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OTheHugeManatee · 14/04/2011 12:53

Dear boss

Why can't you stop micromanaging and let everyone get on with the jobs you hired us to do?

Dear self

Stop procrastinating.

Dear period

Why must you always malignantly wait until I'm wearing pink knickers before you put in an appearance? Angry

OP posts:
plantsitter · 15/04/2011 14:44

Dear cigarettes

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

ha!

3 years! Lonely are ya?

regards

plant

stealthsquirrelsawaytheeggs · 15/04/2011 14:46

Dear Amazon,

PLEASE can I have the parcels which are due today, today???? They are presents for wonderful friend and if they don't arrive today they won't get to her.

(and yes I know I should have ordered them earlier. I am a crap friend, but please could I have a break anyway?)

love from your very profitable frequent customer.

jellykit · 15/04/2011 14:50

Dear ex BIL,

Thank you for showing me how filesharing works, It's all so complicated yes. I really appreciated the comments and pats on the arse too. While you went to the toilet. I accdentally installed something onto her PC-(obvs hit the wrong key). That was how my sister ended up with pages of screenshots your dating website profiles, cam activities and vile chatlogs-one of which went to your probation officer. So sorry you ended up back in prison. But you were right to warn me about viruses and 'stuff'

NicknameTaken · 15/04/2011 15:02

Dear exH,

No, I don't trust you. I once did, but you trampled all over that, didn't you? But you'd better look after DD while she's with you. This is your best shot at something good, the chance to have a real relationship with her, so don't you destroy it.

Your exW.

Dear DD,

Sorry for the conflict around you when you were tiny. I should have chosen better. I love you and I will do my best for you and I hope it's enough. I'm so glad you're here and I hope you always will be too.

Your mum.

Dear parents,

Sorry for the stress.

Your daughter.

OeufaBrain · 15/04/2011 15:08

Daer Imps7
Grin
I know, it is the bane of my life!
But sometimes being really polite works.
(If not, we'll try it your way
)
best wishes,
Abrain

LaWeasel · 15/04/2011 15:13

Dear MN,

Was it mean to close DD's door when she wouldn't stay upstairs at naptime? She couldn't open it and has given up and gone to sleep. She was very tired, but now I feel bad.

LaWeasel

NicknameTaken · 15/04/2011 15:14

Dear Perfect Man,

Where the hell are you? I've been waiting for ages.

Me.

breadandhoney · 15/04/2011 15:28

Dear Shabba

your post has me in floods. you are a lovely lady.

greatest respect
BAH

Flower1000 · 15/04/2011 15:42

Dear DD

Please please PLEASE will you stop with the bloody tantrums, I love you to pieces but sometimes I really can't deal with you.. I know you are only 3 and I'm the adult but it would be nice if you could decide to hug instead of throw yourself on the floor and use that 'high pitched' scream that you know goes right through me!

Love
Mummy xxx

Dear DH

Would you please, just for once, let me in.. I know you love me and DD to distraction, but talking is good, talking will help me get through this stage, it will help 'us' get through this and grow stronger, but I need to talk to you, I need you to truely listen and understand the hurt.

Flower

Dear Shabba

Another one here in tears, thank you! You remind me that there is strength in people virtual hugs coming your way

xxx

HipposGoBeserk · 15/04/2011 15:47

Dear horrified women in the ladies loo at the mall,

I promise I wasn't removing his fingernails with a pair of pliers. He had done a wee in his shorts and I was gently trying to persuade him to take them off. That was all. Yup, all 20 minutes of it.

Yrs exhaustedly,
Hippo.

Katyathegringa · 15/04/2011 15:48

Dear NicknameTaken

Can I shamelessly borrow your dear letter, it sums my thoughts/recent experience up to the letter.

Yours, in appreciation.

KtG

BrainSurgeon · 15/04/2011 15:49

Dear DP

I'm really really sorry that I don't love you as much as you love me :(

I do care a lot about you and want to be with you for the rest of my life, I know that though...

I will never be able to thank you enough for the good things you brought into my life -starting with our amazing DS

Love
Brain

thefirstMrsDeVere · 15/04/2011 16:11

Dear Eveyone Down Walthamstow Market,

His hair looked like that because I had brushed it out for his trip to the hairdressers.

Ok? So he had Very Big Hair. So what.

I think he looked lovely. So shut yer yaps.

MrsD & DS3.

LeQueen · 15/04/2011 16:14

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KatieWatie · 15/04/2011 16:14

Dear Parents,

I wish you loved me as much and as openly as you love my brother. You've no idea how f---ed up it's made me.

I wish you'd stop faking extra love for me just because I'm growing your first grandchild.

Your Daughter

StealthyKissBeartrayal · 15/04/2011 16:18

Dear DD

SLEEP
PLEASE

Mum xx

LeQueen · 15/04/2011 16:19

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Slambang · 15/04/2011 16:19

Dear Time

Look, thanks awfully and everything. You've done a great job in growing our dss into gorgeous young men but if you could just leave it there that would be great. I would quite like them to stay as they are now if it's all the same. And while we're at it, I don't think I actually need any more wrinles or grey hairs and I'm not really enjoying watching my parents' disintegration so I'm cancelling my subscription. Hope that's OK.

