Coffee Mom
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Post by Coffee Mom on Feb 2, 2019 1:05:57 GMT
I can’t stand those flowery quote signs either, but I like the farm food ones for the kitchen lol. “Grocery”, “Fresh Apple Pie” or “EAT” which cracks me up because of Anne of Green Gables. I like labels and food bwaha.
I don’t do “blessed”. Yes I’m blessed and give thanks and praise but don’t want to flaunt it in people’s faces by plastering it on literally everything, but that’s just me.
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caangel
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Post by caangel on Feb 2, 2019 1:25:14 GMT
[\quote]The funny thing is, I'm pretty happy w/my life, family, home. I just don't feel the need to splash it all over IG and FB and my clothing and my walls. Always makes me wonder when people have to so aggressively tell you how happy (or holy) they are. [/quote] It always makes me think they are trying to convince themselves that what they are saying is true and not the complete opposite.
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Post by scrapsnneedles on Feb 2, 2019 2:18:38 GMT
I’ve been wondering if Becky is depressed.
But in regards to yesterday’s email, here are the bits that me off:
“As I share this with you, please keep in mind that while some of these decisions may not make sense to you, you are here because you trust us. And if you trust us, then you need to trust that we are putting EVERYthing into these decisions.”
I don’t follow you because I trust you. I follow you because I like some of what you sell. I don’t know how many people follow someone because they trust them.
“This is where trust plays an important role between you, the customer … and us, the people who care deeply to serve you through this work we do.”
I feel like this is really a silly thing to pick apart, but the “serve you” part really got under my skin. Yes Becky provides us with a service and we choose whether or not to pay for this service. But this read to me as the way ministers and the like use the word “serve.” First your employees are paid to care deeply about me so.... And if you believe that you are serving me in the way that a minister or a church does, then why are you charging me for it.
Side note: I don’t think most people feel this way cause I haven’t seen any chatter about it. But it really irks me that she made the app free after I paid 5 bucks for it. I kind of wish she would give me a credit or something. Or make the “Freeform Text” option free for us early adopters. And that irks me too, “Freeform Text” should have always been a part of the app in the first place. I quit using the app and went digital cause I was frustrated with the journaling cards.
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Post by lasteve1 on Feb 2, 2019 3:53:12 GMT
I’ve been wondering if Becky is depressed. But in regards to yesterday’s email, here are the bits that me off: “As I share this with you, please keep in mind that while some of these decisions may not make sense to you, you are here because you trust us. And if you trust us, then you need to trust that we are putting EVERYthing into these decisions.” I don’t follow you because I trust you. I follow you because I like some of what you sell. I don’t know how many people follow someone because they trust them. “This is where trust plays an important role between you, the customer … and us, the people who care deeply to serve you through this work we do.” I feel like this is really a silly thing to pick apart, but the “serve you” part really got under my skin. Yes Becky provides us with a service and we choose whether or not to pay for this service. But this read to me as the way ministers and the like use the word “serve.” First your employees are paid to care deeply about me so.... And if you believe that you are serving me in the way that a minister or a church does, then why are you charging me for it. Side note: I don’t think most people feel this way cause I haven’t seen any chatter about it. But it really irks me that she made the app free after I paid 5 bucks for it. I kind of wish she would give me a credit or something. Or make the “Freeform Text” option free for us early adopters. And that irks me too, “Freeform Text” should have always been a part of the app in the first place. I quit using the app and went digital cause I was frustrated with the journaling cards. This exactly. I think I said this on this thread awhile ago, or maybe an even older one. But I think that we should’ve gotten the Freeform text as a “thanks for buying the app” or something. It seemed to me like she just wanted a way to charge everyone for the app a second time since sales had slowed down so instead of adding the freeform text to the existing features she made everyone pay for it again.
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Post by mcjunkin on Feb 2, 2019 19:20:06 GMT
I ’ve been wondering if Becky is depressed.
I wonder the same. Check today's story. Seriously. Fast forward through the print announcement and Kari to where BH is starting her Saturday morning. Something is just not right with her. Hopefully those around her, her family, are picking up on that and addressing it.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Feb 2, 2019 20:33:01 GMT
I wonder if maybe she's in peri-menopause? I was a basket case the first year of menopause.
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julie5
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Post by julie5 on Feb 2, 2019 22:42:55 GMT
I ’ve been wondering if Becky is depressed.
