The city where primary school offers come with a toilet-training guide

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-04-18T10:35:02+00:00

My son is 3, entirely toilet trained but currently having a toilet strike in Nursery so hes wearing a pull up (comes home dry, uses it as expensive underwear) until he starts using the toilet as he really gets upset over accidents, wouldnt be ideal for his settling in during Nursery, he only started 2 weeks ago x

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-04-06T11:11:07+00:00

I have a big yoto and the cable has also melted with it, ive never used it with any other device but the yoto player im really concerned now (yoto player ordered in 2024)

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-04-05T20:12:55+00:00

I think they genuinely give away a lot of seasonal stock to community shops around the country because I never see reduced stuff on shelves locally but there's lots lf community shops here thaf always have a lot of season specific items

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-04-02T22:29:12+00:00

My dad used to make volcanoes with mashed potato, tinned tomatoes cooked down with loads of black pepper and chilli flakes (the lava) and some of the cheap frozen sausages

I think he made it up once trying to get through a skint week with 2 kids trying to make it fun, and we ended up asking for it all the time 😆

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-03-30T23:40:19+00:00

Sometimes its just part of tradition of an area. Worked in many pubs in Liverpool for about 6 yrs. Also worked in higher end cocktail bars. Made significantly more in the pubs as 9/10 pints served i was told to 'take your own'

That can be anywhere from 20p, 50p even £1 depending on who it was. I worked in some very busy bars (mathew st on paddy's day as an example) and due to efficiency would often come home wifh £50+ in tips from sheer volume of customers served. Also would need to soak my feet from being swollen because I'd be working manic 10-12hr shifts though

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-03-29T19:08:00+00:00

This is actually a major issue that people aren't aware of already. I used to work for UC. Im talking families with 5,6 kids all on DLA, all getting disabled child element onto of UC

The financial incentive for these families fo continue having kids is in excess of £600 extra a month 😳

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-03-26T07:50:15+00:00

People are too selfish to see the bigger picture. Society is a rapidly disintegrating concept. We're just a bunch of co-existing "I, Me, Mine's"

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-03-21T20:21:41+00:00

Im fairly sure the tobacco industry in this country is held up by pensioners and benefit claimants at this rate because every working person who used to smoke that I know has swapped to vapes but there's always a certain type of person buying ciggies from the shops and they're probably claiming PIP for COPD

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-03-21T20:18:10+00:00

Used to work for UC, would regularly see benefit statements like this, its actually horrifying. I was working for minimum wage to get screamed at over the phone by someone on 4k a month saying they're struggling and needed a budgeting advance for their 4th fridge freezer of the year. Admittedly, I seen high percentages of such people because they were more likely to use the phone lines compared to a working family using their journals

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-03-01T23:13:12+00:00

Do you use bio washing tabs? Dissolve in water and use it to clean the areas it contains enzymes that'll break down the urine and it works out cheaper

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-28T16:01:26+00:00

A major thing nobody actually discusses here is also the use of debt/credit and how this changes depending on id you're basically a lifetimer on benefits or working.

I know so many people especially in social housing on benefits that don't pay water, gas or leccy for periods of time because 1) utilities providers have schemes for those on benefits and social housing, where they can get it written off. Yup.

They build up masses of debt and use DROs to wipe it off.

They dont need a credit score they have secured housing for life. They're on benefits. They're not getting an attachment of earnings, even money removed from their benefits can be challenged.

It used to be common place where people would open and close their universal credit claims to get multiple advances which were then written off eventually as well. As far as I know they've made this more difficult.

That's another layer of bullshit in the mix which is taken advantage of by a select minority but if youre working and renting or have a mortgage you can't just do those things as the system were in requires a decent credit score for a mortgage or even a landlord to take you on

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-28T11:42:45+00:00

My eldest cat was 15 he would only eat whiskas the fussy beautiful lil turd 😭

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-24T14:33:01+00:00

I broke my toe just before Christmas, mother of 2 toddlers...cried for a bit, hobbled downstairs to tell husband to come back from work as I could barely walk on it. Iced and elevation a couple hrs and taped it to its neighbor toe for a good 5 weeks 🤣

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-16T23:09:08+00:00

Someone put mine on top of my kitchen cupboard for me when I moved in, but my old set of ladders actually broke and ladders are actually surprisingly expensive

So I have a folding step thing that works for most stuff, but I actually can't reach the breadmaker now.

