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spending a good portion of ya younger life in a 1 bedroom apartment with ya 4 member fam was 
Grew Up Poor Thread
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“you straight right”?kenreid0726eabos
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Yes Life is not fair and Life is hard. My maternal grandfather poppy rest in peace he did not have the best upbringing
Yes take nothing for granted in this Life. Life is too short to not be grateful.Yes Life is not fair and Life is hard. My maternal grandfather poppy rest in peace he did not have the best upbringing
To a certain extent, there was beauty in the struggle. Never really complained. I appreciate every blessing I get bro I don't take shyt for granted.
Getting my cousin hand me downs was 
Pinto beans and cornbread was the meal for kings
A couple dollars of summer sausage and some saltines got ya boy through tough times
shyt was tough as hell growing up. it was what it was. Things are still fukked up in the delta.
In 2016, 79 percent of Mississippi households are not connected to internet at speeds defined as broadband or higher. 22% of people in the state don't use the internet at all.
Realizing the internet is a luxury in 2018 is crazy.
But I'm good now.. three rental properties, 4 bedroom home, and two degrees later
Pinto beans and cornbread was the meal for kings
A couple dollars of summer sausage and some saltines got ya boy through tough times
shyt was tough as hell growing up. it was what it was. Things are still fukked up in the delta.
In 2016, 79 percent of Mississippi households are not connected to internet at speeds defined as broadband or higher. 22% of people in the state don't use the internet at all.
Realizing the internet is a luxury in 2018 is crazy.
But I'm good now.. three rental properties, 4 bedroom home, and two degrees later
nkb97
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Can definitely relate. There was a time some years ago where me and my mama had to stay with some cousins in the hood; even though I never realized we were basically already in "the hood" ourselves before then; it was regular to me. Here in Columbia South Carolina, pretty much the whole city is hood/poor as fukk--apart from maybe like two specific little areas that I know of
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NoChillJones
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Poor? ............
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Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
I grew up poor around white people...moved to the hood when I was 12...suddenly I was rich.
El Bajo Negro
Banned
Memories...
we not supposed to glorify the "hood" 
Got stabbed up when I was young not fun.. Also from LondonFrom London, we have free healthcare so that was a burden of our shoulders, which is good because in poorer areas your likely to get stabbed.
jokes aside seeing fiends, and nikkas slanging as soon as you step out of da yard is terrible, and i thought that was normal till i grew older.
But yh normal shyt, didn't have cable or Internet til 2007.single parent normal shyt
nkb97
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Moved around the city a few times, me and mom never really had much
Lived in a trailer park from 9 to 14, when I was still an only child. Lived here from 4th grade close to 9th
Middle school was hood as fukk. Fights on the bus every other day, cussin out the bus driver, apparently somebody stole money out her purse one time, kids watching porn on the bus on their phones, 7th graders having sex, gangs, just regular shyt. Didn't really have too much trouble, I was that quiet, shy kid for the most part. I was cool though. I loved middle school
Trying to figure out I'm hearing fireworks or gunshots....
Ramen noodles. If there was nothing else to eat, there was always chicken flavored ramen noodles. Throw some sugar on top (plus the seasoning), that shyt tastes glorious
My room was small AS fukk. My bed literally took up over half the room, you barely had any room to walk thru there. The bathroom was basically the same size, if not slightly bigger. THAT'S how small it was.
Had to throw the bed sheets out one summer cause the ants got a lil too comfy
You're in a deep sleep and you feel something cold crawling up your leg/back... This happened to me and my mom quite a few times, where we would wake up cursing/yelling because the roaches wanted to get cozy on us...And I don't mean just regular little roaches, I'm talkin about those big, FAT, ugly, walnut-sized, waterbug mothafukkas that fly around and make that lil noise when they hit the wall 
!! Killing those was a sport at home. One of them mothafukkas ambushed me one day and fell on my head as I was walking out my room; had me fighting the air, lookin like an African tribal dancer lmao.
Our dog Dino would be chained up outside, and every once in a while I'll have to untangle his chain from the trees out there. I used to always be crying mad at my mom cause she would barely let him in the house, even though he was a big ass dog (Pitbull/Lab mix). The dog next door would always be eating his food and fighting him. I would run my lil skinny ass out there crying mad and try to fight the lil nikka off (he was a tiny lil Boxer). I hated that lil b*stard, hearing my innocent dog yelping.
The dog breaking off the chain every other week and me having to chase him around the neighborhood and drag him back home.
That was my best friend, he lives with my grandfather now
At some point we had no cable for about a year, I think. PBS Kids and ETV
We had some crazy fun times tho, I miss it. I never realized we were "poor" or "from the hood" until my mom broke it down to me years later
Lived in a trailer park from 9 to 14, when I was still an only child. Lived here from 4th grade close to 9th
Middle school was hood as fukk. Fights on the bus every other day, cussin out the bus driver, apparently somebody stole money out her purse one time, kids watching porn on the bus on their phones, 7th graders having sex, gangs, just regular shyt. Didn't really have too much trouble, I was that quiet, shy kid for the most part. I was cool though. I loved middle school
Trying to figure out I'm hearing fireworks or gunshots....
Ramen noodles. If there was nothing else to eat, there was always chicken flavored ramen noodles. Throw some sugar on top (plus the seasoning), that shyt tastes glorious
My room was small AS fukk. My bed literally took up over half the room, you barely had any room to walk thru there. The bathroom was basically the same size, if not slightly bigger. THAT'S how small it was.
Had to throw the bed sheets out one summer cause the ants got a lil too comfy
You're in a deep sleep and you feel something cold crawling up your leg/back...
This happened to me and my mom quite a few times, where we would wake up cursing/yelling because the roaches wanted to get cozy on us...And I don't mean just regular little roaches, I'm talkin about those big, FAT, ugly, walnut-sized, waterbug mothafukkas that fly around and make that lil noise when they hit the wall !! Killing those was a sport at home. One of them mothafukkas ambushed me one day and fell on my head as I was walking out my room; had me fighting the air, lookin like an African tribal dancer lmao.Our dog Dino would be chained up outside, and every once in a while I'll have to untangle his chain from the trees out there. I used to always be crying mad at my mom cause she would barely let him in the house, even though he was a big ass dog (Pitbull/Lab mix). The dog next door would always be eating his food and fighting him. I would run my lil skinny ass out there crying mad and try to fight the lil nikka off (he was a tiny lil Boxer). I hated that lil b*stard, hearing my innocent dog yelping
.The dog breaking off the chain every other week and me having to chase him around the neighborhood and drag him back home.
That was my best friend, he lives with my grandfather now
At some point we had no cable for about a year, I think. PBS Kids and ETV
We had some crazy fun times tho, I miss it. I never realized we were "poor" or "from the hood" until my mom broke it down to me years later
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