Fraud is rampant.
Since you mentioned fancier purses:
Here in Texas we have western ladies purses - big and they are covered with fancy cowboy designs and are leather and cost a hundred dollars and up and you'd be lucky to find a leather one for a hundred dollars. They are heavy due to being made of leather and being that big.
I didn't want a pure that heavy and I would not spend that much money on a purse. I now have a beautiful ladies cowboy purse. I saw the most beautiful one I have ever seen in a muted pink with a large turquoise stone on the front and clear sparkling stones around the edge of the purse and around the turquoise stone.
I went in WALGREENS that is across the street from me, and saw that beautiful purse among others on a display case. I went over there and thought this purse would be hundreds of dollars and I would never buy it.
It looks like it is leather, but it isn't. It's made of a rather soft plastic that has been treated to look like leather. I couldn't tell the difference except this purse is lighter than leather. It was $40. I thought if I wanted until Wednesday which is senior day at that drug store, I would get it ten percent off that price, except it was the only one there like that and if I waited, it wouldn't be there when Wednesday rolled around as this was Saturday.
The clerk came over and I've been in that store so much, she is familiar with me. I told her I wanted that purse and was afraid to wait until senior day to get it. She said in a quiet voice, she would give me the senior discount that day. I now have this purse paying in the thirties for it.
If you saw me in a store, you would think I was Miss Gotrocks because I have this Texas cowboy beautiful purse.
I would bet the purses you wife sees with these EBT people are the real leather ones - I can't afford that and they can't eat that expensive purse. Extra money I have after paying bills is mainly in long term food storage.
” (Coach and that flowery kind)”
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I have Coach and Vera Bradley(the flowery kind).
No EBT card though——I’m apparently doing something wrong.
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