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Where does sue Radford get her money?

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Buzzybee23 · 17/05/2020 07:48

Watched some of their videos tonight. I remember their TV show.

I have one daughter and one son. I like to get a small range of next clothes for them because they wash well. So I am familiar with what they sell.

I noticed on one of the newest videos two of her youngest are rocking £24 next dresses.

Then 3 of her youngest are wearing £20 unicorn dresses In another. If she can have 22 kids. Not work. Not claim benefits. I would love to know how she can afford to kit them out in such expensive clothes.

They also just ripped out all the garden. Got artificial grass and a brand new play park. Was it a year agoish they got a new kitchen and dining room?

She gets a brand new pram for every child. She spends a fortune on them on their birthdays. They also get more holidays than an average family with two kids.

I notice the new baby has the fancy chair that moves to rock the baby. She has the best of everything!!!

I unfollowed her because she was giving an address out on her comments. It is get husband's pie shop. She doesn't want people to know where she lives but she wants the freebies they want to send her. The public send her children gifts and clothes etc. I mean that's up to them but there are children with nothing and they are accepting freebies when their kids are kitted out in next outfits and have hundreds spent on them for birthdays etc.

I don't get it? They've become materialistic and greedy?

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PatchworkElmer · 17/05/2020 09:16

They probably earn a fair bit off people watching their YouTube videos, too...

quizwhitty · 17/05/2020 09:19

On her Instagram she quite often uses the hashtag #gifted so imagine they do get a lot free.

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Buzzybee23 · 17/05/2020 09:19

I didn't realise how much you tube can make.

It's abit weird aswel selling your children how she does. They have no privacy. I bet they hate their birthdays being filmed and put on Facebook for strangers. Especially when you are in your pyjamas trying to eat your breakfast.

I suppose if she can give them a good life then I see how she has been sucked into it.

They seem like nice people as a whole. The kids are polite. They share. They don't get angry when the littler ones are trying to nick their birthday gifts. It's just another unrealistic life they are promoting. They have not had careers or anything. She's never worked in her life. Her older ones don't seem to have much life away from home. It's lovely that they help carry toddlers around and they cook to help. But it's sad they have had to be so mature to survive.

I wonder how many more years people will follow them. I've unfollowed. I've never followed her until yesterday. I saw them in suggestions. I used to watch the TV show and they were certainly not in the position they are in now.

Ah well good luck to them. If they are earning it through you tube etc that explains the luxuries. I know a £20 dress is hardly shocking. But she has them all kitted out in £20 dresses alot. Most can't justify that often for a couple of kids. Let alone 22. They must cost a fortune in shoes coats and clothes. You'd think she'd be shopping as Asda!

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WrongKindOfFace · 17/05/2020 09:24

They get child benefit and tax credits (although they won’t get any extra tax credits for children born after 2017).

Plus a ton of freebies.

avroroad · 17/05/2020 09:24

£20 is pretty average for a dress isn't it? I don't really see the big deal. I would understand if you were posting based on them wearing Gucci or similar, but a bog standard dress from NEXT? Don't get the issue.

Sleepyquest · 17/05/2020 09:37

Hmm a lot of their posts are hash tagged gifted #gifted
I see a lot of Next clothes too. Maybe Next give them vouchers or something as she has tagged them too.

I would have thought that after having so many children, hand me downs would be used only but I see what you mean, everything is pretty new. I'm already saving my DDs stuff for the next one as it'll save so much money and DH would cry if I bought everything new again.

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Buzzybee23 · 17/05/2020 09:47

Because she has £75 to blow on 3 dresses. Then another £50 for another two. That's a £125 on 5 items. She has 22 kids who need clothes. Only a couple of them don't live home with her. She's always spending. New clothes every week. She's very comfortable money wise is my point. She isn't having to think. She is pretty much able to hand over hundreds of pounds a week for nice clothes from just the few videos I saw. I'm not Hating on her. Her kids are living the life of luxury. The kids were eating of those £15 bamboo plates too. I've seen those. Couldn't justify that price. She has several of them. She's rolling in money it seems. Most of my friends earn £30,000 a year on average as a household. They are shopping in Primark and Asda for 2 kids.

It adds up now anyway. It's free and she's being paid to show the public her life. Fair enough. I just thought I was missing a trick. She's just promoting to her fans you can get pregnant over and over. Never work and land lucky on a one wage income. Very lucky. But very odd in places.

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avroroad · 17/05/2020 09:50

Because she has £75 to blow on 3 dresses. Then another £50 for another two. That's a £125 on 5

So the Radford kids should wear rags? A dress from NEXT is nothing special.

She has 22 kids who need clothes.

No she bloody doesn't.

avroroad · 17/05/2020 09:51

Her kids are living the life of luxury.

Holy fuck. You think they are living a life of luxury because they are wearing a shitty dress from NEXT? It's hardly high end is it?

Watch the shows again and consider the emotional needs rather than the materialistic aspect. There is fuck all luxury for those children.

