Jack Monroe #130 Or, more likely it just didn’t happen

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Sleep well tonight Jack☺️
 

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moosesauna said:
Call me a skint Northern peasant but this kitchen looks really lovely to me? Everything seems clean and well laid-out, and there's enough space for two or three - which is more than I can say for most of the student rental places and small flats I've known. Not sure how she can justify calling this a crap bungalow tbqh


Yup, you can get 'em for under a tenner in Wilkos if I remember correctly - and toasting in an oven costs far more in gas/electricity bills....
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and that's an Emma Bridgewater toaster - fancy!



**errr duck off?****
 
CabalofBolorneaise said:
I went through a phase when I first started working of being absolutely terrible with spending. I grew up in actual poverty (not her idea of it - no car at all, never mind a Range Rover) and I really struggled when suddenly I could buy things like the lunchboxes that I’d never been able to get when I was younger. I wonder sometimes if her parents were selective about what she could have because they wanted to keep it equal with the foster children, or if they were insistant about what type of stuff they let in the house and that’s part of what is behind her compulsive buying.

The difference was I didn’t have a dependent child, I wasn’t crying poverty every five seconds and I wasn’t begging for money online (or anywhere). And I grew out of it.
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Oh totally, and I think everyone has done that in some form or another in their lives. It’s a sort of ‘opposite-ism’ where you do the total opposite to the things you were taught or experienced. I have it in loads of ways. The thing is with Jack, she expects other people to pay for it, rather than facing it and fixing it (or seeking help to resolve it).

FWIW I do it with food, and feel very fortunate that I’m able to do so. As in, I don’t scrimp on taste and effort with food and it will probably always be my big extravagance, because.... childhood. I always have a rammed freezer, and store cupboard, and fresh stuff on the go. I wouldn’t carry on like we were about to starve and needed urgent PayPals from strangers. I do it because the idea of not having enough to eat and enjoy makes me feel deep anxiety. I also keep everything in constant use and rotation. Who buys leeks for fun, with no meal in mind? Why is there always something straggly in her fridge?
 
HarderFaster said:
Saw this on Twitter and had a chortle: Jack style recollections of a frugal childhood. GOD, Dad, remember when you made us eat OWN BRAND fruit salad and drove us to school in a VAN?! Inhuman treatment of children who deserve better 😞

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You'll most likely be able to get more of that if you turn over to BBC1 and watch Countryfile, where they're about to go on about things people want to do to improve on the tough year 'we've all had'. Inspiring people to walk their ten grand's worth of pedigree dogs and to travel to their local AONB/take up pottery and go surfing. All so very accessible to the plebs in their inland housing estates.


Oh, here we go. Support your local farm shop instead of spending five grand a year in the supermarkets. WHAT LOCAL FARM SHOP???
 
Referring to an earlier thread:
On the radio this afternoon I heard some heartbreaking stories from people who are genuinely (and not through their own fault) excluded from SEISS. People who are trying to get by with NO income at all for the best part of a year. Completely different to the bliff we've heard from some cheeky scamp. Hope she stops trying to slither her way in to #Excluded.

Slight change of mood. :)
Fruitjack said:
I think it’s time for someone to pick a recipe to make again. Whose turn is it?
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Obviously, I'd be totally fizzy knickers for this but my Friday shopping was cancelled because of the snow. It's crisps, limp pasrnips, mustard and cream for us until this Friday. 😋🍴
 
LennyBriscoe said:
Woah woah woah FF, you can’t be changing it up! You have to waste your time and money to create something completely rank that your fam will hate you for. I don’t make the rules....😉
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Hahaha. I’m not as foolish as mr flutterbucket, he made the carrot and kidney bean burgers I think they are called with the baby flutterbuckets. We had McDonald’s that night!
 
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