Just received a message from a friend in England. More like a warning.

[EuterpeThelo]

56. I started

hoarding coffee in January because I saw where this was going to go. In a state where someone makes minimum wage (and their employers often schedule them for only part-time hours), just having coffee to brew themselves at home in the morning could take as much as three hours of their work per week! (Isn't that one of the ridiculous judgments that the elite sling at all of us useless eaters, that going out to buy coffee is why so many can't afford houses??)

My family actually re-activated the "pandemic grocery" that we kept during the dark days of 2020-2021 and now it's "tariff grocery." Not hoarding exactly, but just when we get a good sale on something, we buy a little extra and throw it out in a shelf in the garage. The good thing is, doing that that also allowed us to go and donate four bags of stuff to a little neighborhood "free library" that turned into a free food pantry immediately when SNAP was cut a couple months ago.