How to describe Sarah Jane Goodwin?
Entitled, grifting slob.
Sarah is 46 years old and has never worked an honest day in her life, but is of the impression that her no-experience will bag her a top-paying NHS Psychologist role just as soon as she finishes her Psych Masters, one day.
Sarah claims to have an English degree but so far is yet to tweet anything in English to mu followers.
Sarah has three sons, a 26 year old from her first relationship, and 14 year old twin boys from a later relationship that ended when they were babies. Sarah is desperate for one or all of her sons to be disabled enough to qualify for extra welfare payments. She says her eldest son has ADHD but he has not been formally assessed. She has armchair-diagnosed one of her twins as having autism, and she has an asthmatic son so she makes asthma his whole personality; think ‘Luke’ in The Brothers Grimsby. It is the general consensus that any behavioural issues her sons have are more likely a result of shoddy parenting than neurodiversity, but she won’t accept that because there’s no cash or sympathy in it for her then.
As well as pathologising her sons’ every breaths, Sarah spends a lot of time consulting Dr Google on what condition she can claim to have next to get her off the hook of ever contributing back to society. So far what’s holding her back from getting her first job at the age of 46 is a three year old ankle break, periods, a mild thyroid condition, a slight iron deficiency, and migraines that she used to get when she was 22.
When Sarah isn’t on Google looking for her next symptoms to exaggerate, she’s tweeting into the void. It has long been routine for Sarah to tweet all night to nobody until at least 3 AM, and then sleep all day and achieve nothing much. Sarah seldom seems to cook her boys a hearty meal or spend any kind of time with them. She does however ensure they have all the latest tech, fastest broadband, popular subscriptions, designer clobber, takeaways for tea, £600 food shop budgets for all of the sugary treats their hearts could desire, trips to Alton Towers Resort, and basically everything a materialistic teen could want.
How can Sarah afford it all on her benefits income? Are benefits too generous? Well, she’d have you believe so! But when you dig a little deeper you realise she doesn’t pay any of her essential bills for starters, and then she blags money off strangers on the internet with cries of “poverty” and “single muvva” and “SEN”.
Sarah doesn’t take accountability for her own poor spending habits, nor does she seem to believe she should have to pay her way in life, nor her bills, so instead she expects generosity of strangers to pick up the tab while she blows all of her benefits money as if it were all disposable income.
Here are some of Sarah’s many dubious crowdfunds, before she closed her JustGiving following a threat to report her for Benefits Fraud, and after Tattle contributors had her BuyMeACoffee closed down:
The “charity fundraiser” Grift:
[To be filled in re: Her taking donations for directly to hers and her eldest’s accounts for a school fundraiser and then paying the school months later]
The Dentists Grift:
Sarah’s eldest son made her remove it out of sheer embarrassment, but Sarah had appealed to the kindness of folk on Twitter/X with her BuyMeACoffee link once again to raise £75 to lend to her son for an emergency dentist appointment.
Of course, she didn’t say what would happen to the £75 once her son paid it back, but she didn’t have to; we know she’d just pocket it.
The Sweeties-for-Babies Grift:
Despite having just cashed in hundreds from The Aldi Grift, Sarah was once again at it asking for fivers for sweeties for her poor (teenage) babies who only get Christmas presents from her
because she has ostracised them from the rest of the family. Even if those Christmas presents are hundreds of pounds worth of tech that many families can’t afford. That particular year, it was a VR headset.
The Aldi Grift:
[To be completed]
The (Dubious) Cooker Grift:
She’s crowdfunded for every other thing imaginable, but has consistently been trying to get cooker funding from a charity. It appears that she may not want to be asked to show a receipt for this one.
It’s been broken since October 2022 but she’s managed two Xmas dinners ok. The air fryer/minioven was bought a month before the cooker broke.
And the hotplate was funded by the kindly but duped Ruth.
Let’s not forget that when she was actually offered supply & fitting of a replacement, she ignored the offer until it was discussed here, then wrecked the relationship with the donor.
She raised at least £700 from Aldibeg but prioritised a carpet fitter, a locksmith, and decorating. People suggested that she could buy the cooker she’d been pining after for a year. That did not go down well at all.
“A big socialist account was nasty to me”
There’s a row she has referred to which appears to have kicked off over another crowdfunder after she first started grifting for the cooker.
It’s the “a big socialist account was nasty to me last year” story. I think it’s safe to assume that the “suspended account” tweets were from our own LadySarahJaneOfLondonshire.
Is that what happened though? Because it looks like her first reaction was to call the woman a “stupid cow”, then log into an alt to attack her sworn enemy Jill on the same thread, then the next day again to unsuccessfully approach the blue account.
The big takeaway from the attack on Jill is this for me:
Classy.
Anyway, here’s how Saz relates the story:
And here’s how it actually played out. I’m guessing it kicks off when the blue account eye rolls at a retweet for a Sazza Crowdfunder.
The MOT Grift:
[To be completed re: the multiple begs for help to pay the MOT on her car that she hasn’t got a licence to drive
The ‘Rent Arrears’ Grift:
It’s easy to lose track of how many times she’s actually said she’s paying off her arrears, but here’s at least some of it:
She crowdfunded for £950 of £1200 needed in February 2023, so essentially only had £250 left to pay - doable. That’s twenty and a bit quid a month for a year.
But in August and October 2023 she claimed she was paying £65 per month in rent arrears. So from her £950/£1200 payout in February that’s at least Feb £65, March £65, April £65, May £65, June £65, July £65, August £65, September £65, October £65 - which totals £585!
