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What are some signs that indicate you grew up poor?
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
Can also be a sign of wealth.i wonder if this is a sign. idk how to operate a dishwasher, never had one, never used one
packin and mixing all ur clothes in one load to save quarters for the laundry machine, i still do this
don't know how to ride a bike, mom bought em, and someone stole em
packin and mixing all ur clothes in one load to save quarters for the laundry machine, i still do this
don't know how to ride a bike, mom bought em, and someone stole em
My niece has a housekeeper, doubt she knows how to turn on either laundry or dishwashing machine
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Not inviting friends to your house because you need the food they'd eat for dinner that night.
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Growing up in a shack barely 500 sq ft, built by poor black people in the 60s who used whatever they could find in the dump to build it. My brother said once he found parts of a chicken coop in the walls...
Getting sick all the time because of the mold and mildew in the basement rising up through the house.
Cutting coupons was almost a full-time job for mother.
Clothes that were home-made, holes were patched, darning your own socks.
Sleeping on a mattress for a short time that had a spring sticking sticking out of it.
Halloween costumes homemade out of whatever was lying around. Birthday cakes were made from a Betty Crocker or Pillsbury mix, and you loved it.
Yard was a junkyard because father was scrapping metal to make ends meet.
Getting sick all the time because of the mold and mildew in the basement rising up through the house.
Cutting coupons was almost a full-time job for mother.
Clothes that were home-made, holes were patched, darning your own socks.
Sleeping on a mattress for a short time that had a spring sticking sticking out of it.
Halloween costumes homemade out of whatever was lying around. Birthday cakes were made from a Betty Crocker or Pillsbury mix, and you loved it.
Yard was a junkyard because father was scrapping metal to make ends meet.
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Common signs:
1. Argues in public
2. Overly emotional and stubborn
3. Easily stirred and holds onto grudges
4. Doesn’t know when spending money is ok
5. Wasted money on fronting they are something they are not
6. Gaudy and tacky clothing and accessories. Often replicas. Often not too
7. Hangs out with other poor people
8. Toes the line hard when serving wealthy people in social and professional settings
9. Paid for their education
10. Accumulated debt
Cheers
1. Argues in public
2. Overly emotional and stubborn
3. Easily stirred and holds onto grudges
4. Doesn’t know when spending money is ok
5. Wasted money on fronting they are something they are not
6. Gaudy and tacky clothing and accessories. Often replicas. Often not too
7. Hangs out with other poor people
8. Toes the line hard when serving wealthy people in social and professional settings
9. Paid for their education
10. Accumulated debt
Cheers
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11-23-2020, 07:41 PM
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Most poor people won't admit it and try to play it off, even refuse help. They usually try to hide it. A lot of people who grew up poor tend to overcompensate. Gold chains, gucci clothes all of the time. They like to be flashy. They are really careful to be sure that nobody thinks they are poor.
Originally Posted By John
Feels man. Hope you learned from it and are doing better. Sounds like real poor.Growing up in a shack barely 500 sq ft, built by poor black people in the 60s who used whatever they could find in the dump to build it. My brother said once he found parts of a chicken coop in the walls...
Getting sick all the time because of the mold and mildew in the basement rising up through the house.
Cutting coupons was almost a full-time job for mother.
Clothes that were home-made, holes were patched, darning your own socks.
Sleeping on a mattress for a short time that had a spring sticking sticking out of it.
Halloween costumes homemade out of whatever was lying around. Birthday cakes were made from a Betty Crocker or Pillsbury mix, and you loved it.
Yard was a junkyard because father was scrapping metal to make ends meet.
Getting sick all the time because of the mold and mildew in the basement rising up through the house.
Cutting coupons was almost a full-time job for mother.
Clothes that were home-made, holes were patched, darning your own socks.
Sleeping on a mattress for a short time that had a spring sticking sticking out of it.
Halloween costumes homemade out of whatever was lying around. Birthday cakes were made from a Betty Crocker or Pillsbury mix, and you loved it.
Yard was a junkyard because father was scrapping metal to make ends meet.
11-23-2020, 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted By hendrixfreak70⏩
Your white privilege is showing..For me, I always used the stove as a heater because we only had one heater in the house. We had one window unit air conditioner.
I also use bread for hamburger buns, hotdog buns, and "rolls."
I ate mac n cheese, bread, and French fries for a meal.
I wore the same clothes two to three times a week. They were clean, but I had no other choices.
What some other signs someone grew up poor?
I also use bread for hamburger buns, hotdog buns, and "rolls."
I ate mac n cheese, bread, and French fries for a meal.
I wore the same clothes two to three times a week. They were clean, but I had no other choices.
What some other signs someone grew up poor?
11-23-2020, 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted By Jasonw1178⏩
It was a bizarre "poor" because father was determined there was food on the table. We had toys growing up, even if we didn't have the most expensive stuff. I think there was a degree to which they spent money they shouldn't have on stuff to feel better off than we were, ie. they got cable TV in the 80s. I think he scraped and sacrifice in parts of life to get through and spend and have other things.Feels man. Hope you learned from it and are doing better. Sounds like real poor.
