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To tell him to take this bloody monstrosity back?

76 replies

pinklaydee · 08/03/2012 10:11

Came home from a rubbish day at work to find that DH had bought a massive trampoline, which takes over half the garden and is just far too big. The kids are dead excited about it, so I am going to be the big bad mummy spoiling their fun, but I hate it. It is huge! He's already put it up - minus the netting - and it's been out in the rain for three nights now. AIBU to get him to take it back to the shop?

OP posts:
KabelFlowerBed · 08/03/2012 21:04

karmabeliever - I've seen replacement netting on amazon. I've wish listed it to remind me to buy some. Of course if I'd have not been lazy forgotten to take it down the last few winters it wouldn't have degraded so much that I'd need to buy some more...

Shutupanddrive · 08/03/2012 21:53

Yabu!! I want one

CurrySpice · 08/03/2012 21:55

The kids will be distraught. Quite apart from the fact that I think you'll have trouble getting B&Q to take it back tbh

fedupofnamechanging · 08/03/2012 21:56

thanks Kabel

fedupofnamechanging · 08/03/2012 21:57

Thanks duckdodgers

marshmallowpies · 08/03/2012 22:00

My yoga teacher, who you'd imagine would have a pelvic floor like a ROCK, said she peed herself on a trampoline recently...so if it could happen to her, it could happen to anyone!

whomovedmychocolate · 08/03/2012 22:01

We moved house last year and looking on Google Earth you could spot trampolines in every single garden in some streets. I don't think YABU actually. If you replaced the sofa with a bouncy castle because you thought it'd be a larf he'd not be impressed would he?

startail · 09/03/2012 01:08

Mow under it??!

Our 10 ft one was weighted down with bags of sand. The new 14 ft one really isn't going anywhere.

Actually I was very glad about that given the wind had the aerial off the roof last month.

SconeInSixtySeconds · 09/03/2012 01:15

My kids would happily swap the pool we have (here in Australia) to have their trampoline back Sad.

They really are great.

rimmerfleadick · 09/03/2012 01:30

YOu may enjoy it in the middle of summer, say after 10 at night.Wink

TheCraicDealer · 09/03/2012 01:35

Also wonderful for sunbathing on Grin

Condensedmilk · 09/03/2012 01:38

YABU simply because it COULD BE WORSE - DH brought home a true monstrosity last week.
It is a massive granite water feature - think of a yin yang shape, with water trickling down it.
It took him and three of his similarly bad-tasted mates to move it.
It is truly hideous and now features prominently in my garden.
I hate water features. I have had three children. They make me need to pee. DH knows this.

It is a true monstrosity. A trampoline? Meh.

oldraver · 09/03/2012 16:08

Whomoved I was looking on Google having a nosy and thought there were lots of places with swimming pools.... then realised they were trampolines Blush

bobbledunk · 09/03/2012 16:14

Trampolines are brilliant exercise for the children. Let them enjoy it, the health benefits and happiness levels are far more important than extra space in the garden.

stealthsquiggle · 09/03/2012 16:28

cutteduppear - at what point did your DC outgrow trampoline Sad? One of my arguments to DH reasons for getting our DC a trampoline for Christmas was that next door's teenagers still use theirs but then again we are simple country folk.

overmydeadbody · 09/03/2012 16:34

When I have a garden, I am going to install a sunken trampoline like this so I don't have a hideous monstrosity in my garden. Far nice to look at.

porcamiseria · 09/03/2012 16:38

too late now. get some tena lady and start jumping

stealthsquiggle · 09/03/2012 16:53

OMDB I thought about that, but I know our water table is too high, so we would end up with a water-filled hole.

whomovedmychocolate · 09/03/2012 17:06

oldraver conversely when we bought here we saw all these trampolines on the aerial views and they were actually swimming pools Grin

Ours has been filled in now though.

CuttedUpPear · 09/03/2012 21:56

stealthsquiggle well last summer when the youngest was 14yo was the first year when we haven't had someone bouncing on it almost every day. It certainly gets the kids out of the house, and doing excercise too, what a boon! My next door neighbours 12yo DS spends hours on her, singing, lying about on it with her friends and painting her nails. Then putting on a gymnastic display!

I'd like to get rid of it now so I can have a fire pit in its place and we can sit around it of an evening poking it with sticks Grin

Anybody interested in it (brand new edging pad, but there's no net, don't believe in it, it's more dangerous to have it there than not), PM me and we'll compare geographies.

stealthsquiggle · 09/03/2012 22:08

That's OK then, cutteduppear - we have 9 years until youngest is 14. I think that still meets my 'they will use it for ages' promise to DH Grin

CuttedUpPear · 09/03/2012 22:14

Oh god yes. And DD used to hang out on with her friends til she went off to Uni.
A wise investment indeed.

CuttedUpPear · 09/03/2012 22:14

on it

TuftyFinch · 09/03/2012 22:39

cutteduppear why's the netting more dangerous than not? i'm not being arsey just genuinely wondering. I do enjoy a nice safety conundrum.

CuttedUpPear · 10/03/2012 00:22

TuftyFinchIMHO and experience of 6 years of childrens' bouncing, the nets are too flimsy to support a falling weight and just give the optical illusion of safety.
All the trampolines on our street (many different sizes) have taken it off (and you can almost bounce the length of the street from one trampoline to another).

It's better to learn to bounce safely than rely on something which wouldn't be able to hold your weight.