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I swore I’d never become this person…..

171 replies

findmeaunicorn · 29/06/2025 15:11

I’m addicted to wearing leggings 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣
Next it will be the crocs 😱

OP posts:
x2boys · 29/06/2025 16:32

Barney16 · 29/06/2025 16:28

I felt it coming over me, a legging habit so I threw all mine in the recycling.

Cold Turkey its the only way if you don't nip these habits in the bud before you know it you will be wearing Uggs.

JackieWilsonsaiditstimeforbedlittleone · 29/06/2025 16:38

Leggings are for the gym. Crocs are for the bin.

findmeaunicorn · 29/06/2025 16:40

outerspacepotato · 29/06/2025 15:17

Pajamas in public!😂

Funny thing is about this….. where I live I’d fit in quite well 🤣 especially if I went to Asda to do a shop 🤣 I do not want to become that person tho 🙏🏻

OP posts:
Anotheronelikeit · 29/06/2025 16:41

I've worn leggings since I was 14? Did I miss some kind of memo where they were not suitable clothing? I'm early 30s and everyone wore plain leggings when I was a teen.

fount · 29/06/2025 16:49

Not a big leggings fan (prefer joggers), but I've been happily wearing crocs daily for probably 7 years, now. (So starting around 40?) Now, this is mostly just around the house, but that's more because I don't like loose shoes for walking or driving.

I am not ashamed! 🤗

Laiste · 29/06/2025 16:54

I wore leggings for the first time when preg with DD4 (now 10 yrs old) and found myself still in them ( new ones obvs) when she was about 2/3.

I woke up one day and sent them all to bin/charity. Pulled off the plaster. Never again ! Although i do still have a pair of navy cropped ones which are great for binging on for doing stuff in the garden ....

Laiste · 29/06/2025 16:56

Oh and no, no crocs.

DD3 (20) has a pair which she slopes round the house in. She made me try them on and i hated them thank god !

Jimmyneutronsforehead · 29/06/2025 17:00

I own 4 pairs of crocs. The mega crush sandals x 2, the snow boots, and some black slip on toeless heels. I live in them. All I wear is crocs.

MsOvary · 29/06/2025 17:06

My daughter who is very trendy ‘London’ tells me crocs are cool.

ThatWordDoesNotMeanWhatYouThinkItMeans · 29/06/2025 17:07

x2boys · 29/06/2025 15:30

As long as you don't team your socks with sandals .

Edited

I hate to tell you, but Birkenstocks and socks are a "thing" these days.

www.birkenstock.com/gb/lookbook/stocks-and-socks/

Phoebesparrow · 29/06/2025 17:08

Not clothes,but I swore I'd never use one of those granny trollies
The type you pull behind you
It was never going to happen,I hated them and said they where for grannies
Cue the last child outgrowing her pushchair-i couldn't buy one fast enough,3 weeks of having to lug their stuff and my own shopping was enough
I go through them at a rate of one every 9-12 months and they carry everything I can't fit in my handbag
Everything from cans of diet coke to the last bits of my work uniform (I use it almost daily)
Also handy for any bits of shopping I pick up on my way home
I couldn't care less if they are for old people,I love mine
But if I ever find myself buying the type you push instead of pull,(and for some reason they all seem to be brown tartan) I've told the kids to book me into the nursing home and I'll cheerfully move in

PulchritudinousLycanthrope · 29/06/2025 17:10

susanandlucypevensie · 29/06/2025 15:55

Those little holes in crocs are where your dignity leaks out

😂😂😂

godmum56 · 29/06/2025 17:12

Crocs healed my chronic plantar fasciitis. You will prise them from my cold dead hands.

RampantIvy · 29/06/2025 17:14

ginasevern · 29/06/2025 15:24

I'm 68 (quite young looking for my age ...but still). Sitting the other night with my cat on my lap, merrily chattering away to him with my PJ's on and melted chocolate down my front. Yep, it's finally come to this.

I have always talked to cats 😁

Mummylovesmonkeys · 29/06/2025 17:15

As a 67 year old, size 22 grandma, if you had come round to ours earlier in the week you would have found me in my yellow and black striped bumblebee Temu leggings, green crocs and a baggy t-shirt. Not a look to celebrate, but perfect for dragging stuff out of the shed and getting covered in dust, muck and cobwebs (that's my excuse and I am sticking to it!) I'm not going to traumatise everyone by posting a picture.

annzen · 29/06/2025 17:17

@Phoebesparrow I cheat a bit and use a backpack with wheels. Out I go like I'm going to climb Snowdon, backpack on my back, home with the pack following me around like a puppy, full of all the shopping. You know, the stuff you think you could carry in a shopping bag/tote, but ends up weighing a ton. I've learned my lesson now lol. I'm 68 and full of beans and want to keep my back in semi ok order!

If I were pressed to say what I would not wear it would have to be the hotter brand shoes designed for older feet, bunions, corns and so on, with velcro straps. That's something I hope not to need...

Jabberwok · 29/06/2025 17:17

x2boys · 29/06/2025 15:30

As long as you don't team your socks with sandals .

Edited

Or worse..flip flops

CiaoMeow · 29/06/2025 17:20

Long Live Leggings!!❤

They are SO easy to wear! So unrestricting! Like wearing nothing. Jeans make me fell like I am encased in concrete.

blackpooolrock · 29/06/2025 17:21

I call them piggy pants... they are comfortable because of their expanding waist but...

As for crocs - just no... never ever.

Dee032 · 29/06/2025 17:23

My husband still isn’t over my birth after they made him wear Crocs before going into theatre. I think they wanted to induct him in his new dad wardrobe with the ultimate dad staple.

Dee032 · 29/06/2025 17:24

blackpooolrock · 29/06/2025 17:21

I call them piggy pants... they are comfortable because of their expanding waist but...

As for crocs - just no... never ever.

I love an expanding waist but the problem is I think “Oh go on then, let’s have another biccie” because my trousers and skirts still fit.

LittlleMy · 29/06/2025 17:25

x2boys · 29/06/2025 15:30

As long as you don't team your socks with sandals .

Edited

But this very thing we mocked not so long ago is a thing now!! What do we do?!! 😱😂

momager1 · 29/06/2025 17:32

leggings? I live in them. Most of mine are capri length because of the heat where we live, I have shorts but hate them thanks to almost 60 year old veins and wrinkled legs that came with 50 lb weight loss. Other than that, I live in sundresses. I visit canada every 3-4 months to our daughters house, where I have a dresser full of clothes, Jeans, Leggings, Cardigans, tops and sweaters, blunderstone booties for the cold visits, and nice fuzzy socks! My fav canada thing .. are my (fake) pink croc slippers..full of warm fuzzyness. However the lining comes out and goes in the washing with my socks or towels.

AngelinaFibres · 29/06/2025 17:32

Tunic tops from White stuff and Seasalt .

TheMagicDeckchair · 29/06/2025 17:32

I live in sports leggings when I’m not working. I have young kids and I’m constantly having to scrabble about clearing up, putting on shoes, wiping bums and so on. I also need my phone with me constantly to put things on the shopping list and the pockets in sports leggings are so handy. Today I was climbing around a soft play structure at a kids’ party.

I don’t care if anyone thinks I’m a slob, they are welcome to come and live a day in my life in their tailored dresses with no pockets 😂