Young House Love - wtf is going on with Sherry?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WOW y'all are absolutely insane and need to focus more on your own lives than people you follow on instagram. People don't owe you anything and are allowed to create whatever boundaries they want, whenever they want to even if sharing their "lives" online is their "job"...If you don't like them, unfollow and move on with your miserable life. The only kids I feel sorry for are all of yours since clearly they don't have proper role models in their lives.

When you share your life on Instagram, you are going to get people who hate-follow as well as people who genuinely admire and support you. You can decide what you put out there, you can try to set "boundaries", but unless you privatize your page, but you can't control the response you get.

Worry about your own kids, since you clearly don't have the capacity to understand the risks of putting yourself and your entire family in the public eye.

I think they are well aware of that and its besides the point. Of course they are opening themselves up to criticism by putting themselves out there but just because we all CAN doesn't mean we all SHOULD. I was so disgusted when I accidentally stumbled upon this thread and how invested so many people are in ridiculous things that are one of their business or concern.

What about the risk of having a mom who is so great that she spends her spare time on a mommy blog speculating, gossiping conjuring up conspiracy theories and belittling people they don't even know...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is 100% the living room. Sherrys issue is she will NEVER admit to being wrong. Ever. So now she has to double down on keeping it the master while trying to shove a seating area into the kitchen space and apparently everyone ignoring the upstairs giant room because it isn’t actually convenient as a living space. The kids asked for desks in their rooms, the table for puzzles and Christmas tree is in the master... the giant upstairs living room appears to be unused most of the time. She knows she could add a wall up there and split it to reclaim the master as a living area but since she’s been saying for a year how much sense this plan makes now she is determined to stick with it no matter what. It is her worst character flaw. It’s why they had to take a break from the Internet a few years ago, Sherry would just sit in the comments and argue endlessly with commenters about why all their choices made sense and were 100% correct.

THIS! That wall between the kitchen and bedroom is screaming to be widened and the whole space made into a logical, eating, cooking, and living area. The upstairs can so easily be turned into a bedroom + sitting room/office, and would even have space for a small master bath with a shower. Her refusal to course correct is baffling.

[Anonymous]

I would not like having the master bedroom on the upper level while the kids are both downstairs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WOW y'all are absolutely insane and need to focus more on your own lives than people you follow on instagram. People don't owe you anything and are allowed to create whatever boundaries they want, whenever they want to even if sharing their "lives" online is their "job"...If you don't like them, unfollow and move on with your miserable life. The only kids I feel sorry for are all of yours since clearly they don't have proper role models in their lives.

When you share your life on Instagram, you are going to get people who hate-follow as well as people who genuinely admire and support you. You can decide what you put out there, you can try to set "boundaries", but unless you privatize your page, but you can't control the response you get.

Worry about your own kids, since you clearly don't have the capacity to understand the risks of putting yourself and your entire family in the public eye.

I think they are well aware of that and its besides the point. Of course they are opening themselves up to criticism by putting themselves out there but just because we all CAN doesn't mean we all SHOULD. I was so disgusted when I accidentally stumbled upon this thread and how invested so many people are in ridiculous things that are one of their business or concern.

What about the risk of having a mom who is so great that she spends her spare time on a mommy blog speculating, gossiping conjuring up conspiracy theories and belittling people they don't even know...

What about a mommy who spends her spare time reading mommy gossip boards and actually posts messages to the other participants belittling them?

And FTR, I'm a new poster and haven't read any of this thread except the few posts above mine. I do that sometimes for threads I don't initially click on, if I keep seeing it over and over and it gets really big I'll click on the last page just to get a sense of what's being discussed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WOW y'all are absolutely insane and need to focus more on your own lives than people you follow on instagram. People don't owe you anything and are allowed to create whatever boundaries they want, whenever they want to even if sharing their "lives" online is their "job"...If you don't like them, unfollow and move on with your miserable life. The only kids I feel sorry for are all of yours since clearly they don't have proper role models in their lives.

