Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

[ozziemom]

10 hours ago, PradaKitty said:

Just saw Jill’s latest Instagram entitled “Christmas Winter in Ohio”. 
…What the hell is Christmas Winter??!

Her filming of the “Christmas Winter” scenery is on point with her cooking post, grey and grim.

[ginger90]

Screenshot from a video 

[libgirl2]

1 hour ago, ginger90 said:

Screenshot from a video 

The extras don't involve food for your kids? 

[merylinkid]

3 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:

The extras don't involve food for your kids? 

Came here to say that.

Feed your kids before you do your nails JILL.

[farmgal4]

16 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:

Is there actually a tree under all that mess?  If there is, it is completely hidden.  It is hard to believe that she thinks this mess is so beautiful that she posts a picture.  She might as well have a stack of boxes "decorated" and just skip the tree.

I’m dying to know how much money was spent on redecorating the tree!

[libgirl2]

1 minute ago, farmgal4 said:

I’m dying to know how much money was spent on redecorating the tree!

That could have been spent making your kids a good, healthy meal not slop. 

[BradandJanet]

Maybe Plexus would allow her to "splurge" on a trip to a doctor to check on the puffiness in her hands and neck. 

Any profits from selling Plexus go directly into Jill's vanity account: professional manicures, hair extensions, bleach, makeup, home decor, holiday decorations, new clothes for herself, meals out with Hunk, and personal vacations. No wonder she spends so much time trying to sell the stuff. It's all for Jill;  

How do God and Plexus end up in the same sentence?   Do they work together  like Amazon and UPS? Be careful, Jill. You're on shaky ground. 

[farmgal4]

12 hours ago, Lady Edith said:

1. The first tree looked better.        
2. Pasta, chicken, eggs, tomatoes, precooked sausage and lunch meat, all topped with cheese is gastroenteritis personified. 
3. I wonder if Philly’s Christmas stocking will be mysteriously missing from the bunch hanging on the stairs this year?  
4. I wonder what movie Davey was enjoying on the map?                      
5. That music video was nightmare fuel.          
 

 

Phillip has a Xmas stocking.

[crazy8s]

1 hour ago, farmgal4 said:

Phillip has a Xmas stocking.

I would guess only because he is unmarried. Also Jill would probably get questions about him not having one and was he living elsewhere.

Plexus money my a**. Jill posted they were off to grift at a new church sunday. Suddenly Jill gets pretty nails, tree gets an entirely new boat load of whatever that is. She is using the love offerings.

Edited December 12 by crazy8s

[laurakaye]

1 hour ago, ozziemom said:

Her filming of the “Christmas Winter” scenery is on point with her cooking post, grey and grim.

While I understand the desire to try and capture snow on trees at the beginning of winter (I live in Michigan so I also have Christmas Winter...I guess?), photographs rarely do it justice.  And flying down the highway captures it even worse.  Nice try, Jill.

[mythoughtis]

2 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Screenshot from a video 

Shouldn’t that wording be reversed and revised   Thanks to God that Plexus affords me the ability to splurge?  
 

And I don’t believe in splurges for people who need strangers to send them clothing. 

Edited December 12 by mythoughtis

[laurakaye]

6 minutes ago, mythoughtis said:

Shouldn’t that wording be reversed and revised   Thanks to God that Plexus affords me the ability to splurge?  
 

And I don’t believe in splurges for people who need strangers to send them clothing. 

Which they then sell as "new" for a questionable profit.

[merylinkid]

1 hour ago, BradandJanet said:

No wonder she spends so much time trying to sell the stuff. It's all for Jill;  

Nothing motivates Jill like selfishness.   Oh I should sell some stuff so the kids can have shoes that fit.   Oh I should sell some stuff so I can buy healthy meals for the kids.  (don't need it for the doctor visits, they are on state insurance which means ZERO out of pocket so they really have no excuse other than doctors are mandatory reporters).   Nope its, let's sell stuff so I can completely redecorate the tree and get my nails done.  

