AIBU in the 1970s

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I grew up in the 1970s, the age of relaxed and free range parenting. If mumsnet had existed then, what do you think mums would have asked in AIBU?

The cat won't be harmed by my dc feeding it Space Dust will it?

AIBU to think these new continental quilts will never catch on and stick with blankets

YANBU. Bulk buy some lovely psychedelic sheets (so restful) and you won't have to buy any more bedlinen for decades.

AIBU to send my 9 year old round the neighbourhood knocking on doors to sell photographs from her Sunny Smiles booklet?

Relax, nothing can go wrong. Look closely at the booklet and you'll see each page can be torn off at a perforated edge, leaving a tab where your DC can fill in the amount your lucky neighbour has paid. So it's all perfectly straightforward and beyond reproach, right? Just make sure DC has an empty Marvel tin or something to collect the dosh so that it doesn't fall out of holes in pockets.

Aibu to leave my 6 year old and 8 year old alone in the house all evening while me and my DH work next door in the liberal club where we are managers? We have now installed panic buttons and the burgler last week didn't hurt them, just chatted to them through the bedroom door. It's not as though everyone knows we work next door all evening!

AIBU?

I think our car is completely safe as long as the dc put their feet up on the seat ahead so that they avoid the very large rusty hole in the footwell (through which you can see the road).

My husband has just gone out and bought himself a sporty Reliant Scimitar. It's a fun car, but we have problem. There's 5 of us and only 4 seats in the car. WIBU to allow my youngest DC sit on the armrest in between the back seats? They're only little, so won't be to heavy for it.

aibu to send my 7yo dd to Mrs Finns (cornershop) with the empty lemonade bottles? a note asking for bread butter and milk on tic and my embassy cigarettes? Then send her to the neighbours to get 50p for the leccie? Also to bring her to my cleaning job in the holidays and get her to empty and wipe the ash trays?

Aibu in thinking the generation game is great family entertainment ?we always look forward to it on Saturday night .

AIBU to not wanting Pampas grass in the front garden? OH thinks it will make us more welcome in the neighbourhood.

I would like to entertain more and show off our new freezer....I am just dying to serve arctic roll and have a couple of bottles of Mateus Rose that I want to try

Aibu to be fuming with my SIL. The bloody cow copies everything i have - i get a spanish lady painting, two weeks later she has one. Don't even get me started on my faux ivory chinese figurines, i saw them first.

Witchinghours;

Can't be doing with these newfangled gadgets. The chip pan has always done for us. I must say though that this new vegetable oil is a lot easier than lard.

AIBU to give the children (7 & 5) sandwiches and a biscuit each then send them out on their bikes all day so I can get on with things. They'll be home before dark so how dangerous could it be?

We have just had our first foreign holiday to Spain we all just got added to dh, passport the children had great fun picking their souvernirs they got a toy donkey , castanets, and a doll dressed as a traditional Spanish lady ..

Are DH and I BU to leave our DD at home alone when she's ill. We're both teachers and can't take time off and she's getting too big to just be dumped in the staff room with a blanket (there aren't enough chairs if she's asleep across more than 2 of them). She's nearly 10 and very sensible and she has to be REALLY POORLY to be allowed the day off school and all she will do is sleep anyway. If we don't have dinner duty one of us should be able to nip home at lunch time and check on her? If it helps to avoid drip feeding she's been letting herself into the house after school and sorting herself out until we get home since she was in the juniors.

AIBU to tie the back door key round DD's neck with a piece string so she can let herself in while I'm at work? It'll be fine?

I had one like this in brown

AIBU to stick a bowl on my DD head to cut her hair...

We had a brown one Ruhrpott

My DD (9) is off school today because its a polling station. AIBU to say that she can do the laundry in the sink and then sit on the spin dryer to stop it bouncing around the kitchen before pegging it out?

DH and I both have to take DD (5) to ballet, DD (15) and DS (13) are busy so AIBU to ask DD (9) to make the entire dinner on a Wednesday?

^true events

My DD's PE teacher is reusing to take her and 6 of her girl friends in her class on a school trip to see Ian Dury, unless they all give him a kiss! AIBU to think DD should get first kiss?

(True story)

AIBU to want to make cubed veg in aspic for my DH's Commanding Officers' meal? I'm making prawn cocktail for starters and stuffed cows' heart for main, andblack forest gateau for afters, but my cookbook has a rather snazzy aspic veg block and I've a new mould from Women's Own. I'll pipe cream cheese on the top.

Also, would the black and gold lame pants suit be too much?

AIBU to decorate our 3 girls shared (very large) bedroom with psychedelic Deep Purple inspired album wallpaper.
After all purple is the in colour with orange to accessorise.

Aibu in thinking all this hype about computers is just that hype and they will never be popular with your average person?

AIBU to feed the kids Mothers Pride filled with Heinz sandwich spread when it's the long hot Summer of 1976 and the standpipe is only on for 2 hours a day?