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@General Days true, I didn’t watch. I find this entire bit too hard for personal reasons. I read your post with interest; I had not realised that funeral service, interment and/or gravesite committal services are considered different things in the US and that you obviously do things (slightly) different from how we do it.

Hey guys, sorry for my little rant in the ep.25 thread just yet. (My feelings about Garrison's funeral being filmed.) I haven't watched the second part of this season and likely never will. Not just because it makes me awfully sad for Garrison and the family who truly loved him, but also because it is too confronting for me. We have a teen child with severe mental health struggles. Fortunately we receive a lot of help and it is taken very seriously, but seeing these episodes about Garrison...it is just a constant reminder of what could happen. I'll keep reading and posting whenever I feel I have a useful contribution to make to the whole SW-drama but I'll just skip these episodes I guess.

After reading about this episode I have just one question: Is nothing off limits in reality shows anymore? As beautiful and touching as this funeral may have been, it should have been private in accordance with Garrison's own feelings/struggles about this show. They could have paid tribute to him in a million other ways or filmed the funeral from a respectful distance. Jeez, who even came up with the idea of filming Kody digging a grave for a son he obviously didn't care much for? I'm trying to remember which (if any?) funerals of very famous people were broadcast that detailed. I believe most keep parts of the service, like the actual interment private, as should be. But that's my personal opinion. We talked about how far the Browns would go to keep the money train going. Well, here's the answer.

Was it just Maddie who believed they could get this farm up and running within a year? She may have been the most vocal about it, but it sounds an awful lot like Janelle's way of starting businesses or new adventures.

In addition to what @General Days said: Janelle hasn’t had a normal (office) job for 15 years, which is a long time in this digital era where things change at the speed of light. That will definitely put off potential employers. I also suspect that a normal pay check is not that appealing after raking in bigger amounts through TLC and MLM.

Good point! But...this is Kody Brown. He is a master in getting loans when most of us cannot. So, I'm sure he'll be able to find a way around this if he wanted to.

I still feel that Meri and Janelle drew the short ends of the sticks here. A full owner ship of only a small, likely unsellable lot doesn't sound like a fair compensation of what they probably contributed toward Kody and Robyn's mansion and the CP land. True, they also co-own the 2 larger lots so on paper it may sound fair. However, with Kody and Robyn as co-owners any money is firmly tied up so long as they refuse to sell. And imagine the unlikely option that Kody and Robyn choose to build there... They could build and live on that land forever and Meri and Janelle wouldn't be able to do a thing about it. Sounds like a pretty sh***y deal to me!

I’m struggling to see the point in doing this? I thought they all wanted to move on, and now the four of them together own two lots? What do Janelle and Meri have to gain from two small, likely unsellable lots? I hoped Kody would buy them out. The fact that he didn’t, makes me suspect he has no money available to do so….

This! But what really puzzles me, is their inability to learn anything from previous failures. When Maddie had "only" two, she already complained about the struggles of motherhood combined with college and/or work. And now she has 4 and yet another new business venture....

Flagstaff was Kody and Robyn's dream. No one wanted to be there in the first place. Their joint attempt to relocate and put down roots was doomed from day 1. The few years they were there, the family had to deal with Kody abandoning 3 of his 4 wives and most of his kids. Like the rest of the world they had to deal with Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdowns, Ysabel's major surgery and eventually Garrison's death. There's nothing but sorrow connected to that place for them.

I was convinced Meri used a lot of filters, but after this season I’m not so sure anymore. The younger and leaner looking Meri in her sm posts does look like the Meri we see on the show. Not saying she doesn’t use any filters, just not as much as I thought.

I suspect that any real job (i.e. a non-influencer or mlm) is tough in their book.

Both trained as real estate agents. It was on the show back in Vegas. Don’t think either ever took up a serious job in it, unless you count Janelle’s attempts at selling their houses as a real job?

I wonder who is doing all the dusting in that house. I can’t see Robyn doing it.

I’d love to know where that Redditor got those receipts from and how they were positively liked to Robyn. Not that I do not believe their outrageous spending habits btw. Just compare Robyn’s LV house to this one. The amount of stuff they’ve bought since that move is outrageous. In my opinion, it also puts her credit card debts from her previous marriage in a different perspective. Remember her claim that she took on his debts in order to have a quick and uncomplicated divorce?