Collin Kartchner passed away...

I honestly think I would be embarrassed to ask for or receive donations if I just got $314,205 in go fund me money and who knows how much in Venmo money when she cut the Chick-fil-A card.

...and who don't know what true necessities even are.

💯 Absolutely!

When the comments get turned on I see it getting dicey with criticism. I’m sure they will be actively trying to delete, but some will slip through before disappearing. It’ll be a 🍿 read. Then I expect all the “celebs” to post about “kindness” but CZ will be really bitchy, throw out a few “fucks” and say, “sorry, not sorry.”

Privately. Of course grieving privately doesn't net monetarily as much as putting it all out there. 

That sounds bitchy and mean to say about a woman who just lost her husband, and I'm almost ashamed of myself.

I sincerely hope after the funds have been delivered to her that she uses some of the money for therapy. She needs it and those poor children most definitely will. 

I wish the crafting community would do something for people that are actually struggling financially. Lots of people are in need this year due to COVID. Why not an auction to raise money for food banks or Toys for Tots? DL has already received over 300k on her GFM page. I don’t get the need to do another fundraiser for her. She is a well-known name in the crafting world. She has the ability to earn a living that can provide for her children.

I unfollowed DL yesterday. I understand about grief and loss, like everyone else, I’ve had my share. I guess her behavior has exhibited to me a fundamental difference in values that have now affected how I perceive her as a whole, which in turn makes me think I will probably not want to purchase any of her products in the future.

2 years? If she's anything like Freckled Fox or Teresa Collins, it will be a mere couple of months.

Well what is your acceptable time for the widow to be in black?

My original post about Liz is only meant to say that she will be financially stable within two years, and maybe married to someone with dental and life insurance, to boot. There will most likely be competitive suitors for her hand. How she handles that is up to her obviously, but with four kids, stability of a good partner goes a long way, even if it's not the love of her life. And I envision it will be someone who can willingly take it all on financially at least. She is relatively young, attractive, fun, and sure seems to like her technicolored lifestyle.

Here's all I'll say about this...we have no clue what the scrapping community does behind the scenes. I know for sure that Ali Edwards gives away several DD kits each year. (I mean, not the same as food to a needy family, but my point is she does that without comment to the world at large about it.)

I'm not here to hand-slap anyone for their opinions. We all have them! But I know that sometimes what things look like on the outside (only setting up a GFM or a giveaway campaign when it's politically correct to do so) isn't what they really are. No one sees me donate a damn thing, but it doesn't mean I don't.

I'm in agreement about her being in shock. I cannot begin to understand what she's going through. I would only hope that if I were in a similar situation, at least one of my best friends would take my phone/IG/FB accounts away so that I was unable to hurt myself. The Internet lives forever, and her kids will read what she wrote/see what she did someday, if they haven't already. I felt the same way about Beyonce's Lemonade album. Giiiirllll? Blue's gonna read what her Daddy did some day...do you really want that?

This is exactly how I feel, if they didn’t have such a successful gfm then I could see the craft community stepping in but at this point to me what’s not needed is more money from strangers from the internet. They are the ones that know her, they can send money if they want, they can also love and support her in her real daily life if they want. No need to ask from the public again. The only thing that is stopping me from being done with all of these people is the fact that it would be hard to turn down the request if asked because everyone else is doing it. I’m sure you would become the outcast and start your own demise.

Sorry but my left-leaning brain still is stuck on the monetary auction being an act of love.

If that's how you show love, let's just build a social safety net in the US so everyone gets a share of that love. Seriously though. Let the US start taxing churches for benefits like many other countries do (and no, it's not some sort of attack on freedom of religion), especially the Mormon Church EK belongs to who are amassing immense amounts of money without any benefit for society. 100 billion would go a long way for all the struggling folks, jussayin'. 

Anyhoo, pardon my socialism. I just needed to vent about this.

She posted a clip of Colin on IG, in case people “needed a laugh”. In it, he makes fun of “mommy bloggers” and has pretend conversations with people, calling them sluts as an insult. It was meant as a parody video (which wasn’t the least bit funny IMO), but it was in serious bad taste, again IMO.

Someone really should take her phone away. I understand people grieve differently but her behavior on IG is not healthy for her or her children.