To ask if you’re mumsnetty enough to be on mumsnet? 😂

[notmumnettyenough]

I don’t think I am so I’ll start and if you want to you can share your own mumsnet ‘failings/crimes’ in the comments 🤷‍♀️😂

I am not married
I am a SAHM
I don’t shower every day
My showers are at least 15 minutes long
I can’t drive
I don’t own a house or have a mortgage
I do things with my child even though they won’t remember it
I will have a big age gap between my children as we’re not planning to have another one before the first starts school
I am still breastfeeding
We co-sleep
I am not no-contact with either of my child’s grandparents
I enjoyed Baby Sensory
I don’t like wine
I don’t spend all my free time cleaning/tidying
I don’t mind making my partner lunch
I haven’t been to a wedding as an adult
I enjoy the toddler stage
I can’t make a chicken last multiple meals
I start buying Christmas presents on Boxing Day
I keep cards
I don’t limit screen time
We always go food shopping together
Me and dp always go to bed at the same time
I take my child with me when I meet up with friends
I don’t mind if the house gets messy/there’s toys everywhere as my little one plays
I feed my child food that I know they will eat
I parent as child-led as possible (if it’s not safe or harmful to anyone then I step in but other than that I encourage independence)
We don’t have a dishwasher or tumble dryer

There’s probably more 😂

Oh go on, I can take it. Mumsnet, I hereby absolve you from banning @colouredball for whatever meany thing they may call me.

I love these threads. "Oh look, all those other people on Mumsnet are dreadful! But I am fab!"

I like my DP (I even like sex with him more than once a year 😂)
He has no hobbies. At all. Not one.
I'm not married to him
We have a child outside of wedlock 😱
I also have another child from a previous relationship
There's a 14 year age gap between my children (different fathers, wasn't married to either of them)
I DETEST cooking, batch cooking is even worse
I've never owned a single item from Boden and I didn't even know what it was pre Mumsnet
I don't own a home
I don't wash my towels after every use (who the fuck can be arsed with that)
I actually quite like soft plays with my toddler
I like other children too and I accept that they often make noise and act like, well, children
I have 3 degrees and I neither knew nor cared pre mumsnet whether any of them were from "Russell Group" universities (turns out one of them is, check me 😂)
I don't tip anyone. Ever.

Thinks that's all the main ones 😀

No kids
Love dogs and all pets
Relieved to see I'm not the only one who doesn't shower daily, and washes towels and only bedding occasionally. I believe (as a scientist) that unless you have an immunocompromising condition, germs are good for you.
My house is rarely spotless. Can't remember when I last mopped the floor.
No 6 figure salaries in our house.

I don’t work full time and I earn less than my husband in a career that is female-dominated. I am proud of what I do and think it is incredibly worthy despite the low pay.

I also never want to work full time again. I was a stay at home mum for a bit and it was a great moment in my life (no matter how challenging). No regrets. My husband didn’t leave me or cheat on me because of it.

I don’t think being a working mum or sahm is best. I think all choices are valid and being a woman and a mother is hard for everyone.

I dont think you have to hate trans people to be feminist. I have mixed feelings about the movement.

I don’t think having more than 2 children makes you a terrible person. I’m considering a third 🤣 the whole environmental issue is a whole other thread but I do not think having two is the best for everyone actually (that whole argument annoys me).

Love a dummy. Love cosleeping (although loads of MNetters do that).

I wouldn’t judged someone for eating 10 crème eggs in a day. I don’t even eat chicken and wouldn’t expect it to last three meals.

I live in a council flat and don't aspire to home ownership
No dishwasher or tumble drier
Never learned to drive and don't think it's necessary
Love a spa day and going out partying
Have a McDonald's breakfast weekly
Never went to university or got A levels
Do not like wine or gin
Have over 50 tattoos including on my hands and knuckles
Love a good all inclusive holiday

I'm working class. I have tattoos and piercings (both common & trash). My kids eat processed food and have too much screen time.

The only thing I hate more than cooking from scratch is batch cooking.

Love a family trip to McDonald’s.

I vape
Drink wine or beer most nights
None of my kids are at university
Didn't charge them rent when they got a job.
I have friends over in the summer we have music on & use the BBQ without asking for permission
None of my friends or family are toxic.
I like my Mil & sil's.
My mum & Mil came to see my babies as soon as they were born.

We don’t have a joint account or ‘shared finances’ either but we each have a a set amount we pay towards our rent and then one of us pays council tax and water and the other pays gas and electricity

I don’t really need ‘me time’ a lot but if I do want it then I will usually just get up earlier as my child takes after his dad and will sleep in late if there’s no need to get up

I have loo brushes

I don't wash my towels after every usage

I still wear skinny jeans

I don't dye my hair

Non-Mumsnet:

My children are allowed to say toilet

I do not care one bit if my kids aren’t saying the correct ‘middle-class’ word e.g ‘dinner’ instead of ‘lunch’- and find it amazing that some people do

I like The Range, IKEA, home bargains and B&M

I like McDonalds

I like Center Parcs and Butlins

I didn’t go to Private school and neither did any of my friends or family

Dont earn six figures

Don’t have a big Victorian/Edwardian house with books everywhere, antique furniture pieces and wooden floors

Mumsnet:

Dislike toilet brushes

Shower every day

I consider myself atypical on here because,
I am working class
I am very left wing
I have been in quite a few long term relationships and it was partly my fault they failed, so I am a walking red flag to be honest.
My current husband was similarly a walking red flag when we met , yet still I love him.
I don't think affairs are the work of the devil.

