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Oh my goodness, so there's a thread on Frugal Queen now, eh? I admit I haven't seen many of her videos but years ago I read her blog all the time. I remember she actually had a beef with another British 'frugal' woman, but I can't remember who it was. I *think* I may remember who it was, but I almost don't want to say because I have a soft spot for that other frugal blogger and I'd hate to see a snark thread started on her - haha! If I remember correctly didn't Frugal Queen shut down her blog about the same time she moved permanently to France? Then started up the YT channel?
But now that I see a thread on Frugal Queen I'll have to go back to her channel and see if there's anything of note.
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Frugal Queen in France? Should be called Frugal Queen of Clickbait.
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QUOTE (Nerak @ 29/7/2023, 02:05) Frugal Queen in France? Should be called Frugal Queen of Clickbait.
SO true.
The little animations on the thumbnail of her youtube videos are fun though.
That's what caused me to change my GP icon to the drowning piggy bank.
I think that some spiel given by that awful channel living on a dime advised to do clickbait..to bring in viewers.
I guess maybe it works cause that Jake Paul piece of crap and that other channel with this guy who drives around in supercars, I think like to make titles like I'm losing my house - when they are not actually losing it and stuff.
"Help I can't stick to my food budget"
But she's got it all broken down that she got 83cents a day for breakfast, 2 euros for lunch and 3 euros for dinner per day.
75 euros per week.
If you want tequila or junk food you gotta have a separate budget for it. Fair enough.
It's a crack up how Frugal Queen is lecturing
"If its not on the list its not going in your shopping cart. I'm not going to be there to hold your hand. "
Frugal Queen isn't taking into account some sort of traumatic shit that gonna cause people to eat the whole crisp supply. Best to not buy crisps at all.
Now since you are mentioning clickbait, it suddenly reminds me of a video she did which was titled "freezer apocalypse defrostation" or something along those lines and I was like holy shit I gotta click on that.
Turns out it was only like 2 things at the top of the freezer affected in the end, so hardly the mass hardcore mass recook to save thawed stuff operation I was envisioning.
Thanks you Meow 
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She's so judgemental I can't stand it. She reminds me of my mom, who I recently had to talk down because her friend (who is quite wealthy) has the audacity to post pictures of meals she eats at nice restaurants. I had to explain that everyone has their priorities. And a lot of people aren't content to eat the same three "I can cook this in a microwave in two minutes" meals week after week that my parents do.
I'm watching the "The Cost of Living I Can't Take it Anymore" video and the Queen is complaining about people who came out of 2020 and went right back into restaurants and vacationing. You know why? We were stuck at home for a year! But no, she's right, and everyone needs to live HER WAY (stomps feet). Ugh she drives me up a wall.
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QUOTE (Croakaddiddlyoak @ 7/28/2023, 11:21 PM) "Help I can't stick to my food budget"
But she's got it all broken down that she got 83cents a day for breakfast, 2 euros for lunch and 3 euros for dinner per day.
75 euros per week.
And if you can't afford that meal, just don't eat it. 
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Frugal Queen was doing all good with her no spend July, but then she passed by the casino and downed a whole bottle of French wine.... Then she ate 5 packets of ding dongs.
Just kidding... She spent absolutely no money and been living off of green beans from her garden.
Since she's spent no money this month her sinking funds are looking healthy.
The next no spend month is gonna be in October.
Her sunflowers got a bit beaten up by the rain.
This shit is such a far cry from this other video I was watching where this guy spent 70 thousand dollars just on ready lawn and that was just for the front yard.
These videos where these youtubers have these obnoxious displays of wealth really rub me the wrong way. This person got 4.2 million subs but its a supercar channel so pretty much the other end of the extreme
But can't help me think of Jeff Bezos on his ridiculous superyatch and all his little imployees scrimping away with no spend months and shit just to get ahead. I'm not like a communist or anything but my instinct is to tax the shit out of those ridiculous supercars.
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"How to budget when you are paying off debt"
Is essentially a rehash of what she's gone on about before.
She had a higher income when she was paying off debt...
Another lecture about selling your unused breadmaker and stuff...
She reckons that if you are on your debt free journey you put a callout on marketplace and ask if anyone is giving away a washing machine.. and stuff.
I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised by how good my very cheap 2nd hand dishwasher has been. I only went down that route cause my dishwasher had to be an unusual size. But a 2nd hand dishwasher and washing machine are still things you gotta be cautious about especially since they can flood your floor.
But yes if you hook it up to the garden hose and run it a few times just to check its alright.
And also as far as getting stuff off marketplace like washing machines and stuff the description and feedback of the person selling it is really important.
Frugal Queen reckons that you gotta keep your car legal with an MOT and stuff, and you gotta buy your kids clothes...
And as far as cellphones goes you give them granma's old phone not the latest iphone.
I guess the biggest thing is how are you gonna motivate yourself to get through this scrimp till you bleed existence where you fund only one afterschool activity or whatever for kids.
Kids are pretty much like dogs they cost what they cost. And then when you're done scrimping to get outta debt, your back to scrimping to pay off your thing in France and whatnot.
Life seems dismal and bleak somehow. What you gonna do for mental health and shit?
And having to sit through some company update bullshit meeting about how your not getting much extra.
She had no discretionary spending at all when paying off the debt. I reckon this is unrealistic for most people.
