Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

[JAYJAY1979]

I always figured Meri and Kody were more like close best friends then romantic... and when toxic Robyn came into the mix, the friendship between Meri/Kody was pretty much over.

It reminded me of all those times when kids are best friends one week, and then the next week comes around and one of the kids no longer wants to be best friends... and the other kid is left wondering what they did wrong, etc.   I view Meri/Kody like that.. and I'm hoping Meri has finally gotten the message that Kody doesn't want to be friends with her.. and she moves on to new friends and men.

[ginger90]

Meri’s brother Adam passed away. Using the spoiler because the post is long.

Spoiler

About 5 weeks ago I got a text from my brother saying he had made the decision to not continue his chemo treatment, due to the rapid progression of his cancer & deterioration of his body.

Yesterday, Oct 5, 2023, just 2 months short of his 55th birthday, we lost him.

I have so many good memories with him over the years, because, siblings. I also have some not so good memories with him through the years, because, siblings. 😆

Shortly after I learned that Adam's cancer was terminal & that he potentially had only weeks or months to live, something hit me like a ton of bricks.

After his passing, I would be the one remaining from the original four.

We lost Teresa, our sister just younger than me, to cancer in 2006. We lost our oldest brother Marc to heart issues in 2015. Now Adam to another type of cancer.

That leaves me.

Now, I understand that it's not just me. I still have 3 younger sisters with us, the 7 of us just mom's kids. Plus many other siblings from our large family structure.

I don't yet understand why his passing, and leaving me as the one remaining of the original four, is impacting me like it is.

The only 4 that were born in CA and have memories of our young childhood there?

The only 4 that were in existence before we moved to Utah where mom & dad began their lives as a plural family?

Maybe because we were born in closer succession, with only 1-1/2 to 2 years between us all? Even still, Elaine, child number 5, was only 3 years later. 

I don't know what it is, but there's always been something about the original 4. Not better, just different. Not closer, just different. 

Maybe I'll figure it out someday, maybe I won't. Only time will tell.

Regardless, (and you have no idea how bad I want to type in 'irregardless' there, in honor of him & our many arguments about whether that is even a word) I will move forward living, loving, forgiving, remembering.

The relationship I had with him taught me many things, and I have no doubt will continue to teach me things. I remain open to those lessons & look forward to them with anticipation.

For now, I remember him with honor, kindness, & love.

PS Adam, I have the last word. And that is REGARDLESS 💙

 

[MaryMichael]

2 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Meri’s brother Adam passed away. Using the spoiler because the post is long.

  Reveal spoiler

About 5 weeks ago I got a text from my brother saying he had made the decision to not continue his chemo treatment, due to the rapid progression of his cancer & deterioration of his body.

Yesterday, Oct 5, 2023, just 2 months short of his 55th birthday, we lost him.

I have so many good memories with him over the years, because, siblings. I also have some not so good memories with him through the years, because, siblings. 😆

Shortly after I learned that Adam's cancer was terminal & that he potentially had only weeks or months to live, something hit me like a ton of bricks.

After his passing, I would be the one remaining from the original four.

We lost Teresa, our sister just younger than me, to cancer in 2006. We lost our oldest brother Marc to heart issues in 2015. Now Adam to another type of cancer.

That leaves me.

Now, I understand that it's not just me. I still have 3 younger sisters with us, the 7 of us just mom's kids. Plus many other siblings from our large family structure.

I don't yet understand why his passing, and leaving me as the one remaining of the original four, is impacting me like it is.

The only 4 that were born in CA and have memories of our young childhood there?

The only 4 that were in existence before we moved to Utah where mom & dad began their lives as a plural family?

Maybe because we were born in closer succession, with only 1-1/2 to 2 years between us all? Even still, Elaine, child number 5, was only 3 years later. 

I don't know what it is, but there's always been something about the original 4. Not better, just different. Not closer, just different. 

Maybe I'll figure it out someday, maybe I won't. Only time will tell.

