Page 9 | Things I don’t do…that apparently everyone else DOES do…

QuickPeachPoet · 23/10/2025 10:27

I don't exercise early morning (I prefer afternoon/evening)
I don't watch Netflix
I don't let my kids watch screens (too young)
I don't do takeaways (expensive and often disappointing)
I don't like sushi

Moro93 · 23/10/2025 10:27

I don’t iron.
I do wear makeup, but don’t do my nails or spend ages on my hair.
Never had fillers or botox.
I don’t have a sleeping or eating schedule.
I don’t really listen to any music that was released in the last 20 years.
I don’t watch reality tv.
I don’t use Instagram or TikTok.
I read a lot of books.
I don’t like going on ‘relaxing’ holidays. I like to do things on holidays or I get bored.

springyla · 23/10/2025 10:31

Interpink · 23/10/2025 04:23

The people who don’t wear makeup - do you have a sex life with another person who is in the same room as you?

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

JudgeJ · 23/10/2025 10:32

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.

I freeze in them and put them in the microwave! They hold a single portion of chilli, spag bol and so on, they also stack easily in the freezer.

LittleBitofBread · 23/10/2025 10:33

Mistyglade · 23/10/2025 10:26

Same. If my mother had anything to do with us I’m sure she’d faint at my how I keep my home. I’m not laboriously cleaning and washing but I do have standards. I travelled and was a bit nomadic in my 20s, virtually lived out of a bag for years, a very different life to how I was raised.

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My mum was never fastidious in the sense of 'scrubbing the doorstep', but we made our beds and our house was orderly and not cluttered, and I think on the rare occasions she's been to my house she finds things like the piled-up messy kitchen table and the fact that I have paintings propped up on the fireplace rather than having prints neatly framed and hung odd.
My sister (ten years older than me and has a much more 'traditional' life in that she married and had kids quite young) finds it both hilarious and scandalous that I have a cleaner. Mind you, she regards my DP as a piece of exotica because he is a man and yet cooks and clears up etc.

Luckyingame · 23/10/2025 10:33

I don't have and never had any social media.
I don't go out with friends.
I don't go to doctors.

butterpuffed · 23/10/2025 10:35

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.

I don't get what you mean about making the bed . I have a duvet and a fitted sheet like most of us, so just pull down the top half of the quilt to let it air then put it back up an hour or so later . What else would be needed??!

ProcrastinatorsAnonymous · 23/10/2025 10:35

AliasGrape · 23/10/2025 00:29

Im mid 40s and didn’t really do any skincare until relatively recently- I’d take make up off (probably not particularly well) and slap whatever moisturiser I had on but nothing beyond that.

I have a set routine now though - nothing to rival an influencer’s 10 step plan or whatever, it doesn’t take me long or cost too much but it’s done absolute wonders and I wish I’d started sooner. I’m converted.

Struggling to think of any interesting ‘don’t dos’ - I’m clearly easily led 😂I don’t watch much TV these days but that’s not a hard and fast rule, more a symptom of my ever declining attention span probably. I don’t drink coffee, never have.

I don’t use heavily fragranced washing or cleaning products/ don’t put scent boosters in my wash/ don’t have diffusers and scented candles on every surface. The odd candle is ok occasionally but generally it just gives me a headache. Same reason I don’t wear perfume much these days - used to but it made me headachey and nauseous during pregnancy and I’ve never really got back in the habit.

What do you do for skincare, out of interest? I have zero skincare routine - I don't even moisturise. I've made a few attempts to go and buy stuff, but then get totally overwhelmed by the choice in Boots, shrug and walk out! But I'm mid 40s now, so maybe I should give it a go...?! Face not too bad, but I caught sight of my neck the other day and had a bit of a shock!

JudgeJ · 23/10/2025 10:36

Howinthehelldidthishappen · 23/10/2025 06:28

Are you me? This is me!
Especially the celebrity bit 😂

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No, definitely me. A year ago I discovered that a song writer whose name gets mentioned in the pub quiz when that subject comes up isn't a man, Taylor Swift's apparently a woman!

