Janelle Brown: Smarter Than Your Average Brown (Maybe)

[ginger90]

[Elodia]

Janelle's friend is married to Bon Jovi's bass guitarist. I wonder if Bon Jovi concerts were Robyn approved 🤔

[ginger90]

[SunnyBeBe]

1 hour ago, Elodia said:

Janelle's friend is married to Bon Jovi's bass guitarist. I wonder if Bon Jovi concerts were Robyn approved 🤔

That’s amazing!

[SuzWhat]

Do we still think she is the “smart one”. I know we already know she only stayed in the RV for one summer.  Wonder if she sold it?  Took a loss?  Made a profit? 

[Cetacean]

22 minutes ago, SuzWhat said:

Took a loss?  Made a profit? 

They start to lose value the minute you drive them off the lot.

[Natalie68]

On 9/28/2022 at 7:05 AM, TurtlePower said:

I also wonder how Janelle and Meri are feeling after watching this season play out and about how happy Christine has become on her own. 

We know Janelle and Christine are close and that Meri and Christine are not. Meri is definitely playing sides, super-glued to the plyg lifestyle as Robyn’s worshipper. I think Meri feels that if she sticks hard to Kody and Robyn’s team, he’ll let her back in. 

I hope Janelle packs it in, leaving Miserable Meri, Sobyn Robyn and Ko-douche to live the rest of their delusional, grumpy lives together. I’d watch one more season of another wife leaving Kody.

Doesn't Kody need 3 wives to get his own planet? If Janelle or Meri leave, they need to rustle up another wife right?   All of a sudden aren't they holding a few more cards?

[Absolom]

That only works in their minds if they still have their religious beliefs.  Most of them seem to have shed all or almost all their AUB beliefs.  

[deirdra]

32 minutes ago, Cetacean said:

They start to lose value the minute you drive them off the lot.

And she was told that it was the last one left available in the US, so it was probably a deluxe version, more than she really needed, with a hyper-inflated purchase price during Covid. Post-Covid there's probably a glut of slightly used RVs available for purchase. 

From SM it appears that she never bought a 1 ton truck to tow it and instead paid the very helpful dealer to haul it out to the Plague Pass and back into storage at the end of summer. She also had to pay to be supplied on site with water, sewage services, genrerator(?) and battery service, RV repairs, etc. 

[Elizzikra]

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Doesn't Kody need 3 wives to get his own planet? 

Semi-serious questions - is it three wives (minimum) at the time of death or three wives ever? Since there don't seem to be any procedures to uncouple a spiritual union, does Christine still count toward Kody's wife count in the afterlife if he just decides that he's still married to her, even though she has spiritually divorced him? Is it good enough that they have kids together even if the marriage doesn't last until death?

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She also had to pay to be supplied on site with water, sewage services, genrerator(?) and battery service, RV repairs, etc. 

I had friends who sold everything and lived full time in an RV for about five years. They did say that people often don't do their research and think that it's more plug-and-play than it actually is. There is a lot of work to maintain RVs and a lot of things you have to think about that you don't typically have to consider in a regular home. They were happy to get rid of home/yard chores but some of that time is replaced with RV chores/maintenance. I think Janelle might have underestimated that work that went along with an RV.

[SunnyBeBe]

I’m not sure about the wife question.  If you’re LDS and sealed in the Temple, there’s the unsealing, but with AUB……idk.  It seems they are playing it loose these days.  

Edited October 3, 2022 by SunnyBeBe

[ginger90]

6 hours ago, SuzWhat said:

Do we still think she is the “smart one”. I know we already know she only stayed in the RV for one summer.  Wonder if she sold it?  Took a loss?  Made a profit? 

She has posted that she had it in for repairs and is storing it.

[deirdra]

3 hours ago, SunnyBeBe said:

I’m not sure about the wife question.  If you’re LDS and sealed in the Temple, there’s the unsealing, but with AUB……idk.  It seems they are playing it loose these days.  

I think they brought up "the Lord" for the first time in a couple of years on Oct 2nd's show. They want the Lord to help guide them through this fambly transition.  Perhaps they should have asked for guidance before things got this bad!

[Cetacean]

The religion ship sailed long ago.  There were some phony prefunctory prayer meetings with Kootie filling in for god and the famous Parable of the Lost Cookie.  After than, any pretense that they are religious was unceremoniously dropped when they started making up "rules" to fit any situation that came up.

The whole celestial planet shtick seems to have dropped off of the list of religious "tennants" (tm Sobbyn).

