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.Long time lurker first time poster... have been laughing at all the spot on analysis and hilarious commentary along with you all for the better part of 5 years...
I’ve always wanted to chime in and say I really doubt Gene has ever actually traveled as much as she claims... I remember watching her tea talk video (she was in a peach jumper with her pepto bismol lips) where someone asked about the time she “lived” in London... she claimed she lived there for a month (that’s a VISIT, girlfriend) and that they traveled to Europe every weekend.. it was all very vague. I have family in London and used to visit every other year from the time I was six (I’m 2 years older than Gene) and used to stay for two months at a time... do I ever claim to have lived in London?! Heck no! Also someone from the uk sent her a care package shortly after and she seemed clueless to the contents, again vaguely exclaiming “I remember these from when I used to live in England”! Secondly, I think the time she went to Italy with DaddyD was her first time there despite her claim to have traveled there “many times”. She seemed clueless constantly... also remember that trip to Epcot where she’s passing the Italian pavilion and she goes “don’t need to see that been to the real place”?..., can you imagine how much she would have harped on if she’s actually been to all these places, like Paris etc. Wouldn’t the disney lovers at least have ventured to Eurodisney (Disneyland Paris now) whilst they visited Europe every weekend in a month? And finally, she completely butchers very common and simple french pronunciations despite her pompous attempts... so there’s that!
Sorry for the long rant... I’ve wanted to say this for years! Show us the photos gene or it never happened!!
PS - apologies in advance if I’m replying on the wrong post.. I’m still figuring this out!
Welcome! I’m a lurker recently turned poster and I totally get your rant. I’ve NEVER understood why if they were so “comfortable” they didn’t have better vacations. And it always irks me when non-French people affect this heavy accent when pronouncing French words. Anybody remember Chanel Illusion D’ombre? 😂
For an American, she actually has a decent French pronounciation. She butchers some things, but get very close a lot of the time. -
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SingHo!toDons2ndWife : Like you, what bugged me in the video was all the talk about how complicated it is for her to be in New York when she doesn't HAVE to be there. Just... don't go? However, she then says she goes multiple times a year. So it's just drama at this point, or you actually need to address the problem, because after that many years and that many trips, you should be able to go without that much pain.
OstracizedLikeJen and The Rumpus Lurker : festival season should start soon in Montreal, lots to see and do. Just sayin
And St-Viateur bagels are a classic, and conveniently close to the biggest (and most loved) park in the city. Then walk down to Le Bilboquet for the ice cream/sorbets. Also not far is La banquise, which is one of the most famous poutine places, both very popular for tourists, but also a classic for the locals. -
.I was born on Mother’s Day so for me, I can’t imagine not being with my mom on that day…especially when I was young. She passed away in 2004 and that’s still a hard day for me. While I get that moms need a break from their kids, it seems so odd to me that she doesn’t care about being with them on the actual day.
On Mother's day, I get to sleep in. My husband goes to the bakery with the kids to pick something for breakfast and then, when I wake, mid-morning, I have leftover croissant and we spend the day as a family doing something fun.
I guess I get to have a break and be with my kids.
It baffles me when I see social media posts about sending kids away... it doesn't have to be so extreme? -
.I guess I’m a bad mom. Once my son was past the diaper stage, I didn’t carry much at all. I would keep a change of clothes, a first aid kit and some wipes in my car in a ziplock bag, but that’s about it. No activity packs or arts and craft supplies or lollipops were in my purse. Like I said: bad mom.
Guess what? We talked with him while waiting in a restaurant or while waiting for an appointment. There was always plenty to talk about. My son enjoyed being read to and had a sustained attention span so even at a very young age, we would read chapter books to him. Our family motto was to always bring a book. He’s a grown up now and just recently we were telling him about a lengthy wait my husband and I had at a medical facility. His first question: Did you bring a book?
Of course.
I guess I also am a bad mom - I never bring toys for my kids. We play games that don't require supplies (imitation, patty cake, etc.), count stuff (the "find how many this or that" game is always a hit), tell stories to each other.
It makes me think of a Youtuber I liked, Amber from the sensible mama. She used to make diaper bag reviews that looked very normal and practical, with what it fit, and what she recommended packing - which was useful. Then, her own kids grew out of diapers and she started to put together these "mommy bags" with 5 colouring kits and a ridiculous amount of stuff, just to showcase products from her store. I stopped watching. The whole point of a diaper bag is to lug around the diapers. The moment my youngest is out of diapers, you bet I'll be doing like OregonizingQueen and only carry a change of clothes until I can also ditch that.
