The Frugality #5 Weeks and months to tile a floor, we love to cosplay being poor

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- Alex pleading poverty again by essentially trying to claim they had to sleep on a bare mattress because they couldn't afford to buy any bedding.
- They buy sourdough as a ‘treat’ because they don’t get to go out. But she just got back from a very lavish gifted holiday that she didn’t pay a penny for.
- Husband still hasn’t got a job and seemingly chooses not to work, she doesn’t work full time, they have the luxury off sending their kids to childcare 40 hours a week so have plenty of free time. But still insist on giving the impression they are totally frazzled and don’t get a spare minute to do anything!
- Silent on every social/world issue going but somehow did find time to slate a small, independently owned business for no real justifiable reason 🤢


Oh and let’s not forget her ruining her kitchen tiles with a cheap grout pen 🤣🤣 And I’ll never get over the cheek of her asking her followers to send her money!! I have definitely missed things!!
 
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EllsBellsWells said:
Thanks for the new thread! I’ll start the recap- feel free to add!

- Alex pleading poverty again by essentially trying to claim they had to sleep on a bare mattress because they couldn't afford to buy any bedding.
- They buy sourdough as a ‘treat’ because they don’t get to go out. But she just got back from a very lavish gifted holiday that she didn’t pay a penny for.
- Husband still hasn’t got a job and seemingly chooses not to work, she doesn’t work full time, they have the luxury off sending their kids to childcare 40 hours a week so have plenty of free time. But still insist on giving the impression they are totally frazzled and don’t get a spare minute to do anything!
- Silent on every social/world issue going but somehow did find time to slate a small, independently owned business for no real justifiable reason 🤢


Oh and let’s not forget her ruining her kitchen tiles with a cheap grout pen 🤣🤣 And I’ll never get over the cheek of her asking her followers to send her money!! I have definitely missed things!!
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Great recap! A few additional things that spring to mind:

- Alex’s shopping compulsion continues unabated with multiple purchases each week of yet more mass produced tat to further clutter up the house and gather dust.
- Alex was sent into a tailspin by the announcement of the imminent closure of her local IKEA, so dragged her sidekick along to stock up on some ‘essential’ items (during what is supposedly a working day for them both btw)
- The side return was miraculously tiled in a matter of days. Quite the contrast to the two-tiles-a-day speed that Chris operated at last summer.

I’d forgotten about the god awful grout pen and the complete dogs dinner she made of her perfectly nice kitchen tiles!!
 
slightly disheveled said:
After the bedding woes, she'll be advertising linen bundle next like the rest of them
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No such luck - just an extensive list of ways to ‘style’ yet more sweatshop-produced planet-wrecking H&M group garbage with a pair of normcore mumgarees nobody can even buy as they’re sold out. This could have actually been an alright post, except dungas have been back/about for absolutely years at this point, but also just seems weird for it to really seem like an ad or piece of paid for content by John Lewis, but she can’t actually make any money off it because she’s showing off a sold out item, and everything else is old. Is it purely about making a point to critics (hiya!) about even though she buys crap, she holds on to it and makes it ‘work hard’? Yawn…
 
MeWithTheHair said:
No such luck - just an extensive list of ways to ‘style’ yet more sweatshop-produced planet-wrecking H&M group garbage with a pair of normcore mumgarees nobody can even buy as they’re sold out. This could have actually been an alright post, except dungas have been back/about for absolutely years at this point, but also just seems weird for it to really seem like an ad or piece of paid for content by John Lewis, but she can’t actually make any money off it because she’s showing off a sold out item, and everything else is old. Is it purely about making a point to critics (hiya!) about even though she buys crap, she holds on to it and makes it ‘work hard’? Yawn…
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And she makes out she’s had things for like 27 years when she clearly bought (gifted) them 6 months ago 😂
 
So she’s avoiding school chat - interesting! It was National offer day yesterday. My bet is that she ‘didn’t get one of her top choices’ and will be going private (Daddy paying). I may be wrong though 🤷‍♀️

raaraat said:
Well she’s up to old tricks today. On the beg for a new bench to go in her all ready cramped kitchen,
Ah the life of poor old Alex
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She does not need a new bench. She does not need new anything!
 
I'm not sure her statement on freelancer maternity pay is quite right? Wouldn't she be entitled to maternity allowance which is the same amount as SMP? I work for a private company and got 90% for 6 weeks but then only SMP for the rest of the time and last 3 months unpaid. The point about no-one doing the work is fair enough but she's making it sound like there's no money available at all for the self employed.
 
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