Things you do/have done that most mumsnetters would frown upon!

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Just for fun.

What are some things that you have done in the past or do now that you know most MN’s would find you unreasonable for?

I’ll go first:

• I’m so unbothered if you choose to have a child free wedding and my children aren’t invited. Even close family weddings. It’s your day I’m not going to kick up a fuss that you haven’t invited to my children. You’ve probably given me at least 6 months to a year notice, I’ll just arrange childcare. If I can’t - then I can’t come and you can’t be mad at me!
• Chose to have 2 elective c sections for no medical need.
• Given my children chocolate occasionally before the age of 2.
• Son slept in a cot until almost 3!

When I met someone special, I didn't wait a year /2 years/forever to introduce him to DC. I said he was my friend, he was. Decades on, here we all are and I don't regret the early introduction.

I don't have handsoap in the kitchen; I use washing up liquid instead.

I don't use "antibacterial" anything unless someone in the household has had a transmissible disease; I just use normal detergent and scrub.

I don't care if my neighbours see my underwear drying on the line.

I don't keep my front door locked if I'm coming and going between the house and front garden/bins or working at my desk in the hallway. I don't live as if every other person wants to burgle my house.

I have lots of straight male friends and my husband isn't jealous. My husband has lots of straight female friends and I'm not jealous either.

I actually speak to my neighbours and ask them politely if I need them to do something (e.g. move their car for access). They do the same towards me.

I love my job. I significantly outearn my husband and we're both very happy with the set up.

I drink alcohol several times a week. Sometimes I get drunk.

I like cycling and hate driving.

I regularly do stuff on my own: cinema, meal out, coffee, weekend away. Not because I haven't got anyone else to go with or because I'm sick of my husband but simply because I'm happy in my own company.

I clean my toilets no more than twice a week unless something disastrous has happened.

I wear fresh pyjamas every night.

I shower at night, not in the morning (unless it's very warm).

I choose to spend a lot of money on myself (hair, clothes, hobbies, holidays etc.) rather than save every penny. I'm happier having nice things and nice experiences but a smaller pot of savings than squirreling away everything and living a sad, beige, lifestyle.

I go out and walk the dog in my pyjamas
I flush the toilet with the lid up (and my toothbrush in the same post code! Have not yet died of 'germs')
I let the dog lick my dinner plate when I've finished eating
I let the dog in my bed in the mornings
I wash everything in the machine together at 40 degrees. Whites, coloureds, running kit, everything.
I regularly eat food which has passed its sellf by or use by date.

Am prepared to hold my hand up to being something of a household slob, but on the other side I am very rarely ill!

When I read threads on MN about things that have upset an OP I realise I just don’t care about a lot of things. I couldn’t care less about going to a wedding or who’s not at a funeral or if my mum gave my kids sweets when they were young without asking me first and a million other things that seem to get MNers upset. And yes I was happy for any amount of family and friends to see my newborn babies and cuddle them, this was before SM when it became a ‘thing’ to just have ‘our little family’ for 6 months before anyone was allowed a peek.

I read the Daily Mail 🙈

Ate snickers bars whilst pregnant, let my babies eat peanut butter with finger food.

For context, this was back in the early 2000's when it was recomnended that families with severe nut allergies (and even eczema) avoid nut products during pregnancy & bf. It was done as a social experiment, rather than based on any clinical evidence.

My family didn't have any nut allergies, ecema or asthma. But that didn't stop the criticims and "what ifs" that i was being reckless or not following advice..

Turned out it was the wrong advice anyway.

Fed my children solids from 10 weeks old.
Let them sleep
in their own rooms from a week old.
Bottle fed them.
Told a loud child off who was shouting in a museum presentation.
Put lipstick on someone's car once.
Threw coffee on someone's car once.
Kept a fiver I found.

I have fairy lights and twiggy shit, although no inspirational quotes, so I might squeak under the MN radar.

I have a younger woman on my.fb and she had "her little family" for 8ish weeks after her baby was born, we got glimpses of back of head or a little hand, it was really odd and bloody annoying!

Same.

And I have a loo brush.

And I don't care at all if people request money in lieu of a wedding present.

These are amazing, I now know that they are normal people on here amongst the opinionated, men hating, how dare your children watch screens crew!

OK so mine would be

• I put my son in his room at 3 weeks, he was noisy as hell and I constantly woke me up grunting.
• I don't monitor screen time, he's always doing activities so he can go on his computer if he wants.
• my dog is my second son, he can lick my face, sleep in my bed, whatever her wants.

• I've tried drugs and it doesn't make me an addict, just someone doing what almost every other teenager and 20 something was doing.

- I fart my head off at home, I don't care one bit if someone farts around me, its funny.

• I see people as good or bad not men=evil, women= angels, I know a lot of women who are completely dickheads.
• we eat as many snacks as we want.

My son is over 3 still in cot
Had chocolate before 1
Went in his over room at 12 weeks
Drink too much wine

I used the Gina Ford books to set up routines for my babies and both slept through the night at six weeks. I worked from home for mu children's entire childhoods and never put either of my children into daycare - just taught them to be quiet when the phone rang.

Your 3yr old drinks too much wine?😂

I let my 8 year old sit in the house alone for ten minutes if I’m popping to the shop. She has also, today, gone to the shop on her own for the first time!

My dog sleeps on... And sometimes in... My bed with me. He's a pug and although he isn't my 'fur baby', he's definitely like a child to me. We have an amazing bond and he's the 'little spoon' at bedtime, I cuddle him in all night (at his insistence!). I'm very aware of dog smells so he gets bathed after any walks that aren't on dry, paved paths and I wash my bedding weekly.
But I'd rather know he's had a comfortable, happy life than have a dog smell free home. He won't be here forever so he gets to have the best life while he's here. Couldn't care less if anyone thinks it's filthy 🤷

• I don't send my DD to nursery and don't plan to
• I have a toilet brush in each toilet!

Yes that was my kids job and it was mine when I was a kid 😁.

Eee no should say i drink too much wine 😂

Erm, why would people keep.their toothbrush in the kitchen?😳🤔

I keep mine in the en suite too... is this wrong? Lol 😆 🤣 I'd never have known, so I've been doing my toothbrush locations all wrong this time haha 😄

I didn’t use for general stuff but her toilet training book was a godsend!

Was she a friend? Or a random person? I'm confused 🤣

Oh and I do the majority of the housework, my husband works fulltime, I work parttime so why wouldn't I.

Shhh we listen and we don’t judge 😂😂😂

I employ a cleaner. I have a toilet brush, in fact, 3! One for each bathroom in my house. I say 'pardon' not 'what'. I know it's non U/lower middle class but I can't help it. 'What' just sounds uncouth to my ears. I do say 'napkin' rather than 'serviette' and 'scent' not 'perfume' and 'pud' rather than 'dessert', so I hope I'm forgiven!
I love being online and am always buried in my phone.
I think children should be seen and not heard, not in their own house but in public.
I prefer cats to dogs and think extreme dog lovers are cultists who mistake dogs' submissiveness for adoration.
While I don't think anyone can change sex, I think that some gender critical people are too tolerant of weird behaviour of people on our side, like Glinner. Just because he's right on that one thing doesn't make him a decent person or a feminist.
Talking of feminism, I think some feminists take their dislike of men too far. To be more precise, I think that they conflate 'men' and 'patriarchy'. There are men who work to dismantle patriarchy, and women who staunchly uphold it.