Followed them since before they bought the Richmond House and then hit some kind of wall - their impoverished idea of decor kind of crashed into a wave of criticism and they took a break. Came back w/ the Florida move which I thought was smart. That Richmond house was cursed forever just with the bad juju of the time Sherry put bronze rustoleum over a child's plastic basketball hoop.

I think 1400-1600 square feet particularly in an indoor/outdoor state like FL is perfect for a family of four. I live in Brooklyn and there are upscale families of four in my building with less square footage. However it's a pre-war building so the layout works - enter into the shared living space plus kitchen (sometimes a dining room too) then the bedroom and bathroom (s) are off down a hall. Generally lots of light. None of my neighbors in those spaces seem to feel cramped. My Aunt and Uncle raised two kids in about 700 square feet and it worked - the layout was great.

This house though. The layout is dire, they have set it up so there's no flow and as usual their decor choices are off-scale and the aesthetic is a miss. I think they will stay in FL - they have always skewed beach-esque and this move was just admitting it. BUT the choice was a miss. Should have just razed the thing, gotten an architect and started over.

This thread just made me so happy 🤪. I have followed J&S since the beginning, when their posts used to show up in my blogger feed. She has ALWAYS had a hard time dealing with criticism, admitting when they had made a mistake, etc. She would always argue with every freaking negative comment that anyone made on the blog, and then go into a monologue on a subsequent blog post about all the reasons why their choice was right (even though they’d post a year later about how they are changing it, because really, they hated it all along). She justifies and justifies, and then will suddenly act like the suggestions people were giving on her posts was really their brilliant idea that they came up with all on their own.

Their Florida house is obviously terrible, and in typical Sherry fashion, she will find 82618273947372 opportunities to defend it and act like everyone should aspire to live that way. They had 0 forethought into the layout of the house. They are living in a SUPER expensive area, and I think they realized they could either afford a pool, or logical updates to their house.,, and they chose pool. They’ll never admit that the layout doesn’t work for them, or that their kids are miserable, or that they’re watching TV on a laptop in their bedroom, because the bedroom is actually a living room. They’ll just up and move one day and act like that was the plan all along.

Also, I’m almost 100% positive that she’s reading this thread... almost every legitimate attack against them somehow ends up getting addressed in stories until they’ve beat a dead horse:

“Oh, they think I’m crying alone here with no friends?!? Let me post 8 million stories about how many friends I have made here, how I did it, how I got them all coffee mugs, etc”.

“Oh, they think we don’t put our kids in extracurricular?!?!? Let me keep posting about Clara’s paddle boarding class to make sure they know they’re wrong”.

Her incessant need to prove herself right and prove any critics wrong, just affirms what the critics are saying. If we weren’t right... you wouldn’t care.

Also, I hate to say it, but their content has 0 value now. She is either virtue signaling or posting some random outdoor content trying to prove they live in the most beautiful, outdoor-friendly area on the planet. She’ll never admit there are mosquitos or gators or anything else. “It’s all just perfect and simple and I’m going to tell you 682727282726 reasons why that is until you believe me!” They don’t post tutorials or inspiration or literally anything of value. I skip a lot of their stories now.

Anonymous wrote:I took an IG break so just now watching the stories about the pool.

They shared every detail yet couldn’t share about a hallway? Is that why the kids rooms are smaller because they made a hallway? So the pool is on that side of the house and not off their room. They get so confusing!

Exactly, the whole thing is a mess, someone before mentioned that having kids rooms upstairs near the door to the deck would be unsafe ... I'm sorry, but having your kids DIRECTLY next to the door to the pool is way more dangerous. They need to flip this house upside down, it's so irritating to keep seeing them justify poor design choices, like their hodge podge bedroom with its wall of IKEA closets. Ever since they moved, all they seem to do is defend themselves. They were helpful at one point (their curtain rod hanging hack and their stair runner hack are pretty solid) but they seem to have peaked. The last blog about building a shelf for plants to hide electrical and meters outside ... is that something people actually read and and pull inspiration from? It's a wall shelf, really reaching when they write a blog post about a single wall shelf.

I took an IG break so just now watching the stories about the pool.

They shared every detail yet couldn’t share about a hallway? Is that why the kids rooms are smaller because they made a hallway? So the pool is on that side of the house and not off their room. They get so confusing!

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Anonymous wrote:BTW - saw their latest April Fools story and John is looking OLD. I think this move has been very stressful on him because he looks like he's aged a decade. No way he looks like he's in his 30's. Maybe it's the Florida sun...or the current floorpan.

He was a little gray before, but he's almost ALL gray now. It's been a rough year in general. Moving away from your family from a beautiful large house to a shack in Florida would make it 100x rougher. Obviously, he agreed to the move, so it's on him, but I still feel bad for him.