Edited October 4, 2022 by Cetacean
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[deirdra]

10 minutes ago, Cetacean said:

The whole celestial planet shtick seems to have dropped off of the list of religious "tennants" (tm Sobbyn).

Robyn has been fixated on "tennants" and "rennals" since we first met her ;)

[Joan of Argh]

For me even as a child Candy Corn was way too sweet and gross 🤮 

[deirdra]

2 hours ago, Joan of Argh said:

For me even as a child Candy Corn was way too sweet and gross 🤮 

Same here; just some in a bowl made the whole room smell sickly sweet. 

I thought "Plecus" stopped your sugar cravings, Janelle. Or does it stop working in between resets?

[xwordfanatik]

Me too!  Even though most of my teeth are crowned, that kind of candy hurts my teeth!

I wonder if Janelle thinks PlexAss will cancel all those sugar (empty) calories?  😁

Just now, deirdra said:

Same here; just some in a bowl made the whole room smell sickly sweet. 

I thought "Plecus" stopped your sugar cravings, Janelle. Or does it stop working in between resets?

Great minds!  😁

[deirdra]

1 minute ago, xwordfanatik said:

Me too!  Even though most of my teeth are crowned, that kind of candy hurts my teeth!

I wonder if Janelle thinks PlexAss will cancel all those sugar (empty) calories?  😁

Great minds!  😁

Just LOOKING at it makes my teeth hurt and I haven't even bitten into one in over 50 yrs!

[Pickleinthemiddle]

On 10/3/2022 at 3:33 PM, ginger90 said:

She has posted that she had it in for repairs and is storing it.

I have always felt these 5th wheels and some of the larger towing RV's are very light weight. So they are more prone to damage.  As others have said they are not for constant use.  The ones you drive seem more sturdy.

My aunt has one that you can drive and at the end of the fall she takes it to someone in another city and has the guy give it a once over and then he winterizes it.  She uses it around 5-7 times in the summer and early fall.  But she is not living in it all the time.

[Cetacean]

2 hours ago, Pickleinthemiddle said:

I have always felt these 5th wheels and some of the larger towing RV's are very light weight.

By nature of the fact they are towed, they need to be as light as possible.  Dragging something sturdy and substantial would eat up gas to the point where you'd get 4 miles to the gallon.  Thus they use cheap, light wood and plastic for pretty much all of the construction.  If you've ever seen one of those things after a wreck, they are just a pile of rubble. I doubt they even use anything of substance for framing.  It's like living in a aluminum roaster pan.

[MaddyMaeboxerbabe]

I agree they really aren’t designed for everyday wear and tear but to me it appears the past two years Janelle really has been traveling and not living any place really? Also with all her visiting places will she never take the trailer?  Thought that was her dream.    Seems odd to have it in for repairs the entire spring/summer only to pay again to store it this winter.   But their money decisions alway befuddle me!

[Elizzikra]

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The ones you drive seem more sturdy.

Friends of mine lived in one you drive for about five years full time. They took excellent care of it and it was in great shape when they finally decided to move back to a regular home. Those are definitely ones you can live in full time in varied climates but you have to do a lot of upkeep and I'm not sure Janelle strikes me as the type.

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But their money decisions alway befuddle me!

I'd love a deep dive on their finances. Their financial decisions always seem to me to be very short-term based. 

[GeeGolly]

Around here the folks I know who have RVs like Janelle's pretty much park them at a seasonal RV park year round and use them as a summer weekend/vacation home.

So Meri is paying for a rental she's never in. Janelle's paying for an RV she doesn't use. All of them are paying for land that is uninhabitable. 

And didn't Robyn and Kody just start up a financial adviser business? 🤔🙃

[monagatuna]

21 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

Around here the folks I know who have RVs like Janelle's pretty much park them at a seasonal RV park year round and use them as a summer weekend/vacation home.

So Meri is paying for a rental she's never in. Janelle's paying for an RV she doesn't use. All of them are paying for land that is uninhabitable. 

And didn't Robyn and Kody just start up a financial adviser business? 🤔🙃

Sure, but if their clientele are typical LDS types, they're starting with the kind of mentality that thinks "bleeding the beast" is a reasonable practice and that MLMs will make them rich, so it's right up their alley. "Exploit your multiple children's lives to make millions hundreds of thousands a few extra bucks despite the fact that viewers are pretty tired of huge and/or polygamous families" seems like sound advice to them.

