Jack Monroe #217 Fishi Sunak

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    Votes: 46 24.2%

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    Votes: 23 12.1%

  • Started out reading it then expired of boredom

    Votes: 28 14.7%

  • read the whole thing

    Votes: 93 48.9%
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Orphan_Black said:
I swear down she had a sponsor deal with Wilko's back in her original blogging days, so many nods and links to the place, it was always her 'first go to' place for everything. I'm just linking dots here, but I think it may have been one of her first shills, and it's nice to see she's still at it, but confirming also she has £35 to spend on a piece a tat only good for one day a year.

That's the thrifty spirit, Jack. (Go on, give your tip jar another shake)
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I remember she decked her whole kitchen out with wilko stuff. In what felt like just a weekend!
 
Legionnairess said:
I remember she decked her whole kitchen out with wilko stuff. In what felt like just a weekend!
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Was this the time she had loads of open faced wooden boxes stacked with cans in them as some sort of bizarre shop display? Remember her having a meltdown over not being allowed nice things then, this must have been in the post Allegra flat so yeaaaars ago!
 
heretoreaditall2019 said:
This is why I refuse to believe she’s ever built any savings, it’s so cheesy and I’ve defs been indoctrinated by Martin Lewis but it really is a mindset? Because of him I always ask myself questions before buying *anything* that isn’t food lmao and it’s evident Jack just doesn’t think twice about buying anything, even a £40 dickies jumpsuit she could have worn for years instead of ruining for Halloween? It’s not as if this dog is useful and it’ll probably be destroyed in yet another house move. Just insanity.
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I feel like we are back on thread 20 (or 30 or 40, etc.). This is what brought so many of us here. How can someone who is clearly such a rampant consumer claim to be poor/traumatised by poverty/frugal? That two-headed beast is the single least necessary thing in the world. It's £35 you may as well have chucked in the bin. You use it for one night, if you are organised you pack it away and reuse it again for one night next year. Then the batteries will leak, or you'll forget where it is or that you have it. It's plastic crap that was most likely produced unethically and will end up in landfill.

I recently heard this US comedian say that when she went to Walmart and looked at the Halloween aisle all she saw was clean landfill. Applies to Wilko too, it seems.

There are so many nice things you can do at Halloween and Guy Fawkes that don't involve mindless consumption and waste. I promise I'm not the person who hands out toothbrushes on Halloween, but honestly, this crap frustrates me so much.
 
Thank(space)you said:
I'm doing a jack and giving my lukewarm take on things. I'm watching Maid and there's so many times I've felt like I'm watching a version of Jack's origin story. (Although I'm not calling into dispute Maid's truth) Jack must be fuming there's another popular pov voice out there all up in her niche
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Yup and she hopefully got paid sweet Netflix dollars for the rights.
 
Ispyabudgetbeanblogger said:
I feel like we are back on thread 20 (or 30 or 40, etc.). This is what brought so many of us here. How can someone who is clearly such a rampant consumer claim to be poor/traumatised by poverty/frugal? That two-headed beast is the single least necessary thing in the world. It's £35 you may as well have chucked in the bin. You use it for one night, if you are organised you pack it away and reuse it again for one night next year. Then the batteries will leak, or you'll forget where it is or that you have it. It's plastic crap that was most likely produced unethically and will end up in landfill.

I recently heard this US comedian say that when she went to Walmart and looked at the Halloween aisle all she saw was clean landfill. Applies to Wilko too, it seems.

There are so many nice things you can do at Halloween and Guy Fawkes that don't involve mindless consumption and waste. I promise I'm not the person who hands out toothbrushes on Halloween, but honestly, this crap frustrates me so much.
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Yes me too. The skip thing is an example, I think she said she's had 2 skipfuls of absolute shite taken away from her house recently. I mean, for a start, how does it even occur to someone to rent a skip outside of building work, and who on earth would have enough junk to fill them other than someone who just spends with such complete abandon on single-use tat which is going straight to landfill. The absolute nerve of her hashtagging her insta posts #frugalmom etc and giving advice on how to repurpose stuff etc when she's consuming with such abandon that it properly gives me The Fear.
 
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