Hell no to 2 bathrooms. Enough said there - but one washer and dryer? There are 2 of us in my house and we do at least 1 load/day. They must also be going to a laundry mat to do their wash and use the bathroom.
It is like a small room with a mountain of clothes. One wife goes in and you can't see her. I think she is sorting clothes and only her head is visible. They complain that it stinks in there but nobody investigates or cleans it up or anything. They are missing sippy cups- probably with milk and they think they've gone missing in the laundry room and They just kind of shrug.
As bizarre as it all seems - I can't get over a shared bank account.
I watched more. I'm so ashamed. The mom gives advice to her daughters in law on multitasking and says you haven't multitasked until you have had fed a kid, folded laundry and had sex all at the same time. Daughters in law seem mildly repulsed until she clarifies that she means breastfeeding of course! One DIL then tells of when she came down to breakfast a few days later and boasted that she had *wink wink* "multitasked".
So this definitely feels like something that they chose to do in order to get a tv show, right?
I haven't watched, and don't see anything in the link. Is there a reason they give for living like this? Lots of med school debt? Other bad financial decisions? Religious reasons? Even the Duggar kids move out when they get married!
They didn't overtly say religion but that is my guess. The couple moving out asked the dad to "pray about them moving closer to the hospital during residency." Makes me think he's waiting on divine intervention.
Oh, and I think it's a tax thing with the one account. They are all employees of the family construction business and their house is the office. I'm sure everyone takes little to no salary and writes everything off as a business expense.
Ok I watched a few minutes more. 2 of the dads are doctors. The other males run the construction/rental properties and all of the moms appear to stay home and pitch in to help with the businesses. All of the marrried couples seemed to have moved back in to their childhood rooms. Of the four grown children, one is a girl and her husband changed his name to become a Putnam. A trip to the grocery required a 30 passenger van and $1200. the little old lady at the checkout asked if they were a cult and they answered "no, just a happy family!". Ha ha ha!
They are holding a "Super Tuesday" meeting where they are voting on various things including whether the youngest sibling can move out with her husband and family. He currently commutes 2.5 hours to work and is in medical residency. He says, "if they say no, it's a no." There are lots of tears of histrionics and the dad says that he in love with his youngest and her spouse and it feels like a death that would move out until his residency is done. In love?!? Oh my. They vote yes with the caveat that they move back in when his residency is done.
I get that there are weird families out there, but how can they find spouses that go along with this?
This is my question! If you were born and raised that way and it had been drilled into your head enough that this is how it is, ok, maybe I could see how a grown person could allow a family vote to control you. But why on earth would a person that grew up in the real world ever choose to live like that?
It's like the people that live in the wilderness in Alaska....the Brown family. The males in the family are all looking to find a woman, but what woman in her right mind would leave civilization to live with people that shower once a month and live in a one room shanty? Good luck with that one.
Not to mention their weird, made up accents. I rage every time H puts that stupid show on because I can't stand to hear them talk.
Post by lissaholly on Jan 17, 2017 15:13:47 GMT -5
My sister taught her first year in Caro, Mi. She doesn't speak of the people glowingly.
I will probably watch it at first because the whole "why" angle. I really can not understand people who live such an unexamined life. 10 adults and not one is coming to the " this is insane!" conclusion? I can perhaps understand the allure of moving back home to save money and prolong your childhood, at first. Making it permanent though- well, I simply can not believe free choice is st play when 5 couples all sign on.
I have two bathrooms and three people and sometimes, that's not enough.
Yeah, 3 baths for 4 people here. I'll never forget the one time we were on a road trip back home and we all had to pee so badly that it was a race to the bathrooms. Poor DH took one for the team and waited for the 1st person to be done, but he was in agony. NEVER AGAIN!
So this definitely feels like something that they chose to do in order to get a tv show, right?
I haven't watched, and don't see anything in the link. Is there a reason they give for living like this? Lots of med school debt? Other bad financial decisions? Religious reasons? Even the Duggar kids move out when they get married!
No - unfortunately not! It appears this is real. It started when the first got married and he asked if he and his new bride could move back in to his childhood room to save money. She claims she wanted a little house of their own to decorate, maker her own etc. a few months later and they learn they are expecting twins. They can't move now! They stay and the other siblings decide to continue the dysfunction.
It is all so weird. I'm all for affection, but found it really odd how the dad sat in the family room and all of the grown ass kids AND their spouses had to give him a kiss when they came down in the morning and all of he grandkids. He says "give me all of those germs!" Yuck!! Then he says he is "in love" with his daughter and her spouse. Eww!
I have two bathrooms and three people and sometimes, that's not enough.
I share one bathroom with another person which is about two bathrooms too few and/or one person too many. I - and all of my toiletries - need one, if not two, bathrooms to my vain self.
I'll never forgive TLC for normalizing this kind of buffoonery. This channel needs to exit stage left, just The Ringling Brothers, for their cruel and unusual punishment they inflict onto the innocent.
"Yay, another show starring creepy, backward, money-hungry lowlifes!"
Ok having to be "approved" to move out? This is fucked up. This should not be something shown on TV for entertainment when people are seemingly stuck in a home against their will.
Also 25 people with 2 bathrooms sounds like there's a high probability for someone needing a pants person. Hopefully no more than 2 of them ever get the stomach flu at the same time.
Ugh I can't imagine! Well they have two built in docs so they do exams in the "quarantine rooms".
How long until we find out one is a creepy pedophile?
Not long, I'm sure. And there is seriously an abnormal level of affection going on between all the adults and the kids that it would be too easy to do. Those kids are not learning healthy boundaries at all.
Post by imojoebunny on Jan 17, 2017 18:31:59 GMT -5
My kids basically have their own suites at 7 and 10, and I like it that way. It gives me hives just to read the description, and just no for having that much control over grown children. Now, if someone lived with me who could fix things or turn off a light switch, besides me, maybe.
"According to NBC 25 News, Bill Putnam remarked that the family was so busy working, getting married, and having kids, finding the time to search for and purchase their own homes was difficult. Eventually, Bill suggested they continue to stay together as a family."
Dude. How do all other working adults that get married and have kids manage to find a place to live away from mommy and daddy?
If this is "real" it has the makings of being "cult-like". It's almost like brainwashing that any of this is okay and people want to live like this. I have always thought the Duggars are cult-like as well as the Sister Wives.