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To ask what things are you selfish about?

60 replies

SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc · 14/01/2019 14:25

For me its food.I hate it when ds asks for a taste of food off my plate.Piss off it's mine! Grin
I am being light hearted obviously but it's the one thing that I'm a selfish cow about.Anyone else have any?

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HildaZelda · 14/01/2019 18:10

@Lifeofsmiley, "nods in agreement". Oh yes. If you can't be bothered to learn to drive that's up to you, but fuck off expecting other people to chauffeur you around at their expense.

I'm looking at you MIL Angry

Bubba1234 · 14/01/2019 18:12

My time. I won’t let anyone waste it
Unless that person is meGrin

QuestionableMouse · 14/01/2019 18:13

Time alone. I get grumpy when forced to interact too much.

My mugs. My dad likes to use them but has a habit of chipping them (by trying to stack them/dumping other cups inside) and I'm on edge all the time.

My car. No one gets to drive him but me.

Mashedpotatobutty · 14/01/2019 18:13

My food and my time. Particularly garlic bread because many people seem to think it’s a sharing starter when it most definitely is not unless clearly discussed and agreed before the point of order. Also my time. A particular bug bear is when I’m enjoying a brew alone whilst one of DC are enjoying an activity and I end up with a random child to entertain because their parent is better at avoiding eye contact with their own child.

Carlyrichards · 14/01/2019 18:16

My alone time, or time after school with DD. My days off. People try to get me to do things on my days off. I don't mind occasionally but not every week.

halfwitpicker · 14/01/2019 18:17

No way am I lending clothes. I'd rather just give it to them.

Omzlas · 14/01/2019 18:17

My corner of the sofa

My seat 'setting' in the car - makes me want to throat punch DH when he moves it (I'm the main driver and have a shitty back)

Millionsofthings · 14/01/2019 18:18

The first coffee in the morning!! I love my coffee and I feel like a zombie without it! If anyone starts asking me to do things for them or interrupts it.... makes me really annoyed!!

Silkie2 · 14/01/2019 18:22

Anything, everything.
I used to be a people pleaser - how much of my life did I waste doing stuff that wasn't appreciated half the time - so now I look after me. I think I'm actually treated with more respect now!!

WWlOOlWW · 14/01/2019 18:23

Pretty much everything these days.

Kids are older and I'm single. Perfect.

sizzledrizz · 14/01/2019 18:28

Money, my car, my coffee mug, my makeup, my clothes, my time

Ohnonotuagain · 14/01/2019 18:30

My time. I try not to spread myself too thinly and make sure I have downtime to just relax.

1wokeuplikethis · 14/01/2019 18:30

Watching MY programme in the evening after the kids have gone to bed. Really annoys me when my husband starts talking to me while I watching. I pause it and it interrupts my chilling out flow.

My chocolate. I don’t like a lot of chocolate so what I do like, I don’t share.

My cushion. It’s mine.

I generally have the evenings to myself and like to run a tight ship of what I’m doing at what time eg bath for an hour, telly for 2 and then bed at a reasonable time. I hate if chores or interruptions ruin my plan.

I’m terrible though, one of those everything is mine and all of your stuff is mine too (to my husband) types. Ack.

CrazyBaubles · 14/01/2019 18:34

Oh loads!

Food. Not always, but if I order a particular dish when I'm out / having a takeaway, I hate sharing.

My space in bed. We had to buy a king size bed to solve this issue.

Bath towels. I have 3 huge beach towels that DH is not allowed to use.

Alone / quiet time. There are no DC here but I still have time when I want to read in the bath / snuggle in bed and watch Silent Witness / veg out on sofa in pjs and watch Christmas films in July I get irritated beyond belief if anyone [DH] interrupts me!

Thurmanmurman · 14/01/2019 18:44

Making cups of tea. I hate making it but love drinking it!

TitsalinaBumSquash · 14/01/2019 18:49

Another one for food and my personal space.

I'm known as Smithy when it comes to ordering take away. Blush

JustanotherCHRISTMASuser01 · 14/01/2019 18:49

I really really hate people visiting even for an hour during the day I also hate "visiting " people. forced conversation shudder

Oblomov19 · 14/01/2019 19:01

I'm pretty selfish. I'm selfish about most of the things listed.

HelenaJustina · 14/01/2019 19:20

My nice chocolate.

When DH says (all self-denial like) ‘oh no, no cake for me’ in a cafe, and then asks to try mine and takes a massive massive forkful, the red mist descends... if you wanted a cake, order your bloody own.

Lifeofsmiley · 14/01/2019 22:02

Glad I’m not the only one hilda

HildaZelda · 14/01/2019 23:16

@Lifeofsmiley, definitely not just you!

TheNoodlesIncident · 14/01/2019 23:53

@SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc Like this you mean?

RagingWhoreBag · 15/01/2019 00:57

Yes, all of these!

Food mainly, although I've got better at this lately. But it has to be on my terms - I'll share if its my idea! DP bloody loves giving his food away and thinks I'm mean because I don't Angry

My pens & paintbrushes. Hate the kids borrowing them and then not putting the lids back on or not rinsing out my brushes. I give them the crappy ones then they wonder why they can't paint a lovely neat line!

Hairbrush/make-up - more from a hygiene POV than selfishness though. Don't want to spread nits or conjunctivitis.

Sleep, yes. Anyone who wakes me, feel my wrath. I struggle to fall asleep so when I do, woe betide anyone who takes it from me.

Florentines. You only get like 8 in a pack and once the kids have had one each and DP has scoffed 2 or 3 I end up hiding the rest!

Once DP asked if he could have a Ferrero Rocher and when I said yes, offered him one, and then put the lid back on he said "I can't be restricted!! I'll eat as many as I want then replace them". I was Shock and then when he went to replace them the next day, they didn't have any. He must have realised how out-of-order it was because a few weeks later he did replace them.

Towels, DP will use whichever is closer and he used to have a bad habit of leaving his (or indeed mine if he'd used it) wet towel on the floor/bed so it was still damp and manky when I went to use it. Now I make sure to hang mine up in the bedroom before he showers so he can't grab it if he forgets to get his own. (To be fair though, he's much better at hanging them up now, so it isn't as bad.)

I know what you mean about eggs Happily - if there's enough there to make a cake and then someone uses one its exasperating!

Mabelface well done for protecting yourself with strong boundaries - the only people who object to you having boundaries are the ones who benefit from trampling all over them Flowers

pineapplebryanbrown · 15/01/2019 01:07

My time! Also first morning coffee silence - why do people talk before at least 2 coffees?

RagingWhoreBag · 15/01/2019 01:17

I have a Caramac hidden in the vegetable drawer of the fridge

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