"You can just"

[firecat]

About providing food for your family when you don't have a lot of money, and the thoughtless advice that people sometimes give if they don't know much about a difficult problem you have, especially if they give the advice using the adverb "just" (with the "it's so simple" connotation).

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/08/31/you-can-just/

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[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

When I was on food stamps in the early 80's it was for more than I had been spending on food before that, so I thought it was really awesome, but if I was using them to feed children then I would definitely want better for them than that kind of starving-student mode. :-(

Pretty much any kind of "how to live on less money" article I see is full of super-clueless stuff that isn't going to apply to those people who already don't spend lots of $$$ on fancy restaurants, Starbucks, cable TV, etc. ...