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The secret things you do that no-one else knows....

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Frt · 16/02/2023 11:07

Every day that DP is out of the house at work, I buy an early-afternoon energy drink. They are rancid, sugary, unhealthy and downright common as muck but I absolutely love the buzz I get for the rest of the day. DP would be appalled with me if he found out 😅

My MN habit is a secret too. I don't have children, and I'm meant to have a professional, busy job which doesn't allow time for fucking about online. But here I am. I'm friends with a lot of women with young children who regularly talk about things being discussed on MN. I feign surprise or interest but I'm really thinking "Yeah, I saw that".

When I'm stressed and home alone, I talk to myself. I talk myself through what's getting me down, why, and what I need to do. I also reassure myself saying things like "Pull yourself together, it's fine, make a list and let's start at the top". I have no shame about this, I think its a perfectly normal thing to do. Except that I talk to myself in random accents. Today I went inexplicably scouse. My temporary foreign accent syndrome is the reason I keep this particularly activity a secret.

Tell me your secrets....

BTW, long-timer but NC just in case!

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Songbird54321 · 16/02/2023 20:59

I sing. No-one knows, not even my partner of 10 years. I have no idea why I keep it secret and it would feel a bit odd revealing it after all this time.

I also pluck the odd hair from my boobs and have to shave the bottom of my stomach (from my belly button down) after stupidly shaving it during my first pregnancy.

I weigh myself every Sunday morning

Probably a lot more but I just can’t think

blueshoes · 16/02/2023 21:00

Mn and supporting Ukraine. My dh knows I donate regularly to Ukraine efforts, but he does not know how much.

YoniHuman · 16/02/2023 21:07

On my morning walk to work I pretend I am Lizzie Bennett rushing to Netherfield to see her ill sister Jane, it helps me walk quicker as I am usually running late. In my mind I will arrive at work with a “brilliancy of complexion”. In reality I usually arrive in peri-menopausal sweatiness. 😄

TempyBrennan · 16/02/2023 21:10

Every Friday at 2-15pm me and my little girl get a McDonald’s before picking my older son up from school.
Started as it was the first chance I was getting to eat something all day due to work and has turned into our secret (very unhealthy) thing!

ladygindiva · 16/02/2023 21:13

When I go running I imagine I'm doing the last 5k of the London marathon; I've actually wept with joy I was so encompassed in the fantasy 😂

NCSQ · 16/02/2023 21:14

Oh gosh, all sorts.

Sing. All the time. In the shower, in the car, in the kitchen with a wooden spoon for a microphone.

Also dancing. All around the house with my wireless headphones on. Standing on the sofa and shaking my thang.

Chocolate granola for dinner.

Watch back to back junk TV. Especially whilst cleaning in jogging bottoms. Awful US reality TV shite aimed at teenagers. I have a really responsible job / serious demeanour and no one would suspect this of me.

Also watch embarrassing stuff on YouTube. I went through a phase of watching undergraduate productivity videos ('study with me' etc.). I am slightly fascinated by the social media culture of today's yoof and wonder what my university days would have been like if this had been a thing back then.

WFH has seen the firm establishment of naps during the working day.

Another one without children who can't get enough of Mumsnet.

Fenty1 · 16/02/2023 21:15

I wfh and try to have all my work done by 10am so I can sit down with a cup of tea and a creme egg and catch up on the previous night's Love Island. I am 41 🤣

NCSQ · 16/02/2023 21:18

Fenty1 · 16/02/2023 21:15

I wfh and try to have all my work done by 10am so I can sit down with a cup of tea and a creme egg and catch up on the previous night's Love Island. I am 41 🤣

@Fenty1 you can finish your work by 10am? What is this awesome job??

DotAndCarryOne2 · 16/02/2023 21:19

larchforest · 16/02/2023 11:11

I post on several different forums and have a different personality on each of them.

Are you me ????

sailawaywime · 16/02/2023 21:20

Sometimes when the house is a big mess or I've left the dishes in the sink overnight and wake up to them, I'll walk around the house pretending to have just moved to this house like when Bella first moves to her dads house in twilight, and I'll deep clean everything like she does in the book.

Another thing is when I'm doing the dishes at night I'll pretend Chris Martin from Coldplay or robbert Pattinson or Tom hiddleston is my neighbour, crushing on me through the window. it's the only thing that gets me through the pots and pans. I used to do this when I was 13, when Edward Cullen told bella he watches her sleep, I remember thinking he'd definitely be watching me.... do the dishes.

I think i must have started doing proper chores when the twilight books first came out because a lot of my cleaning rituals relate to twilight 😅 Thanks bells.

DotAndCarryOne2 · 16/02/2023 21:21

Fenty1 · 16/02/2023 21:15

I wfh and try to have all my work done by 10am so I can sit down with a cup of tea and a creme egg and catch up on the previous night's Love Island. I am 41 🤣

What do you have when crème eggs aren’t on sale any more ? I’d go for Cadburys caramel.

Mondayforthebin · 16/02/2023 21:23

Spend a long time going down rabbit holes looking what former members of One Direction are up to now. It’s really embarrassing. I’m 43 and weirdly don’t like their music and had no interest in them as a band.

