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my mom has the stupidest/most fucked up ideas about money.
okay so money's tight and we're not rolling in it or whatever, but i THINK we can scrounge up enough to go to the fucking grocery store. considering we haven't gotten groceries in like 3 weeks. and all that's left in the house is frozen processed shit. my gym membership is pretty fucking useless when my only food options are eggo waffles and macaroni and cheese, god forbid we buy some fucking vegetables and someone other than me uses them. AKA don't buy the giant fucking package of mixed greens which are just going to start rotting and smelling like compost three days later because NO ONE ELSE EATS THEM AND I CAN'T EAT A GIANT FUCK OFF BAG OF LETTUCE ON MY OWN ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU BUY NOTHING ELSE TO PUT IN A SALAD.
but seriously it would be fucking great if we could go to the grocery store and buy things that are actually good to eat and not have to load the cart up with processed shitty crap because my brothers will just eat whatever the fuck as long as they don't have to spend more than two minutes preparing it. god forbid they have to use something more complex than the microwave or the toaster. and maybe if we could avoid buying 4 fridgepacks of coke cans. newsflash, ginger ale is still soda mom, just because it's got less sugar doesn't mean it's devoid of calories and useless carbohydrates.
and none of this is even touching on the fact that i also need toothpaste, and a new toothbrush, and tampons and whatever.
but it's okay because we have twelve different kinds of bread!!!1!! why do we need to go to the grocery store? oh who cares that we don't have cold cuts or jelly and all the peanut butter is worse than ordinary processed peanut butter because it's aldi generic brand peanut butter so it has about fourteen times more saturated fats, preservatives and sodium and somehow LESS protein. you guys ate all the cold cuts! certainly that doesn't mean that they're GOOD and we ENJOY eating them so it WOULDN'T BE WASTING MONEY TO BUY MORE. liam eats ramen, you used to love ramen why don't you have some ramen. what do you mean it has like a hundred times the daily recommended sodium for a full grown adult and so i shouldn't be feeding it to an underweight ten year old? no we can't go to the grocery store, i always spend more money at the grocery store when you come with me because you always want vegetables.
let's see, what did i pick out last time? peppers, green beans, mushroom, which i used as much as i could of before they started rotting since I WAS THE ONLY ONE USING THEM. sunflower seeds, which i snack on all the time. peanuts/walnuts. couscous, which is super delicious plain...not, would be great if i still had any vegetables left to use with it! two boxes of soup, which i and i alone ate, but finished, and enjoyed. granola bars, which i ate all of, except for the ones my mom and liam took on their trip with them (!!). apples, which i ate and shared with liam since it's the one fruit the kid will eat. bananas, which got eaten by everyone else in the house before i even got to have one. like, seriously? i took my mom's debit card to the store and got that, plus whatever she wanted me to pick up, plus something or other i probably forgot, for, i believe, ~$100. if we don't have $100 dollars to go grocery shopping for 5 people once a month than i'd say maybe we should look into food stamps, except oh wait, there is no way we don't have at LEAST that. wouldn't it be great if my mom had like, an actual budget or something? instead of just doing things with no rhyme or reason and hoping it works out and deciding that if worse comes to worse we just won't go to the grocery store for weeks? like, i love my mom but sometimes the shit she does makes no fucking sense at all. seriously, shit like this makes me want to move out as soon as i get a job and can afford rent somewhere because then i can actually do things that make any sort of logical sense for myself.
okay so money's tight and we're not rolling in it or whatever, but i THINK we can scrounge up enough to go to the fucking grocery store. considering we haven't gotten groceries in like 3 weeks. and all that's left in the house is frozen processed shit. my gym membership is pretty fucking useless when my only food options are eggo waffles and macaroni and cheese, god forbid we buy some fucking vegetables and someone other than me uses them. AKA don't buy the giant fucking package of mixed greens which are just going to start rotting and smelling like compost three days later because NO ONE ELSE EATS THEM AND I CAN'T EAT A GIANT FUCK OFF BAG OF LETTUCE ON MY OWN ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU BUY NOTHING ELSE TO PUT IN A SALAD.
but seriously it would be fucking great if we could go to the grocery store and buy things that are actually good to eat and not have to load the cart up with processed shitty crap because my brothers will just eat whatever the fuck as long as they don't have to spend more than two minutes preparing it. god forbid they have to use something more complex than the microwave or the toaster. and maybe if we could avoid buying 4 fridgepacks of coke cans. newsflash, ginger ale is still soda mom, just because it's got less sugar doesn't mean it's devoid of calories and useless carbohydrates.
and none of this is even touching on the fact that i also need toothpaste, and a new toothbrush, and tampons and whatever.
but it's okay because we have twelve different kinds of bread!!!1!! why do we need to go to the grocery store? oh who cares that we don't have cold cuts or jelly and all the peanut butter is worse than ordinary processed peanut butter because it's aldi generic brand peanut butter so it has about fourteen times more saturated fats, preservatives and sodium and somehow LESS protein. you guys ate all the cold cuts! certainly that doesn't mean that they're GOOD and we ENJOY eating them so it WOULDN'T BE WASTING MONEY TO BUY MORE. liam eats ramen, you used to love ramen why don't you have some ramen. what do you mean it has like a hundred times the daily recommended sodium for a full grown adult and so i shouldn't be feeding it to an underweight ten year old? no we can't go to the grocery store, i always spend more money at the grocery store when you come with me because you always want vegetables.
let's see, what did i pick out last time? peppers, green beans, mushroom, which i used as much as i could of before they started rotting since I WAS THE ONLY ONE USING THEM. sunflower seeds, which i snack on all the time. peanuts/walnuts. couscous, which is super delicious plain...not, would be great if i still had any vegetables left to use with it! two boxes of soup, which i and i alone ate, but finished, and enjoyed. granola bars, which i ate all of, except for the ones my mom and liam took on their trip with them (!!). apples, which i ate and shared with liam since it's the one fruit the kid will eat. bananas, which got eaten by everyone else in the house before i even got to have one. like, seriously? i took my mom's debit card to the store and got that, plus whatever she wanted me to pick up, plus something or other i probably forgot, for, i believe, ~$100. if we don't have $100 dollars to go grocery shopping for 5 people once a month than i'd say maybe we should look into food stamps, except oh wait, there is no way we don't have at LEAST that. wouldn't it be great if my mom had like, an actual budget or something? instead of just doing things with no rhyme or reason and hoping it works out and deciding that if worse comes to worse we just won't go to the grocery store for weeks? like, i love my mom but sometimes the shit she does makes no fucking sense at all. seriously, shit like this makes me want to move out as soon as i get a job and can afford rent somewhere because then i can actually do things that make any sort of logical sense for myself.