When you share your life on Instagram, you are going to get people who hate-follow as well as people who genuinely admire and support you. You can decide what you put out there, you can try to set "boundaries", but unless you privatize your page, but you can't control the response you get.

Worry about your own kids, since you clearly don't have the capacity to understand the risks of putting yourself and your entire family in the public eye.

I think they are well aware of that and its besides the point. Of course they are opening themselves up to criticism by putting themselves out there but just because we all CAN doesn't mean we all SHOULD. I was so disgusted when I accidentally stumbled upon this thread and how invested so many people are in ridiculous things that are one of their business or concern.

What about the risk of having a mom who is so great that she spends her spare time on a mommy blog speculating, gossiping conjuring up conspiracy theories and belittling people they don't even know...

What about a mommy who spends her spare time reading mommy gossip boards and actually posts messages to the other participants belittling them?

And FTR, I'm a new poster and haven't read any of this thread except the few posts above mine. I do that sometimes for threads I don't initially click on, if I keep seeing it over and over and it gets really big I'll click on the last page just to get a sense of what's being discussed.

Well perhaps you should dive a little deeper into the awful things that have been said before jumping in and defending them then. I was taught to call out bad behavior when I see it and stand up against bullying and teach my children to do the same. Not to jump on the bandwagon just regardless if something is "public" or someone is a celebrity/influencer.

[Anonymous]

So they basically have to keep moving right? The blog is their job, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually like their new closets and I think the bedroom layout is fine. I’m glad they aren’t trying to do a hack job closet system that also housed their AC unit as the previously proposed. I would like more details on how they use their upstairs space though. Sherry was posting pics of how they watch movies on a laptop in their bedroom. Why??? Is it because a ton of houses stare into their upstairs and they don’t want to add window treatments because it would screw up their blogger aesthetic? I’m also confused about the door in the hallway. It looks like you’ll step out and fall into the pool

They watch movies in their bedroom because their bedroom is the living room. It has the fireplace. It opens onto the yard area with the fire pit. It now has a table and chairs and that’s where they put the Christmas tree. It is the living room and the parents just weirdly sleep in it. They can pretend all they want it makes way more sense for their room to be there than upstairs but it doesn’t. The normal thing to do would be to open up the wall between the kitchen and bedroom, make it a larger open concept gathering space that opens up to the fire pit, and move their room upstairs by adding a wall up there to split up the space into a living area + master. She swears the upstairs room is bigger than their room in Richmond so fine, create two spaces up there, but continuing to make the downstairs living room area function as a bedroom is why this house is so chopped up and doesn’t flow and why they all still gather there like a living room. They don’t have a square footage issue, they have a layout issue.

I totally agree. I have no idea why they did it this way - they should have put the kids upstairs with a small room out to the deck and put their master where their daughter's room is. They could have kept the laundry in their son's closet-sized bedroom, and the current laundry could be a hall closet, and then they would have a really nice open kitchen/dining/living area downstairs with a walkout to the fire pit. They're idiots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WOW y'all are absolutely insane and need to focus more on your own lives than people you follow on instagram. People don't owe you anything and are allowed to create whatever boundaries they want, whenever they want to even if sharing their "lives" online is their "job"...If you don't like them, unfollow and move on with your miserable life. The only kids I feel sorry for are all of yours since clearly they don't have proper role models in their lives.

When you share your life on Instagram, you are going to get people who hate-follow as well as people who genuinely admire and support you. You can decide what you put out there, you can try to set "boundaries", but unless you privatize your page, but you can't control the response you get.

Worry about your own kids, since you clearly don't have the capacity to understand the risks of putting yourself and your entire family in the public eye.

I think they are well aware of that and its besides the point. Of course they are opening themselves up to criticism by putting themselves out there but just because we all CAN doesn't mean we all SHOULD. I was so disgusted when I accidentally stumbled upon this thread and how invested so many people are in ridiculous things that are one of their business or concern.

