What do you consider "growing up poor"

[BrothaZay]

It seem today everyone claim to have grown up poor. From blacc ppl to Mexicans even cacs claiming they grew up poor now

What do you personally consider growing up POOR. Did you grow up poor personally? And how long did it have to last for you to claim you grew up poor? All 18 years?

 

[BrothaZay]

Cump

 

[skeetsinternal]

I dunno. We went thru a poor stretch at one point. I didn't feel poor. We had sardines for dinner. Egg fried rice was a favorite and I got to see my best friend alot at the time when I went over they house to borrow a cup of flour or sugar. Didn't feel poor but now that I look back I wouldn't change it for the world.

 

[UncleTomFord15]

If your parents growing up made less than 100k combined you lost.

 

[Super Ramon Jr]

1 pair of shoes a year

 

[BaltimoreTwilightMarauder]

If your mom got mad when you asked about dinner, you grew up poor.

 

[SATAN]

Sometimes our meal was just rice, with sugar in it. No butter because we didn't have any.

I still make that shyt to this day


I used to sneak extra sugar into the rice when moms wasn't looking


A few times a year we would get a plain brown box filled with bags of generic cereal with no label, but it was knockoffs of sweet cereals like Crunch Berries or Fruity pebbles.

That was the only time we would get cereal that was already sweet flavored, and it felt like Christmas

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

Pops used majority of his money to put a roof over our head but when it came to food, it was generic cereal, top ramen, beans and rice, canned sardines etc etc.

I remember him saying, "if you don't like this food, starve"

 

[humminbird]

there's levels
middle class poor you live in a subarb but you're parents can't get you the new stuff, hand me downs from siblings, relatives, thirft shops
poor don't have enough money for basic utlities like an washing machine, fridge, other items.

 

[re'up]

Probably 35k net for a family of four was my experience, but some of it is so mixed, and so many qualifiers and caveats, it's a hard thing to qualify exactly. There was such a proximity to upper middle class prosperity, that it all seems too bizarre now. The 90's were a good time for families like mine, but it was kind if a facade. Compared to my friends who lived in low income apartments, it was luxurious, but compared to our neighbors and other friends, whose families made 100k-150k plus, it was lower middle class, at minimum.

*Owned a home
*Did not take vacations, outside of some minor exceptions
*Had newer school clothes, credit card debt to pull that off, had hand me downs for sure
*Old Honda civic and used Volvo, and a beat down GMC truck
*Taco Bell or Jack in The Box was considered something of a luxury
*Ate at a greasy diner for dinner sometimes, that we actually as kids loved, we thought it was nice

 

[Abraxus]

I grew up poor but was rich where it counted. Don’t think anyone would call me poor today though.

RIP babygirl, until I see you again

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Cump

Nikka....




U a gatdam fool for that 1, breh.

 

[hotbeezie]

I grew up in Rural North Louisiana

I remember putting the box fan on my brothers that we shared so they wouldn’t get ate up by mosquitoes because the air went out.


I remember seeing the stars and the moon because the roof went bad and my dad to put plastic covering over the house to protect us from the rain.


I remember nikkas laughing at me because I didn’t have and their parents had it.


I remember nikkas clowning my shoes when I joined basketball team because they were converse.


I remember girls clowning me because I looked dusty.


shyt I remember saving up for a cheap ass rusty beach cruiser only for nikkas to steal it while I was at the library studying


Commodities
Off brand cereal...the really bad kind
Powdered milk.
fukkin’ Beans



But shyt I never held it against my parents because I knew the situation and I had love, but I can’t forget either.

 

[Wildin]

Had lights, gas turned off, weeks at a time
Slept on the floor with blankets
Mom's and pops didn't eat so you can get what little you got.
Bounced around from small place to small place
Wore goodwill/thrift store clothes not cause you were frugal or savvy but because that's all you could get.
Had to heat up water on an electric stove or kettle to take a bath or wash off.
Sometimes had to take cold baths or wash off cold.
Sleeping in the same bed as siblings and/parents.
Slept in motels, cheap ones.
Had to shack up with friends or family.


I don't know what level of poverty this is but if yours was just "not having cool shoes" "not having snes"

 

[desjardins]

If your household income was under the poverty line , bonus points if yall had some form of public assistance
Some people probably think they grew up poor but really they just grew up with irresponsible financially illiterate parents who blew money on dumb shyt