to imagine that everyone on mumsnet (except me) is a domestic goddess

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Whenever one of you mentions making packed lunches for the kids, I picture an immaculate kitchen, and lunches being made using lots of fresh food from Tupperware tubs.

You all have really handsome DHs/DPs who you are madly in love with, and they all have well-paid jobs.

None of you have dirty homes.

You all go on family picnics every weekend.

I'm sure I'm right.

GetOrf I recently found a brand of pesto that costs £4.59 for about 200g of the stuff. I've been wondering the same thing

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itsactuallyreallylovelyandidosometimesbuyit

Getorf I used to pick the strawberries for that jam, well possibly not your jam, when I was a girl. Used to earn half a penny per bucket. Or something.

My set up is so Ideal House it's not true. I live with an 83 year old man and a nine year old boy. The aroma of shedding skin and smelly football socks fills the air. A glamorous cocktail in this house is whisky with a splash of undiluted cordial. Bleurgh.

A day out is watching nine year old kick his football and provide commentary to rival Hansen and Motson.

Sigh. I love my life.

YABU. My house is very messy and we haven't been on a picnic for months. My husband makes his own sandwiches for work and we are not wealthy.

I do have a v handsome husband I am madly in love with, though.

I do not like cooking but i love interiors. I decorated a lamp yesterday with pages fromthe AA road map(hebrides and highlands) and i think its lovely.I saw one on a website for ££s

YANBU I am a total domestic goddess. I make myself sick. DD has never had any cake which wasn't homemade. All our meals are cooked from scratch and I spent some time this morning making teeny flags out of post-it notes and cocktail sticks to label the 4 different types of homemade cakes (2 gluten free) which I baked for DD's birthday party.

In my defence I would like to point out I have a very flexible job, a fairly easy-going 1 yr old and a husband who does all the hoovering. Also we do not have any bunting.

Ha Ha Ha! everyone gets fooled by "Tiptree" jam. its a few miles away from me and known in the area not for its jam but its Travelling community who put down roots and built some...well...interesting McMansions houses.

Not an immaculate kichen - a working one that gets used lots.

Try to make bread rolls now for packed lunches as the bought ones just seem so naff.

DW is lovely and just managed to avoid the you've been fired routine at school.

House still tends to be a mess, ironing lady keeps the pile of washing under control and school caretaker is getting on with the many jobs that never seem to end!

Made pesto with two bunches of 10p basil last week - very nice and cheap!

I tried to make a cake for DP's birthday this morning. All was going well, cake in the oven and smelling lovely. I went to check on it and realised that I'd set the oven to "grill". The top of the cake was black and it was squashy underneath.

I got so cross with myself that I threw it on the kitchen floor

Nope, I am not a domestic goddess!

School dinners paid termly otherwise it would be cheese sandwich everyday.
Plastic tubs all hijacked for pencils, dinosaurs, lego men.
Kitchen clean cos dog licks all crumbs up (floor not worktops!)

No goddess awards here.....move along

I take the attitude that quality time with a happy, but occasionally mucky, DD is more important than spending hours maintaining dustfree surfaces.

Madly in love with DH and even married him expressly for his cookery skills (erm, among other delightful attributes). If it were down to me, lunchbox shortcuts? Hell, yeah. Life's too short!

Picnics - wasps - why bother?

ha ha ha Oh yes its all true and my real name is Cherry Menlove.

PS I bet no one else has a lovely crunchy floor like i do, cereal is the secret.

goodynuff ...your comment made me

"I seem to picture Mumsnetters as home owning, (yes) spanish vacationing, (no, because we're just skint from buying the house) on line ordering (yes, but mainly ebay and amazon), Guardian reading (er, no) , wine drinking (don't drink alchohol) brunettes (yes), with lovely dogs.( No dogs here)"

Tall, yes!
25 - Yes!! Well, 26 but still!!
Thin - er....size 12 so not thin but not fat either??

Handsome DH who I am madly in love with - check

Well paid - Yes, until he was made redundant and now is re-training
in a completely different field..so not so very well paid right now m'fraid

Immaculate kitchen/clean home - Yes, partly because its brand new and also because both DH and I are borderline OCD cleaners, especially DH

Packed lunches - only have a toddler so that remains to be told

Tupperware - Yes I'm afraid, something we've both inherited a "need" for from our respective mothers (bless their hearts)

Seems like nobody has the perfect picture OP ...hmmmmm

Hardly! I don't even have the LO here yet and know my house will be a tip once she does arrive.