That, and Amber has a line of bags that look kinda cool, organization wise, but with a very unfortunate brand name : Lymia - it's supposedly stand for Love You Mean It Always, but it kinda sound like "Lamia", which is a repitilian demon of European legends that eats her children. So unfortunate for a line of diaper bags. I personnaly couldn't carry them because of that XD -
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I will be side-part Jen. I'll go up to everyone dressed in my best alone in Utah uniform, and agonize to them about my hair, than go "thanks for sharing!" and walk away without even asking their name. -
SheWillBeYourFriendForFiveBucks,EvenThoughHerContentSucksLikeJen Pt318 - With Wonder - Jennifer Ross.
Two things :
1) The echoes is probably all the hardwood floors everywhere with no furniture for those big, awkward rooms. If she wasn't planning to put in rugs, she shouldn't have put in the hardwood. Saying this as someone who's not a fan of carpet.
2) That desk configuration is very cramped. If she really wanted to keep all the desks, she should have put one in the ballroom - might be handy for the kids to do homework in a few years.
3)With the hardwood, the grey, all the empty rooms and walls and now the stone-like nightstand... the house looks so, so cold. I would get depressed too, living there, let alone as a lonely person as she is.
4)Her hoard is unreal. I don't get accumulating all that stuff and not feeling absolutely cornered. So wasteful.
5) I am suspecting her "mommy journal" is full of bitter "kids were fussy today" kind of lines rather than the cute moments she wants to remember.
Full disclosure : I keep a notebook of cute moments for each of my kids, and a "mom" journal for moments that I'm not sure they would want to know - like a cute, but slightly embarrassing thing, I put there, so the other notebook is something they could want as a teen or young adult, to know about their first years, and the other journal is more for when they are adults and are ready to laugh a bit at their baby/kid self.
But I don't see the use for the baby experiment planner, the heart journal, poop journal, etc. So much time spent documenting herself and every minute of her life and thoughts. See Jen, this is where you lose time, and ultimately, why your days are passing by with you spinning your wheels in the sand instead of living. Stop looking for the answer within youself. To speak in a flowery metaphor, if you're always tugging out the potatoes to see how they grow, they'll just die there, and your garden will be barren. Plant the seeds, and let them grow. A little watering and weeding is fine. But let stuff grow naturally, by doing something else -somewhere else than in your own head. An actual therapist, volunteering and a bit of home improvements are the places to start. -
.The weird thing about wanting 'old Jen' back is that, I can barely watch the old videos. The throwing around of money, the complete obviousness of Jen is so cringeworthy, it is painful.
When Jen now comes in with her grocery haul, and eats throughout, it is beyond nasty. And then to claim to throw away most of it?? I want to slap her, hard.
Same. I used to love hauls and such, but now, I tend to see fast fashion and over consumption for what it is, and it's not so fun anymore. I don't think Jen could just go back to her old content. It was 10 years ago - it was fine then. Now? It'd be tone deaf, and she would get comments about it way more than before. It not a case of "her money to do what she wants", it's also "we're stuck on the same planet as the landfills fast fashion and overconsumption creates".
If her audience was younger, it could work, maybe. But she doesn't appeal to the right age braket, I think.
There is still organization, that could work. But she's proven t be quite the hoarder, so I don't know if she could take being mocked in that way.
** plus no matter how little she wants to think about it, she is a mother now. Any self-centeredness feels gross-er when there are two people dependant on you. -
.I'm super curious what she thinks she's qualified to do when she says "I could absolutely run out and get a job."
Yes! I remember watching recently a video by a somewhat "ex" fulltime youtuber, and he did say his shock was, the only jobs he was qualified for was low paying jobs with no qualifications. So he became a barista, and had to work an overall customer service job, for a low wage, and while dealing with clients face to face, where the client is to be appeased and cleaning and all things you don't have to when you are a youtuber.
Jen cannot really run out and get a job :
-whatever college level qualifications she had are as good as lost now. She'll have access to high-school lever jobs, with no previous skills but;
-these jobs don't always come with a regular schedule, and as little as she has them, she DOES have kids sometimes, which need to be picked up à, fed and babysat at night and;
-she doesn't have a good record of employment - and mentionning her youtube "career" might make employers wary of her rather than impressed, as influencers aren't really known to be good employees and ;
-finally, pwincess is too good to scrub her own bathroom, or feed her own kids, and shuns personal hygiene. So janitor/house cleaner work, food related work and retail are probably out.