I wonder the same. Check today's story. Seriously. Fast forward through the print announcement and Kari to where BH is starting her Saturday morning. Something is just not right with her. Hopefully those around her, her family, are picking up on that and addressing it. My god she loves listening to herself talk. “Memory keeping professional” I’m dead.
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Post by artisticscrapper on Feb 3, 2019 0:19:11 GMT
What was that video even about? Is she trying to bond with her audience by whining about laundry? Scrap or do laundry? Decisions decisions. And of course the usual rambling.
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 3, 2019 0:21:43 GMT
Memory keeping professional The title life artist has been taken.
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Post by crafty on Feb 3, 2019 12:08:22 GMT
I don’t think she understands that by saying she wasted an hour and a half for us when she has other things to do is rude. No one told her to do it. Don’t. Everyone did tell her that we wanted more PL stuff but then don’t complain while doing it. It’s your business. Someone on her team should give her a script or take away the Instagram password.
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nicolep
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Post by nicolep on Feb 3, 2019 14:31:36 GMT
I don’t think she understands that by saying she wasted an hour and a half for us when she has other things to do is rude. No one told her to do it. Don’t. Everyone did tell her that we wanted more PL stuff but then don’t complain while doing it. It’s your business. Someone on her team should give her a script or take away the Instagram password. But she did it because she WANTS. TO. HELP. 🙄 Afterall, she's the Memory Keeping Professional. *Gag*
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Post by lasteve1 on Feb 3, 2019 14:46:02 GMT
I don’t think she understands that by saying she wasted an hour and a half for us when she has other things to do is rude. No one told her to do it. Don’t. Everyone did tell her that we wanted more PL stuff but then don’t complain while doing it. It’s your business. Someone on her team should give her a script or take away the Instagram password. I think what she’s missing is it’s not just that we want more PL posts, but we want a higher ratio of PL to non-PL posts. So I don’t care if she doesn’t post at all on the weekends. But if she wants to post 10 stories about laundry, then she should be posting 20 about PL. (no one should post 30 stories, but she’s going to do it anyway, so at least make the majority of them PL related).
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nicolep
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Post by nicolep on Feb 3, 2019 15:03:40 GMT
I just went and looked at her IG. She is SUPER RUDE and certifiably oblivious to anything and everything she's saying and doing! It's like a big slap in the face for her followers that are true and loyal fans/customers (for which I am not). Maybe this is the post you were referring to crafty? So now she's saying she completely wasted her time yesterday morning on trying to make a step by step video or whatever on her PL layouts?
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julie5
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Post by julie5 on Feb 3, 2019 15:30:41 GMT
More word diarrhea. Great. She’s really starting to just be a b*tvh.
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Post by elegantsufficiency on Feb 3, 2019 15:35:44 GMT
I was going to share that IG post this morning but you beat me to it - I had just read someone's journal/planner page about being "super busy" as well - and yet, not too busy to make countless lists of doing laundry, checking finances, "self care" and so on...not to mention the habit tracker (I thought of sleepingbooty with the hydration record) and so on. Errrmmm, why do these women simply get on with their lives? (Or is that too obvious?) What/why are they telling us?
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Post by joblackford on Feb 3, 2019 16:06:39 GMT
I don’t think she understands that by saying she wasted an hour and a half for us when she has other things to do is rude. No one told her to do it. Don’t. Everyone did tell her that we wanted more PL stuff but then don’t complain while doing it. It’s your business. Someone on her team should give her a script or take away the Instagram password. I think what she’s missing is it’s not just that we want more PL posts, but we want a higher ratio of PL to non-PL posts. So I don’t care if she doesn’t post at all on the weekends. But if she wants to post 10 stories about laundry, then she should be posting 20 about PL. (no one should post 30 stories, but she’s going to do it anyway, so at least make the majority of them PL related). Or maybe she could try the radical idea of posting her laundry ramblings and tearful nonsense on a personal account and only posting business-related things on a business account...? Maybe 1 grid post and 3 stories (max) a day about her core business offerings on a business page that customers can follow... you know, like a professional. I know it's hard when your life and name is attached to your business, but somehow some of us manage to see the difference and think "do my customers need to know this?" (will this help my brand, or am I just blabbing to my friends?) before we post to our business Instagram. (she does know her customers are not her friends, doesn't she?) And yeah, complaining to my customers about the work I'm doing for them would be rude and stupid and ungrateful.
