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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to hate glitter

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GooseyLoosey · 16/12/2008 14:35

and to want to ban it from ever coming into my house again?

I don't buy it for the kids and I had thought that it had all fallen off the decorations in previous years so I would be safe this year - but no. The kids' friends send them homemade cards laced in the stuff and then they bring "artwork" home from school with layers more on.

Its f*&%ing everywhere. It sticks in between the floorboards - I will never get rid of it.

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MadamAntlers · 16/12/2008 14:39

Do you have many enemies?

I have been known to send extra sparkly children's cards to people as an expression of mild aggression.

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GooseyLoosey · 16/12/2008 14:40

OMG - you mean its personal! They must all really, really hate me judging by the amount of glitter we have so far received!

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MincePirateCat · 16/12/2008 14:42

no yanbu.

my dd thoughtit was a good idea to 'do glittering' whilst i was on a long phonecall the other evening.

bloody everywhere. in my mug, under my nails, in her hair.

MadamAntlers · 16/12/2008 14:42

lol

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 16/12/2008 14:43

Roffle, DD1 is friends with the children of the alpha mummies (though they were surprinsingly nice actually at her party.) We did get lots of home made cards and glitter though. I am considerate and will use glitter paint on my homemade offerings. Glitter paint doesn't shred and its posher than glitter and glue.

MadamAntlers · 16/12/2008 14:44

Oh Yes, it really sticks in hair doesn't it? I was still finding bits of Christmas glitter on DD's scalp at Easter (and I do wash her hair occasionally, hoenest guv).

jooseyfruit · 16/12/2008 14:44

YANBU

expatinscotland · 16/12/2008 14:45

i love it!

i even buy glitter spray in Claire's and put it in the girls' hair for nursery every day this week, along with Xmas hair bobbles.

PheasantPluckingACarollingLute · 16/12/2008 14:45

Yes, glitter is lovely, and it totally rocks. YABU with knobs on.

ComeOVeneer · 16/12/2008 14:47

It pervades every little nook and cranny doesn't it. I made 100 bags of reindeer food for the school christmas fair and my house is still sparkling. Made ds a sandwich for his packed lunch weeks later and when bagging it up noticed it was sparkling!

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 16/12/2008 14:47

lol expat. I have enough of glitter with xmas plays. it takes weeks to wash it all out of dds hair. though it is tres amusing when it transfers to DH.

expatinscotland · 16/12/2008 14:48

the girls even had it on their faces in the bath yesterday.

i dust them with glitter powder for parties and put glitter lipgloss on them.

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GooseyLoosey · 16/12/2008 14:50

Oh I agree - it looks lovely... for the 20 seconds or so it stays stuck on what it was originally intended to be on. Not quite sure how good it looks on my clothes at work tbh.

If putting it on homemade cards is personal, do you think I should be worried about what the teachers think of me too as they seem very fonf of the stuff?

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Lowfat · 16/12/2008 14:53

Oh dear, DD took in her homemade cards today and they were bursting with the stuff.

I love it! But it is all over my table and I have been eating it for weeks I am sure

PingpingsatonSantasface · 16/12/2008 14:55

I hate glitter it drives me nuts YANBU

Lemontart · 16/12/2008 14:58

I love glitter. We live in a glittery home
glitter in the bath bombs, glitter all through the carpets, glitter on the windowsills (thanks to glittery paper snowflakes stuck all over windows on every room of the house - thanks, DD2) we have glitter stuck to the kitchen table and everywhere else imaginable. You can?t beat it so just not worth worrying about. It goes everywhere, sticks everywhere so just enjoy the extra sparkle

mrsgboring · 16/12/2008 14:59

I have never found glitter that messy - it's clean and dry, doesn't stain and hoovers up, so pretty innocuous in my book. And then it makes the inside of the hoover all pretty too.

Far prefer it to flour, icing sugar or indeed dried children's paint flaking off everything.

justneedsomesleeppleasesanta · 16/12/2008 15:03

love it here too. it's everywhere - in between the keys in the keyboard, in the cutlery drawer, on ds and dd's face even though they have been washed, on the hall carpet, on the table, in the dvd cupboard, in the bedroom carpets, in socks and vests.....i could go on...
and we only ever made glitteryt stuff at the kitchen table!
Oh yeah, also on the front and back door step so people take it with them!{grin]

Sycamoretree · 16/12/2008 15:13

You know this is a recognised phobia don't you?

Jenbot · 16/12/2008 15:19

One of my friends puts glitter in birthday and xmas cards to me. We are both almost 30.

oldraver · 16/12/2008 16:13

Older son home from Uni has just been helping my three year old 'glitter' his snowflake.

He now has glitter all over his jumper, it did rather amuse me

VinegarTitsTheSeasonToBeJolly · 16/12/2008 16:17

yanbu i hate him too, sick pervert

DontlookatmyNoseImRudolph · 16/12/2008 16:27

I don't mind glitter, but dh hates it. Last year he even put one glittery card we got last year in a clear freezer bag before putting it up
Ds1 loves it though and is going to make glittery christmas cards for his grandparents.

bonnycat · 16/12/2008 16:39

Oh YADNBU,i hate it with a passion.I told my MIL that the DCs would never do glitter at home cos i hate it so and she said i was a big meanie so now we go to playschool and make lots of glittery things for her

Kitteh · 16/12/2008 16:42

Oh god.. glitter.. YANBU at all..!! We dont even get glitter cards yet i still find it everywhere.. WHYYYYY?

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