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COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Tried Looking for the garden solar lights, to try and see what they would be like bringing them indoors in the night, but couldn't see any

99p Store.

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Butterfly_Brain

craigywv wrote: »

i am a bit thick when it comes to government etc.... regarding the U.S.A where the people given food stamps instead of cash as they would get in U.K sorry for being so stupid but just trying to understand whats going on. explain someone please as i have googled it and it all went clean over my head thank you .

Basically in the US if you are unemployed, elderly with a very small pension or low paid you can claim for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) formerly known as the food stamp programme which is paid by Electronic benefit Transfer (EBT) which is paid as $19 (£11.90 ) per person per week so a family of four would get $76 (£47.58) per week to go towards groceries only, you cannot buy anything that is not food related that includes toiletries and soap powder, you can only use the food stamps in certain stores.

craigywv

thank-you bb makes sense now

daftmummy

Hello peeps:j been busy past few weeks but just gone back few pages and a lot of post made me smile. The ones about holiday and make do and mend, Lovely reading about peoples memories as I took my kids camping in the summer as if we didn't they would have been the only ones not to go on holiday I felt like they were missing out but really they weren't. Even today was chatting about it and the highlight still is the open top bus ride along the coast!! and playing crazy golf in the rain and the hot choc in weatherspoons to heat us up after.

I was the youngest of five and my dad worked on the buildings so when rained off no pay, I had cast off till I got my first job in my teens. I pasted on a load of my youngest clothes to a mate a few weeks ago and we joked as I said they weren't second hand but was brought in a CS shop my mate for her kid past on to my eldest then onto my youngest and onto her two. I used to feel like my kids were missing out as my pushchair was a hand me down and not the newest or best but it did mine until I sold it at a baby sale for £30 with every thing and more to a young couple. I'm lucky as my Kids don't care really just don't give in as mine aren't into this moshie/skylander/hellokitty/slevinan families and they aren't bothered luckly but it may change.

I pop in to my local Tesco for ys and the main thing that runs out? Wine on special offer, larger on offer, bread (main names ) and milk, repeat after me you can't live no milk and bread alone! present company excluded :rotfl:

I have sorted my car for being stuck and Aldi this thurs are selling windscreen wipers for a tenner need to see my size as mine is split will also have a look on youtube how to fit it.

Any advice how to clean guttering? dh hates hights and can't even hold a ladder! I was quoted £100!!!:eek::eek: when I called someone had to stop myself asking was it going to be done by Brad Pitt in the nude:p

I am doing me "big shop" in morning at Aldi and being my bits for xmas mainly crackers for cheese etc but at the end of the day I say its just a sunday roast with a few extras.

I've missed whats happening in America will have to skpye my mate to ask but its bad the hospital she works at was going bankrupt and she had been on stamps for food there is set things you can have like peanut butter (protein for kids ) mince meat and milk no extras just set things and medical care is very hit and miss if you don't have insurance.

keep safe

GreyQueen

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

GQ did you see this
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-15/foodstamp-program-shutdown-imminent
Basically food stamps are to be stopped for the month of November. It looks like the US could erupt into anarchy if this happens

Just had a shufti and it's confusing me; not sure if the letter is telling the individual states not to send lists to the vendors because they won't have the money to pay for the cards (would that be the stores like WalMart which accept EBT)? Do they send a monthly list of all recipients and if that isn't received, does that mean that the cards aren't charged up and can't be used? Or does it mean that only people who would be newly joined up that month won't be added in this situation?

Enough to keep anyone dependant on such a scheme awake tonight, I should imagine. And all hell would be likely to break loose if the EBT cards won't work.

One thing which I took away from several books I read about Hurricane Katrina is that some of the problem about people not evacuating (they had several days' notice, remember) was that it made landfall on Mon 29August 2005. A lot of people were waiting on their welfare payments at the very end of August and by the time that the advice to evacuate came, they were living on the last gasps of the old cheque and waiting on the new one. People literally had no money to move out with and were concerned that if they evacuated, they would miss out on their welfare payment.

Living on a drip-feed of social welfare makes you very vulnerable. As does living on a modest income, too. All the more reason to make efforts to have a bit of extra by you for emergencies.

I may have overdone the emergency TP mountain, tho.

The archery was fantabulous ; we were using sights for part of the second hour. I got a bullseye (before using the sights, funnily enough). And my fingers are stinging, but what the heck, it's big big fun.

sorryImoved

I don't know if this item is available in the UK but the waka waka solar light is a wonderful product. I have one and the amount of light it puts out is far better than any solar light I have ever used. It has settings from very bright to a lower setting that is still bright enough to move around. The charge lasts a lot longer than any other I have used. I think it is a Dutch company. Great addition to preps.

sorryImoved

GreyQueen I lived in Northern Louisiana when hurricane Katrina hit. It did not hurt us weather wise but the flood of refugees sure did. Nobody was grateful for accommodations, food or clothing. The majority of people that got a debit card from the government sold the card to others or spent the money for non necessities. The television ran a banner nonstop asking for diapers, baby bottles, underwear, deodorant, bedding and food donations. I would at least made sure my family evacuated with their underwear! The people expected to be provided with everything. There were news reports of them complaining about the food, accommodations, clothing selections and how they were treated. We were overwhelmed with the amount of people and truly many people helped as much as they could. Most of the residents were afraid that there would be riots. I don't know what would happen if government benefits were cut off here in the US but I have a pretty good idea.

tori.k

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Basically in the US if you are unemployed, elderly with a very small pension or low paid you can claim for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) formerly known as the food stamp programme which is paid by Electronic benefit Transfer (EBT) which is paid as $19 (£11.90 ) per person per week so a family of four would get $76 (£47.58) per week to go towards groceries only, you cannot buy anything that is not food related that includes toiletries and soap powder, you can only use the food stamps in certain stores.

Bit of useless info but i found out the you can purchase seeds with the food stamp (EBT) scheme, I thought that is was a great idea.

paidinchickens

tori.k wrote: »

Bit of useless info but i found out the you can purchase seeds with the food stamp (EBT) scheme, I thought that is was a great idea.

GQ have you been poking your nose in :rotfl::rotfl:

mardatha

Re Katrina, I don't think you can say that most of the evacuees did this or that - as usual only a few would do it and get a bad name for the rest. Bit like people on benefits here. Always the stupid few get the rest in trouble!
We've decided to get a sheepskin for the bed instead of using the electric blanket- it's expensive but it's also prepping really as cutting down on stuff in this house that depends on electricity. (and will help aches and pains too). I currently use less than a fiver a week on elect and am determined it's not going any higher.
Will find out next week if Calor gas has gone up, but expect it will have.