What has Mumsnet done for/taught you?

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For me, it's made me change some routines

I wash my tea towels way more often. Not up to every day, but we do wash them every 3 days or so. (We have dishwasher,so they aren't used that much really)

I also change my kitchen cleaning cloth after every ,wipe down session. Where as before MN, I might have used one for the whole day.

I have learned loads about SEN and hidden disabilities.

I always get my product reviews from here now.

Cloth sanitary towels!

Can spot a troll a mile off now!

Taught me how to play Mornington Crescent

That my ex was a controlling abusive arsehole (that was mostly @anyfucker tbh).

Helped me with many aspects of pregnancy, birth, feeding, weaning, potty training etc but most crucially, propping me up when ex fucked off with OW. The HobbitsBar thread on Relationships was a genuine saviour in terms if legal, emotional and practical support.

My child is no longer eating things he’s intolerant to.

Thanks MN m’y life’s great now

I’m a much better feminist now!

Product reviews and similar to @HugeAckmansWife support when I discovered Exh’s affair (and lots of advice about the very predictable next steps/denials he was going to make- yawn!)
Also just kept me amused through lockdown

Mumsnet hosted the specific information and discussions about domestic abuse which helped me to push through a vile divorce.

It is an invaluable reservoir of female knowledge and strength (which is precisely why it is targeted).

Learnt more about the feminism, trans, gender/sex etc

Learnt I’m a slattern.

Probably stand up for myself more.

Aware of the concepts of cf, entitled people,, snowflake generation etc

I discovered the mooncup!

I learned how important the difference between sex and gender is and am a better and more passionate feminist.

And, so very vitally, I found out how to set boundaries and extricate myself from an abusive relationship. I will always be so, so grateful to the wise and compassionate mumsnetters whose words I absorbed from other people's threads, especially about alcoholism and the three Cs.

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That some families have a towel each, and they wash them all, every day

Oh! And I was introduced to the Joan Baez song, 'Diamonds and Rust', which I simply adore now!

It’s showed me that I’m never alone or isolated in how I’m feeling or if I’m going through something - someone’s somewhere will have a solution on MN x

That some people actively enjoy being goady and antagonistic towards others. MN has made me realise that there are lot of them about.

Kept me sane through the baby TTC and baby years.
Been my go to to trawl for help on many issues with parenting
Helped me find new recipes to try
Bereavement board was a safe haven when I had no one who understood
General ranting
5:2 ing
Like a pocket of knowledge and kindness (mainly)

The tea towels thing made me chuckle. We have over 20 and use a few at a time and wash them pretty much daily. I find it kind of horrific people don't. When I'd be at friends and relatives the tea towels never look as fresh.

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The tea towels thing made me chuckle. We have over 20 and use a few at a time and wash them pretty much daily. I find it kind of horrific people don't. When I'd be at friends and relatives the tea towels never look as fresh.

But, if you've used a tea towel for drying one mug, and then later the next day, you use it to dry a glass, and then wash it after. How is that different to you only changing yours daily? Because, if you used your tea towel to dry the breakfast bowls,and then later the lunch stuff,and then the dinner stuff.... It's probably dirtier than mine.

Unless you're saying you use your tea towel once,and then wash it??

We have a dishwasher the tend to leave the big bits to drain. So really it's for hands, drying rinsed fruit or veg like lettuce for example or drying up water round the sink or generally in the kitchen. We don't buy kitchen roll. So I feel like they get a decent amount of use per day. It's not a rule like oh that's been out for a day it goes in the wsh every evening. It's just if it feels a bit gross.

So I think in your situation if you just use them for say drying mugs it might go longer

I don't like the feeling of a damp tea towel so we have 2 out normally.

I think it's a reaction to my parents who are much more lax with kitchen hygiene! And have tea towels out for a week.

Just add water.

When you're sick of your pita toddler then just add water ( a drink, bath, water play etc) and that makes a adding difference.

Also actually in my first post I think I mwnat to say I find it horrific people have dirty ones hanging around.

That no can be a complete sentence.

That quite a lot of women are extremely weird about going to the toilet. Perhaps a good thing as it means I keep my own attitude to myself more.

It's taught me how to unblock a toilet. I had no clue, but reading a tip about a black bag around a mop, instead of a plunger has saved me quite a few times.

How to set boundaries. Total gold.

I got to know a group of fantastic women - most of whom I’ve now met IRL. I wouldn’t have made it through the last year without them. They’ve improved my life immeasurably. I’ll be eternally grateful that I joined that particular thread at that particular point in time and didn’t wimp out of the very first meet-up.

The only acceptable amount of abuse is none.

Female misogyny is a thing.

Not to judge people based on what I think is normal. Everyone's idea of normal is different.

That you can connect and feel supported by a woman who may live many miles away and you'll never meet.

Many many things really.

That DC1 had tongue tie (despite the male GP denying it even though he didn’t actually check her mouth and also said that so long as she was putting on weight my ravaged, bleeding, scabbed nipples were just par for the course).