Regardless, (and you have no idea how bad I want to type in 'irregardless' there, in honor of him & our many arguments about whether that is even a word) I will move forward living, loving, forgiving, remembering.

The relationship I had with him taught me many things, and I have no doubt will continue to teach me things. I remain open to those lessons & look forward to them with anticipation.

For now, I remember him with honor, kindness, & love.

PS Adam, I have the last word. And that is REGARDLESS 💙

 

Meri's message is lovely-- sweet  loving, funny and sad . She has suffered a lot of loss in her family. May she find some peace . 

Is the the brother that was married to Janelle? 

[SongbirdHollow]

Yes, Adam Barber. 

[MaryMichael]

23 hours ago, SongbirdHollow said:

Yes, Adam Barber. 

Thank You 

[oliviabenson]

On 9/24/2023 at 2:07 AM, Art Of Noiz said:

Just snacks..a Chilly Dill and a banana!

Dress up as a banana, pickle, nachos or a taco 🤣. Munch on store bought rice Krispy treats or ramen noodles 🤣

[oliviabenson]

Poor Meri I hope she has someone to comfort her in her grief.

 

[Meowwww]

I am concerned.  I’m starting to like Meri this season. She shut mumbling, dead tone Robyn down.   I don’t know what to do with this lol.  Her filtered pics still bug me, I’m her age and there’s no shame in aging. 

[Scarlett45]

I’m sorry Meri has lost yet another sibling. Losing siblings and friends cuts differently. I hope she has a support system around her now. 

[TurtlePower]

9 hours ago, Meowwww said:

I am concerned.  I’m starting to like Meri this season. She shut mumbling, dead tone Robyn down.   I don’t know what to do with this lol.  Her filtered pics still bug me, I’m her age and there’s no shame in aging. 

Same, exactly same. 

[Ms.Lulu]

 

10 hours ago, Meowwww said:

I am concerned.  I’m starting to like Meri this season. She shut mumbling, dead tone Robyn down.   I don’t know what to do with this lol.  Her filtered pics still bug me, I’m her age and there’s no shame in aging. 

Don't allow yourself to be tricked. The bar is low. Meri is just less odious than Robyn or Kody.

I like seeing her realize that Robyn and Kody are craptastic narcissists, but that doesn't mean that Meri isn't selfish or cruel.

So I have decided to say that I am enjoying Meri this season.

[General Days]

On 10/6/2023 at 4:22 PM, ginger90 said:

Meri’s brother Adam passed away. Using the spoiler because the post is long.

  Reveal spoiler

About 5 weeks ago I got a text from my brother saying he had made the decision to not continue his chemo treatment, due to the rapid progression of his cancer & deterioration of his body.

Yesterday, Oct 5, 2023, just 2 months short of his 55th birthday, we lost him.

I have so many good memories with him over the years, because, siblings. I also have some not so good memories with him through the years, because, siblings. 😆

Shortly after I learned that Adam's cancer was terminal & that he potentially had only weeks or months to live, something hit me like a ton of bricks.

After his passing, I would be the one remaining from the original four.

We lost Teresa, our sister just younger than me, to cancer in 2006. We lost our oldest brother Marc to heart issues in 2015. Now Adam to another type of cancer.

That leaves me.

Now, I understand that it's not just me. I still have 3 younger sisters with us, the 7 of us just mom's kids. Plus many other siblings from our large family structure.

I don't yet understand why his passing, and leaving me as the one remaining of the original four, is impacting me like it is.

The only 4 that were born in CA and have memories of our young childhood there?

The only 4 that were in existence before we moved to Utah where mom & dad began their lives as a plural family?

Maybe because we were born in closer succession, with only 1-1/2 to 2 years between us all? Even still, Elaine, child number 5, was only 3 years later. 

I don't know what it is, but there's always been something about the original 4. Not better, just different. Not closer, just different. 

Maybe I'll figure it out someday, maybe I won't. Only time will tell.

Regardless, (and you have no idea how bad I want to type in 'irregardless' there, in honor of him & our many arguments about whether that is even a word) I will move forward living, loving, forgiving, remembering.