I've been extremely cheap since moving out on my own. All my furniture is old/cheap/2nd hand because I just don't see the need to spend the money, but I do buy new electronics, appliances, that sort of thing, because I feel it's better in the long run - but I will keep a computer until it dies instead of upgrading. I'll buy clothes as cheap as I can. Most purchases I'll hem and haw and take forever to decide on because I do spend too much time trying to justify the spending. I've never had cable because looking back, there was never enough worth watching to justify the price.
I'm #12 in Y2J's "club"...and I'm scared.
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11-23-2020, 08:26 PM
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I’ll share some of mine:
Sometimes no Christmas presents under the tree
Parents drive old beater cars, with trash bags as windows, broken ac/heaters
Parents never at home, either at the bar or at work
Can’t do field trips or other events at school that need money
Not on health insurance so no doctors visits or check ups
Home in disrepair
Keeping home really cold to save $. Can see breath inside in the morning
Sometimes no Christmas presents under the tree
Parents drive old beater cars, with trash bags as windows, broken ac/heaters
Parents never at home, either at the bar or at work
Can’t do field trips or other events at school that need money
Not on health insurance so no doctors visits or check ups
Home in disrepair
Keeping home really cold to save $. Can see breath inside in the morning
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11-23-2020, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted By BK909⏩
jokes on them liver packs hella vitamins and mineralsI fried some liver just like mom use to when I was a kid and my girl left because she couldn't take the smell.
I ended up throwing out $2.00 worth of meat...$2.00
I ended up throwing out $2.00 worth of meat...$2.00
11-23-2020, 08:47 PM
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Parents not home a lot as they were working 3 jobs together. Usually alone at home or with my sister from 10-16 years old most nights.
Clothes were always hand me downs from either my dad or cousins.
Constantly moving house due to the price of rent being put up.
It wasn't until I was a bit older my parents opened up to me about their finances. This was a big eye opener at a young age and still sticks with me to this day. Learned the value of the dollar and how to manage my finances so I don't go through the same struggle.
Clothes were always hand me downs from either my dad or cousins.
Constantly moving house due to the price of rent being put up.
It wasn't until I was a bit older my parents opened up to me about their finances. This was a big eye opener at a young age and still sticks with me to this day. Learned the value of the dollar and how to manage my finances so I don't go through the same struggle.
11-23-2020, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted By platinumbrah⏩
good for you brah for realizing it.Parents not home a lot as they were working 3 jobs together. Usually alone at home or with my sister from 10-16 years old most nights.
Clothes were always hand me downs from either my dad or cousins.
Constantly moving house due to the price of rent being put up.
It wasn't until I was a bit older my parents opened up to me about their finances. This was a big eye opener at a young age and still sticks with me to this day. Learned the value of the dollar and how to manage my finances so I don't go through the same struggle.
Clothes were always hand me downs from either my dad or cousins.
Constantly moving house due to the price of rent being put up.
It wasn't until I was a bit older my parents opened up to me about their finances. This was a big eye opener at a young age and still sticks with me to this day. Learned the value of the dollar and how to manage my finances so I don't go through the same struggle.
11-23-2020, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted By hendrixfreak70⏩
Why not just get one decent job?Had those too. And them mac n cheese, bread, and fry meals were in 1990.
My momma worked a full time job, a part time job, and a seasonal job just to make what ends meet that she could get to meet.
My momma worked a full time job, a part time job, and a seasonal job just to make what ends meet that she could get to meet.
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-My mom worked three jobs, but we still lived on the boarder of Westchester and Inglewood in a chit neighborhood.
-Our chit duplex got broken into 4 times in the 5 years we lived there, so we never really had a TV.
-My mom used my grandparents address so us kids could go to a better school.
-I usually ate dinner at grandparents house because they had food.
-Our Christmas tree was a real life Charlie Brown tree with 6 branches and it would be covered in tinsill, if we had a tree that year.
-I wore nothing but hand me downs.
But I’m humbled by my experiences growing up.
-Our chit duplex got broken into 4 times in the 5 years we lived there, so we never really had a TV.
-My mom used my grandparents address so us kids could go to a better school.
-I usually ate dinner at grandparents house because they had food.
-Our Christmas tree was a real life Charlie Brown tree with 6 branches and it would be covered in tinsill, if we had a tree that year.
-I wore nothing but hand me downs.
But I’m humbled by my experiences growing up.
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Some of you are just describing trashy behavior and/or bad financial decisions from your parents. Being frugal isn't poverty behavior, it's just not being wasteful.
11-23-2020, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted By hendrixfreak70⏩
We moved in my with my grandparents twice.What are some signs that indicate you grew up poor?
Eat in a deficit to lose weight.
Hit your protein and fat minimums to stay healthy and keep your gainz.
Lift heavy and do HIIT to look and feel awesome.
