I make $65,000 per year as a single dad and I went to a food handout place today.
Turns out there's a church like 2 blocks from me that gives away free food to any family once per week. And I was surprised at the quality and diversity of the items too. It was Trader Joe's and Whole Foods stuff that was like 2 days past expiration yet still TOTALLY edible; some of it was even frozen goods chicken/steak which wouldn't expire for a looooong time.
I never thought that a single guy making $65,000 per year would have to get assistance from a food kitchen, but since I'm paying almost $1,000 per month in child support, despite the fact that we have close to 50/50 custody, this is my reality for the next 8+ years.
We went to lunch today to celebrate my anniversary with my girlfriend and for me, my gf, and my 9 year old daughter ordering literally just sandwiches and tea and dessert it was over $100. We're going to the community pool tomorrow and it's gonna cost $15 each, when as a kid I remember going to the community pool for like $2-3 per day.
How is any of this freaking sustainable???
Celebrated the food bank haul by spending $100 at a sandwich shop. The commenters are suspicious. OP clears it up:
$4 each for a cup of tea, $14 each for sandwiches, $8 each for desserts, plus tax and tip. Quite frankly that's only a little more expensive than fast food anymore, and it was for an anniversary dinner. I literally painted their nails at home and pampered them myself with homemade face masks instead of us going to get mani/pedis as I used to do years ago when I made less money. I'm taking shortcuts and cost saving efforts wherever I can but anniversaries are kinda supposed to be a little special.
Oh well then.
Dude just spent $420 on a sub for his home theater
Sadly it looks like OP deleted that post. Or the commenter lied 
Reminds me of a friend that FaceTimed me to vent about still living paycheck to paycheck after a promotion to $100k. They cut the call short when their doordash delivery from red lobster arrived. Random Weekday, no special occasion.
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Amerisharts acting like they live the life of serfs of great depression farmers because they cant eat out at over priced hipster slop every day or have home theaters
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ITS NOT SUSTAINABLE!
Meanwhile Jose, an engineer, goes to his 12 hour factory shift via public transportation and eats the simple lunch his mom made him. He heads back to his house on the bus after work. He is 42 and lives with his parents. He hopes to save enough money to buy a used Nissan Tsuru without AC some day. He thinks things are pretty good, all in all.
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65k in a city with a kid is pretty poor and I'd rather see a productive member of society getting some food than McKinsey getting a 5 billion dollar contract to reorganize Army Bootcamp for gender sensitivity or for KBR to get 5 billion dollars to build decrepit bathrooms that electrocute service members.
All that shit is donated anyway, I've given bags of cans that I needed to clear out. I actually volunteered in one and they would get big butt shipments from businesses and we'd go through them to throw out the expired lunch meat and shit. If they don't give it away they gotta toss it.
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"I only eat at expensive hipster city consumer slop how am I supposed to live??" Just cook a 10$ steak for someone they will prob love it even if its not fancy certainly more then a mid overpriced sandwich
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$10 steak? Look at Mr. Moneybags over here.
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