Personal replies only please, just from the poor folks (or from experience for the formerly impoverished)

I'll start:

... you just went to the bathroom, as you've been drinking a lot of beer (with ice in it), and two rats ran across the 5 foot high dividing wall (i.e. not floor to ceiling) between your kitchen and bathroom.

... if you save mustard and ketchup packets to make soup from

Wear last year's pants that are too small for you because your mom can't afford clothes in the beginning of the school year.

You can make a delicious Pad Thai out of peanut butter, Ramen Noodles, some soy sauce and fish sauce... just add hotdog or spam for the meat.

stock up on rice and beans for whent he end ofthe month gets lean.

Keep the heat low and pile up under blankets and clothes too keep from having a high gas bill.

if washing you clothes means spraying febreeze on them

if you steal to eat (my cousins)

you have spinning hub caps on your car

You eat supermarkets own brand beans instead of Heinz...
or you use supermarket own brand toilet paper!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Weak!

You use your headphones as a mic

Imago said:

You should know that Thai people will eat plain rice with just fish sauce!

Weak!

Alej said:

Not weak! That's some muthafucking 0Hz-0Mhz dynamic range ghetto shit right there!

Fauxie said:

Alej said:

I don't want to get too scientific about it but picture yourself in a small room with someone and a small cake is sitting on the table. You shout at that person in a moment of heated discussion and then, having regrets, you wish you could play it back. You squeeze the cake.

Fauxie said:

shit

horatio said:

and the winner issss.....

...damn.
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I fell off my bike and passed out with a cuncussion. My dad ran to where I was and told them not to call the ambulance. He couldn't afford it. He put me in his car and took me to the emergency room.

you wait around the house for dinner to be ready cause if you don't, there won' be any left when you come in from outdoors playing.

This applies to the time I've spent in the Dominican Republic.....


....you get trapped in the bathroom because the ceiling collapsed as you tried to open the door. The ceiling is a piece of plywood

....you don't have screens on your window, so then the tarantulas and lizards get all up in your house

Oh man I have some stories from when I was a poooor kid...not poor anymore...so this now makes me kind of sad....carry on.....

you walk with your laundry on you back for miles to wash them by hand

you live off of canned food for over a 60 day period

you never learned how to drive because you could never afford to take lessons, much less actually own a car

your hand me downs are someone elses' hand me downs

You hate going to school because lunch time for you means watching other kids eat when you have no money for anything and no food at home to bring....

your clothes are actually shared between you and your brother and two cousins who fortunately all wear close enough to the same size clothes

oh yeah, these are all from my childhood...

the number one is...

You carry your own water from a well because you don't have plumbing and you live in upper Michigan where the winter temps are 30 below zero Fahrenheit

you drive a car in Minnesota...during the winter...when it's 20 below zero and roads are all icy...with a car that has no heat and the tires are bald...

you go to one of them Prince concerts.

I hate this thread....

pardonme4livin said:

Never for get where you came from and help those who are where you were. You'll be a better person because of it.