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Re: raising the minimum wage. How do you counter the "a rising tide doesn't lift all boats, just just drowns those who bring in less than $15 in income" argument? I'm sure you've seen the little graphic. I know that isn't true, but it's such a simple powerful and Intuitive argument I never know how to counter it. How *does* someone at a mom and pop who brings in $9/h in value to the company keep their job with a $15 minimum wage?

I’m gonna shoot from the hip here and provide you my honest-to-dog opinion based on my knowledge of the minimum wage issue without doing any additional research... beyond what I’ve done to write, y’know, this:

Raising the Minimum Wage Would Make Our Lives Better

In my experience, people who counter labor rights arguments with “BUT THE MOM AND POP SMALL BUSINESSES!!!!” are derailing. They are using mom and pops as a red herring to distract you from the reality, which is that most companies employing laborers at minimum wage are enormous corporations with shareholders, owners, and CEOs who can survive with one less fucking vacation house so their minimum wage employees can get a gd raise. Or health insurance. Or paid time off.

And as far as these corporations are concerned, if they can’t manage to pay their employees a wage that keeps up with inflation, then they probably shouldn’t be in business anyway. I’ll say that again:

If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage, then you don’t deserve to be in business.

So raise the minimum wage, you cowards.

... is what you should say to them.

inexplicablymypetcat

If a buisiness has employees that they could function without, they would have already fired them. businesses already minimize their costs.

bitchesgetriches

You were told never to enter the crypt… told that the sacred knowledge buried there would break the minds of the weak-willed. You were told… and you disobeyed. Now, as you creep your way forward, guttering torch in hand, you wonder if you’ve made a fatal error. The cobwebs hang thick before you, obscuring your …

Getting a job:

Ask the Bitches: What the Hell Else Can I Do to Get a Job?

How to Write a Resume so You Actually Have a Prayer of Getting Hired

How to Write a Cover Letter like You Actually Want the Job

How to Frame Volunteering on Your Resume When You’ve Never Had a Job

Prep Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: Getting Ready for a Job Interview

Common Job Interview Questions and How to Answer Them with the Confidence of a Mediocre White Dude

10 Questions You Should Never Be Asked in a Job Interview

What to Wear (and What Not to Wear) to a Job Interview

What to Do When You’re Asked About Your Salary in a Job Interview

How NOT to Determine Your Salary

How to Find Remote Work: On Getting the Elusive Work-From-Home Job

High School Students Have No Way of Knowing What Career to Choose. Why Do We Make Them Do It Anyway?

The Actually Helpful, Nuanced, Non-Bullshit Way to Choose a Future Career

Myers-Briggs Personalities and Income

I Just Applied for a Job. How (And When) Should I Follow Up?

Freelancing and side jobs:

Should Artists Ever Work for Free?

Stop Undervaluing Your Own Work, You Darling Fool

Romanticizing the Side Hustle

The Ugly Truth About Unpaid Internships

Freelancer, Protect Thyself: The Importance of a Fair Contract

Ask the Bitches: My Boss Won’t Give Me a Contract and I’m Freaking Out

Workplace benefits:

Workplace Benefits and Other Cool Side Effects of Employment

Your School or Workplace Benefits Might Include Cool Free Stuff

Take Advantage of No-Copay Medical Care

Dafuq Is a Retirement Plan and Why Do You Need One?

How to Save for Retirement When You Make Less Than $30,000 a Year

Navigating the workplace:

My Secret Weapon for Preparing for Awkward Boss Confrontations

Are You Working on the Next Fyre Festival?: Identifying a Toxic Workplace

Woke at Work: How to Inject Your Values into Your Boring, Lame-Ass Job

Looking Weird at Work

Short Hair DO Care: Why Is Short Hair Still Controversial?

How to Successfully Work from Home Without Losing Your Goddamn Mind (Or Your Job)

Episode 001: “Should I Tell My Boss I’m Looking for Another Job?”

Accepted a Coworker’s Social Media Friend Request? Yeah, You’re Gonna Regret That.

