I hate the m/c Insta bullshit, it's not even limited to the actual influencers either. The mums I met in the baby groups are all trying to become #reno #makingmemories #mummylife accounts, and it's driving me nuts. Filtered to fuck images of their perfect, boring as hell houses, separate accounts for their hideous extension projects, kids always perfect angels in designer outfits. Meanwhile my ankle biter is whacking me at bedtime, will only eat marmite on crumpets and refuses to batheLove the direction this thread has taken.
It’s nice to hear insight from genuinely successful people who haven’t had a leg up from parents and can also, despite achieving success, see through the middle class insta bullshit.
Omg YES! Yes yes yes yes!!I hate the m/c Insta bullshit, it's not even limited to the actual influencers either. The mums I met in the baby groups are all trying to become #reno #makingmemories #mummylife accounts, and it's driving me nuts. Filtered to fuck images of their perfect, boring as hell houses, separate accounts for their hideous extension projects, kids always perfect angels in designer outfits. Meanwhile my ankle biter is whacking me at bedtime, will only eat marmite on crumpets and refuses to bathe
I'm living for it babe, you carry on.Sorry I’ve turned absolutely vile on this thread
Here I am to influence you with actual frugal glasses intel! At the turbo affordable end is glasses direct, which you can trial at home with 4/5 pairs a go, they come in the post and you pop them back free of charge as long as they’re back in time. Cubits do this too which I love - bit more expensive but gorgeous and cool concept (something like 10 designs, 5 colours, mix and match to find what you like). I’ve just ordered from Firmoo which are dirt cheap with no try on, so bit of a gamble. Top tip from me - do some home trials and take loads of photos of you in all the pairs, different hair and outfits/makeup etc, and send them straight back ASAP, so you know there’s no risk of charge and you can look back at your beautiful face and choose at your leisure!I’d love some recommendations for sites that sell frames at those prices. Can you try on at home and then send back if not suitable?
this shelf situation is insane. When you need storage, it’s usually because you have things that need storing/displaying, not just because you want to acquire yet more things specifically to put on said storage item?!? They’ve actually hung a shelf specifically for a bunch of gifted shite that was about to arrive for a low rent bit of sponcon? Amazing way to make frugal decorating decisions.View attachment 835202
Lmao I am going to put on more shelves in my home to distract myself from messy home. Smart
You're so right, they're all miserable, that's why it's all about competitive consumption - fills the void. Also yes to the skiing thing, I didn't even know that was a thing people did for holidays until I met poshos at uni! I'd assumed it was only Winter Olympians who did that kind of thing!The Raa’s!! Went to an Oxbridge reject uni full of private school (like very top boarding school) girls with perky names and perky outfits and I had absolutly no idea what was going on and couldn’t work out how to talk to anyone at freshers week and didn’t have a laptop and had never been skiing and I hadn’t quite realised until this thread but Alex brings all of this back for me. I used to watch those girls with a sort of morbid fascination. The confidence and the security and the ease that they moved through the world with just sort of knowing that everything would be OK. But do you know what? Almost none of them that I still know are at all happy and I don’t think the Insta huns are either. It’s all a bit empty, a bit void, a bit too easy, all built on sand. Not all that glitters is gold...
It’s never been explicitly stated I don’t think but she’s been quite public about earning under £20K a year working in magazines, Chris was previously an out of work actor and they now pay themselves £30K a year each from her business. On that calculation they’d have a max mortgage of £300K. She bought her house for around £700K and has remortgaged to pay for renovations. So someone has given her at least £500K somewhere along the way. I guess they probably made some money on their last property. But either way she’s been given hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds. Anyone who’s parents have that much cash lying around (and assuming they’ve given her sister some $$$ too) is absolutly positively LOADED.Can I ask how do we know her parents are loaded and paid for her mortgage. Sorry if I missed a large chunk when this was explained. Just so annoyed as I bought into the whole frugal thing years ago and keep finding this stuff out and getting more and more annoyed. Influencer culture is the worst but a well off girl claiming to be frugal with all the gifted items just sends me over the edge.
