Jack Monroe #244 Why has she turned this into supermarket sweep?

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Terrible

Lots of fruit and veg in the market this morning, possibly even cheaper than Jack’s supermarket. Shall I tell her so she can pass on this valuable information?

if she’s been forensically analysing all this data for the last decade, all the info she’s been mendaciously methodically collating will be compiled already, right? right? We’ll definitely see those receipts today, and that £20 shop comparison, won’t we?

We surely won’t see that basics haven’t actually increased by a billion percent, and wonder why Jack can no longer feed a family of three and stack a freezer any more.
 
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Skyfall

I don’t think they have a say on it. I don’t even think they can have many friends left-
cos how could they stick with someone who they know have built a life on lies?
How could they allow the boy to be exposed to such poverty/ or not, in a house with Bayliffs banging on the door.
How could they allow her to move her boy & life to London after ONE date?

make no sense that she has friends- acquaintances, maybe

 
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It’s The Truman Show

Nope that was my first thought too !!
 
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Rekyavikgirl

apart from collecting surplus hair to turn into firelighters, I can't either.
 
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KebabGirl

Telegraph also has an article referencing food price inflation but no mention of our titular character. However, it goes on to show cheap, tasty meals to get through January (as many have longer between pay packets & Xmas has wiped out any spare cash). How dare they offer suggestions to help instead of outrage.

And now my sibling in law (married to narc) has posted that thread as 20 pictures on Facebook. That's all the immediate family now, just hoping the aunts/uncles & cousins don't join in.
 
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lilamay

You can also literally wash food down the drain by rinsing the sauce off baked beans so you're left with just beans.
 
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Ninch55

lilamay said:
You can also literally wash food down the drain by rinsing the sauce off baked beans so you're left with just beans.
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You can save washing up liquid by decanting it into empty milk bottles, rather than just adding a drop or two of tap water to the original bottle. It’s amazing, honestly. I don’t know where I’d be without these superior nuggets of housekeeping wisdom.
 
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PsychicCaramel

My well-meaning-but-lives-a-very-different-lifestyle-to-me sister has just shared the viral tweet. Cabal, give me the strength to let it go.
 
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Flash123

PsychicCaramel said:
My well-meaning-but-lives-a-very-different-lifestyle-to-me sister has just shared the viral tweet. Cabal, give me the strength to let it go.
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I think this is an opportunity to softly, gently open your sister’s eyes. Direct her to company’s companies house

edit- to correct my appalling spelling/grammar
 
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Rat

This is so trivial and I'm sure incredibly out of place by now but like it really fucks me off how she talks about walking round the shops. With 2 heavy baskets and her calculator and her notepad and trying to remember all the prices of everything she has.

Get a trolley! Use scan as you shop! I flat out refuse to believe the tech we have in NI of baskets with wheels and putting cashiers out of work aren't in place in Thorpe Bay.
 
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PsychicCaramel

Flash123 said:
I think this is an opportunity to softly, gently open your sister’s eyes. Direct her to company’s companies house

edit- to correct my appalling spelling/grammar
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I fear that once I start I’ll get a bit carried away and scare her off
 
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kachoochoo

save on containers for your dried herbs/table salt for the bath/questionable slime by stealing milk bottles from the milkman

#jackshacks was truly a golden era
 
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CarrotsandSticks

skronkywildcat said:
Doesn’t everyone just buy secondhand uniform from the PTA stall?
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Im probably way late on this but you only purchase uniforms via PTA if your child is at independent school. No way ever would you do the same for a child at state secondary. Well that’s the way around where I live. Makes no sense whatsoever either.
 
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