Mumsnet merchandise - your input needed please

[JustineMumsnet]

Hi all

After years of being asked to come up with MN merchandise and (aside from some incredibly tight t-shirts with virtual mother on them way back in the early-2000s) pretty much sticking our collective fingers in our ears, we've finally found someone who can help us produce and sell a qualiteee online range - hopefully available in time for Christmas. And we're looking for your input.

We reckon a range of T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and mugs with Mumsnet in-jokes/ popular phrases - which is what folks have mentioned in the past - but is there anything else we've collectively missed? And what do you want on them? A T-shirt telling all and sundry to LTB? A mug asking whether YABU? A hoody announcing that it' really best to RTFT?

Ideas very much welcome please

Yeah - DeepThought, I've been missing the little guy.

@ MrsShrek

A pin badge with "I've googled dragon butter" would certainly terrify passers by.

What about a mouse mat with 'just words on a screen' scottishmummy? You'd buy be, I know you would

I think you are begging for trouble paying a commission to individual MNers - I can hear the fighting now about whose idea this was and who came up with it first etc. If MN can spare the funds to pay 'the designer' I think it would be FARRRRRRRRRRR better to go to Woolly Hugs or a different charity each month

Completely agree.

Let the 'designer' prize be a free one or more of their design instead of a regular commission.

I really like the idea of supporting Woolly Hugs. It's a home-grown cause, pure MN, very appropriate.

How about a multicoloured hot water bottle cover with a "Woolly Hugs" logo? Or a microwaveable hottie pad (unscented, please!). Supporting WH, of course!

I cim

Tbh. I wouldn't buy any of if. (Didn't even buy the mug last time with me on it but apparently Olivia mumsnet did!)

I don't share my use of Mumsnet. .

Bloody phone! Atrocious cunt that it is!

I would like the following:
Bag for life with shopping list design with lots of MN references
PFB baby gro
Small enamel pin < my fave idea so far

Don't like the clothing range at all apart Tom a MN scarf

And proceeds should def go to Wooly Hugs

I hate did you mean to be so rude. It's naff.

I would buy and wear a hoody with YABU on the front in small letters (maybe to one side) or TSSDNCOP but then I'm pregnant, not fitting into clothes and cold! So maybe only for the next 6 months or so!

I think pin badges & things are great for identifying fellow mbetters in shops etc. but really, would you really want anything that identifies you as a mn user in the playground? Really? I'd be mortified to think people that knew me could poke around on here and find me. Hence so many name changes.

If you did see someone in the playground with YABU on a hoodie how would you go about tracking them down on here?

"Baby grows with PFB on?"

Yes I was astonished not to be able to buy one when DS was born. Thought about having one made but obv hadn't the time what with PFB and everything!

Really? A hoody ?

I just don't see why!

I agree with the money going to Woolly Hugs :)

to people who think of MN as a dirty little secret.

If you are so embarrassed to be here, why are you here?

Tee, it's not about being embarrassed to be here. It's more about wondering if people would try and guess your username by your posts if they knew you were a regular here and therefore read things you wouldn't want "de-anonymised"

Sorry, still don't get it. Never will.

In any case, did we scare Stuart off or does he get weekends off? He's not a true HQ member until he's around on a weekend night...

Sparkling, I wouldn't track them down, I wouldn't care less. But years ago, I had someone I thought was a close friend deliberately find me on here & delight in repeating everything I'd said. It was just creepy. That was also in the days before I learnt not to give away too many thoughts & identifying things online. I'm not at all embarrassed about mn - I'm just embarrassed that I didn't realise how careful you need to be about privacy, when your innermost feelings stay online forever.

But i would be embarrassed to wear a slogan t shirt, of any sort, not just mn

How though 500? How did they find you? That's what intrigues me.

By accumulation of small facts here and there that all fitted together, a few might be co incidence but not the whole lot. Things like, for example 'oh I live by a motorway too' or 'yes
My neighbour decided to erect a 15ft fence' or 'my child was 21 months when potty trained' etc. and a very cryptic original username, that easnt at all cryptic once the friend suspected it was me; it became obvious.

500. Were they a Mnetter too?

MN is like eating peanut butter by dipping your fingers in the jar. Delicious, addictive, perfectly nutritious, something you might share with the right person at the right time, but not an activity that you would actually broadcast to the world.

I did not hide my MNing at first (peanut butter sandwich), but after being identified several times I realised that I valued my anonymity (turned into a peanut butter finger dipper).

I suppose it depends how you post. I have never put anything on here that it would bother me if anyone knew me IYKWIM.