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Things I don’t do…that apparently everyone else DOES do…

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largepinkcontainer · 22/10/2025 23:09

Tonight I put some Nivea on my face but apart from taking my makeup off each day, I don’t have a skin care routine and I don’t use moisturiser that often.

Other things I don’t do…I don’t make the bed every day (might straighten it, but that’s it), I don’t keep takeaway boxes (does anyone?) and I don’t send Christmas cards (never miss a birthday though).

What things do you not do…that most other people seem to do? This is a ‘no judgement’ thread. 😆

OP posts:
Chicca1970 · 24/10/2025 08:22

springyla · 23/10/2025 10:31

My partner likes to rim me, he isn’t thinking about whether I’ve got mascara on or not

Yes! Men dgaf about these things - makeup does not necessarily make you more attractive …

Wornouttoday · 24/10/2025 13:30

AleaEim · 23/10/2025 16:01

It’s so odd isn’t it, in real life all these things are normal to my friends and family. What do you think it is about these mumsnetters then? Why are they different? What do they look like or act like if I was to meet them in RL?

Unironed clothes so a bit ungroomed at times
Fresh breath from no coffee
Clear skin from no alcohol
Slim from walking everywhere
A mind free of sleb crap
?????

AutumnCosy2025 · 24/10/2025 20:24

largepinkcontainer · 22/10/2025 23:30

Yes…I meant the plastic takeaway boxes. As far as I know you can’t freeze stuff in them or put them in the microwave so I don’t see much use in keeping them.

And yes, I really should make the bed properly. I used to do it but then fell out of the habit.

Who says you can't freeze stuff in them or out them in the micro wave?

I have for 40 years.

As a 'plastic' it might be mo vs re frowned upon now, but no more so than any other plastic.

i use these & fage/bol pots more than my 'good. Tupperware & other things because it's no big deal if it gets stained! 🥲

Also used for small parts of games, screws/bits & bobs.

Interpink · 25/10/2025 00:06

MumoftwoNC · 24/10/2025 06:49

Interpink people are referring to this comment of yours about make up... in a compassionate way because we are trying to convince you that make up is not necessary for sex.

OH MY ACTUAL FUCKING DAYS.

So what happened was, I had root canal and a filling and it should have been done under sedation but the anesthetist wasn’t happy about something so they did it with some other stuff to take the edge off and then sent me home once I’d bravely soldiered on. I got home and slept and bled all over my good pillowslip and woke up feeling ghastly so my mother (who is not a nurse) prescribed me some of my Dad’s tablets washed down with a hot whiskey but I still couldn’t sleep and clearly have chatted shit and have no recollection of this whatsoever. None.

I’ve clearly though, outed myself as a vacuous cow, because I really am quite vain and was musing that I’m really brave for the shit ton of filler I’ve had, and yet piss-pants scared at the dentist.

Mea maxima culpa.

This whole thing is now making sense of some other stuff too like my contact lenses appearing in the wotnot cupboard and the sink blocked with overcooked macaroni, which I must have decided I needed after being nil by mouth.

I clearly have a problem, but it’s not with makeup, it’s with Irish whiskey and drugs.

Interpink · 25/10/2025 00:08

And for full disclosure, Dad’s tablets? Dunno. He died in 2020 but my mother never throws away anything. Fucks sake!

Crikeyalmighty · 25/10/2025 00:31

sheffexpat74 · 23/10/2025 23:24

No to -

Watching Traitors, Line of Duty, Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones!
Drinking milk
Getting nails done
Disney or Dubai
Takeaway pizza

Are you me? Have been to Dubai I admit - hated it

ItsNotYou852 · 26/10/2025 15:58

Good to know I'm not alone in my oddity.
I don't have -
a TV
an iron
any hair gadgets other than a dryer I bought at 50
an Air Fryer
any serums, creams or other malarkey for my face, though admit I probably should now!

I've not been abroad since a school exchange at 14, and don't miss it.
Have never cared about keeping up with Jones in any way at all.
Couldn't do without caffeine, the library, my Kindle, gigs and my pets though!

@usedtobeaylis what on earth is a "boo basket"?

snowmichael · 27/10/2025 09:44

andthat · 23/10/2025 11:09

@snowmichael you do know that men have skin so can of course, use moisturiser on it?

I can only say I know of no man in my circle who ever uses any of those things, whereas I only know a handful of women who don't

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