality.

Eh there are so many things. Mostly, though, I think people get too het up about stuff on here, because they’re venting and in fact the things they’re ranting about are unlikely to be the actual things that are really upsetting, bothering or annoying them. I do it too, from time to time, although I do try to be intellectually honest and self aware.

MellowYellow101 · 01/01/2021 15:16

Can someone explain the toilet brush thing please, is it because they don't take a poo like normal people lol.

A toilet brush is like a bathroom staple! How could someone not own a toilet brush, please someone explain lol

Kokosrieksts · 01/01/2021 15:17

I book food delivery slots for our family convenience.

Curlyshabtree · 01/01/2021 15:18

Skint, no savings, live in deprived area.

ObliviouslyIgnorant · 01/01/2021 15:18

Oh and I don't like men being on here.

I have no issue with transpeople.
And I don't advise anyone in crisis to call the Samaritans.

Hedgesfullofbirds · 01/01/2021 15:18

@BillMasen - you beat me to it! I, too, have a Y chromosome.

I like living rurally, miles from the nearest shop.

I can live without gyms, coffee shops and McDonalds.

I love my stepdaughter, even when she is being a litte bit 'difficult'.

That will do for now.

PhilCornwall1 · 01/01/2021 15:19

@Ninkanink

The usual...

I have a toilet brush.

Do you have teenagers?

I always worry about that mayhem two teen boys (I think they still live here, we don't see them much, apart from when they smell food) could cause with a bog brush.

BlackberrySky · 01/01/2021 15:21

I have never blocked anyone on any form of messaging system.

unmarkedbythat · 01/01/2021 15:21

I don't have a Very High Earner for a husband
I don't subside on an olive and a grain of rice a day
My children know what sweets are and have eaten McDonald's and drunk fizzy drinks
I do mean to be so rude

NowellSingWe · 01/01/2021 15:21

I don't have any gossip about my neighbours, and they all seem like nice enough people who keep themselves to themselves.

I have just the one oven.

rossogingerale · 01/01/2021 15:22

I wash my bathroom towels with the bath mat

ScabbyHorse · 01/01/2021 15:25

My DS met my boyfriend after six months (not two years). I rent don't own.

SimonJT · 01/01/2021 15:25

@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

He had stayed 8 days, sat on his bum and not contributed to food, cooking, washing up etc. He was lucky not be be thrown out before the 8th day.

Depending on where the station is and the time of day it may be an unsafe journey for a lone woman to walk.

Chicchicchicchiclana · 01/01/2021 15:25

I don't find ops like this one the least bit amusing or clever. I wonder if that makes me unmumsnetty?

Shmithecat2 · 01/01/2021 15:27

@rossogingerale

I wash my bathroom towels with the bath mat

Are we not supposed to? Shock

Lily193 · 01/01/2021 15:28

I don't hate people who are overweight or have obesity and don't believe they should be denied medical care via the NHS. I dislike mass produced brands like Cos, Arket, And Other Stories, MeandEm, Hush, Mulberry etc, and I hate dungarees and DMs.

unmarkedbythat · 01/01/2021 15:28

@Chicchicchicchiclana

I don't find ops like this one the least bit amusing or clever. I wonder if that makes me unmumsnetty?
Possibly, but posts like that make you very mumsnetty indeed. Tinkly laugh.
summerstorms · 01/01/2021 15:31

I'm non binary

I can't drive

I live on a council estate

grapewine · 01/01/2021 15:31

I have a toiletbrush. But no children. I don't drive, and I don't really cook either, so getting a week's meals out of a chicken is a no go. I also don't use ebay and don't have friendship groups with whom I go on holiday or fall out.

TableFlowerss · 01/01/2021 15:34

@Nousernamesleftatall

I am not terrified of Covid.

I am worried about the damage being done to our economy.

I am worried about the ease our civil liberties have been taken away.

Same
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