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bunting.why?

61 replies

carlajean · 19/04/2013 13:40

whenever I go on a craft website there's stuff about bunting. am I the only person who doesn't get it. I mean, what's the point of spending hours making the stuff, and what do you do with it when you've made it?
and anyone who posts saying it's a 1st world problem can fuck off. I don't care.

OP posts:
Kaluki · 19/04/2013 14:11

Savoycabbage Grin

5318008 · 19/04/2013 14:11

oh HAHAHAHAHAHA at my post appearing like that to you Hec

Sarah's spelt it out, nice one!

SarahAndFuck · 19/04/2013 14:12

Actually, I'm not sure if she will see my name. I might be filtered out! Blush

Can you see my name Hecsy?

GladbagsGold · 19/04/2013 14:13

You barter it for cupcakes.

MintyyAeroEgg · 19/04/2013 14:13

Its great for young girls (as is anything Kath Kidston) but I fear I can never have anything in common with an adult who is into the whole bunting thing.

Quodlibet · 19/04/2013 14:14

YANBU. Enough with the cunting bunting. And the cupcakes. And the empty birdcages (where are all the birds?why so many twee cages?). And the stag antlers. IT IS DONE.

paneer · 19/04/2013 14:17

I make quick and cheap bunting. Ribbon and fabric offcuts.

Great for children's parties and garden parties - reusable, very cheap and brightens up the room.

cocolepew · 19/04/2013 14:18

I had lovely cardboard easter bunting up. Think I would like some proper stuff. But I am a twiggy/fairy lights/hearts type Grin

cocolepew · 19/04/2013 14:19

I didnt do the birdcages but have got owl stuff

5318008 · 19/04/2013 14:22

no birdcages here PHEW or Mintyy would cut me orf FOREVER Wink

ImTooHecsyForYourParty · 19/04/2013 14:24

I can see your name Grin I think because it's all one word, my filter doesn't recognise it as a swear word.

I wonder if it will let me see cuntingbunting all one word.

ImTooHecsyForYourParty · 19/04/2013 14:24

aha! Yes. It does.

GirlOutNumbered · 19/04/2013 14:25

We put our bunting out for any bbqs and parties. No idea why!

fromparistoberlin · 19/04/2013 14:27

there a reason why bunt and cunt rhymne

MintyyAeroEgg · 19/04/2013 14:29

Now, I love an empty Victorian birdcage! Love em! You can't move in my house for empty Victorian birdcages. Seriously.

MrsMacFarlane · 19/04/2013 14:29

That Cunting site is hilarious. Using up scraps to make it is the sort of shitey tip that ends up in Superscrimpers Challenge. Have you seen some of the godawful tat they end up making on that???

SarahAndFuck · 19/04/2013 14:31

"Using up scraps to make it is the sort of shitey tip that ends up in Superscrimpers Challenge. Have you seen some of the godawful tat they end up making on that???"

No, but now I really want to! I love people making godawful tat. Just so long as they don't gift it my way.

stealthsquiggle · 19/04/2013 14:32

LOL at "You barter it for cupcakes". What is the exchange rate?

I like to think I was ahead of this curve [self deluding] - I got proper bunting from a commercial supplier to brighten a village hall for one of DS's parties, and then afterwards put it up in the ceiling of then-baby DD's attic room to make it a bit more interesting and less cavernous and scary. It's still there 6 years later GrinBlush (but it hasn't faded like cutesie Cath Kidston stuff would have done by now).

There has to be a (very low) limit to how much bunting any given house could possibly take though, surely?

MrsPennyapple · 19/04/2013 14:33

I've made lots of bunting for other people, usually personalised with names, but I don't like it myself and wouldn't make it for DD. Someone mentioned that I could make loads of bunting for my upcoming wedding, and then I could keep it and put it around the house. Er.... no, I don't think so.

stealthsquiggle · 19/04/2013 14:34

so hecsy we can swear at you as much as we like as long as we run it all together into onelongfuckingswearword? That's not the brightest filter, is it?

MN must look pretty strange all over without the swearing, though.

MrsMacFarlane · 19/04/2013 14:34

SarahAndFuck...was off for 2 weeks in the Easter holidays and "Superscrimpers Challenge" was on every afternoon on Channel 4. A whole hour of "tips" that made Viz top tips sound viable. It used to have some reasonable ideas but it jumped the shark a while ago lol.

SacreBlue · 19/04/2013 14:40

I don't mind it for a party put it would get on my nerves if it was up all the time

Born bread & buttered in NI and I wish more people felt like this, aside from anything else it ends up a tattered, dirty, washed out grey mess left up/out for months. If you're having a public party/festival with bunting take it down immediately as soon as possible afterwards.

But if it's inside your own house it's up to you Smile I have fairy lights up all year

peeriebear · 19/04/2013 14:40

I have bunting up in my kitchen. However I was way ahead of the curve and bought it yeeears ago from a farm shop. It looks to be made of twee old teatowels, mostly. It's very very dusty now but I can't be bothered to dust/wash it. It fits in well with all my other twee crap actually :)

TotesAmazeGoats · 19/04/2013 14:46

Is this thread sponsored by Cherry Menlove?

runs

WoTmania · 19/04/2013 14:49

just because :D

I have made seasonal bunting that changes through the year. 'Cos I like it.