They suck you in. Some are funny. Some are heart warming. Some don’t make sense. More and more are AI-generated. And some are down right mind boggling.
If you scroll thru Facebook you eventually come across Reels. As you glance at each one, you get a feel for which ones you want to look at.
Not being a pet owner, I’m not interested in your pet that can wink or smile or snatch food from your counter. However, I am interested in the pets that destroy furniture, shoes, woodwork, etc. They serve as a reminder to me to NOT get a pet. If you’re a pet lover, don’t condemn me for that comment. There are people who know they don’t want children. I’m a person who doesn’t want a pet.
And then there are the Reels that prompted me to write this blog. They are short videos, and ninety-nine percent of the time created by newlyweds and young mothers.
These women act as if they invented cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing. I’m here to tell you they didn’t.
Let’s begin with the ones that have 7+ children and they want to inform the public how to pack school lunches every day. First, they come into the kitchen wearing their yoga leggings, hair and makeup perfectly done. And it’s 530am. 🙄
Next they bring out 7+ identical, new wave, hip-and-trendy, multi-compartment lunch boxes. They proceed to fill various compartments with pre-packaged, full-of-preservatives, snacks. Another compartment might have some fruit, then a home made sandwich made with white bread that has no nutritional value. Then let’s add to one of the compartments some M&M’s that have coatings made with artificial dyes. The icing on the cake will be an insulated drinking cup filled with Gatorade. Then it’s click, click, click as she closes each lunchbox as the perfectly coiffed kids come in the kitchen smiling at 6am, only to sit down to either a box of cereal or a recently microwaved frozen breakfast sandwich…while mom is sipping her homemade espresso.
Then I have to spend the rest of the day with my eyes stuck in an upright position from rolling them too many times while watching this Reel.
And if you thought I was going to stop right there, you were wrong. Let’s keep going.
Let’s talk about the Reels entitled Weekly Reset.
The camera is showing various rooms in a house that are so trashed that the average person might consider simply moving.
The ladies in the ‘reset’ videos are not always as perfectly coiffed and wearing yoga leggings as the lunch mothers. These women usually look like they just crawled out of bed and are wearing clothes they dug out of the hamper.
To save us viewers from dying of sheer boredom, they speed up the reel before posting it, giving us the illusion that this weekly ‘reset’ was done in three or four minutes.
The condition of these houses, after accumulating a week’s worth of dishes, clothes, toys, mail, garbage, etc., has me rolling over in my grave and I’m not even dead yet.
On my worst day, during my worst moments, married to the worst man on the planet, and crabby children, my house never, ever looked like what I see in these Reels. Yes, I worked full time. No, I didn’t have a nanny or a housekeeper. Yes, made-from-scratch homemade meals were on the table every night. Yes I coached Little League. Yes, I ironed my husband’s and children’s clothes. I could go on and on but I think you got the picture.
The point I’m trying to make is why is it necessary for these women to post these videos like they invented the concept of packing school lunches, and that they know how to clean a messy house? It’s like reinventing the wheel.
It’s not necessary and all they’re doing is showing the world, thru social media, their shortcomings. I would be embarrassed for people to see that I live in a pig sty.
Like salaries, religion, and politics, these things should be kept private.
Ok…I’m off my soapbox.
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