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In reply to the discussion: A friend of mine saw someone using food stamps to pay for ice cream bars. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)He was bringing me another box of CDs and my friend Jim was there in my store and the mailman said something like "I isure cannot afford to buy a bunch of CDs like this." I was kinda taken aback by that. As if I, with my bookstore that made no money, and my part-time janitor job paying $5.50 an hour was somehow better off than somebody working for the Post Office. And he rented his upstaris to Jim so he had landlord income too.
But I had joined the Columbia music house club and so he WAS bringing me lots of CDs. But, although such clubs have a bad reputation, it seemed to me that the CDs were quite affordable. Even with shipping I was usually only paying $3-4 per CD.
But these kinds of trenchant comments are probably fairly common. I heard some neighbors on the corner talking about the "niceness" of my bicycle. Which is an expensive bike, but much cheaper than any used car that they were probably driving. Then another neighbor wondered if I would sell my car because I almost never used it.