A Pet Peeve
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I participate to varying degrees on other message boards as the muse strikes me. One of the boards is a rural family/homesteading type board and the main honcho on the board is a lady in her fifties with a passel of kids and grandkids. One of her pinned threads is a frugality thread for every month.
She has many good frugal ideas, but one thing she routinely brags about absolutely chaps my ass.
I think food banks - church, private and public, but especially public - should provide their services to people that need food. This woman has food. While she may be a homemaker, her husband is skilled labor and makes decent living working union jobs.
How can you brag about having freezer room for multiple spiral hams at 99 cents a pound (saving money on meals by using for meals, lunchmeat and soup bones) and then go on to talk about all the fruits and veggies you got for free down at the food bank.
I've seen this kind of crap from both sides of the counter, from working as a volunteer in the past. Able-bodied people pull up in better vehicles than what the average person is driving and grab their boxes of free food, grumbling about the contents the whole time. Or, you have volunteers that work only to haul off the excess. In the meantime, people that could really use what you have to offer, must be content with a certain-size box, since you have to make sure what is available is parceled out evenly.
The two types of people that need the food tend to be A) families where one or more normal breadwinners cannot work, be it the economic times or due to illness, or B) Disabled or older people on fixed incomes that are unable to work, especially in times of inflation or if their income is grossly inadequate to meet their needs, yet too much for much government assistance
I'd like to see people that need the food have their needs met as much as possible, while winnowing out the people that should be supporting themselves.
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Yeah, but don't portray yourself as a homesteader. Homesteaders are very high on self-reliance, living off of and generating at least part of their income from the land.
Gaming the Food Bank is a pretty lousy definition of self-reliance and frugality.
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Yeah, but don't portray yourself as a homesteader. Homesteaders are very high on self-reliance, living off of and generating at least part of their income from the land.
Gaming the Food Bank is a pretty lousy definition of self-reliance and frugality.
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No. She's got a cadre of mostly older gals that think she's the bee's knees. And she really doesn't have horns growing out of her head. A lot of her posts are family related or what's going on down on the rural route.
I think she's just got that Democrat "Gimmee" mindset in this instance.
