Hi all! I’m a new member another one of the sheeples that saw instagrammers stories relating to said person and saw the light. I feel so silly for wanting to have the same lifestyle as said person. I can’t thank you all enough for opening my eyes and making me see things from a different perspective. I suffer with PTSD, anxiety and depression and I’m quite vulnerable. I rarely leave the house due to my mental health and I have no friends besides my partner and 2 children so being stuck in the same 4 walls everyday I came across said person and I could relate to her. I’ve always loved cleaning but I followed the tips/hacks that she gave, I never read the labels because I thought that if the queen of clean herself did it then it must be safe because surely someone who was “famous” for cleaning and shares tips with 2mill followers would be following instructions and wouldn’t put her beloved hinch army in harms way right?
now I can’t blame her because I was the one silly enough to dilute softener and spray everywhere but I did that because she did and if she does then it must be safe!
I fell into the trap, I didn’t understand how AD/AFF worked. Obviously I do now and I’ve been following these threads for the past couple of week’s, I felt like she was a friend to us all because she “loves” her hinchers. I fell for it all and now I feel even more pathetic than I did before I found her. I went out and bought all of her favourite products to build my own narnia and because her house is spotless so if she swears by these products then they must be amazing! So I’ve spent a fortune on things that she has recommended, I fell for it all I became sucked in and I was one of those followers desperately hoping for her to share the pictures of my hinch hauls that I tagged her in but that never happened. Also messaged her needing a friendly ear to listen to the anxiety trouble that I’d had that day not being able to leave my own house, being scared to go out in public so I hide away at home and surprise surprise messages never read, messages never replied too although I did just think to myself at the time... well she has got 2mill followers so she must receive hundreds of thousands of messages each day and hasn’t got time to read/reply to them all. I would have just been happy for her to double tap and like my message! Because she had anxiety I felt like I could relate to her even more. Now I feel like the worlds biggest mug! I didn’t realise the missing AD’s when she showed something on her story, I didn’t realise just how much money she was making etc. My partner tried to warn me himself saying that she’s doing it all for money especially when she announced that she was charging for meet and greets at her book signing which I was willing to travel miles away for just to get a glimpse of her, he tried to tell me and I jumped to her defense saying aww she’s not like that! Well more fool me! More fool me for falling for the bullshit and for feeling like I had failed my children because they don’t have a beautiful show home to grow up in - my house is lovely and it’s clean but that didn’t feel enough. I felt like I had failed my children because I’m not working atm so I can’t provide for them what she can for her baby. I felt even worse and my mental health plummeted, now I’ve been reading these threads for a few weeks and since then I have sat back and observed and everything you have all said I have seen for myself. Once you’re not in that “hinch bubble” and your mind isn’t fogged by pine or zoflora then it’s very easy to see. What makes me laugh is when someone suggests something on here and within a few hours she’s doing it on her stories