It's interesting tho, isn't it, people naming contradictory things that make them atypical. Probably depends which boards you read I suspect......

Don't mean any of the above to offend anyone by the way. I am also scared of conflict!

I'm a 66 year old Granny. My daughters are 40 and 32. I was a SAHM and breastfed them both round the clock for 2 years and didn't expect my hubby to feed them ..change nappies.. get up with them. I cleaned and cooked all meals.
Hubby worked and did DIY and washed the cars and motorbikes etc.. .
I loved my in laws. I love my siblings and see them often.I didn't make my daughters go to school once they hit high school if they didn't want to. I let them go clubbing as soon as they left school. I became a single parent on benefits when they were still in junior school and l loved it. I told them if it doesn't make you happy the don't do it.
They could sleep with me whenever they wanted. I see them both and all my Grandkids at least twice a week. I have a few close friends and they don't annoy me and we get on great.
I've never drunk wine . I used to smoke cannabis now l vape it. I love my neighbours.. one side Polish..other side Caribbean. I don't drive but l have a motorcycle licence. I was an hippy kind of woman.. and l believe in Clairvoyants and mediums ( l am one). I don't sweat the small stuff. I never minded any of my boyfriends watching porn.( It's just acting). I love reading Mumsnet.. it's better than Dear Deardie.

University choices won’t bother me either as long as it is something they will enjoy!!

I really hope that we won’t charge our child rent when they are an adult🤞I suppose it will depend on how things are at the time but if we can manage when they are 17 then I assume we will when they’re 18 too 🤔

We are the same with bills; we each pay certain things but he takes home a lot more than me (I only work 18 hours), so he pays a lot more than me.

DS takes after me and gets up early, but every now and then, he’ll sleep later (usually cos he has a cold), and I will enjoy a morning coffee in complete silence.

Fight!

Mumsnet is a very broad church. There's all sorts on here. I always think it's strange when people start claiming they aren't like all the other girls (& boys). There's even a very long running "witches" thread for example.

Also when media treat Mumsnet like There's a prevailing opinion (see all the Tory and Labour stooges here trying to win the election by stealth). Spend 5 minutes on any thread and you'll see that diversity of views is the order of the day.

I’m a man
I genuinely love everything about my husband, including the fact that he has hobbies
I don’t have a tinkly laugh
I eat more than a thimble of food at each meal
I smoke and vape
Our children sometimes misbehave

I second this motion, therefore you're officially 'in' forever x

I just dont give a fck to be honest. I love mumsnet and its helped me immensely over the past 18 years ! Dont care if i fit in or not.

I had dc with. (now dh) before we got married. We also had a house together prior to getting married
We don't share finances.
I love football.
I don't drink tea.
I love wine.
I don't mind dh going out without me.
We've never scheduled (forced) "family time."

I roll my eyes in disbelief at 99% of the threads and posts on them, so not very Mumsnet I suppose.

I have step kids and love them

Get on well with their mother /my partners ex

Always worked full time and wouldn’t want not to

Had v short mat leaves, pretty much non-existent in one instance (small business)

Did not breastfeed or want to

Had routines from the start, not actual Gina Ford but baby whisperer

Co-sleeping: work of the devil

My teens board

I don’t batch cook or cook from scratch we eat preprepped M and S type things

I get on with all my family and my in laws and my step kids mum’s family, no one is low contact or no contact or grey rocking

I have drifted apart from friends but no friend dramas as an adult ever

I am messy and my cleaner tidies and well as cleans, I don’t feel embarrassed about this

I have no position on loo brushes or showering habits

I do schedule sex (with my partner, not randomers) because the alternative is hardly ever having it and I think that is a relationship wrecker

I am quite happy to eat in restaurants alone, go to the cinema alone

We have family meetings (I don’t know if that’s unmumsnetty but people really rip the piss IRL)

I love my in-laws. I look forward to visiting them and them visiting us. In fact I like having visitors over in general and I like them making themselves at home, helping themselves to things etc.

I always eat way more than any of the posters on those ‘What have you eaten today?’ threads. Can’t tell if I’m just greedy or whether those threads are skewed because people are more likely to post if they eat healthily…

Just going to add some more after reading the comments 😂
My partner doesn’t play golf or have an outing hobby
I say haitch and never thought that wasn’t right and still don’t 😂
We eat takeaways/fast food more than we should
I know I should eat less and exercise more but I don’t have the energy for that 🙈
I don’t have a pension
I don’t have any savings
I have autism
We have our own towels and don’t wash them after every use
I didn’t finish university (MH issues) so I don’t have a degree
I don’t understand fashion
I don’t wear make up
I live in leggings
Brushing my hair is my version of ‘doing my hair’
I don’t dye my hair (I used to but haven’t for years)