[Joan of Argh]

55 minutes ago, Cetacean said:

By nature of the fact they are towed, they need to be as light as possible.  Dragging something sturdy and substantial would eat up gas to the point where you'd get 4 miles to the gallon.  Thus they use cheap, light wood and plastic for pretty much all of the construction.  If you've ever seen one of those things after a wreck, they are just a pile of rubble. I doubt they even use anything of substance for framing.  It's like living in a aluminum roaster pan.

I’m finding this conversation fascinating…

for some reason I always assumed that RV’s were built the same way as mobile homes that people live in for years.

Several years ago we rented a Winnebago and it was built like a tank, I hadn’t thought that it would be any different than an RV or mobile home…. This place is like a school, I learn something new every day 👍🏻

[Cetacean]

33 minutes ago, Joan of Argh said:

for some reason I always assumed that RV’s were built the same way as mobile homes that people live in for years.

A number of items fall into the "RV" category including trailers, fifth wheels, pup up campers and motorhomes.  The ones meant to be towed are generally built using lighter weight materials to lessen the stress on a towing vehicle.  Motorhomes (like the Winne) are more substantial and are generally built with better materials since they are built over a heavy duty mode of locomotion.

[SunnyBeBe]

All of this is quite interesting as my nephew bought an RV to live in with his family, until his house was built.  He felt he could save on rent and at least be able to enjoy it later on to use at our nearby lake for weekend getaways.  (He bought a boat too! Oh well.) He has a free place to park it and just chips in on electric and water bills.  But, as it turns out…..it wasn’t that comfortable and he’s camping out on an air mattress at my parents house.  I’m going to borrow it one weekend and camp at the lake.  It’s one thing that I’ve never done before.  

Edited October 6, 2022 by SunnyBeBe

[Pickleinthemiddle]

22 hours ago, MaddyMaeboxerbabe said:

I agree they really aren’t designed for everyday wear and tear but to me it appears the past two years Janelle really has been traveling and not living any place really? Also with all her visiting places will she never take the trailer?  Thought that was her dream.    Seems odd to have it in for repairs the entire spring/summer only to pay again to store it this winter.   But their money decisions alway befuddle me!

Plus you have the added expense of buying another expensive vehicle to tow with.  I know a few people who have some of the larger 5th wheels and you really have to be alert to what the trailer is doing.  I don't see Janelle driving cross country with one.  I know a woman who bought one and kept it for about two years.  While she enjoyed it she said it was not what she really needed to much trouble to travel.  She set up during covid at a long term park.  Then sold it for a small driving one.

[YupItsMe]

What Janelle should get is a camper van. Self contained, easier to drive, park and set up than a motor home or towable RV. I imagine she wanted the larger one because they were living in it, not traveling, and Savannah could have more privacy. 

[Mahamid Frauded Me]

I am still really confused as to why Janelle made this impulsive decision to buy the 5th wheel, when it seemed like she had a really good opportunity to buy a home. I get that was her dream but was it practical? As soon as it was sold the value decreased by what 30%? She has to have someone haul it to/from plagueville. She would need a 1 ton truck to tow which is probably another 60K, she has to find storage which is nearly impossible (at the time of filming) she probably will never tow the 5th wheel anywhere to enjoy it, she has to pay for winterizing, storing, gas for generator and water delivery. IF she purchased the house, yes although more expensive and put some money into that to fix up (certainly not her) but she probably could have rented the studio apartment and sell in a few years and make a nice profit. I don't even know why I wasted that 10 minutes to type this, maybe to make sense of this highly financial stupidity this family has

[GeeGolly]

Other than Kody being a total asshole is seems all the Brown adults leave everyone scratching their heads and asking why. 

[SunnyBeBe]

What I don’t get is how they qualify on paper for mortgages or vehicle financing.  They’d need documented income and at least some reasonable credit.  

[Natalie68]

On 10/6/2022 at 11:45 AM, Pickleinthemiddle said:

Plus you have the added expense of buying another expensive vehicle to tow with.  I know a few people who have some of the larger 5th wheels and you really have to be alert to what the trailer is doing.  I don't see Janelle driving cross country with one.  I know a woman who bought one and kept it for about two years.  While she enjoyed it she said it was not what she really needed to much trouble to travel.  She set up during covid at a long term park.  Then sold it for a small driving one.

After watching the Long Long Trailer, I have no interest in towing a 5th wheel!

https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/long-long-trailer

[deirdra]

8 hours ago, Natalie68 said:

After watching the Long Long Trailer, I have no interest in towing a 5th wheel!

