DynamicSavior said:

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MichaelsLight said:

Here's more*
*taking batteries out of other shit to put in something else, knowing you're gonna need the other thing later
*re-using jars as cupware(is that a word??)
*using dishwashing liquid to make bubbles in a bubble bath
*taking the slices of soap and sticking them together to make a whole new bar
*using old clothes as rags

DynamicSavior said:

good times

MichaelsLight said:

-If I get a hole in my jeans I cut them up all over to look like it was on purpose and wear them with leggings underneath.
-dyeing my hair outside. hey, it stinks up the bathroom, why not?
-when he was alive every once in a while my dad would take grocery money and go buy a pile of vinyls and cassettes instead. He'd say, "We're going hungry, but we got TUNES!"
-taking home cool shit I find in alleys and on curbs waiting for the garbage truck. i've got belts, a chair, milk crates that double as stools, and the prettiest silk butterfly scarf from that lil hobby.
-walking around downtown barefoot. my feet get dirty but it's way comfyer than any shoes could be.
-my bedroom window is held together with wire and a stick.
-have a blanket hung up instead of an actual bedroom door
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meow85 said:

bead curtains

2 things:

1. This bitch is gonna get seriously injured if she ain't already:

DynamicSavior said:

2. This shit made me laugh the most:

DynamicSavior said:

Bead curtains don't provide a lot of privacy, and with people being in and out of the house at all hours a barrier you can't see through is nice.

butterfli25 said:

I think you are amazing!

My mother bought us each 3 outfits for school every fall. 3 was all she could afford but more then that, 3 was all in her mind was reasonable. I took it on the ass after 4th grade. I remember I wore this outfit my grandmother gave me because well it made 4 and I actually liked it. It was tweed like and I remember I stood in line for my 6th grade class and I remember being mocked a kid shouted

pull a thread and it will unravel.

I bought this long dress one of my 3 outfits that same year and was tortured every week that I wore it. ( I have always had my own sense of what was nifty)

Odd but to this day, fashion just isn't all that to me ... it is at moments..like trips..but daily I can't be bothered....

and daily this shallow soul at my salon sends text messages mocking me to my counterparts in the salon. TRUE STORY. For whatever reason I have always drawn the scorn of some ... I don't know why but I m strong...if it draws them away from the weak then so be it....

Yet and still.... I thank Jesus above for the life lesson. I can hit my knees and be humbled in his sight and worth gold. I do forget from time to time but it doesn't take much to remind me of my true worth.


Beautiful Lyrics


[Spoken]
Don't look at me

Every day is so wonderful
And suddenly, it's hard to breathe
Now and then, I get insecure
From all the fame, I'm so ashamed

I am beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring me down
I am beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring me down
So don't you bring me down today

To all your friends, you're delirious
So consumed in all your doom
Trying hard to fill the emptiness
The piece is gone and the puzzle undone
That's the way it is

You are beautiful no matter what they say
Words won't bring you down
You are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words won't bring you down
Don't you bring me down today...

No matter what we do
(no matter what we do)
No matter what they say
(no matter what they say)
We're the song inside the tune
Full of beautiful mistakes

And everywhere we go
(everywhere we go)
The sun will always shine
(sun will always shine)
And tomorrow we might wake on the other side
All the other times

We are beautiful no matter what they say
Yes, words won't bring us down
We are beautiful no matter what they say
Yes, words can't bring us down
Don't you bring me down today

Don't you bring me down today
Don't you bring me down today

Dook reposting that nsfw thing various times....thats just gay....and ghetto

meow85 said:

I had things I couldn't disgard and couldn't keep anymore... Dex and dad helped me haul them to the curb... My clients said that people would get them... I thought not in my neighborhood... they were gone before the next load... a Newfie taught me to waste not want not!

BucketOfBouncyBalls said:

its redundant and irritating!

bluesbaby said:

I know a certain .orger that was contemplating letting her dog clean up her cat's puke by eatting it.

Is that ghetto?

bluesbaby said:

he's a very bad man!

Last week as I waiting for my new set of tires to be installed, looking at the display of rims,
for 'bout a second,
I actually contemplated purchasing a set of those spinning hubcaps...

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

this line just made it a little easier for me to go to work today.

DynamicSavior said:

my whole family does that shit, especially with the batteries and the jars. my mother's family was very poor when she was little so my grandmother would keep the little bars of soap and stick them together

Crappallonia said:

damn, i never use measuring cups, i just make the shit

Nothinbutjoy said:

and the orger's cat kept puking....which was redundant, and irritating!

bluesbaby said:

thats just gross

brownsugar said:

tell me about it, I had to clean it up!

Crappallonia said:

I made a whole thread about it last month.

*Taking the little soaps and shampoos for hotels everywhere you go and acutally using them when you et home - or better yet, taking them from the housekeeping carts.
*Using a blanket for a curtain.

1sexymf said:

even worse, giving them as stocking stuffers.

bluesbaby said:

Alright ppl:

I broke my keyboard yesterday, but b4 I discovered my onscreen keyboard I copied and pasted letters from others posts to spell out the words I wanted to use...ghetto and sad

btw, the onscreen keyboard is seriously annoying so don't be surprised if I only use emoticons sometimes

MichaelsLight said:

damn

that's not ghetto, that's HARDCORE.

Anxiety said:

DynamicSavior said:

dammit, it tastes better with the whole bag in it! i always had to make the pitcher of kool-aid when i was younger, and everytime i got done stirring it all together i'd have to bring a cup to my dad so he could check if it was sweet enough.

when i lived with my sister, that's the way she kept the house warm...her ghetto ass didn't wanna turn the heat on proper, even though she got one of her friends to rig the heat and the electricity by climbing up the pole outside the house and turning it on (yup, sho' did--"don't turn on no lights before 5 o'clock, the power company'll see 'em and make me pay the bill!")

that, or putting plastic over the windows in the wintertime to keep heat in the house

i still do that, and wearing my pajama pants too

and sitting on a sofa cushion so your butt won't fall asleep...

other ghetto stuff my folks did when i was growing up:

-- my mom always used an old empty wine bottle (i think it might've been a bottle of thunderbird, but i dunno) as a rolling pin whenever she made cookies or biscuits

-- pressing together soap shards to make a new bar of soap

-- washing out and re-using ziploc bags

-- whenever i stayed at mom's (my grandma on my mom's side, everyone in the family called her "mom" or "nanny") she'd make me and my nieces brush our teeth with baking soda

-- i knew folks who used crisco as hair grease

-- putting duct tape over the crack at the bottom of the front door so cold air wouldn't leak in to the apartment (that shit never worked)


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