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re: The moment you realized you were poor growing up
Posted on 4/26/20 at 3:11 pm to YoubeHillin
Posted on 4/26/20 at 3:11 pm to YoubeHillin
My father and I volunteered at a recycling day helping people unload their cars and trucks with whatever they wanted to dump and get rid of. Nearly everything they were throwing away was nicer than everything we owned. Then, when I got to college, my SO pointed out that I didn't have a single article of clothing that wasn't:
1. over 8 years old
2. a hand-me-down
3. from goodwill or some place similar
4. came from a club membership or school activity
1. over 8 years old
2. a hand-me-down
3. from goodwill or some place similar
4. came from a club membership or school activity
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Posted on 4/26/20 at 3:16 pm to YoubeHillin
quote:I'm dealing with this now. I told myself that I wasn't worried about them working because they were always involved in something enriching or productive. Having said that, there's a LOT to be said for working a job when you're a teenager. Make sure this happens regardless of where you are on the pay scale.
I love my kids and they want for nothing, but I still kind of wish they could experience a bit of what I went through to build some resilience and character.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 3:17 pm to YoubeHillin
I knew we didn’t have much but the moment that still sticks to me was the Christmas we had that a church sponsored us. I didn’t know at the time why a strange person was bringing us gifts but later figured it out. Will never forget it. Although I have paid it forward many times, it will never be enough
This post was edited on 4/26/20 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 4/26/20 at 3:58 pm to northshorebamaman
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My first bike was kind of umm... different looking. I didn't really think anything of it and had a blast on it like most kids. I didn't find out until years later that my stepdad had spent who-knows-how-long driving around town digging through dumpsters looking for bicycle parts. My mom said it took him weeks to find every part. He put it all together, painted it blue, and splurged on a new seat and streamers for the handlebars. He passed in 2013.
Your step-dad was a good man.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:03 pm to Eighteen
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We definitely used the government blocks of cheese
Anyone who tells you there's a better cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches either was never poor or is a damned liar.
This post was edited on 4/26/20 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:04 pm to YoubeHillin
We were so poor that I didn’t have any clothes till I was 5, and then my meemaw finally bought me a hat so I could look out the window.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:04 pm to TSLG
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Looking at the unit price to determine the true value is a poor thing? Are y'all on crack?
I used to teach my son this when he was 5. I’d challenge him to find the lowest unit price for each item on our list every shopping trip. I knew I was poor growing up but believe this is something every person should know.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:05 pm to CAD703X
quote:
I feel like this thread is way more honest than the "how much do you make and how big is your house" threads.
Nah. I WAS poor growing up. Now I'm a baller.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:05 pm to LSUGrrrl
quote:
Your step-dad was a good man.
Agreed. Northshorebamaman was lucky to have him in his life.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:09 pm to YoubeHillin
It wasn't until I was like 18 and realized that going to Captain Anderson's once a year in PCB didn't mean you had money.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:14 pm to YoubeHillin
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On my fridge is an albertsons reciept that showed I saved more money than I actually spent. Next to my daughter, it's my greatest accomplishment
This is some shite I would do
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:18 pm to northshorebamaman
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Now that I think about it I haven't seen a pair of patched jeans in years. We all had patches when I was kid.
When my son started school he would wear a hole through the knees of his jeans within weeks. I started ironing denim patches on the inside of the jeans to make the last longer.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:19 pm to YoubeHillin
Obvious OweO alter is obvious
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:34 pm to YoubeHillin
We were far from poor but me and all my friends were middle class. One day a kid starts playing basketball with us at the park. He seems cool and invites us to his house across town to play basketball so we wouldn’t have to switch out when we lost.
We all ride our bikes over and when we rolled up his private drive and saw his huge house with a 5 car garage, we all looked at each other and were like “we are poor”. We thought he had a goal in the driveway but he had a full court in his backyard. None of us had any idea people lived like that outside of the movies. We were shocked and my best friend called me that same night and said “Our houses are shite”
He was always super cool and we all remain friends to this day.