What about the risk of having a mom who is so great that she spends her spare time on a mommy blog speculating, gossiping conjuring up conspiracy theories and belittling people they don't even know...

So look, everybody on the internet knows you read GOMI and clearly you found this DCUM thread, too. We all watched your "boundaries" insta and feel sorry for you, but you reap what you sow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WOW y'all are absolutely insane and need to focus more on your own lives than people you follow on instagram. People don't owe you anything and are allowed to create whatever boundaries they want, whenever they want to even if sharing their "lives" online is their "job"...If you don't like them, unfollow and move on with your miserable life. The only kids I feel sorry for are all of yours since clearly they don't have proper role models in their lives.

When you share your life on Instagram, you are going to get people who hate-follow as well as people who genuinely admire and support you. You can decide what you put out there, you can try to set "boundaries", but unless you privatize your page, but you can't control the response you get.

Worry about your own kids, since you clearly don't have the capacity to understand the risks of putting yourself and your entire family in the public eye.

I think they are well aware of that and its besides the point. Of course they are opening themselves up to criticism by putting themselves out there but just because we all CAN doesn't mean we all SHOULD. I was so disgusted when I accidentally stumbled upon this thread and how invested so many people are in ridiculous things that are one of their business or concern.

What about the risk of having a mom who is so great that she spends her spare time on a mommy blog speculating, gossiping conjuring up conspiracy theories and belittling people they don't even know...

What about a mommy who spends her spare time reading mommy gossip boards and actually posts messages to the other participants belittling them?

And FTR, I'm a new poster and haven't read any of this thread except the few posts above mine. I do that sometimes for threads I don't initially click on, if I keep seeing it over and over and it gets really big I'll click on the last page just to get a sense of what's being discussed.

Well perhaps you should dive a little deeper into the awful things that have been said before jumping in and defending them then. I was taught to call out bad behavior when I see it and stand up against bullying and teach my children to do the same. Not to jump on the bandwagon just regardless if something is "public" or someone is a celebrity/influencer.

And you find message board policing the best use of your duty to "call out bad behavior"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not like having the master bedroom on the upper level while the kids are both downstairs.

Agreed.

The house could still be salvaged if they made the upstairs the kids rooms and a “lounge area.” Then they could turn their current master into a living room AND the kids current bedrooms could be a master bedroom and tiny office.

Why? Just Why are they sticking to this bizarre layout?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WOW y'all are absolutely insane and need to focus more on your own lives than people you follow on instagram. People don't owe you anything and are allowed to create whatever boundaries they want, whenever they want to even if sharing their "lives" online is their "job"...If you don't like them, unfollow and move on with your miserable life. The only kids I feel sorry for are all of yours since clearly they don't have proper role models in their lives.

When you share your life on Instagram, you are going to get people who hate-follow as well as people who genuinely admire and support you. You can decide what you put out there, you can try to set "boundaries", but unless you privatize your page, but you can't control the response you get.

Worry about your own kids, since you clearly don't have the capacity to understand the risks of putting yourself and your entire family in the public eye.

I think they are well aware of that and its besides the point. Of course they are opening themselves up to criticism by putting themselves out there but just because we all CAN doesn't mean we all SHOULD. I was so disgusted when I accidentally stumbled upon this thread and how invested so many people are in ridiculous things that are one of their business or concern.

What about the risk of having a mom who is so great that she spends her spare time on a mommy blog speculating, gossiping conjuring up conspiracy theories and belittling people they don't even know...

So look, everybody on the internet knows you read GOMI and clearly you found this DCUM thread, too. We all watched your "boundaries" insta and feel sorry for you, but you reap what you sow.

So look, I don't know what GOMI is and I pretty sure you've never seen my instagram account so I don't really understand any of this statement? lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would not like having the master bedroom on the upper level while the kids are both downstairs.

Agreed.

The house could still be salvaged if they made the upstairs the kids rooms and a “lounge area.” Then they could turn their current master into a living room AND the kids current bedrooms could be a master bedroom and tiny office.