The relationship I had with him taught me many things, and I have no doubt will continue to teach me things. I remain open to those lessons & look forward to them with anticipation.

For now, I remember him with honor, kindness, & love.

PS Adam, I have the last word. And that is REGARDLESS 💙

 

Poor Meri. 

I find myself now seeing Bonnie's passing as a mercy, in that she didn't have to endure the death of yet another child.

On Facebook, Meri posted a couple of pictures of the "original four" kids in the Bonnie/Bill family. It made me think about how, in big families, often there are subgroups of kids who are closer in age. We've even seen it with the kids on the show, to some extent.

It also made me wonder what impact Meri parents' conversion to the AUB and polygamy had upon her psyche. I usually slot Christine and Meri as the only two Brown wives who truly grew up in polygamy. While Meri did live it in childhood (more than Robyn did) it's not how it all began for her.

For Meri's "tender aged" (sorry) childhood, it was Daddy, Mommy, and four kids, living a more or less typical LDS family lifestyle in California. Bill and Bonnie then uprooted those kids and took them to Utah, while Bill went on to marry four other women. I think he had something like 25 kids total (eventually most? all? of his plural wives left him too).

The first four Barber kids must have felt abandoned sometimes. There had to be some alienation of paternal affection, just due to the practicalities of fathering a lot of kids with five women — like we saw with Kody, in the early days of the show, when he still seemed to try to be a good father, but spent more time with his boys than his girls, and more time with Sol, because he was the baby. (By the time Ariella was born, I would argue Kody was no longer trying with the OG13.)

I wonder if Meri has ever been able and willing to unpack how her parents' conversion and adoption of polygamy affected her — in therapy. I remember Kody saying a lot of therapists just look at plural families and say, "The problem is polygamy." It seems to me that they presented Pat, and later Nancy, as two who were willing to accept their lifestyle as fact and go from there. It also seemed to me at the time, that that was Kody code for, "We won't work with a therapist who thinks polygamy is problematic."

I can see some value in working with a plyg-positive therapist, but at some point, it would seem to me that a person would have to dig into all the effects polygamy has had on them, good and bad (even if they want to/can conclude that the good makes the bad worth it). I think it's likely the Browns haven't been open to that.

I wonder how much of Meri's issues stem from having her nuclear family more or less destroyed, in service of Bill's plural family. I wonder how that affected her marriage (apart from all the problematic issues being married to Kody Brown as a solo wife or a plural wife would bring). I wonder how it affected her emotional control. I wonder if the seeds of her anger and her control issues were sown when her parents upended the family of her early childhood.

I don't know. I don't really have a way to wrap this up. I guess, if given the opportunity to pick one of the Brown brains [insert your own slim pickings joke here], I'd pick Meri's.

 

[GeeGolly]

I think you all might be onto something.

If Meri did have difficulty as a child transitioning into a plural family with little or no support, building her own plural family could have tickled some unresolved issues. Its like pouring salt into wounds you didn't know you had. It doesn't usually consciously open old wounds, it more amplifies current difficulties. Often times when we overreact to things we attribute to being tired, hungry or stressed, while that can be true, it also could be unresolved feelings about an old unidentified issue piling on to a current and similar issue.

Meri seems to have very strong needs to have things in order, things to be fair and likes to have a voice in all matters. Maybe her childhood was chaotic, unfair and powerless.

[Art Of Noiz]

14 hours ago, Meowwww said:

I am concerned.  I’m starting to like Meri this season. She shut mumbling, dead tone Robyn down.   I don’t know what to do with this lol.  Her filtered pics still bug me, I’m her age and there’s no shame in aging. 

I believe those filtered pics are a result of LulaRoe lives. I looked at some other ladies'  lives, and there are similarities -facial expressions, phrases ("hello hello", HELLO Friendsss"). 

[GeeGolly]

I blame the use of filters on the Kardashians, unrealistic social norms and the beauty industry. 

