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I received 400 in food stamps and ran through it all in one week.
Within the first week of the month. And somehow it feels like I didn't even buy anything. There's nothing in my fridge to eat. I'm literally trying to figure out what did I even buy. I won't get stamps again until next month. I don't really know how to cook so I got a lot of frozen pizzas and stuff and it's all gone already. I feel like such a fool and like I wasted 400 dollars for ONE freaking person. What is wrong with me do I just suck badly at grocery shopping and budgeting?
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Again, why can't we let fat poors starve to death?
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All taxpayers subsidize these people in every way. We pay for the stamps, the housing, the free money and phones, and then Obama took our 3-700/mo for platinum no out of pocket insurance and tripled it so we could cover all of these types of peoples healthcare costs from jamming 10 frozen pizzas a day into their fat asses
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Every time I finish a day of work I'm involuntarily reminded that about an hour and a half of it was completely devoted to keeping hamplanets on fried food and pies
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This is why I get paid cash.
Also the fact that it bumps my take home up to the level of my collegecel friends and makes them seethe
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POOR PERSON
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I might be poor but I'm an upper middle poor
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Suicide fuel
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That's some good writing
They should write a book sneeding about nigs
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I miss Penny
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Yeah I have family with zero work ethic and it's literally that. All government benefits so they can lay down and rot all day. Dreadful.
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It's hilarious how leftoids pretend this isn't the case, which is probably the most infuriating part of it all the denial of reality
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You'd think you'd at least have a good time when the government is paying your bills but they just consume goyslop media and food wise all day.
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Amazing isn't it, and there importing more of these people who will inevitably end up on gibs
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Then they go on antiwork and demand communism
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Can we subsidise cooking classes instead? It'll take an hour out of your day depending on the meal and you can meal plan to efficiencymaxx. I'm a studentcel and I'm living off spaghetti bolognese, sweet and sour pork, chicken meatballs with passata, etc. and I'm eating at 1/5 the price for better food compared to this living beach ball
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It would end the same way personal finance classes are taught in high school
Exactly the same as OP's post but with “They didn't teach me this in school
I was too busy watching YouTube in the back of the class 
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During middle school, there was a "Family Studies" class that taught you how to sew and cook. I would have enjoyed it more if it focused more on the cooking part since middle school me was almost always hungry
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yup the issue is that these people dont want to improve their lives, they want their lives to be better, but someone else needs to be the one to make that happen
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Sure, why not
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he Black
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Post BBC
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Blocking food stamps from being used on junk food is literal genocide
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Pretty sure some ginger lolbertarian just made a song about thing
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When you're paying with Panera gift cards, you know you're getting bargain bin bussy
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Bargain Bin Bussy is the name of my gay punk rock band.
Transform your Marseys!
www.pastebin.com/Jj9URfVi
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Ya what does their bottom friendly menu look like???
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He decided a 3d printer was a good investment on food stamps?
Just go to the library plenty have 3d printers these days and it's expensive buying all those plastic refills as it is
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The library gets mad when you print AR lowers and autosears
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Like a librarian knows what a speed link looks like. Right? Right?
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Librarians jobs are to prevent hobos from masturbating, the drag queens from abducting children and schizos from making illegal weapons, so yes, they unfortunately do.
Sometimes they tell people about books
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I bought this sticker for my laptop
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Fetch
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Or s*x dolls
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lol that seems so elaborate and weird. Get that bag, I guess
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DeteranceDispensed (by thirsty old gays)
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Literal real life
That is amazing.
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Man's gotta eat
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honestly based
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Suure
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Man's been sucking off ancient hags in the Panera parking lot and telling his friends it's a based scam
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Holy shit why didn't I think of that when I was broke
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apparently this is fricking an ugly homo junkie who seems to be clinically r-slurred
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Neighbor they have directions on the side of rice and pasta bags and if you can post on reddit you can google how to cook ground beef with some tomato sauce and onions or bake a chicken
If I was poor I'd only eat Hobo packs
https://www.spendwithpennies.com/hobo-dinner-packs-hamburger-potato
Throw some meat and vegetables in tin foil and bake it for an hour
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if he's not trolling he's unironically r-slurred and needs a fricking caretaker
wtf do you mean you have internet access and don't know how to cook lmao
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I've bitched about it before but the amount of otherwise capable human beings who act like cooking is a mystical art available to the chosen few is honestly fricking infuriating. I was super tired yesterday so I seared a flank steak, made a quick sofrito, and put it all in the slow cooker for 8 hours. Delicious food for days and a literal moron could do it. Some people just have bizarre cases of learned helplessness.
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On the one hand, yes.
