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.......

I'm in a minority with only 2 correct in the BBC middle class survey..what does that make me? working class or upper class. I thought I was middle class.

Shops in Sainsbury and Waitrose (albeit not exclusively) Once a year Sainsburys (Christmas) or 1 thing if I want to park there becuase its esier to get a space than the multisttorey
Wears M and S pants Tesco. Often, very old Tesco too.
Has a car that is clean on the inside and comparatively recent V reg mobile dustbin.
Children give in their homework Sometimes they do, sometimes not.
Keeps her domestic appliances clean - you must be kidding
Eats fruit and vegetables Yes
Expects her house to have hot water Yes, but only recently- grew up without it.
No peeling paint on the outside of the house Rented so not up to me but no, there isn't any

I'm common, must go off and smoke a rolly whilst mainlining special brew outside the bus stop.

Daily Mail readers WC/

growing up we would have thought ayone reading a non red top was MC.

I actually associate Daily Mail readers with middle England.

Before I came on MN I thought I was pretty clued up about being middle class, a have a very varied group of friends from across the class 'spectrum' and feel I am pretty mc.

but then I discovered MN and had my eyes opened at how mc the world can be

In real life I have never met anyone who has a nanny, au pair or gardners

and only a couple who have had cleaners

and I grew up in North Oxford which is about as mc as it gets!

The BBC survey didn't make any sense to me - for example, I have Sky but not movies or sport. There were no answers that fitted my circumstances.

OK

*42, Telegraph paper of choice, vote Tory
*Own old (1835) house in Cornwall
*Live in Brussels in a Married Quarter
*Married to an RN Officer for 22+ years
*1 child always privately educated
*Knickers from M&S, but have nice sets of matching underwear for grown up days from local lingerie shop and all my bras from said local shop anyway as they measure properly.
*In UK Waitrose for preference, Tesco for convenience, meat from local butcher and veg/fruit from greengrocers Hate local Morrisons as it stinks of fish.
*In Belgium, Carrefour, bakers/patisserie, the Irish butcher near the EU and the local greengrocer and the weekly market
*Have a cleaner
*A levels, 2:1 degree, PGCE, just starting MA
*Secondary school teacher in UK, SAHM (reads novels and eats chocolate) in Belgium, mark GCSEs to pay for MA fees
*Cars, Saab (Turbo, beats the Belgians away from the traffic lights) and Range Rover, both 10 years old, and both run on LPG (green)
*Parents: Naval Officer, and Civil Servant
*First in my family to get A levels and a degree
*Agnostic (but not militant about religion as I teach RE) Far more likely to believe in an imaginary friend than imaginary numbers.

Homework done, handing it in is up to ds. I encourage detention if work not done to standard.

Do people really care which class they belong to?

I think the point of the BoffinMum social class index is that it's all rubbish, particularly in the case of mums.

I also meant to add, I buy Boden, as they do the only trousers that go around ds but are not miles too long...and what you can get in Belgium seems to be C&A or nothing.

I had never even considered my class until I was approaching 30. A friend at the time was telling me about how she was mc because she earnt had a mortgage, she told me that because I rent, I am working class regardless of my education and background.

We once got together with a group of our own friends, her's from the mother and baby group, mine from Uni. I was utterly mortified for her when she started a conversation, "Lets go round and say what we all do..."

She has put an awful lot of pressure on herself and it shows in depression, anxiety and low self esteem so I think class angst is the root of all evil, after fruit shoots of course.

I rented from the Queen for 8 years, what does that make me then? Am I a better class of working class person??

What kind of domestic appliances are you talking about, vbm?

Washing machines?
Vibrators?
Foot spas?
Vacuum cleaners?

Baffled by that one

I'd never met anyone with a cleaner till mumsnet either. Its a whole nother world.
The rubbery bit of my washing machine is all yucky cos water stays in it. How do I clean it?

I don't think I ever thought about class. I'm just me.

I am thinking polished fronts of washing machines, shiny trims around edges of dishwashers, gleaming ovens and the like. Very Anthea. She probably gives her vibrator a quick rinse after use as well, I imagine.

Oh dear, I am deffo not middle class then. Though if I owned a vibrator I would probably give it a polish every now and then.

oh, don't do that virginboffin. Cos of dd's adaptations ripping out the kitchen in the spring we have to get a new oven. No point in cleaning this one now is there
Or the cupboards come to think of it.....

I bet Anthea uses an e-cloth on her vibrator - it would bring it up a treat.

Dont live in South East
Don't vote Labour/Lib Dem
Don't emply Nanny,cleaner,gardener,dog walker.
Am Catholic
Wear Boden
Eat in Macdonalds.
Shop in Tesco and Waitrose.
Have well above average household income
Shop on Ebay
My demographic...confused

What do you stir you cocktails with if you don't clean your vibrator?

LOL. According to the Mail I ma "You are desperately upper-middle class. You fret far too much about everything (global warming, your children's manners, how to cook perfect polenta). You are doomed to be sneered at as a poncey imbecile by the lower orders and despised as an incorrigible bourgeois by your social superiors."

BOLLOCKS.

I have no education (yet). (so not MC there)
My mother worked at MaccyD's, my step-dad was unemployed a lot of the time. (not MC there either)
I shop for food at Tesco, I wear clothes from Primark/New look.
We have a big telly and satellite.
We do live in the south east though, and have a clean car.

Thinking about it properly though, DP is MC. I am WC, so what does that make our family? hmm.

Loada rubbish.