to think that posters on here must be a load of rich dossers ( not moi) or lazy wasters (possibly moi)

[nonmifairidere]

I mean, who has the time to piddle on , day after day, on a forum. I thought having a family, working, commuting, diy, housework, gardening etc kept most people pretty busy. You lot must either be lazy, minted stay at homes with maids/housekeepers/nannies or slatternly mares with filthy homes, unkempt gardens and wonky fences (like me). Discuss with extreme vigour (might be the only exercise you get today if you've been tiddling around on the intetnet for hours). Gwan, be brutally honest.

non I'm very proud of my lazy gene, I nurture it at every opportunity

Uri, you are now banned from SAHM's club for revealing their secret.

YANBU I suspect I am both

chin up hairy, and good luck!

I work term time only,I finish work at 3. My kids are all grown up.

Err, and I like lolling on the sofa pissing about on the internet.

I'm not rich though.

I'm self-employed mostly work from home. I do my work & the essentials but no more than I have to. DDs are 18 & 19 so pretty self-sufficient. DP works f/t so plenty of time for me to faff about on here much of the time, then put on my weary, frazzled been working hard all day look minutes before he arrives.

I do always have dinner ready tho. But yep generally I'm bloody lazy if I could get away with doing zilch I soooo would...!

Oh and I sometimes MN from my phone on the bus on my way to and from work.

I'm off work with a broken arm, so spending way too much time on here!

Hairy, good luck with the job-hunting. I didn't realize job centre staff were so loverly (retired), bless'em.

I'm single mum of 3 my youngest is 9 months my middle one is home educated, i work/study from home, I have a dog, 3 cats, fish and a tortoise! You will see I post at 2-3 hourly intervals when ds2 is attached to boob

Not minted but maybe a bit of a waster, and certainly a great procrastinator.

I do a lot of this at work; there's always something going on on MN that's more interesting than my job

I have a new tactic for looking busy and not getting caught (I work in a huge open office where lots of people can and do sneak up on me from behind/the side).

Simply read the thread, open up a Word document and busily type your response (I sometimes pause every so often to pick up and fiddle with a pen, scribble something out on my notebook, frown at it etc). When finished, choose a moment when no one is lurking behind you, then quickly cut and paste into MN before flicking back to Word or a spreadsheet or something.

You can all have that for nothing

I am rich, quite lazy, mostly sahm but do a bit of work in dh/my business. H.ed to my dd along with dh. We both work from home and pick hours to suit.
I know we are lucky bastards.

Slattern here! My 8 month old has learned to crawl and now entertains himself after spending the first six months of life screaming unless he was being carried and let's face it, this is more entertaining than housework...

I am a rich, lazy time wasting dosser with school age children.

I work full time and am on call a lot too. I make the time. I am a fast reader and it takes no time at all to read the threads that catch my eye.

What's housework?

I suspect this is supposed to be a lighthearted thread, but actually I find it a bit upsetting. I am depressed, and that makes me a bit liable to being a bit of a loner who hides out at home, with little human interaction.

Mumsnet and Facebook give me that human contact, and I value it. Yes, I spend a lot of time on here. Yes, my house is a mess, but I struggle to motivate myself to do much beyond the bare essentials - getting up, dressing, showering, making a meal for the family. Oh, and fret about how I am failing everyone, and how being on here is a symbol of that failure.

LadyClariceCannockMonty I like your style

I work from home, mostly on the internet so I have my work tab and mumsnet tab, I flick between the two mostly mumsnet throughout the day.

I am really lazy.

It never ceases to amaze me how much I get done while I'm on MN, though. I have been a student until just recently (technically I still am but now I'm trying to get a job) and I have it open pretty much all the time I'm working. But I work long hours, I can easily work from 8 in the morning until 12 at night and when I was really busy I got up earlier - I couldn't do those hours and work in a concentrated way, so I need some MN in the middle of it all.

It was odd to me that when I went off MN a while back, I felt as if I should have more free time but actually I didn't, I just ended up doing other things to relax.

SDT, firstly, you are not failing anyone, you are ill. Depression is incredibly energy sapping, so hardly surprising you struggle with even the basics. I hope you are getting the support you need from your GP. If internet communication helps you, that is great, so do not feel guilty about using it - you are certainly not a failure for doing so.

I work full time , have 2 kid and 4 half the week ... and I just don't let the house get messy lol

SDTG, please don't feel that way.

I agree with you, btw. I think MN is incredibly valuable for keeping people in human contact. Of course there will alway be people who invest more energy than they meant to and get hurt, or people for whom it becomes a rather colourless substitute for real interaction - but for most of us this isn't the case. Most of us benefit, I'm sure.

I'm writing up my PhD thesis. Of course I'm on MN all day.

Thanks all, I do lurk on the HG support thread, I also have a wonderful friend who went through it with her two boys who is always listening to me moan. Very handy!