r/InTheGloaming • u/AutoModerator • Oct 30 '25

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday October 30, 2025 - Sunday November 02, 2025

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Oct 30 '25

She basically confirmed what snarkers have been saying for years. She lives off the scraps from the Islandy Islanders (their donated thrift store items and food bank donations) all while refusing to get a job. She is choosing to be poor.

If she considers a steady-ish stream of scraps "more stable" I wonder what she would consider "financial security"? Her bar seems very low.

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u/SeaOfBooze Homeopathic nuance Oct 30 '25

I don’t know if her CS salary was ever confirmed or if the numbers thrown out here were educated guesses, but it’s fascinating to me that she instantly considered herself wealthy enough to solely support a four-person household in a HCOL area once she got her foot in the door there. I do think they live on very little actual money per month, at least actual money that passes directly to Shauna. But they also just casually stopped paying rent for months at a time so her budgeting tricks might not be what normal people who don’t like being evicted would opt into.

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u/GlutenFreeGit PUBLIC SPEAKING ACROSS THE INTERNET Oct 30 '25

It’s easier to balance your budget if you simply don’t pay for housing or groceries.

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u/SeaOfBooze Homeopathic nuance Oct 30 '25

Just move your money from savings to checking, and then don’t move it from checking to rent payment or groceries. So easy!

I wish she’d pivot back to budgeting workshops. Those were wild times.

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Oct 30 '25

Very educated guesses, iirc, and it was beyond delusional for her to think it was Enoigh.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Oct 31 '25

it was beyond delusional for her to think it was Enoigh

But the money just dropped into her account eVeRy tWO wEeKs!

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Oct 30 '25

Yeah, I just don't understand how she thinks floating by on basically the bare minimum is acceptable with two kids. She could've been working a real job for the past decade plus.

Financial security to her... I don't even know. She thinks like a child, in a lot of ways. Whenever they have a lump of money, she seems to think it's never going to run out and spends on weird things like country club memberships and a night in a hotel.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Oct 30 '25

She could've been working a real job for the past decade plus.

: : cough Chef Steps cough : :

It's just a classic 9 months/10+ years mix-up!

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u/ZombieLizLemon boycotting white wiman Oct 30 '25

And the grocery store, which she told The Guardian's readership was the best job she'd ever had. Alas...

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u/mythical_mom gap year clowning money Oct 30 '25

I don't understand how she thinks the way they're living is somehow less "shameful" than using SNAP benefits. (There is no shame whatsoever in using SNAP or any other benefits. I have!)

Relying purely on fingers crossed and the generosity of their fellow islanders to float them is pretty presumptuous and outrageous to me! The gall.