#we are low on foodstamps

[itscontinental]

Send us a scanner

You, we know you aren't using it anymore

It's collecting dust there

And you're dazzlingly wealthy

And you're gorgeous both inside and out

You have too much advantage to manage a scanner

Too lucky

It'll only print authentic cash

Miraculous cash that you don't need

And you feel nothing

What is a miracle to you

In your prosperity

What meaning is this

Spitting what you'll never need

Your hands are moderately tarnished

You feel guilt

You question if guilt is right for you

In your fortune

With your hands

Far from completely crimson

But stained the same

You have blood on them

You feel guilt for what you've done

You resent guilt; you aquaint a soiree crimson

You engage a soiree crimson

You see the absence of guilt

You recognize this as evil

You consider

You question if you envy his evilx

With certainty you would beat him to death

You think about it all night and you get drunk

You depart and wail into the night

The night is the woods that surround the soiree

You wail into the woods

Your scanner is a printer

They all are

It's spitting money

Your fist connects with the bark of the elk

Your bones are broken

You have bionic bones now

And a scanner

Send us your scanner

In the mail

We need it

We cannot promise that it will save your soul

But who's to say; let's find out

You are part machine

You died inside

You have a scanner spitting so much cash

You may come to life

If you try

Send us the scanner

We need a scanner

It will not spitn us money

We are poor

It wouldn't be funny

It has a sense of humor that you despise

It will laugh in silence ourn home

Satisfied with our insanity

It will bring you breakfast again

Things will return to how they were

Ourself, scanning and scanning

Moaning for the dead

Praying occasionally, begging for relief

Begging for a scanner

Do you pray for scanners?

Send us your scanner

Your oversized scanner

So we can scan our work

For Continental breakfast

For all we have

It willn't spit us that which you posess

But it will give us that which we need

It hurts you

It will be good to us

It is oversized too. Can scan more than standard

I don't know the metrics by heart, paper (standard)

You don't either

But it's huge, you needn't; you know.

Send us your scanner

Save your soul

Continental Breakfast is in need of a scanner

We are not kidding

We are in Pennsylvania

Give us a scanner

We can pay you

We can owe you

We fuck for money sometimes

It's on the table but not a guarantee

Only if we find you fetching

Although you have no soul

Perhaps you should give us ßmoney as well

We will revive you

Perhaps

If you give us a scanner

We need a scanner

Please

You,

Yes you

We're talking to you

You know it

You feel it

Send us a what

Meet us, love us, give us a what

A scanner

You guessed it

Smarty

A scanner

Big scanner

You

Big scanner

We love we

We need you

It want it to be big

But it doesn't have to be

Goodnight gorgeous

[arionaleilani]

genuinely so hard to fight that inner resentment towards people who don’t financially struggle. i mean billionares fucking suck i will openly hate the rich, but even just people who have never had to worry about having a car or paying bills or putting food in the fridge, you know? it’s not that those people upset me because everyone should be able to live like that, i don’t want those people to live harder lives, but i still feel so resentful sometimes because like, what the fuck did i do wrong to not have that? why does my family have to live years in campers because rent is too high? why do i have to sit here not knowing if i’m gonna be able to get to work on monday because my car broke down thursday and even the best case scenario will probably cost too much for me to afford?

like. i don’t want people to financially struggle. i want to not financially struggle, too. and i want people to understand that there is an aspect of their life that they will likely never struggle with to the degree in which my family and i have struggled.

[elementsofindulgence]

Hey everyone, sorry for reposting but I am still looking for commissions :>

→How can I help?

•Id really appreciate com intakes! But if you can't spare any money right now, id also appreciate you sharing and liking so maybe this post can get to someone who can spare a few dabloons!

→What are your prices?

•My com prices are at an all time low, ranging from only 5-10$! With my single sheets only costing 5$ and my reference sheets costing 10$.

→Why the Emergency Commissions?

• My, my fiance, my brother, and our three dogs all got evicted illegally without notice. We can't fight the case cause obviously we have no money to pursue it. I have a foodstamps card that's getting us by on food, but barely, as 275$ isn't enough for three people for a month. Foodstamps also doesn't cover gas or dog food, so we still need as much assistance as we can get. My fiance is the only one with a job, as me and my brother are both disabled and that income still isn't enough.

