when i was a kid my family was too poor to afford blankets
my dad would steal moving/packing blankets from trailers after he'd make his deliveries and we used them as normal blankets
they smelled like cheap ramen for some reason and the smell never came out, but they kept me warm
we had our water turned off for a few days and maybe the electricity once for a day or two, i'm not sure
sometimes we had "snack nights" where our dinner was a big bag of chips and a jar of dip
i was a kid and liked this but thinking back to it it was really because we couldn't afford actual food lol
Quote from: ncba93ivyase on April 16, 2014, 12:04:50 AM
sometimes we had "snack nights" where our dinner was a big bag of chips and a jar of dip
i was a kid and liked this but thinking back to it it was really because we couldn't afford actual food lol
lol that was basically dinner tonight
I feel like a bag of chips + dip is actually maybe more expensive than a cheap meal but idk maybe I'm just thinking of brand name stuff
I actually avoid chips and dip because it's like a combined 6 dollars which is too much saddood;
Quote from: YPR Classic on April 16, 2014, 02:14:23 AM
I feel like a bag of chips + dip is actually maybe more expensive than a cheap meal but idk maybe I'm just thinking of brand name stuff
I actually avoid chips and dip because it's like a combined 6 dollars which is too much saddood;
yeah i remember my parents refusing to buy dip because of this.
When I was in middle school i got my first pair of glasses. sometime in 7th grade they broke at the hinge so we taped them up, but they kept breaking. Once a week they would break. We couldn't afford a new pair of glasses so my dad broke a green plastic pen and melted the plastic onto the hinge to keep it together. this melted plastic fix lasted for three months or so? then it broke.
my dad worked at the local "recycling" center and i got all my childhood toys from there. Good ol leftover trash toys. It was also a good place to get.free paint
i grew up not poor until my dad died and one time i ate two potatoes a day for like 10 days it was wild but thats it
once we all lived in a single room in my aunt's house for like 8 months
another time i lived in a small storage room in an unfinished basement for like 2 years
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
Quote from: Khadafi on April 16, 2014, 01:20:04 PM
once we all lived in a single room in my aunt's house for like 8 months
another time i lived in a small storage room in an unfinished basement for like 2 years
for like 6 months i lived with my grandparents when i was like 12 and they just placed my bed in their office which is parallel to the living room and separated only with a giant archway
then after that we moved into a double-wide trailer next door to my elementary school janitor mr. mark who was my stepdad's good friend, but we actually shared the trailer with the guy who originally lived there for about 2 months, so my 2 sisters and i shared one room and this weird sleezy guy i didn't know had the room next door, and the place reeked of cigarettes.
also not really a poor thing but this reminded me of something very recent:
[spoiler]2 weeks ago my uncle's old friend moved back to phx but doesn't have anywhere to live yet, so until this past saturday or something he basically took over my room so i didn't have any privacy. also he has some kind of kidney failure so he had this giant loud oxygen machine that ran all night, he has night terrors so he'd sometimes shout things in his sleep, and he let his dog sleep on my pull-out bed (I have a day bed), plus he just had a bunch of stuff strewn everywhere so i usually couldn't get through to my bed (i have 2 beds in my room for some reason lol) so I just slept in my sister's bed. This sunday when I went to wash the sheets i saw they'd both been stained, one pillowcase has blood on it, and the sheets the dog slept on got some holes torn in them [/spoiler]
other story I just remembered,
when my ex-housemate kicked my sister and i out of our house, for like the last week of the winter semester my sister and i were only "home" to sleep but would spent the entire time we were awake (and not in class) at the library where we'd rent a private room (it was free) and would just hang out in there and watch hulu or take naps or whatever, then we'd go sit in our freezing car and eat some taco bell leftovers we'd bought earlier in the day (that had just been sitting in the car)
also my sister was sick, and I somehow managed to have my best semester and also get my first job during that week
Quote from: y-i on April 17, 2014, 12:13:33 AM
other story I just remembered,
when my ex-housemate kicked my sister and i out of our house, for like the last week of the winter semester my sister and i were only "home" to sleep but would spent the entire time we were awake (and not in class) at the library where we'd rent a private room (it was free) and would just hang out in there and watch hulu or take naps or whatever, then we'd go sit in our freezing car and eat some taco bell leftovers we'd bought earlier in the day (that had just been sitting in the car)
also my sister was sick, and I somehow managed to have my best semester and also get my first job during that week
the survival instinct is not dead.
