Running a GFM opens up a serious ethical landscape. Obviously, you have to ACTUALLY need the funds, and once you have them you need to spend them exactly on that for which you claimed you needed them.
That’s why when you’re creating a GFM, there’s an optional outline in the description section intended to help you organize your initiative. This is your opportunity to “sell yourself.” They tell you to state who you are, maybe what you do. What is the crisis or dire situation? And, most importantly—where is the money going?
To my knowledge, Alice barely followed those guidelines. She didn’t very well explain where the money is going. “I’m a single mum” is not specific enough. And the expenses she DID clarify, she needs to pledge to fulfilling with the money.
It’s abhorrent that she’s buying clothing. In my opinion, price doesn’t matter. I don’t care if it’s a twenty-five-cent spaghetti-strap top; that’s not where she claimed she would allot funding. If she has so many clothes to sell then she has so many clothes, period…and therefore she can likely stand to keep a small pile for herself. There are only seven days in a week and she has a washing machine—she’ll be alright.