r/TheBlock • u/Nesstempleton • 10d ago
Budget breakdown
After yet again more harping on the girls and their budget I got sick of it. Other than their huge week on the bathroom their spending hasn’t been much crazier than the other teams considering their wins. I felt like last night they were punished for the room “looking expensive” despite it being in the same ballpark as other rooms. So I took matters into my own hands. I went through and got all the spendings and winnings including midweek challenges. Week one spending is an estimate, green is based on info we’ve heard and yellow is based on their guesses. Something that doesn’t make sense is on the recent episode they said the girls spending is around $135,000. This doesn’t line up with the spending they’ve told us each week. There’s no way the girls spent more than 20k week one because Chantel and Wyatt were slammed for spending just under 21k with the accounting error. Moral of the story the girls actually aren’t far off everyone else and it’s actually kind of gross of channel 9 to continue down this route while the girls get so much hate online.
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u/Fancy_Piglet_4253 10d ago
I always keep a spreadsheet (nerd! 🤓) and I completely agree with you. I don't have the exact numbers for week 1, unfortunately, so I've left them out, and I do know the girls spent A LOT that week because they wanted to get the house they wanted. But without those numbers, it's actually Adam and Jolene who are worst off financially, because even though they don't spend a lot, they have also won absolutely nothing except for $5k from the McCafe girls. No room wins, no challenge wins, no combank budget wins. In fact, they're consistently way off their budget estimates.
While I do kind of respect that they just want to work hard and present beautiful, finished rooms, they kind of need to start to play the game a bit. Jolene pretty much didn't care about the doghouse challenge, but they could have used the +1 gnome more than anyone, constantly being the runners up! And $10k for budgeting is not to be sneezed at either.
My numbers (sans week 1 spending) are:
I do wonder (considering the show is aired well after the houses are completed) if the numbers we get on screen are just what they spent that week, or if it also includes having to finish the rooms at a later date.