How often do you buy groceries?

What types of things do you consider “essential”?

Do you make a list when you go shopping, or just have an idea of what you need?

Do you do one big trip all at once, or do you pick up just enough to make what you’re eating that night/the next day?

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    This would get old real quick.

    I was a smoker in a past life.

    Occasionally you encounter other smokers who are trying to cut down, or quitting, and limiting their intake by refusing to buy a pack of smokes and simply bumming smokes off the people they encounter.

    Sounds nice in principle but obviously this very quickly deteriorates into a parasitic arrangement.

    What I mean is, if I went to work every day and there was a guy there with a cup, obviously I’d happily give him whatever, but at any given lunch break if he was hungry he’d know he could search me out for a bite to eat.

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      20 hours ago

      I thought it was interesting and uplifting to see people come together to support this guy in a fairly simple way. He just told people about his mug if they asked and didn’t belabor it from there. Even shared candy when he got it.

      I worked at a restaurant, where there’s a lot of food waste, so I was happy to help someone out while he found his footing. He didn’t come back on his own, I told him to see me when I’m working.

      It’s weird to spin that into a “parasitic” relationship.

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        18 hours ago

        Sure ok. I’ll readily acknowledge that I’m a pretty weird guy.

        I probably also have a lot of left over baggage from being a substance abuser of minimal socio-economic means. That is to say I just like to pay for my own stuff, and there’s a short list of people I might be very generous with but beyond that I’m not generous (with money) at all.

        I guess it’s a bit different if the guy is interacting with a lot of different people every day.

        I had envisaged a situation where I work in some kind of cubicle hell scape and every lunch time I need to sneak past old-mates cube in case he sees me and tries to swindle me into contributing some crisps or something.

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          17 hours ago

          Fair enough, I can see how that would taint your view of the world. Admittedly, that was a time when a lot of us were poor, in a place where a lot of young people go to get away from their lives. We were all just trying to get by, so we shared what we could.

          I probably wouldn’t have met mug guy, if not for the mug, and he was a delight. I say that as someone who grew up in a pretty insular, toxic, pay-your-own-way sort of family. Mug guy showed me it’s okay to ask for what you need and some people genuinely want to help you.