If you grew up poor,share your experiences here.

[DaylitoJames]

For a long time as a kid I only ate oatmeal everyday... not because I liked it but because it was cheap and it lasted for many days

Winter time was always hell because we would get no hot water so when I took baths (we couldn't afford having a shower back then) we had to fill up the big pot with water and let it warm up on the stove for a good hour then poured it in with the cold bath water so it could be warm

 

[MJ Truth]

Didn't become poor until I became an adult.

 

[Lo-Co]

it honestly was back and forth for me. my parents did fine together, but shyt got a bit harder when my pops passed. one week we had groceries, one week, find whatever we could. i get worried about that struggle happening to me as i get older.

 

[KinksandCoils]

A girl still poor too

Nikka, I'm still poor

 

[The Guru]

Got a million stories but not really in the mood to type out too much.
Quick one, I remember about a year period where i only had two pairs of sweat pants to wear, no jeans or anything else. I made it look like it was my style to wear sweats.

 

[DrX]

yeah my parents were poor financially but was smart with their lil income and sacrificed so I always had what I needed...and its like that with my whole family

we have 0 family wealth so I had to start from scratch...but its cool...I think struggle is important, it builds character

 

[DrX]

Nikka, I'm still poor

i feel u, but u gotta hustle bruh.....being a poor black man = a jail cell.....dont fall into the trap they set for us

 

[Blackout]

Lived poor until mid teens yet my dad was cheap so by then it made no difference

 

[DrX]

alotta my 2nd cousins r trapped in the hood tho and the men in my family lived in poverty disenfranchised their whole lives...that's why I post the way I do, I try to let the young cats know, this shyt ain't a game....this shyt is set up for us to fail. so u have too be sharp up here

america dont give us too many options

 

[Paradise]

These boogie bytches have the food stamp card now. They don't know the struggle!

and you had to wait on the mail man/ woman to get them.

 

[Nobodyknows]

Got a million stories but not really in the mood to type out too much.
Quick one, I remember about a year period where i only had two pairs of sweat pants to wear, no jeans or anything else. I made it look like it was my style to wear sweats.

Your style?
Breh that's like the most common style there is in the UK

 

[|r|e|a|d|]

Y'alls stories giving me flashbacks


But the struggles make you appreciate what you got and wha you been thru. Had to break it down to my kid today, he f'd up his DS he ain't even have a month and I broke down in tears tellin him wha I been thru and not take for granted wha he got.

Started off an immigrant in the pj's now living in a gated, keep yo heads up and stay on yo grind.