Growing up poor appreciation thread....

[Lord Brehlinger]

living in a crummy ass roach infested apartment, wearing hand me downs, an old ass car, dented cans, sharing a room with my sister till i was 12 yeah man that's a elegant lifestyle

Aren't you living in a million dollar home your mom owns and didn't you make a thread (with 0 replies btw) bragging about your family cottage?

 

[MikelArteta]

Aren't you living in a million dollar home your mom owns and didn't you make a thread (with 0 replies btw) bragging about your family cottage?

1. nope its worth about 950-975k not a mill

its like this but bigger
http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?PropertyId=15273781
2. never made a thread about a cottage I aint white

 

[Lord Brehlinger]

1. nope its worth about 950-975k not a mill

its like this but bigger
http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?PropertyId=15273781
2. never made a thread about a cottage I aint white

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/how-many-brehs-and-brehettes-have-a-family-cottage.280895/

at a 950-975K homeowner being considered poor. Is CaCnada that expensive?

 

[MikelArteta]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/how-many-brehs-and-brehettes-have-a-family-cottage.280895/

at a 950-975K homeowner being considered poor. Is CaCnada that expensive?

I never said I had a family cottage the was that no nikkaz have family cottages

I said I GREW UP poor not that i am now

times are different now

 

[Lord Brehlinger]

I never said I had a family cottage the was that no nikkaz have family cottages

I said I GREW UP poor not that i am now

times are different now

If this isn't a thread, then how did your mom go from being dirt poor to living in a million dollar home?

 

[MikelArteta]

If this isn't a thread, then how did your mom go from being dirt poor to living in a million dollar home?

simple lived in a roach infested apartment, only dad worked while mom was in school to become a nurse, mom became a nurse, they saved until they were able to buy their first house, rented out the basement, grandma moved in to help with the bills, sold that house, was able to put a downpayment on a house in a jewish area, real estate went up where that house like doubled in value, sold that house and well

 

[Miggs]

simple lived in a roach infested apartment, only dad worked while mom was in school to become a nurse, mom became a nurse, they saved until they were able to buy their first house, rented out the basement, grandma moved in to help with the bills, sold that house, was able to put a downpayment on a house in a jewish area, real estate went up where that house like doubled in value, sold that house and well

Dont know why your wasting keystrokes replying to these bottom feeders,but yea basically ur parents bought half decent property before the boom hit...
My uncle scratched to buy a mediocre ass house in bramalea in the L section,back in the early 80s and now it valued at 700k....Anybody that bought properties 30 years ago is

 

[MikelArteta]

Dont know why your wasting keystrokes replying to these bottom feeders,but yea basically ur parents bought half decent property before the boom hit...
My uncle scratched to buy a mediocre ass house in bramalea in the L section,back in the early 80s and now it valued at 700k....Anybody that bought properties 30 years ago is

bought their first house for like 120k


those were the days

now some crappy ass townhouse in a run down area is half a mill

 

[FLYINHAWAIIAN]

eating:

-bread for dinner
-can of green beans w/hotsauce
-rice and butter
-sealed bag of cereal when you kept seeing coooookie crisps on tv
-cinnamon flavored poptarts
-pickles and kool aid
-peanut butter and jelly on that last slice of bread. (the 2 toned one in the front of the bag and back)

 

[KOohbt]

Those days are over. We fukking made it. now we build so our kids don't even know it's an option.

 

[MJ Truth]

I appreciate it because it made me who I am, but no way in the world I'd want to go back to that.

 

[BlackManLiveFromLondon]

My London fam might feel me here

Living in a family of 6 (Mum, Dad, Me and 3 sisters)

Lived in a 2 bedroom flat for the first 11 years of my life , shared a room with my 3 other sisters

Chillin at my homies house just to cop a quick snack cause you had nothin in the house

The days where my ma and pops would be out grinding and shyt was so bad I damn near spent weeks living on shytty microwaved burgers and fries

2009 came round though Dad copped a better house for us at about 500k now I have my own room , fast forward to now Im still out here just turned 17 and the house price done hit the jackpot If my old man sold the joint he'd be looking at at least 800k

Im out here grinding through education making sure my kids don't go through what I had to go through

 

[MikelArteta]

My London fam might feel me here

Living in a family of 6 (Mum, Dad, Me and 3 sisters)

Lived in a 2 bedroom flat for the first 11 years of my life , shared a room with my 3 other sisters

Chillin at my homies house just to cop a quick snack cause you had nothin in the house

The days where my ma and pops would be out grinding and shyt was so bad I damn near spent weeks living on shytty microwaved burgers and fries

2009 came round though Dad copped a better house for us at about 500k now I have my own room , fast forward to now Im still out here just turned 17 and the house price done hit the jackpot If my old man sold the joint he'd be looking at at least 800k

Im out here grinding through education making sure my kids don't go through what I had to go through

shine my nikka shine

 

[BujuBoombastic]

Mane de hard life down a yard...

Had to help mi father with his plantation when I was 10 years old...

The hard life mane...

 

[Theraflu]

@Emperor_ReinScarf I posted this b4 but here goes: this reminds me of my childhood before my parents came up before the good life before we bought our first house and before the shops I blocked it out of my memory cos most depressing time of my life.


In Africa having to walk an hour for everything, food water everything.

Waking up sleeping on sofa and a fukking huge African Bush cat rat just chilling there watching me on the sofa

Leaving food on table not finding it there cos rats had dragged it

The hunger

Waking up with sore toes cos rats were nibbling on my feet

No light in Africa having to use candles and lanterns.

Being neighbour hood baby sitter at 6. People leaving me with new born babies by myself no training nothing.

Sleeping outside on a matt stepping on what felt like a prawn shell turned out to be a fukking scorpion.

Having people rob us in Africa in our house making us all lie on floor guns every where

My parents sending my uncle money to buy us food, him spending it and letting us starve

When same uncle spent my school fees and I had to stay home for like 3 months

Lizards just walking around my home

Snakes, bush rats were an every day occurrence.

I could go on but just know age 6-8 where a fuvking struggle all cos the uncle who was meant to take care of us decided to embezzle the money instead.

2 years of struggle.