Cullen and Katie: Blame the Mailman Part 7

[Playsinrain]

What's the difference between Bryan having meals delivered and C&K having their groceries delivered?? With all of the criticism of the Lump's diets, I would assume that having healthy meals delivered would be a positive thing.

The difference too me is that he was only getting meals for himself delivered, meals that could easily be made at home with food he either went and bought or had delivered too him. He used the service for like maybe a week before he gave up on that. I gave him shit bc he couldn't even stick with eating healthy when someone else cooked and delivered it, not bc it was delivered.

We all know Missy and Ollie don't eat anything that isn't a shade of brown, yellow, or white. It makes sense he would only order meals for himself. Either way it's done for convenience. I really don't understand what's different.

i don't care what they have delivered and no its not different.. hell who hasn't had a pizza ect delivered? I gave him shit bc he couldnt stick with eating healthy even when he used every convenience imaginable. Maybe if he had someone spoon feed him? I didn't give him hell bc it was delivered.
No one says anything when they get Blue Apron delivered, and they were using that service just last vlog, and have many, many times in the past... How is that different than a grocery delivery service?

[Playsinrain]

Just to put it out there, yes i am defending C&K, but i don't think that they are without fault. No one is. I do think it's silly they are getting so much flack for something as innocent as grocery delivery service. I guess that really shows their character that this is really the only thing people can find to gripe about them (for now anyway). If having my groceries delivered to me was the only thing people could find to bitch about me then i would be happy. Everyone here is entitled to whatever opinion they want with these vloggers, and while i will discuss differing opinions with people I rarely think people are just being super nit picky and ridiculous, but i have to say this is one of those times. People like to gossip and this is a gossip site, so someone will find fault in anything, but really, is this worth 2 pages of discussion?

[Scar2016]

I'll come back when this topic is over.

[jaynshann]

Just to put it out there, yes i am defending C&K, but i don't think that they are without fault. No one is. I do think it's silly they are getting so much flack for something as innocent as grocery delivery service. I guess that really shows their character that this is really the only thing people can find to gripe about them (for now anyway). If having my groceries delivered to me was the only thing people could find to bitch about me then i would be happy. Everyone here is entitled to whatever opinion they want with these vloggers, and while i will discuss differing opinions with people I rarely think people are just being super nit picky and ridiculous, but i have to say this is one of those times. People like to gossip and this is a gossip site, so someone will find fault in anything, but really, is this worth 2 pages of discussion?

So funny right!!!! Every time l comment on someone's vlog l think about what people would say if my life was vlogged daily! I am a SAHM and l GUARANTEE YOU THERE WOULD BE WAY WORSE TRASH TO TALK ABOUT ME SOMETIMES! "Can you believe how often she let's get kids skip bathes at night cause she's too lazy and tired to listen to their **** when she forces them to bath. And then there is the pizza ordering instead of cooking 1x a week. Bshhh LAZY!" LOL

[lmmomSD]

Oh, I definitely would get slammed if I vlogged. My dining room looks like a scene from Hoarders because we don't have curbside recycling. Most normal people would get slammed. But these people do vlog. They have made a conscious decision to accept the trade off of privacy vs money.They record their lives, for better or worse, and put it on the internet for money. If they get nitpicked, it is a price they seem willing to pay and a trade off they're willing to make for the money. They may say their motives are more pure-- the memories, being able to stay home with the kids, whatever, but the bottom line is that if you're successful, it's easy money. And if they are willing to expose themselves and assume their lives are interesting enough to warrant uploading, they are in no position to complain about "haters". And this isn't just in reference to C&K.
I think with the grocery delivery thing, nobody is going to convince anyone to change their opinion. Some people think it's NBD, some think it's lazy, and arguing about it is pretty pointless.

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[Baconsgirl]

Ah, I didn't realize they had been members of Shipt for a long time. I saw that they started tagging them in a photos on Instagram 3 weeks ago when they recieved the "get well" flowers. I guess I just find it hard to believe that a partnership wasn't already in the works, but not disclosed yet, when that happened.

Idk how long they have been using them, but they got the subscription for GB for her bday, which was 2-3 months ago. I can't see them buying that for her without using the service themselves first. I almost want to say i can remember them talking about having groceries delivered when Katie was pregnant...

I do remember them using it long before now! I wish I had the money to spend on this cool service!


