When did Mumsnet become so obsessed with money/ wealth ?

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I joined mumsnet as I thought it was a group of parents discussing parenting issues , stories , giving advice

I thought it was going to be down to earth real advice

Yet practically every day I keep reading threads about wealth , how to look expensive , how big is your house etc etc etc , how much money you earn

Is this a new thing or has mumsnet always been this shallow and materialistic and I just didn't realise ? It's so do dull .

I must bypass these threads as I rarely see them. Maybe it's the time of day that I'm online or maybe it's that I skip over the titles of such threads as being of no interest to me.

I don't think it's new, and it goes both ways. You have the competitive poverty when growing up or nowadays , and the people who do have money.

God forbid you attract the poverty brigade on a thread asking for advice if you have more than 50p in the bank to last until next year, you will be slaughtered.
God forbid you have no cash left to buy a school jumper for your kid, you will be abused too by the "rich" brigade.

What kind of people are most likely to spend so much time on MN during "office" hours? The ones who are unemployed- for whatever reasons, and the ones in a good enough job that they can do what they please on the internet.

Or Ikeep the self employed !!

Or shift workers , that's a gigantic assumption you have made there !

I've been here 8 years. IIRC there have always been threads about wealth etc. I just ignore them.

I've been here for about 8 years - lots of name changes - the topic of money has always been discussed, especially the big stuff like, how much money do you have in savings? How much money is in your pension? How much money are you spending on your DC's first house?

But I don't think they operate with the same time. Those questions use to draw out a full range of responses and now they are like bat-signals for the wealthy to crow about their pot and despair that the poor, for example, would embark on having children without a well rounded financial portfolio and they shame and crowd out those with less money.

Not time - I mean tone.