I have been an avid lurker on here for absolutely ages, I used to watch the ‘ Ingram’s’ back in 2016 and I’ll freely admit, I loved watching their everyday vlogs. I too have a large family and I could relate quite a lot with them. However, once the allegations came out I started thinking a little more about what I was watching and I really do HATE watch them now ! They are not relatable in any way , shape or form to any family I know . The sheer amount of waste they consume and make is just mind boggling, the wastage of money that they just throw away on items that they really don’t need or duplicates of what they already have ( somewhere in the depths of their garage of doom) . Their inability to string any form of coherent sentence together , which it appears, has been passed on to their kids. The fact that they think homeschooling is about their kids being stuck upstairs in their bedrooms having the odd ‘face to face’ via a laptop and doing worksheets !! Homeschooling is HARD !! I was lucky that during lockdown one of my kids who was at Uni and home at the time, took on teaching her younger sister and the stuff that she was teaching her was mind blowing. This meant at least 4 hours of her being sat with her sister each day helping her!!
I used to love their very 1st house, it was homely and appeared to be full of fun, laughter and love, but once the money went to their heads and the vlogs become more about making money than ‘making memories’ that’s when they lost any relatable connection with their viewers. The big, soulless houses, the gas guzzling cars, the endless shopping trips, the endless holidays ( that’s what they are , holidays, in no way can they call it travelling) Those poor kids have gone from lovely vibrant , clean, happy , interested kids to scruffy , rude and uneducated versions of themselves. They look an absolute mess. Sarah and Chris have become obsessed with money and are stuck in a cycle of having to keep the same amount of money rolling in to keep this ‘lifestyle’ going that they’ve created and it’s making them bitter and nasty. All of those kids are going to seriously struggle in real life, it’s alright Sarah saying that Izzies results don’t matter, but I’m afraid they really do matter to an extent !!! I have kids that are in employment now, or at least about to be and I can tell you there is BIG competition for ALL jobs right now. Prospective employers WILL want to see just what sort of education they’ve had and more importantly what sort of experiences they’ve had and I’m not taking about going on one holiday after another !! They want to see stuff of value, extensive time spent in clubs/groups/organisations, where they’ve grown as a person, time spent volunteering , part time jobs etc . I’m sorry but none of those kids have got what it takes to be able to live off YouTube earnings as a job, and in any case I really think the hey day of doing that has been and gone .
Jeez…. That was a bit of a rant !! I think I needed to get that out of my system
. On another note, what I actually came on to say was that my youngest had a sleepover on Sunday night with her 4 best mates in a tent on our garden, a very big tent, probably about the same size as the ‘Tin can’ that the ‘ Ingrams’ are currently holidaying in and I can tell you that after only 1 night of them being in it , my GOD !!! It stunk to high heaven
. I have a pretty cast iron stomach but it turned my stomach !!! I had to wash and air EVERYTHING in it !!! That will give you some idea of what that tin can must smell like with that lot in it
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Anyway, Hi everyone, I have LOVED reading all your posts the past few years and thought it was high time I poked my head out