Tell me you're childless without telling me

[Sparklingtwinkle]

I have all the time for me.
I dont have to cook.
I travel when i want .
I can get up and go without a care.
No school mum dramas.
No worries over anyone but me.
My money is mine all mine.

I lie in whenever I want

I buy whatever I want. I’m out seven days a week. My car interior is clean. I don’t own any cooking equipment - no pans/trays/mixing bowl etc.

I regularly get mistaken for ten years younger than my actual age.

True kids can age people.

The back seats and footwells of my car are pristine.
I have never seen ‘Frozen’.
I don’t know what Roblox is.

I don't have kids, but honestly, what a bizarre thread.

Not bizarre at all its a bit of fun nothing wrong with that.
I see thread like this on MN saying tell me you have kids without telling me yet this is bizarre.

What’s weirder is that some non-parents don’t realise that all those things can still be done by lots of parents 😂

The last year of senior school is 'the fifth year'.

I never go on holiday in late July or August

The rear seatbelts in our car are still nicely fastened in place since its last MOT.

You don't cook at all? Ever?

How do you cook then, or don't you?

Is that because you’re an adult child still living with your parents?
No cooking equipment at all? And out 7 days a week as in partying or working?

@xOlive @RampantIvy @60andcounting

ha! No im not an adult child living with parents. (Long dead) I’m 55, widowed and very much live alone thank you!
I don’t even have an oven. It’s broken and used for cat food storage.
nope I do not cook. I spent 35 years cooking for everyone else with zero thanks and lots of complaints about why I didn’t cook three different dinners every night, (cooking for two sets of parents and both had to be able to be frozen and driven half way across the country weekly plus my own family) and now I don’t have to and I’m bloody well never ever cooking again!

I am out seven days a week both in employment and enjoying myself doing whatever I want. Occasionally I eat at work but it’s a jacket spud. Otherwise my life is too busy and it’s microwave or cold soaked oats with seeds, nuts and spices or toast and lots of zero cooking salads and on the go fruit. I do however own a one portion soup maker which does occasionally make an appearance and does make soup effortlessly with frozen ready to go veg. Ideally whilst I’m out running a 5k or in the gym or swimming or line dancing, playing racket sports or off to a craft club or book club. Life is too busy and way too short to be chained to an oven, sink or anything else to do with domestic drudgery.
All pots pans and other cooking paraphernalia went in the bin the day after DH died and will only make a reappearance once I die.
Gp very happy with all my annual test results before anyone says I’m going to drop dead tomorrow! Absolute bonus I’ve dropped from a size 20 to a size 10 and holding steady in 18 months.
I cannot see any reason to adhere to societal norms.

At 62, I've never seen the inside of a nappy.

Don’t have to stand around at 9am on a Saturday morning on a cold wet field watching rugby / football training
no ferrying around for extra curriculars
can have a lie in on the weekends
don’t have to go into tipsy stealth mode on Christmas Eve pretending to be Santa.

(see also trying to not wake a sleeping child who has just lost a tooth to put 50p under the pillow and acting as the tooth fairy and root around for said 50p at 9pm on a Wednesday evening )

no forking out for extortionate nursery fees. The money saved can be used on term time holidays instead

No kids, loads of baking stuff, car never pristine...would go on hols but tied by pets...everyone is different. 😊

It’s on the Mumsnetters Without Children board. Why is it bizarre to have such a thread here?

Well it sounds like you’re living a wonderfully fulfilling life and I hope it continues for you 💐

I also love that you’re using the oven for cat food storage 😂

Yes I am very happy for @Alphabet1spaghetti2 too!

It came up on trending on my feed. I'm not commenting further as I do have kids( adults).

🤣🤣

I am in the same boat - my kids are adults so I have an utterly charmed life at the moment, but I don't think this thread is for us.

I have never agonised over organising a children’s birthday party, or worried about a child not being invited to a party

It’s nearly 11am and I’m still in bed drinking tea and reading Mumsnet ☺️

Hope it’s ok for me to comment as I do have two children, but I’m very much enjoying reading everyone’s replies and fondly remembering my life pre-2023 😀