This week's link is to an article that lists the various ways you know you are poor. I certainly don't mean it as a joke if only because I can relate to so many of those observations. I'd like to add one to the list if I could:
Being poor is gift wrapping your old toys with your mom to give to your little brother for his birthday and hoping he's still too young to know the difference.
How about any of you? Care to add to the list if you can? And if you can't add anything to the list, count your blessings.
Walking into stores in the mid 1980s & couldn't afford a Matchbox or Hotwheels car or even a toy transformers or He Man action figure....all the good stuff that the awesome 80s had to offer a little kid but i was just 10 years old at the time & me & my family came to America in 1983 & were trying to settle into things. Barely made it week after week.
Being poor meant to be my mom giving me 15, 30, 35 40 or 50 cents to go to school with that is suppose to last me for days.
[quote][cite] RoadWarriorAce:[/cite]At one time being poor meant to me this:
Walking into stores in the mid 1980s & couldn't afford a Matchbox or Hotwheels car or even a toy transformers or He Man action figure....all the good stuff that the awesome 80s had to offer a little kid but i was just 10 years old at the time & me & my family came to America in 1983 & were trying to settle into things. Barely made it week after week.
Being poor meant to be my mom giving me 15, 30, 35 40 or 50 cents to go to school with that is suppose to last me for days.[/quote] where were you born
Well I grew up very poor in the south bronx in new york city so i can definitely relate. I recall being so poor that we would fill up mostly on tap water so that we had some food left for the next day. I remember mayonaisse sandwhiches and 25 cent juices as lunches for school field trips. Thank god and my Mother for working so hard to get us out of that misery. Things have gotten a hell of alot better since and my children wont have to endure those times.