Wisdom in storing food...

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Wisdom in storing food...

beefche · Profuse Pontificator

See, hic, that's why you give the impression of being so good. My first thoughts were.....how much credit card debt does she have? Why get an INTEREST ONLY LOAN and the payment amounts are $2500 (too much house for income?). Why isn't the father at least helping with the food (or is he? we don't have his side). Yes, I feel badly for her....but, my cynical mind thinks of these things.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Yes, I thought about some of those things too, beef, but the take away for me (since I don't have an interest only loan or a really high payment or an ex) is that food storage is important. That and how fast everything can change. And having savings and less debt.

LoudmouthMormon · Profuse Pontificator

I've been thinking that our church's latest council on financial matters is very common sense and not rocket science. But the world is full of people who dropped out of 'financial stability' elementary school.

By the way, the council:
Pay Tithes and Offerings
Avoid Debt
Use a Budget
Build a Reserve
Teach Family Members

LM

arbilad · Head Chef

I feel really sorry for her too. And food storage would really help in a situation like that. We've been taught to live on debt, though, and it's hard to unlearn that.

beefche · Profuse Pontificator

You know, it's interesting to me that people outside of the church don't have at least some food stored. I'm not talking about this woman in particular, but when I've gone to my friends' homes, they live meal to meal it seems. My family always has food in the pantry (not a year's supply, but at least a couple of weeks to a month).

I hate going into the pantry and not finding anything to make. I stayed at a friend's house a couple of months ago and literally couldn't find anything to make for her kids, other that PB&J.

I'm grateful that our church teaches not only spiritual saving ordinances but also temporal ones. And they teach the connection between the two.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

I sort of think that 15% is normal for LDSs as well as the population at large.

(That refers to this quote-- "Statistics show that no matter what the Church does, no more than 15% have storage." - Presiding Bishop H. David Burton)