The ‘average’ mum on mumsnet

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So, I am sat wondering , as I have on many occasion … is the ‘average’ Mum on Mumsnet
living in an fairly expensive house
working part time
pondering their marriage
burnt out
and ?….. what else ?

Has trouble parking on the street they live on

Prone to dealing with frustration or negative response to a post by throwing out a string of 🤣🤣🤣🤣 or saying “you’ve made my day!!!!”

Overly fond of the terms gaslighting, passive aggressive, abusive and narcissistic - all delivered with the high seriousness of a diagnosis.

Unable to comprehend the connection between doling out the much loved LTB advice and the much abhorred outcome of The Blended Family.

I couldn't agree more.

Mainly single women on low incomes and UC with SEN kids.

Am also flabbergasted as to where the middle class Mumsnet myth originated. Maybe it was - for the first month.

Makes 6 cupcakes which takes her family 6 months to eat.
Shuns toilet brushes.
Never irons.
Drinks one glass of wine a year.
Finds Boden a bit naff now, she's more Scamp & Dude.
Likes to live dangerously by leaving washing out overnight to get darked on in the garden.
Mostly lives on massive salads & HRT

Oh deffo.

You won't get the chance to meet her because she doesn't answer the door and has gone NC with everyone she ever knew.

👍

This whole thread is derogatory.

You forgot the “I’m curious”, “perhaps engage some critical thinking” or “use your words” phrases trotted out daily like they’re some some kind of MN cool girl.

I see this a lot, and it is quite hard to relate to.

44 with a 5 year old and a 3 year old. Burned out and perimenopausal but wouldn’t change it because having children in your 20s or early 30s is a bit lower class. Lives in a Victorian terrace in a Home Counties town somewhere, works part time in HR and hasn’t had sex for 2 years but her husband would definitely never cheat. Walls painted in Farrow and Ball and children are named Emma and Rory. Ultra left wing on paper but is secretly pissed off with the vagrants who are starting to fill up her town and is pondering the local indie for her children because she ‘doesn’t believe in private education but they’re so bright and sensitive’. Is NC with most of her family because they once suggested sharing a room with a sibling didn’t mean she was neglected as a child. She can’t be doing with toxic narcissists. Is wondering whether shaving her legs for summer means she’s a slave to the male gaze and hairy legs would be a better display of her feministic principles.

I swear half the boasts aren't even stealthy, and you've forgotten the 'competitive under 'h'eaters' - you know the type:.
"I don't turn the central heating on until I see icicles on my daughters eyelashes".

God, I wish. I would retire.

Agree about the two camps.

I disagree about the middle class thing. Everyone seems determined to be as middle class as possible.

SAHM pondering returning to work and insisted on marriage before she got married because her husband earns more and sees marriage as a pre-nup, but would advise another woman to not marry if that woman earned more.

‘ lives on salad and HRT’ ha ha

Judging purely on the links to clothes and sandals, awful fashion sense and money to burn.

Hates her MIL
usually got an awkward SIL
claims her DH/DP ‘doesn’t pull his weight’
Passes off her children’s bad behavior as SN

Doesn't answer the door - because someone might be wearing shoes.

Definitely ND, lives in Scotland, big boobs, short hair and wears no make up.

Oh that reminds me of the thread about not putting kids in trolleys because apparently parents are unable to tell when their kids shoes are covered in dog shit and kids sitting in trolleys befouls them.

I'll put my hand up to the should be doing something else, here procrastinating.

You missed the spider's willies and the never-ending chicken that could feed the 5000 with leftovers to spare.

I reckon the average age is definitely between 40-45, given the 'how was your 80s childhood' threads

I have been on here for many years, my kids are now in their late 20's. I just browse now when I'm bored, l have been a really poor single mum with no money at all, loved how supportive mumsnet was then, the whole Christmas giving lists. Someone once sent me curtains when l had none. Now I'm no 60, comfortable in my life, but don't have the massive pension most people seem to have.
the same tropics come up every few weeks, although there seem to be more about interhence and pensions

I wondered when the fucking chicken joke would be rolled out. Took longer than I expected this time. I don’t think that was ever said and is the most unamusing, made up anecdote ever.