I kind of went through that when I moved from georgia back to Asheville. I would spend nights bouncing from house to house (usually my sisters or a friend of mine's) I was trying to find a job there and move back. I found the chinese delivery job and began saving up for the apartment that I live in now. about two months I could really afford the place, my friend and I had a falling out and my sisters roommates were tired of me being there (despite my staying hold up in the room that was offered to me and cleaning the house and paying them a small amount.) So I ended up spending a lot of the winter sleeping in my car or on the truly cold nights renting a hotel for the night. I talked to my old boss at best buy and got my job back there and managed to save up enough money to have a little more than twice the amount needed for the apartment. Also thanks to my sister cosigning on a Lenscrafters card, my credit was good enough that I didn't have to pay deposits on any of my utilities.
When I was an infant, my parents would take turns missing a meal so my brother and I could eat. :(
when i first came to nyc i ran out of money so quick and became absolutely broke that i starved for a couple of days consistently for a couple of months
then i felt the value of 1 dollar because i couldn't even afford a dollar's worth of pizza
it felt like being trapped because literally everything depended on something that's worth more than 3$
I grew up with both my parents having good paying jobs, then I moved out at 18 and became poor, I use to go to self checkout at kroger and ring up all my produce as banana peppers because they were the cheapest thing. Now im rich
Quote from: Cookie on April 18, 2014, 03:16:03 PM
I grew up with both my parents having good paying jobs, then I moved out at 18 and became poor, I use to go to self checkout at kroger and ring up all my produce as banana peppers because they were the cheapest thing. Now im rich
you're a goddamn thief is what you are
also a store inventory fucker-upper
damn dude
rofl i remember a long time ago when our walmart put in self-checkout things, we used it and instead of giving my mom back $20 in change like it was supposed to, it gave her back $200
[spoiler]she didn't point out the error to the lady that was watching it [/spoiler]
Quote from: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo on April 18, 2014, 03:32:15 PM
Quote from: Cookie on April 18, 2014, 03:16:03 PM
I grew up with both my parents having good paying jobs, then I moved out at 18 and became poor, I use to go to self checkout at kroger and ring up all my produce as banana peppers because they were the cheapest thing. Now im rich
you're a goddamn thief is what you are
at this one grocery store i went to you would weigh your own produce and print out a label
i'd lift the bag a bit so that it'd be half weight and half price
not necessarily a poor story...well i got 1 but i don't feel like telling right now since im in a very tight spot for time
1 time when i was like 4
i went to kmart
and idk for some reason i really wanted chocolate, and i saw some reese's. prior to this i've never stolen anything. so i put them in my pocket and then i left w/ my mom. l8r on i felt guilty but i wanted to play the scene casually and i was like, "mom look i got reese's."
then my mom asked, "where'd you get it"
"i stole it"
"well give me a piece"
"ok"
Quote from: TLL7-MIB-7LLT on April 18, 2014, 07:59:37 PM
not necessarily a poor story...well i got 1 but i don't feel like telling right now since im in a very tight spot for time
1 time when i was like 4
i went to kmart
and idk for some reason i really wanted chocolate, and i saw some reese's. prior to this i've never stolen anything. so i put them in my pocket and then i left w/ my mom. l8r on i felt guilty but i wanted to play the scene casually and i was like, "mom look i got reese's."
then my mom asked, "where'd you get it"
"i stole it"
"well give me a piece"
"ok"
lmao your mom is a true pinay
Filthy thieves.
When I was a lad
I was at a drug store with my mother and I found this really great mug.
Now picture a cool mug, then picture it with your name emboldened across the face of the mug.
Then picture that mug shrunk down about two hundred percent to the size of less than bite size.
Spinning the tiny ceramic around, there was my name; "boognish"
I wanted it badly, but the three dollars for a novelty ceramic toy mug was more than my mother wanted to spend.
I put it in my pocket, dreaming of beeping sensors and alarms, prison time and russian gulags.
But nothing happened.
Got home, had my cool mini-mug (the size of a thimbol) and all was well.
All was good until she found it.
ate only frozen corn today
that was only to fill my stomach to drink more
Being denied standby for first class and sitting in coach
Can we ban Flet from this thread
Felt doesn't seem to grasp the meaning of being poor.
i remember having to use my welfare check to buy a ps4 and i couldn't afford any games so i had to play the shitty free ones that came with it
Quote from: cybermancer on April 29, 2014, 12:06:11 PM
i remember having to use my welfare check to buy a ps4 and i couldn't afford any games so i had to play the shitty free ones that came with it
im laughing in public holy shit im supposed to be in a quiet zone but lol fk it
Quote from: Classic HD on April 29, 2014, 11:29:14 AM
Felt doesn't seem to grasp the meaning of being poor.
Quote from: cybermancer on April 29, 2014, 12:06:11 PM
i remember having to use my welfare check to buy a ps4 and i couldn't afford any games so i had to play the shitty free ones that came with it
I bought Knack
And it's not a welfare check
I don't get TANF so...
i am speaking of my own experience,
Quote from: cybermancer on April 29, 2014, 12:15:18 PM
i am speaking of my own experience,
very good. Support sony with American dollars. Número uno.
sony ftw except when they ruined star wars galaxy
Speaking of poor.
