Anyone watching Wife Swap?

[Karel]

Originally posted by Tinks
Here's my other thought: How on earth do you clean a clean house 5 hours a day?!! She needs a hobby! Somebody introduce that woman to scrapbooking or gardening! I hope the cat isn't afraid of the vacuum!

I was thinking that someone should introduce that woman to volunteer work. Or maybe she could start a business organizing other people.

Sometimes people need a push to break out of the boxes they've built for themselves.

 

[LeftCoaster]

Originally posted by The LK 4

Both families were wacky, but I do agree that Caprice's family looks like it will come out ahead from this whole experience. I think if Caprice had been more tactful in telling Bambi that she needs to clean her house more often that possibly Bambi would not have freaked out like that. Ugh, that house was so gross!

I thought the same thing myself. Here's the million dollar question. How would you tell Bambi in a more tactful way that her house was so disgusting. The house was just in such bad condition that I can not think of a tactful way to say it.

 

[OhMari]

Maybe she should of said how happy Bambi's husband was when supper was on the table and used the husband angle. Maybe the producers told her to say that and for Bambi to tell her she hates her.

Everyone is out to blame Clarice, but her husband was a nut too. So however the obsessive disorder of cleaning started, who knows.

Her boys seemed perfectly normal, the young one just kept crackin up about everything.

 

[JessetheCowgirl]

I think Bambi would not have responded to ANY criticism. She just came off as so self-defensive.

I hope one of their neighbors reported them to Animal Control. There is no way it could be legal to have a kangaroo, prairie dog, and 23 other pets in one house.

YUCK!!!!

I think Bambi's husband would have been fine without the pets returning---he seemed to embrace some of the changes to me.

I wonder if the parents of some of those sleepover kids will still let their kids stay there??? I wouldn't!!!

 

[ginna74]

ya know she may need a hobby........


but bambi's house was soo nasty! Old POOP?????????????????????????? I eman she has kids! he if it were just nasty I would be "ok". My house isn't always the best. But where there is dried FECES (sp?) e to give social services a call! prob the only way she dodged that bullet is that a compulsive cleaner moved in!

 

[emmabelle]

In the show "Trading Spouses" the family currently on the show live in the city next to mine and the dad teaches Biology at my son's school. I have to try and meet him at parents night and get the real scoop on editing the show, it does seem that they make one mom a jerk and the other nice from the shows I've seen.

 

[ginna74]

I don't think one is mean and one is not. I think one house should be turned into social services lol. You may think that is going to far but once that littl girl starts playing with "mud" in the house and gets sick there will be some h@ll to pay.

 

[emmabelle]

Ginna,

Actually I've only seen Trading Spouses and not Wife Swap, but now you guys have peaked my interest, sorry I missed Caprice and Bambi.

 

[MB MinnieGirl]

Originally posted by Tinks
I hope the cat isn't afraid of the vacuum!

LOL!!

And on the other side, I don't think 5 hours a day of cleaning would have been ENOUGH to take care of Bambi's house - ICK!!

 

[totalia]

Odd that you find Bambi's to be the worst.

I find Caprice's to be much harder to live in. How could you live your entire life without noise? Or pets (granted not so many of them)? or worse? How can anyone feel that its ok that the eldest boy said he and his family NEVER talk and that there is no communication? Her children seemed absolutely starved for attention and very lonely. Caprice seemed more concerned with herself and how she felt than anyone else. She's a very cold kind of person.

I found it shocking that Caprice's husband had to practice his guitar with ear phones on and how liberating he found finally performing on stage and going to a fun restaurant to eat shows how oppressed he was by her.

And why was he sweeping the street?

While bambi's home needed changing, so did Caprice's. What she was putting her family through was much worse than a dirty home.

 

[ginna74]

Oh I understand that completely! but the feces thing is just way worse...... it isn't just messy it (depending on how much more feces) needs to condemed or at the least bit emptied and have those guys in white suits clean it lol! if their animals are outside pets you never know what kind of deases they have much less have them multiply in a nice warm house. Yes living with feces and having small children is much worse. It was dried feces too... not fresh ewwwwwww. Again this maybe a little harsh but I have know people (yes personally) that have had their kids taken away for "just" a messy house. It was a constant though and I don't think there was poop anywhere. I mean taken away and having to clean up their house and go through classes and such. this house on tv wasn't much better and there was poop. Gofigure!

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

I think that people on these 'reality' shows do things way over the top in order to be picked to be on the show.

BTW, I really do sweep the street. LOL We have a very small street frontage and it just looks nice. If I had something more important to do I would not though. People before clean.

SG/Linda