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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 7:47 pm
I still got the feeling that the mom ruled the roost. The kids seemed floored when dad participated or said anything with tatoo mom. And the dad was right when he repeatedly said to the mom that they would talk about the alcohol later. She was totally directing her comments at the kids versus him and she should have waited for some privacy. As well I thought she was a real "pita" when she came home and everyone had made such an effort to make her dinner etc and she didn't even acknowledge it. Sorry but that mom appeared to be the alpha person in that household, the dad may have been thrilled to one up her and get the pool/boat, cause finally someone listened to him. Alyce kept saying we don't want that, we don't need that. I think she was the only one who didn't want or need them.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 2:06 am
I hope he gets a nice boat. $20,000 isn't that much for a boat but I guess it depends on what kind. I don't remember where they lived. How could she not want a boat? I'd be the one putting an ad in the lonely hearts column saying must have boat, please send pics for the boat.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Saturday, December 16, 2006 - 5:39 pm
Did anyone catch this epi last night? While the previews showed that Florida Mom's marriage is obviously going to be on the rocks next week, I think Baltimore Dad needs counseling or his marriage could end up on the skids too.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, December 16, 2006 - 6:17 pm
I saw it, Lexie-girl. I am looking for Buffalo dad (I think you meant Buffalo, not Baltimore, they did go to breakfast at Niagara Falls) to have an epiphany and start loving on his kids. I have not watched this show in forever and forgot it is a two-week episode, which is probably why I quit watching it in the first place. I sent myself a reminder to watch it next week.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Saturday, December 16, 2006 - 6:54 pm
Yeah... Buffalo. He better have an epiphany soon.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Friday, December 22, 2006 - 6:20 pm
Bumping... second part is tonight.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, December 22, 2006 - 7:56 pm

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Suz
Member
10-13-2005
| Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 12:45 am
I thought is was a good one tonight.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 8:56 am
Well, Buffalo dad had his epiphany. What I liked about this one was that even though they were from two different lifestyles, it didn't play at all into the show. Hopefully, Henrietta and Marco can work things out. BTW, what was Henrietta thinking about having Buffalo family give $3,500 to the mayor?
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Suz
Member
10-13-2005
| Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 11:12 am
I was so tired last night, I typed is instead of it.... I didn't understand why Henrietta would have them give money to the mayor. She could have given it to the kids for college or any number of things useful to the family. I wonder if they have to use the money just as they were told.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 5:57 pm
I really didn't get her donation the the MAYOR, or church but that is better than the mayor.. maybe there was some reason not stated that she'd talked to the husband about, some fund to help their neighborhood? And even the detailed directions on redoing their home, though at least that wouldn't hurt the place. Now as for the spa or the trip to Italy, well maybe mom will calm down and instead of saying "we don't DO Italy" be like Mary and David and end up saying wow.. maybe we CAN do Italy. Or go to the spa with her daughter, who was looking sad. But in general, that money distribution was sucky and didn't seem to represent the woman who wrote it up, the woman who worked her butt off to help the kids and dad.. I wonder, too.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 7:07 pm
I didn't see the first ep so don't have that background to refer to. I don't think they should be allowed to designate any money for religious or any other kind of donations. The family will take care of that on their own and in their own way. I don't understand why she left out the boys. Does anyone know anything? She seemed to be very concerned about the boy/father relationship. This indicated some kind of concern for them but why would she leave them out and give the girl a spa day with her mom and $400 for Victoria Secrets? How old was that girl?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 8:46 pm
It wasn't so much the stuff for the girl, though that was odd, but leaving out the boys and the money for the mayor? And the whole thing was off.. I could have seen it with some of the wives on this show but she seemed to have connected with them so well..
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 9:38 pm
Henrietta's distribution of the money may have been one of the more bizarre distributions I've seen on this show, and I've seen some doozies. The husband was obviously pleased with the $10,000 for bills. I'm wondering if he said they wanted to renovate the house and Henrietta took it too far by saying what type and color of flooring (and paint color) she wanted in the house?
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 11:38 pm
On another forum Henrietta said that she did leave money for the boys, but FOX edited that out, and she gave money to the church to help the family get a tax deduction because they'd have to pay taxes on the $50K. She said that they had an Art Deco or something house and with the changes to hardwood floors they could double its worth. I don't remember what she said about the donation to the Mayor--that was sort of weird.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 11:45 pm
I'm in Buffalo and trust me, Mayor Brown does NOT need donations. That was the strangest thing!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 12:19 am
Makes me wonder just how many of them are "edited"...
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 6:47 am
Who wouldn't like $15,000 to $20,000 to renovate their house? I think what set Buffalo mom off was Henrietta picking the colors (white paint, white ceramic tile with black grout for the bathroom, etc.) I do not disagree with her at all for giving money for renovations, I just didn't think it was her place to pick out the colors. But, I will never understand $3,500 to Mayor Brown. I actually liked both of these families and was pleased with how everything turned out.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 7:01 am
Fox edited the letter the woman wrote to the mom of the boys taking out money for the boys? I dunno. Since these were handwritten letters from one woman to the other, I don't see how Fox could edit it out.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 8:47 am
Well, I just came off the Trading Spouses board (where both Marla and Henrietta posted) and it appears that Henrietta left Marla's boys $900 to go to rap concerts.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 1:32 pm
For what??? Boy, they are going to need that $900 for travel because I've been in Buffalo 11 years and I've heard of exactly 2 rap concerts here. LOL
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 2:44 pm
I'm sure they could find something in the state of NY though.
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Cindy
Member
09-20-2005
| Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 3:21 pm
I was wondering if one of the boys had political aspirations or supported this mayor and the rest of the family have him a hard time about it. That's all I could think of. Maybe it was her voice on behalf of this child??
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 4:10 pm
I would be mad if someone left my son $900 to attend rap concerts too. But on the show she was ranting because the other mom hadn't left her boys anything. Why the rant? How old was her daughter?
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 4:30 pm
Chili, from what I gathered from reading Marla's posts on the TS site, I think she expected Henrietta to leave more to the boys' college funds than a mere $900 to attend rap concerts. Also, Marco told Marla he wanted to attend culinary school in New York, which is why Marla put in the letter he was to attend culinary school in Miami to keep him close to the family. On the other hand, Henrietta posted that the reason she left so much money for renovations was so the family could increase the value of the house by $40,000 to $50,000 and sell it to upgrade. Unfortunately, as someone pointed out, if the house is overly-renovated, even if the value of the property itself increases, the property value of the area may not warrant it and then you have to wait until the area "catches up" in value before you can get what you want for the house. (The exact same thing happened to the previous owner of the house next door to me -- she made so many renovations and put an addition on to her house -- she tried to sell her house for double what I paid for mine. Eventually she gave up after the house was on the market for almost two years (and this is an area where houses don't stay on the market for more than a week) and came way down on the price to the point where the new homeowners paid less per SQ that I paid for my house, and their house is almost twice the size of my house.
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