Leaderboard

I find it hard to believe that the food banks clients are all "down to their last pot of joghurt in the fridge" and are "going hungry for a few days". I really hope that the agencies who refer their clients to food banks seriously encourage them to learn some basic cooking, budgeting and housekeeping first. Look at your monthly outgoings and see where you can make savings. Get rid of non essentials. Contrary to common believe, it is entirely possible to survive without a TV and a mobile phone and all those nasty little gadgets and expensive contracts that people are obsessed with. But maybe I am just of a different generation. We were taught to be self reliant. Keep a good store cupboard, grow a bit of veg. Get an allotment if you don't have a bit of garden ground that you can dig up. I am sick of this "entitlement society"! Can't afford to heat your whole house? Well, join the club! I leave a few rooms in my house unheated and have moved my bed into the living room where I have a wood burner. Yes, it gets cold at night once the fire has gone out. So what? You get used to it. I begin to feel too hot and uncomfortable if the room gets hotter than 14 Celsius anyway. Ever heard of a second pair of socks and a wooly jumper? I am wondering how much of this "problem" is actually just a case of lack of common sense and completely screwed up priorities? More important to keep your modern gadgets and pay those bills? Not surprising there's no money left to buy some food. Or is that considered to be the "basic standard" that you mustn't fall below? If people are not seriously encouraged to learn to live within their means then of course they will take what is on offer for free. There are people in this world who really know what hunger is! Stop carping and get on with it!