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to not understand mum blogging

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stopfuckingshoutingatme · 27/01/2017 11:43

I can understand why people do it, they have something to do, feel busy and hopefully get advertorials or some sort of money

Its the readers, why would you read a blog written by a bog standard Mum? isn't there anything better to read?

about life as a working Mum of 2 crazee kids, my commute and LIDL versus Waitrose, and some nicked recipes

I means that's boring right? Confused

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stopfuckingshoutingatme · 27/01/2017 21:46

I like Peter and Jane too ! She likes a Wine though !

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lk26 · 27/01/2017 21:55

I love reading Peter and Jane. Hilarious. Particularly referring to her husband as Gadget twat. Have one of those here myself. Need to YouTube Waitrose hauls now.

Nataleejah · 27/01/2017 22:02

It was quite a thing about 10 years ago, when blogging was more of a novelty for attention seekers. Now thankfully people are more cautious about their privacy, and especially their children's.

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stopfuckingshoutingatme · 27/01/2017 22:06

I liked it when she (Peter and Jane ) said she had to avoid using the word 'stupid' when frustrated with the kids homework ! She is spot on actually - so I take it all back Grin

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yolofish · 27/01/2017 22:07

Peter and Jane is hilarious, I really think she can write. Hope she gets a book deal..

marzipanmaggie · 27/01/2017 22:10

I can why some of them can a bit of a lifesaver to people in the very first days of motherhood when you are shellshocked/sleep deprived and a bit all over the place generally. Or people with very specific issues such as a sick child or suffering from PND.
But generally they are a carnival of smug from people with too much time on their hands...

GoLightlyHollie · 27/01/2017 22:11

I read a blog about a mum who lives quite near me in a large city (I don't know her but I know the laces etc she refers to) and then I realised that all she does is get given freebies to review or invited to events, also to review. It actually really bothers me, she used to write an occasional piece which is mildly interesting now all she does is reviews. Have been told that reviewers often get their houses painted and can live off of the freebies they receive if their blogs are popular enough.
I'd love to unfollow her but occasionally she reminds me of something which is coming out soon and that I need to buy tickets, so I can't bring myself to unsubscribe.

Judydreamsofhorses · 27/01/2017 22:15

I read loads of blogs - and I started off with Belle de Jour and Mimi Smartypants, fuckoff. I lose interest quickly if it's all advertorial, but if someone can write relevant, paid for content in their own tone of voice which I like, I'm fine with it.

FuckOffDailyMailQuitQuotingMN · 27/01/2017 22:37

Judydreamsofhorses that's cool, I read belle as well before she was "out" - her writing was mesmerising but I completely lost interest after her identity was revealed.

I wish somebody would cook a fucking Ostrich egg in their "Waitrose haul" - I've been wanting to buy one of those for years but I just can't justify buying a giant egg for the sake of it.

lk26 · 27/01/2017 22:39

I was given an ostrich egg years ago by a farmer friend who kept ostriches. Made loads of omelettes and scrambled eggs with it.
No idea you could buy them in Waitrose.

PickledCauliflower · 27/01/2017 22:42

I don't read blogs. I get the impression that people use them to boast about their pretend lives.
There may be some good ones out there, but I avoid to be on the safe side.

RubyRedRobin · 27/01/2017 22:57

I follow Part-time working mummy on fb, bloody hilarious. Love her and her real take on life.

GruochMacAlpin · 27/01/2017 23:05

Loads of my fb friends appear to love Peter and Jane.

It's certainly better written than most of the blogs I've seen but I think I must be missing the point of why alcohol and swearing is so funny.

JonHammAndCheese · 28/01/2017 04:27

Behold, the only mum blog you will ever need. Start at the beginning, I implore you.

mythreeangles.com/

calli335 · 28/01/2017 06:46

My dds love watching Daily Bumps on You Tube. Drives me crackers! They then take on the accents.

heron98 · 28/01/2017 06:46

I also read The Harridan as she's a good writer.

However the rest? Meh.

A woman I was at school with has a fairly successful blog and is always being sent free stuff to promote on it by companies. I just don't get it.

It's fucking dull - her and her children and their normal lives. It isn't funny, well-written, or interesting.

I don't understand it.

BoredOnMatLeave · 28/01/2017 07:01

I like man vs baby Blush but I guess technically not a mummy blog

nigelforgotthepassword · 28/01/2017 07:10

I know a mum blogger that I used to employ in one of my care homes. Her blog, when I've read it, makes me laugh really because it's 98% utter bollocks.
But then she seems to be doing nothing out of it as she has left work to 'just concentrate on the blog'. She wasn't earning loads at the care job (and she was,in fairness, godawful at it, so its probably better for her and the elderly people that she's jacked it in), but at least she must be making the equivalent putting a highly stylised (fake) version of her life on the Internet.
It's not interesting particularly so not sure who would read it regularly, but clearly people do!

ChippyDucks · 28/01/2017 07:18

I also read Peter and Jane, and Hurrah for Gin but until now, I never really saw them as blogs, just chatty facebook pages Blush

Deathraystare · 28/01/2017 07:24

Happy clappy? They must all be off their face on gin!!

Lessthanaballpark · 28/01/2017 07:25

I came on this thread to agree with you but then, seeing the recommendations for Peter and Jane, got waylaid by it. Seriously funny. Harridan is good too.

Thanks OP!

OnceIWas7YearsOld · 28/01/2017 07:32

Man vs Baby is hilarious on Facebook. As is Hurrah for Gin.

I used to like the Unmumsy Mum. Well I still do. But I feel she sold out a bit. Like she's just everywhere now.

What I do enjoy about these bloggers on Facebook are the comments though, where mums share their own stories. Some of them are bloody hilarious. Someone posted a photo on the Unmumsy Mums page of her seven year old son, when they were Christmas tree shopping. He has put himself through the netting machine when her back was turned

Hassled · 28/01/2017 07:39

What I don't understand is how people know its there. So say today I write a blog about my fascinating life Hmm and post it wherever you post these things - how does one stumble across it? Are there people actively searching for new blogs to read? Is it just effectively word of mouth that means this blog is popular, that blog has one reader?

Suzietwo · 28/01/2017 07:47

It's the ones who are 'bittersweet' funny which make me most stabby

Someone up thread said 'nobody cares if you've got kids'. THAT

I also loathe how the 'funny' ones make it out to all be so hard all the time.

Ebbenmeowgi · 28/01/2017 07:56

I used to read my shitty twenties - really funny, honest account of life as a single mum.

Also know someone who blogs about his perfect family. It's very stylised and dull, but he has v bad depression so I guess it's a form of therapy?

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