Post by Rin Minigawa on Feb 6, 2012 18:52:41 GMT -5
I didn't write this, but I found it online, and put the ones in bold as the ones that I am experiencing right now. It could be worse, but as i was feeling sorry for myself today-realizing you just got lunch from a soup kitchen despresses a person I went and looke dup stuff and found this. And as i read through it, I saw a lot of stuff that I'm dealing with right now. So I decided to put them in bold and share my misery with you all. 
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Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.Knowing it's 5.18 for his damn cigarettes adn nearly fourty dollars to keep gas int he car....
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they’re what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there’s not an $800 car in America that’s worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.Well there's no toothache, but every day I have to brush my teeth with bottled water because the water in the sink is undrinkable, and i can't use it to brush with or it will make me sick. So if the house is out of bottled water. Guess what? I dont get to brush my teeth.
Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends’ houses but never has friends over to yours.
Being poor is going to the restroom before you get in the school lunch line so your friends will be ahead of you and won’t hear you say “I get free lunch” when you get to the cashier.
Being poor is living next to the freeway.
Being poor is coming back to the car with your children in the back seat, clutching that box of Raisin Bran you just bought and trying to think of a way to make the kids understand that the box has to last.Not exactly like this, but we get food from a soup kitchen, have neigherbors bring us dinner and share it with us, and any food we get we pretty much can't eat because it has to last. One meal a day and thats it or we get glared at for wasiting food.
Being poor is wondering if your well-off sibling is lying when he says he doesn’t mind when you ask for help.
Being poor is off-brand toys. Or off brand food.
Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house. and the heater broke. plus the well pump broke, not that we can drinkt he water anyway.
Being poor is knowing you can’t leave $5 on the coffee table when your friends are around.Not that anyone would steal really, but money can't be lying aroudn becasue everyone else is poor too.
Being poor is hoping your kids don’t have a growth spurt.
Being poor is stealing meat from the store, frying it up before your mom gets home and then telling her she doesn’t have make dinner tonight because you’re not hungry anyway.
Being poor is Goodwill underwear.Yep..i have goodwill clothes, but i never looked down on that, until i realized i needed socks and ended up stealing some from a foreclosed home.
Being poor is not enough space for everyone who lives with you.Glenn and i live in a tiny bedroom on a tiny bed there is room for us i guess, but i wish we had a real two-person sized bed.
Being poor is feeling the glued soles tear off your supermarket shoes when you run around the playground.
Being poor is your kid’s school being the one with the 15-year-old textbooks and no air conditioning.
Being poor is thinking $8 an hour is a really good deal.It is a good deal...isnt it?
Being poor is relying on people who don’t give a damn about you.I think they do care, but if it was us or them, i think they would save themselves...I try not to get on their bad side or glenn and i will literally be living on the street.
Being poor is an overnight shift under florescent lights.If I had to right now, you bet your bottom I'd be working it.
Being poor is finding the letter your mom wrote to your dad, begging him for the child support.
Being poor is a bathtub you have to empty into the toilet.Or in my case a pipe sticking out of the wall that pours out brownish undrinkable water.
Being poor is stopping the car to take a lamp from a stranger’s trash.Did I mention I stole clothes froma forclosed house?
Being poor is making lunch for your kid when a cockroach skitters over the bread, and you looking over to see if your kid saw.Only it was an ant, not a cockroach. and it was my food, not a kids.
Being poor is believing a GED actually makes a goddamned difference.
Being poor is people angry at you just for walking around in the mall.
Being poor is not taking the job because you can’t find someone you trust to watch your kids.
Being poor is the police busting into the apartment right next to yours.Or driving by your house and leaving a ticket saying you have to clean up the burn pile where you dispose of your garbage because you're too poor to pay for a trash man to take it and dump it.
Being poor is not talking to that girl because she’ll probably just laugh at your clothes.
Being poor is hoping you’ll be invited for dinner.
Being poor is a sidewalk with lots of brown glass on it.Or a dirty river and and a lawn full of trash.
Being poor is people thinking they know something about you by the way you talk.
Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise.I wish i could even make that much working.
Being poor is your kid’s teacher assuming you don’t have any books in your home.