[libgirl2]

13 minutes ago, merylinkid said:

Nothing motivates Jill like selfishness.   Oh I should sell some stuff so the kids can have shoes that fit.   Oh I should sell some stuff so I can buy healthy meals for the kids.  (don't need it for the doctor visits, they are on state insurance which means ZERO out of pocket so they really have no excuse other than doctors are mandatory reporters).   Nope its, let's sell stuff so I can completely redecorate the tree and get my nails done.  

It is because she is a selfish, self centered woman. 

[CalicoKitty]

Her radio silence didn't last long.  All this bragging and showing off how she spends money is going to get her in trouble with her marks donors.  I guess she didn't learn her lesson last time.  Why is Dave letting her get away with spending this way?  I would be surprised if  Plexus sales was bringing in enough to pay for all the decorations and manicures and used clothes to sell.  I hope the clearing house is paying attention.

[laurakaye]

Do they still attend the church where we think the pastor told Dave to manage his woman or have they moved on again?

[AstridM]

2 hours ago, crazy8s said:

I would guess only because he is unmarried. Also Jill would probably get questions about him not having one and was he living elsewhere.

Plexus money my a**. Jill posted they were off to grift at a new church sunday. Suddenly Jill gets pretty nails, tree gets an entirely new boat load of whatever that is. She is using the love offerings.

All income she will never report to the IRS 🤬

[crazy8s]

9 minutes ago, laurakaye said:

Do they still attend the church where we think the pastor told Dave to manage his woman or have they moved on again?

I think they do still attend that church. Samuel and Jonathan were shown singing in the church choir sunday. No Kaylee though.

The other rods are sporadically shown with the choir, but they are gone about half the time. (the rest of the choir probably loves those sundays without Jill front and center)

[oliviabenson]

irony is: she spends all the the money and looks cheap and tacky. maybe if she got a decent wig and a professional manicure and wore modest, plain clothing that fit... she just doesn't look nice like ever. she always looks like a clown no matter what she does fashion/makeup wise.

[MamaMax]

why do her nails always look so weird? Does she get acrylics or something?  Her nails don't look like they "fit" her fingers.... anyone understand what  I mean? 

 

[libgirl2]

2 minutes ago, MamaMax said:

why do her nails always look so weird? Does she get acrylics or something?  Her nails don't look like they "fit" her fingers.... anyone understand what  I mean? 

 

She has stubby fingers and her nails are stubby. 

[Salacious Kitty]

2 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:

She has stubby fingers and her nails are stubby. 

I have stubby fingers but normal nails. Her nail beds are round and weird. 

1 hour ago, laurakaye said:

Do they still attend the church where we think the pastor told Dave to manage his woman or have they moved on again?

What? I missed this! 

[libgirl2]

Just now, Salacious Kitty said:

I have stubby fingers but normal nails. Her nail beds are round and weird. 

I was lucky to be blessed with a longer nail bed, hers is short and round. Growing up my friends and I were obsessed with long nails and polish and I knew a few that had the same kind of nail bed. 

[PradaKitty]

Those look suspiciously like press on nails. 

[Salacious Kitty]

1 minute ago, libgirl2 said:

I was lucky to be blessed with a longer nail bed, hers is short and round. Growing up my friends and I were obsessed with long nails and polish and I knew a few that had the same kind of nail bed. 

Yeah, my nails are envied. Especially because they naturally grow out strong and as long as I wish. 😀

[Notabug]

11 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

I have stubby fingers but normal nails. Her nail beds are round and weird. 

What? I missed this! 

Not sure we know this for a fact.  The church they were attending posts various gatherings and services online.  Some Rodrigues' sleuth, on Reddit, I think; found a video of a service where Jill was asking for prayer for herself because her son, Phillip, had gone astray.  That was at the time he went to Oklahoma (?) and was hanging out with a different weird Christian cult earlier this year.  Anyway, the church's website usually gets only modest traffic as expected; but, once Jill was seen in the video and outed, the site got a zillion hits from people wanting to see Jill ranting and raving after reading about it online.

