“Shamed” for Thanksgiving contribution to school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:School secretaries are notoriously mean and they need that tough exterior to do their jobs. You will encounter much worse. Just smile snd thank them profusely no matter what they do.

[Anonymous]

How strange. Why would anyone say something like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess I'm the only person on earth who loves the store brand Neufatchel cheese.

We have beaten this to death but obvs that person is a jerk. If I had a relationship with an admin, I'm bring it up. If not, I wouldn't.

I was going to say the same ! 1/3 of the fat, tastes amazing on a bagel. My kid can't tell the difference.

and I grew up poor, on welfare. now we are a top earning family, but live like we make 30k. we only buy store brands (especially because many of them are better than the brand names). and Kirkland? LOVE that brand.

[Anonymous]

Saw this today and was reminded of this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/10gvwep/complaining_about_what_the_food_bank_gave_them/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who buys a lot of cream cheese and can never find enough, it is amazing you were able to find any in the stores as Thanksgiving approaches. Thank you for your donation, period.

Don't worry about the administrator collecting the items. She probably just knows that the recipients have preferences and that is not for generic items. If you have ever worked at a food bank/food pantry, you will notice taht some recipients will complain about receiving generic, very loudly. When I provided pro bono services on a case, my client complained that they were not being interviewed in a fancy legal office but instead, at the small conference room at legal services, and that we could not afford to provide legal assistance for every single one of their legal issues, but just the singular issue agreed to in the retainer.

It sounds ungrateful but it is just that if something is offered for free, some recipients are merely hopeful that they will get the royal treatment, that they perceive or imagine someone wealthy would receive - not an experience someone in the middle class could afford routinely. Proctor and Gamble and many consumer brands have done research on this and a lot of people aspire to purchase Tide or Coca-Cola, or Dawn. It may not be any better than generic, but it is the perception.

and studies have shown people assume less value in anything they are getting for free. In one of those books about economics, it was suggested to always charge something even if it was only $3 because of the perception of the lack of value/quality of anything that is given away for free.

[Anonymous]

Our school had a thanksgiving brunch and I did notice generic from concentrate orange juice. I have no idea who bought it.

[Anonymous]

If they wanted specific brands, they should have taken the time to provide that information. My school did - the list had the exact brand, flavor, etc. of every item.