Acre Homestead

[Lady Pinkadella]

So, Becky was at a garage sale and vintage sale and proved once again that she simply has bad taste. Aside from the fact that I generally found the quality there rather mediocre, I hate it when she touches everything. She bought cheap jewelry, a broken rolling pin, and a striped pottery box. And for a whopping $65, she bought a stand with a hanging flower pot. The thing is very rusty, the hanging basket can't be removed, and I'm sure the thing will fall over at the first gust of wind. Oooopsie, great finds, Becky.

 

[SarahN]

There’s a Becky bundle available on green stalks website. It’s three hundred dollars for two towers. For a bit of plastic! I think thats expensive especially as you have to water them every single day. I’d rather have a pot. I agree how boring was the last vlog. I’d also have liked to see a few clips from the evening do. That evening dress was way too short!!

300 hundred dollars for plastic. I’ll pass. I’d much rather invest in a few raised garden beds made out of wood. I don’t see the hype with these green stalks especially if you have a large garden. Tiny balcony why not.

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

Josh and I will be going LIVE on Thursday April 24th at 4pm PT to do a Blind BUTTER Taste Test! I will be buying a few different store brands and high end brands to see which butter has have the best flavor! I hope to see you there. Becky

OMG, I've always wanted to watch those two idiots stuff themselves with butter. I think I'd throw up just watching it and my gallbladder would collapse. So I'll refuse and look forward to your recap of this monumental event.

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

Her Thanksgiving vlogs were once again a celebration of joy for list friends. It's unimaginable how much effort her mother puts into all her lists.

While cooking, Becky seemed a little annoyed by her mother taking up a lot of screen time. The bread turkey was cool - I thought that was a good idea.

However, I could have done without Becky's constant, wide-eyed facial expression when she tasted something.

Happy Thanksgiving to our US Tattlers.

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

It's crazy how these super fans believe that the vlogs show real life. Basically, most YouTubers are nothing more than self-promoters in scripted reality shows. Becky has found her niche (good for her) and she is moving in it. Even if she sells a lot of things to the audience as if she were stepping out of her comfort zone, it's basically always about the same topics.

And it gets really annoying when her camera-hungry mother comes along with her strange lists and schedules.

I don't want to see any more of her family life, her simpleton husband is enough. The speed at which he renovated the upper floor (and it's still not finished) would have driven me crazy.

And I'm sure Becky has at least a nanny (maybe even a home help) because Josh certainly isn't looking after a toddler while she's filming. So she won't give a real insight into her everyday life because that would damage the image she has created of the hard-working housewife, mother and homestead saint.

I don't envy her success, it's a business that pays her bills and entertains the audience.

 

[Catlady1]

I’m going to come out and say I don’t like her lives. I find Josh wooden and boring.

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

It took them two weeks to fill the beds with compost. Josh seems to go to the gym every day, but shoveling compost doesn't seem to be his favorite task. Her parents came together once to help with the planting, and her father came twice more alone. And yet, she's still not making any progress.

It took her two hours to think about how to plant four wine barrels. And at least that long to do it. Now she has so many plants left over that she wants to buy more wine barrels. I'm sure they're not cheap. Next time, maybe she should just check Proven Winners' website (before buying the plants); they have a good configurator for container recipes. Easy peasy, even Beckys can use it.

She said she spent an hour and a half thinking about where to plant the tomatoes. The plants have been sitting around for two vlogs, and they still haven't been planted. Becky, think less, work more. Work smarter, not harder.

Then she tipped one of the Green Stalks over and let it fall onto the rhubarb, pruning it naturally. And last but not least, she also killed the truck's battery. Let's see how long it sits between the flowerbeds until Josh fixes it.

Sometimes you'd think her vlogs aren't real, but comedy.

 

[aulty]

Her last vlog about the trip to Greenstalk is right at the top of the list of worst vlogs ever. What the hell was that? I've rarely seen something so uninspiring. Aside from flooring and feet, there was little to see.