Sherry looked pretty rough, too - I think she looks cute with short hair, but girl, BRUSH IT and shape your eyebrows.

She cut it herself and you can tell.

Yeah, she's in Florida, she could EASILY have found someone to cut her hair outside. It's a shame because she normally looks great with short hair. I do think it's funny that they haven't monetized face masks - I have yet to see a face mask swipe up, WTH? LOL

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

It’s almost like buying a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom house they had to Jerry rig in bizarre ways to create living spaces for a family of 4 wasn’t a great choice.

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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...

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.

Seriously? YHL has one of the biggest DIY blogs on the internet. They have made an absolute killing off the blog and associated income streams generated from it. They are public figures who monetize their life for content. People discuss the content all over the internet. This is quite literally what happens when you’re a public figure producing content for money.

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Anonymous wrote:BTW - saw their latest April Fools story and John is looking OLD. I think this move has been very stressful on him because he looks like he's aged a decade. No way he looks like he's in his 30's. Maybe it's the Florida sun...or the current floorpan.

He was a little gray before, but he's almost ALL gray now. It's been a rough year in general. Moving away from your family from a beautiful large house to a shack in Florida would make it 100x rougher. Obviously, he agreed to the move, so it's on him, but I still feel bad for him.

Sherry looked pretty rough, too - I think she looks cute with short hair, but girl, BRUSH IT and shape your eyebrows.

She cut it herself and you can tell.

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Anonymous wrote:I just went to her feed to see the April fools video you’re all talking about but it must have expired from her stories, but oh my gosh she needs to quit the annoying “30 seconds of zen for you” videos with her kids running around. Does she really get feedback from people that they like it? So annoying!

I have a hard time trying to figure out how many followers are so obsessed with her that they, for example, ask what pots and pans she uses, when she constantly talks about how she doesn't cook. I just don't get it.

Saying “Everyone’s been asking what kind of ____ we have!” is just an excuse for them to post a referral link. Depending on Ad platform parameters, you don’t have to purchase the actual item - you could make a different purchase 15 days later from that same site and they’ll still get a percentage.

Anonymous wrote:I just went to her feed to see the April fools video you’re all talking about but it must have expired from her stories, but oh my gosh she needs to quit the annoying “30 seconds of zen for you” videos with her kids running around. Does she really get feedback from people that they like it? So annoying!

I have a hard time trying to figure out how many followers are so obsessed with her that they, for example, ask what pots and pans she uses, when she constantly talks about how she doesn't cook. I just don't get it.

I just went to her feed to see the April fools video you’re all talking about but it must have expired from her stories, but oh my gosh she needs to quit the annoying “30 seconds of zen for you” videos with her kids running around. Does she really get feedback from people that they like it? So annoying!

Anonymous wrote:BTW - saw their latest April Fools story and John is looking OLD. I think this move has been very stressful on him because he looks like he's aged a decade. No way he looks like he's in his 30's. Maybe it's the Florida sun...or the current floorpan.

He was a little gray before, but he's almost ALL gray now. It's been a rough year in general. Moving away from your family from a beautiful large house to a shack in Florida would make it 100x rougher. Obviously, he agreed to the move, so it's on him, but I still feel bad for him.

Sherry looked pretty rough, too - I think she looks cute with short hair, but girl, BRUSH IT and shape your eyebrows.

Anonymous wrote:BTW - saw their latest April Fools story and John is looking OLD. I think this move has been very stressful on him because he looks like he's aged a decade. No way he looks like he's in his 30's. Maybe it's the Florida sun...or the current floorpan.

I didn't see it, but ... this year has aged a LOT of us. I started the year with a few gray hairs and am literally emerging half gray, in my 30's. Gained as many pounds as my age. This year was just not kind to some of us physically!

BTW - saw their latest April Fools story and John is looking OLD. I think this move has been very stressful on him because he looks like he's aged a decade. No way he looks like he's in his 30's. Maybe it's the Florida sun...or the current floorpan.

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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...

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.

lol OK thanks for the pep talk - I didn't expect my post to stop this thread obviously....But yes let’s just never point out something we feel is wrong because not 100% of the world will listen. HARD ROLL.

Also I think your last statement is pretty irrelevant since I really could care less about how they handle criticism or and that’s not my problem. It was the obsessive investment DCmoms seem to have in the mental state, life choices and afterschool schedules of total strangers that was so baffling to me….People who are happy and fulfilled in their own lives don't tend to hate follow when they can't stand someones voice or what they have to say....they UNfollow so byeeeee

So are you two people who don't even follow YHL talking to each other on this thread??