I recently watched that movie & thought the same. Interesting to see a drive I've made before it was swamped with people. And no, I have no interest in towing anything even half as long. I once nearly got nudged off the road by someone moving into my lane forgetting he was pulling a trailer.

[Irate Panda]

On 10/5/2022 at 4:59 PM, GeeGolly said:

Around here the folks I know who have RVs like Janelle's pretty much park them at a seasonal RV park year round and use them as a summer weekend/vacation home.

So Meri is paying for a rental she's never in. Janelle's paying for an RV she doesn't use. All of them are paying for land that is uninhabitable. 

And didn't Robyn and Kody just start up a financial adviser business? 🤔🙃

I often wonder if Janelle was trying to get on the property since they are paying who knows how much for it anyway, so she thought she have something she could travel with if needed and wouldn’t have to pay a trailer park lot. Honestly if she didn’t have Savannah, I could just see her putting up a pup tent on coyote pass or if she wanted to be fancy a yurt.

I didn’t think Kody and Goblyn’s new business was a financial adviser business I thought their “business” was being held or managed by a financial advising company.  I remember the management company was described as one for families with “high wealth” because I was like high wealth…are they joking…but that was before I knew Kody made 2 billion dollars per second instead of “babysitting” his kids.

I really am curious as to how much Janelle is raking in with Plexyuck because besides the RV, her other expenditures are probably canned cabbage from Dollar Tree and the 32 dollars she spent at Horse Hiney Flaming Fire Art Studio.  Part of me still wants Janelle to have cook the books and siphoned off money just so she can buy more cowboy boot lamps and Eminem CDs she can play on her 1992 Sony Walkman.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Irate Panda

[goofygirl]

9 hours ago, Natalie68 said:

After watching the Long Long Trailer, I have no interest in towing a 5th wheel!

https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/long-long-trailer

I loved that movie!! Sooo funny!

[Aspenglow]

I’m watching season 7 and Kody and Janelle are celebrating their 21st anniversary and he is talking about how he is “in love” with Janelle. As I recall, he said relatively recently that he loved Janelle but he was not “in love” with her now. Did she ever respond to this proclamation? Obviously, the only wife he is “in love” with is Sobyn. 

[LilyD]

51 minutes ago, Aspenglow said:

I’m watching season 7 and Kody and Janelle are celebrating their 21st anniversary and he is talking about how he is “in love” with Janelle. As I recall, he said relatively recently that he loved Janelle but he was not “in love” with her now. Did she ever respond to this proclamation? Obviously, the only wife he is “in love” with is Sobyn. 

I don’t think she ever responded to this, or maybe she did but it wasn’t broadcast?
That admission was so incredibly uncomfortable and it showed absolutely no respect towards Janelle. The same about the recent Kody-Christine conversations.

I’m all for juicy shows and love a good snark but if this show is building a new theme around Kody screaming and/or humiliating his wives, I can see myself jumping off this train wreck before it crashes (and believe me, I’d love to be there for that grand finale)

Sorry, I’m just starting to feel very uncomfortable with Kody’s verbal wife-bashing and the humiliating confessions he does. 

[GeeGolly]

3 minutes ago, LilyD said:

I don’t think she ever responded to this, or maybe she did but it wasn’t broadcast?
That admission was so incredibly uncomfortable and it showed absolutely no respect towards Janelle. The same about the recent Kody-Christine conversations.

I’m all for juicy shows and love a good snark but if this show is building a new theme around Kody screaming and/or humiliating his wives, I can see myself jumping off this train wreck before it crashes (and believe me, I’d love to be there for that grand finale)

Sorry, I’m just starting to feel very uncomfortable with Kody’s verbal wife-bashing and the humiliating confessions he does. 

Kody has been dissing Meri big time too, ever since the catfishing. I dropped the show shortly after that because of Kody.  I came back when I started seeing articles about Christine leaving.

Watching now makes be equally uncomfortable, but I put some responsibility on the wives. Kody is exposing to us who he is, who we all thought he was. The wives have known this for years. Women stay with crappy men for all kinds of reasons, but I don't see the Brown wives as trapped and staying for the scary dangerous reasons some women stay for.

I do think the crash of the show will be sooner, rather than later.

[Libby]

1 hour ago, GeeGolly said:

I do think the crash of the show will be sooner, rather than later.

It happened to Jon and Kate Plus 8. When word of their split got out, there was a huge increase in ratings. People tuned in to see what was going on.