Getting a raise:

Salary Range: Are You Asking for Enough?

A Millennial’s Guide to Growing Your Salary

The First Time I Asked for a Raise

You Need to Ask for a Fucking Raise

Should You Increase Your Salary or Decrease Your Spending?

Getting a promotion:

Santa Isn’t Coming and Neither Is Your Promotion

How I Chessmastered Myself into a Promotion

Job Hoppers vs. Career Loyalists: I Want to See Numbers!

The Fascinating Results of Our Job Hopping vs. Career Loyalty Poll

Confession: I Hate My Job and I Don’t Know How to Leave It

A New Job, a New Day, a New Life, and I’m Feeling Good

Episode 009: “I’ve Given up on My Dream Career. Where Do I Go From Here?”

clowniconography

i am a:

⚪️ man

⚪️ woman

🔘 person with adhd

and i am seeking:

⚪️ men

⚪️ women

🔘 meals that can be prepared in under 5 minutes

john-marshall

Here’s a low spoons meal plan that I made as an autistic, mentally ill person, mostly made for a good friend with ADHD and chronic pain.

All of the recipes don’t require any more cooking than a microwave or toaster, and don’t require any utensils other than a fork or spoon. I tried to make as many ingredients as possible shelf stable so that you can pick and choose as needed. It’s made to minimize dishes, time, and gross motor skills required.

kingscrown666

BLESSED

bitchesgetriches

Hi bitches! So I'm looking to start eating healthy while saving money and that seems almost impossible 😭 but I've decided that buying in bulk seems like it would help. I just don't know what foods are good to buy in bulk and won't go bad and waste my money. Help???

We gotchu, boo, not to worry! Here’s our complete guide to buying groceries, complete with a section on buying in bulk:

How to Shop for Groceries like a Boss

love-lays-bleeding

Its been a hot minute since i've read this article, so sorry if i repeat any info, but: your freezer is your best friend. For real. You can chop up onions and bell peppers and portion them out in snack baggies and freeze them to cook later (you can cook em on their own or throw in chicken and rice and thats p much a meal right there!). Freezing sliced bread will avoid stale or moldy bread that gets chucked into compost or waste. You can cook a big recipe and portion it into tupperwares and freeze it. Dont be afraid of freezing fresh produce because it goes bad so fast. Fresh produce that gets frozen when it's fresh has more nutrients than produce that was never frozen and is on the verge of going bad. If you want to be environmentally conscious, you can chop your fruits or veggies, lay them out evenly on a cookie sheet, and freeze them that way, then scoop them into one container instead of using snack or sandwich baggies to portion them. That way, if they stay frozen, they'll stay individual chunks instead of freezing into a solid mass.

If you want to eat healthier, get as much color as possible. Fruits and veg of all rainbow shades. If you're like most of my friends and dont like steamed or boiled veg, try roasting them with salt and whatever spices smell good. Roasted veggies kick boiled veggies' asses.

Rice is a great cheap staple food. If you made too much and it got kinda hard sitting in the fridge, fry it with some veggies, add an egg at the end and wham presto, you have fried rice, how about that. Got rice stuck to the bottom of the pot you boiled it in? Add green tea, warm that shit up, and enjoy your genmaicha. Want something besides rice? You can cook a potato in the mother fucking microwave (just fork the shit out of it first). Also, I never peel my potatos for mashed potatos, because i'm a monster, and the skin gives you a little extra fiber. Wash em first, obvs, but you dont need to go through all the tedious effort. And you dont throw away perfectly good food. (Listen, rustic style potatos are just better, fight me)

Anyway long story short you can buy produce in bulk and then freeze it as long as you're either going to cook it or blend it into a smoothie (shout out to the magic bullet blender, bc in college I lived off homemade smoothies w frozen fruit, frozen spinach, pb, and water). Some foods will sort of just melt when they're thawed, so if you're cooking them? No problem. If you're thawing them to eat straight? ...Some problem. Maybe. Depending on what you're thawing. Anyway good luck and godspeed.