Until society and the beauty/fashion industry start calling wrinkles, sags and curves trendy, stylish, beautiful and chic, filters will win.

[Art Of Noiz]

On 9/21/2023 at 9:51 AM, Scarlett45 said:

Cheating doesn’t grind my gears as much as the typical person. I totally understand if it’s not acceptable to someone and trust is broken, but to me it’s not “the worst” (outside of criminal behavior)- I think financially infidelity is way worst than sexual infidelity. 

However, if Kody couldn’t let it go, that’s his right, but it doesn’t give him the right to treat her like crap until the end of time. Either forgive and move forward, or end the relationship (outright, not “quiet quitting”). I understand why Leon was upset because Meri just didn’t listen to them (over and over again), but Leon loves their Mom and got over it with time. 
 

If Meri doesn’t have as many close relationships in the family as she would like it’s her own damn fault. It’s not Kody’s fault or the fault of Janelle/Christine but Meri’s. I think she knows she has to live with that, and I hope she’s building a community for herself for her own emotional well-being. 

It's not cheating for me. It is the way she twisted the story around to her family, the cameras to flip her as a total victim. And to do what she did to her bio  child!! 

Meri- keep my secret. I found love. I'm leaving for him.

Leon -you're being cstfished.

Media storm. 

Meri- Leon you need to believe me. I have procured other victim  testimonies. You'll have to forgive me on camera. It's for the ratings. Think of the show money, think of the family. Think of...college!

[goofygirl]

On 9/29/2023 at 5:32 PM, xwordfanatik said:

Now, if Meri could have Sobbyn jump out of a closet, dressed as a witch, with a broomstick, it would at least be a sort of believable "haunted house."  I still wouldn't throw fifty bucks at it, though.  😛

I'd throw in $5 for that!

[BAForever]

On 10/6/2023 at 3:22 PM, ginger90 said:

Meri’s brother Adam passed away. Using the spoiler because the post is long.

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About 5 weeks ago I got a text from my brother saying he had made the decision to not continue his chemo treatment, due to the rapid progression of his cancer & deterioration of his body.

Yesterday, Oct 5, 2023, just 2 months short of his 55th birthday, we lost him.

I have so many good memories with him over the years, because, siblings. I also have some not so good memories with him through the years, because, siblings. 😆

Shortly after I learned that Adam's cancer was terminal & that he potentially had only weeks or months to live, something hit me like a ton of bricks.

After his passing, I would be the one remaining from the original four.

We lost Teresa, our sister just younger than me, to cancer in 2006. We lost our oldest brother Marc to heart issues in 2015. Now Adam to another type of cancer.

That leaves me.

Now, I understand that it's not just me. I still have 3 younger sisters with us, the 7 of us just mom's kids. Plus many other siblings from our large family structure.

I don't yet understand why his passing, and leaving me as the one remaining of the original four, is impacting me like it is.

The only 4 that were born in CA and have memories of our young childhood there?

The only 4 that were in existence before we moved to Utah where mom & dad began their lives as a plural family?

Maybe because we were born in closer succession, with only 1-1/2 to 2 years between us all? Even still, Elaine, child number 5, was only 3 years later. 

I don't know what it is, but there's always been something about the original 4. Not better, just different. Not closer, just different. 

Maybe I'll figure it out someday, maybe I won't. Only time will tell.

Regardless, (and you have no idea how bad I want to type in 'irregardless' there, in honor of him & our many arguments about whether that is even a word) I will move forward living, loving, forgiving, remembering.

The relationship I had with him taught me many things, and I have no doubt will continue to teach me things. I remain open to those lessons & look forward to them with anticipation.

For now, I remember him with honor, kindness, & love.

PS Adam, I have the last word. And that is REGARDLESS 💙

 

Oh Meri. I am loving you more and more these days. What a sweet remembrance to your brother. Please find the courage to be happy and get away from Robyn and Kody. You deserve a happy next chapter of your life.

[zenme]

Isn’t this the brother Janelle married? 

