Please can you all stop posting Christmas sweet boxes and the like on Facebook marketplace? Thanks

[ILoveeCakes]

There was only one such post yesterday. This morning, it is chock full of them and is basically unusable as a result.

Oh lord. Someone put this one back under its bridge.

I'll put what I like on my Facebook thanks honey, my reindeer shite is doing very well this year as are my bottled elves. However my Eau de Bullshit has sold out!

Perhaps it is users of netmums not mumsnet?

Whenever I see a thread like this I rush off to Facebook to sneer as I am expected to do and get totally disappointed. There's nowt but old toys, shoes and the odd Billy bookcase on mine. Can you post some images please OP

@PelvicFloorClenchReminder 😂

What sweet box ads? Surely what appears on FB is based on your searches with no connection to MN? I haven't got any ads for sweets boxes, Christmas Eve boxes etc as I don't search for them. Loads of cat related things though 😻

Sweet Boxes

@ILoveeCakes

Um... the only time sweet boxes are mentioned on mumsnet is when someone makes a, "Facebook marketplace shite" thread and we all share photos of the crap we find on facebook marketplace. A lot of those finds are terrible sweet boxes.

Its half past two on the Saturday before Christmas eve. All the sweet box sellers are out making deliveries, they're not on their phones at home with a gin and tonic and a bowl of chicken satay skewers .

Facebook is so 2008

@ILoveeCakes I apologise sincerely it's me. I'll remove them all immediately.

Not really.

Ironically, Facebook is showing you the types of items its algorithm thinks you might want to purchase. Mine has no sweets whatsoever. Go figure 🤷‍♀️

I have never done that nor have I planned but my answer is no, I'll post what I like, thanks.

a) not sure anyone is going to read a post on MN by some randomer and think "oh yes OK, I'll stop trying to earn some money to pay the bills" just because a post on MN says so.

b) those kinds of things are often made by parents (usually mums) who don't have any other way of earning an income - bit mean to piss on their efforts

c) I've never made any of that stuff in my life so I'm not defending myself.

All the sellers are women, and I'd bet many are SAHMs, so it's not totally unreasonable to assume that a load of them would be on here.

It is actually.

Some of them may or may not be on here.

You know where all the ones on your facebook feed are though - why don't you post this instruction on your facebook/in reply to their 'sweet box' post or snooze the offenders for 30 days?

Are you the one posting the 'Dear neighbour' anonymous letters to some people on here?

Facebook is suggesting I might want to join the Corrugated Iron Appreciation Group, but I don't think that's Mumsnet's fault. (Or is it? Looks around suspiciously........)

I hate those sweet boxes. Well, it's the sellers I really hate.

They're all over the local sell and seek group tonight. The descriptions are so smug and one has a picture of their grinning child holding a box out and wearing foam antlers.

I’m going to have to report your post OP you appear to have attracted a whole herd of joyless posters who entirely failed to spot a lighthearted thread in the wild. In fact it just about sums up the dickheads posting on MN these days. It’s just too depressing.