Watch me do my morning routine!!!

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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)

I know a woman who genuinely lives her life like this. She’s an old colleague, now has three kids and became a SAHM. She was always an early riser. Lived 10 mins walk from office with start time of 9:30, but would get up at 6am to do whatever else she wanted and needed to do. She was always in bed by 9pm. Last time I spoke to her she was in domestic heaven. Up at 5am, gym, makeup, cooking breakfast, wholesome activities with her three children all day.

Yes, it’s a job for many influences but also many probably do it because they are naturally like this and people find it aspirational enough to watch.

I’m a shit morning person but a big night owl. No one wants to watch that on IG.

It's hardly aspirational for me. Think I'd rather die than get up at 5am every day. Somehow I still manage to exercise, work, parent and keep my house nice without doing so.

Great, but you saying you ‘somehow’ manage sounds very sneering. Other people may need to get up earlier to achieve what you do or maybe they have different circumstances to you. Maybe they don’t have any other opportunity to go to the gym or exercise at home due to having children and no childcare options, maybe they spend more time exercising than you, maybe they want more time to make their hair look nicer, maybe they have more children or children with different needs etc

And maybe they’re just morning people who would be unmotivated by 12pm or 5pm or 8pm to do any of it.

Yes, that as well. I wonder why some people have such an issue with others choosing to start their day early. It’s like they see it as a personal attack on their own choices. Very odd.

It's bizarre isn't it?

I get up early in the morning because I function MUCH better at 8am than I do at 8pm. By 8am I'll have done some laundry, fed the animals, vacuumed, washed the breakfast dishes, mopped the floors and left for work - but by 8pm I'm on the sofa under a blanket eating cupboard snacks and watching shit TV 😂

I'm also self-employed so I set my hours around when I best function - meaning I start at (or before) 8am but I'm always home and in the shower by 2.30pm at the absolute latest.

I didn't realise being a morning person was so offensive!

I've never seen anything like this. Happily oblivious 😊

I'd quite like that as a job!

I feel rather sorry for them and their arm which is about to fall off from holding their phone. Their spouse must be really checked out if they need to get up that early for some me time.

Yesterday mornings routine. Baby wakes us up at 8:30. OH gets out of bed to change his nappy despite having been up with sickness and diarrhoea 4 times in the night. He promptly starts vomiting, while shouting for help. I am already scrambling to get some clothes on. I undress babies soiled clothes in to bath and clean him up. OH dresses baby, I make breakfast for myself and baby. Baby eats two portions of porridge. I have a shower. OH and baby have a nap. Didn't occur to me to record it, bother.

😂 I’d love to see the behind the scenes of these videos. They must set up the phone/camera to record - jump back into bed to get back out again🙈. They must do this all over their houses, to get video of themselves walking into rooms it’s bonkers 🙈

Take it all with a very big pinch of salt. Influencing is their job, they get paid to do all that stuff. Most normal parents don't do a full workout, pilates, meditate on a pillow of clouds and then make breakfast out of moonwater and hand picked grains along with fruits from their organic garden before getting their perfectly presented children off to school at 8am. Most normal people's routine looks pretty much like yours

i don't watch the instagram ones but have a bit of a love hate thing about the "come shop with me"YouTube hauls (horrible word). Watched one where she went "luxury shopping" at one of those designer outlets.She usually does Primark, Temu and B and M. She was selecting and cooing over "bargain" bags that were at least a grand. She got some what I thought were reasonable comments about this being a lot of money for many people in these difficult times and wow she was replying she worked hard for her money and "each to their own" . Very different from her onscreen personna of constant smiles and happy positivity, Then she had a rant about this on her next video again saying how hard she works and which produced a lot of fawning replies telling her how lovely she is, and "ignore the haters" and "nasty Nancys" . Made me wonder how much money you can make on YouTube so that it is your only source of income and you have the cash for designer stuff. I wonder when the influencer bubble will burst and will they have to get real jobs

I am aware those routines are often fake and filmed over many days (there is a youtuber that did in-depth analysis of those videos, showing that often time stamps and locations do not make sense) however, I do find them oddly motivating. I have my own routine, but sometimes I need a kick in the butt, and watching those videos works for me.

