Shop Well for Less

[TinfoilHattie]

Anyone watching possibly the shallowest woman in the world on Shop Well For Less?

I liked Steph until she started presenting this programme. She's up there with Greg Wallace for her gurning!

I can no longer see her as a serious financial journalist.

I quite like her and Alex Jones together, they work well together and seem to be genuinely friendly.

Totally agree that this woman will have been all over social media thinking it's great that she's on telly and now everyone knows that she only wears things once and spends £100 on a bottle of fizz. I get the impression that she sees spending money as a massive achievement in life.

Those of us who are more secure in our own skin know that having "stuff" doesn't make you a better person. I like my wee luxuries and treating myself - who doesn't? But the level of materialism shown on the programme last night was dreadful. She really thought she was Colleen Rooney with millions to splash around when her husband and her were on very average salaries. Deluded and shallow.

Not sure why you'd apply to go on those sorts of programmes in the first place, isn't it just advertising to everyone how stupid and incompetent you are?

Fascinated to know where she goes clubbing, wine barring and £100 a popping champagne North Wales. Has to be Chester I guess, in which case, taxi fares are gunna be astronomical.

There are so many people who feel that possessions and appearance are everything. Gut instinct says it is insecurity rather than shallowness, but maybe I am being generous. All that money on clothes, gym and beauty products, suggests she is insecure about her looks and in her industry looks will be analysed to a crazy degree. She's possibly a product of her environment.

(Armchair psychologist here!)

Insecurity? Sheer stupidity I'd say.

I'd much rather be saving money for DD's future than blowing it on shampoo and make-up. (I hasten to add that I use both regularly, but don't spend thousands on it. Wasn't her make-up alone worth something like £16k?).

It also made me think house prices in Wrexham must be v affordable if they were able to support a footballer's wife lifestyle on a mechanic and beautician's salary.

26 bottles of shampoo a year IIRC = one bottle per fortnight! I'm surprised she has any hair left on her head at all.

A 400ml bottle of H&S lasts me for 3 months, I usually buy on offer 3 for £10 so around £14 pa vs £400.

she really didn't come across well at all last night, you'd think somewhere in her life there must be someone saying "don't do this darling", but no, there obviously wasn't, it was almost as if its her right to feel sick as she wasn't driving a range rover...

What a ridiculous pair. Can't think of anything better to say!

These programmes really open your eyes to just how incredibly stupid some people can be. How on earth did they keep spending that amount and not realise how much it came to each month. How they had anything left at the end of the month I don't know.
So shallow and the husband was nearly as bad wearing the ridicously expensive clothes and just ignoring how much she was spending. £170 for a pair of jeans ffs!! How much did the tracksuit for the kid cost if they saved £70 with the other one? 😲
I love it when they can't tell the difference between the designer stuff and cheap stuff or they slag off the stuff they pay a fortune for cos they think it's cheap stuff😁 just shows they are paying for the name not the ingredients.

I wonder if the Evoque was exchanged? £30000 for a car is obscene given how much this pair must've been earning.

Thing is, a car will always lose value no matter how good a deal you've got. It's not even an appreciating asset! Bonkers.

I laughed when the woman said "you don't know who you are going to see" when talking about wearing a different outfit to a restaurant. She obviously has delusions of being Posh Spice or someone.

And "having to have a different outfit for social media"...wtaf!

Id much rather be saving money for DD's future than blowing it on shampoo and make-up

Yes of course you would - because you are sensible parent. You hope that your children achieve their potential, make something of themselves and will encourage them whatever they want to do. I would too. Unfortunately, there are some parents who have no aspirations for their children beyonf hair extensions and fake tan.

On the car thing, what got me the most is that she made hte decision to buy it without consulting her husband, and signed up to dealer finance on the spot. We've just bought a new (well, ex-demo) car, DH spent weeks driving me nuts with his spreadsheet, looking at everything from depreciation to servicing and insurance costs to work out the best deal. We did actually at the end go with the dealer finance because we'd shopped around and it was as good a deal as we could get elsewhere. I did get pissed off with DH and his spreadsheets but the other extreme of spending £30k on a whim is just crazy.

TinfoilHattie - lucky you for having a DH to take on (enjoy?) the pain of calculating value for money.

The wife's opinion of herself was obvioulsy inflated by her husband's active pandering to her. There must be reciprocation somewhere in the relationship - maybe she's a cordon blue cook - but it wasn't made obvious in the programme.

I couldn't understand the two gym memberships - why would you need two?

The rate at which she uses shampoo sounds just as ridiculous as the cost. A bottle of shampoo lasts me a couple of months at least. What on earth was she doing with it? Expensive shampoo wouldn't be such as waste of money if she used it at the normal rate.

I shower every day and a bottle of shampoo lasts me 2 or 3 weeks. No idea what she was doing to go through it so fast. Washing endless hairpieces, perhaps?

We probably go through a normal sized bottle of shampoo weekly but then that's between 4 (well 3 I suppose as DH doesn't really use it) and we shower/wash hair daily. It is however generally less than a quid a bottle.

She was shallow and vacuous and tbh he was no better. There is no way I'd be working 16 hour days or whatever so my partner could go for beauty treatments and fanny about in a overpriced car - fuck that.

I buy expensive shampoo but partly because I find it's more concentrated and so lasts a long time! And if you use discount websites you can end up getting good deals and bulk buys - I spent £15 on a 1litre bottle of shampoo I reckon will last me 6 months at least.

Did you notice that the 8 yr old was in the gym at home with her mum using one of the machines.
The poor kid is being completely remade in their image.
How sad that they think looks and material things are the be all and end all.

Two gym memberships are essential for anyone with an ounce of self-worth to be seen in (just not in the same outfit twice).

Are we being cruel to the terminally stupid? Probably!

I've just started watching it after this thread...love this statement from the woman...
'I don't like wearing the same outfit for photos on social media' says it all really. Who does she think she is!!!

She thinks she's a WAG. Reality is that she's a beautician from North Wales.

I'd love to see her facebook posts, it'll all be ME ME ME

Ssd, glad im not her friend, i can only afford cheap wine and George at asda! Me, me, me, indeed.

I've watched this now and see that they gave them the Aldi cava again . But does cava, champagne etc actually go with curry? £100 champagne with curry must be a total waste, but is that the supermarket price or the restaurant/bar price?

Waitrose high end top of the shelf poncy champers was about 80 to 90 a bottle i saw the other day..so maybe this was bar prices. Funny that the most expensive hairdryer was the best..they looked disappointed!
I hate these types of shows, but nothing else on last night!
Those two,had expensive tastes.