Being poor is six dollars short on the utility bill and no way to close the gap.Familiar with this pain, except it's my car and the 27 dollar overdraft fee.
Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.I'd cry if i dropped any food ont he floor, because if iI did, someone else would give me their share of food and go hungry for the night.
Being poor is knowing you work as hard as anyone, anywhere.I do!
Being poor is people surprised to discover you’re not actually stupid.
Being poor is people surprised to discover you’re not actually lazy.I'm not! I just can't finda job. T_T
Being poor is a six-hour wait in an emergency room with a sick child asleep on your lap.
Being poor is never buying anything someone else hasn’t bought first.Again, I'm wearing stolen clothes from a foreclosed house because i can't afford new socks.
Being poor is picking the 10 cent ramen instead of the 12 cent ramen because that’s two extra packages for every dollar.Exactly, those two cents are going toward a bill somewhere.
Being poor is having to live with choices you didn’t know you made when you were 14 years old.
Being poor is getting tired of people wanting you to be grateful. "Wella t least you have.." bla bla bla it could be worse, but i want it to get better.
Being poor is knowing you’re being judged.
Being poor is a box of crayons and a $1 coloring book from a community center Santa.And that's a deal.
Being poor is checking the coin return slot of every soda machine you go by.
Being poor is deciding that it’s all right to base a relationship on shelter.
Being poor is knowing you really shouldn’t spend that buck on a Lotto ticket.
Being poor is hoping the register lady will spot you the dime.
Being poor is feeling helpless when your child makes the same mistakes you did, and won’t listen to you beg them against doing so.
Being poor is a cough that doesn’t go away. I actually have developed a cough since being here and no, it hasn't gone away so I have to wonder...
Being poor is making sure you don’t spill on the couch, just in case you have to give it back before the lease is up.
Being poor is a $200 paycheck advance from a company that takes $250 when the paycheck comes in.
Being poor is four years of night classes for an Associates of Art degree.
Being poor is a lumpy futon bed.Or in my case a single sized mattress with holes.
Being poor is knowing where the shelter is.I had a soup kitchen lunch today...we kow where the shelter is...
Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so.
Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor.
Being poor is seeing how few options you have.
Being poor is running in place.
Being poor is people wondering why you didn’t leave.
UGH when did things get so bad! thank god I dont have any kids!
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Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.Knowing it's 5.18 for his damn cigarettes adn nearly fourty dollars to keep gas int he car....
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they’re what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there’s not an $800 car in America that’s worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.Well there's no toothache, but every day I have to brush my teeth with bottled water because the water in the sink is undrinkable, and i can't use it to brush with or it will make me sick. So if the house is out of bottled water. Guess what? I dont get to brush my teeth.
Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends’ houses but never has friends over to yours.
Being poor is going to the restroom before you get in the school lunch line so your friends will be ahead of you and won’t hear you say “I get free lunch” when you get to the cashier.
Being poor is living next to the freeway.
Being poor is coming back to the car with your children in the back seat, clutching that box of Raisin Bran you just bought and trying to think of a way to make the kids understand that the box has to last.Not exactly like this, but we get food from a soup kitchen, have neigherbors bring us dinner and share it with us, and any food we get we pretty much can't eat because it has to last. One meal a day and thats it or we get glared at for wasiting food.
Being poor is wondering if your well-off sibling is lying when he says he doesn’t mind when you ask for help.
Being poor is off-brand toys. Or off brand food.
Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house. and the heater broke. plus the well pump broke, not that we can drinkt he water anyway.
Being poor is knowing you can’t leave $5 on the coffee table when your friends are around.Not that anyone would steal really, but money can't be lying aroudn becasue everyone else is poor too.
Being poor is hoping your kids don’t have a growth spurt.
Being poor is stealing meat from the store, frying it up before your mom gets home and then telling her she doesn’t have make dinner tonight because you’re not hungry anyway.
Being poor is Goodwill underwear.Yep..i have goodwill clothes, but i never looked down on that, until i realized i needed socks and ended up stealing some from a foreclosed home.
Being poor is not enough space for everyone who lives with you.Glenn and i live in a tiny bedroom on a tiny bed there is room for us i guess, but i wish we had a real two-person sized bed.
