It's usually people who hate their lives. Hate their lives, no purpose, no particular drive for the future, so they compensate themselves continually. *side eyes our clusterfuck*Even the way she spends isn’t like someone who has been in poverty. She spends like a young middle class person who thinks they need or deserve everything.
I have friends who go on about being skint, moan moan. They spunk all their money away on absolutely nothing. Expensive new phones, gousto boxes, lots of lovely days out where they spend and spend, spa days and expensive shoes. But sooooo ‘skint’. One in particular will order afternoon tea to the house ‘because they need a treat’ and it’s like £30 each for an adult and £20 for the kids (so £100 to eat cake at home).
DH and I are very boring with money and will always choose to save. However we have had a couple of outlandish holidays and if we need a new car, we buy with cash. I always price match and look for deals and really overthink spends. I do not deny my child anything though, she needs it, she gets it.
I swear I remember her specifically saying something about her eye socket and a scan during this incident so I think it's the same one, just embellished. I also remember her giving a couple of different versions of how and Frauen picking up on that at the time, that she was covering up being drunk (or on drugs).Is this when she took 40 tramadol, fractured her eye socket, and broke her nose? Or was that some other incident that we didn't know about until the Shattenstone interview?
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I don't generally like to chime on SB and her parenting but that's just such an odd series of Tweets in terms of where the focus is. "I hurt myself, off to A&E, my life is SO HARD. I'm VERY ill, I could DIE. But I'll probably be okay. BTW my son thought I was dead. LOL!" Not a Parent-Frau myself but the people I know with kids would be most concerned about "oh my God, my child thought I was dead" and likely chock-full of guilt over it (whether they could have avoided the situation or not). Someone let me know if I'm wrong about that, but this does seem like an odd story for a mother to be regaling people with so casually.None of what she says here is good. How can you post that about her son and not bloody hate herself? Also 'severe concussion'
They're keeping the peace at the expense of SB and they're ALL despicable for it IMO.My money would be on the enablers 'trying to keep the peace' because no doubt there would be some monumental shitshow otherwise. However the bigger picture is being missed. This was certainly my experience and the legacy of that is that as well as having anxiety, you feel you cannot trust adults, and unless you have lots and lots of therapy, it has an long term impact.
Jack loved showing it off.ETA all of this and then SHE COLOURED IN HER EYE TO MAKE IT ALL SPARKLY TO GAIN SYMPATHY
Sorry 2 pages behind but I think she’d struggle to sell the big old monsters she’s bought tbqh. Like once we settled here I sold a ton of stuff and mid century, kids, ikea, and office furniture would go same day no quibbles on price or trademark fb marketplace grief but bigger bits just didn’t shift and that’s even offering free delivery, it didn’t even get many views cos people just don’t search for it cos they don’t have the means or energy to collect it when buying new they’ll often offer free delivery and/or assembly Also cost of housing these days ppl don’t have the space for big items of furniture the way we’re living is ever changing.What’s really bugged me lately is her Lady Bountiful act about giving her furniture away in stead of selling it - like she's some saviour to the poor who are so grateful for her smeggy Smeg, dining table, sofas etc. She's either rich enough to give it all away (after she spent all her donations on it) or she's so poor she still really needs the Patreon and tip jars. I do reckon any money that rolls into her account(s) doesn’t stay there long.
Something which I think could be figured into this timeline, although a few months earlier, is the >10k to TT.Let's look back at that little Jackfib:
(ss from @Marmalade Atkins on thread 385)
Note she only mentions "BaNk AcCoUnTs", not "BoNdS", or "IsAs" or "pAyPaL aCcOuNtS" - we know how deliberately tricksy with words she is, so we can safely conclude that she had much much more available to her than this.
It's also worth considering the wider picture - what else was happening in Jackworld at the time? Here's the timeline:
2nd July - Her "straight as an arrow" accountant is coming round, and she's baking a cake
26th July - On a Bootstrap Ltd is wound up
31st July - HH2 and giant tip-jar rattle
8th August - Submits the final manuscript for Grifty Kitchen - this may have triggered a partial advance payment
26th August - Her tax returns have been with her accountant "for weeks"
31st August - Her "publishing team" visit her at home
2nd September - No money in any of her back accounts, and another tip jar rattle
22nd September - We notice that 'Untitled Jack Monroe Memoir' has appeared on Amazon with a publication date of 14 September 2023
Some time in September - receives an advance for the new book, which she says is "not life-changing, but is situation-changing"
If she had no money on 2nd September, where had the HH2 tip jar proceeds gone to? What about the payment for completion of HH2? Why rattle the tipjar yet again when it looks as if she'd negotiated the contract for her memoir at the end of August?
ETA: No sign either of the "Summer of Memories" fund that she'd been building up from not drinking...
Can’t go to the hospital while off your tits, people will ask all sorts of questionsIt annoys me that she seems to have
-hit herself in the face
-declared she has “severe concussion”
-had a nap which somehow stretched into the next day
-THEN decided to go to the hospital
She needs to be careful if Wanky IS real.. she'll be digging a well and buying a basket with lotion especially for JackanoryOh she'll chippily say that furniture given away for free earns her a credit in the bank of goodwill so that one of her unwashed crusty mates, maybe Wonky if she is even real or can extract her head from jack's lying arse, will come and paint for her in the future, whilst Jack lieswrithing about on the DFS sofabedsofa on a hokey cokey comedowncrippled with arthritic pain.
This picture that she paints of living in some kind of weirdy wanky commune type friendship circle where one will simply swap a cup of oats for a curtain to be mended is Enid Blyton-esque bollocks and doesn't happen. And if it does, she needs better friends. Friends help because they're friends, not because they're going to get an ill-gotten dildo sideboard out of it.
Of course! It was staring me right in the face!Can’t go to the hospital while off your tits, people will ask all sorts of questions
A well? What’s that? Could you explain further?She needs to be careful if Wanky IS real.. she'll be digging a well and buying a basket with lotion especially for Jackanory
I’m guessing it’s a reference to the serial killer in Silence of the Lambs! Butterfly adjacent.A well? What’s that? Could you explain further?
She probably wasn't getting enough of a reaction telling LJC she fell and got a big ouchy bruise so had to up her game.It annoys me that she seems to have
-hit herself in the face
-declared she has “severe concussion”
-had a nap which somehow stretched into the next day
-THEN decided to go to the hospital
A well? What’s that? Could you explain further?
I’ve heard it described as a ‘sort of hole’, but still struggling to understand the concept TBH.A well? What’s that? Could you explain further?