On the other hand, I'm all for keeping foids easy to impress
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Cooking takes some practice and you're going to mess up a few meal learning. So many people can't deal with being bad at something (or it's, I can't cook because I don't have a $250 pan).
It's why so many people today have no skills and don't really have anything to say that isn't just words they've heard a 'smart person' say.
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I think he might actually have fried his brain with drugs and should be made a ward of the state for his own good
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He's on the Internet you can Google recipe for like chicken and get a billion results.
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Under socialism such fools would be sent to rehabilitative gulags.
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what about under communism
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Under communism food is banned. Humans are genetically engineered to be plant people. You will be green. You will photosynthesize. And you will like it.
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he Black
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how many times are fricking you gonna post this
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I'm creating awareness
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The more I've dealt with idiots the more obvious it's become being poor is actually a choice.
What I've noticed is people don't know how to time their shopping.
I only buy meat when kroger has it as a loss lead.
Prime ribeye for 4 dollars a pound? I'm gonna buy a whole slab.
Hamburger is buy one get one free? I'll buy 20.
I buy whatever fruit is on loss lead as well, one week it'll be apples, the next pears, the next grapes.
You can eat for basically nothing like this.
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Love the strong taste of expired meat
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Without even reading your username I thought "this is some pizzashill shit"
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Frozen Pizzas are like 300 calories of food per dollar spent(fact checked). 300 x $400 = 120,000 calories in one week.
120,000 calories of pizza in one week - 14,000 calories burnt in one week/3,500 calories per pound = they ate 2 months of pizza in one week and gained 30 lbs.
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Poor people work harder than you do sweetie
, he was probably burning all those calories as a walmart greeter or some other labor intensive job.
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He's literally r-slurred so maybe he's a bag packer
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Not if they were maintaining!
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Well if he was an Olympic swimmer he'd need every one of those calories and then some!
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Guy was buying super premium 14 dollar pizzas and chips dude, probably a ton of soda.
A 12 packs is like 9 fricking dollars rn, it's obvious what he did.
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Even spending half his money on pizzas is over 10 pizzas in a week.
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Now reimagine this with a poor person being "rich" because he has 400 whole dollars for food. Now imagine he keeps buying the most expensive frozen pizza that's like 10 dollars a piece as a "treat" and imagine that the "and stuff" were the overpriced frozen appetizers for one that cost as much as they do at a restaurant.
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If you don't love me at my bulk, you don't deserve me at my cut
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he Black
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The words 'and stuff' are doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Most likely stuffing branded junk food and drinking 'sodies' all day.
Also high probability it was all bought from some local minimart where everything is overpriced.
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He probably did some shit like bought a ton of fancy granola bars but instead of buying a box of them he bought individual ones for like $4/ea.
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Or sold his EBT for cigarette/vape money lmao
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I think he probably walked in blitzed out of his mind of drugs and spent all his money in a haze
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he Black and he aint fat
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He got pizza and a wide variety of goyslop
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Who the frick is spending $20 for a frozen pizza? It'd literally be cheaper to get one from a restaurant
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That's completely ignoring that small towns are usually cheaper. Middle of nowhere Tennessee isn't fricking Hawaii.
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20 bucks is insane even to buy. Since I learned how to cook eating out is insane to me. You could make an everything pizza absolutely covered in topings for like 7 bucks if you budget right.
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Going out to a restaurant I don't mind, it's just a nice experience especially if it's something that's a pain in the arse to make yourself or if it uses equipment like say a wood fired pizza oven I don't have at home. Delivery is the one I don't get, you're spending basically restaurant money to sit at home. I used to feel ripped off every time someone would talk me into it
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Delivery is for when you're too lazy to cook and too lazy to go out. It should be an incredibly rare event due to the shame.
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Every time I go to a fast food place I'm the only person buying for themselves, everyone else is a delivery rider. Pretty soon these places will stop being open to the public.
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In a lot of cases they already are, at least around me. All of the fast food places close their lobbies at 5pm and are drive-thru only for the rest of the night.
Current hyperfixation:
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20 bucks isn't happening. Shit is more expensive on the coasts but still, you're looking at 13 max
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I wouldn't buy even the fanciest frozen pizza for 20 canuck bucks (15 real dollars)
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I just checked and for 22 Canadian pesos you can get a 14'' from Dominoes, wtf is this guy buying?
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the aldi take and bake pizzas are really good. they are “16 and around $7-$8 and they aren't frozen. i add some toppings and seasonings before popping it it the oven.
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You can make the gigacalzone for like $12 and serve 5 people the most expensive part is your meaty toppings and cheese
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Yeah, it's good restaurant pizza price, or extra large from slop chains.
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I got 12 pizzas for 2.99 each lol.
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