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

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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...

If we don't have landfill where were the police looking for the gentleman who was suspected of failing asleep in a industrial bin ( purposely not used his name)
I've just come across this comment so you might have already answered

I'm weird as well.

Please explain this to me. Whichever way I put my kingsize duvet in the cover, it's always the wrong way.

I walk on my floors, which are beautiful and clean and I keep a shoe on my foot.. My guests and visitors are also welcome too..
No one has walked mud or dog muck into my house and we are rarely ill.
Our rugs are beautiful and I have white floors in much of the house. All is well and fine and non of us eat off the floors.

My duvet cover is 220x240 and the quilted lines should be running vertically if that makes sense.

@Tryonemoretime , duvets usually have channels and these run the length of the duvet. The opening is usually at the base of the duvet cover.

Ah, OK.

I loved my inlaws
I love a wedding, baby shower, any celebration (but if I can't attend something for whatever reason I have no problem declining without tying myself in knots).
I'm delighted by unexpected guests and don't mind too much if the house is untidy.
I love dogs, cats...all animals!
I have toilet brushes.

Agreed. DH and I share it prerty equally but it takes up a huge amount of both our time.

That 'a lot' is two words, not one. I know I should have known this anyway, but I didn't, but I'm definitely not alone in this when I read other people's comments 🤣

I don't have six showers a day

Sorry guys… I’m American everything wrong in the world is my fault 🙋

Just a few examples off the top of my head…

Halloween… yup totally American except that we’re also guilty of ripping it off from the Scots

Social Media… yup it’s all us (except for when it’s not)

Bridal/Baby Showers… clearly a covert CIA operation from the 70’s

Your children saying Santa Claus… I mean clearly not based in Dutch or anything … good ol’ USofA right there.

I could go on but then I’d just be another loudmouth American 😛

@saltinesandcoffeecups

ah yes, I went ' guising ' in the 60's.
and there were no ' tricks ' involved, I had to learn a little' party piece ' i.e, a song or a poem or something ' nice ' and in return I would be given a ' treat '

You forgot your (almost) single-handed responsibility for the degeneration of the English language. Nothing but Americanisms or, if it's not those, <shudder> regional accents and dialects. Those non-RP speakers are really getting above themselves.

haha! This.

I am weird and odd for enjoying balmy summer evenings and sunlight.

Apparently, loads of people relish getting cold and sodden to the bone and sitting on soaking wet park benches whilst they are battered by wind and driving rain- it makes them feel ecstatic. Very odd however, that I never actually see people doing this in real life- funny that!

Also, that I actually open my curtains on sunny days and arent sitting in a permanently darkened room desperately praying for autumn/winter to arrive. 🙄

To earn £150 k pa

Don't forget gender reveal parties, invented by a Dutch woman.

I'm weird like you. Its been raining non stop for months and months now but if you dare mention how you wouldnt mind seeing a bit sun you instantly get berated by people who become giddy with apparent excitement at "splashing in puddles for hours" whilst the rain lashes down on them and the anticipation of putting a rain coat and 5 layers of thermals on practically makes them have an orgasm.

I know literally noone in real life who thinks like this

I should never use my log burner (despite it being a defra approved one, and we have power cuts often which means it’s the only source of heating), because a neighbour 3 miles away will smell it even though she’s inside with the windows closed.
Our burner is completely carbon neutral- all the logs we burn are ours and we’ve planted in excess of 500 trees to replace the ones we’ve taken down.

You know that's because their parents don't like the cold torrential rain, of course, don't you? The children are dressed in their puddle suits having a tantrum at home because Mummy and Daddy won't let them out to get drenched.

Yes I agree with all this shit about deep cleaning. How you can possibly clean 'deep' on a hard surface? The old term thorough cleaning was perfectly accurate!

I have learned a lot about abusive relationships which has been useful when helping a family member.

@marshmallowfinder I think it's one of those phrases that people like to say.
Like being 'blue lighted' to hospital.

I keep my curtain closed due to migraines... the external natural light vs internal artificial lights cause havoc with my eye/brain perception.

That said I definitely prefer hot weather and the sun is FAR worse in winter when its lower in the sky and alternates between insanely bright glare and really dull cloudy 'twilight' quite sharply.