To wonder how much Mrs Hinch spends in the average day?

[grinchypants]

I'm on maternity leave now and have no life so I'm noticing all kinds of busybody things like the next door neighbours leaving their front door wide open all night and shit like that.

I've seen some of Mrs hinch on insta today.
Cleaning and motivational yada yadas alright if you don't mind the amount of chemicals & fumes but by god is most of it not just daily updates of "bought this" "swipe up for the link to these I bought"

I'm not cheap by any means but who buys so much crap each day, like her house isn't that big, and I'm sat wondering what she's done with all of last weeks storage boxes and shite because I have no life

Does she donate it all? Is it all gifted? Nobody can keep up with that much shopping for one household.

I'm on my own here aren't I?

Oh come on, alpines. If you live in the UK, you must be aware of her even if you don’t have an interest in her ‘offerings’. I don’t watch her instagram channel or the tv programmes she’s been on but I’m still aware of her. If nothing else, there are 8 thousand ‘fuck mrshinch’ threads a day on MN (or so it seems)

DonDrapers honest to God on my dog's life, I hadn't ever heard of her until 6 minutes ago!

I'm ill in bed, how had I not noticed all the threads! I live on the Brexit ones maybe that's why? Well she looks ok, peeped at Instagram through a Guardian link!

They have a big garage, and I'm pretty sure they don't keep a car in there. So that'll be her Monica's Closet. Which is fine, isn't it? Don't we all have somewhere we hide shit? I certainly do. I'm lucky enough to only work part time, so my house is pretty much spotless because I have a lot of time to clean it. I still have a shed full of crap that doesn't have a proper home, but needs to be kept (and Marie Kondo can joyfully jog on if she thinks I'm gonna chuck out useful things). I have drawers in the sideboard which are specifically designated 'shit drawers' for bits and pieces which don't have a home anywhere else.

I like Mrs Hinch, she's funny and although I can't say I've picked up any new cleaning tips from her, I'm glad there are other people on this planet who are as obsessed with keeping things clean as I am. Mine is a carefully managed case of OCD (actually diagnosed, not saying it in a joking way) borne from having a baby who was hospitalised with dehydration after rotavirus. My various anxieties all collided and I became dangerously obsessed with cleaning, to the point where I'd wake in the early hours of the morning to disinfect every surface I thought she'd be crawling on/touching. It's under control now thankfully.

But anyway, leave her be. Don't watch her if you don't like her. Don't buy the stuff she recommends. If you don't have the money to spend the way she does, don't spend it. Don't be pressured into doing things because someone on Instagram told you to. We are all so quick to blame other people for 'influencing' us to behave in a certain way. Surely we should be working on our own resilience, on NOT feeling pressured into doing/behaving/buying/wearing whatever other people do. And we should be teaching our children the same. If they see us watching insta videos and doing whatever we see them doing, they will grow up to believe they should do the same. So let's not teach them that.

That turned way more preachy than I intended so...
TL:DR Nobody can force you to do anything.
You decide what influences you.

Do you?

I’m a dairy-free vegetarian, don’t own a car, don’t have any kids BUT this isn’t environmental bingo. You and I can list all of the ways in which we mitigate our environmental impact but it doesn’t alter my fundamental point which is that Mumsnet is seething with criticism of Mrs Hinch from people who are disguising their dislike as righteous activism.

Of course some of those people will be environmentally conscious, but you’re being wilfully blind if you ignore what’s actually going on here. People will deny it until they’re blue in the face but we know that the tide of loathing for Mrs Hinch is in large part due to the fact that she’s viewed as working class, she doesn’t have a BBC accent, she wears clothes / hair / makeup the people perceive as common, and she’s famous for cleaning - someone most people don’t view as a legitimate talent.

There is a deep foundation of classism, misogyny and snobbery in the way Mrs Hinch is discussed on this site, and whether or not that is fuelling your dislike in particular is irrelevant - you’re wilfully lying to yourself if you pretend it isn’t happening.

And people know it’s not acceptable to openly sneer at someone because you think they’re a common, talentless upstart with ideas above their station. So they hide behind ‘concern’ for her unborn baby, her dog, the environment, her followers etc.

I hate this hypocrisy, and I hate this nasty, smug vein of self-righteousness that characterises every thread about her.

Tbh, you’re better off out of it. She’s total marmite.

FWIW (and I say this on every thread), I agree with those concerned about the levels of cleaning chemicals she is breathing in and exposing her skin to (as well as her DH & pets). There are dangerous compounds in cleaning products that cause skin and respiratory irratations. Mixing (seemingly innocent, freely available) cleaning chemicals can release poisonous gases which are not good for her, especially as a pregnant woman. Not worth any number of interviews on This Morning or followers on Instagram.

Why doesn't she take up cycling or something instead of cleaning all day, baffled I am as Yoda would say.

@Ladyoftheloch there really is no nasty, smug vein of self righteousness at all here, nor no deep burning dislike.
Not everybody that discusses a topic or a person goes straight to that at all.
In fairness you're the only one insisting that by discussing her we must have some deep hatred or burning dislike or self righteousness, and asking people about their environmental choices.
This thread was light hearted.

