For those of us who are 1. working poor and earning minimum wage (on salary), 2. lower-middle class (on salary), 3. independent contract gig workers, I don’t need to state the obvious so I won’t (mention that food prices are still crazy AF). For essentials like food, especially with the holidays coming up and the…
Category: The Crockpot
It’s Friday! Just Got Paid? Ya’ll Boycotting Retail Spending or Nah?
Today is No-Buy Day where folks are refusing to buy retail for 24 hours in protest of the new regime’s and corporate’s rollbacks of DEI policies and programs. I been pulled all the way back on frivolous spending and am strict about sticking to my weekly/monthly budgets so I guess you could say I’m locked…
Socially Awkward, Social is Sharecropping: Is It Time to Leave a Mark (X)?
I just went down a rabbit hole on the website formally known as Twitter… Y’all! Is it time for descendants of U.S. slavery to get off X? There are entire accounts dedicated solely to disparaging, disrespecting and spewing threats and false info about Black Americans ALL. DAY. LONG. And these accounts have 10s/100s of thousands/millions…