bitchesgetriches

I love it when my babies take the reins with the advice-giving. <3

artifuls

Things I have learned since becoming an Adult™

-don’t tell ur coworkers jack shit. You might think they’re your friends but they will sell you out for a paperclip -everything men tell you is a lie -store brand vanilla ice cream is better than name brand -pregnancy tests from the dollar store work just as well as $20 ones -don’t lie to your doctor -seriously don’t -at some point your card will get declined for $6 and nobody but you will care. It happens to everyone at some point in their life -you will become bffs with your mom (unless she’s a mean person, then skip this one) -you’ll wish you took the advice adults gave you when you were younger, even though it annoyed you at the time -people you went to high school with will become teachers, doctors, etc but they will still do drugs and it will be weird. That’s life, my dude -never underestimate the power of new underwear

girl-rambling

The second last one though

angiethewitch

- pasta is your best friend

- when you move out, try have about £700 of savings as a cushion for emergencies

- don’t underestimate the power of a reusable water bottle

- get a thermos for hot drinks. You’ll thank me one day

- never work for free. Always make sure your overtime is logged. Trust me, I must have worked twice the amount unpaid because I wanted to be a nice person

- always add salt to your pan of boiling pasta

- smaller stores like farm foods, lidl and aldi are your friends, you can get a full trolley of shopping for £15. Don’t go to big supermarkets

- if you’re like me and forget everything, invest in a planner and get in the habit of writing everything in - coffee dates, to do lists, appointments, shopping lists. Write everything in and soon it will be second nature to check it. It doesn’t need to be fancy, just functional

- if you do go to supermarkets, get the stores own brand of stuff, it’s just as nice and half the price of the branded stuff

- invest in good coffee, not crappy coffee

- add honey to everything, it’s so nice and super good for you

- take whatever deals you can get

- if you’re on benefits, take whatever you can get from the government. I used to be prideful and not want to take money that I felt I didnt deserve, but now I don’t care. Apply for as much as you can get

- idk if anywhere else has housing benefits, but if you’re in the uk, get it. It cut my rent in half

- again, uk based, but if you’re on benefits, they don’t tell you this but you need to notify them if you become a student. They didn’t tell us and as a result we lost our benefits for a year, and now we’re going to be paying them back until 2028. TELL THEM. They don’t tell you because they want any chance to catch you out

joanhello2

About that first one:

When it comes to things relevant to the job like pay and hours and the way the boss treats you, DO tell your co-workers everything. Secrecy undermines solidarity and plays into the hands of management.

It’s your life off the job that you are advised to be cagey about. Your love life, your political actions, even your hobbies can inspire a coworker to decide that you’re a bad person and deserve to be screwed over.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

As a teenager I was pretty unimpressed with adults giving each other tours of their homes and kitchens, but as an adult I now understand this is the equivalent of inviting your friends over to see all your toys and that’s chill actually

#that actually makes perfect sense

succubisexual-deactivated201803

if you’re poor, how do you go vegan/vegetarian?

anastrength

-Beans

-Rice

-Bananas

-Frozen veg

-Canned goods

-Buy in bulk

-Eat in season

-Prepare your own food

-Grow your own food, (you can use leftover scraps from some produce)

-Shop sales

vegan-yums

- cook in bulk so you have leftovers (things like chili, veggie burger mix and pasta salad. can eat it all week)

- freeze what you can

- frozen fruit is way cheaper than fresh

- stir frys.

thecashewchronicle-deactivated2

Check out this post for tips on being vegan and without a huge budget to work with–also check out my website and my recipes tag for tons of easy cheap recipes, and check out @fuck-yeah-poor-vegans for tons of absolutely crucial helpful information on how to live vegan on the cheap. Honestly, since going vegan, we eat better for less money! We almost never run out of food either because so much vegan food has a long shelf life. It’s pretty sweet, I know it’s not as easy for everyone (like living in the boonies it would be hard to be vegan, though I know many folks who still do it) but it’s very doable on a budget honestly for most people here in the states. I used to make far less money and eating vegan was honestly a better way to get more nutrition to less money.