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Post by QueSeraSera on Feb 3, 2019 16:09:00 GMT
I was going to share that IG post this morning but you beat me to it - I had just read someone's journal/planner page about being "super busy" as well - and yet, not too busy to make countless lists of doing laundry, checking finances, "self care" and so on...not to mention the habit tracker (I thought of sleepingbooty with the hydration record) and so on. Errrmmm, why do these women simply get on with their lives? (Or is that too obvious?) What/why are they telling us? They are telling us that they need a constant, steady dose of validation and praise. It screams needy and insecure. Becky is clearly feeling vulnerable but instead of stepping back and going into the feelings to explore what went wrong, she's doubling down and sticking her fingers further into her ears while she continues to ignore the obvious. She is a narcissist. I won't even start on my hatred of the glorification of being busy. Just another way to try and one up another person. Prioritize or shut up.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Feb 3, 2019 16:12:17 GMT
I was going to share that IG post this morning but you beat me to it - I had just read someone's journal/planner page about being "super busy" as well - and yet, not too busy to make countless lists of doing laundry, checking finances, "self care" and so on...not to mention the habit tracker (I thought of sleepingbooty with the hydration record) and so on. Errrmmm, why do these women simply get on with their lives? (Or is that too obvious?) What/why are they telling us? "I only exist if you validate I exist." Rinse and repeat for. every. single. feeling. Over and over again.
It's a mix of identity crisis with children coming of age, the overblown ego from having built a personal "brand" (don't get me started), not being content and comfortable with oneself, not being content and comfortable on one's own and the easy access to temporary faux-lutions through the instantaneous and free/cheap social media. It all thrives on the dichotomous "but I'm special, not just anyone else" complex: they're either living the super enviable/overly happy life or being a freakin' martyr to the everyday (#dramaalert). There's no in-between, no emotional balance, no quietness in simply existing, no actual wisdom.
You can be certain of one thing with such people: they have no self-confidence and they rely on you to give it to them. You become their comforter, 24/7. And if you decide to stick around out of sympathy/good-heartedness/loyalty, you are only enabling them (making the problem worse) and ruining yourself in the process.
ETA: crossed wires with QueSeraSera on the analysis front.
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Post by gynergy on Feb 3, 2019 18:31:17 GMT
I ’ve been wondering if Becky is depressed.
I wonder the same. Check today's story. Seriously. Fast forward through the print announcement and Kari to where BH is starting her Saturday morning. Something is just not right with her. Hopefully those around her, her family, are picking up on that and addressing it. I’ve watched/read minimum of her “content” lately due to lack of patience (mine), but the descriptions y’all have included in this thread makes me wonder if he is hypomanic (Bipolar II disorder). Something seems off more than just poor business acumen. Utah actually has a huge rate of antidepressant usage & suicide rate. If I recall, some have surmised it’s a combination of the pressure many experience to appear “perfect” in the Mormon culture plus the altitude.
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 3, 2019 18:54:31 GMT
It's a mix of identity crisis with children coming of age, the overblown ego from having built a personal "brand" (don't get me started), I loathe the words cultivate and curate. Curate items in a museum? Yes. Any other way that word is used makes me irrationally irritated.
If I recall, some have surmised it’s a combination of the pressure many experience to appear “perfect” in the Mormon culture plus the altitude. It is complicated and it hits very close to home for me. It is not just the Mormon culture. Thank you for recognizing it's more than that.
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Post by marg on Feb 3, 2019 20:38:58 GMT
I loathe the words cultivate and curate. Curate items in a museum? Yes. Any other way that word is used makes me irrationally irritated. Same here. I also hate "self care", mostly because Ali E uses it wayyyyy too often. There's a long list of words I hate at work, too, beginning with "stakeholders" and ending with "circle back", lol.
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julie5
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Post by julie5 on Feb 3, 2019 21:16:49 GMT
I loathe the words cultivate and curate. Curate items in a museum? Yes. Any other way that word is used makes me irrationally irritated. Same here. I also hate "self care", mostly because Ali E uses it wayyyyy too often. There's a long list of words I hate at work, too, beginning with "stakeholders" and ending with "circle back", lol. Oh god with the self care. I hate the phrase. And cultivate. Mostly because of ali and Becky. And intentional. Or living with intention how else would I be living? I’m accidentally living?
