Posted on 12/09/2015 10:43:49 AM PST by blam
I could afford to spend more than that but really have no need to. Honestly, I even do spend on organic now and again, more expensive cases of organic granola/cereal bars, etc.
I just know how to shop and cook. Skills I learned out of necessity when we had far less money.
We eat pretty well and we eat real food. Maybe not like kings but pretty decently.
In my locale we producers call the first of the month Mothers Day or April Fools day. If you got kids your getting a check or if you managed to fool the government into thinking your crazy and can’t work your getting a check.
I made the mistake of going to walmart once on the first of the month and while in the check out line overheard one woman with four or five kids running about talking to another woman and she said well I am going to do what my momma did for me and help teach all my kids what to do and say to be able to draw a check so they can live and get by. I wanted to slap the living crap out of that stupid parasite!
If they are on EBT, Medicaid, then they can get *help* with their electric & gas ....through the state ...or somesuch program from the utilities company.
But it takes some effort. ‘Nuff said. :)
That's a good thought, but I rather like the idea that while I'm sleeping in bed, they're out and about and while I'm out and about, they're in bed...
I don't know how they do it, but my local Costco sells whole roasted fryers for $4.99. That's not much more than just the cost of the chicken.
When we buy one it supplies the protein for several meals for the two of us.
I hear ya .... but homemade is better.
If you are truly thrifty ....the carcass makes a good soup base....for more days of nutrition.
FWIW, I live in a town with many million dollar homes; in those homes are state-of-the-art kitchens. I know women who live in these Mc mansions who have never used their kitchen. They don’t even have pot & pans. They order out. Every night. This group can *afford* it [theoretically].... the EBT folks should be home cooking, and growing/harvesting their own food to put by. Like our ancestors did. Vegetable seeds can be bought with EBT cards [I saw a sign in a garden shop this past spring; and was pleasantly surprised]
I know some as well. But they aren't Freepers. Whatever your income, you have some responsibility to figure out how to live BELOW your means.
I know a young person who made the choice to have a child, then get married, and then get a full time job.
I describe it as "living your life backwards". It takes discipline to defer gratification and work hard. I was trying to find out what exceptional events might have prevented the poster from living the American dream.
I grew up in a dysfunctional household consisting of a high-school dropout, an alcoholic, and five children. Life seemed like an unending series of calamities brought on by lack of self-discipline. None of it was justified.
And you know, I don't think most people have a problem with that. I don't. Worked with a lady who had 4 year old twins, she confided that she gets help with her electric bill and said alot of people don't like that. Didn't bother me, she worked. She needed help, a hand up, not a hand out.
I bet most people here don't mind if someone is on social security and gets food stamps, it's the leeches that make people angry. Very different.
That's the "S" in SNAP, "Supplementary", Food stamps were never intended to pay for all of the recipient's food needs, not even their primary food needs.
Yes. My wife hates to buy chicken for more than a dollar a pound. When she sees a price below that she buys two or four. She'll serve roasted legs and thighs the first night. The rest she cuts up and freezes. She serves many dishes with chicken in it. She boils the bones and the harder to eat parts and makes chicken broth which she freezes. This is later used to make chicken soup.
I think I'm grateful that the store doesn't sell the beaks with the chicken.
*yawn*
Get back to me when the average person on EBT is not fat.
Fair point, touche’!
@ years max, then if you can’t feed yourself, tough shit. This hogger should be shot.
I'm a terrible father, in that I won't buy anything like that for him. I told him that he should be glad that his mother and I love him enough to talk and play with him, instead of letting him get raised by a videoscreen.
I don't think that he sees things my way, though. :-) The Upside is that he can hold a better conversation than most adults I know, and actually listens ... most of the time.
We'll need to get him one for school, eventually, I'm sure. But it will wait until then.
That’s disgusting.
Not surprising since so many of them sell food stamp cards at a discount and use the cash for booze, smokes and drugs.
There’s more of that then most people realize......the article is simply written as means of getting more revenues into the coffers for “other” purposes....probably political.
I’m not sure which I find more annoying: the fat, the tats, the piercings, or the orange hair ... all done on the taxpayers’ dime.
They also get cash back? Around here they buy a pack of gum with their cards and get $20 cash back to buy their cigs with.
Even the Pizza Hut takes EBT cards. What’s wrong with this picture?
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