Help your local businesses and people

[SudokuQueen]

Dunno if anyone else's area is the same, but my area is starting to have a lot of businesses feeling the pressure, especially food businesses like restaurants, bakeries etc. I imagine everywhere is the same.

A lot of these places are now doing deliveries to try and save their business. Some are doing deals etc.

Please use these rather than supermarkets. Also if you can, offer to pay forward for an elderly or vulnerable person who is desperately needing food and unable to find any thanks to the bastards that keep buying everything.

There's a lot of people out there trying to help those that cannot find anything and are struggling. They won't die from corona, they will die from starvation. Thanks to the bastards panic buying.

Support the local businesses or they won't remain. Help those that are struggling if you can. You don't even need to go out to do it, pay for it via bacs. I get why you can't if you're also struggling, but there's apparently a ton of people on here earning a lot of money. Start helping others.

We have just placed an order with a local restaurant to help them stay afloat and I'm going to also pay for someone else to get 5 meals. Whether I have to search on FB to find someone organising this stuff or just give the money to the restaurant.

Plus considering how many here are on 100k salaries or their husbands are, they can afford to help others out.

Depending on the state of the economy after all this, let alone during, those £100k salaries could be rapidly gone. Whilst I'm not on anything like £100k, I earn good money and at the moment feel relatively ok about work. The longer this goes on, the more concerned I will be.

If people have spare money now, their best bet is to save it. Whilst I get the "do your bit to support local business", people really need to save the spare as a potential cushion for the future.

@Reginabambina

I never said you should be helping to feed everyone. I said buy an extra meal deal that restaurants are doing and get it passed onto another PERSON who is struggling. £20 or whatever the restaurants near you are offering. For one person. I never said you should be feeding an army or buying multiple deals. Just one extra.

I earn a third of what your husband does and I can afford it. If you can't, like I said you're either a liar or just shit at finances. Haven't you been saving money this whole time while he was earning that amount for bad situations? Or just spending it all on schools and other stuff?

But this thread is about giving which clearly isn't what you're going to do so not sure why you posted? Just to try and make others feel bad for you or what?

£100k really doesn’t stretch as far as you imagine. Especially in times like these. Who knows who is going to have an income at the end of this?

I don’t earn £100K and neither does my husband. I am still paying my cleaner, I will still pay the nursery even though they’re closing (as long as we both have jobs, and we can both work from home) I am going to try and spend in the local community where I can and if our tenants struggle to pay rent, we will help them out too!
We have to do what ever we can, however little, to try and keep the economy moving!