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To start, this is a throwaway account, but I just had to get this off of my chest. I work at Kroger's, getting $7.25 an hour, while skipping meals. Yesterday, I decided I'd had enough, and stormed into the break room and talked to the manager. I asked her if she could pay me in advance, and she just laughed. I've worked in this damn job for 2 years, barely taking any breaks, and the moment I ask if she could pay me in advance so I could have three meals in a day, she just laughed it off. Absolutely sickening.
Yeah that's what I meant by "for years." The up front costs are wild and the break even point requires you to do a good job for... probably 5 years. The worse you do, the longer it takes to recoup
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Blight is a bastard.
Most home growers won't save money on their vegetable gardens for years, and even then only if you absolutely maximize your usage - grow staples, eat seasonally even when you're sick of what's in season, can and preserve aggressively, compost, save seeds. Even then, a lot of the press about "Saving money" compares your harvest to the price of organic vegetables at Whole Foods. Which, from a nutritional standpoint, is accurate. But if you're struggling to buy groceries, chances are you weren't paying for regeneratively grown organic arugula to start with.
Growing your own is great for your health and the environment, and my vegetable garden is bigger than a lot of people's lawns, but anyone telling you it's a money saving hack is probably in a very different place in life than the "I go to work hungry" crowd.