Writer Asked Former Poor Kids To Share The Things Their Non-Poor Friends Didn’t Appreciate Growing Up, 30 Deliver

Getting whatever you want is such a lovely luxury! I’m paycheck to pay heck, but when I can afford some ice cream or a treat it makes me so happy

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never been evicted huh?

Still shudder when I think about having to p**n my 1.5 carat wedding ring, 6 months after my hubby died...I had no choice...only got 10% of what it was worth. That was 19 years ago and I still get knots in my stomach when I think about it...but I needed lights and heat in my dumpy apartment, iin January...

My voic to text mest up. It was supposed to be " yet I knew there were poorer kid then me.."

The illusion of ‘good mental health’ most rich people are just good at hiding- alcoholism/ other addictions/ depression/ anxiety disorders/ narcissistic behaviour/ perversions and more 😉

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I don't think having three kids when you are poor is considered great any more

You have no idea how expensive it is to get a vet degree, afford all the equipment and meds required, and a space and employees, plus pay the add on government "professional taxes." Vets love animals and want to help them, but they carry enormous debt and overhead and also have families to care for. My children ate casseroles and crockpot meals and "leftovers soup" at least once every week because, you know, vets are soooo expensive.

My primary care physician and I were talking about the cost of vet care... she said if she had to do it over, she'd be a vet... they don't have to deal with insurance companies, they can charge what they want and collect up front, and their patients don't sue. I love my hospice vet, who does what she can to help me afford all my senior dogs, and my regular vet who always gave me a discount, but I can understand why vet bills are so expensive. What really gets me is that flea and tick preventative is so expensive. It costs just pennies, and they sell it for $$$$ every month.

People in UK often complain about the cost of veterinary care, but that's because we are insulated from the at point of delivery cost of our medical care. But the training, equipment and everything is pretty much the same for animals as humans.

After my previous dog required a 16k surgery... and subsequently died - I vowed to never bring an animal home without Pet Insurance. It has already paid for itself for the short time I've had it!

That was a horrible thing to do! I am so sorry you went thru this. This made me cry.

Same. But only rice. And sometimes cheap pasta. At least had eggs every few days, because we had hens... but having food for the hens was another issue... that is how we (family of 8, with 5 children under 14 years old) survived covid lockdown. Still scraping by tho

Yes! Beans and rice and more beans and rice, rinse, repeat ..and ENJOY (cause that's all you're gonna get!).

We got a box of food from my church one year right before thanksgiving. It helped a lot but we think the mashed potatoes were military rations and we ate mashed potatoes for like 6 months straight. Our only reprieve was spaghetti night. Two dollars for a can of meat sauce and box of pasta that fed the four of us and then had left over for weekend lunches and a second spaghetti night. My parents even experimented with like casseroles or baked mashed potato dishes. They were bad but did we eat them? Yep. And I'm autistic so I had food issues I couldn't ignore. At least I was good with samefooding though. We did that because it was food. We had food. We were going to eat that food because otherwise we didn't have food.

Our go to was Ramen or discount ground beef(the kind that's all the reject meat), canned green beans, rice. Referred to as hamburger,greanbeans,and rice.

Corn, peas and rice for most meals if we ate. A treat was 2 minute noodles, egg and a can of spam if we could have the food bank box. They were so swamped by people needing it round where we were that you could only get it once every 2 months so that everyone could get at least some help. Fresh meat, fruit, fresh milk and bread were so luxurious they never happened. Everything had to be able to be shelf stored because electricity would go out more often than not same as having a wash. The local council amenities block had cold water only showers so you learned to wash and dash

I bet your house smelled 😂 we eat a lot of chili, so I get that

I grew up eating that, and still love bean soup. Most people I know grew up on it, and swear mine's the best. But did eat lots of other things, too. ( My father had sneaked in the Army before he turned 16 to escape starving.) Neither parent ever had anything they didn't work for...had only 2 children. No welfare in any form. And that's why I have always had the work ethic my Korean War combat vet father had.

Pinto beans, corn bread and fried potatoes. At least twice a week. Sometimes spam.

Pinto beans and boiled cabbage were on our weekly menu.

My cousin's spouse ate beans so much as a poor kid, he refuses to eat beans at all.

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Family of 7? Sorry, but I can clearly see where your problems stemmed from growing up :(

Government cheese and the peanut butter. Sooo good.

As someone with a child and court ordered visitation + child support, who hasn't received child support payments since 2016... it's not as easy as folx seem to think it is. Courts only get involved if I make them and that costs money that I don't have, along with causing potential issues. Wage garnishing only happens if you're paid legally or if the company knows they're supposed to do so. IDK where people live where prison time is an option for not paying child support, but that's not how it is here. I have to follow the court agreement and everything, regardless of if he pays, and it explicitly says this in our law. And there's also repercussions that my daughter could face so getting him to pay me and having him upset + taking it out on my daughter is not worth it. I work 3 jobs and do my best for her, without his help. He knows he's supposed to pay and makes sure he doesn't. So many folx here who have no idea what it's like to be the mom in that situation.