[Orcinus orca]

Yes

[Art Of Noiz]

8 hours ago, zenme said:

Isn’t this the brother Janelle married? 

Yes

[ginger90]

Meri posted some pictures, but I’m not including them.

[goofygirl]

Listen, my best friend and sister, passed away in May.  There's NOTHING like losing a sibling to make you stand up and think "What?" Also, "how much time is left in MY life?"

It's a ginormous slap to the head.  I'm doing that whole thing with the "this time LAST year..." and with the holidays coming, I'm just not sure how it's gonna go.  I just know I miss her TERRIBLY. 

Edited October 20, 2023 by goofygirl

[Ms.Lulu]

6 hours ago, goofygirl said:

Listen, my best friend and sister, passed away in May.  There's NOTHING like losing a sibling to make you stand up and think "What?" Also, "how much time is left in MY life?"

It's a ginormous slap to the head.  I'm doing that whole thing with the "this time LAST year..." and with the holidays coming, I'm just not sure how it's gonna go.  I just know I miss her TERRIBLY. 

I went through this 2 years ago. My sister was 52. I had the same feelings--will I die early too? Why isn't she here? Although time makes everything hurt less, this one has been slow to go away. I think of her ever day and catch myself wanting to share stories.

I blame Covid from keeping her from getting care and keeping me from seeing her before she died alone 5000 miles away. 

[Natalie68]

9 hours ago, Ms.Lulu said:

I went through this 2 years ago. My sister was 52. I had the same feelings--will I die early too? Why isn't she here? Although time makes everything hurt less, this one has been slow to go away. I think of her ever day and catch myself wanting to share stories.

I blame Covid from keeping her from getting care and keeping me from seeing her before she died alone 5000 miles away. 

I want to hug my sisters.  I don't know how I would survive losing them.  Hugs to you and goofygirl.

[OlderThanDirt]

Obviously,  Meri's life would have been very different if she had been able to have more children. Bringing in two more wives who were Uber fertile made her life more difficult complicated by the fact there was no money for that many mouths to feed. But she was more interested in being the matriarch than in being a provider once her child was in school. 

There's an interesting study to be written about the dynamics of this family. In fact this forum comes closer to the study than the TV show does. 

[Scarlett45]

I have nothing but sympathy for Meri for the loss of her brother. Losing friends and siblings cuts differently. 
 

And yes, with the holidays coming up memories are going to be flooding in her grief. It’s hard. May she have comfort and support during this time from her friends, remaining siblings and Leon. 

[BAForever]

12 hours ago, Scarlett45 said:

I have nothing but sympathy for Meri for the loss of her brother. Losing friends and siblings cuts differently. 
 

And yes, with the holidays coming up memories are going to be flooding in her grief. It’s hard. May she have comfort and support during this time from her friends, remaining siblings and Leon. 

My heart goes out to Meri. Yes, she has made many bad decisions in her life (who of us hasn't?). Why does she feel the need to keep a house in Flag? I get Parawon may be too small. Buy a condo in Salt Lake City. Easier drive, big city, fresh start. There's nothing for her in Flagstaff.

Absolutely loved what she wrote about her brother. You could feel her love for him. Come on Meri, leave all that nonsense and be happy.

[Absolom]

Did Meri actually get another house in Flagstaff?  We know she said she was in the episode, but we also know the episodes are not always completely accurate factually.  Or perhaps she planned to get another house, but due to following events changed her mind?

[ginger90]

9 minutes ago, Absolom said:

Did Meri actually get another house in Flagstaff?  We know she said she was in the episode, but we also know the episodes are not always completely accurate factually.  Or perhaps she planned to get another house, but due to following events changed her mind?

If she did it would be foolish imo. She can film in Utah. I doubt she’d be traveling back to Flagstaff for any other reason. The way these people are with money, who knows. She’d be better off in a hotel on the off chance she did travel there.

[Orcinus orca]

20 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

She’d be better off in a hotel on the off chance she did travel there.

But, but, but....Kootie.  Still hopes for him to reconcile.  There is still a chance!

