My food pantry experience...

I don't go to a food pantry but I doubt if I'd care one way or the other. I would only be there for one person...me. When I went to apply for food stamps I had on very nice clothes, nice boots, and I was driving my daughters brand new car. I don't own a car....but I do buy my clothes at the thrift store and can get some pretty pricey items for not much money. And I used to cut my own hair all the time and many times people asked me where I got it done. So, I think maybe you're judging unfairly because you really don't know these people or where they come from. I try not to let things like that bother me....too many more important issues to bothered by.

I do hope they check up on those who get in line. If I were in a food line, I would try to look as nice as I could. I mean even if I were poor,I would not come looking like a dog's breakfast, because that is who I am. However I have no idea whether those people who looked rich were not really rich but were just relegated to their cars and their nice clothes. If they were fabulously wealthy, they should not be there and if they had just lost their businesses, they could have sold their cars and their fancy clothes, did their own hair instead and then they would not have gone to that food pantry. If however, some of them was getting food to take to poor families, well that would be different. And would that not be that they would take some of those poor families along in the car with them?

That kind of rubs salt in the wounds doesn't it! I don't know how they have the audacity to join the queue to be honest, and you'd think they'd have a bit of savvy and dress accordingly, it's so damn blatant and in your face.

i so know what you mean. i have been on the giving end and the receiving end of a food pantry so i have seen it from both sides. i remember when i worked at a place where we gave out food hampers, gifts, clothes, etc to the poor and most of them were better dressed than me. like you said, there were people there in furs and with diamonds on there fingers. same with when hubby was out of work for a year and we had to have a little help. i said that i bet most of these people live better and have more money than we do! hubby was out of work so we had very little money and only work part time due to health issues.

I think that this is complete bull crap but the world is filled with people that just take advantage of the system and I get pretty sick of them being the ones living comfortably without doing any work. It's like people that make more money on unemployment then people that are working multiple jobs and trying as hard as possible to provide for themselves and their families. People's possessions and what they spend their money on should definitely be factored in to low income help such as the food pantry or unemployment. People that aren't even trying to change their situation should not be rewarded for doing nothing while other people are struggling but still working as hard as they possibly can. How much longer will this country let people live comfortably doing nothing while hard workers continually get screwed.

There should be a social worker there to sort out the rich and famous! I totally agree with you. I`m sure that those people should get food at low prices in order to save their wealth for a BMW. I don`t clearly know what a food pantry is, but I bet that the reason why those foods are lower prices are because someone else is paying for them.

I used to see that all the time in las vegas usa. I knew people who worked with me at a casino, made 15.00 per hour and then had to go to food banks for food. it was because the gambled all their money away. very sad. Glad you are not like that. Good luck there.