Shortly thereafter, the ratings tanked and the new show, Kate Plus 8  was canceled. It was sad to see all of those little kids with just their mom and people stopped watching.

I think that the same thing is going to happen with Sister Wives. They are in a big ratings boost because Christine left. Once that dies down, people will tune out. It will just be sad to watch Kody and Robyn treat Janelle and Meri bad.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Libby

[Aspenglow]

1 hour ago, LilyD said:

I don’t think she ever responded to this, or maybe she did but it wasn’t broadcast?
That admission was so incredibly uncomfortable and it showed absolutely no respect towards Janelle. The same about the recent Kody-Christine conversations.

I’m all for juicy shows and love a good snark but if this show is building a new theme around Kody screaming and/or humiliating his wives, I can see myself jumping off this train wreck before it crashes (and believe me, I’d love to be there for that grand finale)

Sorry, I’m just starting to feel very uncomfortable with Kody’s verbal wife-bashing and the humiliating confessions he does. 

I feel very much the same- I started watching again because Christine left finally. 

[LilyD]

6 hours ago, GeeGolly said:

Kody has been dissing Meri big time too, ever since the catfishing. I dropped the show shortly after that because of Kody.  I came back when I started seeing articles about Christine leaving

Oh absolutely, but Meri can be as nasty and brutal as Kody, so I feel less sorry for her(not that I approve of it). 
 

Edited October 8, 2022 by LilyD
spelling error corrected

[Art Of Noiz]

There are MoreToLove filler episodes that popped up in my DVR this morning. I was watching Janelle's Trailer Announcement to Bigdaddy, then the Sistagals. In her conversation with BigD, she seems kind of hesitant, but as he gets wound up, claiming PTSD, she has to reel him back to focus on her. That was interesting. 

In the talking head, imo, he was disparaging her decision. 

THEN!!! While she tries to explain the details to the others, he interrupts her, piggybacks her statements, or finishes her sentences For her. As if he did all the research, when WE know, he just posed on a shovel. God, I hate him. 

[65mickey]

Could Janelle have leased the fifth wheel and truck rather than buying them? For the life of me I can't see how anyone with 1/2 a brain would think that buying the camper and then buying a 1 ton truck and blowing a pile of money on this would be a wise financial move. I also believe that Janelle could have found a small house or an apartment maybe by movng outside of Flagstaff and the rent ould have been cheaper than the payments on the camper and the truck.

[oliviabenson]

Renting had to have been cheaper than the camper. I don’t get why she thought it was a good idea!

[deirdra]

During COVID it was hard to find RVs to lease or buy.  She would have been better off getting a small apartment for herself & Savanah and gone tent camping on the property a few times in the summer, trying out different spots.

[Absolom]

I will say RV salespeople talk a good line.  My neighbor and his wife wanted a camper and talked to me.  We used to rent an RV a couple of times a year.  I advised them to rent to make sure they liked it, maintenance, insurance, and tags were someone else's problem, and consider it on a per trip price.  The salesman got them all turned around and convinced them it was cheaper to buy a new one than rent a used one.  They bit and brought it home.  The one thing they paid attention to me on was to do a trial weekend at a campground near our houses.  They used it for that and one trip. She hated it.  It then sat in their driveway nearly 3 years before they could unload it for less than they owed on it.  The salesforce saw Janelle coming.  She was likely sold a complete fairy tale and didn't sit back and analyze it.  I expect she'll be in the same or worse financial situation with it as my neighbors.

Edited October 9, 2022 by Absolom

[Libby]

RVing is something that some people like and some people don't. Those that like it, love it.

An RV is like any other vehicle. You have to get the feel for it. My husband and I have had a 37 foot mobile home for 8 years. In the campgrounds you can always tell the new owners from the people that have been into it for a while. The new people need help to get into their lots. The veterans can back a 45 foot fifth wheeler into the smallest lot like it's nothing.

The first few trips are very stressful, until people get acclimated. After a few trips, it feels no different than driving a car. I personally love vacationing in an RV.

I do agree that people should try renting a few times before they buy. Just to make sure they like the whole environment, culture, and type of vacation. As far as driving it, setting it up, and maintaining it goes, anyone will become a pro with practice.

If Janelle likes it and keeps with it, she will be fine.

Edited October 10, 2022 by Libby

[SunnyBeBe]

Janelle says she’s been saving her pennies.  I’m impressed.  That’s a smart thing.  It’s just odd that it seems like she she’s flying around the country, vacationing, eating out, ……….how do you save your money and live like that?