30 Rich Folks That Tied The Knot With Their Less Fortunate Partners Reveal What Shocked Them The Most About Their Ex-Life

I’m not well off, never have been, and I’m the opposite. I use coupons so go down the aisles and comparison shop to find the best deal—-sometimes there’s a generic that’s just as good, but even cheaper than the price minus the coupon of the name brand. I also look at the bottom shelves for the less expensive cereals and stuff. I even fooled my husband with the cereal. He swears his sensitive taste buds can tell brand name Frosted Mini Wheats from the generic. Also, we use plastic cereal containers, so he never sees the box. He doesn’t know I buy the generic and hide the box deep in the garbage can. After the first substitution, I remember him getting a bowl for breakfast, eating it all, and announcing that there’s no replacement for brand name Frosted Flakes. Sensitive taste buds. Right.

This must be location-specific. Here, the aisles will have coffee, pasta/legumes, inexpensive bread, spices, flour, olive oil, and soup, among other cooking staples. I remember we always bought the canned fruits and veggies because the fresh versions would go bad quickly. We also got frozen food, but we kids were sometimes left alone to cook for ourselves and mom only wanted us to use the microwave.

What's means grow on a strict budget ? Means your family pay all bills, fridge is full, but no money left for extra activities, unexpected bills and savings??

This is a different kind of mind set. Not grateful or considerate

Challenge and conflict makes you stronger. It’s not good to give your kid everything it makes then entitled useless adults. This guy seems down to earth and self aware despite it which is a gem in itself.

Tough times make tough people. Tough people last, tough times don't.

But he is your ex now?

Working in a tipping business, yes the poorer tend to give alot more. I used to have a regular table of millionaires that would only tip about 5% and that was if there were that many $1 bills. But I at one point in my life had an amazing homeless man give me $380 that I was short for my rent so I would not be homeless. I will never forget that.

Absolutely the most empathetic…

My mother was the only worker in our 4-person family. Father was massively depressed and couldn't work. She worked as an RN in a medium hospital in Canada (i.e. not a huge money-maker) Fast forwards 40 years, I've been in a wide range of industries and businesses and know probably 20 actual millionaires. Guess who gives the most to charities? Mom.

So F'ing true with this one. I grew up typical middle class white family and my wife, while not dirt poor, was a lower middle class Hispanic family. For our wedding they gave us 3K without asking. I asked my parents if they wanted to help which is tradition in Hispanic weddings, I got a few hundred each and glares. Needed a new fridge a few months ago after ours went out after being repaired twice in two months. My mother in-law handed me her Lowe's card and said don't worry about it. I paid her back a bit and she got mad lol. Every Christmas they spend maybe 5 - 600 on stuff from myself, my wife and out 1 child. I'm lucky if I get a pair of shoes worth more than $50 from my own parents. Some "poor" people are not poor. They are happy with what they have and are willing to share with everyone else. And that my people, is the difference between Capitalism and Socialism. One always wants more and the other is happy with what they have and wants everyone else to be happy too.

The very wealthy will contribute something if there is a tax break involved, i.e., get the taxpayers to foot the bill, or if there is a fancy black tie gala involved. But I have found this to be absolutely spot on, the less wealth you have, the more generous you tend to be.

They did a social experiment in my country, a guy went asking for money for the bus from random people. In the rich neighborhoods he visited people barely looked at him. In the poor ones everyone gave him money, and if they didnt have any they told him so and even apologized for not being able to help him out. It really showed the difference, I dont think people owe anyone anything but that they didnt even acknowledge him were really over the top.

True!

"When all you have is nothing, there's a lot to go around..."

big facts

Because we really truly know the struggle

But unfortunately that makes the rich even richer (generally spoken). They keep a keen eye on their money, not wasting it for anyone who couldn't pay back (well until they might became millionaires/billionaires and do something for charity).

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And expect something jn return down the line. It's not so altruistic

So true! And those who never learn and become dependent sometimes even get protection in form of "oh don't be so hard on him, it's just the way he is...help him..."

my dad grew up very poor. He gives money away--and never asks for it back. He told me, secretly, that he hangs out in Starbucks (pre covid), and the people he sees filling up on sugar and milk and hot water, he slips them money.

I was born in Ukraine in '91. We didnt have a lot of money, so rarely got any exotic fruits (other than what we could grow ourselves - apples, plums, pears); getting A banana (singular) was a HUGE deal. And i loved them. So when I had a chance to move here 11 years ago I went berserk on bananas, I couldn't believe how affordable they were.

Indian here... grew up in pre 90s India when we too had regulations. Though not as bad as SU. But the there were few brands and they had the monopoly. Of course, we didnt have rationing as such. For years, we had Cadbury as a major brand for chocolates. Others were puny or not there. Post 90s when our economy opened up, we realised there were other brands. We still call chocolate as Cadbury... even if the brand is Nestle

Heard from someone who visited this year 2022 that the poverty there is very bad. Her 100 year old mom has no one to care for her and grocery shelves are bare.

Are you rural north central like Wyoming or the Dakotas, far from where most fruit grows? Down south we get lots of produce from Mexico, Chile, and southern states.

Yep. Here we have the most unequal country on earth. Nothing to be proud of. Someone I know is a programmer and he gets $100k per year. So he's in the top 0.3%. His cleaner gets $3000. Per year. That is, 3% of what he gets. He earns, to put it another way, 33x what she does.