Cheers

taokiddy · 15/04/2011 16:32

Dear DCs,
I love and adore and cherish you. Always have and always will. You are my whole world and I am very proud of all of you.
Love Mummy x

Dear exP,
I'm so sad about it all and dont think I'll ever get over it. I miss the friendship and fun we once had and the lovely family we created together but accept that things change and people move on. I hope things work out for you and her and you have the sort of life you couldn't have with us. And I hope one day you'll be able to treat me with a bit of respect as the mother of your 4 gorgeous DCs, your partner of 17 years and your once best friend.
Tao

Dear Stroke,
I hope your pleased with yourself. You've done your job taken away my lovely Dads independence and dignity but there's a lot more to him than that and you cant take away his personality, faith, love, kindness and humour.
A loving daughter

Dear Mum and Dad,
I'm so sorry I live so far away when you need me. I'm so proud of how you both cope and your humility and humour. I'm sorry it broke your hearts when me and exP split up but I hope we can build our bridges. I know you love me and are proud of me and that you find it hard to say, and I know you know how much I adore you both. Tids x

Dear new DP,
I'm so glad I met you. You're gorgeous and confident and sexy and I have no idea what you see in me but we seem to tick along just nicely! Thanks for showing me how a relationship should be. Thanks for building my confidence. Thanks for all those hugs. Thanks for being so tidy. Thanks for my cuppa in bed every morning. Love you loads xxx

DrSeuss · 15/04/2011 16:38

Hi Katiewatie,
I feel your pain having been there myself. I didn't even get the fake love on production of the grandchild

squaddiewife · 15/04/2011 16:44

Dear DD
If you put things away like i ask you too then you wouldn't lose them
Your Mum

Dear DH
Meeting up with your ex behind my back was not cool, even though it was innocent it looked far worse from your facebook messages, tell me next time, if fact there will be no next time let her sort her own shit out
Your ever suffering wife

AbsDuCroissant · 15/04/2011 16:48

Dear Gums-where-wisdom-teeth-previously-where

If you'd stop hurting, that would be greatly appreciated. It's been 8 days already.

Tah

Dear new colleague who I didn't realise how annoying you were

You're annoying. And cricket is very dull, please stop talking about it all the time.

AngelsFingers · 15/04/2011 16:52

Dear A, B and C.
I reported you all to the police for pushing drugs. I don't normally interfere with other people's lives but dealing to kids makes you scum IMO.

Dear D, I would have reported you for bragging that you were importing drugs in double layered Woks but my spirit was broken. Don't EVER come to my house again. Now He has gone you are not welcome. I never liked you even though everyone else though you were some kind of 'legend'. I think you are a moron.

Dear E. I reported you to the police for drink driving , and it makes me glad now I see you walking everywhere.

Dear F, G, H and J, you broke me SadSad. I am being fixed but will always have cracks and chips and never quite trust anyone ever again. F, G and H, you were supposed to love and protect me so why? J, I hope you just fall of the planet because the thought of ever seeing you or bumping into you makes me physically sick.

Dear K. Sad You made me feel like shit last weekend, don't do it again. Nobody gets a third chance with me anymore.

Dear DS and DD. Smile You both rock my world. Even though you make me tear my hair out, I love you more than Apple Pie xx

Dears AngelsFingers... Everything will be alright, it will just take time. (( ))

Dear Mum. I wish you would leave him so you could spend the rest of your life learning to live, But I know you can't. Sad Always here for you..

theDudesmummy · 15/04/2011 16:58

Dear DH,
Whether you realise it or not (and I think you do) you quite literally saved my life when you came into it seven years ago, I was on a downward spiral (drink, drugs, terrible relationship choices and more) that I would never have got out of by myself. I can never repay what you have done to my life. Till we hop the twig, as you said when you asked me to marry you. Oh yes.

Dear stepdaughters,
You are such wonderful girls and entirely transformed my attitude to children and family.

Dear baby DS (who came after four lost sprouts),
Words cannot express how I love you, and the new feelings that you have brought into my life, the immense love, the terrible fear of anything happening to you, the excitement and joy when I see your little smiley face every morning.

Dear parents,
I do not judge you nearly as harshly now as I did for many years. Yes, you made some (substantial) mistakes, and you don't even seem to be aware of that, but parenting is HARD and no-one could ever say you did not put your all into it.

Dear me,
Stop worrying about everything so much and enjoy your life. You cannot contol everything. Sometimes you have to just let it be.

AngelsFingers · 15/04/2011 17:03

Dear Top, thank you for fitting me Smile. You are just a little scrap of material but you don't realise that you have actually cheered me up.

Welcome to my (much loved) wardrobe xx