The Glade 4.0

Can I frame this? This almost never happens on The Glade.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Psh, I agree with you a lot.

You've got just the wall to place it, too!

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I was referring more to the agreeing with an assumption part, but yeah, I agree with you a lot too.




Indeed!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I probably often spend $50/week on my lunch.

Make a sandwich.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I eat almost exclusively with food from a small pizza shop and the Indian place next door... I spend a lot of money on food. But it tastes very very good, and I'm not exactly broke.

In my house we spend less than $20/person/week, and we eat mostly organic vegetables and grass fed free range beef and chicken, but that's because I have bothered to do the work and purchase a share of a communal farm+ labor and buy all my protowns from semi-local ranches who butcher their own meat and sell at a huge discont in bulk.

I spend money only on business lunches with clients, otherwise I eat packaged leftovers. The money I save adds up.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I'd save more if I cooked more often, but the last few months have been work and then to library/starbucks for studying and home get home at 8pm. Thank god I can go to the gym during lunch... The end result is I rarely cook myself. Eating out is expensive and usually less healthy. Doesn't help that I've become addicted to the smoothies thay have at the gym. Om nom nom.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I usually pack a lunch since I end up in the boonies and nowhere near any convenience foods. Plus I'm a bit strict on diet.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

It is a higher per person cost to feed one person as opposed to multiple people. Economy of scale being what it is.

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One of the secret costs of being poor is that you can't afford to save like that because it requires an all-at-once outlay for the bulk purchase and the freezer to store it in. And a lot of truly poor folks wouldn't have space for the freezer even if it were given to them. Most probably COULD manage the workshare, if they had transportation.

However, if we're talking about food stamps it's usually possible, as that's often given out in month increments, so you could buy up front for a month's worth.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

The true cost savings on meat happen when you buy a side of beef... 350ish pounds at around $3 a pound yielding somewhere around 225 pounds of usable meat. People on food stamps can't spend $1000 all at once even if it's more than a years worth of meat.

You can't really buy in true bulk on food stamps, there's never enough money to get both the bulk items AND the daily needs. If you can manage a one-time large cash infusion to start the ball rollling, sure. Lets pretend the budget is $400 a month, since it's a nice round number, and lets play with a year, $4800. If given a choice between $400 a month every month and $600 in January, April, July, and October, but $300 in the other months you'll do MUCH better choosing the split, even though it's the same total amount at the end of the year because the occasional large sum allows bulk purchasing without skipping daily needs.

Yes, they can. They need to be resourceful and consolidate their money and effots with others in their communities. I didn't always have money, but I've always had the drive to better myself and save what little money I have had. The larger issue is that people are willing to help them invent hurdles(read excuses) to savings, when the real reason they don't attempt to save or better themselves is because it isn't their money in the first place, and since they have no skin in the game it's simply easier for them to demand more house money.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

That's a good point... resource pooling helps a LOT, IF you can find people to do it with. Which is where food co-ops and CSAs come in, if such things exist in your area.

The biggest challenge to those kinds of solutions is insurance against failure, which entails an added level of cost and effort, which is rarely a high priority in those who find themselves in the positions being discussed.