jowji-deactivated20230930

if you ever think about sending me an ask and decide not to cause “oh she doesn’t care” or “oh I don’t want to bother her” literally I’m the loneliest piece of shit you can find and would still love you if you sent me the word nuzzle over and over again

bitchesgetriches

I have no idea how to date. I accidentally fell in love with the boy next door at eighteen, married him at twenty-seven, and I don’t think you could call my high school floozyism before then “dating” by any stretch of the imagination (#noregerts). So picture my horror when my single friends tell me about …

bitchesgetriches

We want to quit our jobs and do this full-time. That sentence may have been easy to read, but you have no idea how hard it was to write! I mean, I doubt it’s shocking. If given the opportunity, who wouldn’t want to be a caring Internet grandma slash pushy rich best friend who gives …

We want to quit our jobs and do this full-time.

That sentence may have been easy to read, but you have no idea how hard it was to write!

I mean, I doubt it’s shocking. If given the opportunity, who wouldn’t want to be a caring Internet grandma slash pushy rich best friend who gives great advice but also needs to take it down two notches on a full-time basis?

We’ve been running Bitches Get Riches for just about two years now. We’ve started to get lovely, heartfelt emails from our readers. “I asked for a raise and I got it!” “My first job starts Monday and I wouldn’t have aced the interview without your help!” “I finally moved out and I’m so happy!” Absolutely nothing feels better than hearing you’ve helped someone improve their lives. Nothing.

And that got us to thinking: How many more people could we reach if we could give Bitches Get Riches our all?

The cobbler’s children have no monetization strategies

We badly want to branch out into new media. What does that mean? Podcasts? Videos? Those CG porn banner ads with Overwatch characters?! We don’t really know. But we know it’ll require more of our time than we currently have to give.

We currently split our focus between this and our day jobs. One nourishes our souls, and one pays the bills. We would like to tip-toe towards a future where BGR does both. Because doing both is freaking exhausting.

Yet it’s really hard to figure out how to monetize this blog ethically.

At time of writing we have 90 Patreon donors. Those donors are the only reason Bitches Get Riches is still here. They’ve kept the lights on through major growth and traffic spikes. But our most loyal readers are mostly young and mostly poor, and we can only squeeze so much before it feels kinda gross and wrong.

On the other hand, we’ve gotten a lot of offers to do affiliate programs and sponsored posts. It’s tempting. Especially when those offers are for four figures. Eep! Yankee Candle should make a Corporate Money-scented candle, because that shit smells amazing.

That said, we feel strongly that our readers rely on us to be real. It just doesn’t feel right to push products we ourselves don’t use and love. So we’re not doing it, for now. (If we eventually do, we’ll be transparent about that.)

So in the spirit of trying other things, we’re opening a merch shop!

The Bitches Get Riches Etsy Shop

We have shirts! We have mugs! We have bags! We are bags!

Check it out:

THE BITCHES GET RICHES OFFICIAL MERCH SHOP

And yes, everything is just in time for the holidays. Which holidays? Pssh, Candlenights, obviously! The only winter holiday with rules people actually want to follow—c’mon, be cool and niiice.

So please check it out. If you were thinking of buying some clever graphic tee for your best girl (a relationship designation from the Beach Boy era I would like to bring back immediately), maybe buy one from us! It will help us figure out if we can swing the whole full-time bossypants thing.

flyteestudio

thankyoucorndog-deactivated2015

More tips from my experience:

plain rice goes a long way for meals, and so do dried beans! they usually go for $1/lb at the store

huge bags of potatoes usually go for <$5 at grocery stores, and, when stored properly, they last a long time!

spending a little bit more up front for spices and/or sauces REALLY helps when you’re eating the same plain rice and vegetables every day!

look up ways to make your vegetables last by regrowing or freezing!

check out these subreddits (/r/EatCheapAndHealthy, [check out this post], /r/7DollarDinners, /r/Cheap_Meals, /r/BudgetFood, /r/StudentFood) for more info on eating healthy and cheaply! These help me out a ton!

