What are you grateful to Mumsnet for in 2016?

[MycatsaPirate]

For me it's the Visqueen bin bags I was chosen to try (and converted to a permanent user).

And the amazing support on the couple of serious threads I've posted.

Plus the laughs I've had reading some of the threads on here. Always cheers me up.

After Of course, more than happy to pass on this top tip! Use roughly half a cap of persil liquid rather than the usual carpet cleaner. I use bio as have pets & children so it eats away any odour in the carpet as well as removing stains. Put it in after the water though so it doesn't froth up. I've used it 3 times in my Vax now & it's still working perfectly.

Bloody hell Bernard that's marvellous!!!

Posters kind enough to answer my threads where I complain about how miserable I am and letting me know that it wasn't normal to feel this way.

Also, the huge wealth of information about infertility related issues. I sometimes feel like a bit of an interloper being childless and on Mumsnet but you're all so very kind, I get nicer messages on her than I get from my mother.

Mumsnet literally saved my life on New Years Eve.
I was facing a court trial and despite my children and being on medication I thought that being dead was the only way out. I read a post. A lovely lady's husband had gone missing and was later sadly found. The hurt that came through in her post and her talking about her children left behind was the coming to senses I needed.
Somehow ( & I'll never know how as im not a strong person) I managed to get thru the court case and was acquitted.
Life still isn't perfect but I'm starting to feel I'm over the worst . I have been diagnosed with PTSD due to the arrest and all that followed and I'm on the list for intensive CBT. It's still a struggle but the better days are starting to outweigh the bad.
So thank you MN and merry christmas

Yes those bin bags were truly amazing.

For all the Mn that have gotten to know me a bit and been supportive over the past year or so. And allowed me to explore things and have still been there even when I fucked up.

Ghost. Your spirit and attitude to the shit that is thrown at you is remarkable. X

Thank you...takes a bowe

for you, AshamedAndDistraught
Perhaps you should choose a slightly happier username now? It sounds like you're getting there.

This thread is making me all warm and fuzzy

MN has helped me in so many ways this year

• Making me take DD to A&E when I wasn't sure if I needed to (I did!)

• Helping me through the crippling tiredness caused by a none sleeping baby, letting me moan and rant and cry and helping me solve it - the women on those sleep threads dragged me out of a dark dark pit and I am so grateful

• The biggest one of all - persuading me to LTB, understanding and supporting me, talking me through their own experiences, cheering me on and helping me pick up the pieces afterwards - the people on those threads (I think they know who they are) will never know how they've changed my life and how beyond grateful I am for every single message they typed, I would never have done it without them

Ah now I'm welling up
Merry Christmas MN

I agree, Ashamed you need a new name. Something which proves how far you've come.

This is a lovely thread, I'm glad I started it.

I have had some shit times this year, mostly coping with the horrible behaviour from my family and how they leave me out of everything. Knowing that other can understand and make me see that it's nothing I've done has massively helped. I'm going to be seeking proper counselling in the new year.

S'funny, I picture you lot(sweeping generalisation) as really strong, it's part of why I come on here. I like the way you all support one another.

That's how I picture everyone on here Lost. Sarcastically funny, dry sense of humour but very supportive. Thanks to you all .

The hyperemesis support thread. There are some wonderful women on there.

I had a really horrible pregnancy, and had other stresses too. This site kept me sane! I got so much advice about my options because I felt the doctors were trying to push certain things, was totally unaware of other options, really I had a much better labour and delivery experience than I would have had if I hadn't asked things on here. One poster in particular made a real difference to me with her advice.

And I'm eternally grateful for the funny threads that kept me occupied when I was up all night. Even though sometime those threads are what kept me up all night

Lowering the tone slightly but the Hiddleswift threads over in slebtwaddle gave me some much needed light relief over the summer.

The fabulous women on the Couch to 5K and 10K threads. I don't think I'd ever have kept running without them.

The wonderful radfems who open so many women's eyes. And HQ for not being cowed by the pressure to shut us up.

The laughs. There are so many extremely funny people here.

Recognising the signs of mastitis on here and getting myself off to the GP for antibiotics.

The good times and the sad times.

We've been doing up the house this year so I originally came to Mumsnet for tips on bathrooms, kitchens, paint, flooring etc which has been incredibly helpful. Piglet John you are a legend (though I'm sorry, I ignored your advice about the ceramic taps). Since then I've explored the site much more and have snorted with laughter at some threads, positively welled up at others and been far too terrified to post on AIBU

I'm in the same FB group as mycat and I too have lost over 70lbs. If it wasn't for the original OP who started that thread I'd still be fat, sick and utterly miserable.

What I found on the group is a lovely, caring, warm bunch of ladies who are fully supportive of each other. We've long gone past just weight loss talk and I really feel that I've become part of something really special.

So so much.
So far this year, I have been supported after DPs brother committed suicide, told to go for it when deciding to go back to college, discovered I may have ASD and the support threads have been a lifeline (although I've been awol from them for a bit now) and they supported me in seeing the GP and asking for a referral to a psychologist.

Then I hit a tough spot financially and a lovely bunch sent shopping to my door, and most recently I have had amazing support since my dp of 9 years left me sat on the floor in my own vomit, unable to move on Saturday (He is now my ex) and they are holding my hand and telling me it's OK to feel sad, it's OK to wish it was a bad dream and they have promised me it will get better.
So thank you all

Footner

The support, advice and sense of community on the infertility board. I'm not sure I could have gotten through ivf without you. I'm sat feeling knackered with a growing 26 week old bump, and so unbelievably grateful xx