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!

Wearing the same PJs multiple nights without knickers underneath. I really don’t understand the froth about this.

I wear very high heels

I drink more than 3 glasses of wine a week

I let my dogs sleep on my bed

I use a toilet brush

Smoked weed, for some periods as a daily habit.
Carried on smoking occasionally even after I had kids.

I WFH and barely do anything.

My PJs are worn all over the house.

I don’t have a skin care routine.

I am only in contact with my dad for the possibility of inheritance.

I don’t think every shitty behaviour is due to neurodivergence

I have never bought anything from Boden

I was a sahm for a few years & I didn't care about losing my career or future pension contributions.
We quite often have a salad garnish instead of a massive salad.
I enjoyed a fuss from everyone over my birthday.
I use Bayliss & Harding.
I've always, & still do, all the mental load & life admin.
Our adult ds lives with us at the weekend without paying board. I usually cook for him & do the small amount of washing he has. (He does most of his when he's away)
In fact I've never charged board as they've been good at saving.
I've given adult dc lifts.
I've given unasked for advice to my adult dc.
I've cleaned my dd house (except for their bedrooms, I never go in there) when they've both been very busy with work/dgc/life without being asked.

My kids sleep in my bed.

I don't mind if they do their homework or not.

They never had a routine as I wanted them to be comfortable to be flexible. If I want to do something like a meal or event which requires them staying up later than usual then I will take them, and they will be no problem and there will be no negative consequences! (Unlike on MN where people stick rigidly to routine even if if means their kids wake up at 5am every morning and they can never enjoy their evenings or do anything at night without a babysitter.)
Luckily i live abroad where this is normal!

My dog also likes to sleep in our bed. Its lush, especially in winter, all in together!

I will happily have a couple of glasses of wine or a gin and tonic when my kids are there. As a PP said - in an emergency I would simply call a cab.

I have toilet brushes.

I like my family. I don't feel the need to keep them at arm's reach just to prove a point to them.

I didn't care if someone held my baby (luckily, because where i live, random elderly or middle aged women will come and talk to and touch your baby and even pick it up and take it to show to their friends! Most MNers would have a nervous breakdown.

I think tattoos are cool and have several which I still love.

I always disagree with posters who say that people MUST do the 'moral' thing even if they wont get caught for not. Eg getting sent something fabulous by accident by a big company after they'd got a refund, or similar. I always think "You keep it!" I'd always take the good free thing, if I didn't think I'd get caught!

I own no Boden or Seasalt.

I like immigrants.

I think people protesting against the gaza genocide or climate change are doing the right thing.

This thread kind of reminds me of those videos featuring family pets wearing signs saying things like, 'I crapped in the human's shoes', or 'I chewed up the sofa' 😝

In the warm weather, l often don’t wear knickers and long summer dresses.

l’m a big flirt!

l own loo brushes.

With husbands' secret outing hobbies, mine sometimes keeps his hobby secret, because it is... wait for it... netball! (I'm involved in netball too: he sometimes jokes that he married into netball.) Some people he has mentioned it to say in horror "but it's a girls' sport!". He's an umpire, so he gets to boss about teenage girls and young women who are in short dresses. The shame of it!

Oh God! I literally love you all!!

Taking away tge MN stereotypes of 1 use towel, bedding every day etc, no loo brushes ( how do you get sh*t off the bowl?).

I will read EVERY comment on here!

I much prefer adult company to kids.

I don't mind sending my kids to nursery.

I vape, have tattoos and a boyfriend despite being a lone parent and really should die alone for my sins.

I actively encourage my DP’s time-consuming and relatively expensive hobby.

I go to bed well after midnight and also get up late. I don’t consider a morning spent in bed to be ‘wasting the day’.

Despite reading being my main interest and probably one of the most important things in my life, I don’t have a house full of books. I read mainly on a Kindle and if I read physical books I sell them or take them straight to the charity shop when I’ve finished.

I have eaten egg mayo sandwiches on trains many times.

I think it’s perfectly OK for kids to drink tea and coffee from a young age.

When I have sex with someone, I couldn’t give a damn whether they’ve had a shower that day or not.

1. I have a manual job (which I love, as it means more animals than people)
2. I drink milk that comes from animals (well, duh, I work on a dairy farm)
3. I live rurally (not in a chocolate-box village, and a trip to the shop requires me to drive several miles to get there). Public transport is an interesting concept.
4. I don't tend to lock the doors, even when I go out. The neighbours don't, either!
5. I do not own my house (they're not for sale; they're offered alongside your job)
6. Holidays are a bit of an alien concept, and I haven't been abroad for over 10-15 years
7. I got a few aghast comments about me thinking that £100,000 a year was a ridiculous sum of money for a single person to earn. I survive on less than a third of that (and mine is the only income in this house).
8. I have more than one loo brush, and they've never seen the inside of a dishwasher. I can't use bleach, as I'm on a septic tank (and I know how to get the bacteria going again, if someone does put bleach down it)
9. The dishwasher, washing machine, dryer, etc. go on overnight, or when I'm out
10. My tea-towels go in with the general white laundry
11. I eat a mixture of homemade food and UPFs. Not all ready meals come from M&S
12. I like dogs, and I don't always have mine on leads, including in public (working dogs, so well-trained and obedient, and know how to cross roads, etc. much to the amusement of the lady in the shop when I went to buy dog food. I didn't have a spare hand- two 16kg bags of food- for a lead). Also, despite people shaming me for it, my dogs were not adopted (I wouldn't put an unknown personality on someone else's livestock) and one of them was free, so I didn't buy her, either!
13. Christmas cards, elf on the shelf, etc. don't happen
14. Laundry stays out overnight, and if I put it in the greenhouse in the summer, it's bone dry in a morning. Scandalously, I also have a dryer (for the emergency laundry, or in winter)
15. I never iron, because I didn't get that gene. I got the 'fabulous at cooking' gene instead. (Never the twain shall meet, as you're good at either one or the other in my family!)
16. Bedding and towels are not washed every day
17. I have admitted to my hobbies on here... but none of them are cycling
18. I don't know how long a Mumsnet really chicken lasts, but I do know that I don't like dusting (live) chicken anuses with powder to treat them for the dreaded red mite...

I love a centre parks holiday

I often prefer talking to strangers over people i know.

I dont do Christmas anymore

I often wear nightclothes in the winter round the house if I'm.not going out that day.

I always bring the spare toiletries home from a hotel that they put in the bathroom.

Take a bit of the breakfast buffet for lunch on holiday, saves money.
It all goes to waste anyway.
Bed and breakfast and we will.get abit of lunch out of it too.

I cant wait for my kid to go to bed all the time

I have more

i really dislike DSD, DSS is a dream but I could happily never see her again

I often like useful presents.

A breadmaker for Christmas was a great present for me from DH. Apparently according to MN I should have hated it, thrown a strop and considered the future of my relationship.

So, a woman, then?

Ditto.

I answer the door
I have loo brushes
I understand that covid infections harm thousands of kids
happy to go with kids’ natural body clocks on school holidays (might have abandoned this if they got up at 4am)
don’t have a tasteful tree - I let the kids do most of it and it shows
don’t dry the inside of my sink after cleaning it
I prefer it if a couple ask for money for a wedding gift - easier!
I don’t care if a couple want a child free wedding
Admin takes more than average of ten minutes a day (school admin alone surpasses that)!
I’m not being passive aggressive if I use thumbs up emoji
A cooked chicken doesn’t last days

You're supposed to dry the sink after cleaning it?????

God I thought it was just me !