OMG yes, this was the WORST travel vlog I've ever seen. Does she go on 1 flight every 10 years because she feels the need to document the most basic things - look we checked in our luggage!

• So by Becky's logic, staying somewhere for a couple of weeks means you have lived there. I shall update my CV accordingly - I'll finally be interesting!
• Does she not rewatch her videos after she did the narration, because how can you not realise that you tell the same story multiple times - yes, the family all work for the company, they produce in the US, it took them 6 years to make a profit, the actual moulding is done at another company down the road, DollyWOOD!! FFS ...
• And everything is NICE. It's like when she goes shopping, points at everything and calls it nice but never buying anything (instead she orders online all the time)
• I think the only thing she was interested in was Buc ee's (yes, I had to look up the spelling), she spoke more enthusiastically about that oversized petrol station than she did about the company who sponsored the trip.
• All she ever does on those trips is driver around to get coffee and buy snacks.
• Her gushing over the amazing table setting - are you kidding me, there was a medium sized bunch of flowers in the middle of a table. Basic doesn't even begin to describe that one.

You are right, Josh could've filmed a few clips. She probably brought him to be her chauffeur.

BTW. this is what you missed if you didn't watch the 6 hour garden compilation: It died, I replanted it, that one also died, I put another seed in the ground, everything is fantastic, I overcrowded this bed, I have no idea what this is, I put those too close together, abundance, blessed, overcrowded, need to water, soil lacks nitrogen, overcrowded, my parents come round to help me harvest, the end.
I am not even kidding.

 

[aulty]

I've just looked up the compost bin she is eyeing up and what a waste of money ($999 btw) that would be. The video on their site is very misleading, if you ask me.
First, the capacity of that thing is merely half the size of the bin because the bottom half is all the mechanical stuff and air filters. And it doesn't really produce compost, it just chops up and somewhat dehydrates the kitchen scraps. Like a garbage disposer box. They even admit it on the website - its a food recycler, not a composter.
Get yourself couple of composter Daleks, love.

 

[Scarlett Love]

I watched her video yesterday and the title said "Very Sad Update" so I am thinking maybe a dog died, or chickens. But, no it was bees. Maybe I am heartless but I think that's a bit dramatic for the death of insects.

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

Typical Becky, overdramatic, and also nothing new; she said a few weeks ago that the bees had rehomed themselves, but now they're supposed to be dead—how does she know?

Her fruit trees also desperately needed pruning in the spring; they've been severely neglected. But too late now.

And more constant advertising for the Greenstalks, though more of a deterrent, because her strawberry plants look pathetic. Mine are nice and bushy and already have their first blossoms, even though we're still having night frosts.

It was also hilarious how she drove around to get doormats and cushions for the garden furniture, and none of them fit. She tells every story, like the staging of her previous house, at least three times per vlog. And if I hear again that she wants to learn the skill to decorate beautifully, I'll start screaming, yeah. First of all, she has absolutely no taste and a bad eye for shapes and colors. Looking for inspiration on Pinterest is certainly not a bad idea, but it's better to do it before buying a bunch of unsuitable things. I wonder how many months it will take her to return the items or whether she'll just put them in storage.

 

[aulty]

Oh goody, I can't wait for the lard episode.

Oil tasting and butter boards are a thing (wasn't it very trendy in the early 00 to have different olive oils out for starters?), but I don't think it makes for very engaging content. Especially for viewers outside of the US who can't buy those brands. And I already know Kerrygold is nice.
And the last thing I need is a lecture from stories-on-repeat Becky.

 

[Catlady1]

I think it’s Josh who doesn’t like clutter and mess. So she is worried about his disapproval of anything she does. She is always thinking will Josh like it before do I like it. With things she says that he obsessively washes his car and is the person who cleans the floors with his special mop!! He is clearly anal about tidiness. Apart from the fact it took him two years to finish the trims on the house!!