Quote from: PLEASEHELP1991 on April 29, 2014, 12:16:49 PM
Quote from: cybermancer on April 29, 2014, 12:15:18 PM
i am speaking of my own experience,
very good. Support sony with American dollars. Número uno.
Mr. Iwata would like a word with you. Please understand. ghouldood;
once i had to donate plasma to buy groceries
and by once i mean many times akudood;
Quote from: udderfailure on April 29, 2014, 01:00:38 PM
once i had to donate plasma to buy groceries
and by once i mean many times akudood;
i have looked into this but it seems scary
I don't want NES Remix 2 that bad, David. n_u
Quote from: Classic HD on April 29, 2014, 01:38:11 PM
I don't want NES Remix 2 that bad, David. n_u
n it wasn't for this lol
What could have been really sweet went so wrong.
You're as romantic as a dented spoon.
Now I know what being poor is.
it is scary
i have thought about going back again (i've probably done it like 15-20 times) and it is a little too unnerving.
the worst (or coolest, depending on how you look at it) part is after you donate, they have to put salene into your body to account to the lost liquid. the salene is stored at room temp (colder than your body temp) so you can feel it circulating around your body
feels weirrrrrrd
That sounds amazing and terrifying.
Quote from: Classic HD on April 29, 2014, 01:45:13 PM
What could have been really sweet went so wrong.
You're as romantic as a dented spoon.
Now I know what being poor is.
:(
Quote from: udderfailure on April 29, 2014, 01:47:03 PM
it is scary
i have thought about going back again (i've probably done it like 15-20 times) and it is a little too unnerving.
the worst (or coolest, depending on how you look at it) part is after you donate, they have to put salene into your body to account to the lost liquid. the salene is stored at room temp (colder than your body temp) so you can feel it circulating around your body
feels weirrrrrrd
rofl it does feel weird myface;
sounds interesting
i wanna do it wow
Quote from: udderfailure on April 29, 2014, 01:00:38 PM
once i had to donate plasma to buy groceries
and by once i mean many times akudood;
have you considered maybe cutting back on the marijuana to save money
?
Quote from: ncba93ivyase on April 29, 2014, 04:52:37 PM
Quote from: udderfailure on April 29, 2014, 01:00:38 PM
once i had to donate plasma to buy groceries
and by once i mean many times akudood;
have you considered maybe cutting back on the marijuana to save money
?
money hasn't been a problem for me for a while
i also only really buy hash oil now which is way cheaper lol
but i used to donate plasma specifically to buy weed >_<'
i don't even think heroin addicts sell their blood for drugs
that's how you know a substance can be seriously addictive
Quote from: ncba93ivyase on April 29, 2014, 07:30:40 PM
i don't even think heroin addicts sell their blood for drugs
that's how you know a substance can be seriously addictive
i dont think they can but lord knows ive seen my fair share of druggies and homeless people in the donation center here in avl
damn strongbad u hardcore
Quote from: ncba93ivyase on April 29, 2014, 07:30:40 PM
i don't even think heroin addicts sell their blood for drugs
that's how you know a substance can be seriously addictive
they can't because they don't let you donate plasma if you are injecting drugs
with weed as long as you haven't smoked the day of your donation you are fine
Quote from: ncba93ivyase on April 29, 2014, 07:30:40 PM
i don't even think heroin addicts sell their blood for drugs
that's how you know a substance can be seriously addictive
i'm p.sure they instead sell their bodies or suck dick for drugs
and pretty sure selling plasma has far less medical and legal risks than prostitution
Quote from: Khadafi on April 30, 2014, 12:15:02 PM
Quote from: ncba93ivyase on April 29, 2014, 07:30:40 PM
i don't even think heroin addicts sell their blood for drugs
that's how you know a substance can be seriously addictive
i'm p.sure they instead sell their bodies or suck dick for drugs
and pretty sure selling plasma has far less medical and legal risks than prostitution
they steal from their grandmothers and their friends.
they sell their mom's tv to a pawn shop
they get their arms cut off with one of the wayans brothers
Quote from: Khadafi on April 30, 2014, 12:15:02 PM
Quote from: ncba93ivyase on April 29, 2014, 07:30:40 PM
i don't even think heroin addicts sell their blood for drugs
that's how you know a substance can be seriously addictive
i'm p.sure they instead sell their bodies or suck dick for drugs
and pretty sure selling plasma has far less medical and legal risks than prostitution
hasn't strongbad said he wants to suck a dick
someday he'll be selling his kidney for just one more toke
RIP
tired of eating stale hard rice because it makes my mouth bleed.