The Frugality #4 I spy with my little eye a secret second storey reaching up to the sky.

[louderforthecheapseats]

The new TikTok account is called 'Alex Steadman Home' - I wonder if all this delightful 'content' is a run-up to her switching to a Home/Reno focus and dropping the frugality angle all together?

Oh god TikTok

 

[jaymie]

Her Christmas party platter story is weird.
I don’t understand how this is work

She will be fuming that her peers are getting posh supermarket sponsorship and she scores Aldi.

 

[GossipMongoose]

Absolutely baffled by ‘chips and hummus’.

 

[jaymie]

Idk why people buy the pot, surely buying a cast iron pot that you can pop in the oven is a better investment?

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

must be nice.

 

[PotholesInMyLawn]

I’m guessing the eye test is probably an ad and she doesn’t actually need one, just more free glasses that look identical to all the others

Maybe an Ad to coincide with Frday.

 

[louderforthecheapseats]

I unfollowed her today. The makeup tutorial pushed me over the edge. I unfollowed her Frugality pages ages ago. I won't miss her. Lazy privileged cow.

That make up tutorial was dire….

 

[CornedBeefHashtag]

‘house tat shopaholic’

 

[MeWithTheHair]

Just shows how easily some people are ‘influenced’ to buy something totally un-necessary. We all have scrap pieces of paper, used envelopes, the back of some un-important letter, an old birthday card, etc etc that can be used to write a meal planning or shopping list on.

Exactly! We can all just pull something out of our big under-counter recycling drawer if we could just move the Cook packets out the way, right!

 

[Greencatfysh]

Is Chris one of those weirdos who is seriously picky and hates vegetables? Might explain why their meals are so carb heavy and beige. Who orders chips and hummus for lunch at a restaurant..

 

[louderforthecheapseats]

First time though she’s mentioned paying for some of it with an inheritance from her Grandmother, before it was just savings and credit cards. The inheritance probably meant she was able to do the secret upstairs bedroom extension.

It also mentions the upstairs window….I guess that’s for the secret extension

 

[notthefullshilling]

Such an awkward reel! And such a measly looking spread... Or at least the way she's 'styled' it looks measly.

 

[Sarah123456789]

And is her kid ever not ill!!!

 

[Mogmog]

I've spotted these and was wondering what they were like, really want a Le Creuset but am struggling to justify spending £245 for one.

Tk maxx do them sometimes too

 

[LyraBalaqua]

I have an Aldi Cruseut dupe casserole and it’s up to the job a month or so in . Sits on top of a stove well and copes fine in the oven , £25 well spent so far.

 

[Libertine]

Can they run a paid partnership with so and so company at the top under their name, above the photo, instead of in front of the text where I believe they should be putting Ad. Someone is doing this and it’s bugging me. It’s also not static but it moves so it’s not very obvious. This person is a TV veterinarian.

My understanding is that brand content, whether a gift, a sponsorship, a partnership, a paid advertisement, or a ‘PR product’ , needs to be clearly disclosed as marketing. Would the average IG user understand that ‘paid partnership’ is advertising?

Report it to the ASA and see what their feedback is.

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

It’s all for show to promote this stupid planner. I’m sure most of us (like I do) buy fresh veg and meat (if you eat it) each week and then meal plan around that with cupboard additions. I don’t even meal plan, I just look in the fridge in the morning and decide. She should spend more time educating herself on a more balanced diet and learning to cook properly rather than planning a risotto followed by pasta followed by a sandwich. Her bloat must be awful!

Her bloat goes to her face…. Mine is my lower stomach

 

[knickerbocker glory]

These Instagrammers get paid a lot without getting extra, Vitamin D project has just bought a house, Hinch has bought a farm I think they are doing very well with the money they get from "content"!

 

[Author123]

And didn’t I see something about earlier this week being the last date to order matches? Guess she just sit back now and watch the cash roll in from affiliate links in gift guides If so she is unbelievably far removed from the real world.

 

[GossipMongoose]

Is this financial advice for morons? Plan meals? What next, shut windows when it’s cold?

I know I always go in for ms massive leg up by parents but omg. The simplicity of having pretty much everything handed to you on a plate is so so enviable. Imagine not even having to consider building intergenerational wealth for your kid(s) as you know it’s just there in the wings waiting. Idk how this content doesn’t perturb more people

I suspect the vast majority of her audience is in the same position and the rest either haven’t paid close enough attention to spot the fibs, or they don’t care and see her account as a bit of light fluff.

Her financial advice is hilariously shit, leg up or not. Plenty of people are comfortable financially but aren’t absolute dollops.