Thankfully my DH is tidy and clean (yes a rare trait in men ) though he has picked up some bad habits from me (doesn't throw dirty clothes straight into laundry basket anymore ).

But TBH I wouldn't want a totally immaculate house, otherwise it doesn't feel 'lived in'.

I'm definitely not a domestic goddess - to such an extent that I bought Dh one of these for Christmas !!!

No, I'm not a domestic goddess either. I've been told on here that I'm anorexic and have OCD for having alternatively little interest in cookery and recipes/disliking MacDonalds food with a preference for using cutlery when eating. Oh well then, might as well get on with the terrible life I've been given!

I am not but wish my cooking repertoire would extend past pasta bake.
I clean toilets regularly, do not tolerate mess and iron.
Have never baked a cake or buns to the horror of my friends who seem to conjure up a macaroon with their eyes closed.

Picnic - have you seen the weather in Scotland recently?

Gorgeous husband - oh yes!

Everything else on the list - not a chance

There is a twee poem that I comfort myself with amid the rank chaos at home:
"If the Lord on Judgement Day
Asks 'Did you clean your house today?'
I will answer 'I did not.
I played with my child and I forgot'.

Of course, for 'played with my child', I usually have to insert 'messed around on MN/watched a lot of cbeebies....' etc

Frankly, a clean house is the last of my worries. And the mice like it better this way too.

Whenever one of you mentions making packed lunches for the kids, I picture an immaculate kitchen, and lunches being made using lots of fresh food from Tupperware tubs - spot on.

You all have really handsome DHs/DPs who you are madly in love with, and they all have well-paid jobs - absolutely

None of you have dirty homes - never in my life has my home been dirty or untidy/cluttered.

You all go on family picnics every weekend - no just every other my boys would hate to do this.

pack lunches made- yep
imacluate kitchen - nope
DH, well I think he's kinda cute looking and love him dearly and the job is at least steady and pays bills and mortgage.
Home- dirty/ clean, erm pretty grubby this week I've been busy at school ,preschool and in garden.
Picnics at weekend... does stuffing butties in a back pack and going on a walk as a family count?

so then I must only be a domestic godessette , or a demi god or something like that. Not a full on Dom goddess tho, the house is a tip and I don;t cook porridge or French toast for breakfast.

The phrase Domestic Goddess smacks of someone that wonders round an already immaculate home tweaking and thinking of things to buy/add to it to make it even more amazingly gorgeous. Bedding gets changed weekly, and towels, fresh flowers, etc

I have a cleaner. Thank fuck. Which means my house gets dusted and hoovered from top to bottom once a week and the mirrors/toilets/bath/shower gets cleaned.

However - whether this is dmoestic goddessness or OCD, I never leave the house in teh morning without:

making all beds
opening curtains and blinds
putting PJs folded on bed
putting a wash on
plumping cushions on sofa
emptying and loading dishwasher
cleaning kitchen surfaces
clearing away all brekkie things and wiping table and floor of breakfast

I do this because to come home to none of this done would make me cry - I would feel completely out of control, angry and frustrated. Hence the fact that I think it's a bit of OCD...

I do have fresh flowers but not all the time.

I do change bedding and towels but not once a week.

Think I am a bit of an inbetweeny?

Oh and my kids have school lunches....

Oh and my DH is very good looking, but earns no where near as much as me and loves it that I have lots of money and buy him expensive presents.

but he does do ALL the cooking......and I mean ALL of it......

Just hahaha to all except the picnics. Every meal for a while has been pretty much a picnic, on the floor of the living room.

Though in my defence we have just moved and I am better at packing than unpacking apparently.

I was a Domestic Goddess on Tuesday. Previous to that and since then... no.

I was never a domestic goddess, life is far too interesting and now I'm up the duff the DH wont let me do much - result - or it would be if he did the housework, but nowt gets done for weeks and then there has to be a blitz and that's a cleaner fortnightly, god help us all when I go on maternity leave!!!