TheLongMum #4 Charity shops, coffee hops, northern kn*bs, anything that makes the parenting stop

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worriedforher said:
Does she not work anymore?
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I'm sure it's been about 6 months since she left the doctors receptionist job, she posted on Instagram at the time asking if anyone knew anything about employment law so assuming she got sacked or laid off. And since then she's had her ADHD diagnosis so I can only assume she's now claiming PIP as she hasn't mentioned a job since. Alright for some eh.
 
As someone who has struggled with food & eating since I was old enough to eat solids, I still can’t get passed the comment or post somewhere she made (I can’t quite remember it exactly) where she mentioned she can’t stand different foods touching & she separates them on a plate. Ironically I have genuinely never seen someone have such a mix match of food on a plate touching as Anna does.

I have watched her Insta reels of the food she had in Italy & it made me feel so physically ill because of the amount of textures, flavours combined and just the sight of the knife in the cheese made my stomach turn. There was all sorts going on in every single meal she had.

I’ve had quite a bit of therapy growing up in relation to food and I am still learning how to deal with it.

I feel sad that people who have genuine anxiety & daily struggles surrounding food are overshadowed by influencers who clearly falsify their lives to fit into this ‘spicy brain’ narrative.

It’s not glamorous or trendy or cool. It’s bleeping debilitating.
 
She needs to just duck off with the “influencing” and the “content creating”. She is never going to be good at it. She makes no effort and when she does half arse it, you can tell she is utterly cringing at herself. Anna just get a normal job, one where you don’t get yourself sacked 🙄
 
Re her flurry of stories about stuff she's bought in chazzas and how she would like to make a business out of it. Yeah ok I'll give her credit for actually having a semi sensible idea for once, but how would that work exactly? Because buying in chazzas then reselling on vinted would make you zero profit unless you found a designer piece by chance. And if you're working on behalf of a 'client' and doing like a personal shopping type service then the chances of you actually finding what they're looking for would be near on impossible. So what, someone wants a red jumper so Anna spends three hours trawling every charity shop in the town, finds three red jumpers that are in the clients size, then the client says ooh yes thanks I'll take that one please, pays Anna the £4 that the jumper cost and Anna is left with two red jumpers and is now out of pocket? Ot would she charge for the service? Coz I wouldn't bloody pay for it 😂
 
jaggedlittlebill said:
Re her flurry of stories about stuff she's bought in chazzas and how she would like to make a business out of it. Yeah ok I'll give her credit for actually having a semi sensible idea for once, but how would that work exactly? Because buying in chazzas then reselling on vinted would make you zero profit unless you found a designer piece by chance. And if you're working on behalf of a 'client' and doing like a personal shopping type service then the chances of you actually finding what they're looking for would be near on impossible. So what, someone wants a red jumper so Anna spends three hours trawling every charity shop in the town, finds three red jumpers that are in the clients size, then the client says ooh yes thanks I'll take that one please, pays Anna the £4 that the jumper cost and Anna is left with two red jumpers and is now out of pocket? Ot would she charge for the service? Coz I wouldn't bloody pay for it 😂
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I think it'll just be standard buying and reselling. Some people do make money on it, picking up stuff they know will resell for higher amounts.
 
All the charity shops near me are getting so expensive, I can't imagine ever finding anything cheap enough that I could resell it on vinted for a profit, let alone making a business out of doing so.
 
So now because of her poor financial decisions (taking herself to Tuscany three months before Christmas when money was already tight) the kids are the ones who will pay the price. Never mind, hopefully B&M will have a sale on slime.

Seriously though it's November next week. If money is that much of an issue she should have been putting some aside for a while. I basically save up all year so my kid doesn't have a tit Christmas. Not much, maybe £20 a month in a little pot, but it adds up.
 

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