Worst comment you've had as a child free woman

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I'll start. Someone I had literally met about fifteen minutes previously. One of her first questions "do you have kids?" Me "no.." her "oh could you just not be bothered with the responsibility?" 😮

@fitzwilliamdarcy How are things at work at the mo. I hope HR arent taking any notice of the ones moaning that you arent doing the Christmas shift this year

Thanks for asking! I don't know what HR is doing but they've not been in touch with me (as they shouldn't). Colleagues who have been rotaed on keep asking in every team meeting if anyone's plans have changed and they can do a swap. Whilst staring hard at me. Oddly enough no takers. There are mutterings that they're going to call in sick and accusations that the workplace is discriminatory against parents, that sort of thing. I'm holding firm and staying out of it.

Big fan!

@fitzwilliamdarcy Id handle it the same way you are. 🙂

Tick tock tick tock, Pumpy, time's running out!- mate at work

Shes barren, leave her be - my grandma in front of guests at my dads funeral

Honestly some posts here soo shocking that people can say these things!!

What i vividly remember was someone telling my SIL "you are not complete woman until you have children" and to another "having a child us the most beautiful experience a woman can have"

Wth?

Bloody hell, Pumpy001, those are awful. That sounds like something my GM would say and she was a toxic bitch. And at your father's funeral??

@fitzwilliamdarcy I'm glad you're standing your ground, absolutely your turn this year. If some other staff are muttering about calling in sick then make sure you ignore any calls at Christmas not from friends or family

There is no way some of these posters would have answered the same way if there were kids involved.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/property/4939417-what-does-a-62-year-old-man-on-just-above-minimum-wage-do-when-served-with-section-21-eviction-notice-and-cannot-afford-anything-on-the-current-rental-market?page=1

Exactly. Single people are just chopped liver.

Snap! I just linked that thread to another MNWOC thread.

How very dare a single woman want to buy a large house where there are families who really need those bedrooms? (Who “actually need the space” was the phrase used!)

Lol. Why don't they buy it of they can afford it then

People who police other people’s house purchases on some kind of needs-basis need to get in the bin.

I’ve been told off a few times for buying my house when “it could’ve gone to a famillllyyyy in neeeeeed”. Well perhaps they should’ve bought it? I was the third to have an offer accepted, it wasn’t snapped up same day or anything.

I’d also suggest that couples are at an advantage already because of having a dual income. That should be enough but instead we pesky singles need to check with all the city’s families before making an offer on a house.

Oh I had this when I bought my 3 bed semi alone.

I have a noisy/disruptive hobby and planned to use the smallest room as a soundproofed studio, the conservatory as a home office/classroom for private tutoring and the remaining spare room for friends/family visiting, a lodger if times got hard financially or for fostering/adopting a child.

"What do you need all this space for?"

"Wow. This is the same size as OUR house and we've got two adults and two kids in it...How much is your mortgage and how are you going to pay it alone? Did you get help or something? Wouldn't you rather have house shared? You'd probably have felt safer in a flat instead of a FAMILY home."

My favourite;

"Aren't you scared living here without a man? I'd be scared in a house alone without a man. Sometimes you need a man. You can have my husband whenever you need him, we're worried about you, have already discussed it between usand have agreed you need him."

It was a housing estate...my neighbour on the other side of the wall was a man, I had two men living next door and another who was already keeping an eye on the opposite side if for some bizarre reason I needed a man's protection in the middle of the night. I didn't need 24 hour usage of a friend's husband who lived 30 minutes away!

You literally can't win no matter how big your house, my aunt bought a one bedroom flat because she's childfree and single with no pets. One wall of her bedroom is completely shelved because she buys very expensive shoes and bags and wants them to be displayed and where she can easily find the ones she wants. When her 'best friend' saw it she told my aunt it was 'disgusting' and that money could help her so much because she had 3 children. My aunt kept the shoes and bags and got rid of the friend.

Edited to add; my aunt also got the 'man' stuff but she's in her 80s now, never lived with any of her boyfriends, never been married and she's been perfectly fine and happy.

Yes, when I first moved into a 3 bed semi the next door neighbours asked several times why we wouldn’t rather live in a nice flat as we didn’t have children. They then went on to extend over as much of their garden as they could manage and tarmac over the rest though, so I assumed they’d have much preferred to live in a flat themselves, but couldn’t because they had children.

I was told, on here, that the money I'd spent training my dog should've gone to a child. Not sure if that should have been a child I knew or a random one.

I am fascinated by the "woman should be scared in houses". Interestingly my mum abroad never heard that when she got widowed. Just "it will take a time getting uzed to ir, won't it".

Untrained children are bloody annoying, to be fair.

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😂This is true!

When her 'best friend' saw it she told my aunt it was 'disgusting' and that money could help her so much because she had 3 children

Eh? Did she expect her best mate to give her all her money just cos she had kids? Mad. Just - mad.

I personally could do with the additional income of a spouse - think I could go around to someone’s house and tell them what they’d spent on their luxuries was disgusting when I could have used it to pay my mortgage?!

Imagine it the other way around and my aunt telling my friend it's disgusting she's had three kids when my aunt could use that money for her collection! It would never happen. I have no idea why some parents are so entitled in this\similar ways. Everyone spends their money how they choose to and buys the home they decide is suitable for them, I would never dream of telling people their 5 bedroom house is a waste of money or their golf hobby is a waste of money just because I wouldn't personally choose those things and if I had that amount of money I'd use it on XYZ which I obviously feel is a better use of money.

I don't understand why parents have children and then seem to want everything free or others to pay for it. Everyone knows children are expensive.