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re: The moment you realized you were poor growing up
Posted on 4/27/20 at 10:33 am to YoubeHillin
Posted on 4/27/20 at 10:33 am to YoubeHillin
Never did
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Posted on 4/27/20 at 10:39 am to I Bleed Garnet
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Never did
i guess you clicked the wrong thread by accident huh?
Posted on 4/27/20 at 11:14 am to CAD703X
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i guess you clicked the wrong thread by accident huh?
No I clicked the correct thread, just wanted to comment because I can
This was a fun read!
Posted on 4/27/20 at 11:27 am to YoubeHillin
When I was teenager, my Mom went to S. Korea on a trip, I asked for her some Jordans, or any Nikes since I knew Jordans was going to be a miracle. I figured I had a shot, since they are made there and she was going to some big fashion market. I patiently wait the few weeks she is gone. She came back with some Korean brand shoe with Korean script on the side and bottoms. To top it off, she didn't come back with one pair, she came back with two, in different colors.
Knowing what I know now, we had money, but my parents just didn't spend it, it sucked as a kid, but I am glad they didn't now. I also know where my habit of buying a shoe I like in different colors comes from.
Knowing what I know now, we had money, but my parents just didn't spend it, it sucked as a kid, but I am glad they didn't now. I also know where my habit of buying a shoe I like in different colors comes from.
Posted on 4/27/20 at 11:28 am to I Bleed Garnet
A lot of post about people growing up in the depression era... My grandmother did...
She was pretty well off, her second husband was a retired well known veterinarian. She got a brand new Caddy every 4 or 5 years... After he died, she had a “boyfriend” who later died. WWII vet being buried at Arlington, my uncle was with her on the flight to DC, after their flight breakfast, she whipps out a news paper bag and puts a leftover bagel in it and tells my uncle, “we can eat it later if we get hungry”...
My uncle tells her, I think we can have lunch somewhere when that happens..
Amazing some of the stuff that sticks with people.
She was pretty well off, her second husband was a retired well known veterinarian. She got a brand new Caddy every 4 or 5 years... After he died, she had a “boyfriend” who later died. WWII vet being buried at Arlington, my uncle was with her on the flight to DC, after their flight breakfast, she whipps out a news paper bag and puts a leftover bagel in it and tells my uncle, “we can eat it later if we get hungry”...
My uncle tells her, I think we can have lunch somewhere when that happens..
Amazing some of the stuff that sticks with people.
This post was edited on 4/27/20 at 11:31 am
Posted on 4/27/20 at 11:32 am to LSUJML
Neck tags were cut out.... she just couldn't remove the sewed in logo without messing up the sweater I guess
Posted on 4/28/20 at 10:50 am to cubsfan5150
When I asked for these:
And instead got some $14 Voit pumps from Wal-Mart (couldn’t find a picture of them, but they had a red triangle pump on the tongue).
The pump blew out within the first week.
And instead got some $14 Voit pumps from Wal-Mart (couldn’t find a picture of them, but they had a red triangle pump on the tongue).
The pump blew out within the first week.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 10:58 am to Aubie Spr96
Man my dream was to get a invited to those balls
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aubrie
Posted on 4/28/20 at 11:03 am to Boo Krewe
Parents were both state workers back when it wasn't as lucrative as now. Red beans and rice with powdered milk many nights.
Also, when Mom the RN had to work and State Trooper Dad cooked supper, we had "Hungarian Goulash." It was boiled weenies in water, smathered with an imported mustard from France called "French's."
Nobody told us we were poor.. Clothes from Kent's, Globe and Mrs. Ken's Po Boys Store.
Also, when Mom the RN had to work and State Trooper Dad cooked supper, we had "Hungarian Goulash." It was boiled weenies in water, smathered with an imported mustard from France called "French's."
Nobody told us we were poor.. Clothes from Kent's, Globe and Mrs. Ken's Po Boys Store.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 11:42 am to CrawDude
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the Great Depression
My maternal grandmother was unfathomably poor growing up so I never felt poor growing up. She was an early teen during the Great Depression with several siblings. I remember her telling me that on weekdays, all she would have to eat for an entire day was an orange. A single orange. She would peel it in the morning and have half for breakfast. The rind would go into a drawer to dry out. She wouldn't have anything for lunch. For dinner, she would eat the other half and the dried rind/peel. People in her community were wealthy just for owning a healthy fruit tree.
At Christmas growing up, my maternal grandparents would give me a stocking and of course I hated it when I was young. It would be a long Army sock stuffed with about 10 oranges, apples and peaches. When I was a teenager, I finally understood that a stocking of fruit is what my grandmother got for Christmas during a GOOD year when she was young.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 12:18 pm to AutoYes_Clown
I always thought eating fish, beans and potatoes 3-4 nights a week was just good eating. Mom would let me skip school to go fishing so I thought she was a cool mom, didn't realize it was because we needed the food.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 12:44 pm to AutoYes_Clown
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It would be a long Army sock stuffed with about 10 oranges, apples and peaches.
and nuts. lots of unshelled pecans, walnuts..uh.. 'brazil' nuts..almonds..and usually a small amount of nickels & pennies in the bottom. *maybe* a quarter if we were lucky.
Posted on 4/28/20 at 12:47 pm to I Bleed Garnet
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No I clicked the correct thread, just wanted to comment because I can
This was a fun read!
my childhood experience is not your entertainment!
Posted on 4/28/20 at 12:53 pm to OWLFAN86
just realized the inadvertent pun.
Rough days back then. I remember wearing a new pair of jeans from Walmart which are the Rustler brand, I don’t even think I was at school half an hour before the kids were teasing me.
Made some poor choices on who I hung out with as a kid
Rough days back then. I remember wearing a new pair of jeans from Walmart which are the Rustler brand, I don’t even think I was at school half an hour before the kids were teasing me.
Made some poor choices on who I hung out with as a kid
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