With Jack, it's very much a case of "Do as I say, not as I do"
Jack Monroe #425 Looking gormless in an egg chair
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My full packing service moving from a 4 bed was cheaper than that and they provided the very nice boxesThese storepak boxes are available from Argos and Amazon so just been having a little
£150 2x moving storage box pack (20 pack) (£75 ea.)
£165 3x large storage boxes (10 pack) (£55 ea.)
£150 30x boxes on the right (estimate)
£57 3x rolls bubble wrap (£19 ea.)
Total: £522
So around 100 boxes (!) and the £££ figure sounds about right from my own experience (albeit not with quite that quantity but scaled up)
Hey, that’s gone quiet too, hasn’t it? All that sleeping on the sofa, crashing in SB’s space when he’s not there. All forgotten and the squigs don’t notice.
Whenever I've moved house I've put kitchen equipment in my ( empty) kitchen bin, suitcases, bin bags and used the drawers from a chest that I have to store ornaments, CDs etc in and transported them that way.
I wonder if the crappy bungalow is on Right Move with an available from date 
Too much like hard work for Jack. What's the betting she'll have a team of poor sods doing all the packing while she comes down with an ouchy.
But also being a good Christian with all those Christian Sunday school values and friendships she’d collected, you’d think Jebus would COMPEL her to confess no? I think god might be smiting her now, ailments, failed relationships, poor, falling down the stairs etc etc makes you think
any excuse to use my fave Jesus gif tbh
If I could shoe horn him into one of her slop photos I 
would What mates Dear Heart?27th house move tho?sounds like she's counting a few days dossing with mates as a move
The way it’s absolutely covered in ads makes me uncomfortable. Seems quite, well… Jack.Molly is back and has decided to do a full timeline starting in 2011
Jack Monroe: Saint or Scammer?
If you’re a regular twitter user, chances are you see a tweet from Jack Monroe (@bootstrapcook) retweeted onto your timeline on a regular basis. Her bio describes herself as ‘writer, anti-pov…awfullymolly.com
why would she accept old boxes that any old pleb might have had their grubby mitts on when she can have box fresh boxes and acres of virgin bubble wrap?
Oh no. What tripe of an Instagram post will you have manifested now?
Yay, moving chaos ahead! Will it be:
a) Coops escaping from the new place
b) falling down a flight of stairs while carrying three boxes
c) losing the box with her meds in
d) radiator-related
e) new neighbours looking down on the poorest poor ever seen in their building but she makes them thumbprint cookies which they declare the best ever and give her a round of applause
f) all of the above
Place yer bets!
a) Coops escaping from the new place
b) falling down a flight of stairs while carrying three boxes
c) losing the box with her meds in
d) radiator-related
e) new neighbours looking down on the poorest poor ever seen in their building but she makes them thumbprint cookies which they declare the best ever and give her a round of applause
f) all of the above
Place yer bets!
This is the normal process for most people, for someone like Jack Monroe she has so much STUFF that it would be a months-long endeavour to scrounge up the neccessary boxes, she doesn't really have a choice but to just buy them. Then again she did have 6 months to move so
On the flipside she could make the mother of all cardboard box forts
Do you know anything about the new tenant, dear heart?
Maybe she's building the one bed flat of her dreams with the cardboard boxes?
Yeah she’s 34 so that works out to a house move every year and a quarter of her life. She’s so full of tit.27th house move tho?
Something that strikes me with Jack is how the way she talks about her home(s) changes. One minute, the [definitely a] bungalow is amazing, beautiful, perfect, looks like Linda Evangelista, she'd buy it in a heartbeat. Next, it's awful, trashy, damp, literally killing her, she needs out as soon as possible but she's stuck and can't do anything about it. And I feel like that kind of frenetic back-and-forth about places has happened a few times over the years... And this hecking big downsize is alternately awful and she wishes she didn't have to, but also amazing and a great opportunity for her, and really exciting. I feel like I've seen that narrative switch a few times.
I had a mate like that - first off her flat was awful, crappy, damp, grim flatmates and rubbish landlord. But her next place was in a really great, middle-class, awesome neighbourhood. She was going to be so happy there because it was her own place and it was a super glam flat. And then she moved and suddenly within a few months it was a crappy neighbourhood, rubbish landlord, her hometown sucked. But listen, she was going to move to the suburbs, to this great new-build flat with an awesome friendly landlord and it was going to be great... And then within a few months...
You get the picture. The problem is always in the flat/home, and the answer is always the next move away. Or the next big purchase away. Or the next massive splurge of money and effort and attention... Like my friend, I think Jack hasn't realised that the sadness is coming from inside the house/herself. No amount of moving, buying and bragging will make her feel okay because the problem's her.
Anyway, those are my chipper Sunday thoughts for you all. Bit of a derail but the similarity of the pattern just occurred to me.
I had a mate like that - first off her flat was awful, crappy, damp, grim flatmates and rubbish landlord. But her next place was in a really great, middle-class, awesome neighbourhood. She was going to be so happy there because it was her own place and it was a super glam flat. And then she moved and suddenly within a few months it was a crappy neighbourhood, rubbish landlord, her hometown sucked. But listen, she was going to move to the suburbs, to this great new-build flat with an awesome friendly landlord and it was going to be great... And then within a few months...
You get the picture. The problem is always in the flat/home, and the answer is always the next move away. Or the next big purchase away. Or the next massive splurge of money and effort and attention... Like my friend, I think Jack hasn't realised that the sadness is coming from inside the house/herself. No amount of moving, buying and bragging will make her feel okay because the problem's her.
Anyway, those are my chipper Sunday thoughts for you all. Bit of a derail but the similarity of the pattern just occurred to me.
OH and I have moved a hell of a lot of times since meeting 15 years ago (3 countries, 7 different counties in England). But as soon as we had children we tried our damn hardest to stay put to ensure they had some stability. I know it’s not always that easy when you RENT (and we’ve had our fair share of having to move as the landlord was selling etc) but we never moved for the sake of it. We also spent those years saving as much as we possibly could for a deposit so that we could buy a place (again, I know that’s not possible for everyone but we can see from the amount of shite she’s bought in the past years that it absolutely would have been possible for Jack).
And we also managed to move every single time, even across continents, without making as much as a bleeping fuss about it as Jack has.
I have a family member like this. It’s sad. They’ve moved house SO many times and genuinely seem to believe each move will magically solve all the problems. But like the saying goes; wherever you go, there you are.
I don’t agree, it’s obviously a few hours of work everytime they post and I think they would have had to pay for the domain too. It’s not like she’s put up a kofi link or tip jar. We still get it for free.
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