Comments on: A Week Living on Food Stamps: $4.56 per Day https://lotusgroup.redfernmediadevelopment2023.com/2012/11/01/a-week-living-on-food-stamps/ Envision Wealth From A New Perspective. Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:28:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Andy Seth https://lotusgroup.redfernmediadevelopment2023.com/2012/11/01/a-week-living-on-food-stamps/#comment-189 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:28:26 +0000 http://lgadvisors.redfernmediadevelopment2023.com/lotus/?p=1820#comment-189 John,

Just watched that “30 Days” episode you described. What a great way to gain empathy and to expose some troubling challenges about living in poverty. Interestingly, nutrition wasn’t a big focus because they faced so many other challenges.

Thanks for the recommendation and glad you enjoyed reading about my experiment as well.

Cheers,
Andy

]]> By: John Aydelotte https://lotusgroup.redfernmediadevelopment2023.com/2012/11/01/a-week-living-on-food-stamps/#comment-188 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:52:32 +0000 http://lgadvisors.redfernmediadevelopment2023.com/lotus/?p=1820#comment-188 In reply to John Aydelotte.

That should be “minimum-wage” not “minimum-wave”. I’ll blame the glass of wine on my desk!

]]> By: John Aydelotte https://lotusgroup.redfernmediadevelopment2023.com/2012/11/01/a-week-living-on-food-stamps/#comment-187 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:50:18 +0000 http://lgadvisors.redfernmediadevelopment2023.com/lotus/?p=1820#comment-187 For a similar experiment, check out the first episode of “30 Days”. Morgan Spurlock (of “SuperSize Me”) along with his fiance moved to an average town and tried to live on minimum-wave for 30 days. They rented a cheap apartment (which turned out to be infested with ants), got furniture at GoodWill, and found minimum wage jobs. No car — only public transit. She got a job as a dishwasher and he as a landscaping laborer.

Ultimately they failed to make it, simply because of health-care costs. With no health insurance, when he injured his arm and she got an infection, their Emergency Room visits broke the bank.

I think you can find this on Youtube if not elsewhere.

Anyhow, it struck me as a similar exercise in trying to understand how others live. Kudos to you for going through that.

]]> By: Kim DeLashmit https://lotusgroup.redfernmediadevelopment2023.com/2012/11/01/a-week-living-on-food-stamps/#comment-186 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:20:20 +0000 http://lgadvisors.redfernmediadevelopment2023.com/lotus/?p=1820#comment-186 Fantastic blog, Andy. There is plenty to think about here. Thank you so much for sharing with those of us who couldn’t participate.

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