Joined the email list in 2007 when I was pregnant with my first kid.

One of my clients told me I was recommended on here, so I got curious and looked. This was back in the early 2000s when it was a list serv. Then i forgot about it for 10+ years. Came back about 5 years ago.

I am a Nanny (and have been for many years!) so I originally was on a website called “I Saw Your Nanny” where people would post bad things that they had seen Nannies in their communities do.

Many posters had referenced this blog as a good Nanny blog so originally I came on here for the Nanny Forums.

Then I ventured into the other forums & it was instant addiction.
Like a reality show in a weird way.

My favorite topics are 1.) Off-Topic, 2.) Relationships + 3.) Entertainment

Private high school admissions back in 2005-6. Believe it or not the Sidwell AD mentioned the site at an info session.

The Kane Show drama… when I googled he and Natasha divorcing after he boo hoo’d live in air this sure already had a post 10 pages long.

finding a nanny!

Boredom

In 2014 I started googling private elementary schools in the Bethesda area.

What has been good about finding DCUM is that I've learned about camps that I would not have otherwise heard about and later on a college counselor we worked with as well as tutoring companies.

I found it because of searching about health issues in 2013.
Now I browse through Travel mostly, Off Topic, and AAP.
I love the Word and Geography game!

I truly can’t remember. Been here since 2013.

Maybe heard of this through now defunct Fx underground. Maybe to read gossip on my DC’s school?

I'm one of the people who snuck in with the catering crew, i.e. somewhere out in flyover land.

How I came here: Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. I was searching google to see what I could learn about Georgetown prep and landed on a couple of threads from (iirc) a couple of years before he was nominated, where people were arguing about prep schools. It really did seem like Georgetown Prep was for entitled a$$holes.

And then I saw the Trump women fashion mishaps thread, and there was no going back.

I experienced the nice bowl of fruit in real time but came late to the lightly fried tuna (I did find the original thread).

Also I appreciate the recurring Scott vs Charmin but have learned the real answer is a bidet. Or else hover at work and toss your wipes on the floor for the cleaning people (you know who I mean).

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Anonymous wrote:I was Googling about the awful Savopoulos crime and ended up here, in a thread titled something innocuous, such as a 'fire in Upper NW' (or something like that).

I noticed some other threads and topics and have been here ever since!

Ah, I remember that thread. Yes, the initial news was about a fire and then it turned into something so much larger. And worse.

That story will haunt me forever - they were a short walk from our house and I’ll never forget the day we found out it happened with media and cops everywhere

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was Googling about the awful Savopoulos crime and ended up here, in a thread titled something innocuous, such as a 'fire in Upper NW' (or something like that).

I noticed some other threads and topics and have been here ever since!

Ah, I remember that thread. Yes, the initial news was about a fire and then it turned into something so much larger. And worse.

That story will haunt me forever - they were a short walk from our house and I’ll never forget the day we found out it happened with media and cops everywhere

There was a local chat feature on Yelp about ten years ago. I mentioned that I was looking for a new community to chat with, and one of the regulars mentioned DCUM. I will never forget the warning he attached-- he said it could get catty, lol. I left Yelp, came here, and never looked back.

Paranoia over private school admissions. It really was helpful to learning the ropes of that process and finding best fit, plus the related gossip. Most gossip has turned out to be true! Have stayed for everything else. I swore I’d get off when last kid got into high school but here I am