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Loree 8616 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 01-20-05, 04:51 PM (EST) "Wife Swap - Jan 19th" Did anyone else watch? The coupon clipping mother had a problem. She used the bathroom as a storage room for her paper products. She used paper plates so she didn't have to do dishes, and coupons to buy frozen prepared meals so she could microwave and not cook. And the bed in the livingroom? She really needs a therapist. She seemed one breakdown away from a real freak out. Probably the reason her family let her do what she wanted. Very odd lady. She couldn't throw out anything.   Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Subject     Author     Message Date     ID    RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th volsfan 01-20-05 1  RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th Bebo 01-20-05 2    RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th beardance58 01-21-05 3    RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th carla199 01-21-05 6  RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th peiklk 01-21-05 4  RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th carla199 01-21-05 5  RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th ARnutz 01-22-05 7    RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th RangeRover 01-23-05 8        RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th beardance58 01-24-05 9    RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th beardance58 01-24-05 10

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volsfan 19846 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 01-20-05, 07:03 PM (EST) 1. "RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th" I watched it and I have to agree with you. The coupon woman has major issues! I found her to be lazy. The sad part? Their lives didn't change after the show!   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Bebo 20880 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 01-20-05, 10:25 PM (EST) 2. "RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th" I really liked the other family. The daughter was amazingly well-adjusted for a 15 year-old who didn't get a lot of attention from her folks. I'm glad for all three of them that they're putting more priority on family, because they seemed like really cool people. Meanwhile, I just feel sorry for that other family. All that clutter, all that smothering. I make this look good.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

beardance58 78 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Hollywood Squares Square" 01-21-05, 02:29 PM (EST) 3. "RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th" That mom seemed like she was a real whack job. Sorting her coupons on the floor in front of the register? And that was just for starters. I tell you though, it made me cringe, because I am a huge packrat -- I have not seen the floor of my garage in years. At least, I work more than full time outside the home, I don't shop for stuff I don't need (god knows, I don't have the time). I do buy things that are on sale, but in limited quantities, and there is always something on sale. Yeah, I only save pennies, but so what. At least I don't cut my paper plates in half to get more use out of them. I also belong to freecycle to try and get rid of the stuff I don't need. But I tell you, seeing her, made me see my house the way other people might, and I need to get my act together. I was really impressed by the other family. I thought that at first, I wasn't going to like them -- but I really thought that they tried. I loved it when whack job took rich dad shopping. That was a riot.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

carla199 4 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "American Cancer Society Spokesperson" 01-21-05, 11:25 PM (EST) 6. "RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th" LAST EDITED ON 01-21-05 AT 11:34 PM (EST) The wealthy family - wouldn't you like to stay in that lovely house? Send me there, I'll go for a little vacation. Yes, daughter was sweet, almost too good to be true. Would a 15 year old really be that tickled to be able to tape crumply bent foil stars to the windows? I would expect she's made more mature art projects from third grade on in her (no doubt) excellent schools. I thought the theme that they didn't pay enuf attention to daughter was "hammered" a bit. We get it already. I guess the show couldn't find any other flaws with them. The paid companion for the teen was odd, not something I've heard of. If you read the manual on the Wife Swap site, the family goes for two or three nice vacations a year. With that and traveling to horse shows, I bet the parents spend as much time with daughter as most other families do. But it was touching that they saw room for improvement and were grateful to recognize and make changes. Carla   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

peiklk 8 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "American Cancer Society Spokesperson" 01-21-05, 10:15 PM (EST) 4. "RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th" LAST EDITED ON 01-21-05 AT 10:27 PM (EST) She clearly is starved for attention... That exact family appeared on another network's weird family competition. They showed all the coupon clipping and stuff in the laundry room/bathroom. I think it was on ABC Family or Family Channel a couple of years ago... I think she needs counseling. Update: Found it! Was on Fox Family in Feb 2003. Here's a summary I found on it: <em>“My Life is a Sitcom” (ABC Family, ends at 6:30 PM)-The members of Donna Fontaine's family don't call her “Lucy” for nothing. She's zany, wacky and always getting herself in hot water. The family's self-described maid, caterer, and taxi driver live by the motto “carpe diem” while taking care of her four kids and husband.</em> Who has a cremation dress prepared? And wears it for Christmas cards each year???   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

