Lets talk about #Struggles we came up on

[Nintendough]

PB&J every day for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner...cabinets looking a lil larry holmes



Cereal and Water



Slept in the laundry basket(mentioned this before)....but when I got too big I slept in a drawer pulled out of a dresser




Housing Authority digging all up in ya bidness.




Sleeping in ya aunt house and some random dude roll up in the AM asking where her man is and wondering where is guwop is. Not knowing if its time to go duck into a closet real quick.



Doing pushups, dips, situps and jump squats everyday because so and so and his cousins dont like you so you gotta get brolic. Getting the pints of milk they gave away to get big.




Giant pot of hood spaghetti that you were eating on for a full week. breakfast and dinner(PB&J or WB and Bologna for lunch) When red sauce ran out, soy sauce

 

[Swiggy]

4 slices of wonder bread for dinner

Having to sleep on the living room couch every night

BLACK AND WHITE ON THE FLOOR MODEL

I can't go on

 

[Nintendough]

Treating every single illness with with juice and ibuprofen.


The hospital charity health care had a month waiting list

 

[BillCosbyAteMyHomework]

Changing schools almost every year from getting evicted

Start adding water to the ketchup when it's 2/3 gone so it will last longer

Never having a phone in the house, always had to ask to use neighbors

Electricity the exception, not always the rule

 

[Nintendough]

Changing schools almost every year from getting evicted

Start adding water to the ketchup when it's 2/3 gone so it will last longer

Never having a phone in the house, always had to ask to use neighbors

Electricity the exception, not always the rule

You a hood girl, you need a thug in your life. @TreeThree whatever his name is look like he grew up with central heating and played an instrument in school. I bundled up in the winter and only acted a fool.

 

[sfgiants]

i didnt go grocery shopping for a week last month and kept eating fast food like a pig
then i got tired of that shyt so i decided i was gona stay home. all i had at the crib was
1 tuna can
1 bag of sugar
yoplait yogurt
tortilla chips
water


so i poured the tuna in a bowl and threw in the chips after i crushed them and ate that shyt but i was still hungry so i 2 strawberry yogurts in the blender with water and drank that shyt. i pretended it was a smoothie

 

[Elle Driver]

PB&J every day for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner...cabinets looking a lil larry holmes



Cereal and Water



Slept in the laundry basket(mentioned this before)....but when I got too big I slept in a drawer pulled out of a dresser




Housing Authority digging all up in ya bidness.




Sleeping in ya aunt house and some random dude roll up in the AM asking where her man is and wondering where is guwop is. Not knowing if its time to go duck into a closet real quick.



Doing pushups, dips, situps and jump squats everyday because so and so and his cousins dont like you so you gotta get brolic. Getting the pints of milk they gave away to get big.




Giant pot of hood spaghetti that you were eating on for a full week. breakfast and dinner(PB&J or WB and Bologna for lunch) When red sauce ran out, soy sauce

We didn't even qualify for section 8, income too low.

 

[Illuminatos]

I remember when we didn't have any cable we used to stick a metal hanger in the back of the TV so we could get some reception and those 4 struggle channels.

 

[BillCosbyAteMyHomework]

You a hood girl, you need a thug in your life. @TreeThree whatever his name is look like he grew up with central heating and played an instrument in school. I bundled up in the winter and only acted a fool.

back then- central whaa?

 

[BillCosbyAteMyHomework]

I remember when we didn't have any cable we used to stick a metal hanger in the back of the TV so we could get some reception and those 4 struggle channels.

Paperclip in the cable port does the trick

 

[Elle Driver]

I remember when we didn't have any cable we used to stick a metal hanger in the back of the TV so we could get some reception and those 4 struggle channels.

That remind me of when the buttons on the tv broke so moms forced me to change the channel using utensils.

My bruvas taught me how to steal cable too. Them days.

 

[BasketCase]

Slept in the laundry basket(mentioned this before)....but when I got too big I slept in a drawer pulled out of a dresser

Start adding water to the ketchup when it's 2/3 gone so it will last longer

I remember when we didn't have any cable we used to stick a metal hanger in the back of the TV so we could get some reception and those 4 struggle channels.

Desperate times, innovative measures

 

[Illuminatos]

Paperclip in the cable port does the trick

I found bobby pins worked even better than the hangers though. Had to go in mommy's bathroom and snatch a couple of these.

It was easier to handle and I didn't run the risk of gouging my eye out.

 

[Black]

only having 5 outfits

eating ramen noodles 6 times a week

only being able to watch tv when I went to my friends house.

 

[Theraflu]

@Kind Gentleman 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

And also short time I spent in Africa in summers 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.