Talk about delusional.

[Granny58]

On 10/21/2023 at 1:34 PM, OlderThanDirt said:

But she was more interested in being the matriarch than in being a provider once her child was in school. 

your comment made me wonder....perhaps because she didn't have more children she naturally gravitated toward matriarch...sorta like grandmother type.  

[Teafortwo]

Okay so this is hilarious: Meri (and of course Jenn) are doing a virtual "haunted house" tour at her b&b on Oct. 30, on Facebook. But you have to buy tickets on the b&b website first.

The tickets are TWENTY-FIVE dollars! LOLOLOLOL

[Teri313]

On 9/23/2023 at 7:25 PM, ginger90 said:

$50 per person:

What a bargain - it was originally $50!

[Sandy W]

49 minutes ago, Teri313 said:

What a bargain - it was originally $50!

$50. gives you the personal tour of the haunted halls. 

$25. buys a virtual tour of the bnb with Meri and Jen narrating on Facebook. Tickets to be purchased in advance.🫣

[Teri313]

7 hours ago, Sandy W said:

$50. gives you the personal tour of the haunted halls. 

$25. buys a virtual tour of the bnb with Meri and Jen narrating on Facebook. Tickets to be purchased in advance.🫣

Thank you Sandy, I missed the virtual part. She's too much. 😆

[laurakaye]

One thing I have noticed, because I follow Hunter on IG, is that he "hearts" Meri's IG posts.  To me that indicates that Hunter, at least, either wants to remain Switzerland within his family, or he actually does have a decent relationship with Meri, which I find to be a good thing.  Despite all of the things Meri has supposedly done (if we are to believe Kody), I don't think she deserves to be shunned by everyone in that family who isn't just after her paycheck.  She's just as damaged as anyone else related to Kody Brown.

[Scarlett45]

1 hour ago, laurakaye said:

One thing I have noticed, because I follow Hunter on IG, is that he "hearts" Meri's IG posts.  To me that indicates that Hunter, at least, either wants to remain Switzerland within his family, or he actually does have a decent relationship with Meri, which I find to be a good thing.  Despite all of the things Meri has supposedly done (if we are to believe Kody), I don't think she deserves to be shunned by everyone in that family who isn't just after her paycheck.  She's just as damaged as anyone else related to Kody Brown.

I don’t think Meri is shunned by everyone. Hunter being the oldest of the “second group” of kids probably has a lot of good memories living in close proximity with Meri and growing up with Leon. 
 

Like with anything else, people’s individual personalities play into who they are close with etc. in a family that large and more than one maternal figure, there are going to be kids that really like Meri, kids that are fine with her and others that can’t stand her. 

[goofygirl]

23 hours ago, Teafortwo said:

Okay so this is hilarious: Meri (and of course Jenn) are doing a virtual "haunted house" tour at her b&b on Oct. 30, on Facebook. But you have to buy tickets on the b&b website first.

The tickets are TWENTY-FIVE dollars! LOLOLOLOL

It's a VIRTUAL Haunted House tour??  What in the fresh hell is THAT????

[General Days]

17 minutes ago, goofygirl said:

It's a VIRTUAL Haunted House tour??  What in the fresh hell is THAT????

It's in person for $50, but virtual for $25. I think she overestimates how much anyone wants to see the B&B online.

[ginger90]

[Orcinus orca]

So it's an old house decorated for Halloween and Meri and JustJen in costumes giggling like teenie boppers. And maybe some orange krispy treats.  All for the low, low price of $25.

Pass.

[Gramto6]

4 hours ago, Orcinus orca said:

So it's an old house decorated for Halloween and Meri and JustJen in costumes giggling like teenie boppers. And maybe some orange krispy treats.  All for the low, low price of $25.

Pass.

And the $25 Virtual viewers won't even get any "treats"...may be a good thing more I think about it! LOL

[kimaken]

5 hours ago, Orcinus orca said:

So it's an old house decorated for Halloween and Meri and JustJen in costumes giggling like teenie boppers. And maybe some orange krispy treats.  All for the low, low price of $25.