I have children, I follow a vegan diet, I used washable nappies. We are conscious with single use plastics, chemicals, reusing things where we can and planting food in family allotment. We used recycled paper at Christmas, recycled paper bags for kids birthday party bags, and we don't use things like helium balloons that end up in oceans. That's a snippet of my life that you've assumed is completely different because it fits your narrative of me being a snob because I namedropped Mrs hinch.

The reality is that I don't need to state or justify that, to be able to discuss somebody in a public forum and wonder what she does with the nic nacs.

It would be great if you could pipe down a little and fuel this thread a little less with the whole "if you're talking about Mrs hinch you must be a meat eating snob" and let us get on with finding out some more about this Monica closet.

The @grinchypants I'm telling you, it's in the garage!! It must be.

Dont know where the rogue 'the' came from..

Her poor baby will thinks it's colourblind being brought up in a house like that.

My friend does an instagram page, it is very popular. Suppliers give her freebies to promote on her page. It is amazing, you can get carpeting, furniture if you are good at it.

@grinchypants and yet so many people do!

I have read many posts on here about:
how her dog will be pushed out once she has her baby
How much she will "cash in" on her baby
How she wastes her money on all the things she buys

I have read digs about her home decor, her voice, her posts.

It's all ridiculous! If you don't like watching her videos, don't watch them. If you don't like what she does, don't do it! It's simple.

She puts posts on social media and has gained a huge following, so what? Tomorrow it will be someone else.

We are all grown ups, just move on and don't waste your time worrying about what a complete stranger chooses to spend her money and her time on!

Applauds @Ladyoftheloch - everything you just said.

ladyoftheloch i agree with every word you've said on this thread!

I’m sure you would like me to ‘pipe down’ and let you get on with it, but it’s all to easy to turn a blind eye to prejudice and pretend you don’t see it. Search Mumsnet for the threads on Mrs Hinch and ask yourself with your hand on your heart if you really are blind to the classism and snobbery of it. Ask yourself if you really believe that every one of the critics lambasting her is an organic cotton wearing, vegan, plastic avoiding activist who is purely concerned about the environment.

Think about the following comments, which crop up as variants in every thread:

‘It drives me mad the way she talks about ‘enry ‘inch...’

‘How does she get anything done with those nails?’

‘Why does she always have a stupid filter in her videos?’

‘Easy to keep an identikit new build clean, I would love to see her try with an old house’

‘Why is she even famous?’

‘her house is so grey and overstyled’

‘She’s obviously not that bright’

‘Is she really just famous for cleaning?!’

Do you see the classism? The snobbery? The implication that she lacks taste, that she isn’t talented, that she doesn’t speak well, that she’s shallow?

I’m not accusing you personally of anything. But I think that if you pretend this nasty streak of prejudice doesn’t permeate the Mumsnet threads on Mrs Hinch, then you’re part of the problem, and whether or not your own reasons for disliking her are valid becomes irrelevant.

You don’t get to sit on the moral high ground and say you’re exclusively concerned about the effect her spending habits will have on poor people if you’re sticking your fingers in your ears and refusing to acknowledge that you are part of a discourse in which the majority of contributors are opposed to her because they don’t consider her ‘the right sort of person’ to be successful.

@Ladyoftheloch I'm not pretending it doesn't exist, I've never searched for Mrs hinch threads on Mumsnet.

I have a lot of time on my hands at the moment but not that much.

I'm just saying it's ok to discuss a topic, whether there are other people being snobby or hateful towards that same topic is irrelevant, there always will be. It doesn't make it wrong to talk about it though. Talking about it doesn't mean you have an answer or you think you are above it in any way. It's ok to discuss things. There's nothing wrong with that. Not everything is militant or extreme.

I’m a total cynic and don’t believe for a second she’s just a normal person who happened to get insta famous.

I reckon she has a huge advertising company behind her.

The trend towards environmentally friendly products has got cleaning companies in a Fizz and this what they’ve come up with. Very clever.

Hi folks - just a reminder that, while opinions and criticism are fine, personal attacks and anything else which breaks our TGs are not. Do please remember that the folk you're discussing may well be reading - and are likely MNers too. Honest feedback can be useful, but please do keep it in the spirit.

I also suspect her Monica closet is the garage
I also hope it’s a bonkers chaotic job where she flings in all her Aldi products with gay abandon and Mr Hinch only has one shelf space in there for his tools 😂

It's ok to discuss things. There's nothing wrong with that.

That’s so weird, I could have sworn that in an earlier post you told me to pipe down?

Page 3 and already the conspiracy theories have started, that's pretty good going lol
T'is all a conspiracy with cleaning companies, Mrs H is a plant by Zoflora

Da thunk it?!

(adjusts tin foil hat )

I can see how come she’s got really popular too.

It’s an aspirational lifestyle where point of entry is really cheap.

It’s not a conspiracy theory at all, anyone with the tiniest knowledge of or knows that’s the way the industry is heading.

I don't think using chemicals really excuses this type of bullying. you'd be forgiven for thinking shes actively putting nets round seals and putting straws up turtles noses with the vitriol she gets on here. have a word with yourselves.