→Whats your goal?

•Going forward, I hope to save around 600$ for a cheap RV trailer. The housing market right now is shit, and Alaskan winter is approaching fast and we need more roofing over our heads to deal with the sub zero temps.

HERES SOME OF MY NEWEST ARTWORK

REFERENCE SHEET EXAMPLE: ONLY 10$

SINGLE SHEET EXAMPLE: ONLY 5$

→What can you do?

I can cover a variety of species and body types:

-Alicorns

-Earth Ponies

-Pegasus

-Unicorns

-Changelings

-Deer

-Hippogriffs

-Kirin

[michaels-reality]

sorry to bother but we don't have foodstamps this month and we're running a lil low on food in the house. If you could send over a dollar or two that'd be awesome, I just wanna buy a warm meal. Thank you 💖

p*ypal

Also my sketch comms are open

[fand0mfever]

Putting my thought on here.

As a retail worker, if I know you're stealing, as long as you aren't some rich asshole in my local store, I'm going to let it slide if it's something small and unnoticeable. I did the same thing when I bagged groceries. I do the same thing when I scan the groceries.

And yes, I have seen people steal, and not said anything, because those are the people with children and make just enough to avoid foodstamps but it also barely covers an apartment in the area. (Lowest apartment in the area 800 a month not including amenities. That's also the salary capped apartments, for the people on P-ebt and foodstamps.)

It is not hard to sympathize with others. As a retail worker, who works at a grocery store, a store that sells food and has 1 isle of cleaning products and sanitary items, I will let people steal if I know I won't get fired, because I also need to pay for things with my low salary.

And yes, I have seen people with thousands of dollars of free spending money try to steal too. And yes, I have seen people who ask for me to take items off their order so they can pay for it. And yes, I've had people leave for not having enough. All of those things are heartbreaking for me to see. Most of my coworkers sympathize with them, and if they're regulars, some of them will even cover the extra amount personally, even though we are not supposed to buy things on the clock. (And the store owner knows this, I've done it right in front of him. I have never been written up for doing this, because he knows the feeling. He has been poor before too, and he knows that I'm poor, but I will still spend the ~50 bucks of spending money I have a month if it means someone else gets to feed their family.)

[thehugwizard]

Can I have a hug

our foodstamps are so low we cant make them last a week anymore. Its just frustrating and no matter how hard i try to get a job im always rejected. The food pantry gave us barely anything today, mostly ranch packets and protein bars thats im allergic to (whey)

I just need a miracle

Oh man, I'm so sorry *gives you a big soft bear hug*

[zero-way-out]

I was just thinking about "end of the month" treats that were foods we'd basically only get to eat when it was the last few days of the month and the foodstamps hadn't come through yet.

My parents are health-nuts which meant when we had the money for good food it was all healthy and we'd only get baked goods at the end of the month when the only things we had left were flour, sugar, some oil, and some canned fruit if we were lucky.

That meant my favorite treats growing up were things like peach cobbler, canned-pineapple hand-pies, and brown-sugar cookies.

In hindsight this was so masterful of my parents. For a lot of my childhood i didnt even realize we were poor. Because i got healthy, well-spiced, delicious food at the beginning of the month. And even if our meals were just rice and canned vegetables at the end of the month it didn't matter to me all that much because i also got special treats i almost never got to eat otherwise at the end of the month.

It also helped that i went to school in a very low-income area so getting foodstamps and going to church food banks were a universal experience among my classmates.

[goblin-milque]

telling people i live in my car and they're like oh my god you don't seem homeless. oh no is there anything i can do? i tell them i need money and they're like yeah it's so hard to come by. they recommend low income housing. i tell them there's a 3 week waitlist for shelters and a 3 year waitlist for section 8. i get $23 a month for foodstamps. watch i'm about to go in the amazon bathroom to wash my face, baby wipe bath, change my undies, brush my teeth. "what are you doing this weekend?" oh i'm going to my mom's house, if we can save enough to fill the tank. she's gonna let us shower and do laundry. ask to bum a cig at work and when they say no i fish through the ashtray in front of them. they look disgusted but i'm the one fishing their tampons out of the pipe trap. my coworkers and i saving the almost empty toilet paper rolls because we're in the same boat. my car smells like yogurt and i can't find the source. they ask my if i'm able to stay safe and i say yes of course, because we don't park in rich neighborhoods and the homeowners can't get us, but i know they mean from other poor people. shit's wild. like it sucks a lot and we can't afford to do laundry but also our dog keeps us warm and i have a job so hopefull money will accumulate a little.

