The Frugality/Alexandra Stedman #7 Everything is affordable when it's #gifted

[heretoreaditall2019]

Remember when they were telling people to take mortgage holidays and put kitchen renos on their credit card? It’s bad enough giving out unregulated financial advice but then on top failing to disclose their circumstances is trash behaviour. Like yeah you defs can get away with a 20%+ APR on your kitchen when you inherit 6 figure sums from aunties or nans (can’t remember who paid for the extension sorry) and yeah it doesn’t matter if your next mortgage product is more expensive when you’re at 20% LTV.

Also on money - remember how interest compounds right? So if you look at the split between interest vs capital in the early years of a term it’s always more interest than capital right. Her parents haven’t just gifted her a deposit they’ve saved her from the decade+ of paying the high interest component of the mortgage.

I literally cannot stress enough how much these two should not be talking about budgeting to us.

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

yes to all these comments! Pushing this false narrative that it’s possible to feed 4 on £40/50 plays into right wing rhetoric re the reckless poor and that welfare payments are enough for families to survive/thrive on.

So many valid points on this thread - hopefully she reads and stops doing this.

 

[chinwag72]

She had plenty to say about tv programmes yesterday but teachers’ striking merits a bit of text on a selfie. The bare minimum tick box. If you do stand in solidarity, say something meaningful instead of a one-liner following affiliate links for payday buys. Teachers! Abandon your protest and your worries about paying bills. Make haste to M&S where you can pick up a reversible quilted jacket for a mere £55. Then onto Habitat for a doormat to stand on back at the picket line.

Sorted! And chic into the bargain ..

 

[PineappleQueen19]

Because Alex you spend your days doing the stuff the rest of us squeeze into evenings and weekends. And then you watch tv for two to three hours every evening, by the sounds of things. HTH.

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

Have you tried the meatball in a can?

The fact this sentence makes sense because of this thread

Fancy buying dog food meatballs so you can have Aesop soap? I know we all have different financial priorities but surely connective tissue* is never chic??

*sorry for typing that word out I’ve made myself gag x

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

Specsavers have even posted on her photo to say they also help people with contact lenses and this is her passive-aggressive response. I’m pretty sure people don’t suggest that contacts are more ‘attractive’ than glasses anymore. It’s a total non-issue.
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Omg get therapy this is mortifying to witness, it’s really not that deep. There is no difference her starting rows with a customer happiness or social media person on Insta to going in store and ranting at a sales assistant, these people don’t have the authority/ability to change a campaign and are already the lowest paid and most abused in the company so just lay off them u mega Tory???

 

[snarksnark]

Burnt out? From her busy schedule of multi-tasking and Netflix? What planet is she on!

 

[AllTheGinJoints]

I always assumed her parents were bankrolling her but maybe they’ve got millions stashed away from Dopey’s brief soft-porn career?

 

[MeWithTheHair]

Nice to see her still dedicating so much of her time to consuming license fee funded TV content (no I will never let this go…!)

 

[AllTheGinJoints]

‘Off to the food bank’ oh fuckety fuck off alex! This irritates me so much - she is so self righteous

SO virtue signalling. She never mentions anything about the reasons why food banks exist or the fact that the government are doing SFA to help with food poverty. Just posts about it when she thinks it can make her look good.

 

[jaymie]

Good on her for not doing Black Friday links.

She did though, is under the disguise of Christmas gift. The stay with you for 30 days. What she is saying is that she is not doing BF shopping herself because why do you only shop on this day, when you can shop tats everyday.

Sorry I am cynical like that!

 

[Slippersandslacks]

reeks of desperation to get some paid work from Specsavers off the back of this

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

I honestly cannot remember when she last provided any content that would be any way useful to anyone!

Have I been the only one taking my photo frames into the office to paint them then???

 

[BlairWaldorf86]

If you don’t shower before bed, then it’s not really different to just changing out of clothes into pyjamas at bedtime is it? (Please don’t tell me I’m a freak for only showering in the morning, this is tattle not Mumsnet)

 

[winkler]

Free trials aside, I am flabbergasted by the amount of television that she manages to consume. She seems to have seen every 'must watch' latest release. Meanwhile, I don't think me and my husband have watched a full series of anything this year.

 

[Exhaustednurse]

I love Sezane too and have got a fair few things from them. However I’ve stopped being a Sézane customer in the last 18 months as the gifting of freebies to people like Alex really put me off. I felt like it cheapened the brand.

 

[Raker]

Yes, influencer #kindlygifted is the ultimate anti-marketing tool in my eyes (blue co-op bags aside )

 

[CornedBeefHashtag]

JFC Alex it’s a light hearted ad.

The faux outrage at ‘glasses discrimination’ is absolute cringe. She should be mortified.

She has more time on her hands and even less self awareness than we thought already to go on this ridiculous crusade that no-one else gives a flying fuck about.

 

[Dizzy]

Another Sezane fan here and I also feel that the wide scale gifting cheapens the brand, but as we all know it's super cheap advertising that yields great results. That said, I've no idea why they use Alex. It all looks frumpy and awkward on her, she looks embarrassed and uncomfortable and seems to chose the most boring items. The Liv Purvis pictures above are in a different league!

 

[Author123]

She had plenty to say about tv programmes yesterday but teachers’ striking merits a bit of text on a selfie. The bare minimum tick box. If you do stand in solidarity, say something meaningful instead of a one-liner following affiliate links for payday buys. Teachers! Abandon your protest and your worries about paying bills. Make haste to M&S where you can pick up a reversible quilted jacket for a mere £55. Then onto Habitat for a doormat to stand on back at the picket line.

Sorted! And chic into the bargain ..

Comfortably standing in solidarity from her rented office space because either Peggy’s (likely private school) teachers aren’t striking or she can rely on family to provide emergency childcare…