Shortly thereafter, the church removed the video and Jill started posting all sorts of lamentations about how she was being persecuted for her amazing Christian faith and specifically mentioned online harassment.  The theory here and elsewhere was that the pastor was pretty po'd to discover Jilly's extensive history of online craziness and told Dave to get his woman in line.  This lead to Jill taking a break from posting for a while, like a week or two.

Edited December 12 by Notabug

[libgirl2]

6 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Yeah, my nails are envied. Especially because they naturally grow out strong and as long as I wish. 😀

I've used my thumb nail to screw in a screw! 

[Salacious Kitty]

20 minutes ago, Notabug said:

Not sure we know this for a fact.  The church they were attending posts various gatherings and services online.  Some Rodrigues' sleuth, on Reddit, I think; found a video of a service where Jill was asking for prayer for herself because her son, Phillip, had gone astray.  That was at the time he went to Oklahoma (?) and was hanging out with a different weird Christian cult earlier this year.  Anyway, the church's website usually gets only modest traffic as expected; but, once Jill was seen in the video and outed, the site got a zillion hits from people wanting to see Jill ranting and raving after reading about it online.

Shortly thereafter, the church removed the video and Jill started posting all sorts of lamentations about how she was being persecuted for her amazing Christian faith and specifically mentioned online harassment.  The theory here and elsewhere was that the pastor was pretty po'd to discover Jilly's extensive history of online craziness and told Dave to get his woman in line.  This lead to Jill taking a break from posting for a while, like a week or two.

Okay, some gray areas I missed about the pastor shutting down Jill. But as expected, she was back in a week or so, not chastised at all. 

[Notabug]

1 minute ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Okay, some gray areas I missed about the pastor shutting down Jill. But as expected, she was back in a week or so, not chastised at all. 

I think Dave knows what it is to feel the wrath of Jill and, although he is supposed to be her headship, he'll never lay down the law too firmly with her or she will make him suffer.  

So, he gave her a performative slap on the wrist, she went offline until the church members moved on to other more interesting things and then she came back full force.

[laurakaye]

Dave probably also knows that it's Jill's gift of grifting and her meager Plexus sales that allow him to relax, watch his map, and not bother to have to learn how to print something other than smiley tracts.  Why rock the boat if it's working so well for him?

[MamaMax]

I get the impression that Dave and Jill both feel Jill is out of his league and therefore she is in the power position in the relationship 

[Minivanessa]

As Christmas approaches, let us remember JillR's SEVERELY devout worship of Jesus as shown in this photo. IIRC it's from a Joy Baptist (their former church) service. The photo's a bit dark but you can see that she's holding her phone up and is looking at it. Getting, I believe, video of the service, with of course herself up front and center in it. IMO a complete stranger to the church scene might think that Jill was worshipping her phone. But, maybe that's just me. 

I wonder if we'll see such videos taken at their current church, or if the kerfluffle discussed above, has damped down some of Jill's videography. Remember, during that kerfluffle, at one point she posted on social media that her phone was deeply buried and forgotten in the bottom of her purse during church services. 

Sure, Jan.

[crazy8s]

27 minutes ago, Minivanessa said:

As Christmas approaches, let us remember JillR's SEVERELY devout worship of Jesus as shown in this photo. IIRC it's from a Joy Baptist (their former church) service. The photo's a bit dark but you can see that she's holding her phone up and is looking at it. Getting, I believe, video of the service, with of course herself up front and center in it. IMO a complete stranger to the church scene might think that Jill was worshipping her phone. But, maybe that's just me. 

I wonder if we'll see such videos taken at their current church, or if the kerfluffle discussed above, has damped down some of Jill's videography. Remember, during that kerfluffle, at one point she posted on social media that her phone was deeply buried and forgotten in the bottom of her purse during church services. 

Sure, Jan.

