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What have you done in the real world that MN disapproves of?

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Nourishinghandcream · 10/04/2026 13:56

As per the title.... what have you done in the real word that would have Mumsnetter's frothing at the mouth?

I will start.
Someone reversed into my (parked) car and we sorted it out ourselves (without informing insurance!😲) with them paying us to get it fixed (which has now been done).
Gosh..... aren't we naughty!🤣🤣🤣🤣

OP posts:
godmum56 · 11/04/2026 09:28

Lazydomestic · 10/04/2026 20:08

I do not possess an air fryer - this does not make me a feral being

me either. I have seriously looked into it several times and gone "nope" I do own a microwave that is also a fan oven, my second one because I wore the first one out, which is incredibly useful.

Megifer · 11/04/2026 09:37

I dont rinse my recycling

(local recycling plant tell us theres no need but I've still been frothed at on MN about it 😂)

godmum56 · 11/04/2026 09:40

ChangedWhoIWas · 11/04/2026 04:30

Married my childhood sweetheart and have been together 50+ years. Also loved my MIL.
Husband & I have sworn at each other during arguments - apologised and moved on.
I have 2 adult children living at home who don’t pay rent, due to different circumstances atm. One likes to cook for us and the other helps with cleaning - including using the toilet brushes in both toilets.
I wasn’t a strict parent and actively encouraged them to be independent as teenagers. Neither had a curfew and I didn’t wait up until they came home after a night out - they were sensible and would message me about what they were up to.
When they were young, I looked forward to school holidays and we would find things to do that were free or didn’t cost much - back in the day of street directory books, we’d open a page and find a playground, pack a picnic and have a lovely day. Always had a pj day too, where we ate snack food, watched movies and didn’t leave the house all day.
Didn’t force either child to eat food I know they didn’t like. Let the one who liked to game have at it - it’s still their wind-down recreation as an adult, after a busy day at work. Both are wonderful adults and we all like to spend time together regularly.
Loved my parents and still socialise regularly with my siblings, their partners and kids. We all get on.
Have the same friends we had as teenagers and happy to have them pop over, although I prefer a heads-up first, but don’t lose my shit if that doesn’t happen.
I also started work in an adult’s job when I was 15 and worked non-stop until retirement this year, in a high level administrative role. Also discouraged both of my kids from going to university - neither was interested, although it was the expectation of the private school they attended.

I also married my childhood sweetheart. We met when I was 14 and he was 17. It was truly love at first sight. He became good friends with my parents and hung around as a family friend until I was 16 when we started dating and we married as soon as I finished college at 21. I wasn't groomed and he wasn't a pervert. I knew what I wanted and with who since age 14. We had 37 happy years together till cancer took him and I still miss him every day.

PistachioTiramisu · 11/04/2026 11:08

I don't have a microwave
I don't like pasta
I love my dog and take her to the pub where she never fails to make friends with people (they approach her, not the other way round!)
I hate wide leg, barrel, carrot or any other type of flappy, clown-like trousers
I do my weekly shop at M&S

Itiswhysofew · 11/04/2026 11:18

HotChocolateBubbleBath · 10/04/2026 14:37

My daughter has the middle name May. I’m sorry people, there are reasons for it, good reasons, but I won’t even tell you what they are, because I don’t care what anyone thinks!!

Nowt wrong with that, it's a lovely name. Not enough people named after months, in my opinionSmile

Echobelly · 11/04/2026 11:24

Left sleeping baby or toddler in car next to the entrance of Boots when I nipped in to get something. No one was going to abduct them and I was not going to forget they were there.

godmum56 · 11/04/2026 11:56

PistachioTiramisu · 11/04/2026 11:08

I don't have a microwave
I don't like pasta
I love my dog and take her to the pub where she never fails to make friends with people (they approach her, not the other way round!)
I hate wide leg, barrel, carrot or any other type of flappy, clown-like trousers
I do my weekly shop at M&S

oh amen to the flappy leg trouser thing. They will prise my lycra mix jeans and jeggings out of my cold dead hands. I do my weekly shop at Ocado because they deliver M and S

NovemberMorn · 11/04/2026 12:22

idkbroidk · 10/04/2026 22:45

admitting to being a massive racist online is crazy

More naive than racist.
Silly to throw the racist word around when it really doesn't apply.

GinaandGin · 11/04/2026 12:22

Don't have an immaculate house
Will lie in bed until 12 on my day off
Not rushing here there and everywhere and thriving on "being busy"

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 11/04/2026 12:29

Myblueclematis · 10/04/2026 14:27

I let workmen use my loo and I don't have a fit of the vapours or clutch my pearls if they have a poo! It's a toilet, it's what it's for. 😆

Same!

And I actively prefer pubs and cafes that allow dogs. I don’t have a fit of the vapours if they lick my hands or face, either,

NovemberMorn · 11/04/2026 12:31

I don't get up till 10am...maybe an hour earlier if the sun is out.
I don't use factor 50 when it is.
I read in bed till 3am.
I often row with DH ,we swear at each other,I can do a good flounce, I confide in my best friend about his latest faux pas....yet we still love each other because we forgive and forget.
I do own a toilet brush, but seldom use it....I don't own washing up gloves, an air fryer, a microwave, or a mobile phone.
I drink a large glass of wine nightly, eat chocolates a lot, love bread and butter, yet remain quite slim (sorry)

shuffleofftobuffalo · 11/04/2026 12:46

I actually can’t think of anything I do that mumsnet WOULD approve of!

