You know you are poor when............
1. You fall through your front porch
2. You eat a peanut butter sandwich or egg sandwich for lunch every day
3. You eat beans every night
4. Your dog eats better than you
5. You can see down in the basement when you sit on the toilet
6. You have to share bath water with the rest of your family
7. You have to share a toothbrush or bed with your sisters
8. You receive your birthday gift two months late from your parents
9. You have to hide food in the fridge
10. Your mother strings clothes up around the house and on the stove
11. Your jeleous of your best friends mobile home
12. You can see up in your attic by standing in the kitchen
13. You dry your socks on the stove every morning before school
14. You wait on your taxes by mail just to survive
15. You wear the same clothes your sister wore yesturday
This was just for fun. Most of it true about my child hood growing up. I have since then learned to laugh about a lot and be glad for a lot also. Please add if you wish and please don't anyone take to heart. ↓
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| Name: rain | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 1:31 AM |
| you have to borrow your neighbors shoes, if you cant find yours. ↑ |
| Name: Denise | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 1:51 AM |
| This is funny rain Ha! Ha! ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 1:58 AM |
| YOU USE THE LEFT OVER NAPKINS FROM YOUR WEDDING CAUSE YOU CANT AFFORD TOILET PAPER (TRUE STORY! AND THEY WERE PRETTY NAPKINS TO!!) ↑ |
| Name: Layne | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 2:10 AM |
| You take sack lunches when you have a family day out because you cant afford Mcdonalds. We do that alot. ↑ |
| Name: rain | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 2:16 AM |
| You do laundry in the bathtub with a hairbrush and dishwashing soap, then hang them around the house to dry. ↑ |
| Name: EthansMom0213 | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 2:27 AM |
| I remember the days of doing my laundry in the bathtub and using dishwashing soap to wash them. Then you hing them in from of the vent so that they would dry in the middle of the night and in the morning you would have clean clothes for school.. ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 2:28 AM |
| YOU LOOK FOR $ IN THE COUCH CUSHIONS TO BUY MILK OR BREAD!! ↑ |
| Name: rain | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 2:34 AM |
You tape a diaper over leaks in your ceiling. Then that gets heavy and pulls your ceiling down.
You ask people not to walk in certain areas of your trailer because they will fall through the floor.
A can of black-eyed-peas is a meal.
When you cut the government cheese as thin as possible, cause that’s all you have to eat for a week.
When you have to use dish towels for feminine products. That was as low as it got for me. A painful moment.
Your entertainment is the neighbors bug light, cause you can’t afford one.
But we had great things.
We built a water slide out of that giant green pipe, they use for construction.
I often found being poor made us more inventive than others.
You sighphon gas from the lawnmower to the car, so you can go to the store.
You eat out once a year on your birthday, or as soon after as you can afford it.
you have to drop out of any class that requires you to purchase anything.
You turn off all the lights and ac/ and wipe yourself with a wet rag, you keep by the bed.
Hair conditioner is a luxury. ↑ |
| Name: EthansMom0213 | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 2:43 AM |
Growing up I never thought that I was poor, but now I'm not sure.
I don't think I am poor now but I have eaten egg sandwished every day. Last week actually. Or I'll eat a TV dinner. When my husband and I first moved out together we ate speghetti, eggs, Macaroni & Cheese with hot Dogs almost every day because this is all we could afford. ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 2:50 AM |
| I REMEMBER EATING ALOT OF SPAGETTI!!! IT IS CHEAP TO BUY SONETIMES WE WOULD MAKE IT WITHOUT MEAT YUK!!! ↑ |
| Name: EthansMom0213 | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 2:53 AM |
| I haven't made speghetti in such a long time because of eating it so much of it in the past. I would purchase noodles when they were on sale at the store 3 for $1.98 and I would have a couple on top of that so I would just stock up on noodles and speghetti sauce as well. If garlic bread was on sale we would have garlic bread with our speghetti but mainly on most nights it was buttered bread. So when we had speghetti we would have different noodles and different sauce. ↑ |
| Name: rain | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 2:56 AM |
| When I was 18, newly married, I served spaghetti, with sauce from the store, no meat. My ex-pushed it away, so I threw it out the window, told him if he did get hungry he knew where to find it. No more complaints anyway. LOL ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 2:57 AM |
| MY HUBBY HATES SPAGETTI BECOUSE BACK IN THE DAY IT SEEMED THATS ALL WE HAD. ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 2:58 AM |
| WHEN IM MAD AT HIM THATS WHAT I FIX FOR DINNER. ↑ |
| Name: EthansMom0213 | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 3:10 AM |
| Chili was another thing that I made because you make a large pot and it lasts for days. I remember going to the store one time and was getting all the items I needed for chili. My husband looked at me and asked me what I was doing and I told him I was going to make chili. He responded by saying, "Well that's not the way my mom makes it" (he used this line alot. I told him out loud where everyone around us could hear, "Well that's the way my mom makes it." He never did use that line with me again. ↑ |
| Name: EthansMom0213 | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 3:10 AM |
| My husband actually wants me to make speghetti. I just can't stand to look at it. ↑ |
| Name: Layne | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 3:25 AM |
Sorry we had speghetti for supper. corn on the cob too.
My question is has anyone noticed that hamburger is gone up. I cant even afford it. beaf is high! ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 3:28 AM |
| MY HUBBY BOUGHT A WHOLE COW IN FEBUARY SO I HAVENT HAD TO BUY MEAT THANK GOODNESS!! ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 3:29 AM |
| MILK IS GETTING UP THERE TO. ↑ |
| Name: EthansMom0213 | Date: Aug 7th, 2006 5:20 AM |
| I haven't notice the cost of beef since I barely use it and if I do pick it up it's because it's on sale. But the cost of milk is getting a little crazy ↑ |
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