went to the local food bank today

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• nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I volunteer at a food bank, everything we get is donated. Sometimes we have great stuff to give out, sometimes we have garbage.

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  • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had literally typed up basically this exact comment, then deleted it because I figured they were just venting and it wouldn’t be helpful, and then I came back because I wanted to make sure people understood that food banks aren’t generally run by the government. They’re nonprofits, but there is no minimum amount they are allocated. Since they mostly run off donations, and the economy is so terrible for everyone, it makes sense that they are hurting too. I’m sorry to hear they didn’t have more, but often the things they do have are the little others can spare or staples that make sense to purchase with the little money they get. I’m glad you commented though because I’m not sure I would have made a top level comment about this, but imho it’s worth mentioning. The people at the food banks really are trying their best to help.

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i’m very pro food bank and pro mutual aid. we should always be having these conversations about allocation of resources. bless.

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    • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Last year we had twice as much, the year before we had even more. Today’s boxes were pretty sparse.

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    not complaining, friend. I do love to be critical, and I do wish they had asked if I wanted any toys. I now have several boxes of cornbread mix, among other weird shit from them – that does qualify as food.

    when i was staying in a homeless shelter and i was halfway out of the shower one day i literally caught one of the same food bank guys fishing his insanely skeleton-like fingers through my little homeless man bag of toiletries. Also that man wears adult diapers and dumps them in the public fucking trash. Creepy fucking ghoul.

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    • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      When we have things such as toys, or baby food we put it to the side and ask people if they need it because we know not everyone has kids.

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    • Today@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Our local food bank changed how they give out items. Now you get a shopping cart, walk the aisles, choose a certain number of proteins, vegetables, healthcare items, etc., take it to the checkout and bag it. It might not always be great stuff but at least you get a choice…

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• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  this is what they give you.

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nothing?

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      the image that i failed to up load shows two huge boxes of cool, cheap-ass miniature-painting sets, which came from the fucking food bank. If it weren’t so misplaced and confusing I’d say it’s awesome. i used to build little intricate cars and planes as a child.

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• DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thanks for letting us know. Are you ok?

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