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to do the school run in my pyjamas?!!

292 replies

conversebootmum · 07/02/2008 17:32

come on!! Be absolutely honest. how many of you have thrown that fleece over the top of your jimmys and done the school run?! I have many a time, in fact did it this very morning, but bit embarassing when the teacher came and asked me a question about DS and noticed the winnie the pooh sticking out the bottom of my jeans!

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StripeyMamaSpanx · 07/02/2008 21:51

Oh god I never have a shower before school run (sometimes not even every day), and if it wasn't a twenty minute walk I'd be tempted to not get properly dressed.

Mind you I suspect I am An Embarrassment Of A Mother whatever I do.

NKF · 07/02/2008 21:51

No neither do I Expat I but I would like to see some pics.

VictorianSqualor · 07/02/2008 21:52

I don;t actually do the school run, I don;t drive and we live about ten miles from the school so DP drops DD at the childminders at about 8ish, but I still get up and do their breakfasts and make DP a tea and do packed lunches etc by 8am, so if I was doing the school run, yes I would have a shower, or at the very least get dressed.

Quattrocento · 07/02/2008 21:52

Converse, why is dirtiness and poor personal hygiene funny?

sherby · 07/02/2008 21:54

Stripey, I don't have a shower everyday either (just a strip wash), but that is completly different from leaving the house in pjs!

CoteDAzur · 07/02/2008 21:55

It would be funny if it were not so sad.

VictorianSqualor · 07/02/2008 21:56

I went to tesco yesterday in my lounging trousers, not pj's but they arent what I would normally wear out, I am 31 weeks pg though and had a normal top(which matched) and my ugg boots on.

chubbymummy · 07/02/2008 21:57

They usually wear ugg type boots with their pj's tucked in, and flip flops in Summer but some days it's simply tatty old slippers. Even the ones that get dressed can sometimes be seen sporting slippers. The thing that amuses me most is that often they have had time to straighten their hair and trowel on the (orange) make up but still can't manage to get dressed!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lauriefairycake · 07/02/2008 21:57

Why is it sad? or slobby? or poor personal hygiene?

Just cos its not what you might do doesn't mean I'm a slob.

I'm just me, that's it. Sometimes in pj's, sometimes not. Not less valid a person cos of what i'm wearing.

Sometimes I even have a shower when I'm working from home, put clean pj's on and then pop out for milk

expatinscotland · 07/02/2008 21:59

Sure, why not?

Let's all go out naked.

I mean, what's it matter?

StripeyMamaSpanx · 07/02/2008 22:00

Depends on what you sleep in - my pjs are often leggings and a jumper so I suppose I could put a skirt and some boots on and go out.

In fact, now I think about it more, I have done that!

And I never brush my hair (dreads) but I do put on eyeliner - the other mums don't seem too impressed by that either.

But I wouldn't go to school in Winnie-the-Pooh type things - though why a grown woman would want to wear things with a Disney character on is a bit beyond me anyway.

3Ddonut · 07/02/2008 22:00

lol chubbymummy!!!!

Quattrocento · 07/02/2008 22:00

Expat

Time was, when I looked far better undressed than I did dressed.

But that was 20 years and two children ago

Thanks for the offer htough

CoteDAzur · 07/02/2008 22:01

Funny how you seem to think this is an affirmation of your individuality.

Lauriefairycake · 07/02/2008 22:01

My pj's are very modest. Fully covered like a nun

I can't believe how gross the stuff some people wear - bikini tops in Tesco's, men without shirts in shoppi ng centres etc etc

However I wouldn't judge them as having bad hygiene or slobby...........just really bad taste in clothes

Now playboy clothes on children, that I can judge

expatinscotland · 07/02/2008 22:01

but you know, it's no less valid a choice, Quattro!

people shouldn't judge you by what you wear, even if it's nothing.

chubbymummy · 07/02/2008 22:03

Think I'll go to work in mine tomorrow and see how all the pj loving mums react when they drop their darling off in my class and I haven't bothered to get dressed either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NKF · 07/02/2008 22:05

What do their kids think? Or is it just a regular thing that nobody's mother gets dressesd?

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conversebootmum · 07/02/2008 22:05

well, as i said before, my winnies were in fact my 12 year old daughters, and she whips my stuff so I just shove anything on for bed, but perhaps you didnt read that post.
Cote, dont know who is sad about it, im certainly not!

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alfiesbabe · 07/02/2008 22:06

Agree about anything with Disney characters on - not a good look for a grown woman, not even in the bedroom. In fact especially in the bedroom.
I think there's some underlying issue here.. the whole thing smacks of pretension to me. To make a point of getting up quite early, doing all sorts of other things around the house and then finding the time to pull jeans up over your pjs, but not time to take the pjs off..... hmmmm
I agree with whoever it was said you should get a job! In the real world you have to conform to certain rules and conventions - it doesnt make you boring. I can slob around in my pjs as much as the next person when I get in after a long days work, but it doesnt mean I'd go out in them.

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conversebootmum · 07/02/2008 22:07

I said I am a nurse!

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alfiesbabe · 07/02/2008 22:10

LOL Chubbymummy - maybe I'll do the same tomorrow. Roll up for work in my pjs. Maybe it would give my teenage pupils a cheap thrill!

Thomcat · 07/02/2008 22:10

Don't wear pj's so no, never.
A handful of times if I had a bath the night before I've pulled on jeans and a sweater and not showered. But tbh even if i have had bath night before i still shower and pull n clean clothes.

chubbymummy · 07/02/2008 22:10

Don't think that they even realise that ordinary people get dressed to be honest. Some of the kids look like they sleep in their school uniform (I know one of them definatly does) so it's fairly normal for them not to get changed before they leave the house! If they have no good examples to follow they know no different!

Quattrocento · 07/02/2008 22:11

You mentioned something about a psychiatric hospital, I believe

You haven't addressed the hygiene issues btw