tubaterry: anitrafigueroa: cannibalcoalition: fenrir-kin: ladyshinga: FUCK THIS MEME AND FUCK A

tubaterry:

anitrafigueroa:

cannibalcoalition:

fenrir-kin:

ladyshinga:

FUCK THIS MEME AND FUCK ALL OF YOU WHO ARE MAKING JOKES I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS

How dare some one own something that a. might have been a gift, b. might have been bought before they fell into poverty, c. might have been on sale/at a thrift store, or d. IT’S ALSO NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS

STOP FORCING US INTO RAGS BEFORE YOU BELIEVE OUR STRUGGLE AND I WILL START WEARING BOOTS LIKE THIS TO STEP ON THE THROATS OF ANYONE WHO SAYS SHIT LIKE THIS

I AM FUCKING *DONE*

PS If anyone knows the person in the original photo, you can let them know they have the backing/support of an angry valkyrie

I had to shut down one of my friends on this the other day as well. I own a pair of New Rocks. I bought them when I was better off, and the fact that I owned them didn’t stop me from slowly starving to death 5 years down the line. Boots like that are a surprisingly good investment because my gods, they are built to LAST. I have taken my boots larping, worn them for three days straight in some awful terrain and they’re nearly 8 years old at this point and showing no signs of giving up the ghost.

So yeah, I have expensive boots. As the lovely Shinga said, all the better for stomping on a moptherfucker’s throat.

Splurging on a $100 pair of shoes with sturdy soles and good support (although not very stylish) has saved me about $70 this year because I’m not constantly buying new ones to replace the ones that get worn out. It has also saved me significantly more in hospital visits because having that support has prevented damage to my knees, hips, ankles, and lower back. 

If you’re already throwing down $100 on a pair of shoes that are going to last you a long time, you might as well put in to make it fit your personal aesthetic since you’re probably going to be wearing them a lot. 

This is like those busybodies who shame people who use EBT to buy literally anything other than the absolute bargain basement crap at the store. Man, the looksI used to get whenI was on SNAP benefits. Like, if I’m gonna work a 45-50 hour week and still not have enough to pay rent and electricity at the same time you better believe I’m gonna treat myself to some decent food at the end of a long-ass week. I’m poor and exhausted and hungry and I’m making a cheap steak tonight, die mad about it.

The shittiest thing about it is like, you have to ‘play your part’.  If you try to enjoy anything nice with small windfall or whatever, you’re shat on for having it because either you’re not poor so what are you complaining about or you ARE poor and you’re not allowed any enjoyment.  Your part in this bullshit play is to be miserable and quiet, background characters.

AND THEN on another front, buying well-made goods is an investment.  Get lucky enough to buy something nice that’ll last a while? No, you shoulda bought something cheap to ‘save money’.  You should have kept living day to day instead of trying to INVEST and get ahead.

Being comfortable and getting out of the hole life’s put you in?  That’s not in the script and that pisses people off.

—

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
―Terry Pratchett,Men at Arms:

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.” -Herman Melville