re: College Poverty Stories

First few years of college were in Oklahoma. Parents would put $100 in my checking account on the beginnning of the month and had a gas card that my mom watched like a hawk.
Would hit up the shite grocery store for the “special of the day” meat (the old meat they are throwing out after that day with the brown tint”. Grab a lb of store brand elbow macaroni. Brown the frick out of the meat with Tony’s add ketchup and water and you got food for 3-5 days, would cost me like $5. The Oklahoma boys called that shite goulosh.

I’d wait to put gas in my truck until the gas station was about 30min from closing at 10:30 towards the end of the month. If I timed it right I only needed about a 1/4 tank of gas and the ol girl at the register would hook me up with all the fried shite still in the case instead of throwing it out for $5. Would eat like a king that night, then for lunch and dinner the next night.

Got good at cooking and a few guys on the team would put together some
Money and I’d make a massive chili or gumbo and we could make that last for a few days. I got to eat at the cafeteria 5Xs a week, so I didn’t starve. But I played ball and cafeteria food once a day didn’t go very far b/w the running and practice. When I came home after my first semester my mom didn’t want me to go back b/c I was so skinny.

Got lucky and got a good rep around town... a couple of us would go fish the ponds around town to catch bass for food. One guy was a green jeans, but would let us help clean up around his ranch in exchange to be able to fish the ponds on it for food.

I can’t believe I lived off of $20 a week. It was insane...

Once we resorted to using paper towels as toilet paper

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Last time I was in Bama I found myself out at 2am standing up in the bed of a jacked up Silverado with a spotlight and an AR15 looking for a problem hog that was "causing issues" on the family property. My wife is lucky that I grew up fairly redneck and love that shite

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For someone in IT, you certainly know how to get your redneck on.

We had a roommate that did ramen noodles every damn day and over time the smell just disgusted me so I couldn’t stomach eating them.

Something I’d do was get Pizza Hut when they were selling those shitty Pizza Mia’s for $5 apiece, but you had to buy 3 to get them at $5. I’d do that and eat them 1/3 at a time. They were getting pretty nasty looking by meal 6-9. Then I’d do hot dogs on white bread to finish out the week.

I could fill my gas tank up when I went home, but that was about 75 miles, so I’d have to fill up and try to make it two weeks on that tank until I could get back home. Pulled into the driveway on fumes numerous times.

Learned a lot about torrents and Limewire. How my laptop survived my whole college career is amazing.

Where we really shined was how shitty our living conditions were. The floor was so fricked up that it felt like I was walking down a little hill when I walked from the living room to my bedroom.

Never washed sheets, just turned them over or rotated. Had one roommate that slept on the mattress without the sheet. Furniture was so shitty.

Rented a two bedroom house one time with two other guys and the third roommate just hung curtains around the “breakfast nook” and slept in there.

But, Jesus Christ, did I have some fricking dynasties on NCAA ‘07.

The school I attended rejected my financial aid twice while I was performing clinical rotations out of town. I had to eat tuna fish and leftovers the staff had. My roommate got fired for sexual harassment and had to sell his house halfway through the rotation so I had to move. I befriended a cougar that let me stay with her until I got tired of her drunk arse. I then stayed at a half finished rent house without hot water for the final 3 weeks.

We used to cook mac and cheese in the microwave, this was before the days of the easy mac cups. We would get a tupperware container, fill it with water and the noodles, nuke it for a few minutes, then mix it in with water and the cheese mix. Then, heat up those pink hot dogs in the microwave, then cut them up and add them to the mac and cheese. That was dinner some nights.

Also, natty lite.

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drank too much stale beer from “nip mart”. Corner of Nicholson and Jennifer Jean.

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Nip Mart? You mean Raj’s?

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My roommate and I got into a fist fight over a can of spaghettio’s once.

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One of my roommates used to make "Fancy Spaghettio's" He would heat them up, then heat up some chopped onions and that ground meat that comes in a tube, and mix it all together.

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Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Ramen noodles
Eggs

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I still eat this