Lydia Millen #207 When shifty became a swiftie!

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Just came here to say this:

From a vlog or two ago, Lydia exclaims:
‘I can’t believe the life I’ve curated for myself!’. She’s in awe of herself. She believes her own hype. All these rooms in her house that are being re-done for the umpteenth time have new names, like ‘the club room’. We will no doubt have a drawing room next. She’s putting wooden beams everywhere so she can pretend she’s posh. She needs a new pool table. The old one just isn’t cutting it anymore. Like Ali’s hair. It’s all befuddled these days.

‘There’s fresh bread on the island - I feel like I’m in a story book…’ . You are, love. This is pretend. It’s so much effort to just be someone who you’re really not. Watch her old videos. She honestly speaks like she’s from a completely different part of the country!!!! She is trying to do clipped English and it’s just faux, faux, faux.

‘I just don’t know why you wouldn’t wear cashmere when you’re out in the cold…’ well Lydia, some people can’t afford it! How out of touch is she?!!!! Isn’t it sad. Uggh. I still watch her. Why?!
 
That gym OMG what a disaster(and she knows it) 🤭 how long until she chances it? now it needs cabinetry, shelves and new gym equipment :rolleyes:.
agree... lol!

I do not think for a minute they originally planned to build in painted cabinets and shelves. The bench, lighting, and hung art reveal that they finished the room as she "designed" and now both hate how dark it is and she thinks... Oh I'll just put in a painted element to lighten up the room vs admit she made a massive mistake. The built ins she spoke about will be bulky and take up more floorspace. The last thing needed is shelving for decor in there and she's not realizing it will become the focal point of that room as you walk in and as you see the space from the other rooms. All they need is maybe baskets with towels and yoga mats/bands.

Maybe this is Ali coming up from a nap in the dungeon when he originally went to work out.... fell asleep lol

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absolute lie - who wants to film there? lol

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I no longer buy Hermes so what I do know and can say may of changed recently . I bought from 2009 to approx 2010/2012 Manchester Hermes . I was instructed by the French manager to buy on min 14 different lines of products inc babywear ! I hadn’t even got a child in 2009! Anyway… I built up a large collection and no bags offered despite 80k spends , finally I got a black Birkin . I was asking and asking for more (I don’t think Manchester receives many bags birkin kelly) they never offered me anything after the black Birkin . My friend from jersey was in a similar boat . She wanted a diamond Birkin in croc …. Her spends were off the scale and she didn’t get much from them either (she lived in Leeds before jersey hence she shopped in Manchester). When she moved to jersey she did a car tour of northern France and she scored bags by spending about 7-10 k a store in one hit from Lille and Rennes. She told me to go to them and mention her. Bingo! I got 2 incredible Ltd edition bags plus further Birkin sand Kelly’s with spends of much less maybe 2k -3.5 k (gbp). By then I had enough bags

I discovered the Birkin is a pain due to lack of long strap . I love the Kelly however. Right now I have kept one Kelly and have recently sold the rest. I feel the Birkin are too Kardashian looking plus no long strap

So when I spoke it was from my personal experience.

Some might be lucky , it may of changed.

If it’s that easy to get them however I’m surprised resellers and designer exchange seller etc are selling them all the time at much higher than rrp which makes me think it’s not easy
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Playing the Hermes game isn’t worth it . Sothebys is better !
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My friend from jersey felt it’s easier in smaller , quieter areas (I’ve never been to Rennes or Lille so can’t comment on size I dealt by phone) . She feels some stores have endless customers with £££ hence it’s harder. I suspect it’s managers who want max ££££ in some stores using the carrot and stick method to get people spending .
As far as I know from my SA, they have no say in quota bags offers in the UK now as the wish list is administered centrally. That’s not to say that earning them commission isn’t going to help with being offered special orders or making sure you’re prioritised when non quota items come in, but theoretically you just need to register your wish and wait (and probably remember to renew the wish). I got offered a Kelly in London in 2023 (Cadogan Place) with <£1,000 of spending history in a bit under two years, having renewed my wish once. Probably helped I was after a bright colour in a larger size rather than a neutral smaller bag. I expect it you’re after say, a black Mini Kelly or Birkin 25, you are “competing” for it with more high spenders, but it’s definitely possible in London now and I’ve seen accounts of other people having similar experiences of getting their wishes after only having made a couple of other purchases.
 
agree... lol!

I do not think for a minute they originally planned to build in painted cabinets and shelves. The bench, lighting, and hung art reveal that they finished the room as she "designed" and now both hate how dark it is and she thinks... Oh I'll just put in a painted element to lighten up the room vs admit she made a massive mistake. The built ins she spoke about will be bulky and take up more floorspace. The last thing needed is shelving for decor in there and she's not realizing it will become the focal point of that room as you walk in and as you see the space from the other rooms. All they need is maybe baskets with towels and yoga mats/bands.