 

[laurakaye]

28 minutes ago, Minivanessa said:

 

If someone who has never heard of Jill Rodrigues asks you to explain who she is, just show them this photo and you will not need to say a word.

[crazycatlady58]

48 minutes ago, Minivanessa said:

As Christmas approaches, let us remember JillR's SEVERELY devout worship of Jesus as shown in this photo. IIRC it's from a Joy Baptist (their former church) service. The photo's a bit dark but you can see that she's holding her phone up and is looking at it. Getting, I believe, video of the service, with of course herself up front and center in it. IMO a complete stranger to the church scene might think that Jill was worshipping her phone. But, maybe that's just me. 

I wonder if we'll see such videos taken at their current church, or if the kerfluffle discussed above, has damped down some of Jill's videography. Remember, during that kerfluffle, at one point she posted on social media that her phone was deeply buried and forgotten in the bottom of her purse during church services. 

Sure, Jan.

Maybe Jill needs to listen to “The Sound of Silence “ Disturbeds version .

[satrunrose]

6 hours ago, libgirl2 said:

The extras don't involve food for your kids? 

I mean, considering the food Chez Rod makes tater tot casserole and tuna n' barbecue sauce look positively gourmet...

Seriously, what is it with these people and food?

[libgirl2]

4 minutes ago, satrunrose said:

I mean, considering the food Chez Rod makes tater tot casserole and tuna n' barbecue sauce look positively gourmet...

Seriously, what is it with these people and food?

I understand being frugal but you can make decent and nutritious meals with some effort. They just don't care. Grow a garden! Read some recipes! 

Edited December 12 by libgirl2

[crazy8s]

2 hours ago, libgirl2 said:

I understand being frugal but you can make decent and nutritious meals with some effort. They just don't care. Grow a garden! Read some recipes! 

Back in 2019 here is Jill on gardening

"Home…oh, SWEET home! After being in our RV for 2 months, our home seems HUGE! We are SO blessed! Here I come, gardening!

LOVE being home and getting my little seedlings started for my garden. I had a HUGE garden in New York and a very small one when living in Clay, WV. Now, I am back to big.

I want to teach my children to live off the land. To be productive. To be hard working. To use their minds. To be creative. NOT to just sit around watching TV and playing on phones or social media. Mamas, let’s raise up a generation of productive children."

Jill's gardens at the barndo.

Edited December 12 by crazy8s

[oliviabenson]

I agree even tater tot casserole or tuna casserole would be better than jills leftovers casserole creation. plain bread with peanut butter tastes better. 

Jill just doesn't care about feeding her kids. she keeps saying she loves to pour into and nourish her kids but it's just words.

And I guess Jonathan was buying her raw milk. because she is  back to using regular milk. 

[princelina]

11 hours ago, MamaMax said:

why do her nails always look so weird? Does she get acrylics or something?  Her nails don't look like they "fit" her fingers.... anyone understand what  I mean? 

 

They are press ons and she's using a size that's slightly too big.  (When you do press ons, use one size smaller than you think you need and they will look much better!)

[Minivanessa]

9 hours ago, princelina said:

They are press ons and she's using a size that's slightly too big.  (When you do press ons, use one size smaller than you think you need and they will look much better!)

Good to know - I mean about Jill's nails. I have a few oddly shaped fingernails and no desire to mess with press on nails. Back in the day, I had acrylic nail fillers, and because my own nail beds are kinda flat the acrylics looked pretty good. I took 'em off as I approached retirement and downsized my con$umption. Those things were high maintenance.

So I'm familiar with acrylics and not with press ons. Over the years I've thought that Jill's nails looked like badly done acrylics, and sometimes they were so grown out, thick, lumpy, and nasty that she needed a whole new set, not just a fill. But I can believe she's using today's press ons - badly. 