Pass.

I certainly wouldn't fork over 25 bucks of my hard-earned money for a virtual haunted house tour, but you know there are probably some Meri fans out there who will.  At least she continues to plug  away at bringing in an income and doing all she can to keep her B&B's name out there to attract future customers, unlike Robyn who doesn't do any work at all (did she even work at her Sister Wives Closet online jewelry shop, or did the other 3 wives do all the work?).

[xwordfanatik]

3 minutes ago, kimaken said:

I certainly wouldn't fork over 25 bucks of my hard-earned money for a virtual haunted house tour, but you know there are probably some Meri fans out there who will.  At least she continues to plug  away at bringing in an income and doing all she can to keep her B&B's name out there to attract future customers, unlike Robyn who doesn't do any work at all (did she even work at her Sister Wives Closet online jewelry shop, or did the other 3 wives do all the work?).

I believe Day-Un was doing some of MSWC's work.  Christine was giving it away or including a piece of joolry for a while, with her LuLaRot sales.  Sobbyn tried to guilt Janelle into working on "plus-size" clothes, but I'm pretty sure that never happened.  Janelle called it a hobby business.  Sobbyn also guilted Meri into not going back to college, to help her (what a fool.)  Sobbyn told Kootie she couldn't have another baby unless she had "help" (slave labor) to sell that overpriced crap.  

What Sobbyn wanted, she usually got.  Moving to LV and then Flagstaff was orchestrated by her.

[RazzleberryPie]

15 hours ago, General Days said:

It's in person for $50, but virtual for $25. I think she overestimates how much anyone wants to see the B&B online.

I mean she TRIES to hustle, but just chooses some strange items to hustle.

These overpriced b and b retreats, haunted whatever, etc. are not too far from the Sister Wives Closet mess in the sense that these people are so insular and I don’t know, naively arrogant? They presume things that are of high value to their very niche market are worth something to the general public.
I get this is your heritage home and has sentimental value to you. It does not have sentimental value to anyone else. To the rest of the world it’s an overpriced, under services, badly decorated b and b. Same with that joory line. The designs were very specific to one family and expensive for what they were. Then none of them knew how to market what they had, and they wondered why it failed? 
 

[dariafan]

20 hours ago, General Days said:

It's in person for $50, but virtual for $25. I think she overestimates how much anyone wants to see the B&B online.

That ghost hadn’t taken kootie head out yet. And he’s been there twice in a year! 

[Teri313]

6 hours ago, RazzleberryPie said:

I mean she TRIES to hustle, but just chooses some strange items to hustle.

These overpriced b and b retreats, haunted whatever, etc. are not too far from the Sister Wives Closet mess in the sense that these people are so insular and I don’t know, naively arrogant? They presume things that are of high value to their very niche market are worth something to the general public.
I get this is your heritage home and has sentimental value to you. It does not have sentimental value to anyone else. To the rest of the world it’s an overpriced, under services, badly decorated b and b. Same with that joory line. The designs were very specific to one family and expensive for what they were. Then none of them knew how to market what they had, and they wondered why it failed? 
 

I think that motivational speaker she was linked up with several months ago gave her the confidence to think she can ask ridiculous money for what little she actually has to offer as a business. I'm sure it was like, hey, you're MERI BROWN, from SISTERWIVES, use it girl! People will come!

[goofygirl]

1 hour ago, Teri313 said:

I think that motivational speaker she was linked up with several months ago gave her the confidence to think she can ask ridiculous money for what little she actually has to offer as a business. I'm sure it was like, hey, you're MERI BROWN, from SISTERWIVES, use it girl! People will come!

Do you think Meri PAID that motivational speaker??  Just curious.  Or do you think she bartered a SKEERY Halloween trip to Parowan???

[Gramto6]

Didn't the motivational speaker give a talk/seminar at Meri's B&B? Some how it is in the back of my mind she did...but I could have just imagined it too...LOL!