Jack Monroe #127 No-spend year

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Honestly? I just want to know why she’s sorting through boxes of old newspaper clippings while she’s supposedly on a writing deadline.

I thought I was the procrastination queen but she is something else entirely.
I have appeared in several local, and national newspapers in my life 🔺️. A couple of times to do with my job, a few times to do with my LGBT activism, a couple of articles I have written (can I call myself a journalist?), a couple of times (a long time ago) with my school. I even appeared in an article in the gay press about a club opening event. I had a double paged centre spread about building heritage locally.

I didn't clip them out and keep them like some fame hungry idiot.
 
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Honestly? I just want to know why she’s sorting through boxes of old newspaper clippings while she’s supposedly on a writing deadline.

I thought I was the procrastination queen but she is something else entirely.
Oh when is she NOT going through her old stuff to make her feel all warm inside (and to find #content for twitter)? All the 'clearing out' she does is obviously hampered by her habit of 're-discovering' pieces of herself in her piles of paperwork and sharing it as evidence of how SPECIAL she is with her lucky followers.
 
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It must be traumatising going from family holidays to the countryside in a navy blue land rover, having so many clothes as a kid you could lay them all out in your own bedroom and colour co ordinate them, to having to budget. Thoughts and prayers babe, don’t worry about anyone else their genuine trauma
 
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I didn't clip them out and keep them like some fame hungry idiot.
That’s the thing. When people appear in papers, it is generally parents or grandparents that do the cutting out and keeping of clippings.

But how would that work here? When the clipping is about her stint in poverty when she refused/didn’t receive help from her family or denied the entire episode to them?

I am beyond confused.
 
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Look at my sad face and how traumatised I am. Defo wanna keep that where’s the chuffing scissors
 
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yep often thought from previous info posted here that the whole timeline doesnt seem quite right, from what shes said in the past
 
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Honestly? I just want to know why she’s sorting through boxes of old newspaper clippings while she’s supposedly on a writing deadline.

I thought I was the procrastination queen but she is something else entirely.
Doesn't she have to move soon?
 
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Imagine being so privileged and yet so void of personality, character, talent, skills and career options that you'd still be literally basking in, and living off of, one 6 month period nearly a decade ago in which it wasn't possible to impulsively waste shit loads of money on things such as you mention. Great post.
 
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Indeed. The thing is she wants us to be sympatheitc for her and make some excuses because she was once poor and is disabled etc.... but she also wants us to fawn over her like a celebrity who is an expert on all matters.
But she has no sympathy for others, she does nothing for anybody, unless it benefits her in some way, she constantly coat tails others efforts for self promotion. She lies, scams, deceives most of 'her' recipes aren’t, and she constantly has her hand out. At least big issue sellers actually provide something.
 
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Urgh. What a Grunk!
I might be in the early stages of labour (boredom and watching my toddler eat a slice of lemon voluntarily) but I HAD to catch up. Meeting her Dad and brother in Asda? Really? Why not just text and ask to meet in the car park after they’ve both done their respective shopping? Does the black brother know she has a monetised video of her describing herself as ‘white as (maybe Hellman’s) mayo’? It’s all a joke.
If she truly reacts in a scared way whenever the front door goes then SB will be picking up on that. Does he think their home is going to be taken away from them at any moment? Does he have visions of burly removal men carrying away the Strawberry Thief curtains and the mismatched cutlery?
 
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Oh fuck OFFFFFFFF you dramatic hoop! I’ve had a (singular) bailiff at my door before because I was a dick and didn’t pay my council tax (not sure why, was an ostrich about it)... she came in, we agreed I would pay it back at a monthly sum. She left.
Shame my ‘origin story’ isn’t exciting enough for a film or radio show as I could have added some HARROWING scenes such as:
-Borrowing £50 from my mum for shopping
-Putting petrol on a credit card
-Cutting up said credit card
-Cancelling Spotify
 
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The #24hoursinpolicecustody hashtag is hilarious (and *very* Jack).


How the fuck did she get a hot water bottle btw, surely that’s a potential weapon?! She was gagging for that cheese sandwich wasn’t she

If I ever caught my husband rifling through old mags and papers I’d assume he was having a funny turn / am dram moment about his own mortality? He didn’t even bother to buy them I was the mug traipsing round central trying to find xyz. Tbf to Jack he’s never known the glory of being an express & telegraph columnist so I imagine she has a lot more to be proud of
 
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yep often thought from previous info posted here that the whole timeline doesnt seem quite right, from what shes said in the past
And as the poverty was 10 years ago, any ccj's would have passed by now. So the bad credit guff doesn’t add up either
 
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yep often thought from previous info posted here that the whole timeline doesnt seem quite right, from what shes said in the past
She also said she moved somewhere between 18 times and 24, it depends on her story. How did these bailiffs manage to locate her with such regularity? She says they were knocking on her door daily. Benefits agency do not give out forwarding addresses, so she must have furnished them with her multitude of addresses.

Once the bailiffs had located her, and confirmed she had nothing of value, why would they return time and time again wasting their time?

Nothing, and I mean nothing, adds up. I would love to sit her down and properly question her to get to the truth. Make her explain where there's obvious discrepancies. I was tempted during the infamous thread 31when she made an appearance, but an online discussion page is not the place.
 
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I just said 'Yes @MancBee !' at my phone. Ha!

Touching on what @Veronicaaa said about keeping the clippings and 're-discovering' herself for attention.....in my opinion that's why she keeps saying she is going to curate these Twitter lists.

Because she MUST control them and claim credit for them. Whether it's a list about local services or how to sleep effectively. It's why she hashtagged Jack's lockdown larder. Because she needs people to believe she's being kind to others, ahead of her need for people to just have the damn help. And the genuine good she could do on her platform always has to be seen through the Jack Monroe lens. That's why she hates giving credit to others. Even her compliments to Marcus Rashford imply he is continuing work she started, rather than doing something extraordinary.

A grade A weapon.
 
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I was once in a national newspaper because a university club I helped start won a prize I was so proud that I bought 3 copies! Then I took a closer look at the picture and it became apparent that my skirt was tucked into the top of my panties.

I can relate to Jack because now I triple check my clothes, even when wearing traazers.

It never leaves you.
 
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Sorry to bring things back to the custard cake, but I honestly HATE it when she does this. Probably went to look for it but then got distracted by frotting herself over the SHEER POWER of her own writing.

 
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