Being poor is feeling the glued soles tear off your supermarket shoes when you run around the playground.
Being poor is your kid’s school being the one with the 15-year-old textbooks and no air conditioning.
Being poor is thinking $8 an hour is a really good deal.It is a good deal...isnt it?
Being poor is relying on people who don’t give a damn about you.I think they do care, but if it was us or them, i think they would save themselves...I try not to get on their bad side or glenn and i will literally be living on the street.
Being poor is an overnight shift under florescent lights.If I had to right now, you bet your bottom I'd be working it.
Being poor is finding the letter your mom wrote to your dad, begging him for the child support.
Being poor is a bathtub you have to empty into the toilet.Or in my case a pipe sticking out of the wall that pours out brownish undrinkable water.
Being poor is stopping the car to take a lamp from a stranger’s trash.Did I mention I stole clothes froma forclosed house?
Being poor is making lunch for your kid when a cockroach skitters over the bread, and you looking over to see if your kid saw.Only it was an ant, not a cockroach. and it was my food, not a kids.
Being poor is believing a GED actually makes a goddamned difference.
Being poor is people angry at you just for walking around in the mall.
Being poor is not taking the job because you can’t find someone you trust to watch your kids.
Being poor is the police busting into the apartment right next to yours.Or driving by your house and leaving a ticket saying you have to clean up the burn pile where you dispose of your garbage because you're too poor to pay for a trash man to take it and dump it.
Being poor is not talking to that girl because she’ll probably just laugh at your clothes.
Being poor is hoping you’ll be invited for dinner.
Being poor is a sidewalk with lots of brown glass on it.Or a dirty river and and a lawn full of trash.
Being poor is people thinking they know something about you by the way you talk.
Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise.I wish i could even make that much working.
Being poor is your kid’s teacher assuming you don’t have any books in your home.
Being poor is six dollars short on the utility bill and no way to close the gap.Familiar with this pain, except it's my car and the 27 dollar overdraft fee.
Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.I'd cry if i dropped any food ont he floor, because if iI did, someone else would give me their share of food and go hungry for the night.
Being poor is knowing you work as hard as anyone, anywhere.I do!
Being poor is people surprised to discover you’re not actually stupid.
Being poor is people surprised to discover you’re not actually lazy.I'm not! I just can't finda job. T_T
Being poor is a six-hour wait in an emergency room with a sick child asleep on your lap.
Being poor is never buying anything someone else hasn’t bought first.Again, I'm wearing stolen clothes from a foreclosed house because i can't afford new socks.
Being poor is picking the 10 cent ramen instead of the 12 cent ramen because that’s two extra packages for every dollar.Exactly, those two cents are going toward a bill somewhere.
Being poor is having to live with choices you didn’t know you made when you were 14 years old.
Being poor is getting tired of people wanting you to be grateful. "Wella t least you have.." bla bla bla it could be worse, but i want it to get better.
Being poor is knowing you’re being judged.
Being poor is a box of crayons and a $1 coloring book from a community center Santa.And that's a deal.
Being poor is checking the coin return slot of every soda machine you go by.
Being poor is deciding that it’s all right to base a relationship on shelter.
Being poor is knowing you really shouldn’t spend that buck on a Lotto ticket.
Being poor is hoping the register lady will spot you the dime.
Being poor is feeling helpless when your child makes the same mistakes you did, and won’t listen to you beg them against doing so.
Being poor is a cough that doesn’t go away. I actually have developed a cough since being here and no, it hasn't gone away so I have to wonder...
Being poor is making sure you don’t spill on the couch, just in case you have to give it back before the lease is up.
Being poor is a $200 paycheck advance from a company that takes $250 when the paycheck comes in.
Being poor is four years of night classes for an Associates of Art degree.
Being poor is a lumpy futon bed.Or in my case a single sized mattress with holes.
Being poor is knowing where the shelter is.I had a soup kitchen lunch today...we kow where the shelter is...
Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so.
Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor.
Being poor is seeing how few options you have.
Being poor is running in place.
Being poor is people wondering why you didn’t leave.
UGH when did things get so bad! thank god I dont have any kids!
