re: Food and activities us OT Poors had growing up

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Man, some of y'all have some stories.

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prob either because their parents went through the depression or their grandparents, so that shite is passed down.

Its like grandma reusing foil, and that bottle of spray bleach just has water in it, repurposed.

I see others were remembering their attire. I had a LOT of hand-me-downs from older cousins and even the 2 bigger boys from across the street from our house.

The only new clothes I was guaranteed to get every year was socks and underwear for Christmas and my Paran would take me to J.C. Penney late every summer before school started and spend at least $100 on clothes for me.

Back then that would buy 5 pairs of pants, at least 5 new shirts, a belt or two, new dress shoes and a pair of sneakers.

Once I got jobs to make some money I'd use some of that to buy my own clothes after I gave my mom $10 a week to help with bills----------that was a full day's pay back then at $1.25 an hour.

My grandma would dry apples to use in fried pies. They'd sit out in the sun on a bedsheet on the picnic table.

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Living in a trailer and having the vents in the floor, would sit over it with a big sleep shirt wrapped around me in the mornings with the heater pumping before school.

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My camphouse has vents in the floor. I had to put a milk crate over it to keep the dog from laying on it all night, making me wake up with the sweats.

#firstworldproblems

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As kid I use to sweet talk those server ladies and always got more fried chicken then I deserved

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not to be 'that guy' but didn't the cashier at the end of the line look at what was on your plate and add it up at that time?

We did the cheese toast but we weren’t toilet paper guarding poor. That must have sucked. People today think they have it so bad but even homeless people have cell phones

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reduced for quick sale

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I do that now with lunch. I figure why overpay. It adds up.

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And I look back fondly at every bit of it. Absolutely wish I could spend another one of those summers like I did and with who I did in the late 80’s and early 90’s.

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if i had a million dollars to give away on one thing it would be to experience one of those 'hard' days again with my family with the full appreciation that age brings. with hard work and simple living comes purity of thought.

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I made these for my kids when they were young and they suggested I open a doughnut shop selling them. I still think they are the best doughnuts. Greasy and good.


They're damn fine with a little homemade powdered sugar and milk glaze.

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hard to make these days because you rarely see the 'thin' cans of buttermilk bisuits anymore..the cheap ones that were like 60 cents.

everything is 'grand' now.

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My grandma used to wash and reuse zip locs


My Memaw did the same thing

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mine did this.

she also put every single rubberband from newspaper deliveries over 50 years on the back of one of the kitchen chairs. red..blue..yellow..beige...it was like a damn indian totem by the end.

she also rinsed and folded aluminum foil and had a drawer full.