Folks On Food Stamps Have Good & Expensive Tastes When it Comes to Food.

goodoleboy · Jun 9, 2011

Guy on another forum found this receipt in the parking lot of his local grocery store..Apparently the food was paid for with some type of food stamp..Lobsters & Porterhouse steaks, nummy!..

At least they got soda that was on sale.

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LightningCrash · Jun 9, 2011

did he turn it in to the authorities?

if not, he's just as bad as they are.

GlockCop · Jun 9, 2011

Why does he need to turn it into the authorities??

grizzly97 · Jun 9, 2011

Forget food stamps...I watched "extreme couponing" last night, and this lady bought $1,300 worth of groceries and when she used all the coupons, her total was -$0.31. Now that's knowing how to shop!

Perplexed · Jun 9, 2011

grizzly97 said:
Forget food stamps...I watched "extreme couponing" last night, and this lady bought $1,300 worth of groceries and when she used all the coupons, her total was -$0.31. Now that's knowing how to shop!

Imagine being stuck in line behind this woman at the checkout counter. You'd be there a while unless you jumped lines. What of the poor checker who had to deal with that kind of couponing??

gillman7 · Jun 9, 2011

Why do you care? If they spend their money on that and don't have any for the rest of the month, they are in the same boat we are. Why do we feel like if we extend charity or fund a food stamp program they need to eat beans and cornbread every day? I have better things to do than monitor what a food stamp recipient buys and whine about it. And no, I have never had to be on public assistance, but am glad it is out there for those that need it. Who knows, or who cares, it could be a party, and people on assistance have just as much right to splurge as someone that isn't.

MLRyan · Jun 9, 2011

Perplexed said:
Imagine being stuck in line behind this woman at the checkout counter. You'd be there a while unless you jumped lines. What of the poor checker who had to deal with that kind of couponing?? [/QUOTE

You don't have to wait behind them and every job has negative points. Don't blame them for taking the time to save their money.

Shoot Summ · Jun 9, 2011

It was turned in, and the guy that purchased the items has been charged as he resold them.

Don't have the link, it was in the post that Tom talked about on GarageJournal...

ETA link

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110607/NEWS01/106070329/-1/RSS13

And I care because this is a sign of abuse of the system, it is MY money, taken from MY paycheck that is used to fund these programs, I care ALOT. I know there are legit users of the assistance, and there are abuses, I want the abuses to stop, and I want the folks on assistance to have a plan to get off of it, there is no incentive to get off though.

Biggsly · Jun 9, 2011

grizzly97 said:
Forget food stamps...I watched "extreme couponing" last night, and this lady bought $1,300 worth of groceries and when she used all the coupons, her total was -$0.31. Now that's knowing how to shop!

I told my wife to watch and learn. lol

BadgeBunny · Jun 9, 2011

grizzly97 said:
Forget food stamps...I watched "extreme couponing" last night, and this lady bought $1,300 worth of groceries and when she used all the coupons, her total was -$0.31. Now that's knowing how to shop!

OHHHHHH ... don't think I haven't been working on this ... We don't have some of the stores that are really good to shop at (Meyers or Publix) but Homeland is workable, as is CVS and Walgreens ... I wanna take a trip to Publix (closest one is in Alabama) for vacation ... lol

I've been doing CVS for a while now ... In fact I think I posted a thread on it a year or two ago. But the folks on that show make me look downright shabby ... so ... I've been studying them ... and the blogs and coupon sites ... of which there are more than a bazillon ...

I'll let ya'll know when I decide I'm ready to give it a go.

ETA: One of the shows participants (J'aime) was charged with coupon fraud after her segment aired. There are ways to play the system but there was documentation that she used coupons for items different than what she bought ... something about how bar codes are set up. I went back and watched her segment several times ... sure enough ... What a dunce! They never would have caught her if she hadn't let them film her doing it.

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