How do you imagine the average Mumsnetter to be?

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• Sensible
• Sensible clothing
• Frugal with money
• Disapproving of trivialities, such as spending too much on Christmas presents or cosmetics
• Assertive
• Will say 'no' for the sake of it sometimes
• Uncompromising
• Very high expectations in relationships
• Intelligent

Any others?

I'm mid 40s, single Mum, 4 children, 20, 18, 10 and 8. Two with SEN, living on benefits, DV survivor, well educated, good career before SEN children, ex PTA chair, South England, votes liberal (or tactically to keep the Tories out!). Loves sex, wine at the weekends, no cleaner, no gardener. I love that there's such a variety on people on here ☺️

Has hired help as "why wouldn't you?"
Works full time and judges sahm who don't have such hired help and "have destroyed pensions and finances."
Swears by boden and twee clothing
Turns nose up at neighbours and their offspring that jump on trampolines, have fake grass, rattan furniture and generally make a racket.
Has a friend who is poorer/struggling and can't connect anymore with this person as "why don't they get hired help?"
Curtain twitches and doesn't answer door to anybody that doesn't have a prior appointment.
Doesn't leave washing out past 5pm incase it is "darked on!"

Showers 6 times a day and is terrified of germs.

I have a few different MN characters in my head. One is 60, has three grown up children, wears bold earrings and a scarf, works in academia but somehow has literally endless money, gets the train to meet her adult goddaughter for lunch at a light-filled restaurant the odd Saturday despite her friendship with the goddaughter’s mother suffering when the friend offered insufficient support/loyalty during her divorce 13 years earlier due to ex DH’s infidelity, now has a new partner but doesn’t live with him even though he’d like to move in. Another is 38, has two children at primary, all one length brown hair, wears a yellow joules coat at the weekend but a black Uniqlo puffer with gym leggings for the school run, tried at one point to pair them with Vejas (BNIB off eBay) to keep up with the school gate mums but realised they weren’t really her and went back to converse, is grateful for her DH’s parents paying for the DC’s private school fees and their house deposit but also seethes with resentment at them for it.

Oh and dcs in private school, skiing holidays and threads detailing financial concerns "do I earn enough? Own house deeds, cars, 3 holidays a year, only 400,000 in savings, dh earns 100,000 and my wage is for spending, is this enough?"

Mid 40s- mid 50s
Middle to high family income
Wears Boden and toast
Husband is annoying & has an outing hobby, but it's actually cycling.
Slightly overweight
Gets very irrate about things most people would never notice
Full of sage nuggets of wisdom

@CounsellorTroi

Showers 6 times a day and is terrified of germs.

And changes bed linen daily.

And said bed linen is stained yellow from dh's sweaty head.

Uniqlo puffer with gym leggings for the school run, tried at one point to pair them with Vejas (BNIB off eBay) to keep up with the school gate mums but realised they weren’t really her and went back to converse that is very funny, you write really well.

Certain posters I always picture as the posh woman in the Catherine Tate sketches.

@MiddleParking

I have a few different MN characters in my head. One is 60, has three grown up children, wears bold earrings and a scarf, works in academia but somehow has literally endless money, gets the train to meet her adult goddaughter for lunch at a light-filled restaurant the odd Saturday despite her friendship with the goddaughter’s mother suffering when the friend offered insufficient support/loyalty during her divorce 13 years earlier due to ex DH’s infidelity, now has a new partner but doesn’t live with him even though he’d like to move in. Another is 38, has two children at primary, all one length brown hair, wears a yellow joules coat at the weekend but a black Uniqlo puffer with gym leggings for the school run, tried at one point to pair them with Vejas (BNIB off eBay) to keep up with the school gate mums but realised they weren’t really her and went back to converse, is grateful for her DH’s parents paying for the DC’s private school fees and their house deposit but also seethes with resentment at them for it.

V good the veja trainers and uniqlo

40s
3 DC
Lives rurally but near Manchester
Has a dog
Has a robot vacuum
Her hobby is laundry, her husband's hobby would be too outing to say

Absolutely dementedly scared of all dogs, whether it be a sloppy type or a chihuahua. Can be anything, they’re all vicious brutes.

Similarly absolutely shits it at a full glass of wine, only requires a thimble full to get lashed up.

Clad in Boden, slim because attitude to food is very much akin to attitude to wine drinking.

No hair dye or tattoos because that’d make her dreadfully common.

Drives one of those fecking horrible fake SUV type things that seemingly have fuck all proper purpose apart from being a mum wagon.

Has suspicion that her husband might be an awful cove.

Paranoid and neurotic.

Laughing into my G&T while sporting a Toast jumper here. You had me pretty nailed in the first 5 posts or so.

I bloody love Mumsnet. Cheers everyone!

Middle class but thinks discussing class is "common"
Slim because carbs are the devil.
Wears the mum uniform of striped tops,jeans and vega's.
Thinks a six figure salary is average.
Has sex twice a week as otherwise the dh's eyes might start wandering.
Drinks Artisan gin but only a couple of times a year as anything else makes you a raging alky.

Im Scottish, a single mum on benefits, drink like a fish and wouldnt be seen dead in jeans and trainers. My xh earned £55 grand and that was considered a VERY good salary.

Has a cleaner
Lives in London
Works from home
Earns aprox 80pa
Husband earns similar
Kids go to private school
Spends 50 quid per child at Christmas

Minimum degree educated
Professional career
Perimenopausal
Well off, owns own house, savings
Married with kids
Cornwall for holidays
A bit bored and depressed
Washes legs in shower
Really good at cooking
Wild in 90’s youth
Thoughtful and hilariously rude and down to Earth

Quietly seethes at the sound of her MIL breathing
Wears a row of pearls (for clutching, obvs)
Has quiche and a big salad for lunch
Sends her DC to piano/french/bassoon lessons
Has a Cockapoo called Milo
Has a fridge full of Pinot and Hummous
Drives a battered Volvo
Let's her DH have a lie in on a Sunday until 8-30am and then chivvies him and the DC's out the door at 9-10am for a family bike ride around her local village where they'll stop at a local pub and have an early lunch

@Blackmagicqueen

And said bed linen is stained yellow from dh's sweaty head.

And poo crumbs 😂😂😂

Definitely more diverse than it used to be. When I first came here it seemed to be all London/Suffolk ladies with black range rovers who wore Boden!

Questions alcohol intake
Overweight from eating too much food of the gods
Leaves the bastard every other week
Childcare issues
Hates mother in law
Uses tracker devices
Hates the cleaner
Hates the nanny
Is the highest earner in the household
Repulsed by husband
Husband suffers from ED

Never washes dark colours with light, never leaves washing out overnight.

Hates dogs/noisy kids/general life sounds.

Lives either rurally or in a town house.

Kids do multiple after school activities.

Married but not necessarily happily.

Hates their mil.

No social media.

Girls weekend.

No one can leave the table without asking after a meal and must sit still until everyone has finished.

Basically the polar opposite of me 😂

Female
Late 30's
2 kids
Good flexible job
Wears fairfax & favor
Listens to Ed Sheehan or classical
Shops Ocado
Has a Mulberry bag
Goes Skiing twice yearly
Never eats take aways or fast food

Either had or would like a Coach or Kate Spade bag.
Hates non drivers.