Jack Monroe #314 Take care on the stairs you pretend to fall down repeatedly

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Jelly Bean

I thought this bit from an article in The Graun about Vardy/Rooney might give Jack slop food for thought. I hope not - as I really want her to pursue it. So much of the tawdry way she carries on would be exposed.

'Never mind the Streisand Effect, launching misguided legal cases will surely now be known as the Vardy Mentality. Why did she pursue this when she had so much to hide? My theory is she thought she could brazen it out'.
 
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Lazarus

‘Put TV remote away’ is always a great boredom relief. And I’m sure cleaning toilet seats in the upstairs and downstairs bathrooms is a laugh too.
I’ve been so BUSY this past week that I’ve hardly been on here, but honestly-did she create this and share it?
 
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colouredlines

So. The famous Open House Sale.



As we all know, Jack sold all her shit and made 3 grand.



3 grand is a lot of 20£ coffee tables, no? Luckily Jack had more specialist items to sell...



(A Frau with more knowledge of when UK festival tickets go on sale can take a look at that one!)

Even more luckily, Jack discovered that the world is full of idiots eager to part with their money:



Is this the first squig? The protosquig?

Jack was keen to get involved with this idea:



...and a monster is born!

Some people tried to offer other kinds of help, but Jack was havig none of it:



Send cashos, not adviceos:



This was also the start of Jack's media career:



Being on local media and with a history of being stalked, Jack showed her usual caution:



(I squiggled the address just in case one of her more rabid fans tries to set up a blue plaque.)

She sold EVERYTHING (except her laptop, camera, that Monsoon dress she was going to put on eBay last year, the fancy dress she wore to the awards the following month, the heart apron she wore in 2013 publicity shots...and her Filofax):




So the essential question: where did the money go? As we know from previous deep dives, she didn't move for another couple of months afterwards until she found a flat that was both bigger and marginally cheaper.

Some of it went to her doomed crafting business...



...and, interestingly, she claims to have donated some to charity (citation needed).



Just gonna finish by saying that if I were so desperate I had to sell EVERYTHING, up to and including my son's toy dinosaur, to survive - and if I were worried I'd soon end up in the same situation again - charitable donation of other people's money would not be a top priority. Unless I were trying to create an image, of course...
 
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Captainmouse

Maybe a Twitter squig will be created, following on from ICO and go Henry squig, maybe someone who saw this will report her for attempting to create an account for an under age child?
 
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Mr Krabs

Selling everything you own is such a bizarre thing to do. Yeah you can get £20 for a coffee table, but then you’re just going to have to buy another one down the line for more money. It stinks of attention seeking. Like someone told her they wouldn’t be bailing her out for the rent anymore so she was like “I must sell everything I own to survive!” when she could have applied for benefits, sold unnecessary stuff etc. Pure speculation, m’lud, but I wonder if there was a big rift after the fire service debacle and this was a very public way of embarrassing daddy.
 
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ednaturnblad

Can’t help but notice that the house sale FB posts are just 2-3 days after the suicide attempt?
 
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GrannyOgg

Interviewed in the local papers, fliers, FB. It was all very dramatic wasn’t it. There’s definitely been some sort of breech with her parents and I can’t help wondering how much of this very public sale was to embarrass them.
If Southend is anything at all like my neck of the woods, this sale through debt would have caused a huge amount of gossip and speculation much of it centred round why her family wasn’t stepping in.
As to the huge leccy bill, why on earth didn’t she just get a prepay meter in and pay the bill back in instalments?
 
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Helatruralhome

The thing that gets me is that she said she was on a rolling contract but they still need to give at least 2 months notice back then so it's not as if the agents would just rock up to the sale and demand the keys.

PLUS as a 'single' parent she would be classed as priority for housing especially back then (remember that stereotype you like so much of single parent council house Poor's? They got the house BECAUSE of being a single parent )

Also how can she afford v ticket as surely they couldn't afford that at the time it was bought (unless it was in a postbox puddle )

Also paralegals are basically admin with legal training- they can do a specific pathway to become solicitors (which needs further training on top of being a standard paralegal) but paralegals are basically the equivalent of accounting technicians for accountants as a basic analogy...
 
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DisgruntledGoat

The first thing I do when I’m on the bones of my arse is buy tickets to the most middle-of-the-road music festival. Sure.

That poster says it all. The jovial tone, the loud font, the randomly red words (precursor to Randomly Capitalised Words??). It was a spectacle, not a necessity. It’s where the grift was born.
 
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Lazarus

I know. And on one of the posts her mum has asked her not to sell her camera.
Imagine her parents knowing she was this close to complete and utter poverty and their priority was for her not to sell a camera.
it’s almost unbelievable…
 

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Into_the_tunnel

When did it start?

School?

There seems to be a blank after school. What happened then? Could this be when the patterns we see now germinated?

 
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Cucumberthunder

V fest 2012 tickets went on sale in March 2012 (27th Feb for virgin media customers)
When she was selling laptops and turning off heating.



Weekend tickets with camping were £175 for the one in staffs (although I assume she'd go to Chelmsford- not sure if they are different prices)



Also also, I thought she left the fire service when pregnant? Was she planning on taking SB? Or perhaps she had at least some support network?
 
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veronica71

Jeez she’s incredibly bloody jolly about having to sell everything isn’t she! I’ve said before she seems to get excited and happy about the bad stuff and so bloody miserable about the good.
 
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Peachy9

I'm watching bbc breakfast. They're discussing the updated training and new technology the London fire brigade have developed following the Grenfell disaster to manage fires in high rise buildings.

Shocked that our resident expert Jackie hasn't been consulted on this!
 
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colouredlines

Great find!

To clarify, she left the fire service after she came back from maternity leave. She quit in November 2011, SB was born in March 2010.
 
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