To ask about your fav Mumsnet cliches

[HeidiHaughton]

Ltb being mine.

@SteveBrexit

there's a context

It's all well and good to be independent when you both earn similar,
it's starting to be an issue when one earns double or more the other earns, and you end up with thread where one adult has nothing after paying share of bills and childcare, while the other is left with a 1 or 2 thousands of disposable money.

So not having "family money" is very very weird, the dynamic is all wrong.

If you like to be so "independent" that you can't afford a new coat or a pair of shoes after bills, but your partner is going away every weekends with their mates and just buying themselves a new car...good for you, but for most couples it's very wrong.

DP and I earn roughly the same so we make equal contributions to bills and have approx the same disposable each month. So it works well for us.

Op: when did you all start going grey and what to do ?
MN: I got my first grey strands in my 60s and box dyes are the work of the devil .

“You sound unhinged”
“You sound like hard work”
“It’s none if your business (when talking about adult children)
“All teenagers are having sex ...... you can’t stop them 🙄”

You don’t have an “xyz” problem. You have a DH problem.

As you have 3 children under the age of 4 and a financially abusive and totally lazy husband my advice is to pook for full time work ASAP!

'ive name changed for this' queue the most dull, bland generic issue.

Don't ppl understand by letting everyone know you've name changed you're kinda not helping your anonymity

'DH is a very high earner' -thanks for that 🤣

Have a - still not sure what that means but it seems kind of condescending the way it's used.

"Are you very young?" Ouch!

"Give your head a wobble" Never heard this phrase until I came to this forum

I've never seen so many people "crying and shaking" as I do here on Mumsnet.

Q:“Is a zillion pounds a year a good salary or average?”

A: “In my social circles it’s average. It doesn’t actually get you much in the South.”

Go NC!!

'Can't mention DH's hobby as is outing "
(Its always cycling)
Anyone asking "am I chubby at 10 stone and 5"8" will be told they are AT LEAST a stone overweight
NDN using garden for absolutely anything from well, gardening and kids playing to weed smoking bbq orgies are unbearably antisocial.

“My DC is on the 1st centile, but isn’t skinny.”

“I only eat 500 calories a day and I’m perfectly healthy.”

“NC as this is outing.”

“Your step Dc who is there twice a year should have their own room (master bedroom) and en-suite, but your other 3 DC need to share the box room.”

@Tuscadero

'My 9 year old is still in a rear facing carseat'

Howling 😭

I’d never buy a flat

Your dc is only 17 - of course they need a curfew/it's actually illegal for them to drink alcohol/you should put a tracker on their phone. Parent them!!!

Your dc is nearly 18 - you need to cut the ties and set them adrift on the sea of life asap or they will become lazy, dependent leeches who'll suck the lifeblood out of you.

The hatred for the baby boomers

When someone posts about a minor inconvenience in their marriage and the comments are like YOU NEED TO LEAVE YOUR HUSBAND RIGHT NOW

Typical Mumsnet fakes are - MC/ went to Russel Group Uni/Have 6 figure income/ manage a 'team'/have cleaner /au pair/ housekeeper... blah blah. Going to stop now beforeI puke.

So many favourites. I think darked on washing / spider willies if I had to vote.

Nine year old has asked for a baby doll for Christmas, should I get her one I think she is the old for a baby doll.

“Don’t post here asking for advice if you can't handle strangers being incredible nasty to you!”

'What did you learn about xyx from your parents when you were growing up?

Ok, thanks. Yu are so perceptive !! I really will bear that in mind.

Ham psyologist spouting pop psychology...Google avoidant attachment style and you will be a fucking expert just like me.

Narcissistic MILs.