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The moment you realized you were poor growing up
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:50 pm
For me it was discovering that "pizza scissors" arent a real thing and we were apparently too poor to afford a pizza cutter. Lol
Buying grocery items with the lowest price per ounce cost on that tiny tag is another one
I honestly wouldn't have known that half of the things I do are some former poor kid shite if my wife or friends didnt point them out and make fun of me. Makes me laugh when it happens.
I guess when you're a little kid you really dont grasp the concept of being poor, so there are alot of things that you carry into adulthood that you assume are normal.
Has that ever happened to anyone else?
Buying grocery items with the lowest price per ounce cost on that tiny tag is another one
I honestly wouldn't have known that half of the things I do are some former poor kid shite if my wife or friends didnt point them out and make fun of me. Makes me laugh when it happens.
I guess when you're a little kid you really dont grasp the concept of being poor, so there are alot of things that you carry into adulthood that you assume are normal.
Has that ever happened to anyone else?
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Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:53 pm to YoubeHillin
Real Italians cut their pizza with scissors, the romans and the Napolitano for example
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:53 pm to YoubeHillin
When the other children pointed it out. I realized I was poor when someone told me I was.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:53 pm to YoubeHillin
It sounds like your parents were too lazy to buy a $4 pizza cutter
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:53 pm to YoubeHillin
The price per ounce thing is savvy, not poor. My family also used scissors instead of a pizza cutter (I feel fancy when I use a pizza cutter in my own house as an adult). We were firmly middle class.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:53 pm to YoubeHillin
Food Club. It’s not really a club, just a generic version of the great food my rich friends ate.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:54 pm to YoubeHillin
Most people growing up prior to the 80s were relatively poor. I knew we were and appreciate the values I learned.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:54 pm to YoubeHillin
Pizza scissors are now for the rich
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:54 pm to YoubeHillin
my parents were divorced. my mom was poor and my dad rich.
so basically everything we did moms was poor
example: ordering pizza was a super treat at my moms house.
we ate at restaurants all the time at my dads
so basically everything we did moms was poor
example: ordering pizza was a super treat at my moms house.
we ate at restaurants all the time at my dads
This post was edited on 4/26/20 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:55 pm to YoubeHillin
When I had to get the Nike Air Max and all my friends had Jordans.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:57 pm to YoubeHillin
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I guess when you're a little kid you really dont grasp the concept of being poor, so there are alot of things that you carry into adulthood that you assume are normal.
Has that ever happened to anyone else?
Yep. I was like "you mean, it's not normal when you go to the dump that after you dump your stuff you look around to see if there is anything useful?
Although there is poor and there is poor. My parents were able to scrape up enough to send us to Catholic school for 1-8 (Kindergarten was optional in those days), but I did have to wear school pants that had patches on patches (we played tackle everything at recess back then).
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:57 pm to YoubeHillin
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Buying grocery items with the lowest price per ounce cost on that tiny tag is another one
A penny saved brings you that much closer to retirement.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:58 pm to Evil Little Thing
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The price per ounce thing is savvy, not poor. My family also used scissors instead of a pizza cutter (I feel fancy when I use a pizza cutter in my own house as an adult). We were firmly middle class.
My wife grew up kind of lower middle class and still has a lot of those traits from her childhood. She won't go to the doctor unless it's an emergency. She stresses over spending money on things we can easily afford.
I didn't grow up poor and she still calls me a spoiled brat all the time.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 12:58 pm to YoubeHillin
When I got Gobots instead of Transformers for my birthday.
Plus when my dad used a screwdriver to start his Datsun because it cost too much to fix the ignition
Plus when my dad used a screwdriver to start his Datsun because it cost too much to fix the ignition
Posted on 4/26/20 at 1:00 pm to fallguy_1978
When we went to the grocery store and Mama said we couldn’t get any meat unless it had the Pick 5 sticker on it
Posted on 4/26/20 at 1:00 pm to YoubeHillin
Here's another: When you realized that Check soft drinks were not name brand.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 1:03 pm to YoubeHillin
Moving away and discovering that hamburger steaks and gravy with mash potatoes and a piece of bread wasn’t a high end fancy meal.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 1:03 pm to SeaBass23
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Plus when my dad used a screwdriver to start his Datsun because it cost too much to fix the ignition
Son if you had a dad & mom that loved you enough to feed you and put a roof over your head you weren't poor.... They might have been broke and short on cash at times but you were far from poor.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 1:04 pm to YoubeHillin
Cooking navy beans on a Coleman single burner grill by candle light in a trailer was a clue.
This post was edited on 4/26/20 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 4/26/20 at 1:06 pm to SeaBass23
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Gobots
Haha I forgot about those.
Holy hell, those are some fancy pizza scissors. We were ahead of our time in guess.
I forgot about scavenging at the dump.
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