People aren't buying soap and deodorant because they are already struggling to pay other bills
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Answer (1 of 3): I should have just passed this one up…but I didn’t. This will not be ‘politically correct’, but well, what is…is. Many of our more rotund brothers and sisters have difficulty with hygiene. Well, so do some skinny ones to be fair. But we’re discussing the more obese ones now. In m...
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I think that first article is fake. In Tescos, soap is about 66p per 100g, and 100g would last about 2 weeks. Likewise, the cheapest deodorants are about £1 per can, which would last about 2 weeks. That's about 10p per day. The cost of a shower is about 40p, so if someone were really poor, they'd stop showering rather than try to save money on soap.
It could be true that people are becoming smelly because they cutting the cost of hygiene, but not by not buying soap and deodorant.
This is what real poverty is like in UK, while our government sends billions to kill people in Ukraine and the Middle East. Start at 11:00. Can't afford to charge his electric wheelchair because he's on emergency electric and only has £4 to last 2 weeks. If this doesn't move you, I can't say heaven help you because that's not where you'll be going:
