Mumsnet #48 Cherchez la spunk splatter

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Millie2023 said:
I always wanted a toy post office with the little window. I don’t like to mention it (apart from every bleeping Christmas when the subject comes up 🤣🤣)
I had a mr frosty though, it was…unremarkable 🤣
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Oh and I buy my kid her Christmas PJs in September (so she gets her wear out of them and she obliges 🤣)
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I had the post office i loved it!
Never had a Mr Frosty or a lights alive!
 
I found a MNetter on my FB timeline. Showing a tiny amount of food and then saying it was far too much and DH had to finish it. They did always mention how thin they are should have realised it sooner really.

I always wanted a Simon memory game as a kid. Bought one a few years ago, used it once and its been in a drawer since then.
 
ElectricDreams said:
It's not for me but I can kind of understand why people have Christmas bedding and if they can afford to do that and they use it year round as spares, then fine. But today I saw a Christmas toilet roll holder and just wondered WHY?!
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Does it play a tune? I'd buy it if every time you tore some off you got a tinny, off-key version of Jingle Bells.
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Millie2023 said:
I won’t be answering the door, I’ll be hiding behind the sofa, shaking and calling 101
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This is reminding me of when I moved from my very naice middle-class MNland small town in the south east to Yorkshire, when I met my late husband. He loved Hallowe'en and would have loads of sweets and treats ready, a selection of masks to open the door in, pumpkin by the front to indicate we were "open to callers" etc. When I told him that everyone on our street down south had a handwritten sign saying "NO TRICK OR TREATERS" sellotaped to their front doors he was left shaking and sobbing said "Chuffing heck, what a bunch of miserable mardy-bums" and I'd like to think if he was still alive today he'd be expressing similar sentiments about MN.

At heart I've always belonged int' North!
 
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Haven't paid rent in months has to be someone on the beg surely. Says they haven't paid rent to their Landlord for 6 months, the Landlord has only just contacted OP about it. Apparently OP never noticed it wasn't going out. Has 3 kids and had to have a guarantor to get the property

I imagine they are hoping they're going to get offers of money from mumsnetters
 
CrimsonCountess said:
Haven't paid rent in months has to be someone on the beg surely. Says they haven't paid rent to their Landlord for 6 months, the Landlord has only just contacted OP about it. Apparently OP never noticed it wasn't going out. Has 3 kids and had to have a guarantor to get the property

I imagine they are hoping they're going to get offers of money from mumsnetters
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I don’t fully believe it either. They say they are crippled by cost of living so didn’t notice that the rent didn’t come out… I’m wondering are they just paying a top up amount of 1 or 200 in rent & the rest is covered by some scheme? In that case maybe she’s just buried her head… but if you’re paying full rental rate for a home and are tight on money you’d definitely know if you had extra!!
 
Girl#7 said:
Just thinking about Christmas brings me out in hives. For decades, I'd be asking the parents of all the kids for whom I'd buy gifts what they'd like. The parents would keep deferring the decision until it was (for me) far too close to Christmas. And, of course, they'd then ask for the items they couldn't source.

Previous mentions of Mr Frosty brought me out in a cold sweat (pun intended)! Thanks, lads. Thanks a lot. :confused:

Obviously, I nipped all that nonsense in the bud with the great-nieces/nephews. I was cute enough to not even ask the parents what they'd like. They were just told I've just popped some money into their ISA, and I'll send a card and some pjs for them. :D
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God, you sound good. I have this week, as I do most years, bought my children’s presents on behalf of my in-laws, who have decided that even being sent a link to the exact item required is too tricky. They will now transfer the money for them, but to my husband’s back account, so I will feel like I’ve bought them. A tiny thing to be annoyed by of course (our money all ends up together at some point) but I am just waiting till I feel riled enough to go NC.
 
Come on now, how naive do you have to be to fall for this. 'honest mum I swear I've never tried weed before, I just happened to get caught this one time'
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gabbysolis said:
I don’t fully believe it either. They say they are crippled by cost of living so didn’t notice that the rent didn’t come out… I’m wondering are they just paying a top up amount of 1 or 200 in rent & the rest is covered by some scheme? In that case maybe she’s just buried her head… but if you’re paying full rental rate for a home and are tight on money you’d definitely know if you had extra!!
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Her and ‘need a hand hold’ need to get together!
 
gabbysolis said:
I don’t fully believe it either. They say they are crippled by cost of living so didn’t notice that the rent didn’t come out… I’m wondering are they just paying a top up amount of 1 or 200 in rent & the rest is covered by some scheme? In that case maybe she’s just buried her head… but if you’re paying full rental rate for a home and are tight on money you’d definitely know if you had extra!!
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I am also suspicious of this one, mainly because it's posted in AIBU. But I can personally understand how she got in that state - she mentions a rock bottom and not opening her post, and the same happened to me at the end of active addiction. Was barely working and just spent all my money. Spoiler alert, I got served an eviction notice.

If it's genuine, the usual bunch of "But how could you possible not notice OP, I check my bank account every day to see how much interest my savings are accruing *tinkly laugh*" brigade are really pissing me off and not helping.
 
Zara zara said:
Does anyone remember when everytime someone posted about a problem the advice was book a spa day
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Ah yes, that universal panacea. Because paying double the going rate for a massage and facial and some mediocre afternoon tea will immediately make your useless husband appreciate you, your in-laws become reasonable people, and transform your ingrate children into perfectly-behaved middle-class over-achievers who will be properly thankful for all that you do.

Unless I've mis-understood the "facial" part of that, which cum to think of it might show a lot of MNers what they've been missing out on with their penis beakers and serviettes du sex.
 
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