Confessions of a Mumsnetter

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I have never ever seen Downton Abbey and don't intend to.

I don't think my OH is an entitled pervert if he initiates sex
I don't think he is controlling if he makes a suggestion or offers an opinion contrary to my own
I think a lot of children would benefit from more discipline
I strongly suspect a lot of people who post ridiculous advice about workplace problems don't work, and haven't for some time
I think it's lazy to be a SAHM and expect a full time working partner to do equal housework
I am baffled by how time consuming some posters find it to do a load of laundry, arrange insurance, and make appointments
I think accusing anyone who voted leave of being ignorant and ill informed is... ignorant and ill informed.

I have joint bank accounts with dh

I do think there’s a difference between girls and boys

I can’t stand reality tv, and think it has a lot to answer for with what’s going wrong in society

I hate all the fakery-hair, nails, tan, but I wear make-up

I think a lot of people self diagnose “anxiety” and use it as an excuse

I don’t use zoflora

I have 3 loo brushes

I don’t have bathroom bins

I think stay at home parents should do the lions share of housework

If you’re on maternity leave and your partner is working, then you should be the one to get up during the night

I don’t think my partner has been unfaithful, but if he has and a friend knows, I’d rather remain in ignorance. I have a nice lifestyle and I want to keep it

It breaks my heart that with everything we know about animal welfare & the related industries that derive a living from them that people still eat meat etc. The animals suffer. That should be it, the end. I cannot unsee the terrible things I've seen, their terrified faces, the noises they make. It brings me to tears even writing this. Wrenching babies away from their mothers? Disgusting. It's not right. As the saying goes, if slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be vegetarian.

I have no interest in Zoflora
I ask people to take shoes off in house (so do most people I know if going upstairs)
I wash towels/bedding when i can fit it in the washing schedule (usually once a fortnight). No-one has died yet.
I answer the door - sometimes look through peephole though
I have a loo brush in the toilets
I took my husband’s name and we have joint current acct
Not a Downtown or GOT watcher
I’ve put my kids before my career. I do work but it’s not a career job.

Oh and penis beaker was def funny - don’t know the other ones!

Also; love weddings and parties (as long as I know a few people).
I enjoy socialising and miss doing the school run and seeing mum friends every day. I never encountered much drama with the mums.
I don’t get all this hatred of being social on mumsnet.

Most of the above.

A chicken makes one meal, and possibly a tiny sandwich for my lunch the next day, towels, loo brush, no exercise.

Ds's play x box all day during the summer holidays. They only come off when I insist they come somewhere with me: food shopping/school uniform shop etc.

Wow reading these has made me laugh. I do loads of these and didn't even know they were a thing on here. Oops!

I love going on hen dos. All the ones I've been a e been great fun.
I like going to weddings.
I've never been to a wedding with any drama.
I still do lots for my dcs, even though they are young adults.

I'm an extrovert, I love people and couldn't imagine anything worse than living rurally and having no neighbours.

I am also a blogger. (No I never ask for free stuff)
I have a loo brush.

Both of my children have been or are in full time childcare, a nursery (gasp) and I don’t feel guilty about it at all, I love working.

I currently have workmen in the house and I have
*made them tea/coffee numerous times throughout the week
*made bacon sandwiches at 11 everyday
*offered cake and biscuits
*And I have even let them use the toilet whenever they needed.

Do you know what? the builder was grateful and when he found a significant issue he offered to put it right with no extra cost for materials or labour because we had treated him with respect. it added on 3 and a half hours to his day.

@MichonnesBBF you and me both! I always treat workmen nicely-they’re real people too! I also do bacon sandwiches and bake for them too, I treat them with respect and they treat me and my home with respect-never had any issues

I love Mrs Hinch
I like my MIL
I leave my teenagers alone for longer than MN thinks is appropriate

@JudgeRinderMinder

Great to hear
some of the stories he told me about being treated like shit was unbelievable yet totally believable, especially after reading some threads on here.

Respect is not expensive and takes no time at all.

I love waterslides at swimming pools or water parks, and will make trips to them on my own. The scarier and darker they are, the better! Although Devil's Drop in Paignton took nerves of steel.

I like to keep my DH company while he wraps my presents; even though it means I have to be blindfolded.

I regularly wear trainers without socks.

Please can someone explain 'washing gets darked on'.

I have searched mn and can't find a legit reason, just spiders only working nightshifts .

I'm Scandi and don't understand this, so is it traditional as with not hanging washing at the front or what am i missing .

madambee

It's when the washing hanging up to dry outside, gets left out all night, in the dark, hence the MN saying washing getting darked on.

I think I've only ever met about 5 (properly diagnosed) narcissists in my life.

And I used to work in psychiatry.

I've never logged anything with 101.

I've obviously got a really boring life.

Thank you @ThePhoenixRises, but why is it a problem?

I find most Australians to be smug, arrogant and very unwelcoming. New Zealanders are lovely though.

I can’t believe there are people that don’t let builders/ workmen use the loo. Where else are they supposed to go?!

I reckon it’s a MN special @AriadneCrete. I don’t actually know anyone who wouldn’t.

I've never had a 'spa day'. I had a head massage abroad once in a hotel spa and decided I don't like being touched excessively by someone I don't know. I could never have a body massage from a stranger.
I think prosecco is disgusting.
I don't shower every day and I often wear the same jeans and top all week in the winter.
Never watched strictly.
Don't like babies.
I drink wine nearly every day.
I never have a problem being assertive and find some people's life problems (as essayed on MN) appear to happen because they are terminally wet.

I have loo brushes and bins in both my bathrooms.
I change my sheets fortnightly.
I voted leave.
My DS watches tv as often as he wants.
I kill spiders when I see them in my house.
I forget to take my reusable bags to the supermarket every time I go and have to use plastic.