£950 + £585 = £1,535. But her arrears were only £1200? But she’s still paying them?
She’s also said she’s getting a Household Support Fund to help, and also paid off £200 at the start of October, and £100 at the end of October out of the Aldi grift, and £250 off in May
this year. So she’s paid off at least £2,085 of £1,200 arrears and she’s
still going?
For someone who claims to have a diploma in bookkeeping, she sure ain’t very good at keeping books!
UPDATE: Sarah secured a Discretionary Housing Payment to clear her arrears. She claims to have been stuck in a loop of £400 debt after Universal Credit migration. Not quite sure how that math is supposed to math, what happened to the £1200 crowdfund?
The Uniform & Bus Passes Grift:
In October 2022 Sarah cashed in £860 from a crowdfund for school uniform and bus passes. But umm, didn’t the boys start at their new school in September 2022? What were they wearing and how were they getting there, on the days that they weren’t on a term-time caravan holiday, of course…
Sarah had obviously already managed to pay for their uniforms before pocketing the £860 as a bonus, that she had crowdfunded without at the time mentioning the £160 payout due from Pupil Premium.
Of course though, her grifting for “uniform” has long continued since.
The Deportation Grift:
Sarah’s eldest son’s long-distance internet girlfriend came to stay without the correct visa. Oops! Sarah took it upon herself to crowdfund £1700 for her flight home.
Depher even contributed a generous £450 to the cause!
Sarah has however never proven that (all of) the money was spent as intended. She refuses to, and gets quite defensive when questioned.
The Laptops Grift:
Sarah was so desperately poor with such desperately poorly kids at home and she needed help to buy laptops for home-learning in
May 2022:
However, in a “told you so” moment she outed herself with her poorly edited receipts. It seems she had actually already bought and paid for the laptops in
February 2022:
Laptop 1 was £279 - £7 refund (marked in pink) = £272.
Laptop 2 was £272.96.
That makes £544.96, so one might question why was she crowdfunding £600 (of which she blagged £570) and how, if she was so poverty-stricken, did she manage to pay for the laptops 3 months prior to raising the funding?
But it gets worse. It looks like the laptops had a discount code on them as well (marked in green) and Laptop 1 was actually £216.20 - £7 refund = £209.20, and Laptop 2 was actually £232.02, so the grand total was £441.22.
£441.22 for two laptops that she claimed £570 of £600 for from the generous public months later.
She never did explain the discrepancy.
The Private Treatment Grift:
In 2021 Sarah raised money for treatment that she couldn’t get on the NHS. The reason she couldn’t get it on the NHS? She didn’t meet the threshold, she didn’t need it.
The Tumble Drier Beg:
The Blown Down Fence Grift:
Sarah claims to live in poverty and it’s everyone’s fault but her own that she can’t provide school uniform for her lads, but here are some examples of her absolutely revoltingly entitled frivolous spending:
The swimsuit:
The Starbucks she chucked away:
The car:
The bed frame:
The £600 food shops:
Taxis:
Taxis for after sun:
The broadband:
The gym membership:
The trampoline and swing set:
The food frequently left out:
Sarah seems to ostracise herself and her kids from everyone and anyone. She’s rude, entitled, and incapable of holding a conversation that doesn’t full-circle back to me-me-me. She will turn anyone else’s tragedy into her own me-rail. She’s ruffled a lot of feathers along the way:
The one where she was sexting someone else’s man:
A young chap, not much older than her eldest son, slid into her DM’s and asked if he could buy her and her poor, starving kids a meal.
He then engaged in further polite conversation with her.
This chap’s ladyfriend approached Sarah to ask if her boyfriend had been messaging her as if he were single. A whole thing went down, which ended in the man contacting the police to report harassment from Sarah. She shared screenshots of sexts between her and him (on a wide open Twitter account that her kids have access to) and argued with the ladyfriend a lot, calling her all sorts of derogatory mental health slurs and mocking the poor woman for having lost two siblings to suicide.
It transpired that Sarah was holding the young man and his girlfriend accountable for her having missed the deadline to apply for a £300 grant (because the sexting distracted her) and so she said they owed her 300 quid.
It seems she romanticised her conversation with Corey, translated his kindness of buying a McDonalds for her kids as him ‘buying her dinner’ and asking if she ever had a break in a hotel for a night as ‘inviting her to stay in a hotel’. No wonder they had to report harassment, looks like she went full bunny boiler on them!
The one where she was offered a cooker but chose to ignore it and beg for cash instead:
The one where Reann Jenkins outed her sock account:
The one where she made herself an internet arch nemesis:
The one/s where she got banned from Twitter:
The one where she tried to shoehorn herself into the tragedy of missing women:
Sarah’s multiple Twitter identities:
Sarah has had more than one account suspended/banned, has “alt” accounts, dormant accounts, and frequently changes her Twitter handle. This last can make it less than straightforward to search her tweets. This list represents the account names of which we are aware.
@SaresPagexox
@Iam_SarahJay
@CissyJupe
@SJOffers
@SarahJay_G
@Iam_SarahJJay
@Iam_SarahJJayzzz
@MissSarah_Jay
@IamSarahJayJay
@IamSarahJayJay2
@IamSarahJayKay
@iamsarahjayjay5
@IamSarahJJayxx
@Iamsarahjayze
@DeeMeanz
@NwProfileWhoDis