carla199 4 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "American Cancer Society Spokesperson" 01-21-05, 11:14 PM (EST) 5. "RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th" Did you notice how fit the Coupon mother seemed? If you read about her on the Wife Swap web site, she is a competitive runner. Also very active leader in teen competitions in creative skits. So the show leaves a lot of her positive accomplishments out. Still, I agree with other posters. She has problems. And she didn't take feedback from kids on her return, as she had promised at the meeting. Her own kids debate if crazy or zany is the right word for her. Read the coupon mother's manual on the Wife Swap web site - one of the nuttier things was the elaborate custom breakfasts she makes for each child and husband. Way too much work for weekday parenting duty. No wonder the visiting mother felt overwhelmed and used in the breakfast scene, no she wasn't just lazy rich person whining. And no wonder the coupon mother doesn't feel up to cooking dinner. My opinion (not that she takes suggestions as the show has shown) is she should let kids eat much simpler breakfasts. And then she'd be up to making reasonable dinner for all. Carla   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

ARnutz 13792 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold" 01-22-05, 10:51 AM (EST) 7. "RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th" I agree the coupon mom was pretty wacky! The other mom, wow! I felt like she thought she was supposed to be on Mission Organization or Clean Sweep instead of Wife Swap! I never felt she got the true gist of what she was supposed to be doing. She did nothing to change how the family related to one another or organized their lives! Plus she had the attitude like she was so much better than them, because of the way they lived. It's not as if she actually does any the organizing at home herself, she hires people to do it for her. (I know she hired help in that home too, but come on.) 'nutz: Proud member of the inoffensive OT Triumvirate.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

RangeRover 262 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Network TV Show Guest Star" 01-23-05, 05:07 PM (EST) 8. "RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th" It was interesting to watch the audition tape for the Fontaine family for My Life as a Sitcom. Donna claims to have "three" degrees... (gee maybe she should have tried to go on the Apprentice as "book smart") and the family unilaterally describes her as crazy, yet they also seem to be willing to expose their family "craziness" for their respective 15 minutes of fame. Most families with crazy parents do the exact opposite! Unless they are totally in denial which may well be the case here. I find it interesting that for someone supposedly so well educated she has another type of OCD (not the clean one as on TS) but that it was never addressed and no one in her family seems to deviate from enabling and in fact participating in the behavior. All the kids rooms are cluttered so its clear they have learned that habit from her. And they seem to be very accepting of her behavior without question - which means to some extent they seem to like being the progeny of a "crazy" mom. Which also explains the resentment and resistance they had to Corporate Mom's attempts at organization. Its interesting that someone who professes to want to be a good mother and have well rounded children does everything that is in direct opposition to that: Not cooking proper dinners, not maintaining a clear and organized home; not teaching money managment skills; not being a role model and parent/authority figure. There seems to be a real need for attention here and I question these degrees because she clearly seemed to be a woman who had difficulty understanding generalized instructions and order and her behavior at the workplace and home was anything but mature. She seemed to be operating at a much lower IQ than someone of her education would belie and frankly I think some of this was created and got out of hand over the years.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

beardance58 78 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Hollywood Squares Square" 01-24-05, 11:51 AM (EST) 9. "RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th" When I was a stay-at-home mom, I definitely went through a coupon-clipping phase. But I would go thru the circular and then organize my coupons before I got to the store -- not spread them all out on the floor in front of the cashier when I got there. That was just weird and totally inconsiderate of anybody else in the store or even the cashier who was waiting for her. Like I said, I kept looking at this mom with horror -- begging God that I wasn't that bad. I kept asking my kids, and my little one finally told me, "Mommy, you don't embrace it!"   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

beardance58 78 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Hollywood Squares Square" 01-24-05, 11:56 AM (EST) 10. "RE: Wife Swap - Jan 19th" I didn't get that feeling at all about rich mom. I got the feeling that she was trying to show clutter family how if you can actually find things -- that you can do more with your life. I thought of the two moms, she was the one who tried to go along with the theme of the show. I totally agreed with rich dad that clutter mom needed to be needed. If she wasn't needed, she fell apart completely and didn't know what to do. Rich dad also was very astute when he said that Chloe was always going to be in their lives, and rich mom even acknowledged that she had faults. By far, I liked rich family best. I would not want to live in their austere house -- I do like having photographs, and a house that is a home -- not just a place to entertain -- you can always rent a hall for that.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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