Is this your rags to riches fanfic? Horatio Alger porno? Keep going, make sure to add some more bullshit so we can finish jerking off with imaginary bootstraps.

So much this. You should see what gets donated to food banks and thrift shops. I tell people if you wouldn't eat it or wear it, do NOT fucking donate it. Charity isn't taking out your trash.

And the distance driving might be a mile but you might have to take an odd walking path since a lot of places don't have sidewalks or only on one side, etc.

What? It takes me like 20-25 plus waiting at lights for traffic.

There are a lot of arbitrary welfare rules. For some seasonal positions, you can get unemployment. In PA, you can’t get unemployment if you worked in a school (being a bus driver, cook, sub like I am.) I couldn’t get anyone ANYONE to hire me for summer work because I wasn’t a teen and they said well of course you will…

The way the bus system was laid out, it would be either a double transfer or a zone transfer, so I’d spend roughly $10 just on using the bus to get that grocery store. Plus you feel extra guilty always asking people you know for rides to work, rides to stores, etc. and it is demoralizing and embarrassing. I’d rather…

Your story doesn’t sound true because you mention you would work at SA but then go to Goodwill for the next outfit? This is yet another example of myth perpetuation about thrift store clothing.

This is an ok option if, 1) the thrift shop is close to you (for me $5 bus for others more if they needed to transfer) and 2) anything was even in your size and somewhat current. This is especially problematic for women where styles very obviously change. A red 80s pantsuit two sizes too big on a 25 year looks like a…

Agreed. $15/hr is a concession. Especially when true value is somewhere above $20/hr now.

If people want to bitch about someone getting ice cream with SNAP, they can go fuck themselves. Ice cream might be the literally ONLY solace or god forbid they celebrate their birthday or in my case with no AC, it was a heat relief.

The 7/11 would run deals that you could get an XL pizza with pepperoni, a 2 liter of soda AND bag of chips for $5. That is a goddamn deal because it could feed me for days and I didn’t have to spend bus money (which alone is $5) to go get it.

Yeah the “prep space” was also the space where the microwave goes and where I could squeeze in to eat. This fucking troll is so obnoxious but you know there are people in real life who think this shit.

I bet his wife lives in Canada and works a bazillion hours just to be away from his insufferable entitled ass too.

I work in numerous school districts now (still making shit wages, but better than retail) and even rich school districts don’t have kitchens in them anymore for home ec. Poor schools? Forget about it. They can’t afford toilet paper all year, you think they can afford ingredients for kids to learn how to cook? Fuck…

Yeah when I was poor, the closest food place to me was a fucking 7/11. Lemme go check their aisles and see where the big bags of maseca are at. Are they next to the trucker alert pills or the utz pretzel bags?

Do you realize the tiny ass freezers and outdated fridges poor people have? My fridge is a Galaxy brand fridge and most poor people I know all have fridges from some very long gone company or store brand low quality fridge. Also your fucking statement implies that every thrift shop just sells working bread makers. Who…

You haven’t factored in transit time at all. Vast majority of poor people get to work by public transit. If I clocked in more than 2 minutes late at TJ Maxx, I got docked. If that happens more than 11 times in a year, I would be automatically fired (I needed to save those times during winter when snow was bad and…

Clearly, they’ve never had to make a decision about utilities. At my poorest, my electric was turned off (they can do that and once I had enough to be on the payment plan which cost a fee, I could get them turned back on) and sure I had a fridge and electric stove, but couldn’t use any of it. This is the reality more…

What I learned from this post: my fingernails are nicer than Taylor Swift’s.

I mean, if they are going to execute people, just do it literal execution style with a gun to the head. Oh that image is far too brutal? Well even with a needle, that's what it is and people need to stop lying to themselves. It's fucked up, shameful, and terrifying you would give any state government that authority.…