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Food drives are a terrible idea if you want to help people after a disaster.
http://slate.me/rQnKE4
I have seen some people suggest that because food banks often can't purchase non-food items, if you are bound and determined to send stuff instead of cash the best stuff might be things you can't buy with food stamps but urgently need anyway - diapers, menstrual supplies, toilet paper, even pet food. Though people might take that last one the wrong way.
Pet Food Stamps!
https://petfoodstamps.org/
Why I Won’t Do the Food Stamp Challenge
http://bit.ly/1b3LZsK
Jocelyn is also a boy's name, which probably is the only explanation for how Jocelyn in the comments to that post could manage to type the words "sanitary napkins are cheap in any supermarket" with a straight face. I don't believe anybody with a typically functioning uterus has ever, not once, said that. I know I myself smirk a little every time I have to walk through the aisle with the menstrual supplies at the store, because I haven't bought those since switching to reusable pads (and, eventually, a Lunette WITH the pads. My flow is a bit heavy.) and the fact that I don't have to spend $5 this month, nor sit around wondering if I should change my pad/tampon now or wait a little longer so as not to waste them.
$5 doesn't seem like that much, but when you have three people with periods in the house, and you already have trouble affording food, it adds up! (It's like people saying that poor individuals who don't take their kids to the zoo or museum are just lazy and bad parents. Even if there is no admission fee, train fare is $2.50 each way. To get two kids someplace, you already have to budget out $15 before you even do anything! This is why kids routinely jump the fare until they are in the teens, of course, because it is ludicrous.)
Please Don’t Send Your Old Shoes to the Philippines
http://slate.me/1buNegY
http://slate.me/rQnKE4
I have seen some people suggest that because food banks often can't purchase non-food items, if you are bound and determined to send stuff instead of cash the best stuff might be things you can't buy with food stamps but urgently need anyway - diapers, menstrual supplies, toilet paper, even pet food. Though people might take that last one the wrong way.
Pet Food Stamps!
https://petfoodstamps.org/
Why I Won’t Do the Food Stamp Challenge
http://bit.ly/1b3LZsK
Jocelyn is also a boy's name, which probably is the only explanation for how Jocelyn in the comments to that post could manage to type the words "sanitary napkins are cheap in any supermarket" with a straight face. I don't believe anybody with a typically functioning uterus has ever, not once, said that. I know I myself smirk a little every time I have to walk through the aisle with the menstrual supplies at the store, because I haven't bought those since switching to reusable pads (and, eventually, a Lunette WITH the pads. My flow is a bit heavy.) and the fact that I don't have to spend $5 this month, nor sit around wondering if I should change my pad/tampon now or wait a little longer so as not to waste them.
$5 doesn't seem like that much, but when you have three people with periods in the house, and you already have trouble affording food, it adds up! (It's like people saying that poor individuals who don't take their kids to the zoo or museum are just lazy and bad parents. Even if there is no admission fee, train fare is $2.50 each way. To get two kids someplace, you already have to budget out $15 before you even do anything! This is why kids routinely jump the fare until they are in the teens, of course, because it is ludicrous.)
Please Don’t Send Your Old Shoes to the Philippines
http://slate.me/1buNegY