Priorities?

This links up really to the thread about spending so much at Christmas. I've just seen a piece on the local news about the number of people relying on food banks at Christmas and it showed a single mother with a five year old and a very young baby. She was saying about her difficulties of paying the bills and then having to buy food, presents and decorations, and so she's been relying on regular deliveries of food from a food bank - not just one off donations. The thing that struck me though was the nice furniture and the fact that the 5 year old had what looked like an I-pad - certainly a tablet. Now of course that might have been a present from a grandparent/absent father, or be an oldish one bought before circumstances changed, there is no way of knowing, but it did seem strange to me that she was talking about buying presents and decorations while relying on charity for food.

I know we had an upset before when someone dared to mention some people on benefits having expensive tv's, so I hope this won't go the same way, but what are your thoughts about this subject?

Priorities?