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.......

Disappointment why? I think you sound fab!

i class myself as working class as parents were, but they did live in a lovely part of town with 2 cars etc 30yrs ago.i often have an argument with my dad as to whether he really is.

i suppose other people class me as middle class as i have all the trappings and aspirations. friends guffaw when i say I'm working class.

then again one of my friends came from an academic background, went to private school then uni and is now a childminder living in social housing, is she still middle class?

does it really matter anymore and do the classes need to be re named?
some redefinition has come about with the common use of "chav" and "underclass" but nothing else.

I grew up in Australia. I always thought of myself as middle-class, professional parents, private school, university etc.

I don't think it's such a big thing (class) there, but it seems like it's a very materialistic society - I've been told our garden here in London, not big by any standard, is actually bigger than many in Australia these days - houses are huge, with huge media rooms etc, huge plasma tvs, 4*4s to take the kids to school in, etc. Even when I go back home and drive around the suburb I grew up in, average to well to do suburb, the houses look massive, and they are just "normal".

Where I went to school all my friends' parents were lawyers, doctors, accountants, it was expected that we would go on to university. So now my school friends are lawyers, doctors, accountants, etc. It was said that if you want your dd to be doctor send her to the school I went to, if you ant her to marry a dr, send her to the all-girls school down the road...

BitofFun - you sound like the kind of sensible, grounded and secure person who could only be borne of parents who did not give a flying monkeys about notions of class and would berate you for even asking the question!

That is a lovely thing to say- I think you might be right about them!

I like the way we orl spell proper. The pen is mitier than the sord, as anee fule kno.