to wonder if mumsnet is a haven for very well off and slightly blinkered individuals.....?

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Obviously I have changed my name on this thread as I am prepared for the onslaught.....

Threads about Boden, how sad they are that their jumper from Boden has been pilling, 'oh woe is me my nanny has called in sick', 'I am hard up now the tax band has increased (although I am still earning £170,000....

Where are the rest of the population who reflect most of the parents I meet. I also wonder whether some people are able to look around and see what else is happening in the world....?

(Just having a bit of a rant about some of the other threads I guess......

You are being selective.

Have you missed all the threads on how to cut costs, style and beauty on a budget etc?

Threads about tax credits?

By the way, you don't need to be well off to be blinkered.

Cowardly to namechange imo.

Yah, whipcrack.... Just warming you up...

runs in and shouts.................. I SHOP AT LIDL!!!!

I agree that there is sometimes a bit of competitive smugness on MN, but I imagine it is everywhere in life. On MN the anonymity allows people to admit it!

As doggie says, you are being selective. MN has over the years opened my eyes to one helluva lot of life experiences and most of them make feel feel very lucky to have the life that I have. (And I am not mega wealthy by any means!)

Have to say, as a relatively new poster, I have been strangely drawn to such posts. And There do seem to be a lot of them. However, have also read other posts and have found some more 'normal' and down to earth people! I guess it really does depend on the threads you read. personally, I am just fascinated by stories of truly horrid nannies, prep school fees and nightmare 4 x 4 issues

YABU

And pointless, sorry.

Everyone has problems. Some people need to talk about them, some don't.

Lots of people are aware of what is going on around the world but what is one supposed to do?

Well Im very poor. I just dont relly discuss my fiancial situation on here.

why on earth start a thread like this and name change? just makes you look like a whining arse.

course it's not....
some posters are happy to talk about these things others not.
I could easily be on here saying, life is shit, I've got no work and no money atm, what am I going to do....
but I'm not because this is my escape from reality and I'm sure that is the case for a lot of people.

Obviously I am blinkered too then.....

I just felt that some of the issues discussed, especially the one about the pilling, suprised me in light of the current UK and world situation.

I will retreat as I am being pointless... but you read the thread and took the time to reply!

I don't think 'haven' is the right word. THere are lots of very different people on MN and people who choose to post the rich & resentful type threads get loads of stick for it. If it was a proper haven everyone would just be agreeing with them.

ha hah ha hah ha!

Good one Perparedtobeflayed!

This is a piss-take, yes?

LOL re pilling. Everyone has a right to talk about trivia from time to time.

By the way I don't think I am as much a 'whining arse' as someone on over £150,000 complaining about their tax bill....

The rest of the population is on Netmums darling.

Yes, MN is definitively MC. Whether that is financial or attitudinal or both - it still is.

Blinkered, it is not. As typically with Mc types - rather than rich MC types, they come from liberal backgrounds and usually give considered responses to posts, having thought of others POV.

but there is the odd oik.

well I would never shop at boden
far too expensive and not very nice tbh

and nanny??
PAH HA HA HAAAAAAA

and you can be poor, rich and anywhere inbertween and be blinkered btw

name changing is very cowardly

if you feel this
then say it
and we will correct you

I am blinkered to some things but that is more a product of my upbringing and the life I have now

But

Mumsnet has helped me open my eyes up to lots of things, disability, poverty, race issues ............. I could go on and on really.

So maybe some are a bit blinkered to some things but Mumsnet soon helps them realise that they are very lucky in some ways.

It's such wide forum.
There are truly people fromall walkss of life on here.

I think that it as canged over the lat year so that tere are fewer people on a igher income band than most of the rest of the population.
And fewer of the ones that are actually say that muc about it.

There were more threads previously, and those threads didn't always turn so nasty so quickly.....

mumsnet has changed, it really has.

And the OP is almost excatly the opposite of what has happened IMO.

It's just that the "richer" type OPs stick out more and get much more astick than they used to.

Not saying it is right or wrong, just saying really...

I had not even heard of Boden until I came on Mumsnet, certainly never bought anything from them. Shop at Tesco but seriously thinking of shopping at Aldi or Lidl. Live in average sized house, earn average wages. Not skint (yet!)but certainly not rolling in it. There are some of us about OP as for a Nanny why an earth would I want one of those! I did not have a child to palm off on someone else.

you don't need to be rich to have a nanny. That is a misconception.

Boden is fairly pricey but then again so is Monsoon/office etc. Many people on average incomes shop there.

There is a huge mix of different backgrounds and incomes on here. Have you seen the christmas secret santa threads for example? That would be a good eyeopener for you.
Or have a look at the moneysaving/budgetting threads.

Mollyroger I suppose I am being a bit tongue in cheek. But some of those aforementioned threads are a bit silly in their own way too......

Also pleased to be corrected.....

And actually i think custardo has said what i was going to say next.

there are lots of fab people here, and some not so fab...