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...

Unfortunately this is my life. Three kids with additional needs, won’t go into detail but nothing lasts more than one wear before needing a spin (including my clothes most days). Luckily my water bill is capped but I am not helping the environment in the slightest…

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That you should stop helping your child the day they turn 18 as they are now an adult and do not need any help or advice ever.

MN is just competitive.

Particularly in regards to eating.

There are numerous competitive under-eating posts but also competitive over-eating ones with posters proudly posting about how they eat more than their DH at Sunday lunch and can easily eat a large Dominoes pizza and two sides and a tub of Ben and Jerrys in one sitting or binge a loaf of tiger bread and butter and that's not problematic eating and many other posters join in about eating family packs of crisps, sweets or chocs in a sitting as just normal eating.

MN is rife with unhealthy eating posts.

That anything on a plate that you eat can basically be described as a 'big salad.'

This.

Well, in your circumstances it is understandable. But a lot of people just do it as a habit.

Mumsnetters’ shit doesn’t stick, because that would be grim. If we poo at all, it’s is small, odourless, pellets that exit in an orderly fashion upon the command “Quicksticks!”

I didn't know you were supposed to wash your pj's every night.
I thought since you shower before putting them on , they're clean and can be used a couple nights in a row.

I also now know that I'm horribly brainwashed by the patriarchy for wearing a dress/clothing that my DH likes. He shouldn't factor into my clothing decision at all and I'm abused for trying to please him.

Not boil washing everything in the house that can possibly washed, every hour on the hour, or having eleven showers a day.

Despite getting several decades in in life and never getting sick from not doing such things, and also seeing thousands of people over the years, none of whom have become sick from such things*, it appears I’m a slattern walking towards a sure death by dirt.

*qualified to say I have seen people who have been affected by lack of hygiene but they have all been either homeless, severely mentally ill and not seen a shower for several months combined with other factors, or institutionalised/incapacitated such as patients from nursing homes with bedsores, infections from sitting in waste for prolonged periods without being cleaned etc. Definitely not the everyday categories that Mumsnet clutches pearls over.

This is odd because I made a thread about an ex-housemate never cleaning the loo after themselves and my ass was handed to me on a plate for NOT having a loo brush!

@gotmyknickersinatwist

10/10 😂😂

Just to add, @CrumpledBankNote, that if your own shit is sticking, you need to look at your diet and cut out the UFPs and rubbish you are obviously eating and poisoning your children with. I’ll see if I can dig out some of the 8 page 63 ingredients Ottolenghi recipes that are family favourites here for a quick lunch or supper.

I don't wash my underwear, cleaning cloths or towels separately. I just fill the machine with whatever needs washing and wash it. The machines job is to clean things so I assume that's what it does.

@TheGirlattheBack Yea it IS true! 🤣🤣🤣
I live 3 miles from a waste incinerator!

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c909ced915d48c24109e5/pb13889-incineration-municipal-waste.pdf

Here's something I learned recently. I should have been preparing for Christmas since January and buying loads of presents, getting into debt and doing loads of unnecessary work is compulsory. It's absolutely awful, akin to torture but there's simply nothing I can do about it.

@TheGirlattheBack 🤦‍♀️🤣

I've been trying to navigate difficult interpersonal relationships and workplace politics.

According to mumsnet, if someone doesn't do what you want/questions you on anything you should just tell them to fuck off.

This tickled me! I have visions of a little chicken in an apron exasperatedly cooking for the family 😂

@TheGirlattheBack

Women should not like or enjoy sex and if they do they are shameless whores who are going to hell in a handcart!

Well to be honest, quoting and adding "This" is more helpful than the posters who don't quote anything and instead just write, "I agree with @PeppaSheep " because then you have to go trawling the thread to find out what @PeppaSheep wrote 35 posts ago that they're agreeing with.

(I mean, obviously you could not bother scrolling back to see but that then makes the post saying they agree somewhat pointless, doesn't it? 🤔)

Athough I have never learned from MN that I am doing anything wrong, I have learned that lots of other people do things differently and wrong !

I do that, otherwise it just rinses the stuff away before it does anything.
It also means I only use about half the water.