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What can f* right off? Tuesday edition

197 replies

UnhealthyCopingStrategies · 28/01/2025 18:12

Pardon my French....

Elderly parents ailing, sibling wanting drama where no extra is needed, moody teen and tween and difficult day at work... so for me, everything other than chocolate really!

OP posts:
Friendofdennis · 28/01/2025 20:28

Cosycore · 28/01/2025 19:33

Feeling like I don’t want to be here. I want to be with my babies.

So sorry

TheNuthatch · 28/01/2025 20:30

You couldn't have chosen a better day for this thread op! I am now in bed with the door locked so I don't kill anyone! Had enough of being everything to everyone.
If I hear my name one more feckin time today!
I'm usually quite happy go lucky but today has been shit.
Solidarity to you all ❤️

Warmhandscoldheart · 28/01/2025 20:31

My husband can do one. He's questioning everything I do or say. It's suffocating

BitOutOfPractice · 28/01/2025 20:31

Fucking January and the fucking dark

fucking cancer that’s taking my friend away

fucking arthritis in my fucking stupid knees.

This truly terrible thing we are watching on tv. It’s fucking awful.

God that feels better. General best wishes to everyone on this thread that’s having a hard time.

TheNuthatch · 28/01/2025 20:34

Tortiemiaw · 28/01/2025 19:50

Rip off student house landlords charging thousands for shitty little homes and their enablers whinging 'but they have to pay a mortgage and dont forget they will be high end tax payers so NEED to take money that young people with financially fucked parents dont have'.

Mortages cost £60k a year + in the north for a falling apart 3 bed bought 15 years ago, do they?

Ds has been asked for over 3k to pay for a shitty little room in a shitty little student house for the three months he won't even be living there this summer.

Clearly, paupers shouldn't be allowed higher education.

Sending you a hug 💐

WooleyMunky · 28/01/2025 20:34

EmeraldDreams73 · 28/01/2025 18:27

Today, specifically:

Bloody weather
Bloody lack of money to book any time off work/anything to look forward to
Bloody having to cook dinner
Bloody kids not knowing where middle C is after months of patient repetition, being adamant they don't know what comes after A, etc despite numerous lessons on exactly that, because they have done zero practice yet again and their parents are wasting their money on 10 min (yep) lessons at school then wondering why they can't progress cos they do zero consolidation at home of the little we do get done in the 10 min lessons.
Bloody (former) friend announcing after a year of ignoring me that my crimes amounted to absolutely fuck all and being a total princess for no reason and making me incredibly sad.

Look up 'Evidently Chickentown' by Dr John Cooper Clarke...
It's as good as Betjeman.

DoloresODonovan · 28/01/2025 20:34

TheFunSponge · 28/01/2025 18:44

Oh, and January can fuck right off. I am sick of the dark evenings now!

and dark days too ! this has been a particularly dismal dark dreary, cold
rainy wind lashed depressing January, (although Baileys is reduced to £13
at Morrisons)

Eta - a litre !

HangingOver · 28/01/2025 20:34

Dog going up the walls due to house arrest post-surgery 😬

Postchristmasblah · 28/01/2025 20:34

Being made redundant.

MrsDoubtfire123 · 28/01/2025 20:36

MoreIcedLattePlease · 28/01/2025 18:23

My sore throat, which isn't quite better but I'm going to have to go back to work tomorrow anyway because I can't risk more time out of the classroom.

DM, who is driving me mental. I absolutely abhor being an only child and can't imagine ever relying on my one and only offspring as my sole emotional support in older age. Fuck that, it's not their job. But apparently it's mine to do for her.

Feeling like I never have any money, despite beign in a household of 2 full time workers with decent income(s).

Being so, so tired all the time.

Thanks, OP. I needed to get that out.

This could be me - I second this!

orangesonatree · 28/01/2025 20:37

My delusional XH and his grandiose narcissistic fucking pain in the royal arse manipulative control tactics. …

Spendysis · 28/01/2025 20:40

Winter fed up of dark nights

Work

Perimenopause

Dsis for splitting up the family helping herself to elderly dm money and getting her to change her will and taking out an equity release on her house

Dm for believing whatever dsis has been telling her and allowing herself to be manipulated and isolated from me and dc

Opg who have taken a year after agreeing to investigate my concerns to actually assign it to an investigator an awful lot more money has gone in that time plus an equity release done on dm house dsis spent the money

Anxiety about the above situation and that dm passes away before it's resolved not being told that she has passed away

TokyoSushi · 28/01/2025 20:41

Plantar Fasciitis

*Off to Google the Bruno Mars lyrics 😳

MoonlightMemories · 28/01/2025 20:41

My stupid right hip - I'm not entirely sure what is wrong with it, but it has these flare-ups where it's so, so painful especially at night, that I've not had a proper night's sleep for about a week because of the pain and discomfort and not being able to get comfortable, despite taking pain relief. I just want to have a lie in and have an undisturbed night so badly 😭. Really need to sort out a physio appointment for it....

