Are there any old school Mumsnetter’s still around

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I am back on Mumsnet potentially briefly I was on here a lot from around 2009 to maybe 2012 when my children were small and i was deep in sleepless nights etc etc all seems a distant memory now mine are teens. I’ve flitted in and out very briefly over the years. But really I remember when this was all fields 😂.

Are there any long term posters still going? I had an accident so my memory isn’t that great but so far on my brief travels I am yet to see any familiar names on any threads.

id update you all on my car crash life but I seriously doubt anyone remembers me its been that long

I can't remember the year I joined, but I remember the support I got when DD was being bullied in school 13 years ago.
Prior to joining mumsnet I used a BBC parenting forum, but the BBC ditched all their forums years ago.

I have namechanged a few times since then.

You have had a very eventful life @D0g
Welcome back.

@RampantIvyyes I’ve realised I go big or go home 😂 there’s no inbetween

I do not recall hamster stew but sounds v MN

Not sure why but I only discovered Mnet a few short years ago. Many hours spent and reading but didn't sign up until more recently and with a few name changes since then for valid reasons. When mentioning certain topics and discussions on here to friends or relatives I've received withering looks or comments. They repeated the name Mumsnet as though it was something to be ashamed of.

They just don't get it. This site has provided me with and still does great amusement and entertainment but mostly knowledge on subjects I knew little about. It's my go to place on a daily basis. I suspect some of those who have given me pitying looks for using this site are closet Mnet readers/members themselves! Mad isn't it.

I think I had a small crush on Pagwatch 😊

👋 I've been around since the start of Mumsnet. My twins are now 25, and joined as soon as it was available.

Wasn't there a poster who often posted about how she didn't know she was pregnant until she gave birth and always popped up on those "how could you not know?" threads.... Who turned out to have been making it all up.

And someone who worked in a posh dentist who was using fake photos of her posh house (or was that 2 different people?)

I do remember being more of a smaller community. Life was different and online different then. Hugely so.

I remember and often say about it when showing how funny threads used to go.

I always think of InShockAndAwe too but no one else does.

@MardyBra - no, I remember MadamLindor well, but we're not related. This is about my 7th or 8th name in 19 years on the site.

Same.

MN is a very mixed bag and I've learned to take stuff to heart less.

I've had some actual life saving advice via a PM so I see the bad and take it with the good - just like life really.

Joined in 2006 I think after DD was born. Same user name. D0g your name rings bell, we must have crossed paths/threads in the past!
One of the threads I remember was a naming thread and Ballonz was suggested. On another thread, a poster thought ballache was pronounced ballash and still makes me laugh! There was a destination wedding to Maui maybe and there were endless posts about sending the cheque.

and all the Farrow and Ball threads! I use F and B (it's just paint!) but god it was tedious, there used to be fights about it, snobbery all sorts. Somebody mentioned a staircase in a kitchen that vaguely rings a bell. There were some genuinely funny people on here back then, I think we were freer because we didn't do it for likes or attention as we were all anonymous. I feel my internet usage today is a million times higher and a million times less satisfying!

There was a poster who couldn’t do g and had to do a 9 instead. The Downtown Abbey threads were fab.

I was originally on Handbag.com and then on BabyCentre.

I have been on here since 2010, began under another name but now have a couple that I rotate between depending on the topic. But I don’t tend to post unless I feel that I have something to add.

I recall:

AnyFucker - brilliant on relationships threads and still around I believe
Xenia - instantly recognisable under any name change! But actually very generous in giving women financial advice and encouragement. Given the number of relationships threads I’ve seen where women are left impoverished, she has a point…
GetOrfMoiLand - I don’t think she’s around anymore
LeQueen - goodness, the fuss created about her!
SolidGoldBrass
COD
Pagwatch
FabbyChic - would always sign her posts
ScottishMummy - always wrote three lines and came across as if she was in role as one of the witches in Macbeth!
Bonsoir - in Paris. I remember that she used to serve her DD breakfast in bed as part of their morning routine and I still sometimes think about giving that a try…

Plus a couple of posters that I recognise as having migrated over from the TES forums.

It used to be very London centric with threads about specific primary schools and nurseries, but not so much of that now.

Anyfucker was badass iirc i could have done with her a year or so ago

I've been here since about 2010 and still have same user name.

I'm more a lurker than a poster but did use this site to ask for advice and share my 11 months cancer treatment in 2014.

I remember a lot of threads mentioned but never the names of the posters

Oh totally, I was rather thrilled when she gave me advice once.

But my favourite ever thread was a ‘How do you remove eye makeup?’ thread. Amid all the people using expensive lotions, AnyFucker came on to say that she didn’t remove her eye makeup at night and just wiped off anything that was still there in the morning with a bit of spit on a tissue. I thought that was brilliant and totally hardcore!

Hahaha that is brilliant love that. No lentil weaving there! I often do similar with a wet wipe 😂😳

Sometimes I’ve googled a parenting issue, ended up on a mumsnet post then realised, after reading it, that it’s over twenty years old.

It’s funny to think the generation of DC being parented during the very early 2000s will be in their 20s/30s now, so quite possibly MNers themselves! 😆

I went through a really bad time with my ex, and this site was so helpful as it made me see posts where women were saying they were in horrible situations, then along would come dozens more to say 'hey, this was me 1,5,10 years ago, I got out and life has been much better' - so much support for women who don't have it in real life. I've just remembered the one about the woman who lived with her partner and step son and they were both awful to her but she daily kept us updated about how she had secretly rented a new place, put all her ducks in a row (another mumsnet pearl of wisdom that I use all the time) and had been skillfully plotting her escape over many months. I'd like to know how she is now.

I still find it pretty London centric.

Xenia still posts, but usually in higher education threads. She has very specific views that don't always go down well with other posters, though.

I joined in 2003.

DS was a newborn and DD was 3. I was Sansouci or Cariboo mostly.

@Ohyoudodoyouits so helpful isn’t it I wish I had thought of posting on here when i was really struggling.

However I would probably have been ripped apart, some of the things I did out of anger and temper in the early days were bad. (Frontal lobe brain injury). But equally I have improved lots and don’t actually regret most of it. Ex on New Years Eve, buggered off home with a friend of mine, I was still very early on in recovery. (I was in hospital till September) He came home 8 am New Year’s Day started to unfold sofa bed to go to sleep when i asked where he had been he oh so nonchalantly shrugged and said friends name when I asked what happened I got the same IDGAF reply of “kissing and stuff” unfortunately for him as he said this he was getting under the cover, I didn’t expect it to happen as it did but I just lifted end of sofa bed but with him on it so it actually folded him up and tucked him into the sofa, like I said I didn’t really think it through but equally am not a violent person at all but, I still think he deserved his folding up 😂. Horrible little aggressively average empty rucksack of a man. Like I said we weren’t together as such, he had agreed to stay till after Christmas but it was his complete nonchalance at my very obvious hurt. I took an overdose that day though fortunately just Diazepam which apparently you have to take a million of or thereabouts for it to kill you so I just ended up having a lovely sleep.

God I don't remember that at all.

I do remember some long term trolls with a whole different persona who got caught out.
There was someone who used to give loads of legal advice, saying they were legally trained.....posted for years and got caught out.

And someone who used to say they were very rich and posted for years about their swanky lifestyle and posted a picture of her bedroom but someone recognised it as a hotel.