Is this what 99% of mumsnetters homes look like

[Damaged27]

After all these interior design threads this is what I'm imagining everyone on mumsnets homes look like. Just curious if I'm way off because iv never been in a home like this. Maybe if the person is in their 80s. Do people really have bookshelves?

That’s a lovely and really inspiring post - and very sweet about the sick notes!

Books, like music, are a very personal thing for me so I don't display them because I don't give a shiny shit to have other people see them. I know where they are if I want to re-read them (which doesn't happen often. I don't re-watch movies either. I don't know why.) I have a couple of boxes full of books in the loft that I have never gotten around to selling or donating, and the bottom drawer in my wardrobe is currently holding non-fiction books on serial killers and fictional thrillers.

So many on Mumsnet seem to want to race to the bottom. If anyone expresses that they have any kind of interest which doesn't involve watching TV, talking about celebrities or, as pp have said, spending lots of money on clothes and handbags, they are immediately labelled as snobs.
It seems like a huge number of people on this site are almost anti education and in fact there is a massive amount of reverse snobbery around.
If you can read, you can read books, whoever you are, enjoying books crosses a very wide spectrum of people, it isn't snobbish to express a love of reading. To my surprise I think there's been a remarkable lack of snobbishness on this thread, I thought there might be lots of critical comments about the choice of genre of books people read but that's not been the case at all.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the people on here claiming that loving books and enjoying talking about them is what snobs do, are the very same ones who verbally attack posters on threads commenting about bad spelling and grammar and claim that good SPAG is totally irrelevant, unnecessary and something that only snobs care about.

…did you ever get questioned about the notes, as I guess the teacher recognised your writing? Or were they switched on enough to figure what the background story was?

So glad we have choices today. My dyslexic son prefers reading/discovering etc online.

It’s not snobby to point out that spelling and grammar matters. Reading can help people with that. That said, OP sounds like a sweet woman, so I regret offending her if I did so.

You didn't, your fine honestly. I don't really get offended 🥰

It’s not snobby to point out that spelling and grammar matters. Reading can help people with that. That said, OP sounds like a sweet woman, so I regret offending her if I did so.

I agree it matters. But you weren't pointing out " that it matters."

You were specifically pointing out OP's spelling and grammar and criticising it. No one else's.

But hey you've apologised and OP doesn't mind.

We have a book shelf. Mainly full of shite.

However if you had a look at the few books it would probably tell you a lot about us. My biology text books untouched for decades and dhs comic books. I'm academic and never read, dh isn't academic and reads a lot.

Ok I was out pruning today and missed this whole thread...how did it go to 40 pages from 2:22 p.m.?? I feel cheated.

Lots of books. Lots of bookcases. And OP, but kindly, it's you're.

Our sitting room looks like a more vintagey (aka thrifted from charity shops) version of the second picture. Lots of Persian and Native American rugs, with paintings by dh and I. Our home has hundreds of books, our bedsides have a stacks of books. We both love books and don’t own a telly for this reason.

My inlaws don’t read at all and have massive television sets in their sitting room and family room. Tbh the same as you haven’t met people really with bookshelves (except the elderly) my inlaws are the first people I’ve ever met without a collection of books.

I’d hate your house and you’d hate mine. Nothing wrong with that though, the world would be boring if we all had matching taste.

Actually, yes. I do have a room that looks very similar to this. The only difference is my bookshelves are wooden and I have more of them only because I have the space.

Do people really have bookshelves?

Um, yes. Better than having piles of books all over the floor...

Do you read?!

My kids books are just in drawers, piled on a desk, sometimes the floor at somepoint they've probably been on shelves

That's not minimal, op, like you said your house was...

So do I. But not for everything, not by a long way.

Yes exactly.

Who uses google to read? (As in books?!)

I don't even like reading books on the Kindle. Much prefer proper books. Actual tangible paper books!

The contents of every single reference book ever written are not on Google. When you are looking for 'small brown bird uk' or 'rice pudding recipe', I'm sure it's fine.

HATE vertical blinds. Maybe just me.

There's a Google app for reading

@Portakalkedi · Today 22:54

What an odd question OP! You seem amazed that anyone has bookshelves. There are those of us who cannot imagine that people DON'T.

I know right! And there have been bashing and rudeness from both sides. (Though the ones supporting the OP, speaking up against people who have lots of books have been a bit ruder IMO.)

However...

I'm not being funny but the slanging match on here about book readers/book and bookshelf owners - vs people with no books/no bookshelves, was started by the OP @Damaged27

She literally threw the first punch! With her faux innocence, and sneery first post about how many mumsnetters must be a bit weird, and MUST ALL BE ABOUT 80 if they have books and bookshelves. A comment that was not only rude and ageist, but bloody ignorant.

MANY people waaaaay under 80 have dozens - or even hundreds of books, (Even my nearly 30 something DC have about 100 each, and a couple of bookshelves.) And many can't imagine life without being surrounded by the comfort and joy of their books and their reading... Many books go back to their childrens childhood, their own childhood, and also their parents childhood. (And in some cases their grandparents childhood, and even further back than that!)

With a snarky, and judgemental starting post, is it any wonder that many of the the intelligent and interesting book readers/book owners on here have been fervently defending themselves and biting back?!

As I said earlier, I think the ones bashing book readers are projecting their insecurities on here. There have been some very snarky and rude comments (from some posters) aimed at people who have books/bookshelves, and who like to read! And it was all started by the OP!

Goodnight!

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