LeanToWhatToDo · 23/10/2025 10:38

BauhausOfEliott · 23/10/2025 00:35

It’s funny how people think it’s incredibly unusual not to wear makeup or use skincare, because any threads on the subject of beauty are always teeming with women announcing that they never do any of those things. It’s really not unusual at all. I think it’s actually just advertising etc that leads women to believe they’re alone in not wearing makeup because I think if you look around you’ll see countless women without makeup every day.

Ditto tattoos. Tattooed women are, by a long way, in the minority - only about 25% of women have tattoos. If you don’t have any tattoos, that’s still the norm.

Yes! It's because people on TV always have makeup done and mostly young 20's women get more air time. I wore more makeup back then. 35+ women aren't as represented on the TV.

I remember seeing that the most popular tattoo for women is the butterfly. I know a lot of women who have animals and insects like this (dragonflies also popular) who think of a dead relative when they see one, so I think tattoos in women are mostly used for remembrance.

I don't have a tattoo either but have been tempted after a bad break up once.

Tiswa · 23/10/2025 10:42

@Interpink are you married with kids etc DH rarely sees me with make up on and if the it is just a bit of eye make up and mascara

don’t do take away unless it is pizza hate them whst is the point it is either cooking or eating out.

don’t iron loathe it

I would have said the same about skin routine and hair until I reached 44 and both went downhill fast.
I now colour it every six weeks and have now got a skin routine and it has made my skin look so much better

Mistyglade · 23/10/2025 10:46

LittleBitofBread · 23/10/2025 10:33

My mum was never fastidious in the sense of 'scrubbing the doorstep', but we made our beds and our house was orderly and not cluttered, and I think on the rare occasions she's been to my house she finds things like the piled-up messy kitchen table and the fact that I have paintings propped up on the fireplace rather than having prints neatly framed and hung odd.
My sister (ten years older than me and has a much more 'traditional' life in that she married and had kids quite young) finds it both hilarious and scandalous that I have a cleaner. Mind you, she regards my DP as a piece of exotica because he is a man and yet cooks and clears up etc.

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I remember one of my brothers school mates joking how our mum followed them round with a duster. Like yours she also thinks the sun shines out of my ex’s arse simply because he didn’t fuck off when we separated and still co-parents in a healthy respectful way. Not that that’s anything to do with me and my conduct of course. Her internalised misogyny is astounding.

Tiswa · 23/10/2025 10:47

ProcrastinatorsAnonymous · 23/10/2025 10:35

What do you do for skincare, out of interest? I have zero skincare routine - I don't even moisturise. I've made a few attempts to go and buy stuff, but then get totally overwhelmed by the choice in Boots, shrug and walk out! But I'm mid 40s now, so maybe I should give it a go...?! Face not too bad, but I caught sight of my neck the other day and had a bit of a shock!

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It sounds odd but I recommend a advent calendar it basically gives you lots of smaller samples and you can work out what suits and what doesn’t and it is fun to open

Boots do a £60 for their range might be worth looking

Reasontoreason · 23/10/2025 10:48

Don’t go to the hair dressers, waxing , nails ( do it all my self don’t see it as a pamper (fun) . Just necessity.
would rather spend money on gym, spa membership
Don’t wear makeup every day
Don’t follow new music still listen 90s, 00s

usedtobeaylis · 23/10/2025 10:50

Mistyglade · 23/10/2025 10:26

Same. If my mother had anything to do with us I’m sure she’d faint at my how I keep my home. I’m not laboriously cleaning and washing but I do have standards. I travelled and was a bit nomadic in my 20s, virtually lived out of a bag for years, a very different life to how I was raised.

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My mum had 'show towels' in the bathroom and they were just that -the newest towels we had on a towel rail and nobody was allowed to touch them on pain of the shoe.

My house is a constant scramble to see if the towels in the tumble dryer are dry enough yet.

