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maysay1 
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 Posted: Dec 20 2012 at 11:01am |
All my truly favorite foods are cheap, processed things (they're the things I reach for when I want "comfort" foods).
I don't spend windfalls on crap...but I do have the horrible habit of spending on little luxuries (because I deserve it and if I don't get it I will feel "deprived" and blah blah blah) that I justify by saying I have the money (which I do) even though the money quickly adds up and could be much better spent. Like 20$ on a crepe yesterday for breakfast.
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lexis83
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Posted: Dec 20 2012 at 11:04am |
Not maysay!  Just kidding, it's good to treat urself sometimes
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whitrhymes
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Posted: Dec 20 2012 at 11:14am |
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SMH this article sounds like college... but I was happy poor back then. :)
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Gia2009
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Posted: Dec 20 2012 at 12:42pm |
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I didn't grow up poor and didn't even know what food stamps were until I
was 18 and met my then boyfriend who told me that I could get some
since I was 18, so I did, just because!!
I didn't know what poor
was until I moved out on my own at 19 with a kid and lost my job and
had to get on public assistance! So I can relate to some of that!
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Rumbera
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Location: Cuba
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Posted: Dec 20 2012 at 1:19pm |
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I can relate to Cream & Farra !!
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Rumbera
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Location: Cuba
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Posted: Dec 20 2012 at 1:21pm |
 Derri wrote:
Country poor sounds a lot like Caribbean poor.I guess when I move back to Caribbean I'll be living country poor richly. Cause there's nothing I want more than to grow my own food, and in Guyana....that's more than possible. I walk down the streets and pick bananas and mangoes off of trees that line the roadside. The birds and the animals eat them, and children playing in the street use the green mangoes to play cricket. For a lot of my childhood we were very well off, rich even. But my mother still grew her own veggies in the garden downstairs, we had all kinds of fruit trees in our backyards, we had our own chickens and our own eggs, our neighbors had cows and that's where we got our milk.
Frikken loved that life. I wish I could eat real food again. When I go to the grocery store I tell my mom, don't buy pick up apples for me because apples ain't pose to shine.
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YAS!!!!!!!! 
Edited by Rumbera - Dec 20 2012 at 1:22pm
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tasty0619
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Posted: Dec 20 2012 at 1:32pm |
My dad is an engineer and we didn't grow up poor, but my parents were raised poor so some of these things they sort of passed on.
None of that stuff about food and food stamps I can relate to, but the money vs poor mentality is kinda applies to me. I was better at saving when I was little because they MADE us save.
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OoDles O
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Posted: Dec 20 2012 at 2:03pm |
as a kid I use to ask my mom for stuff... little things... and she would always say ... "No" like always , right. ..
So I just stopped asking cause I knew what the answer would be.
So I've pretty much built my life around the idea that I will never have to ask anybody for anything. I dont want any gifts for xmas... or bday or anyday. ... I even talk myself out of insignificant stuff. I can say that it has ruined (not insanely) some of my relationships also. Like when I was with an x of mind I never asked her for anything... and she would ask me things like
"what do you want from me?" And I'm like ... " I dont know.. nothing really" I can imagine how that would be frustrating to deal with
All because of my super modest upbringing
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PurplePhase
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Posted: Dec 20 2012 at 2:12pm |
we had muscadine / scuppernong vines when I was a kid (at grandma's) . I like the bronze ones even tho they make my mouth itch  
Edited by PurpleHaze - Dec 20 2012 at 2:20pm
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sugabanana
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Location: Mafia Town
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Posted: Dec 20 2012 at 2:42pm |
All the fruit here swells and itches my mouth..I can only eat fruit in the can. When I go back home 1st thing after getting off the plane is: WHERE IS THE PERSON WIT THE PINEAPPLES STAT!!
I grew up poor but didnt know it. We thought we were well off becos we went to catholic school and paid tuition...We still couldn't have anything. Juice was like gold in my house. My mom would dilute the gallon half way with water  . |
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