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

[HelenMumsnet]

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

[BikeRunSki]

Me time on a week day - wash nappies? cook? make packed lunches? cleaning? tidy up toys?

Very exited about a day off work I have booked in a few weeks time, when DS is at nursery, and I will actually have time to myself for the first time in 20 months!

[squilly]

I watch trash telly, read rubbish literature or eat junk food. I'm a bit rubbish at all this tbh

[whittywan]

Sleep, Sleep, Sleep

And 'waste' time on MN

[whomovedmychocolate]

In my ME time I create surveys to mock advertising agencies

[CharCharGabor]

God I hate the term 'me-time' Am envisioning mners everywhere rehearsing their mum of the year acceptance speeches right now I spend my tiny amount of hands-free time (have newborn) crocheting, knitting, reading and mning.

[CharCharGabor]

lol wmmc your survey is much better!

[choccyp1g]

What an utterly silly survey. Everyone knows that me time is for eating chocolate and mumsnetting.

[bruxeur]

Due to the power of advertising - and more specifically that survey - I now associate Five A-Live with the inability to find one's arse with both hands.

Traditionally this association has always been with Tennant's Extra, so I have to ask if the claggy over-sweet rubbish I hated as a child now has an abv?

[bruxeur]

Oh. Wait.

Horseriding and twirling with friends, all in white capri pants.

[Rindercella]

Even with the offer of a potential 250 quid, I lost the will to live complete this survey - it was dire.

But lok @ WhoMoved's survey!

[hatwoman]

blimey. i love doing surveys but just couldn;t do that one. what a load of codswallop

[hatwoman]

I have things I do by myself. and I have things I do for myself. I work. I run. I read. I eat junk food and I mumsnet. if someone else wants to call any of this "me time" they can. as far as I'm concerned it's working/running/reading/gorging/mumsnetting time. me time makes me want to vom.

[whomovedmychocolate]

Apparently you all like to do a solo poo in your free time.

[Cadelaide]

This survey made me feel like crying tbh.

What "me time"?

[paisleyleaf]

wmmc

Same as Rindercella, I just couldn't fill it in.
But seeing all the replies here felt the same about the survey, I may go back to it later.

[squeaver]

Amazed I haven't been deleted, but have come back to agree whole-heartedly with LG re the outmoded, patronising and reductive term "me time". It actually makes me feel physically sick.

[Meglet]

I assume 'me' time is having a shower as thats all I get most days. Apart from that watching tv while the dc's sleep is as decadent as it gets in my house.

Gym & haircuts are for very rare days off while they are at nursery.

[Cyclops]

What an odd set of examples of how 5Alive imagine frazzled mums spend their precious dc-free time

Clearly compiled by childfree, callow carefree Coca-Cola Company clowns

Simple stuff for self: sauna, steam, swim, shop, spend, surrender, sleep



I also found it easy to describe my fantasy day!

[Goober]

Done.

[AnnieLobeseder]

I gave up on the second question. I got out two nights a week, one to gym and one to choir, as 'me time'. I go running on the weekends as 'me time'. But I certainly don't do any of the weird things on the list. Most of them involve staying in the house. The kids are in the house; there's no 'me time' to be had there! So I flee!

Also, I couldn't add anything to the box.

Silly survey.

[MisSalLaneous]

Since completing this, I've been wondering. Do you think they perhaps made the survey ridiculous to get more attention? Almost relying on the shock value - a case of some attention better than none?

I don't agree that it's worked to their advantage, but am hoping that that is the explanation. I'd much prefer to find out that someone set out to annoy me than to know they think I'm that stupid...

[Tobermory]

Me time for me is reading, shopping- so much easier than with an almost 3 year old, sewing and looking forward to getting back to gardening when SPD magically disappears after DC2 arrives!

[stealthsquiggle]

Whilst I am admiring of those who won't complete rubbish surveys on principal, I will complete even the most inane things for a chance to win £250

[stealthsquiggle]

that would be on principle