To invite you all to come BRAG 🍾

[Bragfest]

I personally don’t see anything wrong with bragging about your achievements, whether they be academic (graduation) or materialistic (luxury car after saving for 3 years).

In fact, I love reading that and it inspires me. Hopefully it would inspire others too or allow them to live vicariously through you.

If you are bothered by bragging, please read no further.

SO, everyone is invited to my bragfest where they can brag about that new promotion, that designer handbag or that dream holiday. No judgements here, just celebrations for your achievement !

I got a payrise this week

I've had some bad years but the last 3 really turned around for me and I just generally feel like the luckiest person on earth sometimes. The luck I made myself. I've really changed things, closed doors on the bad and walked through doors to the good. It's changed my life.

And my DP gets stopped going through airport security as they think he's hiding something down his underwear

I graduated with a 2:2 in nursing at the beginning of the year after battling depression and x2 suicide attempts throughout the course.
I'm now the other side of my depression, me and DP are buying our first house together, hoping to be in by Christmas and we're expecting a baby in april!
And I also love my job and feel like I make a difference to my patients and their families lives!
Life has it's ups and downs but I am so proud of how far I've come when I had no intention of surviving through my first and second years of uni, and I am genuinely so happy with how my life is turning out.

@FromEden don't ever feel guilty and please don't EVER apologise for your achievements, I'm proud of you.

Some of these have really made me well up and swell up with happiness, what a brilliant thread.

I'm proud to be the kind of person that the amazing people in my life choose to keep. My family is a bit small and broken, so my friends have become my sisters and brothers, and we see each other through thick and thin. Without fail they are strong, vibrant, intelligent, funny, and beautiful souls. To be part of their circle means (I think) that I'm like that too.

I have a first class BSc. (Hubs) degree which I worked my arse off for and am immensely proud of.

I also completely smash job interviews and have never been refused a job once I've got through to interview stage (which is bizarre cause I'm actually quite a shy and socially awkward person).

Hons* not Hubs.

Brag fail

Wonderful thread
Bloody amazing mnetters
The people who are saying they just got through the day.. Well that is the most important achievement than anything else.
I don't struggle with any health issues and amvery resilient.. So I can only imagine the strength that can take.

My dd has spent her birthday money on presents for her favourite zoo animals for Xmas

She's 4 and loves animals

Oh... also, at parents' evening I was told my five year old is top of her class (Reception), incredibly bright and enthusiastic and the 'perfect pupil' and an absolute pleasure to teach.

Not even ashamed to brag about that!!

Our beloved baby hamster was about to die- I gave him drugs, fluids (am a healthcare professional but with humans, not rodents!) and rushed him to the vets for them to say I saved his life as he was so sick and the whole family is over the moon that he’s back on his paws! Small victories

Shakeatailfeather - I was about to post, then read yours. Mine is nothing by comparison. You should be very proud of yourself. So sorry for your loss 💐

I will join in this thread as I NEVER brag in real life (seriously - I come from a family where its almost frowned upon).

A few years back when my son was young and one of my parents were dying I achieved a first class honours degree. I'm now doing my Masters alongside my job where I've received good promotions over the years and pay rises.

A few years ago also my marriage broke up and I was left with very little financially and had to leave the marital home - however I have remained completely financially independent (and live pretty comfortably) because I earn a decent wage and have worked hard to become financially stable again.

I work out regularly and in my early 40s, I'm fitter than I've ever been and weigh and measure almost exactly the same as when I was 18.

I have overcome clinical depression.

Most importantly I have a lovely son - his room may be a mess but at 18, he has a beautiful personality and is extremely talented.

Phew - haven't ever listed my achievements before!

I have a good and happy "Walton's" type life.

I don't mean in a materialistic loaded with cash and a mansion type way (but we do earn six figures between us, have a comfortable sized 4 bed semi in a naice area and our mortgage is almost paid).

We do lots of family things (and not all that cost money) but spend a lot of time together. Mostly we do sports/outdoors activities. We laugh as a family A LOT!

I don't live in a city, and love the laid back living of the beautiful Lake District.

I love my husband as much (if not more) as the day I met him almost 21yrs ago. We laugh, spend time together and have a healthy sex life.

But we do our own thing too and neither of us begrudges the other "me time".

DS is kind, funny, intelligent and will definitely break hearts. Currently has his heart set on joining the RAF or the police.