We all ride our bikes over and when we rolled up his private drive and saw his huge house with a 5 car garage, we all looked at each other and were like “we are poor”. We thought he had a goal in the driveway but he had a full court in his backyard. None of us had any idea people lived like that outside of the movies. We were shocked and my best friend called me that same night and said “Our houses are shite”
He was always super cool and we all remain friends to this day.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:34 pm to YoubeHillin
Read thru all the responses - for similarities:
1. Hand-me-down clothes.
2. Jeans (Sears or Penny's) with patches through elementary school.
3. Salmon croquettes (which I hate to this day).
My parents grew up during the great depression - plus having 5 kids stretched the budget. We learned not just frugality. but principles. Looking at how all my siblings and cousins turned out, I can't say that any of us were saddled with real disadvantages.
1. Hand-me-down clothes.
2. Jeans (Sears or Penny's) with patches through elementary school.
3. Salmon croquettes (which I hate to this day).
My parents grew up during the great depression - plus having 5 kids stretched the budget. We learned not just frugality. but principles. Looking at how all my siblings and cousins turned out, I can't say that any of us were saddled with real disadvantages.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:36 pm to YoubeHillin
I grew up fairly well-off, but for a few weeks every summer I would go stay with my maternal grandmother's parents - they were born dirt-shite poor in 1890's South Alabama. A sharecropper (and water diviner) and a seamstress.
Everything we ate was either from the field or from the pen. Other than flour, I don't think they ever bought anything from a merchant store for food. I remember having to shuck corn and peal peas and beans before dinner. They got stored of for canning if there was a good haul.
My great-grandmother was making biscuits and gravy for breakfast, and I noticed that she made them differently than my mom and other grandmothers. I asked her why she didn't put any milk in with it. She told me that wasting milk on gravy was for rich folks.
Everything we ate was either from the field or from the pen. Other than flour, I don't think they ever bought anything from a merchant store for food. I remember having to shuck corn and peal peas and beans before dinner. They got stored of for canning if there was a good haul.
My great-grandmother was making biscuits and gravy for breakfast, and I noticed that she made them differently than my mom and other grandmothers. I asked her why she didn't put any milk in with it. She told me that wasting milk on gravy was for rich folks.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:36 pm to RoyalWe
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Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:45 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:
Now that I think about it I haven't seen a pair of patched jeans in years
That's because holes are Sheik now a days... Back in the day, holes were looked down upon...
Posted on 4/26/20 at 4:46 pm to YoubeHillin
When my family moved from Long Island, NY to Port Richey, Florida in 1990.
We went from my dad owning his own maintenance business, having brand name clothes and shoes, cable TV, eating McDonald's Happy Meals every week, and pizza or fish on Lent Fridays to Walmart clothes and Payless Shoes, antenna TV only, and eating at a Homestyle Family Buffet (pre Golden Corral) every week. I didn't put it together until I was a teenager several years later that my Dad was promised a good paying job with the State of Florida, he bought our house in April, we moved in June and right when we arrived he was told his job was dissolved so he was laid off before he even started so my parents had to file for bankruptcy. I was 9 at the time and watched every Wrestling show on USA and almost all shows on Nickelodeon, I was so mad at my parents that I almost called my relatives up in NY to have me move in with them.
Luckily by the time I was in High School my mom and dad had both worked decent paying jobs and my younger sister and I's lives were back to middle class normal and we both learned the value of saving and working for what you want and need.
We went from my dad owning his own maintenance business, having brand name clothes and shoes, cable TV, eating McDonald's Happy Meals every week, and pizza or fish on Lent Fridays to Walmart clothes and Payless Shoes, antenna TV only, and eating at a Homestyle Family Buffet (pre Golden Corral) every week. I didn't put it together until I was a teenager several years later that my Dad was promised a good paying job with the State of Florida, he bought our house in April, we moved in June and right when we arrived he was told his job was dissolved so he was laid off before he even started so my parents had to file for bankruptcy. I was 9 at the time and watched every Wrestling show on USA and almost all shows on Nickelodeon, I was so mad at my parents that I almost called my relatives up in NY to have me move in with them.
Luckily by the time I was in High School my mom and dad had both worked decent paying jobs and my younger sister and I's lives were back to middle class normal and we both learned the value of saving and working for what you want and need.
Posted on 4/26/20 at 5:01 pm to YoubeHillin
quote:
YoubeHillin
Thank you for this thread. It's the best thread I've seen on the OT in quite some time. It's also given me some insight into why there are several posters I always find myself respecting and admiring even if I'm disagreeing with them about something.
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