Question for those of a poor background.. For me it was when I was 16 and asked for new furniture, I was told its too expensive, stuck with my baby furniture, my friends all had cars, my mom didnt even know how to drive, I realized how poor we were.
2007-10-04 21:41:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Our neighbours used to give us boxes of their old clothes. We loved it though, it was so exciting to get a big box of clothes we'd never seen before and go through and pick out something nice. I never minded that they were hand-me-downs. Now that I'm older I wonder what my parents thought of it, whether it was hard on their pride or they were just thankful that their children got "new" clothes.
We were also the only family in my school without a TV, dishwasher or car, although we got one when I was 8 or 9. I was sometimes embarrassed about it as a child. Children can be really nasty, especially if you're in any way different, and it was hard sometimes, I just wanted to be like the others. Now we're OK, my parents are seperated but each have enough money now, and I'm proud of my childhood. We had other things that a lot of privileged kids didn't have, and I think I learned to value money in a different way to them. I understand that it's important in order to be able to live, but not the be-all and end-all. I also have a better imagination imho, as I didn't have television to kill that.
2007-10-04 22:23:14 · answer #1 · answered by Fröken Fräken 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm... the house I grew up in had cracks in the windows big enough to stick a finger through, and the highlight of my freshman year of high school was a new pair of jeans... the first new pair I'd ever had. We had well water, and no phone for a number of years. That said, I grew up with it and I was used to it. It didn't really strike me until a couple of years ago, when a friend was talking about his daughter eating goldfish crackers. I knew what they were as a kid, but we never had any... except for once, when mom brought a box home from a salvage store where she worked. I still remember that, even though they were all crushed.
I found when I moved out that I could make more money working full time at minimum wage than my parents could spare to support me. I put myself through college, and now I'm in training to be a nursing assistant. I look forward to having health/dental/vision insurance steadily for the first time in my life.
For the guy who says you're not really poor if you're on the internet... I'm an adult now, and I provide for myself and my husband. The question was about childhood.
2007-10-05 00:54:03 · answer #2 · answered by cindylouwho38 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Found out exactly how you just did. never had Holidays even withinth UK! No car, cra*y council flat
Yes all my friends were ALOT richer, I knew a girl whos father was on 250K a year and she boasted but Despite my poor back ground I always still believe[d] that there were people even poorer than my self, beacuse I always saw at least one tramp on the way home from school. - was going to give you the rest of my life story but never mind.
Although I never or rarely complained the Sad thing is I got older, I had money and I spent it. Should have respected it more from my experience but for the first time I could do every thing I hadn't been able to.
2007-10-04 21:49:06 · answer #3 · answered by Daedalus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-01-03 04:02:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question and answer. When I said that I took the coat off the bed to go out in the cold weather/
Could'nt see out of the bedroom window because of the ice patterns on the INSIDE of the glass.
Cutting insoles from cardboard to fit in the shoes so that our socks did'nt touch the road.
Cutting old bicycle tyres, and glueing on to the soles of our shoes as a repair.
Bringing home branches of trees to be cut so that we had warmth in the winter, as we could'nt afford coal.
I could go on .
THE HAPPIEST YEARS OF MY LIFE. TEACHES YOU THE VALUE OF MONEY.
2007-10-04 21:57:50 · answer #5 · answered by xenon 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just before my parents got a divorce back around 1962.
I really wanted a "Barbie"doll but they could only get me a Barbie knock off.
2007-10-04 22:58:40 · answer #6 · answered by Marilyn T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have running water and a roof over your house and also the following; NHS, DSS, free eye and dental care then you're not poor at all. think of the other people who don't have access to any one of the above list and count how lucky you are.
2007-10-04 22:00:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I realised how different we were when we never did holidays abroad,or have a car or even have decent meals to eat..But not complaining as it has shown me to respect money and not to throw things away on things that arent essentials
2007-10-04 21:48:03 · answer #8 · answered by sharon19833 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
But were you loved and cared for? Many people well endowed with material goods may have been much poorer than you.
2007-10-04 22:07:47 · answer #9 · answered by LillyB 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nobody with internet is poor. Maybe you need to go to other countries and learn what poor really is.
2007-10-04 21:55:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