Jack Monroe #433 Let them eat copies of Thrifty Kitchen

When I was 8 I didn’t do chores. In fact I never did. As I got older I just started doing things and always kept my room tidy, got rid of rubbish.

I don’t make teenage DD do anything. I expect her to pick up after herself and put rubbish in the bin. I think adulthood is long, years to do all this shit.

@MancBee if this is true I will be your forever friend. I sometimes feel so alone in this hellscape of catloverrrs . I hope this isn't just a cruel in joke and really MB is the greatest catfan of them all
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I stand with @Shawads and @MancBee

THAT LIST I’m absolutely shooketh. What an absolute horror she is.

Lumpyspaceprincess said:

When I was 8 I didn’t do chores. In fact I never did. As I got older I just started doing things and always kept my room tidy, got rid of rubbish.

I don’t make teenage DD do anything. I expect her to pick up after herself and put rubbish in the bin. I think adulthood is long, years to do all this shit.

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I think it’s a tricky one. I helped with the household ironing, cleaning, cooking and washing from when I got my first job (14) but had done my own room from earlier. It meant that when I went to uni I knew how to live on my own (cooking has been neglected for a number of reasons in recent years). But I can completely understand your POV.

I used to hate cleaning the car from those early days. I still do and will put it off for days. So being paid to do some jobs as a child can have long term consequences ()

Just as I thought Jack Monroe couldn't shoe us any more dark sides.....

Those lists, and the ethos behind them are fucking awful. Then to share them online too. I'm alternating between my heart breaking for that poor boy, and then thinking Jack needs locking up. It's just another awful indication that she truly is a sociopathic, narcissistic cunt of the highest order. She doesn't deserve that child, the stolen money, the hollow adulation or the opportunities she's wasted. She deserves to be paraded through the streets, shamed, shown up as an example how not to live, then as many agencies throw their full weight at her as possible.

My mum's mum was a narcissist, though my mum obviously didn't know it at the time she was growing up - there wasn't really a language for it back then. It wasn't until my gran was in a nursing home that I eventually broached the subject of whether she had some sort of mental health condition, and the head of the nursing home basically confirmed it. It was such a relief to my mum to have someone outwith the family see it, because my gran could be very charming to literally everyone else and unless you spent a lot of time with her and witnessed the way she treated my mum, you'd think it was my mum who had some sort of weird, nasty, obsessive grudge against her own mother. Anyway, suffice to say, growing up with someone like that stays with you for a lifetime and it's so, so damaging and hurtful. But when you think of everything SB has had to deal with - suicide threats, addiction, the various adults introduced to his life who have just disappeared, the constant moving of house, the pets who have died, the gender and sexuality hopping, etc etc the list goes ON, it's mindblowing to consider the psychic damage she's inflicted on him. And the worst thing is, she'll never even feel a twinge of remorse for it, or try to make amends, because such is the life of a narc. #thoughtfortheday

This is all very sad for a Sunday morning.

Canal needs some slop.

Porridge? Burned bacon? Figs? Cream?

We can’t have December without slop.

TbilisiPeach said:

@MancBee if this is true I will be your forever friend. I sometimes feel so alone in this hellscape of catloverrrs . I hope this isn't just a cruel in joke and really MB is the greatest catfan of them all

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I stand with @Shawads and @MancBee
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zetta buttons said:

This is all very sad for a Sunday morning.

Canal needs some slop.

Porridge? Burned bacon? Figs? Cream?

We can’t have December without slop.

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A Christmas without slop is no Christmas at all

colouredlines said:

If it's any consolation to those of you who are upset by the chore jar, it didn't last long and was soon upgraded to chore bingo.

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Yes, this is something that Jack liked enough to repeat.

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I was catching up hoping someone had remembered and found the bingo one! Wasn't this the one that had things like "make mama's bed"?

I don’t let anyone else do laundry- Prince Lumpy included, as I like it done properly, also I want a full load going on not just some random items. Certainly wouldn’t leave it to a child.

Notmycat said:

Any one have any ideas on the last sighting of Cooper? I went back thru Instagram and found that his gotcha date was the end of august 2018. Handsome boi

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He's found the VBI and is not amused

Notmycat said:

I was looking thru her instagram and came across where she had a tasks chart for SB to work to earn tablet time, He was born in 2010 and would have been 8 at the time of this chart in April 2018. I'm all for getting kids to do chores and know 8-year-olds need instructions, by cop yerself on Jack.

