Watch me do my morning routine!!!

[Stockingsonthewall]

Lay in bed this morning and it’s all coming up
on my Ig feed. Mums with huge houses, gardens & cars. Waking at 5 am, getting dressed, taking their huge water/juice/coffee bottle flask thingies and driving in the cold and dark to the gym, working out then doing pilates in the morning. We see the step by step account, the perfect outfits, the perfect skincare routine, back home making eggs & pancake and fruit for their child/children.

Whose morning routine is like this? Am I just failing at life 😂

My morning routine today-Dd woke me at 7, I stayed in bed for ten minutes later as didn’t want to leave my warm bed, then felt guilty as Dd desperate to see what the elves had done
Came down-coffee, Dd opened advent calendar & watched tv. Made Dd Ready brek and a banana, scrolled my phone. Pulled on leggings and fleece, sorted Dds bag, did her hair, droped her at school, back home, lay on sofa-(work in evenings)

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This made me think of a video reel I saw on Facebook of someone taking the piss out of influencers
By doing a video of drinking a glass of water so the most boring thing but saying all these amazing things about it
It really made me laugh cos I saw so much truth in it 😆😆

One of the many reasons I deleted Instagram 😂 I am without children and my morning routine resembles nothing like that.

The big influencers make good money doing what they do. It's honestly not all from their husbands or inheritance. If you hit the right algorithm and have a decent following, you're pretty set as long as you can be bothered to keep going with it.

Many are airbnbs they rent out for content

I’m seriously confused by these videos. I know it’s fake and the “influencers” make money going through this ridiculous charade but even if it was really what they do every day, why on earth would anyone want to watch them doing it?
I’m not on instagram or TikTok so I’m not the target demographic clearly but with so much in the world to watch or listen to, why would you subject yourself to this banal drivel?

Same here - Love the routine for my mornings. Minus the filming!

That’s such a strange confusion to have. It’s obvious people like different things isn’t it? People like banal drivel, it’s a bit of light hey escapism. I don’t understand what draws people to radio 4, or heavy metal, or Minecraft or CoD, but I am aware that other people enjoy it without being “seriously confused”

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made me laugh !

I have a head routine and also a RL routine , I live in hope

Do you not shower?

I don’t get up at 5 but I do try to write in my journal each morning - dog, cat and kids permitting. I often don’t succeed.

I see these ‘glamorous’ influencers all around London with teams of usually 2 individuals, a tent to get changed to, so they can then pretend online it was different days, filming shameless content, doing several takes of some insipid shit. All nauseating and shows the sad reality of SM in general.

I am so glad that I dont have to monetise my life like this. I was way ahead of all of the decluttering and tidying fashion thing. I just loved doing it since I was a child and enjoy helping people without having to post about it on SM or IG or whatever. I am very glad my life is not up for criticism in the public eye. Just to add I do also have a paying NHS Clinical job.

I do it it too. It’s really helpful for mental health issues, which I’ve struggled with in the past. That ‘crap’ as a pp called it, helps a lot of people have better mental health. It’s harmless so I’m not sure why people have to be so negative about it.

I've been on MN years under various names and my experience is that, generally, people like to sneer at anyone who appears to have their shit together - especially if they're also morning people.

Quite common generally on forums but I don’t think people stop and think about how emotionally unintelligent they sound before claiming to find so many simple things hard to understand

Watch these YouTubers for long enough and they inevitably let slip about having some or other mental health condition. I personally think a lot of them are doing social media because it's the only job they can do. They can set their own hours, they don't have to talk to anyone or have relationships with work colleagues, there's no having to explain to the boss why they haven't done what they were told to do and getting a telling off for it, can take time off at a moments notice if they need to because they're answerable to nobody except their viewing figures and the algorithm. They do the morning routine videos because they've not necessarily got much in the way of a life to film.

Oh I agree. I think people use it as a way to try and make other people feel stupid or small, not realising it does the exact opposite.

Or maybe they actually enjoy what they do and not having to deal with people making sneery comments like yours.

It's all fake. Stop watching it.

Absolutely, putting pen to paper is so helpful for processing feelings, getting your thoughts in order and just taking 10 minutes for yourself. I love a new notebook and a nice pen.

Why would I want to watch someone's morning routine?

I get a lot of the of young single mothers who have had triplets/quads after having 3 older children.. It's very impressive watching their routine.. and strangely comforting ☕

Exactly, and routine in general can be really helpful for people who are prone to depression or anxiety. I personally find routine really comforting and while I'd never share my life online to that extent, my mornings are very routine based (as is my after-work time).

That's the beauty of social media, if you don't want to watch, just scroll on.

Lots of people clearly do like watching 'cause these people often have millions of followers and make good money from filming what they do.

I get up at 5.15am to have time to do my jobs (dishwasher,/wiping kitchen/lunches/feed cats/clean cat litter). Shout at kids 25 times that it's time to get up. At leisure centre by 6.30am, leave at 7.30am, home,dressed, kids out & to school for 8.15/30 & off to work.

Wouldn't have time to film it as far too busy 'doing' it. Besides, look a total frazzled mess!