Jack Monroe #483 The plans are going well, it’s the execution that seems to be lacking

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JLC. She needs to buy shares /get medals for Hoarders Anonymous. Holy fuck.
 
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i *really* did not need to hit cheese mite discourse on my grunk. while eating dinner. involving gruyere. which i was really looking forward to. while im off sick with depression and anxiety. (anxious fraus, we know how hard it is to eat when your stomach's churning!). after a stomach bug. and flu



thanks though lads for helping me extend my sicknote
 
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Next timeline cleanse is going to be something about recycling, the opening hours at the tip, how you manage to reduce, reuse, recycle without a car etc innit?
 
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Obvs not a doctor but I don’t think what she’s doing would fall under hoarding. The NHS website explains it surprisingly well for something I’d assumed to be a real niche?!


But she’s not amassing worthless stuff and appears to curate it somewhat and she tries her best to present it for external approval. It just doesn’t look like the hoarder houses you see on tv / I’ve seen one recently IRL that’s in phase 2 of a hoard after a somewhat recent clear out and there’s just a v different aesthetic to the whole thing imo?

Like I think hers is an addiction to spending? Her house looks far more like those ridic early 00s shopaholic shows than anything hoarding related?
 
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LJC. That is a phenomenal collection of Jack shit shots! Excellent if disturbing work, Vali.

If she lived twenty lifetimes she couldn’t use all of that stuff. I can’t imagine what it’s like to try and clean such a cluttered house either. Makes my teeth itch.
 
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Yeah it’s a spending addiction Jack’s got. She just likes buying stuff.
 
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It’s also where Jack gets her fat cloves of garlic and her “gluts”

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She imagines she's Baby Nigella but Nigella’s recipes work, she's professional, she's aspirational, she doesn't claim expertise in multiple areas leaving half arsed diluted ineffectual skidmarks in areas she has no impact, she's not a begger, she doesn't post embarrassingly captioned selfies of a gurning smug face only a mother could love and I don't know anything about her flaps.
 
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Just looking at this gives me a headache. It would take more time to colour and letter all of these items than it would take to do the actual effing item itself. LJC.

ETA and I would imagine that she misses most of those appointments and deadlines anyway.
 
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Mamapapa, please may I have a room that looks like the slightly damp guest room in your great aunt’s house that hasn’t been changed since the 1970s? Football? Minecraft? No I’d just adore an old cushion with a random dog on it.
An old cushion with a random dog on it that came from your strange sitting room with pics of the time you went White Saviouring it up in Tanzania, MamaPapa, and the inspirational artwork on the wall. You know, behind the sofa where you sit facing away from them and can’t see them.

“Oh MamaPapa, this truly is “a dwelling where one feels relaxed”, “a place where love and laughter flourishes”, and “a happy abode”! (Where old men have to vacuum when they come round because it’s so rank and I have a list of chores so long and deeply unpleasant that I’m amazed you don’t send me up the chimneys to sweep them with my toothbrush)”
 
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Random mither
Why are her sunglasses, her jewelry and her manky old sheets she pretends to sleep on the sofa with kept right next to the bed in her “son’s” bedroom
Also, when I just did a search on google to find that pic, THIS popped up in the search results and I’m DYING! Which one of you crazy kids did this?! It’s GLORIOUS!!!!
 
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Surprised Professor Muller didn't recommend some other energy saving tips such as, cover your windows in bubble wrap, take all your light bulbs out, put a sheet of cardboard under your bedsheet etc. etc. etc.
I'm going to gently, painstakingly raise my hand to say I've done the bubble wrap on windows thing in mid winter, in a poorly insulated bedroom, behind some very nice curtains and facing no people to judge me. It worked a treat. My electricity bill that winter 3 month period was only AUD187 (this was 2019) and I was snug and smug. Sorry!
 
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I'm a bit behind and this is off topic but omfg for horny Jack adjacent fraus (and @Geetbo) has anyone seen Dr Rupy's latest insta reel? Jesus Christ.
 
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No need to apologize, it's a good piece of advice. I would however like to hear the learned professor's opinion on the energy saving potential of solar lights used indoors.

 
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Why would asshats on the internet (hi Jack!) criticise you for having pride in an achievement? No Jack, we criticise you for thinking moving furniture to different rooms is an achievement. And SEVENTY boxes?! I know this will have already been mithered on but Jesus Christ. If I wanted to swap two of the rooms round in my house, I would simply carry the things from one room to the other, because I have a normal amount of stuff in my house. I don’t think we had even close to 70 boxes moving a family of three (now four) plus a dog when we moved last year, and I’m certainly not minimalist with my possessions. She’s like that weird puppet lady in Labyrinth who collects junk and builds a house out of junk and lives in a junkyard, and you think on the surface her house looks nice but it’s actually all just junk. You all get the reference yeah? Like Stig of the Dump but Jack of the Junk.
 
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That's... mind blowing. No wonder she's been packing for six months. Serious hoarding problem there - and how is it possible she accumulated so much *stuff* with the Poverty? Even if most of the crockery was charity shop finds, that's still £££ because of the sheer quantity.
 
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