Stay off SM. It's completely fake and vapid.

What?

I'm not sneering at them. I watch them because I like what they do. I also didn't say they didn't enjoy it. I'm sure they do, for all the reasons I mentioned. I think it's great if they can't get out much to have found a job they can do from home and it can be lucrative too. It's just an observation from the ones I watch that mental health issues and a resulting nervousness of socialising/leaving their homes seems very common amongst them, as does episodes where they're down and can't really do anything and their lives seem to fall apart a little. Some of them have even mentioned in their videos that they started social media because they couldn't face any other kind of job. These aren't mental health channels and they don't make a huge deal of it, but when you watch them long term they're mentioning the odd thing here and there. It paints a picture. Frequently one of the reasons they're going to the gym at 5am is because it's empty and they can avoid being around other people, they literally say this, I'm not making it up.

The irony of posting that on social media 😂

My morning routine involves getting pissing wet on the yard doing the horses. Not much fun to watch I don’t think 😂

There are loads of people that do their morning and night routine with horses on SM. They get a lot of views.

Wake up at 5.30, severely pissed off that I have lost an hour of sleep for No Obvious Reason AGAIN.
Alarm goes off at 6.30. Roll around a bit not getting out of bed because it's cold, but if I set the heating to come on earlier it will wake me up even earlier sweating like a pig.
6.40 Drag self out of bed, put on huge shapeless old hoodie. Make lunchboxes for kids and coffee for me and DH
7.00 drink coffee and eat biscuits of various kinds
7.30 should get up but cling on to last remaining minutes in bed scrolling Mumsnet
7.41 bollocks still in bed on Mumsnet and kids are still asleep. Get up disturbingly rapidly. Give kids their clothes to put on in bed
7.50 do kids hair
8.00 get frustrated with youngest for doing thousand-yard-stare about breakfast choices again
8.05 sort out minor argument between kids
8.10 growl "ask your dad I need to LEAVE"
8.15 Leave for work too late and have to leg it all the way.

It doesn't sound remotely sneering

She's just pointing out that getting up at 5am isn't the only way to do this stuff, despite insta waffle about golden hours

Don't be daft

Funny how I clearly put 'for.me' and yet you still.manage to get offended by me not being an early riser.

But after that, you then wrote ‘Somehow I still manage to exercise, work, parent and keep my house nice without doing so.’ which is definitely sneering at others. Saying ‘somehow I manage’ is saying others doing it differently and who need/want to get up earlier to fit everything in are somehow not managing as well as you, but as I said, maybe you have one kid and they have 4, maybe they have kids with SEN and you don’t, maybe they exercise more, maybe a million reasons. There is nothing wrong with your way of doing things and nothing wrong with someone else doing it different.

For some people, getting up early is the only way they can fit everything in. I don’t think anyone is saying getting up at 5am is the ‘only’ way to do it for everyone, just that it works for them.

She wasn’t just pointing that out, she was sneering with the ‘somehow I manage…..’ People have different lives and however they do things is ok, no need to sneer at someone because they get up early or late or anything else.

Quite the opposite in fact. I was saying that these morning routine influencers are presenting that this is the best way to stay on top of life and keep fit, it is literally what they are 'influencing'. I don't need to do that and I don't find their videos aspirational or make me feel 'influenced' to take on such a routine.

Yes I imagine people with lots of kids do need more time in the morning. I had one kid, by choice, because, back to my original point, I would fucking hate to get up at 5am everyday.

I am simply talking about my preferences and choices. Absolutely embarrassing yourself by getting offended over it. You can get up at 5am, I don't give one tiny shit