i swear babs' vlogs would make a pretty decent drinking game: everyone take a shot each time babs says one of her two favourite words: SHOOKETH or RABID.
so this sunday's vlog we're treated to yet another spending-my-own-money-on-utter-crap-in-home-bargains "haul". she can justify continuing to accessorise her hot chocolate station with sheer tat, yet still has to beg for #gifts and freebies - the #gifted beauty advent calendar she mentions is undoubtedly the result of her going on the scrounge, as those things aren't cheap. she very kindly throws a home bargains advent calendar that she brags she snapped up for a couple of quid into her giveaway - such a thoughtful, kind-hearted soul, when her own advent calendar is probably worth at least £50. why not give that one away to your followers, when you can easily afford to buy one similar for yourself? especially when it was undoubtedly lovingly labelled "crap" opened under the hashtag #emmaopenscrap. she's promised to open each day on her insta stories though, so she can rub her expensive beauty product gifts in her followers faces, whilst they watch their children eat a chocolate from their £1 advent calendar - which are probably exactly the same as the advent calendars babs bought for her children. no splashing out unless it's #gifted, eh babs.
as for the hot chocolate station, which at this point must take up at least half her kitchen, yet she literally NEVER uses - babs has bought yet another box of candycanes, presumably just so the almost identical box she bought last week don't get lonely, a box of miniature candycanes, sprinkles and - wait for it - a box of paper straws....because obvs hot chocolate is regularly drunk through a straw (?!) especially a paper straw that will immediately turn to soggy mush in a hot drink. she even admits they likely won't be used - so essentially yet another hot chocolate station decoration. i swear this whole ridiculous hot chocolate station is all just for show, as babs has made it clear that despite having all the ingredients and accessories at home, she'd much rather waste all that money she spent stocking up and decorating her hot chocolate station and buy a giant costa hot chocolate instead.
there's also the usual reference to her kids essentially being the bane of her life. babs has bought a couple of sticker books to keep the children entertained at "those festive meals you have to take the kids to" - such a drag, having to take your own kids with you to christmas celebrations. *rolls eyes* why even have kids if it's such a chore to be seen with them? presumably these are on those occasions she can't dump them on nannysan - probs because she's referring to family meals which her parents are also attending. imagine having to cope with your children also being present, and possibly occasionally wanting your attention! the kids are six and eight, not tiny infants who can't entertain themselves - yet keeping them quiet with sticker books - which were all way too young for erin - so she can ignore them and focus on the important things; essentially downing gin, and taking selfies; is obvs the solution.
babs has also, finally, decided upon a christmas theme for the kitchen - since she has to have a totally different, clashing, unrelated theme for every room in the house. this year, she's decided she's RABID about candycanes, thus that will be her theme for the kitchen - makes sense, given the sheer amount of actual candycanes the kitchen currently contains. she's got so many, she could literally hang them off the walls, and still have enough to decorate her hot chocolate station.
babs has also bought a christmas outfit for lucy - because i'm sure her poor, sick dog - who babs is supposedly so worried about - who's probably feeling pretty rough, really wants to be shoved into a comedy outfit solely for babs' own entertainment - and the photos she can get for the gram, obvs. yet ofc babs never thinks of anyone but herself....and increasing her followers.
also, i noticed that she's chucked the paper straws, candycanes AND sprinkles - essentially everything she supposedly bought for her hot chocolate station - into her home bargains giveaway. i'm sure she'll claim they're duplicates, but at this point i'm beginning to question the true extent of her fancy hot chocolate station. is that why it's never used? because basically, like the rest of the population, she has a jar of cadbury's hot chocolate powder and an out-of-date canister of squirty cream in the fridge, plus a few random decorations balanced on a cake stand as a photo opportunity for the gram, and this exaggerated station she's always banging on about is all bullshit. because honestly, if you'd put THAT much effort into it, and bought all the fancy syrups and candycanes and sprinkles and marshmallows and sodding straws, you'd bloody use them. you wouldn't go to costa.