Meadowfinch · 23/10/2025 10:53

Have a Netflix subscription - or any other subscription
Have my nails done at a salon
Post things on Facebook, What'sapp, Insta etc
Have my car washed at a commercial car wash
Have takeaways
Buy coffee out - my home coffee is much better.

Chiefangel · 23/10/2025 10:56

I have never had Botox or filler
I don’t do any ironing
I don’t have any tattoos
I have never done a supermarket shop online
I don’t do Instagram, Tik tok, Snapchat etc
And thank goodness I never had to do elf on a shelf.

TheignT · 23/10/2025 10:57

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. 😆

I'm the same as you except for Christmas cards although I hate writing them and keep saying I'm going to stop.

Just wanted to add I've never had a piercing or a tattoo.

Meadowfinch · 23/10/2025 10:58

Tiswa · 23/10/2025 10:47

It sounds odd but I recommend a advent calendar it basically gives you lots of smaller samples and you can work out what suits and what doesn’t and it is fun to open

Boots do a £60 for their range might be worth looking

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£60 😱

With my £1.30 cleanser and £5 moisturiser, I think I spend about £50 a year.

RampantIvy · 23/10/2025 10:59

Do people who never go to the hairdresser have long hair?

Mine is short and layered. I don't have the skill or the eyesight to cut and colour it myself, and the long, thin, straggly grey haired look is very unflattering on me.

Tiswa · 23/10/2025 11:08

Meadowfinch · 23/10/2025 10:58

£60 😱

With my £1.30 cleanser and £5 moisturiser, I think I spend about £50 a year.

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For face creams to stop aging that is cheap

until mine went south I was the same but it really does make a difference. But it’s bloody expensive!

andthat · 23/10/2025 11:09

snowmichael · 23/10/2025 10:15

I have never:

Driven a car nor motorbike
Smoked, nor taken any recreational drugs
Drunk beer or lager (also no whisky, whiskey, nor e.g. Baileys)
Eaten cheese beyond the age of about 9 months old
Drunk coffee, nor eaten any coffee flavoured things
Been on a package holiday - nor beach holiday
Been to a music festival
Been to a nightclub
Been to any sporting event
Watched any 'reality' programme, nor any soap series, nor any sport, nor anything 'celebrity' related
Watched any pay TV, nor catch-up TV, never streamed anything, listened to a podcast, nor watched anything on YouTube or similar
Had a Facebook account - or anything like it (no snapchat, twitter, tiktok, instagram etc.)
Used an AI assistant, nor an Alexa or similar
Meditated, practised yoga nor mindfulness, 'detoxed' nor fasted
Had a pet cat or dog
Worn jeans, corduroy, chinos, a hoodie, a leather jacket, never worn a hat as an adult

I'm a man, so could add I have also never used moisturiser, makeup, hair dye, nail varnish, etc., and I have never been on a stag do (two hen dos, though)

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

PuggyPuggyPuggy · 23/10/2025 11:13

JudgeJ · 23/10/2025 10:32

I freeze in them and put them in the microwave! They hold a single portion of chilli, spag bol and so on, they also stack easily in the freezer.

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Fist bump!

Cherrytree86 · 23/10/2025 11:14

Lourdes12 · 23/10/2025 09:22

I don’t drink coffee, tea or alcohol
i don’t wear make up
I don’t blow dry my hair or use any styling irons
I’ve never dyed my hair, done my nails or anything to my brows
I’ve never worn perfume or used any products with a scent
i don’t iron
i never order food
i don’t have any friends
I don’t watch tv
ive never been to the gym or done any exercise regime
I don’t wear dresses or skirts
I don’t go on holidays

@Lourdes12

how do you exercise??

MumoftwoNC · 23/10/2025 11:17

andthat · 23/10/2025 11:09

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

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I thought that most men used moisturiser, at least in the winter when it's dry. My very ordinary dh and his mates use it, as does BIL. It's in the category of basic supermarket "men's" stuff like deodorant or post-shave balm.