For context, Rosie was laid off from her online job a few weeks ago and has not found a new job. It's unclear whether she's even looking for one. She lives at home and is very clearly in no way forced to support herself, at all. Also, for context, Rosie has been super fat her entire life, clearly never having to get by with table scraps.
In this video, she does an unboxing of various stuff for her viewers. She, of course, can't just say this is for fun and that online shopping is one of the few pleasures in her life. No, she has to contextualize it within her little bubble of misery. She says (quite vaguely) before the unboxing:
"I've briefly talked about it in the past, but I do kind of struggle with, like, scarcity mindset and scarcity fear and trauma because ... I had periods in my time where I was, like, chronically on the brink of homelessness, really struggling to support myself and take care of myself when I was, um, going through some really dark stuff. So I just have a lot of anxiety about the fact that I've been laid off and that, you know, if I don't have these things and it makes my life harder, I don't want it to trigger old trauma."
If this was true, you'd expect that she spent her little remaining money on necessities, right? Soap, deodorant, toothpaste, pain relievers, socks, salt, beans and rice -- actual survival shit, you know? Here's what she proceeds to unbox:
- A spray bottle you use to spray oil on salads
- Butterfly sunglasses from TikTok that are so poorly made, they broke in her hands when she removed them from the box.
- Two plastic vegetable slicers
- A box with several pairs of plastic heart-shaped sunglasses
- A tablet stand pillow so she can prop her tablet up when lying in bed
- A new Pop Socket for her phone
- iPhone case
- Thin metal plates to mount her phone on magnetic stuff
- New Fitbit watch band because the existing one is getting old
- Two tubs of protein powder
- Electrolyte drink mix
- Back scratcher from TikTok shop that also broke as soon as she took it out
- Silicone hair catcher for the shower
- Plastic phone holder
- MORE SUNGLASSES
- Extra hair clips to replace her extras
- Antler jewelry rack to hang jewelry on
- Wash clothes
- Magnetic clasps and extenders for jewelry
- Another Fitbit watch band
- Lion's Mane supplement
- Hair product to hide her increasing hair loss
- Dry shampoo
Yes, this is truly the shopping list of a traumatized person whose unemployment threatens to trigger their scarcity trauma.