What has Mumsnet taught you you've been doing wrong all of your adult life without realising?!

[harriethoyle]

Inspired by a recent thread, in which I read multiple posters saying you shouldn't wear mascara on your bottom lashes (which I have been doing for the last 30 years 😂) what has Mumsnet told or taught you you've been doing wrong?

The irritating thing is then I made one eye up as usual and made one up without mascara on the bottom lashes and DH preferred the without eye! Don't even get me started on my inability to make a chicken last a week...

Surprised nobody has come on here yet to claim they never knew they shouldn’t flush tampons until MN told them, despite every public loo in the UK having a big sign telling them this

My elderly mother hasn't had periods in 40 years but had to wear panty liners after an operation a few months ago. She asked me if she could flush them and was surprised she couldn't but had obviously seen something about it as it registered enough for her to ask me to check.

Wait, what? There is?!

Everything and nothing. From what I've read so far, there are as many opinions that the ways I do things are the wrong ways as there are that I do them all the right ways. Someone will be along shortly to say I shouldn't have started my second sentence with a preposition 😂 And someone to say I shouldn't make assumptions 😂 Someone else will say language has evolved so not to worry about starting with a preposition, another will say it was a prediction, not an assumption.

I mean its pretty common knowledge and has been for DECADES... the water company even post letters out to all the houses multiple times per year reminding people you can be fined for doing it round here as it blocks the pipes.

It also clearly states you can't flush nappies, pads, wet wipes, kitchen roll and other such items.

You must notice when your toilet blocks?

@OpalGoose , did you mean end a sentence with a preposition? I think you meant presumption not a prediction.

😂

I'm curious to know what your objection is to giving these tasks a name. Who does it hurt? A statement like 'There's no such thing as life admin' is subjective, btw; some people do choose to call it that, including me. I'm struggling to figure out why it irritates you.

I'm supposed to wear makeup and dye my hair. And be a size 6 or something. And make a roast chicken last for 3 weeks. That my husband is obviously cheating on me because I don't have access to his phone. That there's something the matter with me because I have or don't have children, who may or may not but likely have some sort of special need which might include being declared a musical genius at the age of 2. That I can't/must go on holidays by myself or with friends but without my family. That I'm odd that I've been married for more than 3 decades and am reasonably (but not perfectly) happy. And that I must be a frigging miracle that I can support a household on a salary as low as mine.

I wash my clothes on 20 or 30 degrees.
I don't use a tumble drier and often leave my clothes out on the line overnight.

Therefore all my clothes, sheets, towels etc stink and are hideously stained. My family are filthy fuckers not clean or fresh enough to be in polite society.

or something.

I have learned:
That the vast majority of MNers don't know squat about statistics, leading to all sorts of anxiety about elements of daily life that are perfectly benign.

Yep....Sticky side down.

No one gets fat from eating too much

Other school-gate mums are bitchy vixens and should be ignored at all costs, before that I'd been to parties at some of their houses, even on holiday with a few, and some weren't very nice I just avoided them.

That my children would be doomed to failure if they didn't get in to Oxbridge ...

That my dh is a narcissistic controller because we had a row once over how best to deal with a dc

I've learnt from Mumsnet that under no circumstances should you wear skinny jeans.

Did you know that there are adults who grew up not believing who loved Christmas and still do! Santa make believe doesn’t make Christmas! And no I’m not Christian. Just like then holiday, food, presents and occasion!

Your husband should position his bum directly over the middle of the toilet so the poo goes down without leaving any smears. Therefore no need to purchase bleach or a toilet brush. If he deviates from this he is an inconsiderate narcissist and you should LTB.

Going by many of the food threads recently, I'm tempted to conclude I'm doing life wrong because I have never tasted harissa.

@OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon so you must be absolutely baffled about why there are little bins in your toilet cubicles at work. For putting sweet wrappers in?

Look, I get it. I’m ancient enough to remember when the advice was to tear your sanitary towel in half and flush those down the loo too. But the advice has been not to shove sanitary products down there for at least 30 years now. Don’t you even look at what it says on the package?

I hope you've tried quinoa or we may have to bar you

Sorry if Ive quoted the wrong person there, the quote bit has gone a bit

Ooh please share! I didn't know there was a right way. Surely just in your pants is correct?

Genuinely, though, how have you managed to dry everything this summer? I think I've used my washing line less than 10 times this so-called summer, due to the endless rain, and even when I've put it on, I've ended up having to take it back inside due to said rain and put it in the tumble drier!

Eek, that's me out I'm afraid 😄

That everyone is on a pathway to a diagnosis.

Bins in toilets at work and other places are for pads, and for the wrapper belonging to a tampon - tampons were flushable decades ago ...