[theglitchywriterboi]

My older brother said that since food is so low & we my not even have foodstamps [we have to call tomorrow] his friend may start taking him hunting :/ [nothing against hunting for food btw, it just sucks we don't have more money for food]

[doctor-ciel]

If gluten free food is supposedly “worse” then how come my family keeps eating all my food huh

[franki-lew-yo]

The "joys" of being low-income but wanting to grow out of it ((pain))

Updating you all on my financial situation. Not linking to anything or asking for anything, I more or less wanna just fast track you on what's going on in my life and why I hate it:

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I’ve been on foodstamps since 2019. They’re a lifesaver, even though I wish I didn’t have to have them. I want to be making a decent enough, taxable income from my art as well as my part time job - but I can’t. What I need to sustain myself in meantime for rent and basic needs are SSI and SSA (disability benefits); SSI especially because I am low-income and have a disability that’s never going away which makes learning to drive a herculean task and prohibiting me from working full time, more hours, or finding a second job. I need to make more money and keep that money in the longterm - maybe eventually not need my low income benefits or foodstamps someday and be able to provide for myself and my dog just on my own earnings…except if SSI sees you’re even in any threat of doing just that they will immediately cut you off.

That’s what happened in 2020. I was making over 100$ a year from my patreon and independent commission work; nothing taxable but still substantial, and when they found that out and that I intended for that to grow, SSI dumped me. Now that 100+ or so can’t go to donations to ‘non essential’ things like indie artists I followed on patreon, NAACP donations, subscriptions I liked to keep, art supplies, vet bills, ect; no now I NEED that money just to be able to pay my rent which I make with my sister. Supplies and hot food really are a giftcard thing.

SSI is set up so that bad actors can’t abuse the system and do literally no work while they let the government pay for everything. In theory this stops fraudsters and rare, disturbing cases of people committing crimes and using their disabled loved ones as money generators: in practice, it means that if you or your loved one ever wants to strive for something bigger in life or -heck- even just be able to make their own earnings - they have to dumb you cuz then there’s a possibility you could be a fraudster. One day you hope to not need social services support on basic living and maybe get a bite of that American Dream once in awhile; to that, SSI spits in your face for daring to think in the long term. You have them and only them. You are dependent and will only be dependent. They want you to be dependent at all costs:

“Oh?! You’re disabled and don’t work but you’re managing to contribute a fraction to your bills through art you do online…ugh….gee…that’s really not the lemonade stand/burger king meal money we expected you to make as a sad little autist with no future soooooo we’re just gonna leave if you’re gonna abuse us like that!”

“You’re homeless? Hmmmm I don’t know…it says here that you have a job and some money from a ko-fi or something. You can pay for your pets food and a gym membership to wash up and -gasp- Del Taco for dinner but you otherwise live out of your car??? Tsk, tsk, how dare you squander from us Mr. Moneybags!!!”

“Oh you got another job- wait? ANOTHER job? Ugh- you’re so selfish! How dare you want to have enough money to send your kids to school or get your adult child into that program that’ll help them find the independence they want when you’re gone! What’s this about ‘stababillity’? Stability is being dependent on us.”

I don’t want to be dependent my whole life. Most people don’t. Contrary to popular belief, most disabled adults don’t want to be living with their families all their lives. We have dreams. We have ambitions. We have wants and goals and in my country the government looks at all that and says “well you aren’t autistic enough to understand that so you’re not worth our time” ((which is really offensive to the people lower on the spectrum by the way. ‘They aren’t aware enough so it’s okay to make them dependent and treat them like manchildren’. Or heck? What about people with Down Syndrome? We have dreams as much as anybody else. I'm so sorry I’m not Tom Hanks and can’t just accidentally stumble into success like a good little autist)).

