https://old.reddit.com/r/poor/comments/1b7hfr7/why_do_people_here/
Why do people here .. ?
You show people a way they can save a lot of money eating out (apps, save 50% or more)
So they lecture you that instead of eating out you should spend hours shopping and making everything from scratch like you're some kind of a farm family Like, some of us don't like to eat out or do it for convenience?
Or, why do people eat out when poor people can't afford it? How about this: you might be too poor but some of us like to if that's okay with you!!
They do that to steal your data! Like, using credit cards or loyalty retail cards or when they have your email or phone number, They don't also get your data?
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I grew up in a city with two working parents and had home cooked food all the time. No one in my family has been anything near a farmer since the 1800s.
Since I moved out to the country and don't have slopdash I make all the stuff I like from scratch now, learned some cool shit while boozing in the kitchen when work thinks I'm WFH
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We're not asking you to churn your own butter, but maybe buy a pound of ground beef and a box of Hamburger Helper.
What if I'm living out of my car?
Hotplate and a skillet is $20, new, at Walmart.
You have access to outlets somewhere, even if you're stealing it from a publicly accessible outlet.
Nobody is going to hassle you for trying to safely cook a hot meal outdoors, despite what Reddit says.
If a cop confronts you, the pro g*mer tip is to calmly tell them "I'm homeless, I'm cooking a meal, it's a flameless hot plate." Don't traumadump on the cop about I'M HOMELESS I CAN'T EVEN COOK A DARN MEAL IN PEACE JUST LEAVE ME ALONE
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How do you cook without a faucet? Genuine question.
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Just use jugs of water, like buy a gallon from Walmart. That's what we did in the Boy Scouts.
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You can get water for free almost anywhere.
Otherwise, buy a gallon for $1
If you're really really struggling, steal it from Walmart. Refill it literally anywhere. Again, nobody is going to call the cops over somebody taking a single gallon of water.
Back when I worked retail, if somebody came in with an empty jug and asked "can i get some water please", I'd fill it up for them, no question.
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But like washing hands, plates, pans?
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Buddy you might have to make do a bit. Dish soap and a sponge. Gallon bottle water. Rinse outside
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Darn I'm glad I'm not poor
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The reason my family eats well is because I enjoy a beer or two while cooking
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This is the most depressingly suburban comment, keep yourself safe
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I live in an urban environment sweetie, I can afford the city but not hobbies
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As if anyone outside a city isnt hitting the homemade beer/wine/mead heavily while cooking, I know I do
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Of course they do, I'm more referring to the whole “tee-hee my wife doesn't know I'm having a beer while I make the kids Mac and cheese xD”
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They act like cooking from scratch includes killing the chicken and growing the rice yourself lol
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Their excuses subsist off of treating everything as its most extreme case
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It has literally never been easier to make homecooked meals that taste good
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Mao may have been right when he rounded up the city dwellers and forced them to farm dirt in the countryside
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