Both awesome ideas! I’ve been thinking of doing birthday cake kits with box mix, icing, oil, and candles and they would just need eggs. Expanding that to lentil meal kits would be perfect. I can imagine that someone getting off of a long shift could just grab it and make a nice dinner without much thought.
I think I could make little packages of nuts. I’d need to figure out a way to seal them to prevent tampering.
I think you hit the nail on the head. To offer an anecdote, a locally beloved small business owner was recently diagnosed with cancer and was hospitalized. I asked one of his male employees if they’re passing around a hat to help cover his bills, or at least signing a card. The guy laughed and said “That’s a question for one of the girls. Men don’t do that kind of shit.”
It made me so sad. This guy was fighting for his life, and one of the men he’s closest with acted like he didn’t give a shit.
Awesome ideas! Adding all of those to the list.
Love that idea
Good idea!
Great idea, I’ll toss those on the list!
I run it. :) It’s anonymous by design but I watch it from my window to see who’s coming and going. I did put feelers out on the FB group and the most-requested item was canned meat, so I make sure to stock chicken / tuna / salmon / spam. I’m sure a lot of people don’t want to publicly admit to using the pantry, though.
Maybe I could put a clipboard inside where people can write down their requests?
The vast majority are people living in low-income housing or halfway houses after rehab. There’s only one unhoused individual that I know of who uses it.
A lot of single parents and young adults, some elderly folks.
I stocked lentils once and they sat for weeks. :( Nuts would be great but are pricey.
You could shove a 747 up my ass if it would solve world hunger. I’ll take one for the team.
Soldiers are fighting the country?
Aha that’s the missing piece of the puzzle. Thanks!
Aha, the flip-flopping is exactly what I missed and why I was confused. Thanks for the explanation.
I wasn’t referring to the article, I was referring to the specific reply that we’re chatting about
I think I misread “increase” as “decrease” because the conversion for the past few weeks has been on how Republicans want to get rid of H1B workers. Now they’ve totally 180’d?
Where in the post was Tesla mentioned? I’m talking specifically about the hypothetical situation outlined in the post.
Am I misreading something?
I know all of that, but in the specific situation above wouldn’t the laid-off worker feel happy that the company who wronged them is now suffering?
I don’t follow. Wouldn’t that person be happy that Trump is trying to deport the person you were replaced by in this situation?
Agreed, my first home was 800 Sqft and was more room than my partner and I needed. Now I’m living alone in a home twice that size because I couldn’t find anything smaller in the city.
I wish our taxes went to funding public services instead of wars so that we didn’t have to rely on crowdfunding and PR campaigns to drag ourselves out of disaster