Roundaboot · 28/01/2025 20:43

January.
So far I've had a nail in my car tyre, legal wrangling with next door neighbour who is now doing a full renovation so lots of noise, I'm back to the office 3 days a week, I've had a colonoscopy and lost a family member, who was not close but it's upset my mum and another family member is behaving horribly which has upset my mum.
And it's just cold and wet and dark. Thank fuck I'm not doing dry January!

TokyoSushi · 28/01/2025 20:43

Have googled, gosh.

FeathersMcgraww · 28/01/2025 20:49

The dentist who gave me a treatment quote when I went there in December only for me to ring today to book it in and be told their prices went up from 1st Jan and it is now going to be £40 more.

TheNuthatch · 28/01/2025 20:50

@Tortiemiaw I remember you from the uni threads! I'm sorry about your Ds's uni accommodation, it's scandalous. I hope your dd is doing ok?
My Dd had a massive autism breakdown, we had to bring her home just before Halloween and get her seen by a doctor. We informed uni and told them she wouldn't be going back to the halls. We have to pay £3K accommodation fees onThursday even though she hasn't been there since October! You are not alone!

Justploddingonandon · 28/01/2025 20:53

This weather
Having to train colleague who can't seem to grasp even simple concepts
My solar panels not working since the storm ( not that they'd be doing much in this weather anyway)

LaughingCat · 28/01/2025 20:58

13 hour work days as standard
Five hour round commute
Constantly late trains
My gloves, currently sat at home on the sideboard
The pain in my frozen fingers on the platform waiting for said late train that has me slightly worried I’m actually getting frostbite (I know, it’s never that quick
Trousers with no pockets
Coats with no pockets
The consultant that will not switch my other half off his current epilepsy meds, despite the fact that we want to start a family and current medical advice is to wear a condom and DO NOT get anyone pregnant while you’re on it
Knowing I’m going home to find the litter box needs emptying, the curtains need closing, the cat bowls need washing, the washing up needs putting away and all the other myriad jobs that just don’t get done when I’m not there
To top it all, the fucking mouse my fucking cat brought in in the middle of the night and then let go of, which promptly ran behind the oven and into the fucking walls - we’ve been hearing it in different rooms for a WEEK now and pest control can’t help

I’m just tired, cold, PMTing like a bitch and work was so busy, I couldn’t heat up dinner before I left, so you can add hangry to the list.

Cheers, OP - that was needed to counter the toxic positivity that I channel at work all day.

mamaduckbone · 28/01/2025 21:06

Wet play and long division. Also being cold all the bloody time.

admirible · 28/01/2025 21:08

Just finding out the price of wine is going up.

LunchtimeNaps · 28/01/2025 21:11

DP. I WFH but the past two days I've been back in the office so he's had to do the kids school runs etc. well you'd think he had run a fucking marathon. Now he's lost the plot at me because he's lost something but could tell me what it was. He's due to go to see family on Thursday and will be away for nearly a week. I cannot wait because there will be calm in the house. Utter fucking dick.

TheNuthatch · 28/01/2025 21:16

LunchtimeNaps · 28/01/2025 21:11

DP. I WFH but the past two days I've been back in the office so he's had to do the kids school runs etc. well you'd think he had run a fucking marathon. Now he's lost the plot at me because he's lost something but could tell me what it was. He's due to go to see family on Thursday and will be away for nearly a week. I cannot wait because there will be calm in the house. Utter fucking dick.

Here's a medal for your partner for doing the school run 🏅
Bless his little cotton socks.
You'll have one less child to look after on Thursday, hang in there 💐

Idratherbepaddleboarding · 28/01/2025 21:17

The cold, the rain, the dark, the mud, Seasonal Affective Disorder on top of regular depression rendering me unable to do anything useful 😭.