Mumsnet threads you can't stop thinking about

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Happy New Year!

I'm still off work and getting bored. Looking for some good threads to waste a morning diving into.

What threads have stuck with you since you read them on here? Any with particular good advice? Funny or just plain scandalous also welcomed!

The weird woo one with the sound in the garden, and then mumsnet deleted it and said there was a much sadder reason for the sound, which just made it even creepier!

There was one a very very long time ago who ate cold pizza from the food waste bin as her DO wouldn’t give her any access to money on Mat leave, would only buy food for himself and baby food jars for their baby when he was angry at her, wouldn’t let her claim child benefit because he’d have to pay it back. She’d completely run down all savings and all credit.

remember joining it late and she’d spoke to WA and had help, a MNer was meeting her at a train station with her baby (buggy and whatever else she could carry) to pay her train fare to get to a shelter.

it was a long time ago and possibly that baby is now at secondary school. I hope it worked out for them.

I wonder about the poor lady who found out her husband was having an affair with her friends sister. The friend had said she'd seen him with someone as she didn't want to be disloyal to her sister, but then eventually told her.

I think the last update was that he had lied to the school and taken the son and was refusing access. Ive never seen another update so I hope she is OK now!

That one sticks with me too. I can't remember if she was a troll or not.

A fairly recent one where OP’s husband had gone out with?work colleagues, and hadn’t come home at the time he said. Following day she found out that her DH had attempted to drive home after copious amount of alcohol, and had crashed the car. He’d been arrested and was in the police cell.

LOL AT THAT LAST ONE!!!!

I remember reading in a thread about other threads - like this one - about a (Scottish?) mumsnetter who had travel anxiety and had to make an urgent train journey down south to see a family member.

So Mumsnetters got together to support her on her journey and coordinated a team of volunteers who went to wave at her on each station platform as the train went past and make their presence known in case she had to get off?

I know it sounds like something out of a film. 😝. Most likely apocryphal but I always like to think it happened 😀😀😂

Very recent, but I often think of Pamela's threads and her bravery. That of her husband too 💔

I remember a poignant thread about a couple (Anne and Bob) where Bob had previously been married to Claire. Claire was terminally ill and it had been agreed that, in addition to caring for their own children, Anne & Bob would care for -

(1) Claire until she died
(2) Bob & Claire's children
(3) Claire's child from a subsequent relationship

I was touched by so much love, compassion and caring

Not a thread but a poster - Riven.

She had a severely disabled dd who she was struggling with, and one day she posted a thread saying she was going to put her DD into care. It was kind of a cry for help because of how uch she was struggling.

Except posters in their infinite wisdom shared the post on social media and tagged multiple tabloid journalists and Riven ended up being swamped by them.

She left mn after that, no doubt because her privacy had been so violated.

I often wonder what happened to her as her dd. Must be an adult by now.

@catwithflowers Pamela's threads have stayed with me too. Such a brave woman sharing her journey with us

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The one with the class whatsapp, where there was drama from the PTA woman about someone leaking details of a surprise leavers disco (a child had found out about it and the PTA woman wanted to expose the child or something). Descended into chaos involving XL leavers hoodies and the PTA woman and her mates discovered the thread and were posting on it! I was hooked. Loved the OP on that one!

There was a post that got removed with the OP's wishes, who's bastard husband was using escorts and she discovered he was discussing the services he was using on a website and being extremely cruel about the OP who had no idea her husband was such a vile, pathetic excuse of a human.
I often hope she's safe, comfortable and free. Ideally he fell into a massive blender and she got a great payout and met someone who is absolutely amazing. If she ever reads this, thinking of you and rooting for you pal ❤

Yes wonder what happened to a poster called mouse ? She used to post loads on a thread called the brave babes bus ? Come to think of it can’t find that thread any longer ?

My faves of all time - the woman who screamed at the Sistine Chapel because she was so overcome at the beauty and who felt her husband was unreasonable for being embarrassed by her. John learns to adult. And the very recent one about the crows

Whenever I need a good read it’s this legend. How the f**k she had the self-control to never text back always amazes me. Talk about satisfying read!!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/relationships/3800477-Dumped-by-text

@Dryupyourdesertwithtears i think about that one all the time!

2nd part for anyone interested:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/relationships/3835502-Dumped-by-text-part-2

“John learns to adult” and the sequel threads were amazing.

The one where someone conducting research on mumsnet content thought it would be a good idea to start a thread announcing that they are conducting research and offering people to opt out if they wanted to. So of course everyone piled on in horror that their information might be used and opted out en masse! People even asked MN to destroy all of their data.

I work in research and have come across studies where people have analysed MN responses to answer research questions. As long as they have obtained university ethical approval they do not need to seek individual permission to use information that someone has willingly put on the internet in the knowledge that it could be read by anyone.

I often think of the lovely woman who’d moved from London to Auckland with her husband and children. It didn’t turn out as planned and she had a lot to contend with, controlling in-laws, flakey and nasty husband and the loss of her previous life. I do hope things improved but she never updated the thread.

is this the one where he was supposed to be playing golf and she found his golf clubs or something? I've thought about that one as well.

The one where the ironing board randomly disappeared from the posters small flat, does anyone know if she ever found it?! Also the recent one about the crows, I'd love to know what happened!

This was going to be my contribution. Pamela. I hope her family are doing OK but it is still so recent for them. So sad.😥