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Child support check two weeks late and ex won't give any money
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 552555" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>You know what I miss? Those old government food lines. Remember when they would hand out those huge blocks of cheese, dried milk, peanut butter, and some other stuff they had in surplus. Sometimes rice, sometimes frozen chicken, sometimes other things. Oh my kids loved that government cheese! Depending on your family size, you got one block per every two people. </p><p></p><p>Im glad you have a church and food pantry available to help you out. Trust me on this one, the kids will be fine. They truly dont realize things are bad if you dont make a big deal out of it. Act like its a treat to have whatever you get from the food pantry and they will be thrilled. One time when my kids were in elementary school we were completely broke. Tony was out of work for about a month and we were done to no money. All we had left was some PBJ, bread and oatmeal. Not even milk. We had butter, sugar and some kool-aid packets for the kids to drink. The kids ate pbj sandwiches at night and Tony and I ate oatmeal all day every day. With butter and sugar. </p><p></p><p>One day a guy down the road offered us two of his older hens if Tony would kill them and pluck them. Oh heck yeah! Not good for frying but we could stew them for hours to make them tender and have chicken soup and chicken and rice. We were thrilled. We ate chicken sandwiches and chicken every which way we could do it. We were so happy to have chicken! </p><p></p><p>Do you know my boys never even realized there was a problem? We talk about that time now and they just thought we liked PBJ and oatmeal and that we were happy about getting Boss's hens...lmao. They truly didnt know how very poor we were at times. They had fun, they ate, and they were loved. Everything else is gravy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 552555, member: 1514"] You know what I miss? Those old government food lines. Remember when they would hand out those huge blocks of cheese, dried milk, peanut butter, and some other stuff they had in surplus. Sometimes rice, sometimes frozen chicken, sometimes other things. Oh my kids loved that government cheese! Depending on your family size, you got one block per every two people. Im glad you have a church and food pantry available to help you out. Trust me on this one, the kids will be fine. They truly dont realize things are bad if you dont make a big deal out of it. Act like its a treat to have whatever you get from the food pantry and they will be thrilled. One time when my kids were in elementary school we were completely broke. Tony was out of work for about a month and we were done to no money. All we had left was some PBJ, bread and oatmeal. Not even milk. We had butter, sugar and some kool-aid packets for the kids to drink. The kids ate pbj sandwiches at night and Tony and I ate oatmeal all day every day. With butter and sugar. One day a guy down the road offered us two of his older hens if Tony would kill them and pluck them. Oh heck yeah! Not good for frying but we could stew them for hours to make them tender and have chicken soup and chicken and rice. We were thrilled. We ate chicken sandwiches and chicken every which way we could do it. We were so happy to have chicken! Do you know my boys never even realized there was a problem? We talk about that time now and they just thought we liked PBJ and oatmeal and that we were happy about getting Boss's hens...lmao. They truly didnt know how very poor we were at times. They had fun, they ate, and they were loved. Everything else is gravy. [/QUOTE]
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