KingOfDogShite · 17/05/2020 09:54

It’s not like she’s got any other hobbies to spend her money on is it.

cushioncovers · 17/05/2020 09:54

I think the money comes from
Child benefits
Her husband's job
Tv shows
Sponsorship

Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 17/05/2020 10:02

I think that several PP live in a different world. Next may not be high end, but it’s not cheap - £25 for one dress adds up pretty fast. And I am fortunate enough to have a comfortable lifestyle (although I’m a pauper by MN standards).

KuckFnows · 17/05/2020 10:03

I actually am not interested at all and couldn't care less to be honest

avroroad · 17/05/2020 10:14

think that several PP live in a different world. Next may not be high end, but it’s not cheap - £25 for one dress adds up pretty fast. And I am fortunate enough to have a comfortable lifestyle (although I’m a pauper by MN standards).

I don't live in a different world at all. It's an average price for an average dress. Yes of course it adds up, so does anything you buy lots of. It's not a shop I have ever been a fan of, NEXT has its own wee cult following people who hold it on a pedestal. It's just a shop. OP suggestion that NEXT is too good for the Radfords is awful. That's coming from someone who is a fan of neither.

RandomMess · 17/05/2020 10:29

I've seen them shopping in Primark still Grin

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Buzzybee23 · 17/05/2020 10:54

@avroroad

Well If you can pop online and buy £20 dresses on a regular basis for several toddlers to run around in you have more money than alot of people.

Living in rags wasn't quite the look I was suggesting. Just £10 dresses would be more realistic for the average household to dress a kid in to play in the garden.

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Sparklingbrook · 17/05/2020 10:59

I really cant get wound up by what dresses the Radford’s DC wear. Or be looking up the prices.
Next isn’t exactly high end.

avroroad · 17/05/2020 11:02

Well If you can pop online and buy £20 dresses on a regular basis for several toddlers to run around in you have more money than alot of people.

I couldn't. But I don't get CB, TC and have a husband with his own bakery.

Living in rags wasn't quite the look I was suggesting. Just £10 dresses would be more realistic for the average household to dress a kid in to play in the garden.

And this is the part that riled me to defend the Radfrods. Who the hell are you to decide they should spend £10 instead of £20 on a dress based on the size of their family?

avroroad · 17/05/2020 11:03

Sorry that should read I do t get CB etc for X amount of kids. I have 2 on my claim. Presumably more children do generate more TC etc. They can buy what they choose just like anyone else.

ArriettyJones · 17/05/2020 11:05

I really cant get wound up by what dresses the Radford’s DC wear. Or be looking up the prices.
Next isn’t exactly high end.

Quite.

Nor £15 bamboo plates (bamboo patterned or some pseudo-eco things made from bamboo?).

The D.C. cannot tell the difference between cheapieh dresses and very cheap dresses, nor between cheapies plates or very cheap plates.

” Her kids are living the life of luxury.” is an absolutely BATSHIT thing to say about that family. I’ve only seen the odd snippet, but there’s nothing approaching luxury there, especially from a child’s POV.

Chuck your energy into your career plans OP (or self employment, or eBaying or whatever makes you feel next dresses are affordable), if you’re feeling the pinch.

ArriettyJones · 17/05/2020 11:13

Well If you can pop online and buy £20 dresses on a regular basis for several toddlers to run around in you have more money than alot of people.

No, honestly. I’d say £20 for a child’s dress is cheap to normal, and you sound a bit obsessed with the whole issue of good value next dresses.

I can see your point that more next dresses cost more ££££s, but we’ve covered that point with the discussion of monetisation, tax credits and hand me downs etc.

This is getting very repetitive and spiteful. I don’t think the Radfords are sophisticated people. They didn’t start with many advantages in life. So this just feels mean.

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Buzzybee23 · 17/05/2020 11:40

It's not about me saying they don't deserve next dresses.

I'm saying she's always buying piles of new clothes and not the average price.

She's got expensive coats for her kids

They all have I pads and tablets and expensive trainers.

They have two dogs to pay for too

They have just done an expensive garden project and sues hoping for lights and projectors and hot tubs etc next.

They have brand new prams for each child every single year roughly. They are expensive ones. Like bugaboo etc.

They have the expensive thorntons Easter eggs.. Clarke's shoes. Expensive equipment for the kids to eat from

They have just got the kids one of those park things that cost many hundreds.

It's the whole package. They are doing well considering they claim they just live of one wage!

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Sparklingbrook · 17/05/2020 11:42

You have been studying them veryclosely OP.

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Buzzybee23 · 17/05/2020 11:42

School uniform and clarkes shoes cost £100 average for a primary kid and secondary is probably £200.

So she has a good 12-15 children needing that everyday. That's a few grand just for that.

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Buzzybee23 · 17/05/2020 11:44

Well what exactly are the radfords about?

If you look at them, every single video they make is about materialistic things.

It's about birthdays and presents. Buying clothes. Spending on the house. Buying for a new baby.

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