Off the very long list I’ll pick private schooling, toilet brush, liking my friends (some of whom are trans).

UnctuousUnicorns · 11/04/2026 15:34

godmum56 · 11/04/2026 11:56

oh amen to the flappy leg trouser thing. They will prise my lycra mix jeans and jeggings out of my cold dead hands. I do my weekly shop at Ocado because they deliver M and S

I'll third that. As an 80s teenager, flares were an absolute no no, and afaic, whatever you choose to call them - boot cut, wide leg, clown trousers, flappy elephant legs etc.etc. will forever remain in Style Room 101.

And I have a DD (now 27) with the middle name "May". I like it and don't give a shit what anyone else thinks!

godmum56 · 11/04/2026 15:46

UnctuousUnicorns · 11/04/2026 15:34

I'll third that. As an 80s teenager, flares were an absolute no no, and afaic, whatever you choose to call them - boot cut, wide leg, clown trousers, flappy elephant legs etc.etc. will forever remain in Style Room 101.

And I have a DD (now 27) with the middle name "May". I like it and don't give a shit what anyone else thinks!

I wore flares in the 70's but they were proper flares, tight to the knee and worn with boots.

Lucyweeks · 11/04/2026 16:05

My daughter has gone out in flares, ASDA. They're tight on her full peachy bum and they suit her. Very Motown.
Me? I have no arse and skinny legs so I stick with the straight or skinny jeans. Clown trousers don't suit.

EvieBB · 11/04/2026 16:17

DreamyJade · 11/04/2026 09:25

I read a book by a lady who was a Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Margaret. They were good friends, and PM would go round to visit her at her home. Before every visit, she’d hide the toilet brush because she thought it was indecent to display a toilet brush in front of royalty.

One Christmas, PM visited her with a Christmas gift. She unwrapped it, to find it was a toilet brush. Princess Margaret commented “I got one for you because I noticed you don’t have one”. 😂

😆love that!

Differentforgirls · 11/04/2026 16:22

Sometimeswinning · 10/04/2026 20:28

Anything else?

🤣

shouldntbeonhereagain · 11/04/2026 16:26

Pretty sure Mumsnet would judge the following: having had too many children, owned too many pets, taken cocaine, ecstasy and smoked weed throughout my early years. Having been suspended from school and had a lot of sexual partners. But the worst Mumsnet crime ever is that (despite having postgraduate qualifications) I don't have a paid job. I am obviously an anti feminist/trad wife, who doesn't understand that by not having a pension or my own bank account I am taking 'stupid risks with my financial future' by choosing to look after our children. Oh, and I never separate whites and coloured clothing, I don't own an iron and I never clean the oven.

shouldntbeonhereagain · 11/04/2026 16:29

Meant to be a smiley face 😂!

TorroFerney · 11/04/2026 16:39

I am confused now about what is the official list of what Mumsnet posters disapprove of as people are posting opposites! Can we have a list. I don't wash any food before eating ever - so salad, even mushrooms that have a bit of mud on I will eat raw. I think that's a safe one that everyone thinks is terrible! I also , which was on another thread last week and 99% of people were claiming not to have any clue that this was a thing, have put jeans on, felt a lump and it's a pair of knickers working their way out of the leg. I was in Tesco when they eventually made an appearance.

TorroFerney · 11/04/2026 16:43

mondaytosunday · 10/04/2026 18:56

I not only had my babies sleep in their own rooms from the first night home but the nursery was actually on a different floor! Still exclusively breastfed them and they are now healthy 20 and 22 years old.

Oh yes I did that but from night 2, as I'd never been near a baby before I had mine really and they are so noisy. I don't think anyone said I shouldn't do it although my midwife was in such a rough area that if the baby wasn't born drug addicted then they thought you were winning at life.

nevernotmaybe · 11/04/2026 16:45

TorroFerney · 11/04/2026 16:39

I am confused now about what is the official list of what Mumsnet posters disapprove of as people are posting opposites! Can we have a list. I don't wash any food before eating ever - so salad, even mushrooms that have a bit of mud on I will eat raw. I think that's a safe one that everyone thinks is terrible! I also , which was on another thread last week and 99% of people were claiming not to have any clue that this was a thing, have put jeans on, felt a lump and it's a pair of knickers working their way out of the leg. I was in Tesco when they eventually made an appearance.

People have got salmonella from unwashed dirty salad and things like that. It's not something people do that isn't needed, it's actually a reasonably high up cause.

Doesn't mean you won't go through life never experiencing that of course. As long as you aren't passing that risk onto others or kids.

Whosthetabbynow · 11/04/2026 16:47

Drank booze around my kids when they were little. Take stuff to the dry cleaners to be ironed. Smoke a vape.

Pinnacles · 11/04/2026 16:50

Had four children, some of them share bedrooms. At one point I was on benefits and I went ahead with number four anyway.

Underpant · 11/04/2026 17:10

Gone to Dubai and loved it so much.