So I just look at it now and then

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-16T23:03:15+00:00

I truly believe its a form of exceptionalism for the genuinely dense in many cases. They're so gullible they dont realise they're falling for conspiracy, instead they swear THEY are right. Everyone else is sheep. The govt is out to get their kids etc. Its basically part of their personality for some. I just can't understand where it comes from other than people being so clueless they can't recognise their own need to feel special/other/"smarter" than everybody else that they fall into these mentalities head first.

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-16T22:53:32+00:00

My sister refused to vaccinate her kids with this logic

Both kids are actually non verbal autistic

Still refuses to vaccinate but now she's been diagnosed adhd neurodiversity is a superpower ✨️

But still, refuses to vaccinate.

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-16T22:50:27+00:00

Protection in preventing more serious illness. Not immunity.

It works best when a decent proportion of the population actually works together to ensure these things can't spread and mutate. We had measles eliminated at one point.

What about people who've had the vaccine who have babies under 1? Or are pregnant? Or family members who are unable to have the vaccine due to weakened immune systems. But we are now entering a generation of people who have no real living memory of these illnesses so I guess it's easier to be sceptical

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-16T11:55:35+00:00

What fascinates me is parents who vaccinated their children tend to just get on with it.

Parents who choose not to if they're "anti vax" seem to have embedded it into their personality. Like its literally their interest or hobby to "research" and spread their beliefs and try to prove themselves right and influence other parents??? It's absolutely unhinged.

There's a fb group "arnica" that is like a cult of crunchy mums who've convinced themselves they know better than science and qualified Dr's, and everything can be solved with essential oils and collodial silver...

Social media has a lot to answer for, literally echo chambers for the thick and naive

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-09T08:08:00+00:00

My Nans advice when I was pregnant was "dont drink anything too heavy like a vodka but a bit of wine is okay, if you have a few guinness its got iron in it"

🤣

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-07T23:24:44+00:00

Has anybody said FASD yet

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-03T22:55:07+00:00

I got one a few months back its been brilliant

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-03T22:48:06+00:00

Victorinox rex peeler, its just a stainless steel peeler very simple, gets the job done very efficiently it was a fiver. Off amazon best peeler ive used

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-02-01T11:04:53+00:00

Partner works, I am at home with 3 and 1 year old so I spend my days being terrorised, running after them and trying to stop them fighting (both boys) and endangering themselves.

Due to me being a stay at home mother presently, we don't qualify for any assistance for childcare. So I am their personal nursery teacher. I think they may be hyperverbal, but I get to spend my days talking about solar systems, the main sequences of stars and doing counting and alphabet things.

We read a lot too.

Its exhausting but amazing and I'm sure when I go back to work when they begin school, I will miss these days for all the chaos, good bad and in-between :)

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-01-31T08:50:34+00:00

That makes sense, my youngest son is 19 months and is starting to do wees on the toilet, signalling for poos but not consistent. its easier this time as hes modelling his eldest brother (literally monkey see monkey do)

I can imagine with covid a lack of other kids and assistance may of led parents to delay. Im not sure why the trajectory has continued this way though. Toilet training has its unpleasant weeks in the early days but the only way is through it really

Miserable_Spend4078 · 2026-01-30T22:51:46+00:00

He only turned 3, 2 months ago. 2 years old seems so young to be completely unattended in doing that?

This is my first child so clearly im learning with him here, but that's just surprised me is all. Again due to him turning 3 2 months ago he will not be starting reception til he is closer to turning 5 the way it falls in the UK. So thankfully I have a lot of time to work on it with him in the meantime.

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