You can really tell who’s never experienced poverty and food insecurity when it comes to discussions around food costs and how unhealthy food is cheaper. Some fucker always comes in with the price of like… lettuce or… apples. And it’s like yeah bitch but can you work an 11 hour shift after eating some salad and an apple!?! Find me something cheaper, and more filling than the broke ass staples of boxed mac and cheese, hot dogs, noodles, bread, beans, and rice. I’ll wait.

just remaking this post completely bc jesus christ the last few weeks have been moserable and i need help. in the last few months there have been many cuts to social programs that i relied on as a disabled person now completely cut off and unable to qualify again despite no change except worsening financial strain on my situation, for many years i have also experienced a worsening chronic health issue that has severely impacted my life that i am currently getting treated for and will be getting an eventual surgery to mend/prevent further damage to my gi tract, around all that my lease is up in november and i absolutely cannot renew it at this complex for several reasons. we're on our 4th management company in under 2 years, they lie to and cheat us constantly, bill us for things we dont even get to see and/or know about, refuse basic repairs, and for the last 2 and a half weeks or so have kept me hostage in my apartment consecutively with back to back to back demands for entry, demanding someone be home to personally let them in at threat of holding anyone who did not comply in violation of our lease agreements. this complex has been siphoning every sent i have left and terrorizing me for 2 years, and come time to renew the lease, my rent will increase again beyond the point i will be able to pay it. i make less than federal minimum wage, $970 a month total and capped by the federal government, and currently run myself ragged doing chores and side jobs to make my $1120+ rent each month. when it goes up again, i have to leave.

(feverishly) angry as fuck old man