Maybe this is Ali coming up from a nap in the dungeon when he originally went to work out.... fell asleep lol

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absolute lie - who wants to film there? lol

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Ooooh filming you say Elsie.
I wonder if a production company are looking for a new location to film Saw 11🤔 👌🏼

It is a bungalow Elsie… be grateful
 
skipped right to the reveal! OMG I am LOVING WHAT A TRAIN WRECK AND COLLOSAL WASTE OF MONEY THIS WAS. SHE HATES IT! LMFAO

The lights are bare bulbs and JARRING that's for sure! Lydia just because soho farmhouse has these in a massive swimming pool area does not mean they can be cut and pasted into your underground shed/torture chamber. Farmhouse HAD to use wet rated lighting and it probably looks terrible and unwelcoming there too. Why make any of these choices in your home where you want to be inspired to work out when you are tired?

Who would want to do pilates and yoga on that floor?

Oh and don't get used to this VISTA - no no no she's adding more CABINETRY AND STORAGE! All this house is .... pointless shelving. At least she's gonna paint it so it's lighter.

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OMG they ripped out the massive free TV and replaced it with a tiny TV framed with an etsy fancy frame. She can't work out how to keep the artwork on all the time... but come on... why would anyone ever think that's not a TV in a gym? Who does she think she's fooling?

She wishes she could rip out all of the mirrors and TV and put a hidden tv behind the mirror. WHAT? It's a fricking Gym in a basement... not a presidential suite bathroom at ritz carlton.

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Begging for new gym equipt because the kindly gifted (or cheap amazon) previous items are not ASSthetic enough

all new weights, bike, reformer,
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Oh she wishes she hadn't clad the ceiling with the brown wood... would rather have done tounge and groove painted in dropcloth.

Woman.. that also would look strange. Though a lighter color would help with the low ceilings, every choice in this room is WRONG.


OH now she's not putting the shed cladding on the ceiling of the bathroom - she's learned her lesson here. SHE'S GOING TO APPLY ALL OF THESE LESSONS TO THE NEW HOUSE THEY ARE BUYING
Don’t forget begging for the mirror tv.
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New post for the (made me pee my pants laughing) wine "cellar" under the stairs. For real I think with the slope you can get maybe 20 bottles of wine in along the wall *not the part she's pointing to- NOT temp controlled... per my post this weekend. oH SHE WANTS TO ADD LIGHTING LMFAO and an OAK MANTLE above a crittel door to make a real focal point of the dumb area.

ANOTHER DERANGED DECISION - She's not even gonna fit this "collection" in there. Mind you this has all been living in a swampy leaky bathroom floor (not on a rack) so it's probably all skunked. But what does she care? She didn't pay for any of it.

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Put real wine fridges in the games room - or make a wine feature wall with temp control somehow. OR make the office that the imaginary staff never works in a real wine room. Oh wait... that's expensive when you can't beg it.
Since one of the staff is Carrie. A wine room slash office would be perfect. They could get drunk and cackle down there to their hearts content
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She could totally Airbnb to gym as a sex dungeon when the money stops coming in. Or become a dominatrix and bring in money that way
 
As far as I know from my SA, they have no say in quota bags offers in the UK now as the wish list is administered centrally. That’s not to say that earning them commission isn’t going to help with being offered special orders or making sure you’re prioritised when non quota items come in, but theoretically you just need to register your wish and wait (and probably remember to renew the wish). I got offered a Kelly in London in 2023 (Cadogan Place) with <£1,000 of spending history in a bit under two years, having renewed my wish once. Probably helped I was after a bright colour in a larger size rather than a neutral smaller bag. I expect it you’re after say, a black Mini Kelly or Birkin 25, you are “competing” for it with more high spenders, but it’s definitely possible in London now and I’ve seen accounts of other people having similar experiences of getting their wishes after only having made a couple of other purchases.

We have two different experiences and that’s all good!. Like I have said before maybe it’s changed since I was buying. It can’t be the first time you have heard of the “Hermes game”. It absolutely happened to me and others . You are benefitting from an easier ride it seems which is fantastic if you are looking for the bags .

I 100% regret playing the game and spending so much especially when I only got 1 bag but we live and learn. It’s a pity I just happened to like them at the time, before the kardashians and every other tacky celeb bought them. They have lost their lustre for me and I’ve learnt to look at what I need so a top handle and long strap also Birkin as weigh a lot when empty never mind with items in . I do like Kelly’s however but think Launer do a nice traviata uk made version .

Lydia uses the same bags with every outfit she has and it doesn’t always work.
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So pls see attached. She says she doesn’t live in a bungalow 😂

Her layout of her main floor says otherwise . Would she prefer it if we called it a townhouse perhaps or are they only townhouses if they aren’t attached to another?!
 

