posted on July 29, 2001 01:18:22 AM new
I was once so poor I.......
use to cook top ramem noodles in a coffee pot
eat craft macaroni and cheese with out the butter and milk
make spaghetti with ketchup on it and thought it tasted kinda good.
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I was once so poor I.......
had an old wooden cable spool for a dinning table
used lawn chair when company came over
and made my bedroom curtains from an old us flag
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I was once so poor I......
Had to push star my car for 7 months until I saved up for a new starter
parked outside the drive in movies and tried to read John Travolta lips in S.N.F.
Syphon gas out of my neighbors car some nights to get to work the next day
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ALL TRUE
posted on July 29, 2001 01:26:50 AM new
Geeeeeez you were poor, I don't think I was ever poor.....But my older sisters' were, they say that they were . They were so poor that they had to wear corn sacks for dresses, whereas I thought I was lucky that my Grandma used to make us dresses out out teatowels (I think you call them dishclothes, you usually use these to dry your dishes), we called our teatowel dresses 'MooMoos' and thought we looked very smart in them too. LOL
My sisters' also though they were poor because our mother made griddle scones if we did not have bread for a meal, we younger ones thought they were great and that our mother was giving us a treat.
I think it depends on how you look at life as to whether or not you are rich or poor.
posted on July 29, 2001 02:04:17 AM new
Hey, I had one of those cable spool tables too!
I was poor, kinda still am. But it's an adventure to me. I'm a pretty happy camper if I can buy quality coffee, quality tequila, and cigarettes (quality matters less on the cigs).
In my old hippie days, I got food stamps, learned how to go to college relatively free, and got pretty good free medical services.
For about 15 years, I was pretty well off: hubby worked, I stayed home. No money probs. Nice jewelry at holidays. Ended up boring me to death, though some of the travelling (sp?) was nice. Then divorced with a full-time job and alimony (those were very good days!).
Now I'm sort of poor again, squeezing $1.50 out of every dollar I earn. It's a cycle, and I'll be solvent again. But I just kind of look at it as a different way to do things.
The only difference between rich and poor (I'm not talking third world poor here) is the amount of toys you have!
posted on July 29, 2001 04:27:08 AM new
Jacko, I feel your pain! I left home at 17 and got a min wage job.. 1977 that was. Had to pay rent, buy gas and food all on 100 or less a week. I supplemented as a Chinese waitress... talk about cheap tippers! Then I played guitar for money. But I was't very good so I stayed poor! LOL
Eventually I finished high school with a GED, no college for me though. I am STILL "money" poor today!
I did the top ramen thing, but my usual meal was a boiled potato with salt and pepper only on it. (Couldn't afford margarine.) My breakfast/lunch consisted of a can of Coke and MAYBE a candy bar or sweet bun from the 7-11.
Had the spool table too! I used to dumpster dive out of sheer necessity. Maybe that's why I won't do it now.
Sadie, so true about the amount of toys! I am rich today because I've got a husband and family that loves me, and allows me to love them. I've got friends who help me laugh and cry with me when need be. I've got my dogs and my music and as long as I've got all these, I will never be poor!
posted on July 29, 2001 02:22:19 PM newI do not think I was poor, just learning about life, money and real happiness. I do think I was happier when I had less!
I know I was and now that I am looking forward to a simpler life style, smaller home etc., I am overwhelmed with THINGS...I may be the only person that Goodwill turns away...or I will glut ebay with so much the market will decline!!
posted on July 29, 2001 03:47:10 PM new
I suppose that poverty is relative. I've probably been poor by someone's standards but while I was poor, I was so happy that I didn't notice. Now, I can have anything that I want but I want nothing that money can buy.
posted on July 29, 2001 03:54:29 PM new
My mother always told me to marry a "rich" man. So I did. Only she failed to tell me to make sure he had money!
posted on July 29, 2001 07:31:40 PM new
For future use (heaven help anyone who has to use this recipe):
Collect those ketchup packets that McD's gives out with fries because you can make tomatoe soup out of them...just add hot water.
Im poor now, but it doesnt bother me as much as it did when I was younger. I had the cable spool coffee table too. I also had the brick/wood plank shelving; washed clothes in the bathtub; used dish soap for laundry soap and laundry soap for dish soap and used both for shampoo...to name a few.
edited to make sense.
[ edited by hepburn on Jul 29, 2001 07:32 PM ]
posted on July 29, 2001 09:21:43 PM newJumpin in the 60s that was the IN thing, I had different sizes, we were the envy of the "other side of the tracks"!
