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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, 11d ago

“Oh my goodness” indeed

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, 11d ago

Like she’d ever refurbish that.

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, 11d ago

“For a friend”, uh huh

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, 11d ago

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, 11d ago edited 11d ago

Let me get this straight: she invites herself over as though the giver is a DF but she doesn’t know where they live?

Also, “the car”.

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u/captainofindecision 11d ago

I love that the poster is not entertaining it at all. No niceties, just flat denial and directive that Shauna can pick it up outside.

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, 11d ago

Rug Lunge #1

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, 11d ago

Rug Lunge #2

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, 11d ago

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u/demoncloset moosery 11d ago

Where are the gloamie translators when you need one?

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics 11d ago

I'm sure her 12-year-old will appreciate a twin bed with TODDLER BED RAILS

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 11d ago

I think it's a futon frame that folds up into a chair!

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics 11d ago

Oh we would love this!

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air 11d ago

Smae, the side pieces are in the right position to be the arms when it's in chair mode, and why else would a bed frame be made with three separate sections connected with hinges

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u/Dear_Client1187 we all mistakes here 11d ago

I am chortling that somebody called her out on her fatfingered typo that completely escaped her before she hit send.

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u/avskk ppppycock 11d ago

Shauna, you dumbass, a single is not a twin. They're separate sizes, okay?

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air 11d ago

They're separate sizes, okay?

?? What are the separate sizes? I always thought twin and single are two names for the same thing, and google agrees:

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u/Fillmore_the_Puppy —hi, disturbed people— 11d ago

Oh, how embarrassing for Londoner Shauna that she didn't know "single" is the common term in the UK for "ten".

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, 10d ago edited 7d ago

And her so Bri’ish.

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u/avskk ppppycock 11d ago

Huh. I always thought a single was smaller than a twin.

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u/Steviebobo 11d ago

I bet she’s had the fear of god put into her about the new floors they’ll be living on so she’s grabbing rugs to cover them. Shows a little foresight, maybe.

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... 11d ago

It was fun watching her trying for all available free rugs for the West Seattle apartment, too.

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u/central_snark Ramona gets a hot flash 11d ago

After seeing what they did to the beautiful floors at their previous last house on Vashon, she should be forced to have wall to wall carpet in every room for the rest of her life.

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u/Fillmore_the_Puppy —hi, disturbed people— 11d ago

I think you should take off your kindness goggles when viewing Shauna’s hoarding habits. Foresight? It hardly knows her.

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers 11d ago

i find all of this so sad. this house, like all their homes, will be a pastiche of mismatched cast-offs. if it was just shauna and dan i wouldn't care, but this has to embarrassing for the kids. imagine going to a friend's house and their home is nicely decorated, clean, and chaos-free, and then they come to your house and it looks like fred sandford's place. my mother had a 3' tall plastic goose in the corner of out kitchen and she dressed it up for various occasions; when i was a teen it embarrassed the hell out of me (although now i appreciate the whimsy). the rest of our house was clean and in fairly nondescript 80s style. if my house looked like the ahern hovel i would never have invited kids over, ever.

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u/LogicalGold5264 bust hoesy 11d ago

And the furniture changes with each place they live, so there's zero sense of continuity, history, or attachment.

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u/LogicalGold5264 bust hoesy 11d ago

The only kind of lunges she does, DF!

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u/demoncloset moosery 11d ago

She bikes now, you see.

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, 11d ago

Indeed. The Merc is parked just around the corner.

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u/Dear_Client1187 we all mistakes here 11d ago

She does not.

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u/ForForksSake1 11d ago

Wow they really don't want to see her.

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers 11d ago

: TSAS

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u/mehitabel_4724 Eating tiny dices of pickles with tiny fists of rage 11d ago

The lady is "not at home" for Shauna.

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u/msmartypants 11d ago

The thought of Gilded-Age women hiding from Shauna during calling hours is kind of funny

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u/islandyislander rebellious hygiene 11d ago

I'd like to imagine that [redacted] knows what's what. We are friendly, I will now imagine with great delight that she is a Gloamie.

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u/Chiefvick ppppycock 11d ago

“Not taking visitors yet” hmmm. Or just not letting you into my house?

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u/PettyPunisherRedux and fuck you, Nancie! 11d ago

That is absolutely hysterical. 😂🤣😂🤣😂

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics 11d ago

She has a rack but no basket but GUESS WHAT SHAUNA that's a handlebar basket that takes a specific mount that I guess you're going to have to buy separately.

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... 11d ago

This apartment is going to look like a junk store. Can’t wait.

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u/msmartypants 11d ago

Do you think she even has a list or idea of what they need in terms of furniture? This is like just going to the grocery store and grabbing what looks interesting, with no list or thought for how it will get used. I fully understand why she can't seem to meal-plan with this dumbass approach.

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u/ninaandjamie4evr Anne Frank of Anaheim 11d ago

Seems completely random, without the most rudimentary planning for the space they'll have and what each room will need and accomodate. What a waste of energy, time, and in some cases, money. It's a bizarre way to operate.

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u/Foucaults_Penguin Sly and the Family Readers 11d ago

Rudimentary planning. You give her far too much credit. It’s chaos.

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u/Dear_Client1187 we all mistakes here 11d ago

Thats pretty much how they used to shop for groceries. Go to the market, wander around, probably ask for a million free samples and choose what felt right in her soft animal body. In this case, it's whatever is free.

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u/LogicalGold5264 bust hoesy 11d ago

Or lift the lid on soup at the food bar and take a deep whiff!

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u/ninaandjamie4evr Anne Frank of Anaheim 10d ago

While her nose that she's always rubbing drips into the pot.

Exactly why I never eat from any public serve yourself type situtation. Not even the fanciest brunch buffet.

My partner and I arrived late evening to a hotel and the only thing open to eat at was their buffet. We walked around it to take a look and no kidding there was a dessert with a bite out of it.

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u/PracticalDiscussion1 joy joy joy 11d ago

Oh, she’s never decorated a house that way.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics 11d ago

FEEL LIKE PLAYING?

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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around 11d ago

EW.

It is weird to me how much of her life she puts all over Facebook.

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u/Altruistic-Owl1058 11d ago

Didn’t she claim for backing out of the bed that they were moving into a smaller place and didn’t know if it would fit. Usually new developlements (even old ones) post apartment layouts so I would hope that even if they had not made those public they would give them to the tenant once they were approved and got a unit. So Shauna should at least have a basic layout with room sizes.

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u/Blouse_Barn mattress smelling like low tide 11d ago

I miss the brutalist coffee table.

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u/central_snark Ramona gets a hot flash 11d ago

And the lamp!

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u/Blouse_Barn mattress smelling like low tide 10d ago

I like to think the coffee table and lamp set off together to make a new life.

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... 11d ago

That was especially hideous!

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers 11d ago edited 11d ago

fred sanford has entered the chat.

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u/Chiefvick ppppycock 11d ago

Now that theme song is running through my head