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When I was growing up my family was so poor______________________.

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Posted - January 21, 2017

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    If you are looking for a punchline, I am not going to give you one. If you want a true fact I can do that.

    When I was growing up we were so poor that we returned found soda bottles for the deposit money so we could buy bread and lunch meat so we could eat dinner.
      January 21, 2017 12:22 PM MST
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  • When I saw this, I thought the same. That they're just looking for a punch line. But I saw your answer.

    I remember my mother heating water on an upside down iron, because we didn't have fuel for the stove.
      January 21, 2017 1:55 PM MST
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  • We had to steal people's newspapers for paper in our outhouse! Corn cobs wear out too fast! 
    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at January 21, 2017 5:55 PM MST
      January 21, 2017 12:30 PM MST
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  • Corn cobs? Ouch! 
      January 21, 2017 12:38 PM MST
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  • Soak em in a water bucket! LOL
      January 21, 2017 12:42 PM MST
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  • DS is no longer on Blurtit.  They have a real mod there now. 
      January 21, 2017 12:44 PM MST
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  • About time.
      January 21, 2017 3:17 PM MST
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  • ...that we couldn't even afford the Internet. 

    Actually, we weren't very well off. I was born toward the end of the Great Depression when Dad had lost his job and my parents lost their home. I wanted to be rich when I grew up so that I could have my own house and my own car. Well, I got both of those so, by my own definition, I am rich. (Anybody want to borrow a million or two?)

    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at January 21, 2017 5:56 PM MST
      January 21, 2017 12:42 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Parents couldn't afford toys for me so my mother cut holes in my pockets so I would have something to play with. 
      January 21, 2017 3:50 PM MST
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  • 22891
    my family was middle class, im the one thats poor now
      January 21, 2017 4:37 PM MST
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  • 19942
    I didn't grow up in a poor family.  We were a middle class family along with most of the other kids with whom I went to school.  I had three sisters and my mom used to sew our clothes so we were able to have other things we needed or wanted.
      January 21, 2017 4:47 PM MST
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  • When I was growing up my family was so poor "that we didn't have an upstairs maid."
      October 1, 2017 11:16 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    How could you live under those conditions. We were so poor, at Thanksgiving we molded canned dog food into a turkey shape.
      October 2, 2017 8:26 AM MDT
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  • Awww ... I'll bet your dog was pleased. :))
      October 2, 2017 8:29 AM MDT
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  • 44175
    We saved him for Christmas dinner.
      October 2, 2017 8:39 AM MDT
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  • I see. Pleased until Christmas.
      October 2, 2017 9:06 AM MDT
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