when i was a kid we were so poor that......

[unclej]

something i said in perky's wind pudding thread made me think of starting this.

when i was a kid i was so poor that....fill in the blank.

my favorite is when i was a kid we were so poor that on christmas morning when i was 14 if i hadn't woke up with a hard on i wouldn't have had anything to play with.

 

[riff]

I never lacked materially as a child. But we were so poor that ... well... there was other stuff missing.

 

[TWB]

We were so poor that

we had to re use our tea bags.

 

[miles]

We ate dirt.

 

[Tantanah]

We ate wind pies and nothing chops.

 

[riff]

And used corncobs instead of TP? One red... then a white.. just to see if you needed another red?

 

[Wiggles]

I was so poor that...

When my mom brought home a single pop tart, I was estatic.

My main meal was Mac & cheese.

Only the front door had a knob.

We used coffee filters when we ran out of tp.

Even the roaches went hungry.

 

[android1966]

I was given an empty box for christmas and told it was an action man/GI Joe deserter.

We couldn't afford a christmas tree so we stood grandpa in a corner and decorated him.

The Gypsies warned their children not to play with us.

 

[Suzi]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

We were so poor we took showers only when it rained...

We were so poor we often used dish liquid for shampoo...

We were so poor we sometimes had to use laundry soap for dish liquid...

Suzi

 

[unclej]

oh man, the gypsies warned their children not to play with us. now that's funny. i've got four brothers and three sisters and i can just see this band of gypsies spying us as they pass by in their snake oil buggies saying that.

we were so poor that our pancakes only had one side.

 

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[Suzi]

Hey

...We didnt have a tub or even a sink for a while in my teen years. My mom NEVER got child support from my father..maybe she did not know she could, or maybe it was because he moved around as much as gypsies, lol.

Suzi

 

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