Edited December 13 by Minivanessa

[libgirl2]

11 minutes ago, Minivanessa said:

Good to know - I mean about Jill's nails. I have a few oddly shaped fingernails and no desire to mess with press on nails. Back in the day, I had acrylic nail fillers, and because my own nail beds are kinda flat the acrylics looked pretty good. I took 'em off as I approached retirement and downsized my con$umption. Those things were high maintenance.

So I'm familiar with acrylics and not with press ons. Over the years I've thought that Jill's nails looked like badly done acrylics, and sometimes they were so grown out, thick, lumpy, and nasty that she needed a whole new set, not just a fill. But I can believe she's using today's press ons - badly. 

I remember when press on ones first came out. Everyone rushed to try them. They were pretty crappy. I remember being in church, I was my neighbor's confirmation sponsor. The two of us were highly amused during the service as my press on nails kept popping off. 

[Nysha]

On 12/10/2024 at 1:46 PM, libgirl2 said:

I'm not quite so sure she does. She might be able to throw things together but that doesn't they are edible. 

That was kind of my point. I can throw things together, but I'm not a good cook so unless it's something I've made a lot, it will probably taste awful. That's why I use Google to find recipes for leftovers. I can follow a recipe and I'm pretty sure Jill can, too. She won't because she's a horrible housewife and mother.

[princelina]

5 hours ago, Minivanessa said:

Good to know - I mean about Jill's nails. I have a few oddly shaped fingernails and no desire to mess with press on nails. Back in the day, I had acrylic nail fillers, and because my own nail beds are kinda flat the acrylics looked pretty good. I took 'em off as I approached retirement and downsized my con$umption. Those things were high maintenance.

So I'm familiar with acrylics and not with press ons. Over the years I've thought that Jill's nails looked like badly done acrylics, and sometimes they were so grown out, thick, lumpy, and nasty that she needed a whole new set, not just a fill. But I can believe she's using today's press ons - badly. 

Lumpy = very bad job with acrylics.  But today's press-ons look pretty good and last if you are just trying to be fancy for an event!

[EmeraldGirl]

I don’t do nails, they drive me crazy, so I just recently bought some of those press on/ glue on whatever the heck they are nails for a special occasion. I’m glad to know they’re good now, I haven’t tried them yet. But I too remember the days of the bad nails that wouldn’t stay on and looked plastic. and I got a very light pink, not all this gaudy crap that she wears all the time.
 

The fact that Jill has had a family to cook for for so many years, and still can’t figure out what to put together is a disgrace. I only had two children, but had to cook for many years. After a while, it’s instinctual what goes with what. Husband decided to take over cooking, and he’s a little puzzled on what to do without recipes. I can come up with suggestions for what else he can do with ingredients, or how to add more bulk to certain things. All this means is, she’s never really tried to cook like a decent human mother (not that all mothers have to cook, but she presents herself that way). 

[crazy8s]

Homebody Jill is now in florida. She is staying at a condo. Shilling plexus to speed up metabolism because she has noticed hers has slowed down. Oh and we should buy Restore "that effectively detoxes your liver"

At one point she sticks one of her shiny manicured nails into her ear canal.🤮

So Jill and Dave (?) drove Renee down to florida to drop her with Nurie for a week until they come to the barndo for christmas.

Renee is going for a visit to "be a blessing to Nurie"

[Salacious Kitty]

IOW, Nurie can't handle the kids she has without help. 

[Tdoc72]

2 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

IOW, Nurie can't handle the kids she has without help. 

And probably not trying to prevent another. 

[oliviabenson]

nurie found Renee a man. she found Bri for Sam. matchmaking for her siblings full time!

 

Jill gets a bonus vacation from Ohio winter Christmas and mooch off a new victim / maybe future son in law.

[merylinkid]

3 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

IOW, Nurie can't handle the kids she has without help. 

Nurie needing help is the convenient excuse for Jill to be in Florida, instead of Ohio the week before Christmas caring for her kids.   How did she manage a condo?   Creepy Cream Boutique must be doing better than we thought.   Or she found a new "sweet friend" who hasn't seen any of her social media.