Diplidocus4 · 16/02/2023 21:26

Watch a lot of bridal dress choosing shows ....
after 2 failed marriages I'll never do it again (have to find him first) but love the shows .

marzipaninyourpieplatebingo · 16/02/2023 21:28

love this so much! 😂 which you may have guessed I would by my username 😁😉

DotAndCarryOne2 · 16/02/2023 21:31

NCSQ · 16/02/2023 21:14

Oh gosh, all sorts.

Sing. All the time. In the shower, in the car, in the kitchen with a wooden spoon for a microphone.

Also dancing. All around the house with my wireless headphones on. Standing on the sofa and shaking my thang.

Chocolate granola for dinner.

Watch back to back junk TV. Especially whilst cleaning in jogging bottoms. Awful US reality TV shite aimed at teenagers. I have a really responsible job / serious demeanour and no one would suspect this of me.

Also watch embarrassing stuff on YouTube. I went through a phase of watching undergraduate productivity videos ('study with me' etc.). I am slightly fascinated by the social media culture of today's yoof and wonder what my university days would have been like if this had been a thing back then.

WFH has seen the firm establishment of naps during the working day.

Another one without children who can't get enough of Mumsnet.

OK confession time, because your post brought back a few memories. Now you have to bear in mind I’m probably older than the average mumsnetter. I used to sing into a hairbrush. When I was a kid, our living room had a big patio door and curtains on a pelmet that drew with a pull cord - kind of like a vertical blind. So, when the chosen band came on top of the pops, my best friend would pull the cord and open the curtains, and out I would step, wearing my mum’s best lace dressing gown, hairbrush in hand, miming for all I was worth to Marie Osmonds’ ‘paper roses’ or whatever. Blushing furiously even remembering this !!

larchforest · 16/02/2023 21:31

DotAndCarryOne2 · 16/02/2023 21:19

Are you me ????

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Maybe. Maybe not. I don't know who I am half the time.

Blessedbethefknfruit · 16/02/2023 21:32

I eat mcdonalds most days, and hide the rubbish. I dont even enjoy it at this point, I just have this overwhelming urge. Always the same thing, double cheese burger and fries.

DotAndCarryOne2 · 16/02/2023 21:34

Blessedbethefknfruit · 16/02/2023 21:32

I eat mcdonalds most days, and hide the rubbish. I dont even enjoy it at this point, I just have this overwhelming urge. Always the same thing, double cheese burger and fries.

Take comfort in the fact that you are probably not alone !!

DotAndCarryOne2 · 16/02/2023 21:35

larchforest · 16/02/2023 21:31

Maybe. Maybe not. I don't know who I am half the time.

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🤣🤣🤣

marzipaninyourpieplatebingo · 16/02/2023 21:35

GwenogJones · 16/02/2023 16:29

I've remembered something else I do which is weird - I like to plan out my Buffy The Vampire Slayer podcast which i will one day make with my DH (DH is currently as fictional as the podcast - but he is a big Buffy fan). Sometimes I record myself chatting about snippets of the episode on my phone (and then delete them right away).

The whole premise is looking at the original UK air dates and then looking up what was happening in the news and what was number one in the charts on the day it aired so it can be placed in context of what was going on in people's lives when they first sat down and watched it. There's also a section called "the shipping forecast" where we play the shipping forecast theme and then talk about pairings. I've done quite a lot of research for a podcast I will never make.

I sometimes pull all of my prettiest dresses that I never get to wear out of my wardrobe and try them on just because.

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oops sorry forgot to tag the comment! 🤦🏻‍♀️

I love this so much! 😂 which you may have guessed I would by my username 😁😉

NCSQ · 16/02/2023 21:39

DotAndCarryOne2 · 16/02/2023 21:31

OK confession time, because your post brought back a few memories. Now you have to bear in mind I’m probably older than the average mumsnetter. I used to sing into a hairbrush. When I was a kid, our living room had a big patio door and curtains on a pelmet that drew with a pull cord - kind of like a vertical blind. So, when the chosen band came on top of the pops, my best friend would pull the cord and open the curtains, and out I would step, wearing my mum’s best lace dressing gown, hairbrush in hand, miming for all I was worth to Marie Osmonds’ ‘paper roses’ or whatever. Blushing furiously even remembering this !!

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Haha! Absolutely brilliant Grin

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 16/02/2023 21:44

Mars27 · 16/02/2023 11:28

I have a cleaner that comes every two weeks on Thursdays which is the only day of the week that my husband works at the office. He has zero idea.

Suits me just fine ;)

Brilliant!

Slimjimtobe · 16/02/2023 21:45

Sad but I tell my mum I’m working when I’m often not (she’s very critical and needy)

I don’t go to my mother in law much either and say I’m working

I am a good person overall though 🤭

DotAndCarryOne2 · 16/02/2023 21:47

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 16/02/2023 21:44

Brilliant!

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I know - why didn’t I think of this. Genius !!

Pearlsister · 16/02/2023 21:48

I take all the ironing to the laundrette to be professionally ironed. My husband has no idea. He thinks I'm brilliant at ironing and a real trooper for doing it all without any fuss. 😄

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