 

[aulty]

Hello Friend,

Becky is a tradwife homesteader from the PNW, totally relatable like all of them are with their multi-million dollar properties, child minders and landscapers. On the bingo card for this YTer are shoping her basement, mentioning local farmers, Josh and I, stuff dying in her garden, the phrase 'on this day', adding cilantro and salt to everything, and her tasting face. Bonus points if she re-tells her olive oil story.
She has started leaning more into her inner Nara Smith.
Almost 700k followers is nothing to frown at, there clearly is an audience.
Sometimes she teams up with her Mother, sold to us as a party planner genius, where they talk really loudly and overcomplicate everything - don't get me started on the most convoluted shopping list in history. Her father is a pastor, she was home schooled.

In the grand scheme she is harmless, if a bit annoying. The internet always get's their blood pressure up because she doesn't show or mentions her young child (which I personally think is a sensible desicion). She repeats herself A LOT and has a go-to vocabulary- on Insta it's fun to watch out for her creative spelling.
Her gardening grinds my gears, I think she pretends to love it for videos but isn't really into it and, imho, it shows. They had a gread garden put in and she has a dedicated room to start her seeds but doesn't really get the results she could get in a space like that. I know successful gardening is hard but unlike Emma who makes it really clear that she doesn't know what she is doing, Becky's videos almost look like tutorials.
I also HATE to fugly green stalks.

 

[Catlady1]

Her Mum makes hosting seem so hard I think!! Shopping lists cooking lists timing lists on and on and on. I prefer ina gartens way. Make one thing buy one thing and ask guests to bring one thing. And keep it simple. I think the other way about gardening and cooking. I think she likes making you tube videos but finds being a Mum harder. Over the past couple of days she’s spent most of it making sour dough bread!!

 

[Scarlett Love]

I really dislike the way she has to justify and explain why she buys something. I really don't care.

I found it really weird in her video last week that she asked Josh for help in the garden and he said no, he wanted to work on irrigation. Don't they talk? It seems like she'd have already asked, like the night before, "hey Josh I could use help for a few hours in the garden, I'd like you to do xyz". Or, you work for me so hop to it (kidding, sort of).

 

[Lady Pinkadella]

I think she may change her posting schedule from every other day?

I wonder if it was such a good idea for Josh to quit his day job (or wasn't that his own decision?).

I think before, they paid the bills from his salary, and what Becky did with YouTube was (her) extra money—and she certainly needs a lot of it, because she seems to really enjoy shopping. And with what was left over, they could go on vacation or do gardening projects, etc.

Now, YouTube/social media is their main source of income, and what was once a hobby has become their livelihood. It seems to me that this has completely changed the mood and the dynamic between them.

I can't imagine Becky getting a regular job again, and whether Josh will be content being a YouTuber husband in the long run, who knows.

 

[Scarlett Love]

I have seen her throw compost onto the beds quite a few times and as weird as I found that, it drives me crazy that she just throws yard waste over the fence. What kind of system is that? Wouldn't it attract bugs and pests and look terrible?

I have wondered what it does to a guy's ego to work for their wife. How many influencers have had a similar situation and ultimately divorced.

Once again she was proud of her stubby little carrots. I don't know why they amuse me so much.

 

[aulty]

Considering that at least some meat sold in supermarkets arrived there frozen and is thawed before they put it on the shelf, freezing it (again) is probably very common. I don't think it's done with chicken here. But in general I find her food safety around meat a bit questionable too. I think her half cooking (usually it's just searing the meat), cooling, fridging and cooking dishes for her dinner parties the next day sounds like a waste of energy. All to basically save just 1 step.
I have tried one of her summer salads, which she suggested to prepare a day ahead. I putting it into the fridge over night took away most of the flavour.

My current pet peeve with her is that she is so repetitive. She will explain things over and over again, the bees, the home milled wheat, hers is soft wheat and she will order some hard wheat which is better for breads or whatever. 10 minutes of her mentioning same three pieces of information over and over.
It is entertaining how much stuff she pawns off on Josh now, especially garden stuff.

 

[Catlady1]

When she’s got all that land to put a proper compost bin why does she need one in her kitchen? Is she that be lazy that she can’t trot down there every day with her waste?