What's left?LOLOL she claims she thought about getting a "regular job" last spring when she "almost quit" YouTube/content creating.
So...does this lend credence to the theory that she's supposed to be showing an effort to support herself as part of the divorce decree? Also - Don's remarriage really did a number on her, didn't it? She almost couldn't drag herself out of her misery far enough to show her face online again.
Jen, get some help. Setting yourself up for failure like this is only a recipe for disaster. Even your Jenions know it.
thank you for posting this. I was going to mention it myself but just picked myself up off the floor after laughing for 25 minutes straight after hearing her say that
She doesn't know what a regular job is, let alone how to get one. -
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Yes. The divorce did not go Jen's way, at least not emotionally. I'm pretty sure she's set financially, and I'm not sure she cares about increasing her wealth so much as insuring she is taken care of for the rest of her life. And as speculation goes, that she got.
But emotion-wise, she totally misjudged how it would go.
And I am also of the opinion that if Don had done something reprehensible, Jen the perpetual victim would have spilled. As it is, I don't think he did, and any extra-marital profiles or relationship were most probably done with her permission, even though she maybe thought he'd never find someone, he was free to put himself on the market, so to speak.Which is why she can't come out clean, in her mind. It's not "I was wronged and dumped him". It's "I made a huge mistake, arrogantly refused to try and repair it (threathened divorce or not), because I believed he had no choice but to stay, and he dumped me and remarried".
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.I have no idea how to upload an image, but she liked a post by an Instagram called mytherapistsays that says:
“TrueInternet friends don’t talk they exchange memes for weeks then out of the blue one calls the other crying.” Then the other awkwardly comforts them and then ghosts them.Because memes alone aren't friendship, and friends are more than someone to whine/cry to.
Fixed it. Those quotes are very bad advice, and people like Jen take them at face value and think they are complete information.
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If it's camping, you know she had. Lime squeezer or not. -
.I don’t use a planner, I'm more of a post- it type of person, but I used to love watching those plan with me videos Elle Fowler did where she decorated the planner for the week.
I love watching plan with me's. And order packing and packing videos. I don't know. It's my mindless tv
I agree Elle Fowler was a good content creator for that. Pleasant tone of voice, ok cadence, enunciation, upbeat and chats away saying nothing much. Weirdly enough, Jen kinda hits that too sometimes, and I think it's why they both make good background noise/falling asleep videos. Not every youtuber can pull that off. -
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Well, this is supposed to be the RISE year. Or was it something else? -
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They do target the same audience. I wouldn't put it exactly like Idiot savant , but middle-aged stay-at-home mothers are the demographics most marketers go for because they are the ones that do the shopping for the family (typically) and they also are the ones that can feel isolated and lured in by the promise of a "community" and built-in friends, rather than people who already have the work social circles to mimic these relationships. -
.The majority of these businesses print overseas. You can't tell me the goodies are all American made. The only ones making money off these idiots who are willing to leave their family behind for a bunch of stickers, are the companies and the hotel. I would bet every single one of these women comes out of this event with at least $2k behind. Not counting those who ventured into Disney.
It s a disgrace.
Yes. I follow a few of these "small shop owners" (I love packing order videos) and they all print overseas, or print a minimal amount at home and order the rest from overseas. It shouldn't come as a surprise : these ladies sell washi tapes, foiled stickers vinyl stuff, post-its and notepads, etc. That's not done at-home, and I am going to venture that a lot of them probably don't tour the factories or look too closely at the various accreditations for good practices and human rights.
But you will hear them ask to support a local, small business. If anything, they could talk about supporting local designers, but then, that's true for a whole lot of brands that produce their stuff in abhorrent conditions. Designed in (name country) produced in (Bangladesh, China, etc.).
Even a lot of products "made in the US" aren't completely made in the US. Especially clothes. According to regulations, they could only print the graphic or sew the label on in the US on a piece that's been made elsewhere and they get to say it's "made in the US". So there.
If I resell a bunch of stuff I bought from aliexpress or the likes, buying from me doesn't make me a local curio crurating business.
And going into debt for a hobby is ill-advise in all cases in my opinion, but especially for this stuff, tht doesn't have the resale value of, say, a musical instrument.
I wouldn't condemn the convention per se, but the whole hoarding and collecting mentality of the planner community is quite wasteful and ill-advised, financially speaking.
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