If you've got a large family, I'd have thought it'd be more important to save the money rather than spunking it on paper plates, but what do I know? I'm not the law pope.
But regardless of the costs, who the fuck could bear the idea of eating every meal of a paper plate? It's obnoxious enough when you have to tolerate it because you're at a conference or a big wedding, or whatever, and somebody prefers the idea of more guests so they skimp on that aspect of the catering. I don't like it, but I understand it. I'm not going to insult the host, regardless of how poor I think their decision making/organisational skills might be.
But a whole family, sitting and eating off those things every night? Well, if ever you needed a reminder that money doesn't buy you taste, you can count on Balldo Boy to keep on delivering it at every available opportunity.
To be clear the videos I noticed it in were firmly lower middle class families. And these people were talking about saving money - I think that's their angle for their shorts or whatever - like $20 for the main dish for dinner for a family of 8.
I don't think paper plates are expensive, but I think in those vids I saw, it was both about money and about time allocation and management with a small dishwasher and a bunch of little kids needing high-intensity time in the evening. It looked awful to me, and depressing, but I get that people sometimes do what they need to do.
None of that is defending Nick - these folks were not like Nick. From all appearances, the people I saw looked like hardworking but low-earning adults with big families. Nick and Kayla are neither hardworking nor earning (for the most part), and yet they have as much in (dumb) cars as these people have in a home (and guess which one appreciates - hint it's not the one Nick the Financial Wizard thinks). Not going to look down on people doing what best serves their kids...which again is nothing relevant for the Rekietas.
And unlike the Rekieta household, these people had a clear table to eat on, and used it. But about the same quality, probably, bc the Rekietas' money goes to dumb tattoos and coke rather than stuff that serves the whole family.
Which reminds me: if they had put half of that mortgage money into their house, they'd probably have increased the resale value of it by 150% of the money they put in. And would have had a much nicer environment to live in. That kitchen is
offensive to see for people with a large family and the means to buy new and useless cars, add ink, get cosmetic surgery, coke out, and dump 5+ figures on money to lawyers for legal troubles of their own making.
That one is weird to me. Because they are 3 miles from Spicer, only 11 miles outside of Willmar and there is no traffic to speak of in that area. Spicer is a small but serviceable town. They don't really live in a typical isolated rural minnesota area at all. It almost seems to suggest a social interaction problem rather than a driving problem.
No, they're not that far from basics, which is what makes it even dumber that (per Nick...take that for what it's worth) he [bc nanny so rudely dipped] has to do SO much driving for the kids they decided to have and "homeschool," and that per him, she doesn't or can't.
If they knew she had such a critical problem with normal activity, they should have planned better. But duh, if they had good judgment, then (among a million other things) they would not have that stupid Mustang as just the second car. It's not fit for winter driving, so even if she did drive, they'd be in a bind shuttling kids for that reason during snow season.
And though I get they need a big car for hauling the whole crew (I've got a 3-row suv bc hauling kids and friends for years made it make sense
if anyone wants to help me figure out what to replace it with bc it's old and getting hanky, please lmk bc halp) they could have gotten one far less expensive and gas-guzzling. A second car could have been some practical mid-sized suv (with awd, omfg). The stupid mustang could have waited until everyone else was taken care of. Just dumb all the way around.
And supposedly they have to drive 450 miles/ day to get the kids to all their places, nevermind Walmart for wagyu*. If they lived smarter, even with stupid car choices and Kayla's apparent critical disability, they wouldn't have to do all that.
* that they shop at Walmart is...well, I get that options are limited, even for people who think they're better than all their neighbors. Being a snob with no discernment must be hard. (But that said, there are at least half a dozen standalone butchers in/ around the town of Willmar, if not more, and I didn't even check maps in other directions. It's fucking Minnesota. There are butchers. Going to Walmart bc you have to have wagyu for your SOS concoction says so much.)
It's just dumb after dumb.
