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Tell 5 Alive all about your 'me' time (survey open to all, regardless how much 'me' time you have!) and you could win a £250 John Lewis voucher

272 replies

HelenMumsnet · 21/04/2010 14:50

5 alive want to find out what you do during your 'me' time - if you're lucky enough to get any!

By 'me' time, we mean time to yourself away from children, partner or work, when you can let loose and have some fun. It doesn't matter if you don't get much 'me' time; we still want to know what you think. The survey is open to all Mumsnetters.

Please take a few minutes to complete this survey and enter your details for a chance to win a £250 John Lewis voucher.

AND, for another chance to enter the prize draw, please tell us all on this thread what you get up to in your 'me' time, whether it's playing air guitar to the radio, or going out for a muddy bike ride - you can 'fess up here .

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

OP posts:
DiamondsRaGirlsBestfriend · 21/04/2010 19:02

eat chocolate .... drink wine.... have long(uninterrupted) bath.... read...watch trashy TV

RustyBear · 21/04/2010 19:04

If it was during the day, I'd definitely be spending most of it in a bookshop.
Then I'd go and have a long bath and drop read my new book in it.

Reggiee · 21/04/2010 19:06

I do surveys in a vague attempt to win a good prize....

(and sometimes read trashy magazines)

GeeWhizz · 21/04/2010 19:11

Eat Haribo and watch anything not on Cbeebies

Having a bath on my own is also great.

MisSalLaneous · 21/04/2010 19:20

I've completed it, but I might be banned from the draw as my idea of me time differs ever so slightly from theirs!

My idea of "me time" is to sit here doing absolutely nothing at all for half an hour as soon as ds asleep. No thinking involved, no actions involved (unless I'm required to sing or dance, in which case I might throw them with something...)

Usually with old episodes of an old series of something or other - currently Alo Alo. I am inherently lazy.

ButterPie · 21/04/2010 19:20

I get about 4 hours a day with the kids both in bed, 1 hour of which is before dp gets home. 1 hour or so housework, then the rest is generally mn, ebay (I am starting a business on there) and then maybe a soak in the bath, half a glass of wine.

I dream of wandering around an art gallery with no children to keep under control. There is an old library I am dying to see, but can't really go as the kids would be bored.

brennannbooth · 21/04/2010 19:28

What a lame survey.

I go clothes shopping on my own, much easier without kids. Or maybe something else practical like going to the tip.

BumptiousandBustly · 21/04/2010 19:35

I lie down on the bed and read, on my own, with no one else there, its lovely.

IwishIwasmoreorganised · 21/04/2010 19:37

Done - though it is a terrible survey.

I only plodded on to the end in the hope that I might win the vouchers!

PamelaTroglodytes · 21/04/2010 19:38

That survey was incredibly depressing.

coppertop · 21/04/2010 19:39

What a terrible survey. I think anyone who manages to get through it deserves a medal as well as the vouchers.

My 'me-time' is late at night so involves things like collapsing in front of the television or a laptop.

Can't see the neighbours being too impressed if I started practising dance moves or running up and down the stairs.

TheNextMrsDepp · 21/04/2010 19:44

Survey done, vouchers by the end of the month please!

My favourite me-time activity: Vegging out with a cup of coffee, Radio 6 Music and a glossy mag.

MrsKitty · 21/04/2010 19:46

Me time = sleeping or watching TV.

I don't count MN as me-time as I do it whilst feeding DD.

PuzzleRocks · 21/04/2010 19:47

I was going to say "what a naff survey" but I see this has already been firmly established.

I would love some John Lewis vouchers but couldn't bring myself to complete it.

MrsWobbleTheWaitress · 21/04/2010 19:51

Meditate and watch programmes on iplayer

MrsKitty · 21/04/2010 19:54

Good grief - what an awful survey. Now i'm depressed that all I have time/energy to do for myself is sleep or watch TV!

Way to make me feel like a miserable loser 5Alive - cheers.

whomovedmychocolate · 21/04/2010 20:22

Me time starts at 7:15 for me. The kids are asleep and I flop onto the sofa with a cup of tea, made my DH and I just wonder how many more days it will be till they become just a leetle big human and less like little monsters on speed.

Me time involves watching Casualty while doing the ironing

Actually come to think of it, there isn't enough energy left over for me to have me time, I'm pretty shagged out by 8pm. I get up at 5, 4 some mornings, work my bum off looking after everyone else and then I sit on the sofa, read mumsnet, watch TV or do the ironing and make packed lunches, while DH sits in another room probably complaining about his lot, on another forum

Gee thanks 5alive, you've made us all feel super!

Middle class mummies who shop at John Lewis do not have time for me time. We actually have a double shift full time job, even if we stay at home.

Here comes a blue rug to match the red one (oldies will know what I mean)

TheBreastmilksOnMe · 21/04/2010 20:22

I seem to spend all of my 'me' time holed up in the study on MN! Either that or watching TV, reading the papers, reading a book or scoffing junk.

plantsitter · 21/04/2010 20:22

-read- -trashy- -magazines- -and- -MN- drink cocktails and dance in high heels, laughing tinklingly.

Be honest, MN towers, did you secretly look at this survey before it went up and think, 'oh dear, they're going to have them for breakfast'? I couldn't bring myself to read past 'practice acceptance speech for mum of the year' or whatever it was.

plantsitter · 21/04/2010 20:23

stupid crossing out

whomovedmychocolate · 21/04/2010 20:24

Leetle bit human of course makes more sense. See now I'm as well - damn you 5alive.

PussinJimmyChoos · 21/04/2010 20:28

Have completed it...didn't think that I did much in the way of dancing and singing until I remembered I like putting my Madonna DVD on and singing away to La Isla Bonita - cheesy but I do love that song - makes me every time I hear it!

theyoungvisiter · 21/04/2010 20:33

Also, while we're putting the boot in, I would like to point out that it should be "practise my acceptance speech".

And they spelled "favourite" wrong in the next question, although that is clearly a typo so they don't get the full penalty.

MUST TRY HARDER.

Tut.

whomovedmychocolate · 21/04/2010 20:40

I ticked the blank box and wrote in the other section 'have ticked blank box as I do bugger all in my me time'

Shall I do another survey for y'all to enjoy again?

Tootiredforgodtyping · 21/04/2010 20:41

get a pedicure !