Went to the Food Pantry

[LeafErikson]

I tend to think of those places are for people in actual need, not for people with expensive hobbies or have other ways to get money when needed, usually by selling things you have a lot of. But hey if you got some veggies and didn't have to sell your tobacco screw that lady with no job and 4 kids.

My mom worked 2 crappy jobs to put food on the table when when i was little, she hated being on food stamps because she said there were people out there that couldn't even get a crappy job. I've given to food banks, i would never take from them, i'll sell something to put food on my table and not take it off someone else's table that doesn't have that same opportunity.

It’s an Olympic gymnast-level stretch to assume that because he can afford to purchase pipe tobacco that he’s some gluttonous pig by going to a food bank. Hell tailor made cigarettes are more expensive than some pipe habits and we all know how many homeless people smoke those.

 

[WhiteCrown]

It’s an Olympic gymnast-level stretch to assume that because he can afford to purchase pipe tobacco that he’s some gluttonous pig by going to a food bank. Hell tailor made cigarettes are more expensive than some pipe habits and we all know how many homeless people smoke those.

You made me think: if I was homeless I'd have a $7 Missouri Pride corn cob and a $14.99 pound bag of Best of the Rest English in a burlap knapsack. For $22 I'd be smoking for months! There are plenty $300 and month cigarette smokers visiting food banks and soup kitchens. Pipe smoking can be really cheap, although I'm sure it isn't for a lot of members here.

 

[warren]

If one is parsimonious then, one takes advantage of any way to save money. Even those who have money to burn like ... we smokers. We all enjoy watching our hard earned moneys wafting gently to the ceiling or skyward. Some, rather than reduce expensive luxuries like smoking would rather use various safety nets meant for those experiencing problems beyond their capabilities. Perhaps they think of such as an entitlement. We all are simply what we are, at least in other people's eyes.

 

[LeafErikson]

You made me think: if I was homeless I'd have a $7 Missouri Pride corn cob and a $14.99 pound bag of Best of the Rest English in a burlap knapsack. For $22 I'd be smoking for months! There are plenty $300 and month cigarette smokers visiting food banks and soup kitchens. Pipe smoking can be really cheap, although I'm sure it isn't for a lot of members here.

Yeah some of the guys on here love to pontificate about how much of an expensive habit pipe smoking is. It’s as expensive or as inexpensive as you want it to be. The store in my small town had a sale on Marlboro blacks for 7.50 a pack. That’s 2,737.50 a year. I don’t think the average pipe smoker spends that much on pipes and tobacco over the course of 3-4 years. And I mean the AVERAGE pipe smoker not pipe smokers with 60+ pipes and 100+ lbs of tobacco like you see on this forum.