Of course there are a whole heap of other factors she don't touch on - like partners who are not on the same page in the debt free journey and put shit in the supermarket trolley and don't follow the plan and stuff.
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"We certainly aren't telling people what to do..." proceeds to emphatically and judgmentally (regardless of her words, her whole demeanor is judgmental) tell people what to do.
I don't think she fully recognizes her privilege. And I don't know anything about other countries, but in the US the system is designed - whether intentionally or inadvertently, I'm not educated in it enough to know - to keep people in poverty right where they are.
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"I'm putting together our next midweek money chat. I'm addressing the issues of frugal differences from the mainstream and how it can be a lonesome standpoint. You're the sensible one accused of being the kill joy. There's days where I feel like I've channeled a very disciplined groove that some just don't understand. We'll share how it can be a challenge if you're frugal but your: partner, family, neighborhood, social groups, peer groups, colleagues and wider community are not.
Drop me a comment if this resonates."
This is frugal Queen and I'm pretty sure that the next mid week money chat is just gonna be stuff she's said before similar to her toxic frugality video perhaps. You're not paying my bills yadda yadda.
Anyway in the video with the sunflowers and so forth she mentioned how they both budget 50 euros a month as sanity money to blow on whatever they want, but then said as she's said before that they still have that money.
And I'm pretty sure its not the first time she's said that she didn't actually use any of the sanity fund.
So since they didn't spend any of their sanity money - and I think she calls it something different, like no questions asked personal discretionary money or something, it makes me feel like it's just a fund she has in order to pay lip service to allowing for some frivolity without actually having it serve that purpose.
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I just watched her clothing haul she did a while back. I thought the clothes weren't very flattering, but boy do I wish I had an ounce of her body positivity. Good for her!
I did think doing a clothing haul was a little antithetical to her overall message and seemed a bit tone deaf.
I don't think it was very responsible of her to flaunt free clothes when she's telling everyone to deal with what they have and not buy any new clothes. Not all of us are as privileged to get boxes of free clothes, Jane.
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I hate how she stereotypes everyone. I watched a video a while ago (heck it was probably six months ago or longer - I had to stop watching for a while because she made me irrationally angry) where she sounded like she honestly believes that everyone in the US lives in a McMansion and has loans on four cars and buys coffee and lunch everyday. I don't know if she actually thinks that but it certainly came off that way.
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Frugal Queen harps on a lot about how she downsized to a smaller mortgage...
But she's downsized her asset at the same time. Just realtor fees, marketing fees and all the hassle is enough for me not to want to downsize.
Anyway Frugal Queen had chosen to retire early.. although chopping firewood and clearing rivers and stuff is still work.
But to make this work for them they have to choose to live on this tight budget of what Frugal Q claims is equivalent to the minimum wage in France,
Never mind that the average minimum wage earner in France probably doesn't have a paid for mega well insulated double glazed homestead cottage thing, if she wants the money she gets being equivalent to the minimum wage as some sort of measure of how tight the finances are.
Today she is saying that food costs double in France than what it does in England. I guess this may be true what with economies of scale.
In that video where she visited that village they did eat out cause it was their anniversary and that costs them 40 Euros.
So I guess the eating out is cheaper in France maybe.
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Has she ever divulged why they retired early or why they relocated to France?
I don't know what Mike did for a living, but she is quite young (by American standards, at least) to be retired as a teacher. Quite often, teachers can collect retirement after a certain age and still work at least part time, if not full time, depending on their district's need for teachers. Some teachers make quite a bit of money in their 50s and beyond.
I'm not sure if that's the case in the UK.
But, she could be living a similar frugal lifestyle, working full-time, and be closer to family.
I just don't understand the self-inflicted deprivation and isolation.
Although, I will say that Jane has helped me a lot more with budgeting than Dawn or Coffee with Kate ever did!  
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Yes... You can't really fault Frugal Q that much...
I mean she does work hard doing stuff a lot of people wouldn't.
Cause other people would be like, I gotta swap this 9 to 5 bullshit grind for chopping trees and stuff in the middle of nowhere France.. And they say ok I'll do the 9 to 5 bullshit grind a few more years rather.
The thing is, how good an investment is this place she's got in France. She keeps mentioning that it is a former Quarry, meaning the land has been affected somehow.. which I think could detract from its value.
Although a cheap person might come along and on the face of it say oh here is a bargain.
Anyway before I got my place I was gonna buy this land that was a former apple orchard and apparently the shed where they stored the arsenic was directly where I was planning on building this super simple small house.
Her little village, it does look picturesque but that could mean nothing picturesque villages probably dime a dozen in France, but what would I know never been there.
It is a very British thing to want to move out to the countryside. I don't know if you've ever seen Coronation Street but they really are packed in like sardines with those rows and rows of houses there..
She did mention that nothing much would want to grow in the soil there what with the land being affected by the quarrying.
Oh and the way she breaks down her budget is is a breath of fresh air compared to MM's guessometer anything goes spiel every day. Money Mom never mentions having sinking funds for stuff she knows needs doing - everything just comes from savings.
Oh right sorry I shoulda said I backed outta that whole arsenic contaminated shitshow piece of land I was talking about. It was a 50 year flood zone there too. Ended up with something that will be a much better buy in the long run.
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