To wonder what really is the majority social demographic on Mumsnet?

[CestNoel]

I see soooo many threads along the lines of:

• should I sack my au-pair?

• anybody know any good cleaners?

• my career is too important for me to go to my child's concert...

• can I get free transport to a private school?!?!?!?

• my dd has been given a non-organic fruit drink at nursery

• drats. My new Boden trousers are too short.

And then, everyone is up in arms at the idea of spending £10 on a present to take to a child's birthday party and we have all sorts of suggestions as to how to buy something suitably non-tack like for about £1.49

Is the beauty of Mumsnet I suppose.......

FFS don't spill the bucky down your Boden trousers! That stuff never comes out.

fine aw ken that!bucky too precious too waste a drop.ruined my whistles trousers with El'D and curry sauce

Couldn't the au pair get the curry sauce out?

the au pair was too busy organising gluteus maximus baby wrestling,trying to inflate the ring by mouth.boy was she puffed out

What?? Your AP has to inflate her own wrestling ring?? In my house the AP has an AP to do that for her.

im too tight wad to pay for 2 AP i make her blow and sook til she turns blue and keels o'er

Well you're obviously not from the South East then like us posh bints on MN.

Poor white trash? Who? Where? Or is that an answer to the op's question?

i is posh but stingy too,and hell it means more gin money for me rather than pay minimum wages

It's Pimms down here.

who wants a drink witht a salad in it,detracts form the alcohol content.pint of buckfast please

It's what we superior mortals call our 'five a day' in Surrey. Cucumber is highly nutritious.

five a day to me = bottles

Ah, but do you recycle?

Our contribution to the recycling is almost entirely bottles that once contained alcoholic beverages.

(beverage was on the 'words we hate' thread, so now of ocurse I have to use it lots)

make the AuPair cart the empties to someone else bin,whilst prominently displaying my waitrose cartons (cant have people thinking baaaad of me)

Your posh neighbours will probably just think buckfast is a herbal energy drink (well it sort of is) so I wouldn't worry.

Quite right. I take my Waitrose cool bags to Aldi so the neighbours don't realise I am Saving Money in the Credit Crunch.

Buckfast sounds like a city banker's cocktail.

If city bankers drank cocktails of benylin and meths.

I think they basically were, which was the main reason for the problem, as I understand it.

But why are mumsnetters unkind to people that seem well to do? I think we are all blessed in different ways. There are well to do people that envy the not so well-off that are blessed with things money can't buy and vice-versa for their money. I think we all should learn to be content with whatever situation we find ourselves to be in and not mock others for theirs.

I think it's all relative. I have some friends who I feel posh next to and other friends who I feel like the pikey one next to, IYSWIM.

I don't think I'm 'posh' as such, well brought up by 2 teachers so well spoken (had it drummed into me!). DH and I live within our means, we both work part time and care for the children when each other is at work. We shop at Tesco, have been known to buy the odd bit in Waitrose and Sains as they are nearer and more convenient (can walk to them).
We holiday in the UK every year and love it.

I buy most of my clothes on ebay or in Tescos .

A lot of my friends who I've met since I moved house (Herts) think I'm posh, but my friends from work and Uni I feel on a par with (grammar??!!). I have a few friends who I think are very posh who I feel like a rough old trout next to!!!!

about presents, I just spent 18 pounds one one for a party . Didn´´t know that was too much. (have just moved here)

But I really like the kid, I like the mum, and she has kindly invited both my DSs.