Am i the only one on mumsnet who ......

[Spongebobsmartypants]

Is just a bog standard mum living in an bog standard house, working in a bog standard job with no cleaner or nanny, who drinks a wee bit too much wine at the weekend and eats to much chocolate, who lets their kids watch tv so i can get peace and wouldn't LTB for Leaving the toilet seat up or leaving dirty washing on the floor.

I feel like i don't fit in even in real life i dont know people like the ones on mumsnet. This is in no way a criticism, i love the support on the site.

@KurtWilde I’m a Yorkshire mum too!!

I’m normal, normal house. I do have a cleaner but she’s fairly new and it’s only because i genuinely can’t be arsed to do big cleans. No nanny. 😂

Today my kids didn’t get dressed until around 10am, one of them had a bag of crisps for breakfast because he refused everything else. Then the youngest one had a tantrum cus he wanted crisps too. Then they started kicking one another so I gave them their iPads on seperate sofas so I could enjoy my cuppa in peace.

I must admit I get the 'I am an alien' feeling most when I read threads about going no contact or low contact with family or narcissistic friends or mothers (it's usually mothers). Obviously you have to do this in cases of abuse but otherwise most of my relationships are kind of boringly normal; we all irrjtate the hell out of one another and fall out every so often but otherwise manage to rub along and accommodate each others character flaws, while recognising we are not perfect either.

Waves at @RussianSpy101

I've been using screen time in one form or another for ages in order to get jobs done/drink tea in peace. I even use it to potty train.

Well, I never!
I have a cleaner.
I have a nanny.
I have a chef.
I have a butler.
I have a shopper.
I have an errand-runner.
I have an upstairs maid.
I have a downstairs maid.
I have a sommelier.
I have a bartender.
All at my beck and call.

Her name is DreamTheMoors.
She’s lazy, but once she gets going she shifts into slow gear. Oh - and serving cold, leftover takeaways for breakfast is her specialty.

@FoamBurst I love your post!! ❤️🥳

@Jellykat 🤣 yep, exactly!

@FloraPotts

I must admit I get the 'I am an alien' feeling most when I read threads about going no contact or low contact with family or narcissistic friends or mothers (it's usually mothers). Obviously you have to do this in cases of abuse but otherwise most of my relationships are kind of boringly normal; we all irrjtate the hell out of one another and fall out every so often but otherwise manage to rub along and accommodate each others character flaws, while recognising we are not perfect either.

Yes it's the family threads I struggle to comprehend most. Maybe it's because I'm in the valleys where most people live in the same town (or often on the same street) as their relatives so just crack on if there's a problem. I don't know anyone who's gone low/no contact with family members. Most of us were raised by grandparents, cousins, aunties etc and grew up wandering in and out of each others' houses.

Nah I'm with you too, mum to two 5 years who get more tablet time than I care to admit, I'm a nurse but off just now with long covid. My diet is okay-ish, I don't drink but I substitute it with diet coke or Irn Bru and I definitely don't drink enough water, my house cleaning schedule is non existant and I live in leggings and sweatshirts.

There's lots I'd like to change, especially when I read threads on here but it's very overwhelming!

I’m a normal mum. Kids watch crap tv, eat as many biscuits as they like. Holidays are UK ones. Work part time, do all the household stuff as DH is working and it’s unfair if I’m only doing a couple of days a week. Would never LTB for anything I see on here. Love my mil, even if she’s a bit difficult. Love my mum even if she’s a bit uptight and crap with the kids. Shop at Aldi and I smoke. My BMI is not 21 and I don’t exercise for ‘my mental health’.

I do have a cleaner. Started when I was recovering from a c section gone wrong. Now happy to sacrifice hair cuts and new clothes to keep her as it’s made my life so much easier not trying to do a big clean with a baby and a toddler hanging off my neck.

I do what makes me and My family happy.
I have lowered my expectations of many many things in life as I have got older.
I keep things simple.

I can't afford a cleaner
I can't afford a spa day
I rent a house
My kids have treats and we rarely all eat together
I am having an affair
I own toilet brushes

Very Un-mumsnetty person

Another confessing to Easter egg for breakfast😋 (99p in Asda at the moment for Cadbury) been in Pj's all day (but did shower first as don't actually sleep in them 😉) and can beat everyone on the car front...... 24 years old and no intention of replacing til it dies🚘

Driving an old banger and ate McDonald’s 3 x this weekend. Kids watch too much TV

@Mossstitch

Another confessing to Easter egg for breakfast😋 (99p in Asda at the moment for Cadbury) been in Pj's all day (but did shower first as don't actually sleep in them 😉) and can beat everyone on the car front...... 24 years old and no intention of replacing til it dies🚘

24 years

Ooh can I join?
When threads pop up on here, ‘the cleaner did this gasp’ or ‘the nanny did that’ I’m like, who are these people? I know precisely no one in real life who has a nanny, or a cleaner that I can think of!

Oh, my cars 15 years old. My husband wants to replace her but I love her and will drive her til she dies, she’s my baby!

Me!! I love mumsnet and find the life styles fascinating but I definitely don't 'belong'. As for having a cleaner? I am a domestic cleaner 😂. I receive universal credit and rent my house. I live in a working class town and even the 'posh' parts are nothing like the stuff I read on here. I've never met anyone with a life style like the people on here. The rich people around where I come from are mostly coke dealers . I recently drove a 15 year old car until it died and and my parents bought me a 12 plate which is luxury to me! My daughters plays out in the street, we've never had a 'play date'. They chap each others doors and either play in each other's houses or out in the street. She has a TV and xbox and a phone (she also dances 3 times a week and goes to gymnastics twice a week I'm not all bad ). I answer the door and I don't take offence to everything.

Just read the thread there and it made me smile that there are other posts above mine saying the same thing - I don't have a cleaner I AM a cleaner

I don't drink but I'm with you on the rest

You sound quite normal to me, Spongebob.

Just out of interest - was it last years easter egg, or an easter egg you bought for this year that didn't even make it past the first week of feb?

I’ve never considered myself ‘poor’ and feel like I have a really good/comfortable life until I read some posts and it’s like another world.

I live in a bog standard 3 bed semi (which I love), could never afford a nanny and know literally nobody with a nanny. Know nobody who has been to private school. I love McDonalds and Butlins and buying home stuff from home bargains and the range and a lot of other stuff that’s frowned upon here neither me nor DH went to uni.

We live in a council house on a council estate in a run-down area of Yorkshire. I work, as a supply teacher, and we're terminally skint. As a family we've never been abroad and instead we go on holiday to a caravan on the east coast of Yorkshire usually, because it's cheap. My kids play out on the street and go and call for their friends. They go to the local primary school and will (hopefully) go to the nearest comprehensive. If they're not playing out then they're on their phones, the Switch, the PS or just watching TV. For dinner they get things like jacket spuds and beans, beans or spaghetti on toast, pizza or even (shock, horror) microwaveable meals (although they do get fancier meals as well, just not every night!) They also have cereal, AKA "shit in a box", for breakfast and supper. We have family photographs rather than art on our walls. We swear in front of our children.

Hello fellow normals 👋

I think mumsnet is a bit like social media but more pointless. In that some people are perfect parents, earn millions of pounds, have cleaners etc
One recent thread made me chuckle when someone wanting advice on her child was told to sit down with the toddler and gently and calmly explain that we don’t do that behaviour because it isn’t kind and how would we like to be treated…. Etc etc etc apparently her perfect 3 year old has never been told off because of this kind, calm lecturing approach.

I’m 34 and would have stopped listening after the first 2 minutes, figured she’s either lying or not normal.