slow-riot-deactivated20200720

Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil

tramampoline

its so wild like “this generation with no fucking money is learning to prioritize essentials” and all these chucklefucks can write is advertisements for these companies

catparazzi

at least our jeans won’t tear at the seams after two washes

awfullydull-deactivated20170619

FUCK FABRIC SOFTENER IT’S UTTERLY POINTLESS

AND FUCK DRYER SHEETS LITERALLY NOBODY EVER HAS ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM WITH STATIC TO WARRANT PAYING OUT THE ASS FOR THAT SHIT

DO YOU WANT CLEAN CLOTHES? YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO BUY FUCKING DETERGENT JUST MAKE YOUR OWN* IT’S SO GODDAMN EASY AND 80X CHEAPER

FUCK THE ENTIRE LAUNDRY INDUSTRY *Fuck The Entire Laundry Industry Recipe

1 cup Washing Soda (not Baking Soda. Different things.)

1 cup Borax (not Boric Acid. Also a different thing.)

½ cup - 1 cup grated bar soap (you can use literally anything. I often use Ivory because it’s easy to get and I find it works well, a lot of people like Fels-Naptha, which is an actual laundry bar. Some people use Dr. Bronner’s. Really does not fucking matter.) After grating your soap, combine all ingredients. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Use maybe a ¼ cup per load.

madsciences

^^^ I’ve done this for years now and it works as well as any store bought detergent

ghostoftwentysomethingspast

WHAT Thank you, tumblr user awfullydull! Your URL does no justice to the good advice you give!

legallynonbinary

Also you can MAKE your own washing soda very VERY cheaply.

Step one: acquire $5 bag of baking soda from Costco.

Step two: lay that motherfucking baking soda out on a baking tray.

Step three: bake the baking soda on a tray in an oven at 400° for 1 hour (to make the moisture evaporate, leaving washing soda)

Step four: revel in how easy and cheap it is to make your own washing soda, and maybe take a moment to be angry that the industry upcharges the fuck out of something that is so easy to make.

legallynonbinary

I see some of y'all complaining about static and/or wanting nice smelling laundry. Go to a craft store, find 100% wool yarn balls. If it doesn’t come in a ball, ask an employee to make it into a tight ball for you. Wash in the washing machine to make it felted. Remove from washer, add a few drops of essential oil to the ball, allow to seep in. Dry with clothing. Doesn’t need to be rewashed ever, and if it stops smelling, add few more drops of essential oil. Bam, reusable dryer sheets.

polar-academia-deactivated20230

I love this post so much it’s filled with helpful advice, hatred, saving money, and fucking the system all in one

sagely-n-a-i-v-e

Kudos to all of this, but don’t ask a craft store employee at a chain craft store to make your wool yarn into a tight ball for you. I worked at JoAnn Fabrics for a year and a half. We literally have no resources or ability to do something like that. You could do a better job yourself at home. The chain craft store employee can’t look up a youtube tutorial for making yarn laundry balls on the clock, you can.

If someone had walked up to me while I was working at JoAnn and asked me to take a half hour or more out of my shift to try and fail in making some kind of tight yarn laundry contraption I probably would have burst into tears. And if my manager had come out and found me trying and failing to wind yarn when I was supposed to be running go backs I would have gotten a talking to. Craft store employees aren’t allowed, able, or willing to do your crafts for you. That’s why it’s a craft store.

Don’t hurt retail workers in your quest for overriding the capitalist system. For the love of everything beautiful please just look it up.

bitchesgetriches

What’s that? The Bitches have a fucking PODCAST?! You’re goddamn right we do. And you can listen to our very first episode right now at the link in my bio! Get thee to a podcast streaming service! . . . #bitchesgetriches #podcast #personalfinance #womendopersonalfinance #financialfeminism #moneytalk https://www.instagram.com/p/B3uxZB8nSAE/?igshid=ymp0vdw73qm3

My Lyft Driver is *chef's kiss*

Ok so I took a Lyft today to get to work on time. This might seem to be a monetary fail BUT I picked up my health card and this will make me about $500. Net win!

