What sagas do you enjoy on MN?

[Frannysnotmyaunt]

Do you enjoy a bridezilla drama, cheeky fuckers bumming free lifts? MIL thinks she's the mum of new baby not grandmum, what about the my mum treats my (infertile) sister's dog better than she treats my human child threads. Or how about the ones where a poster takes care of someone's else's kid and feeds them McD's, the mum then throws a hissy because her kid should have been fed quail eggs and smoked salmon!

I personally enjoy the car parking wars, especially when there's a diagram.

My favourites are CF threads, I go from outrage to incredulity on the behalf of the OP's.

The stealth boasts 'I look so young'( but obviously they don't)
A good bad parking one pleases me

I like the ones that are trivial enough to be interesting but not so dramatic as to be made up. I think quite a few of the parking/bridezilla/CF ones are made up, especially recently.

I also like when a thread has a fairly dull title but I can see it has 700 posts, so I know I can bed in for an excellent drama.

I just like ones that have an actual progression to them. And I don’t mean in a vampiric, feeding-off-someone-else’s-misery way, just that sometimes it’s great to see someone’s problem getting resolved as a result of posting here - whether that’s something as serious as realising they need to get out of an abusive situation, or something as minor (but brilliant) as today’s CF parking thread, where some idiot had parked across the OP’s driveway and gone off to the footie, so she had his car towed 😂.

It’s often in the longer term threads that you really see the best of MN - the great support and advice, the kindness, the insight and intelligence, and most of all the humour. There are some people on here who make me laugh my arse off, and everyone needs a bit of that in their day!

Absolutely this! One can come in, flop down, cook when one wants, what one wants- yes, bills are higher on one's own, but one gets council tax discount- I'd never want to live with anyone else again 👍

I like to see the support Mumsnetters give on threads posted by women who believe or have just found out their spouse/partner is cheating, or they’ve been left. It’s hard to read of their pain and confusion, but heartening to see others jump on the thread to encourage and reassure; even share their own stories.

We women are great at lifting each other up.

My baby boy is due in two weeks' time and I can't decide on a name, what do you think of Turtle? DH prefers Jaxxon but I'm not sure.

Christmas seems to bring out the best ones starting with the Work's Parties, then comes the big drama of who goes to who for the Christmas lunch, the big hoo ha of what to buy folks, then all the drama on the day with presents being opened that do not come up to scratch, spouses in the dog house for 12 months plus all the relatives having hissy fits from too much festive spirit meaning all the spite from years ago is finally said!

I really enjoy a thread that exposes a divide in society that none of us realised was there.
e.g. Do you scrub your knees every time you get in the shower?

or
do you mop the floor first then sweep (that was n eye opener).

every time each half can’t believe the other half exist and it’s fascinating

A good parking thread. I get too invested as I live on a private road 😳

Some threads are wonderful- A lovely foster mum one which ran for a long time.
A relationship one where a woman's teenage son was {is?} being coercively controlled by a violent older woman stayed with me, as did a woman who was cheated on after years of marriage, I think of these two women and hope that are OK.

Doghouse as well.

There is only ever one answer to this:

Jimberly.

{Or possibly Jimberleigh

OP: "Is 57 too old to have a 3rd child? I went thru menopause 5 years ago so I'm not sure if that's a factor"

Poster: "Of course it's not too old! My grandmother had twins at 63. You'll be fine, OP. Absolutely never too old to have babies"

🤔🍿

I quite like the handy tips ones

Dh has never given me a card or bought me a present for my birthday/Christmas/Mother's Day/Valentine's but I spend the equivalent of 2 months' salary to "celebrate" him on every occasion, plus I organise a double decker bus and marching band to parade him through the streets of our hometown, plus get 'IheartOH' skywritten by the Red Arrows...

AIBU to be just a teensy bit upset that I haven't had a card for the 15th year running?

The secrect Santa crappy gifts saga we had to spend £50 Ona gift mine was only worth £10.

I like weirder things, I remember a quite disturbing harassment one with OP living in the country and weird things happening/hearing things in their bush etc.
Love a CF lift or parking one too. And woo threads

MIL is a bitch.
Lovely wonderful OH/DP is on OF.
Darling offspring are too advanced for their peasant scum peers.
I'm a vegan. Etc...

I enjoy the inheritance dramas, including those where nobody has actually, er, died yet.

Some of the woo threads are often explained by an escaped rabbit - Or a deer with bracken in it's antlers..

Or, if in USA, a Bear with Mange.

These can look very spooky.

I love a good cheeky fucker tale. I’ve not been on Mumsnet that long but more recent ones I’ve enjoyed were…

1. The OP was having work done at home and the tradesman was shagging his fancy piece in her garage at the bottom of the garden. She caught it on the Ring doorbell. It went on for days and on the last day I think the fancy piece brought her own blanket to use for said shagging. I was enthralled by the whole thing.
2. The OP was an artist working on a big commission and an acquaintance wanted to stay with her as they lived in a touristy area. The OP politely said it wasn’t possible but the uninvited guest rocked up anyway with her suitcase and OP refused to answer the door.
3. The one the other day when the OP was supposed to collect a child she had never met as a favour for another Mum she had never met and drop them home.

All these CF stories just highlight how everyone is wired differently. Some just beggar belief.

I get invested in the ones in December where the DH goes on his Christmas Do and stops answering his phone. I have to watch them or comment so I can make sure he gets home safely (they always do!)

Also the ones about staying ILs and getting tiny portions of food. No idea why I enjoy these so much!

And (quite bizarrely!) I love the boarding school/ probate school threads that I really have no business being on. Find them fascinating!

I love a CF thread

I love the Christmas/Valentine/birthday ones. The absolute best are the "we agreed on no presents, DH only got me a book and some chocolate and a candle, AIBU to be hurt he didn't get me more?" ones.

I do love threads that bring out the competitive under-eaters of Mumsnet. "You ate TWO pieces of toast? One piece would feed me, my big burly rugby player construction worker weightlifting husband AND our six children". Years ago there was a poster who'd ask about the right amount of sausages all the time? Not just as a one off, but multiple threads about the right amount of sausages.

I love the anti dog threads. People get so wound up about the existence of dogs.