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Post by lisacharlotte on Feb 3, 2019 21:29:04 GMT
Same here. I also hate "self care", mostly because Ali E uses it wayyyyy too often. There's a long list of words I hate at work, too, beginning with "stakeholders" and ending with "circle back", lol. Oh god with the self care. I hate the phrase. And cultivate. Mostly because of ali and Becky. And intentional. Or living with intention how else would I be living? I’m accidentally living? I'm living by the seat of my pants.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 21:33:23 GMT
Don't forget raw, real, and authentic. If you have to state that you are being any of those, then you are none. Dear golly gosh.
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Post by artisticscrapper on Feb 3, 2019 21:48:02 GMT
I agree with joblackford. If Becky wants to post her random stream of consciousness babble she should set up a seperate account. I’ve unfollowed other crafters since half of their posts were pictures of their families, vacations, houses, etc. I’m just not interested. Becky, if you really want to make better use of your time try posting more ways we can use your products and stop telling us how you think we should live our lives.
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Post by lasteve1 on Feb 3, 2019 21:52:41 GMT
I agree with joblackford . If Becky wants to post her random stream of consciousness babble she should set up a seperate account. I’ve unfollowed other crafters since half of their posts were pictures of their families, vacations, houses, etc. I’m just not interested. Becky, if you really want to make better use of your time try posting more ways we can use your products and stop telling us how you think we should live our lives. I agree. The only ones that I feel have done a good job of balancing crafting/personal life on an instagram account are Elise Cripe & Ali Edwards. My only gripe with Ali is the oversharing of fitness/yoga stuff. I think she had the right idea to create a separate wellness account, but I feel like she still shares too much on her main account trying to get new people to follow the wellness account. Elise doesn't scrapbook anymore, but the crafts she does do I am interested in and she somehow finds a way to share her life in an interesting but not oversharing way. But, Ali also has a brand only account so if you literally want JUST the scrapbook stuff, she posts that there with nothing else. Then her main account is a good balance. Elise also has a brand only account but I often mix-up what is posted on which account to be honest, but I enjoy them both. Becky also needs to stop with the religious posts. I get that her religion is important to her, and I guess it's fair to mention in briefly in relation to the notebooks since that is a product she sells, but she doesn't need all the temple photos and the long lecture on how she approaches going to church. I find these posts more off-putting than the laundry rambling.
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julie5
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Post by julie5 on Feb 3, 2019 22:22:28 GMT
I agree with joblackford. If Becky wants to post her random stream of consciousness babble she should set up a seperate account. I’ve unfollowed other crafters since half of their posts were pictures of their families, vacations, houses, etc. I’m just not interested. Becky, if you really want to make better use of your time try posting more ways we can use your products and stop telling us how you think we should live our lives. Just do this one thing. It’s her condescension that’s turning everyone off. She patronizing us.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 3, 2019 22:35:54 GMT
I loathe the words cultivate and curate. Curate items in a museum? Yes. Any other way that word is used makes me irrationally irritated. Same here. I also hate "self care", mostly because Ali E uses it wayyyyy too often. There's a long list of words I hate at work, too, beginning with "stakeholders" and ending with "circle back", lol. Is deep dive one of them? I swear it has been on my radar for last year or so. We need to make BINGO cards of these phrases to make meetings more fun. I know we did stuff like this for staff meetings as teachers.
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Post by stittsygirl on Feb 3, 2019 22:59:47 GMT
It's a mix of identity crisis with children coming of age, the overblown ego from having built a personal "brand" (don't get me started), I loathe the words cultivate and curate. Curate items in a museum? Yes. Any other way that word is used makes me irrationally irritated.
If I recall, some have surmised it’s a combination of the pressure many experience to appear “perfect” in the Mormon culture plus the altitude. It is complicated and it hits very close to home for me. It is not just the Mormon culture. Thank you for recognizing it's more than that. I left the Mormon church at 36 and still spent most of my 40s clinically depressed. It is very complicated and my depression had much to do with genetics and location and my marriage, but there was still a lot of ex-Mormon baggage I was dealing with (and still deal with to an extent). I’m also thinking depression or some sort of mental issue is playing a part in what we’re seeing in BH now.
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Post by crafty on Feb 3, 2019 23:02:32 GMT
I agree with joblackford . If Becky wants to post her random stream of consciousness babble she should set up a seperate account. I’ve unfollowed other crafters since half of their posts were pictures of their families, vacations, houses, etc. I’m just not interested. Becky, if you really want to make better use of your time try posting more ways we can use your products and stop telling us how you think we should live our lives. This! This is it 100%. Stop being so damn high and mighty.
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