BUT THIS LYFT DRIVER IS WEARING A VEST

like a cute bartender's vest and I can't????

It's just so cute. I must tip well. Also, 5stars for great driving, clean car, and getting me to work on time. No issue with handling the morning rush traffic. Good job, Fashionable Lyft Driver!

#lyft #liveleanandtreadlightly

piperderg-deactivated20221106

Please boost this!

fairycontessa

From the website’s FAQ:

“Who is this for? Full Cart is perfect for hard working individuals and families looking for a way to extend their grocery budget.

Why is there no charge for the groceries? Full Cart partners with generous companies and organizations you know and love to cover the cost of your meals. All you pay is shipping.“

This makes my heart happy (and less stressed)

jay-kwellyn

Stay blessed y’all

piperderg-deactivated20221106

Please boost this!

fairycontessa

From the website’s FAQ:

“Who is this for? Full Cart is perfect for hard working individuals and families looking for a way to extend their grocery budget.

Why is there no charge for the groceries? Full Cart partners with generous companies and organizations you know and love to cover the cost of your meals. All you pay is shipping.“

This makes my heart happy (and less stressed)

begettingmonsters

1. this used to be called Fed 40 and transformed into Full Cart, it’s parent organization is Feeding Children Everywhere

2. Regular shipping is $19.99, but the food is free, and they frequently post coupons to lower your shipping cost if you follow their facebook page

3. some things are full meals and some are meal bases that can be easily/cheaply added to or when necessary eaten alone as a nutritious meal, plus they have a forum for sharing recipes using the items

misc-lisa

The notes to this say the "climate" coupon has expired, but still a good resource worth checking into.

avari20

Broke af?

But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that there’s a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young son…on 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?

Let me tell you a thing.

This woman saved my life last year. Actually saved my life. I had a piggy bank full of change and that’s it. Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations. I cried a lot then.

This is real talk, people: I marked down exactly what I needed to buy, totaled it, counted out that exact change, and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed so I didn’t have to dump a load of change on just one person. I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring? Utter shame suffused me. The reasons behind that are another post all together.

AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British woman who was on benefits for years. Things got desperate. She had to find a way to feed herself and her son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket. But the recipes she came up with are amazing.

You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries, but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard, this woman will tell you what to do with it. Check what you already have. Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already.

Here’s her list of kitchen basics.

Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think. Here’s a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice. And kneading bread is therapeutic.

Make your own pasta–gluten free.

She gets it. She really does. This is the article that started it all. It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.

She has vegan recipes.

A carrot, a can of kidney beans, and some cumin will get you a really filling soup…or throw in some flour for binding and you’ve got yourself a burger.

Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? She covers that in her Microwave Cooking section.

She has a book, but many recipes can be found on her blog for free. She prices her recipes down to the cent, and every year she participates in a project called “Living Below the Line” where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days.

Things improved for me a little, but her website is my go to. I learned how to bake bread (using my crockpot, but that was my own twist), and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then, just in case I need them again. She gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and that’s a fabulous feeling.

Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. That’s your super emergency money. Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.

I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–you won’t be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–and dammit, food’s right in the center of that.

If you don’t need this now, pass it on to someone who does. Pass it on anyway, because do you REALLY know which of the people in your life is in need? Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank? Trust me: someone out there needs to see this.

his-quietus-make

Reblogging for all the impoverished students. Jack is the breadline queen. And if you don’t need this - donate to your nearest food bank, stat.

breelandwalker

Reblogging for students, working folks, and everyone who’s ever had to choose between essentials at the store because you can only afford milk OR bread, not both.

gholateg

Fuck hunger. If anyone can find this useful…

nooresk-deactivated20190905

Links are broken, here’s her website: https://cookingonabootstrap.com/

mizstorge

Good recipes, good food, seriously low cost.

raspberrymama

@bitchesgetriches I thought y'all would find this helpful to your followers

bitchesgetriches

You were heckin right.

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