I love PILs, SILs and BILs and can't imagine life without any them.

I genuinely love my life and wouldn't change a single thing!!!

I've just persuaded DH to take DD on holiday with him for a couple of days (his term ends before mine). I'll still be at work, but I get a weekend and a few evenings all to myself!!

It might not sound like much but I'm so proud of what we've achieved this weekend. We've finished painting our hallway. I've sorted the bathroom, kitchen and bedroom. My clothes are ready for work, breakfast is in the fridge and I've taken the time to moisturise. Fresh bedding and blow dried my hair for tomorrow.

It might not sound much but I've been recovering after a car accident and this is the first time in months where I feel like my old self.

Loving these stories! I was seriously dyspraxic as a child but very creative (partly due to a lot of time on my own) I actually had a one-to-one aid as I wasn’t able to cope academically in the classroom and I was pretty isolated socially due to this. Now I’m the commissioning editor on one of the biggest circulating magazines in the uk market. I have a lovely husband, lots of work perks including plenty of luxury travel and we own our own house in a lovely part of London. We earn a healthy three figure salary between us and are still fairly young with plenty of progression ahead of us. We have good friends and a very full social life. I never thought these things would be possible for me as I was always the bottom of the bottom at school.

I am doing well with my uni course. I am doing well with my job. I went from someone who had no ambition to someone who has loads and has worked my arse off for the last few years to get somewhere in my career.

I have a busy home life and it isn't always easy being a parent of five, having a husband with a MH illness, working and studying but my determination is great and I don't know where I got it from.

I have also made some new friends and I never really thought I would do that. I have gone from being pretty friendless to having a small but amazing friendship circle.

I never thought I would be where I am now.

Great thread. You are all fantastic!

My two year old is just wonderful and I throughly enjoy having a toddler. I miss her so much when I’m not with her that I rarely plan evenings/days out without her. She makes me laugh all day long and I am so, so proud of her.

She is not quite 2 and a half and her use of the English language is astounding. She is so articulate and Siri can follow her instructions (she is pretty confident with the iPad, and no, she’s not on it all the time!).

She apologises when she has done something wrong, without being asked to, and quickly followed by a cuddle. She says “please” and “thank you”. She can understand the concept of counting. She sings full nursery rhymes and then changes the words to her own made up songs, but singing the same tune.

Her memory for the tiniest details amazes me. She can recall and talk about events that have upset her.

She has a fabulous sense of humour.

I feel so sad when I think of her growing up. She’ll always be great but I cannot imagine not having a toddler around. I want to wake her up and give her a cuddle now .

We all have little things that make us happy. Great bragging thread.

Thanks for starting this thread! Don't really talk about this in real life but we have 100k sitting in the bank (already own current house). We've never been helped out by anyone, even when we asked, so every penny is down to our hard work. Feel extremely chuffed!

I just got a brilliant result at a chess tournament. I chose to play up in a higher section than usual for my rating - i.e. against opponents who are significantly stronger than I am - and still scored 3.5 points out of 5, finishing in joint 4th place out of 27 players.

I've been studying chess diligently for years, but it hasn't shown in my results. Maybe the tide is about to turn.

Look out, Carlsen and Caruana.

I've gone through the pain of infertility and come out the other side in an even stronger relationship with DH and genuinely looking forward to our financially comfortable, child free lives where we can do what ever we want whenever we want. Hence the earlier holiday brag 

I come from a poor but loving background, just about managed to go to university (financially speaking, & had to live at home). Now have a PhD, an MBA, have lived and worked on multiple continents and bought my first house outright in my early 30s with cash - that I earned. Feel reasonably proud of myself.

Also proud of my feminist husband and two tiny boys (2 & 9 months).

@Picklepickle123

Well done to you! I absolutely agree, I think there's a sense of self-accomplishment and self-reliance from having done it all yourself. We also had zero help; didn't even ask as i wasn't there to give.

Someone has left me some money!
Congratulations to all of you above.

I'm currently travelling about Australia for a couple of weeks using up annual leave and the week before Christmas I'm quitting my job to just go on an open ended ticket - first to India, then further east. I'll be renting out my flat in London to fund it and CANNOT WAIT!!!

I helped a lovely lady birth her beautiful son on Remembrance day. It's an honour to help birth any baby but this was extra special. Another beautiful baby on a very special day.I love my job.