Why? Just Why are they sticking to this bizarre layout?

I already know what her answer to this would be "the kids need a bathroom on the same level as them, we want to avoid any nighttime tumbles down the stairs!!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WOW y'all are absolutely insane and need to focus more on your own lives than people you follow on instagram. People don't owe you anything and are allowed to create whatever boundaries they want, whenever they want to even if sharing their "lives" online is their "job"...If you don't like them, unfollow and move on with your miserable life. The only kids I feel sorry for are all of yours since clearly they don't have proper role models in their lives.

When you share your life on Instagram, you are going to get people who hate-follow as well as people who genuinely admire and support you. You can decide what you put out there, you can try to set "boundaries", but unless you privatize your page, but you can't control the response you get.

Worry about your own kids, since you clearly don't have the capacity to understand the risks of putting yourself and your entire family in the public eye.

I think they are well aware of that and its besides the point. Of course they are opening themselves up to criticism by putting themselves out there but just because we all CAN doesn't mean we all SHOULD. I was so disgusted when I accidentally stumbled upon this thread and how invested so many people are in ridiculous things that are one of their business or concern.

What about the risk of having a mom who is so great that she spends her spare time on a mommy blog speculating, gossiping conjuring up conspiracy theories and belittling people they don't even know...

So look, everybody on the internet knows you read GOMI and clearly you found this DCUM thread, too. We all watched your "boundaries" insta and feel sorry for you, but you reap what you sow.

So look, I don't know what GOMI is and I pretty sure you've never seen my instagram account so I don't really understand any of this statement? lol

Giggle giggle LOL fangirl HARD ROLL.

[Anonymous]

I have followed on and off. And yes, talked about a lot on GOMI.

Honestly, I loved their Richmond house. Being in northern Virginia with kids, their house seemed like the perfect house for a family. And there was room for a pool. Obviously they wanted this particular area in Florida but it was a strange move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WOW y'all are absolutely insane and need to focus more on your own lives than people you follow on instagram. People don't owe you anything and are allowed to create whatever boundaries they want, whenever they want to even if sharing their "lives" online is their "job"...If you don't like them, unfollow and move on with your miserable life. The only kids I feel sorry for are all of yours since clearly they don't have proper role models in their lives.

When you share your life on Instagram, you are going to get people who hate-follow as well as people who genuinely admire and support you. You can decide what you put out there, you can try to set "boundaries", but unless you privatize your page, but you can't control the response you get.

Worry about your own kids, since you clearly don't have the capacity to understand the risks of putting yourself and your entire family in the public eye.

I think they are well aware of that and its besides the point. Of course they are opening themselves up to criticism by putting themselves out there but just because we all CAN doesn't mean we all SHOULD. I was so disgusted when I accidentally stumbled upon this thread and how invested so many people are in ridiculous things that are one of their business or concern.

What about the risk of having a mom who is so great that she spends her spare time on a mommy blog speculating, gossiping conjuring up conspiracy theories and belittling people they don't even know...

What about a mommy who spends her spare time reading mommy gossip boards and actually posts messages to the other participants belittling them?

And FTR, I'm a new poster and haven't read any of this thread except the few posts above mine. I do that sometimes for threads I don't initially click on, if I keep seeing it over and over and it gets really big I'll click on the last page just to get a sense of what's being discussed.

Well perhaps you should dive a little deeper into the awful things that have been said before jumping in and defending them then. I was taught to call out bad behavior when I see it and stand up against bullying and teach my children to do the same. Not to jump on the bandwagon just regardless if something is "public" or someone is a celebrity/influencer.

Ok. You've called it out. As you can see, the thread just keeps on rolling. As you said, just because someone CAN take your words into account... doesn't mean they will. Or even that they SHOULD.

Really, reconsider your emotional investment in total strangers. I haven't really participated in this thread and have never followed this Instagram account so I'm not even sure who this Sherry person is. Just saying, don't put your family out on the internet to make money and expect total positivity.