Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

tomterm8

iB1 wrote: »

This is actually a brilliant idea! Let's e-mail Liz and persuade her to post on the DFW board

Dear me, no. The nasty people on the DFW board would try to get her to do things to sort out her problem. They might even tell her not to spend twice what she gets in income. There may be threats of lentil and cabbage soup, and how to bulk out mince "plenty of tomato, deery, plenty of vegetables! And none of those nasty lobster things!".

This would, no doubt, result in an even greater number of 'I'm depressed' posts in a certain national newspaper.

iB1

tomterm8 wrote: »

Dear me, no. The nasty people on the DFW board would try to get her to do things to sort out her problem. They might even tell her not to spend twice what she gets in income. There may be threats of lentil and cabbage soup, and how to bulk out mince "plenty of tomato, deery, plenty of vegetables! And none of those nasty lobster things!".

This would, no doubt, result in an even greater number of 'I'm depressed' posts in a certain national newspaper.

Not just that - vegetables bought from ASDA - not from some random organic shop that's four times as expensive!

wigglebeena

Asda are robbers. She'll do better at the local market. And I don't mean 'organic farmer's market'.

I am picturing a sepia LJ in a hairnet, rollers and pinny, outside a Coronation Street twoup twodown with a fag hanging off her lip, swapping austerity recipes with Ena Sharples and our OS ladies.

vivatifosi

iB1 wrote: »

This is actually a brilliant idea! Let's e-mail Liz and persuade her to post on the DFW board

tomterm8 wrote: »

Dear me, no. The nasty people on the DFW board would try to get her to do things to sort out her problem. They might even tell her not to spend twice what she gets in income. There may be threats of lentil and cabbage soup, and how to bulk out mince "plenty of tomato, deery, plenty of vegetables! And none of those nasty lobster things!".

This would, no doubt, result in an even greater number of 'I'm depressed' posts in a certain national newspaper.

I'm not sure its 100% fair to unleash on the DFW board (for the sake of the DFWers as much as anything else), but it could make a very interesting spectator sport.

mrs_robinson_3

The Bottega Veneta dress in the photo in the article linked to above - it looks like an apron. Intentional, do you think? The wellies look alright though.

She's an odd fish, I'll say that.

Mrs R

ILW

I would suspect she get £10 -20k per month for the Daily Mail column.

KrytenIceCubeHead

Liz's next article : "I discovered dumpster diving, but only round the back of Harrods, not those nasty bins behind Asda or Lidl for me!"

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

The flattery on this board is not good for one's ego.:o Overinflated by people's kindness here I felt inspired to show some stuff to someone I know and was brought very roundly down to earth:rotfl:

D4mn those 'real people' ... who do they think they are???

*hugs*

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

Doh...I quoted Pobby's thread then forgot what I was going to say about it.
I agree with the above as we all make errors or things are going great so you live according to your means (the great means) then something tips you out and it can all unravel pretty quickly.

One of the rental viewings this week (yes, it is on my mind :rotfl:) was a lady and her 2 daughters who lost her construction business after 20 years last year....big guys didn't pay so she was done in.
She sold her house to keep paying for school fees for her eldest, went into rented and sunk the rest of the money into a doer upper with a partner.
They are now trying to sell it (and just reduced it from 425 to 375.
She was a bit younger than me and was startiing all over again.....the OH had gone too.

But obviously still in denial by looking at renting your place as it's certainly not "the cheap seats" is it!

fc123

soolin wrote: »

I'm just reading this thread as I thought I was the only one who had this 'car crash' type urge to read her latest nonsense.

I was quite put out last week on her You magazine article about people sending her money, if that was genuine then some people have really gone without to send her their last few pounds. She should be ashamed of herself.

I used to enjoy her ramblings, but when she attacked these fat (ie size 10 and above) women who took low paid jobs so they could spend time at home with their nasty feral brats (ie normal children) I got really upset. The thought that she could feed her cats/ fur babies (shudder) premium branded prawns whilst bemoaning the fact that some women had no drive and despite being fat and fecund still managed to get a (whisper it carefully) a husband I just saw what a nasty self centred woman she was.

So she is now alledgedly completely broke, nearly had to spend the night on the street in London a few months ago and yet can go to an expensive ski resort to recover from some stress, oh please. I read some of the threads on the debt free boards on here and see stories of real people with real debts who are actually trying to sort themselves out. Those people require my sympathies, not some over paid journalist who won't buy second hand as it is 'common'.

I must have missed the ''fat mums'' rant....may have been an article rather than the diary....but I do recall the prawns for the cats and the M+S organic muesli for the rats.

She was very rude about Primark also ....the jist of it was that now she would have to 'suffer' and shop there.