It’s depressing. And it’s made even more depressing because every support service never wants you to lose your stability and so insists it’s okay actually that you can’t pay taxes like the rest of us. They’ll tell you you can achieve anything because they have to be optimistic - but what they really need is for you to always settle on scooting along rather than achieving what you want.

[themockingcrows]

Hey, my foodstamps got fucked around with this month and it's gonna take several days for them to be properly reinstated. I'd been planning on restocking necessities I was out of/running real low on on the 20th when they normally came in but alas, The Fuckery happened.

If you're interested in commissioning me so I can afford an instacart order before then, or wanna send a pizza my way in exchange for art, lemme know and we can work this deal out.

Commissions: OPEN!

Hello everyone! My roommate is moving out soon, which leaves me with the issue of "I've been using her cookware and house supplies since moving in years back because I came with none of that as the divorce was happening and my life was falling apart". SO. For the various expenses associated with getting things together, I decided to open commissions again as I'm on a fixed income and could use some extra help.

Prices:

Lineart only: $40 Flat colors: $50 Shading/Highlighting: $60

Extra fees:

Extra characters: $20 per character Lots of detail work: $20 flat fee

Things I WILL draw:

SFW

NSFW

Fetish art

Things I am not comfortable drawing:

Mecha

Ridiculously detailed backgrounds

Contact me via DM here, or via email at: TheMockingCrows(@)gmail.com to discuss what you'd like me to do for you. Commissions can be kept private on request of the commissioner, or even posted anonymously if you want them public but not attached to you.

*I reserve the right to refuse a commission at any time.*

I also have a Kofi available if you want to toss a coffee my way but don't want an art, located Here.

[tubefullofdemons]

I am so desperate, I've tried selling things, I've applied for loans but I'm getting nowhere. I am autistic and severely depressed and my mom is disabled, a cancer survivor with heart illness. Usually she's the one who brings in money to help us get by. She gets scholarships and student loans but her health is like a Rollercoaster, we have good days and we have bad days. Lately it's been bad days, she's been getting better and getting treatment but it will be a month before she gets back to school which is why I'm asking for help.

Morale is so low in this household with prices going up for everything. We can barely buy food for ourselves with the foodstamps we get. But here's the thing, I'm honestly used to struggling. I know my mom and I can endure but we care the most for our pets. All my pets are elderly. I'm talking 8 years plus. My oldest being 17 years old. They are special needs, have special diets and medications and it's what hurts us the most financially.

Our combined disability checks aren't enough to sustain us which is why I'm asking for help. Rent is due but we have nothing. Our relationship with our landlords is already strained and I'm in the process of applying to some rental help agencies but I know our landlords are impatient. I need the money as soon as possible.

I need your help. I understand the state of the economy right now. Everyone is struggling one way or another but any little bit helps. No donation is too small, if you cant donate that's fine too but please reblog. I need to at least get this out there so we could have a chance. I don't have any other family to rely on so please help. I also have other means you could donate to. Theyre at the bottom of this post. Thanks for reading. Lots of love. ❤

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[dredshirtroberts]

No one prepares you for falling short.

School doesn't tell you what to do when you're sent out into the workforce and just can't do it. You did so well in school, of course you'll make it in the real world. You'll be so successful! You'll work hard like you always have and you'll make a good grade in adulting because you're so good at all of our tests and knowledge! You've got this!

Except you don't. You aren't. You can't.

You've tried. And tried. And tried. You've done everything right. Everything they told you would work you did, waiting for life to fall into place, waiting for it to finally be your turn to succeed because you were so good at school, because you were a good kid, you didn't do anything wrong, you were responsible you tried.

And it doesn't work.

None of it. Because your body is failing you, and your mind is working against you and the real world is nothing like school and you have been told you have to do it on your own, asking for help is just as good as failing, and you'll be despised for it if you overcome that first hurdle and actually do ask for the help.

I see it in my family's eyes when I share the little bits of my life I forget to keep to myself, the failures I face daily. Because they don't understand their body just falling out from underneath them, unable to do the little things they do every day, that they take for granted. I'm too young, they say, have said, have been saying, for decades now.

