# Have poor people been forced to eat pet food?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-poor-people-been-forced-to-eat-pet-food/123743>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 13, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-poor-people-been-forced-to-eat-pet-food/123743 "2002-08-13T20:13:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-poor-people-been-forced-to-eat-pet-food/123743/81 "2002-08-19T14:06:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by joyofdiscord \*  
> \*\*A Milk Bone™ of contention, perhaps? Har Har.
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> First, you get your stamps into as many 1’s as possible, since 1’s are the only stamps you can receive in change. They are the ones that circulate, and you don’t have to have a serial number that matches the book. (I’d suspect that they might have some value as a sort of black market currency, valued at less then face value, 50-75%, say. Then, you take the 1’s and buy the tiniest things you can, one at a time. Kool-Aid packets are popular. This gets you coins, in the area of 75-90 cents. Repeat a few times and you have your six pack. Granted, this is a time consuming process, and if you do it all in the same store, you are likely to get reported, but it _does_ happen…\*\*

Another way is to sell the stamps at one half to three quarters of their face value, and then use the proceeds to buy beer and cigarettes. Still another way is to to take someone else into the grocery store with you, buy $40 worth of food with your stamps while your friend buys $20 or $30 worth of beer or wine and tobacco with cash, and trade when you get outside. I’m told this second method isn’t illegal, though I don’t think I’d want to test it in court.

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-poor-people-been-forced-to-eat-pet-food/123743/82 "2002-08-19T14:24:25Z")

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I have it in Options - Junk Mail deletion set to _immediate delition_ and it works for me.

The problem I am having since yesterday is that when accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express it will reject the password. Yesterday it was doing it like 90% of the time and today it is more like 20% but still doing it. No problem with the browser though.

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-poor-people-been-forced-to-eat-pet-food/123743/83 "2002-08-19T14:41:54Z")

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Shit, that was for another thread. With being logged out and having to try several times to get a post in this is whatr happens. Sorry about that. Mods, feel free to delete this and previous posts.

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