Did you ever actually experience poverty?

Answer 1

was homeless on the streets for a year of my life....does this count...most i ever had was £20 i found one day...best meal and day of my life then.

Answer 2

Oh... not poverty in the true sense of the world... But living on the bread line, yes.... My mother in the early days struggled to repay bills, we would get our electricity cut off often, no dinners out or anything like that, toys given to us by charity places for Christmas....

Honestly though, as a child my mother never let me realize too much about this, she was an awesome mum and always made me feel special and well provided for... Now I realize we were pretty poor, but It didn't matter, we had alot of love...

Answer 3

Oh yeah! When I was growing up, my dad got hurt at work and I guess the insurance fell through... Well anyhow he couldn't work and my mom didn't have a job. So my mom went to work, but only made barely minimum wage. They raised a family of five on just that, minimum wage! Sometimes I could hear them talking about how we couldn't eat tomorrow, unless a miracle happened. And sometimes one did. After so long, my dad got better and went back to work, then my Grandmother fell sick and it started all over again... My parents were (and are) miracle workers though, they pulled through and somehow, I was perfectly happy. Amazing, eh?

Answer 4

Not actual poverty. But long time ago I had hard times. Then I got my head straight and am doing good for myself.
Love, honey

Answer 5

In college I felt like I was in poverty. I lived on hotdogs & mac&cheese. I've been to the point of counting out pennies to buy groceries.

Answer 6

My mom's niece went to a Jackson 5 stay overall performance and have been given right into a fan tussle for a towel Michael tossed. And whilst one in all my mom's co-workers went to a stay overall performance (in 1988), you already know the very a techniques aspects of the stands(?), as Michael walked off the diploma, he smiled and waved at her! She only iced over! I accept as true with each and every thing you reported! i'm going to admit that if I by no ability heard of him or his music, i might have thought that Michael grew to become into insane! i think of that the real Michael Jackson grew to become into by no ability straight away shown from the media. you may desire to study previous the conceal of a rag to confirm the real man or woman there.

Answer 7

yep I spent 2 yrs living on the streets and wondering where my next meal was coming from. I finally got a job that I was laid off from in the first place and rebuilt my life and now I help the homeless where ever I can.

Answer 8

my father left my mother with 7 children i was 2 weeks old when he left , so as a child poverty in our house was very real , yet we never went hungry growing up ,,why ,,because my mother and elder brothers would go witout food for us younger ones , i later done well in life traveling the world with my work, and repayed my mother as did the other siblings ,she was a truly wonderful lady

Answer 9

Currently. My husband has had to leave to care for his parents out of state, so now I have to cover all of our costs and daycare for the hours he was home. It is difficult and humbling. Because we grew up with little I have been able to make it work out so far. Right now I am looking or a second job.

Answer 10

When I was growing up times were hard for my family and I remember promising myself that I would grow up and get a good job better than my parents. 19 years later I am now a surgeon working at a major hospital.

Answer 11

Sure have, but am doing much better now, thankfully. Instead of becoming mired down in poverty, I used it as motivation, got my undergraduate, graduate and phd degrees and am now doing pretty well.