The comments aren’t satisfying so didn’t post…Just know she doesn’t respond to high chair offers that aren’t 400 dollars and just know only the 750 dollar stroller would work.

Almost a decade ago there was a polar vortex. The Hawthorne Hotel had empty rooms and offered them for $20 to anyone struggling with housing or heating.

So not free but still pretty generous considering how expensive and hard to book the Hawthorne can be.

My mother read about the offer and her first reply is, “But they don’t offer free breakfast?”

The Hawthorne always had free coffee and cocoa in the lobby for literally anyone. I’m sure they would have offered continental breakfast to all guests, but the fact that it was all my mother could think of labeled her a choosing beggar in my mind.

Also, you may work 7 days a week sometimes, but you do get a private bathroom in a “pretty quiet house.” Food and other “personal expenses” are to be covered by you…real deal.

Long time lurker first time poster. Lmk if I am doing something wrong.

A couple of weeks ago I had saw a homeless man with a small chihuahua, he was asking for food and I decided to actually help someone out today. I asked him first if he had any allergies/diet restrictions because while I understand he is homeles, he still should be able to eat what he can digest. He told me he was allergic to peanuts, okay no peanuts got it. Went inside Walmart got him one of those popcorn chickens that were near the rotisserie chickens, got him a drink. When I gave it to him, he asked if I could go back inside and get him some chips. I should have honestly said no, but I went inside and bought chips.

Then he asked if I had any money on me, I told him I wasn't carrying cash on me at the moment. He asked me if I could get $50 at the ATM, I told him I had to leave. He then followed me and asked for my phone number in case I "changed" my mind, I told him sir I have to go somewhere. Finally he left me alone.

I manage a higher end retail business and I received a call for a donation last week. Our primary business is lighting but we sell all kinds of furniture and accessories. I said I would be happy to donate an item to their auction and the lady came to pick it up yesterday. I brought out a $300+ mirror for her and she said ohhh…did you run out of lamps? I told her I didn’t have lamps to donate at the moment. “Are you sure I can’t trade it for a lamp?” I told her very politely that this was the donation being offered but if it didn’t work for her I would hold on to it for the next donation request. Her response was a long sigh followed by “well it’s better than nothing, I guess” and then asked me to carry it to her car.🤷‍♀️

Found this CB on a buy nothing group for the next city over. At least she didn't say all this expensive stuff has to be delivered.

Halo Bassinets start at $100 and go up, their sleep sacks are $30 each.

The snuggle me feeding pillow is $65, and their lounger is $109.

Dock a Tot loungers start at $200 and go up.

A decent baby dopler is between $40 and $75. (she added a check mark because someone actually gave her one)

Around here even a small 6-inch USED cast iron pan from a thrift store will set you back $25, and that's for the low end brands.

Got to love free loaders who demand specific free stuff and only want the good stuff.

This was about three years ago, while I was finishing up my degree. I used to work early mornings in the Greenwich Village neighborhood when I wasn't in class, and back then I was a lot more of a bleeding heart than I am now (I was still fairly new to the city). I had a number of nutty interactions with homeless and begging folk, but there's one story i still tell on occasion that sticks out.

One early morning, I'd stopped at Starbucks before work to get some coffee and breakfast, and was walking my way to work when a fella approached me while I was stopped at a red traffic light. He explained to me that his young daughter was waiting for him a few blocks away under some warm scaffolding (it was winter), and he was trying to find some help to get her some breakfast. I offered him the banana bread I'd gotten from Starbucks, but he rejected this, saying it would be "too hard for his daughter to chew". He then proceeded to ask if i would go with him to a McDonalds a few blocks away to buy food. I had to get to work, and didn't have time to go on an excursion, so I told him I couldn't do that. The man immediately changed his demeanor, became angry, and said, "Oh, it's because I'm Black, right??", and i was like, "Dude, I'm leaving now", and crossed the street and made my way to work.

In retrospect, I doubt there was a "daughter". Cuz, like, wtf could she have eaten at McDonald's that would have been easier to eat than my banana bread? Lmao

It's for a church, NEXT!

Okay, so I had to go to the courthouse downtown last week.

When I got there, I had to bring something back to the car they wouldn't allow me to have inside the courthouse so I'm making my way across the street to the public parking lot the car is in.

As I'm walking a homeless man asks me for fifty cents. I kinda shook my head "no" and walked right past him. But as I'm walking I'm like you know what I probably have fifty cents in my car. I'll check and if I have it I'll give it to the man. Whatever I'm in a good mood today why not.

So I checked and I actually had 3 quarters! Cool. So I hurry back to where the man was and hand him the 3 quarters. (25 cents more than what he was asking for btw. )

Well he looks at the coins. Looks at me and goes:

" You ain't got one more quarter?".

😑

I wanted to slap that money right out of his hand. Lol.

The end.