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[Lovethesnark]

Just to put it out there, yes i am defending C&K, but i don't think that they are without fault. No one is. I do think it's silly they are getting so much flack for something as innocent as grocery delivery service. I guess that really shows their character that this is really the only thing people can find to gripe about them (for now anyway). If having my groceries delivered to me was the only thing people could find to bitch about me then i would be happy. Everyone here is entitled to whatever opinion they want with these vloggers, and while i will discuss differing opinions with people I rarely think people are just being super nit picky and ridiculous, but i have to say this is one of those times. People like to gossip and this is a gossip site, so someone will find fault in anything, but really, is this worth 2 pages of discussion?

Are they really catching much flack? A couple of people said they were lazy. That's rather tame.

[lmmomSD]

Honestly, it seems that it's more people defending them getting their knickers in a twist than a few people saying that they think it's lazy to get food delivered when there's two of them at home. Seems like some people get crabby if you say anything negative about C&K. Not trying to stir things up. But for people complaining about how it's taking up so many pages, there are more comments ragging about ragging, and saying "I'd get groceries delivered" than there are of people saying it's lazy. And the laziness doesn't seem to be particular to C&K. It seems that most vloggers get lazy, and there was some discussion of that, which I thought was actually interesting. But that's just me.
I'll shut up now.

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[marshmallowfluf]

Honestly, it seems that it's more people defending them getting their knickers in a twist than a few people saying that they think it's lazy to get food delivered when there's two of them at home. Seems like some people get crabby if you say anything negative about C&K. Not trying to stir things up. But for people complaining about how it's taking up so many pages, there are more comments ragging about ragging, and saying "I'd get groceries delivered" than there are of people saying it's lazy. And the laziness doesn't seem to be particular to C&K. It seems that most vloggers get lazy, and there was some discussion of that, which I thought was actually interesting. But that's just me.
I'll shut up now.

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I agree! I think its interesting too, because im a SAHM but my husband works. I have days that i feel so lazy and unmotivated. I cant imagine also having my husband here to help with things. I would think if 2 parents stayed home, that the house would be spotless and everything would be perfect. I guess its easy to fall into a lazy routine.


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[just_me]

I don't believe any Youtuber who says they vlog for the memories. You can record yourself and your family till the cows come home and not post it publicly and it will still be available to you for the memories. I think it's just something they say to make it not seem they are doing it for the money. Same way they can't really be deeply mad if people criticize them. We can only talk about what we see. Don't show us if you don't want people commenting on it. This is for all vloggers/Youtubers though, not just C&K.

I was checking out the Shipt website and the delivery drivers are just regular people who sign up to become shoppers/delivery people and they can accept tips. Might be a reason for the tea and flowers... the driver was expecting a good tip from it. Or possibly the driver was also a vlog viewer, recognized Katie's name and wanted to get her name in the vlog.

I don't fault C&K for using the service when they are not sick. Yeah it's a little lazy, but everyone does something the lazy/easy way when they could do it the longer/regular way. I can't really fault C&K for doing it without being a hypocrite myself.

[Scar2016]

Oh, I definitely would get slammed if I vlogged. My dining room looks like a scene from Hoarders because we don't have curbside recycling. Most normal people would get slammed. But these people do vlog. They have made a conscious decision to accept the trade off of privacy vs money.They record their lives, for better or worse, and put it on the internet for money. If they get nitpicked, it is a price they seem willing to pay and a trade off they're willing to make for the money. They may say their motives are more pure-- the memories, being able to stay home with the kids, whatever, but the bottom line is that if you're successful, it's easy money. And if they are willing to expose themselves and assume their lives are interesting enough to warrant uploading, they are in no position to complain about "haters". And this isn't just in reference to C&K.Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

Agreed.
Once someone's made that decision to trade personal privacy online for $$$ the (gossip) gloves are off.
We haven't made that decision hence no trade off = no gossip.

[Lurker4Life]

I don't believe any Youtuber who says they vlog for the memories. You can record yourself and your family till the cows come home and not post it publicly and it will still be available to you for the memories. I think it's just something they say to make it not seem they are doing it for the money. Same way they can't really be deeply mad if people criticize them. We can only talk about what we see. Don't show us if you don't want people commenting on it. This is for all vloggers/Youtubers though, not just C&K.