They don't understand bone-deep weariness of just getting through every fucking day. They don't understand being incapable of working enough hours at your job (thankfully above minimum wage for my state, but not by much) to pay all your bills. They don't understand being afraid of losing what few safety nets you've been able to scramble together (i didn't know anyone on foodstamps - not that i was aware anyway - until two years ago. I didn't know how to get on it when I bothered to even try last October). They don't understand how much better your life is just because you have those safety nets now. They don't understand the importance of issues surrounding money.

Despite their own hard upbringings, their own money struggles, they all see themselves as having brought their own selves out of it, with no help at all. They don't see the inflation, the prices rising and the low wages staying the same, they don't see the treatment of retail and foodservice workers who are stuckstuckstuckSTUCK in their jobs because they can't do more, and they can't get the experience for other jobs and they can't can't can't can't

So I must look and act like I am capable of pulling myself up by my bootstraps with no help, I must pretend like I can function and I cannot let on that I have no money no money no money no money don't eat can't afford it, don't drink can't afford it, don't go anywhere can't afford it. I must deflect and defer because I should have myself back up by now, it's been 3 years what were you doing? what have you been doing? why are you not better yet? why are you still saying your body doesn't work it should work now you've rested.

The world doesn't prepare you to be a failure to those who trained you to succeed. The world doesn't prepare you to be disabled. The world would much rather you be dead.

So I live. and so must you. And we will get through this together. We will scrape our money from the linty corners of our pockets, we will hold each other's hands and pass the same dollar around to whoever needs it this week. We will be mediocre at our jobs and we will do our best at being mediocre at our jobs. We will fight because we have to, and when we have won.... whatever that looks like for you... we will rest.

Because we deserve better. We deserve rest.

[marcusfeniix]

i’d also like to note how much i’d love to bathe in sunny d and pizza

[riflebrass]

That idiot friend I'm always complaining about really hates the homeless. Every single time he sees a homeless person he goes on some big rant about how they have shoes so they can work.

One particular time we saw a homeless guy on a street corner. He went on his usual rant about how they should just get a job. A few minutes later we passed by the area again. The guy was gone but his suitcase was still there. I commented on how that's a good way to get your shit stolen. He piped up that they deserve to have their shit stolen because fuck the homeless.

This guy was living with his mom and wasn't working. He would do a few odd jobs to save up money for a gaming PC or whatever but contributed absolutely nothing to the household. Eventually the house got foreclosed on and his mom left the country so he was out on his ass.

He did alright for a while because he had a network of friends willing to take him in, but rather than looking for work he would just play video games all day and wear out his welcome. One friend let him stay in his shop for several months. Like 5 months I think? Still refused to get a job and eventually he got kicked out. After that nobody would take him in so out of desperation he started squatting in a church. He justified it because "his taxes pay for it". First of all churches aren't tax payer funded at all. Secondly this broke bastard doesn't work so he doesn't pay taxes. Anyway after a week or two he found a note on his sleeping bag telling him to get out and if they catch him again they were going to call the police. He was bitching to me about the church because at some point someone stole his laptop. How heartless do you have to be to steal from a HOMELESS person? Hey remember the second paragraph in my wall of text where he said homeless people deserve to have their shit stolen? Yeah I reminded him of that and rubbed it in his face. After getting kicked out of the church he was on the streets for a few nights. Eventually his dad took him in, he got on Social Security for his ADHD, and he got an apartment. He's living on foodstamps, low income housing, gets health insurance from the state, he even has a caregiver come in a few days a week to just hang out with him all paid for by the tax payers. In his mind he "earned" all of this because his parents were complete failures in raising him. He used to say "my taxes pay for it" but I shut that shit down by telling him one month's benefits are more than he's paid in taxes in his entire life.

Worse yet his mindset towards the homeless hasn't changed one damn bit. He still spews that shit about how they need to just get a job. When I remind him that he was homeless and refused to work his justification is that all the people who took him in offered him help. He didn't beg for it. This fucker really thinks he's better than the pan handler outside the 7/11 because he knew people willing to give him stuff. Total retard. Also the peak irony here is that despite his lifestyle being 100% funded by my tax money he's still a Magatard republican who HATES socialism.

Yeah this guy is absolutely mentally disabled but I don't think he deserves to have his life subsidized. He can work. The big things that make it impossible for him to hold down a job is just him being a complete asshole lmao.