Parunts go hungry to feed their famblees May 28, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,702 |
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At least once a week during dinner, Cathy Smith and her husband, Robert, are confronted with the same choice: Don't let the kids have seconds or forgo a meal themselves. “I have growing children, and I want to make sure they have enough portions to nourish themselves,” says Smith, 40, a mother of five who works at an Atlanta-area school district as a recruiter. “It’s to the point that we have stopped buying cereal because milk is so expensive.”
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Starving parunts
Smith earns $67,000 a year. Her husband, who is pursuing a master’s degree and works part-time as an Uber driver, brings home about $20,000 to $30,000 a year
She says she "makes too much for assistance" but too little to get by.
“My kids want to meet friends and travel places, things that you would think someone with my income living in Georgia would not have a problem with,” Smith says. “All the prices are inflated, but my salary hasn’t gone up.”
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Seawright says she used to be able to fill a grocery cart for $200, but now it’s more than $300 for the same amount of food. She has stopped dining out with her children and her mother.
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Cambion
I would love to see their grocery list. Is it full of expensive convenience foods because the kids are all picky shits who won't eat this or that because of "sensory issues?" Are they buying generic and store brand instead of name brand? Do they cook at all? You'd be amazed what you can save by cooking your own food. I don't know if Atlanta has many farmers' markets, but that's also a fantastic place to get nice produce at a more affordable price if it's available.
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Obviously the biggest issue with this family's inability to ensure everyone is adequately fed - adults and brats alike - is their family size. Sooo, what, did these morons think that they could add more mouths to feed to their brood and spend the same exact amount of money as before? The whole thing about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure applies here. Why do they have five kids? Nobody needs five kids. I'm guessing they were probably trying for a certain gender (most likely a male) and kept going until they either got it or Moo ran out of eggs for DNA omelets.
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I don't feel sorry for them. They made poor, financially irresponsible choices and now they have to deal with the consequences of those actions. Did they not learn that children are expensive after having a couple of them? I really want to know what they were expecting.
So if they can't afford to feed everyone, how is Duh affording college? I'm sure Uber doesn't do tuition reimbursement. I'm with you, these people are most likely being stupid with their money and that's why the parents are forced to go without.
Re: Parunts go hungry to feed their famblees June 01, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,944 |
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What will his degree be in, something useful or typical stupid liberal-arts fluff? Survey says... something stupid, such as philosophy or English literature. Maybe even puppetry. One blogger, Captain Capitalism, had a field day discussing a guy who went six figures in debt for a master's in puppetry. Obviously employers are all clamoring for puppeteers. /sarc
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I blame the author for this one as none of these people are near starving. It is headline meant for clickbait so parunts can whine about how poor they are.
Re: Parunts go hungry to feed their famblees June 06, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,702 |
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There was also a mention of this same family eating out. Sorry, if you are whining about not being able to feed your kids, eating out should be out of the question. ETA: My DH grew up in a large family with limited means. I grew up in a small family with limited means. We didn't eat out regularly as kids because our parents couldn't afford it. Nobody died. I remember as a kid when my parents would take us to a pizza joint. It was a treat and we thought it was great. Is that such a bad lesson to teach your kids, to appreciate the little things? I think not.
Re: Parunts go hungry to feed their famblees June 07, 2022 | Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 129 |
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Compare your consumption as a kid to the consumption of a supposedly low income kid of today. Guess who has way more of everything? Guess who eats out way more often? Guess who expects a birthday party in the high four figures or higher? And guess who has enough toys to fill multiple rooms?
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