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

[Mustard]

I had a regular (not non stick) Le Creuset, given as a present and it drove me nuts. It was very heavy and stuff kept sticking on the bottom and it became discoloured. I flogged it on Gumtree.

 

[BillieR]

Just get a dry cut?
That's what I do because blow dying adds nothing to my hair

 

[EllsBellsWells]

Here’s an interesting one: a legal director/commercial lawyer who didn’t properly disclose a holiday in the Bahamas as marketing content.

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Post after post advertising and tagging the resort on her grid and only the last photo marked ‘PR stay’. Same deal with all her clothing, shoes and bag advertising: the cringeworthy ‘PR Product’.

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She does this a lot and is playing a VERY risky game given her career and the fact she works at Deloitte.

 

[Dizzy]

No one knows! It’s very weird

Which to be fair, is completely on brand because they are very weird!

 

[Ivegotatheory]

In preparation for the move? Office?

 

[Readinginks]

Her one gift rule is nonsense. Her house is full of toys, whether they are bought new/used by herself, gifted from family, gifted from brands, etc. They have so much.

Most family only every buy one gift per niece/grandchild anyway, it’s hardly something earth shattering. She buys a Christmas gift for her children from herself, one from Santa and then stocking gifts - so she’s buying two main presents and then smaller items and then there’s family gifts. Just like what millions of other families do.

That article for Goodtogo is shockingly badly written …. Ever since becoming a mum I’ve experienced that chaotic first Christmas, where every family member goes crazy …. That sentence doesn’t even make sense.

I was thinking the same. I even thought that maybe she meant one present bought collectively by the whole family, but then it became clear that’s not what she meant. Is it otherwise usual to give more than one present?

 

[PineappleQueen19]

She forgot #Ad yet again

 

[Bleurghgram]

For the extension truthers, she mentions planning it on an old post about decorating the spare bedroom…

 

[Fofoca]

She makes such a big deal out of nothing, we’ve got wooden floors throughout the house we just have normal rugs which we Hoover each day and we have e dogs and kids to mess them up! It’s not that hard! Just give them a shampoo every couple of months

if there’s a post begging for a new hoover and carpet shampoo I’m blaming you!!! Will also need to beg for someone to do the actual cleaning too.

 

[Steptoe]

Ooh yes that'll be interesting. Alex definitely went to a fee paying secondary..with the famously cancelled mother of daughters!

Interesting! Were they insta mates? (Back when Mother of Daughters was in her insta prime?)

 

[Dizzy]

Has anyone previously signed up for her newsletter and can tell me when the anya hindmarch bags are released? I don’t want to sign up lol. Thanks

Its end of this month.

 

[Puggsnoop]

The only person I have come across on any platform to still be watching the SATC sequel...

 

[mindlessness]

Had not followed Alexandra for ages and ages but her reel styling her hair came up in my explore page and omg those glasses. Why?!??

 

[Mustard]

This isn’t specific to them but Instagram is just such an insane place if you think about it?

How can someone whose front room window can’t opened be telling you to buy candles, skincare, and paint? And people do it? Wild

And expensive pans.

 

[Spiesandliea]

Nice of her to frame her kids drawings

 

[Greencatfysh]

Hated the grey grout before I realised it’s now stained her unsealed tiles?! Wtaf, the balance for those tiles is still sat on her credit card and she needs to rip them off and start again, I’d be devastated.

Where does she say it’s stained them?

 

[knickerbocker glory]

How heavy are these? What are they made of? Are Le Creuset about to go out of business?

 

[Mustard]

Each story should be clearly marked as marketing content. In captions it must be marked at the beginning of the text.

I follow a number of smaller lifestyle/interior design accounts and their disclosure is sloppy, but the larger, well established accounts such Alex’s are hardly setting a sterling example.

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.

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

Serves her right when her teeth start moving back!!

 

[AutumnDays]

She has the most skewed view of saving money. Going for a nice brunch with a friend is a “treat” and viewed as so luxurious and unusual. But going on ANOTHER shopping spree today is totally fine and normal. She shops more than anyone I know!

But, she was buying ‘useful’ gifts!