Hi I’m normally an occasional lurker here but this is exactly how I feel. I would count as a high earner but have a big mortgage. I’m a mug though because I’ve ended feeling bad that I don’t seem to be able to afford to live in the way she does and thought it was because we weren’t being good enough with money. When they say they’re saving up for things or selling stuff on eBay to pay for them I always feel bad about how much I manage to save or the fact that I wouldn’t sell stuff for a £1 on eBay I’d just give to a charity shop. This thread has been really good at opening my eyes to the fact that she’s not being honest and then to reassess how much of this stuff I even need or want. I know it’s obvious but I am endlessly taken in I need a reality check!This!! I spent 3 years at my fancy university avoiding this nonsense (mainly because I worked practically full time) and here I find myself on my precious minutes off pondering her life?! But whilst I’m on the subject....We’ve also worked ourselves into a position of real privilege, high salaries, good area to live in etc but without parental support we’ve got a gigantic mortgage that will likely be with us till retirement. We earn way more than she claims to buy don’t seem to have nearly as much disposable income. I’m certainly not buying cashmere hats and hall mirrors at anywhere near the rate she is, takeaways or meals out are still considered and holidays planned and saved for. We’re not even particularly good with money and we’re generous with family (most of who have a pritty different set up). I absolutely wouldn’t claim to be frugal. There’s something that just absolutely does not add up about their set up, unless that is they have a tiny mortgage and aren’t thinking about things like pensions because they know they’re going to inherit? I honestly quite enjoy the lives of the rich and famous on insta when they’re honest about it all. It’s the hidden wealth that makes everyone else feel a bit shit about themselves that is just the pits.
It was a flat in Clapham on an 18K salary. They must have bought it in cash or very close. Ain’t no 21 year old working in magazines with cash...somewhere along the way she’s been given at least a quarter of a million pounds, but I’d wager closer to half a million.I seem to recall in the distant past that she stated that they’d extended into the attic in their former flat and therefore managed to sell it for double what they paid for it..or something like that. Depending on how much that profit was they may not have needed too much from The Bank Of Mum & Dad to put towards their current home, if at all?
It’s never been explicitly stated I don’t think but she’s been quite public about earning under £20K a year working in magazines, Chris was previously an out of work actor and they now pay themselves £30K a year each from her business. On that calculation they’d have a max mortgage of £300K. She bought her house for around £700K and has remortgaged to pay for renovations. So someone has given her at least £500K somewhere along the way. I guess they probably made some money on their last property. But either way she’s been given hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds. Anyone who’s parents have that much cash lying around (and assuming they’ve given her sister some $$$ too) is absolutly positively LOADED.
I am here for this contentOmg YES! Yes yes yes yes!!
#makingmemories huns, it’s never ending content too, you just have to see everything they do from a shit swing to bath time. And the influencer style captions that ngl tend to be poorly written so even cringier, it’s always a naff format like oh [trending middle class child’s name] how we adore you and your ferocious bravery [a load of emojis seemingly assigned to this child]. Conversations with them always the same, they always open asking what you and husband do so they can rank you in the mentally maintained hierarchy of ppl useful to them.
The extension accounts kill me too, like I’m all for an interesting or historically sympathetic reno but fuck me does a bit of B&Q laminate and a Howden’s kitchen really warrant a separate account? No one gives a fuck!
Sorry I’ve turned absolutely vile on this thread
They wouldn’t have been able to get the flat or do the original work without mum & dad, tho? Who is giving someone on £18k a year a mortgage in London, or a £40/50k loan for a roof conversion?I seem to recall in the distant past that she stated that they’d extended into the attic in their former flat and therefore managed to sell it for double what they paid for it..or something like that. Depending on how much that profit was they may not have needed too much from The Bank Of Mum & Dad to put towards their current home, if at all?
Agree so much. Also another thing to consider is if they’re being paid through a limited, that £30k each won’t be the same net sum as if you earnt it through a PAYE job. Obviously it won’t multiply it above but most directors take minimum wage (so she wouldn’t have to repay student loans) then the rest as dividends.On that salary she’s still have a student loan, which never gets mentioned. So someone likely supporter her through university.
She’d still have credit card debt/bank loans from the internships she had to do to get into magazines. or someone supported her/provided a free bed while she did them
So much hidden wealth all over the place.
Agree - but who in their right mind would put thousands if not tens of thousands on cards earning £30k p/a?! Like I don’t believe she’s that dumb - surely they’re expecting windfall payments from parents to pay that off?I feel like they are in quite a lot of debt though (on 0% cards) - didn’t she say they put the whole new kitchen on credit? I feel like a lot of it is just sitting waiting to be paid.
They will be on her blog.Any pictures of the flat they sold?
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