I've listed as many of the tasks as possible, this sounds like a lot for an 8 year old, this is not considering that SB has to deal with her emotional meltdowns on top of this,

1. Make sure shelves are tidy
2. No toys on floor
3. Shoes in the shoe rack
4. Hats scarves gloves in correct pockets
5. Wipe toilet top and bottom it's you that wees on it
6. Put new toilet paper out if needed
7. Clean up your poo marks
8. Hang up any coats in the hallway
9. Pick one shelf or surface sort and throw out wipe down and organise
10. Put clean clothes away in correct places
11. Make bed neatly
12. Put dirty towels and flannels and washing in the wash
13. Spray door handle and wipe both sides - bedroom
14. Tidy sink and clean it X 2
15. Bring laundry downstairs
16. Tidy floor
17. Tidy books away neatly none on floor
18. Open curtains neatly.
19. Check the bunnies water and fill up
20. Put all the bags away
21. Put dirty washing in washing basket
22. Clear floor put all things away
23. Bring bin downstairs and empty into big bin
24. Move the toilet mat and wipe toilet floor with a floor wipe
25. Put all bottles nice and neatly
26. Put everything away that doesn't belong on the counter
27. Pick up litter from back garden
28. Collect plates and cups and put in kitchen sink
29. Pick up litter from front garden
30. Spray down bathroom door and wipe both sides
31. Put TV remote on the fireplace where lives
32. Tidy up bags and take upstairs
33. Pick up any pens and put in pen pot
34. Put DVDs away in shelf and computer cases
35. Wipe all handles in the bathroom door sink shower and light switch
36. Clean the microwave inside and outside
37. Spray door and handle and wipe both sides of mama's room
38. Clear ledge in the kitchen wipe it down
39. Put away everything on floor in dining room in the correct places
40. Wipe front of washing machine with spray and cloth
41. Empty the bathroom bin into bin bag if it gets full tell me
42. Hoover bedroom
43. Mamas room open curtains neatly
44. Very carefully wipe TV shelf in lounge
45. Put cutlery away in drawers everything in the right places
46. Clear table in kitchen wipe it well
47. Tidy sofa and throws and cushions neatly in the lounge
48. Dirty dishes in the kitchen sink
49. Clean out the corners of any little pieces of junk in the lounge
50. Hoover in the kitchen especially by the washing machine and oven
51. Empty bin from the lounge into the kitchen better if it gets full tell me
52. Open curtains in the lounge
53. Straighten cushions on sofa
54. Feed the bunny dry food
55. Wipe all chairs with spray and cloths in the kitchen
56. Help put rubbish out on Tuesday night
57. Hoover floor in landing who were the stars
58. hoover that just the wooden stairs in the hallway
59. hoover floor especially near the entrance in the hallway
60. Mamas room water plants
61. Help hanging laundry up with Mama
62. Help to peel vegetables in the kitchen
63. Wash carefully plates mugs bowls cutlery no forks and knives
64. Help bunnies and hutches

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This is absolutely mental for a child of 8 years old

Horrible, awful woman. That poor child.

I made this for Jack to print and PAINSTAKINGLY cut out

This bit, what a prick she is. It's called being an adult and being a parent, these are normal, everyday life tasks.
She really resents having to do anything for anyone, doesn't she? In fact, she resents having to do anything full stop the lazy, entitled mare.

Just jumping way ahead to say we were staying with friends last night and I was presented with this mug for my coffee this morning. Jack should permanently have one of these at home for the next Mrs J.

VeniVidiVicki said:

God that list of chores is absolutely foul. ‘Wipe toilet seat top and bottom. It’s you that wees on it!’ Humiliating and shaming him. And giving him a massive long list that makes Anne of Green Gables look lazy.

And all on her public open instagram account. I don’t follow her and I can see the post.

Why does she do this? Why does she parent so badly and so publicly?

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This is so upsetting , we've all seen Jack's cleaning and she's no clean freak ( I know she says she deep cleans the kitchen 12 times a day, but , well she LIES). I'd like to think it was lies but

Notmycat said:

I have 2 cats (despite my username), i found a half a boiled sweet under the chin of my boycat last night. I don't eat boiled sweets so I know he has been cheating on me.

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One of my cats once came back smelling of someone else’s perfume

AndrewsDaddy said:

Mmmm maybe no mortgage needed scammed enough to buy outright

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I imagine she probably had a nice juicy deposit but won’t be given a mortgage so maybe she’s rage bought a small place she can afford outright and doesn’t care that SB won’t have a room of his own. Because there’s no way that will be “his” bedroom. Or there will just be secret rooms

I'm hoping that it's just her insane love of list-making and she never followed through with any of it.

Which seems a fair shout, given her record.

Where's my fucking one-pan chocolate pancake recipe, Jack?