I disagree with this, and while I write my comment I'm thinking of a few other vloggers not C&K. I believe a lot of popular vloggers do do it primarily for money but I believe a lot of older vloggers who have vlogged for many years do it both for memories and to show people their lives/for finances. I know people who started because their families lived a distance away, because they were doing cool things in their life or just because they enjoy vlogging. Heck, I'd probably start a youtube channel just to keep all my videos in one place. If all vloggers were just in it for the money, after not going big in a couple of years you would think they would give it up, but to actually maintain a channel for that long with little to no monetary reward typically indicates to me that theres stuff bigger than money driving the channel. This is just my opinion though and to reiterate, I'm talking more about some other vloggers I watch than C&K, though I don't think they are money hungry/as money hungry as certain other people.

[beautynoob]

For what it's worth, shipt shoppers must have an allowance for extra stuff every now and then. The tea and flowers Katie got may really have been just a thoughtful gesture.
The odd part of that was Katie writing a note since you write instructions for every order through the app.
Last time I got sick and ordered my groceries, I wrote through the app to leave on my porch to not risk a cold and the girl added orange juice for free. There's another shopper who adds in treats for my dog for free as well. It's all part of Shipt's model I guess and it earns the shoppers who do it a nicer tip!


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[RecklessDisregard]

The grocery stores in the US don't deliver... I certainly wish they did. We looked into Shipt months ago, and would definitely use them if we had any flexibility in our grocery budget. Personally I don't view their use of the service as laziness. It's not a lot different than having a pizza delivered, or using a lawn service to cut the grass. I definitely side-eye people who don't take good care of their kids, read to them, enrich their lives with appropriate toys and experiences, clothe them, educate them, feed them nutritious meals... But who cares whether a parent grocery shopped, or had groceries delivered? It's a neutral task, anyone can do it.

I also don't mind seeing vloggers get sponsored by companies whose products or services they actually like. In particular, I like keeping up with Gaines and baby Brooks, and realize their life has overhead. I don't expect them to provide me with free daily entertainment and baby-viewing, and also turn down opportunities to earn income through sponsorships... After all, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

I do think the overall trend in advertising is leaning more towards product placement than "let me tell you how great Culturelle is!" type of sponsorships, and I expect that we're already seeing a good amount of product placements in vlogs without realizing it, and I imagine most vloggers don't feel they need to disclose paid placements. That's not necessarily a comment specifically on C&K, just the general trend of advertising on YouTube.

[lexlex11]

I want to preface this by saying I think Brooks is one of the cutest babies ever. I've just noticed that his head looks rather large. Is his head a normal size for babies his age?

[lmmomSD]

Gaines was so funny with the blue milk! She was not liking it at all. I know this isn't a comparison thread, but seeing how excited she was and how much fun she had looking for the elf, and then looking at Ollie's non reaction to everything just makes me sad for him. And the worst thing about it is that B&M think they're the best parents ever because they give him everything he wants when he wants it.

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[Playsinrain]

I want to preface this by saying I think Brooks is one of the cutest babies ever. I've just noticed that his head looks rather large. Is his head a normal size for babies his age?

I had noticed the same thing a few weeks back and the shape of his head as well, although i think what i saw was poor camera angle for a split second bc it hasn't looked nearly as flat since then. I know Katie addressed his head size after his last check up. He was measuring off the charts on head size but she said that the dr was not concered about the size or the shape at this point. I think he's just got a big ol noggin. LOL I have faith if something was up C&K would be on it. Hopefully it won't become an issue. He is so damn cute!

[Playsinrain]

What's up with the CULLEN AND KATIE VLOGS! in the titles? It's weird...

[Lovethesnark]

I want to preface this by saying I think Brooks is one of the cutest babies ever. I've just noticed that his head looks rather large. Is his head a normal size for babies his age?

I noticed his head seems to be large and shaped oddly a while ago. He doesn't seems to have very good control of it either, but I assumed they just film him laying down or while they're holding him.

[MommaLindsey2]

I don't think his head size is anything to be concerned about, both my boys are in the 99th% for head circumference and they are perfectly healthy.

Also WTF is up with vloggers not buckling kids into their swings and baby equipment??? I've noticed Sam and Nia, C&K, and the Nulls with their babies in a swing not buckled in. It seems very odd to me, Brooks is starting to roll he could roll out and fall straight onto his head. I was so worried my babies would fall out even when they were newborns that couldn't roll at all yet I still buckled them into their swing. There was one occasion when my youngest was 3 months (brooks age correct?) in a sort of emergency where I had to tend to my older son I put him in the swing for a second without buckling him and he flipped right out of it onto the floor. I felt horrible!