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To try a bit of low-standard virtue signalling?

82 replies

FlamedToACrisp · 02/05/2020 10:53

It's not often I have something to brag about, so...

Today I cleaned the downstairs loo EVEN THOUGH we have no guests expected!

AND I ate a piece of fruit, even though I'm not on a diet!

Let's hear yours!

OP posts:
Etinox · 03/05/2020 07:11

@lifestooshort123 that’s really lovely!

Ohffs66 · 03/05/2020 07:18

1066vegan top tip for future oven doors cleaning. Use a dishwashing tablet (has to be one of the hard ones made of compressed powder not a squishy capsule thing obvs). Works wonders!

Last time I did mine I discovered you can slide the glass out to clean in between the two glass panels. We'd lived here for 3 years Blush

Stinkycatbreath · 03/05/2020 07:19

I wiped a sticky patch off a skirting board that has been looking at me for two weeks. Skank.

1066vegan · 03/05/2020 07:24

@ohffs66 Thanks for the tip. That sounds much easier. But I don't have a dishwasher and I don't think my oven door cleaning is going to become frequent enough to warrant buying the tablets just for that. 😊

Silenceisnotgolden · 03/05/2020 08:16

This morning I watered my plants with Miraclegro. According to my daughter, this action makes me ‘a Karen’. I’m not sure what that means but I felt virtuous and very middle aged.

Woeismethischristmas · 03/05/2020 08:24

I put away the clean clothes, well I put it onhangers and made the dc take it up! Took an hour and to my shame there was school uniform. Not because I make them wear it during lockdown but because I haven't done it so long.

Jeezoh · 03/05/2020 08:44

I chose granola for breakfast rather than sausages, I’m practically an angel!

Ledkr · 03/05/2020 09:04

I stayed up past 10 last night to give my kids some fun lockdown memories.
Im shattered today.

x2boys · 03/05/2020 09:16

An example @trainfan would be ,say you bought a homeless person a cup.of coffee ,instead of keeping it to yourself you plaster the fact all over Facebook etc so that everyone can tell you how wonderful you are ,even better if you take a picture of yourself and the homeless person and said cup.of coffee and posted it on Facebook.

ElinoristhenewEnid · 03/05/2020 09:37

Just to let you know there was an X in the month 2 weeks ago - I mowed the lawn and did some weeding.

Normally my contribution to gardening is taking out the garden recycling bin one a fortnight for the binmen!

BarbaraofSeville · 03/05/2020 12:08

I threw away the dead flowers that had been festering on the kitchen windowsill for at least a fortnight.

I also got around to replying to a thread I put on my watchlist hours ago and made a to do list of the things that I have ever intention of doing but probably won't.

RapunzelinQuarantine · 03/05/2020 12:12

I made coleslaw!

k1233 · 03/05/2020 13:14

I turned the robo vac on today... Woo!

ChandlerIsTheBestFriend · 03/05/2020 13:25

I have no virtue, and would melt into a ball of slimy cringe at the thought of signalling my own existence.

But I did clean the oven yesterday. Then wrapped the racks in tin foil so I never have to scrub them again. Hateful hateful job.

AJPTaylor · 03/05/2020 13:42

I actually bought an oven cleaning kit and a halogen hob scraper thing off Amazon and cleaned the oven (And it worked). Lived here 3 years so it was time.

FlamedToACrisp · 04/05/2020 02:05

Loving the 'difference between seahorses and and starfish' and the outstanding 'noticing' of dust without actually doing anything about it!

And the 100 words of an assignment!

I wrote 3 words of my novel today, but then I decided I was on a roll and added a full stop as well.

And I 'noticed' the fridge needed a good clear-out, but as it contained things like exhausted lettuce and dubious half-used tins, rather than left-over chocolate gateau, I've decided to leave it for tomorrow. No point overdoing things.

OP posts:
Time40 · 04/05/2020 02:32

I did absolutely ALL the washing up, leaving no dirty items hanging about to do tomorrow.

managedmis · 04/05/2020 02:37

Today I convinced without trying DH to scrub on his knees the kitchen floor. I couldn't find the Minky quick enough

BruceAndNosh · 04/05/2020 03:04

I decided that the fridge needs a bloody good clean.

I didn't actually DO it, but I acknowledged that it needs to be done.
Which is a start.

1forAll74 · 04/05/2020 03:50

I am sick of seeing all the virtuous peoples stupid photo's on the local facebook, photo's of all their master chef type meals they have cooked during lock down. The only replies they ever get, are Wow, or Yum Yum. I don't ever post anything, but feel like putting my lunch,of two slices of beans on toast up..

Di11y · 04/05/2020 07:32

I washed the kitchen floor (hasn't been done since before lockdown)

1066vegan · 04/05/2020 14:33

I'm currently wfh in my bedroom. Dp wfh downstairs and teen dd supposedly working but it sounds more like netflix.

My brag is that to protect their teeth, I didn't tell them that I bought a packet of biscuits when I went shopping and therefore haven't had to reveal where said packet of biscuits is being kept. I'm valiantly (and very quietly) eating as many biscuits as possible before they find them.

Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese · 04/05/2020 14:45

@1066vegan you're too good to them!!!
When you hopefully finish the packet, you need to hide it so they don't see it and make you feel bad for being so thoughtful about their teeth!

1066vegan · 04/05/2020 14:50

@Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese Good thinking. I don't want them to feel guilty about all the effort I'm going to.

Destinysdaughter · 04/05/2020 14:53

I made TWO vegan curries from scratch ( disclaimer, I'm not a vegan ) and they actually tasted pretty good! Well, one was vegan until I added some cream to it...Grin