Hey everyone - new here and just passing comment!
When Mrs Hinch began, she did motivate me to get back into my cleaning after battling an illness, as did many of the other cleaning accounts. So, regardless of circumstance, I’m hailing that as a good thing as it kept my mind ticking.
However, I’ve become so disillusioned by this whole Hinch craze - what an absolutely mental set of people, polluting the environment and turning their homes into fire hazards.
Firstly - zoflora - I’ve used it for years - there is nothing more annoying than seeing people stock piling zoflora in its hundreds when I can’t even get a bottle. Like, that’s hundreds of pounds worth of stuff - go on holiday with the money instead you absolute sad act - if you’re using it correctly you’ll never ever get through that amount!
The constant ads and swipe ups posted under the illusion of doing everyone a favour by sharing what she’s bought - are people that painfully thick? Go on Google - whack what you’re looking for in the search bar and off you go. Youll probably find better by using your own nouse.
She plays this silly dizzy blonde extremely well, but why the hell would anyone aspire to be that?! Aspire to be someone who breaks out of the comfort zone and pushes boundaries as a woman. By all means, clean - I love cleaning, but is that really all that your world revolves around? What a very empty existence that is.
The whole charity thing - good for her if she has donated in the past. However, haven’t we all at some point?! The point here is, she has an audience that do whatever she says, and if she encouraged them to donate a tin of food to a food bank, jusy one tin of food, that’s 2.5 million tins. So as nice as it is to encourage people to smile, because smiling is what fixes the worlds problems don’t you know
, how about encourage something with a bit more substance, as opposed to going around grinning like a gang of empty heads. Not only that, she has so much sway over suppliers, she could encourage them to follow suit, too, and THAT would make a real difference, as it’s on a much larger scale.
Giving something back to your hinchers? How? By sharing links for them to part with their cash??? I’ve noticed the people who hang on her every word seem to be those who fall under the more ‘vulnerable’ title - if that’s the politically correct term to use. The amount of products she is using daily are dangerous, and don’t get me started on mixing products. Spraying Lenor everywhere - spot on Sophie, your house must be greasy as hell and god help you if you knock one of your candles over.
I don’t begrudge anyone making money or being gifted a thing - it’s all marketing and I’m in that industry - 90% of the time she won’t be asking for anything, it will be people approaching her. However, when you’re not upfront about it and manipulate people, then that’s where my problem with it steps in, especially when you’re marketing product misuse.
Teaching people that cleaning fixes anxiety is wrong. There are people out there who will pick up a cloth and when it doesn’t help them, will feel even more like a lost cause. Mental illness is in the mind and should be treated by professionals, not a P&G partnership that lines one woman’s pockets. Does cleaning help? Absolutely. As do many, many other activities, but it is VITAL to seek professional help for mental illness, and how she doesn’t promote this more is beyond me, particularly if she suffers as she claims. Anxiety is much more than a knot or a flutter in the stomach - it is debilitating and not an accessory. All of these big companies now have a duty of care to these people who are using their products to seemingly help their mental illness. Will the follow through with their duty of care? Will they heck.
At the minute, I’m swayed towards thinking she did start this off with a bit more integrity than people think, but do I believe she didn’t want instafame? Absolutely not, however, I don’t think that necessarily means she set out to milk people - I think as soon as she started blowing up, greed kicked in.
Also, regarding the baby shower - I live in Liverpool and that’s how we do them here, too, and in my experience, Essex is quite similar to Liverpool in the sense that a lot of the girls like to be a bit OTT, and I’m not slating anyone for that, I’m a scouse girl through and through and have been to stunning baby showers in the venue where I’m actually holding my wedding. Each to their own, but I realise that for many people this kind of affair just isn’t doable, so she should have showed how people could make these things themselves, jusy like my friend did. The thing is, when you develop a platform that large, you then become responsible for a lot of people and for promoting things that don’t make people feel like crap cos they can’t have it. Don’t like it? Don’t have the platform - it’s that simple.
Anyway, long post but I just wanted to post. You ladies are spot on with 99% of what you say. I don’t buy into personal insults, that’s not really me, but reading this thread has been even more of an eye opener than what I even saw for myself.
However in this case I can imagine Hinch hastily scribbling down instructions in capital letters, underlined and shoving them in Trace's face
Thought I better screenshot quick before I get blocked lol