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Her parents divorced about 25 years ago if not longer. Surely it’s not taken her all this time to realise it was for the better for her parents and they didn’t do it just to ruin her life. It doesn’t take emotional intelligence to realise or understand this. Shocked it took a life coach to help her come to this realisation. She is truly embarrassing.
She really has no depth to her and she has no personality to mask just how shallow her brain and thoughts are.


Not to Lydia-fend but a lot of people go through their entire life and never work out childhood traumas such as a parental separation. She really isn't abnormal in this regard, however she has been a cow at times with how she chose to pose the issue, especially in regards to her mother and her financial situation, which made her seem very transactional and materialistic. I do hope she moves past it and makes her peace.
 
Oh and she sprayed so many times so fast I couldn’t even count. Bet noone at the party could get within 10 feet of her!


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Do you think MJ way is irritated by how much Lydiot copies her (every single item here) yet rarely wears or promotes her brand avelle? This entire look is copied like SWF! Lydia even admitted she bought the bag and necklace immediately after seeing Lauren wearing.




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Isn't a belt around your neck used in autoerotic things like hanging yourself from the door handle. I think it's called autoerotic, am too scared to google it.
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I think it is a necklace although I agree it looks like the Kelly bracelet
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It’s a design which is good on the Hermes bags. Pity it doesn’t suit this bag 😂
lol I thought it was a belt
 
agree... lol!

I do not think for a minute they originally planned to build in painted cabinets and shelves. The bench, lighting, and hung art reveal that they finished the room as she "designed" and now both hate how dark it is and she thinks... Oh I'll just put in a painted element to lighten up the room vs admit she made a massive mistake. The built ins she spoke about will be bulky and take up more floorspace. The last thing needed is shelving for decor in there and she's not realizing it will become the focal point of that room as you walk in and as you see the space from the other rooms. All they need is maybe baskets with towels and yoga mats/bands.

Maybe this is Ali coming up from a nap in the dungeon when he originally went to work out.... fell asleep lol

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absolute lie - who wants to film there? lol

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Fark she is the gift that keeps giving haha 😂
 
agree... lol!

I do not think for a minute they originally planned to build in painted cabinets and shelves. The bench, lighting, and hung art reveal that they finished the room as she "designed" and now both hate how dark it is and she thinks... Oh I'll just put in a painted element to lighten up the room vs admit she made a massive mistake. The built ins she spoke about will be bulky and take up more floorspace. The last thing needed is shelving for decor in there and she's not realizing it will become the focal point of that room as you walk in and as you see the space from the other rooms. All they need is maybe baskets with towels and yoga mats/bands.

Maybe this is Ali coming up from a nap in the dungeon when he originally went to work out.... fell asleep lol

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absolute lie - who wants to film there? lol

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100% agree, she thinks putting cabinetry in there will make it lighter and she will probably paint the wooden ceiling next as well.
 
agree... lol!

I do not think for a minute they originally planned to build in painted cabinets and shelves. The bench, lighting, and hung art reveal that they finished the room as she "designed" and now both hate how dark it is and she thinks... Oh I'll just put in a painted element to lighten up the room vs admit she made a massive mistake. The built ins she spoke about will be bulky and take up more floorspace. The last thing needed is shelving for decor in there and she's not realizing it will become the focal point of that room as you walk in and as you see the space from the other rooms. All they need is maybe baskets with towels and yoga mats/bands.

Maybe this is Ali coming up from a nap in the dungeon when he originally went to work out.... fell asleep lol

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absolute lie - who wants to film there? lol

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"We've already had people asking to use the space to film"

I don't believe Lydia for one minute that any professional crew or person in the industry or any person for that matter, said to them they want to use that space for filming in the basement horror room.

The only people that might show some interest and think that space is useable for filming in the underground wood room, is a kinky porno director to film footage for people that have some weird wood fetish, or to host a bondage party involving hooks and chains, handcuffs and whips. It’s that sort of vibe down there. You never know, Ali might partake in the action with his many pairs of socks down his pants, but instead of wearing his beige trousers, he might go rogue and wear some leather studded jocks that's been hidden in his sock drawer for special occasions'.
 
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After watching her latest offering, I think the days of the wooden ceiling are numbered, that's going to be painted shortly. Also wondering what sort of storage she can get for the weights that will take up less space, she just wanted something less modern.
She is obviously coveting Josie's Gym so it could have been a better idea for her to swap the gym and the office, so she would have been able to let in the fresh air to the gym. That bigger (current gym) space would then have made a good big office.
Bring on the fake fireplace, her decor ideas just keep in giving. ;-)

Lydiot's Inspo for the Gym


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