Use the internet to learn why you should do these things and how to do these things.
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Lived in a house with like 15 other family members.
The toilet was a shack with a seat inside over a big hole in the ground.
Shower was a hose connected to a tap
My toys were pretty much bottle caps and a wheel and stick.. But my parents did get me nice toys that I never liked anyway lol.
Pretty lucky my dad is the hardest worker ever and took us back to Australia with him.
The toilet was a shack with a seat inside over a big hole in the ground.
Shower was a hose connected to a tap
My toys were pretty much bottle caps and a wheel and stick.. But my parents did get me nice toys that I never liked anyway lol.
Pretty lucky my dad is the hardest worker ever and took us back to Australia with him.
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I was never poor, but my parents were super cheap at times because my dad was starting a business. I still carry some of those cheapass tendencies today.
-When I'm at a fast food restaurant, I'll often order cheap items to reach a certain dollar amount. Never really taking into consideration quantity or calories, just cost.
- When there's a good deal on something at the grocery store, I'll buy like 40 of them. I currently have 40 BBQ Rib sandwiches and 25 boxes of Totinos Pizza Rolls in my freezer because they were $1 each. Terrible food, but a hell of a deal and will save me quite a bit over the next few months for sure.
-I could easily afford my own house, but I'm living in a house my parents own for free(although earning more than $250k multiple years in a row now). To be honest, during COVID this arrangement has been great though, as I'm glad I resisted the urge to get a $2000/mo apartment for the last year or two.
-When I'm at a fast food restaurant, I'll often order cheap items to reach a certain dollar amount. Never really taking into consideration quantity or calories, just cost.
- When there's a good deal on something at the grocery store, I'll buy like 40 of them. I currently have 40 BBQ Rib sandwiches and 25 boxes of Totinos Pizza Rolls in my freezer because they were $1 each. Terrible food, but a hell of a deal and will save me quite a bit over the next few months for sure.
-I could easily afford my own house, but I'm living in a house my parents own for free(although earning more than $250k multiple years in a row now). To be honest, during COVID this arrangement has been great though, as I'm glad I resisted the urge to get a $2000/mo apartment for the last year or two.
11-24-2020, 01:18 AM
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
i wonder if this is a sign. idk how to operate a dishwasher, never had one, never used one
packin and mixing all ur clothes in one load to save quarters for the laundry machine, i still do this
don't know how to ride a bike, mom bought em, and someone stole em
packin and mixing all ur clothes in one load to save quarters for the laundry machine, i still do this
don't know how to ride a bike, mom bought em, and someone stole em
Originally Posted By hendrixfreak70⏩
My first office job, coworker asked me to turn the dishwasher on and I stared at the buttons. One of them said "Does your mom usually do the dishes for you?" Took me a few seconds to figure out that I had to explain to a person that I hand wash dishes. Growing up the only person I knew with a dishwasher was my uncle, cause it came with the house, and they washed the dishes by hand and then stored them in the dishwasherI'd say that's a sign lol. I didn't have one until I was like 27 and bought my first house. And I still do that laundry thing. Come to think of it, I still do a lot of things I did when I was poor.
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Originally Posted By denrocks1⏩
This x1000Never paying for services like lawncare, home/car maintenance, unless you have no choice. Doing everything yourself.
I still drive a shiitbox and fix it myself even though I can afford something much better
I still drive a shiitbox and fix it myself even though I can afford something much better
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Whenever I hear people say ridiculous things like "money doesn't grow on trees" when in reality billions of fiat currency is literally printed whenever it's politically convenient.
Another sign is when someone has the "opportunity only comes once in a lifetime" mentality. Wrong, there are opportunities everywhere waiting to be exploited, you just have to look for it.
Another sign is when someone has the "opportunity only comes once in a lifetime" mentality. Wrong, there are opportunities everywhere waiting to be exploited, you just have to look for it.
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11-24-2020, 01:45 AM
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Originally Posted By N0stradamus⏩
Clear bifurcation of poor/rich: small help seems intrinsic to social interactions. poor and stupid people do not want to work, and they avoid or bully anyone trying to work with them.Whenever I hear people say ridiculous things like "money doesn't grow on trees" when in reality billions of fiat currency is literally printed whenever it's politically convenient.
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Originally Posted By nosirrahx⏩
Feels, because we did that over the summer of '89. Best, worst time of my life. My grandparents didn't have a septic tank, air conditioner, or a clean house. It was infested with roaches AND flies because they left the door open. The sewage ran into the back yard. The bathroom literally smelled like urine all the time. It was in the Delta of Mississippi and when it got hot, it was super hot.We moved in my with my grandparents twice.
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Originally Posted By denrocks1⏩
I think that’s just being smart, that’s what I do, why waste the money?Never paying for services like lawncare, home/car maintenance, unless you have no choice. Doing everything yourself.
I still drive a shiitbox and fix it myself even though I can afford something much better
I still drive a shiitbox and fix it myself even though I can afford something much better
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