FYI What screams you are poor

[Mr.90210]

The poor are only poor because they want to be poor. That screams being poor. Making excuses and coming up with bullshit reasons why they have no money instead of actually fucking doing something about it to improve their life.
Laundromats where welfare section 8 unmarried baby mamas buy alcohol, play video games, and bitch and moan about being poor. Don’t forget smoking cigarettes and drugs.

 

[hedgerow]

i worked hard and invested money for decades and now life's great...delayed gratification is key to success...passive income now and for the rest of my life. The stock market at the new millennia was incredible, probably never to be surpassed.

 

[steamyjones44]

How you annunciate words, ghetto accent is the biggest one. Shows upbringing

 

[Nicole's Brown Simpson]

40 Times Someone Said ‘I Was Raised Poor’ Without Saying It Out Loud

If you grew up far from affluence, you may relate well with these. . Curiosities

www.boredpanda.com

So does any one on this list did this? I sure as hell do not. I grew up privileged.

What screams that you're poor is driving on a 100° day with your car windows down, walking through a grocery store with Ramen noodles and kool-aid packets, and the four packs of cheap toilet paper from the $1 aisle. Also, buying the cheapest smokes/rotgut booze on the market.

I've been poor on many, many occasions, and now that I have money, I'm still living by this standard, so I can keep what money I have.

Ps- I'm so fucking glad it's fall. Summer heat just about melted my fucking corpse to my car seat!

#tightwad

 

[Amata]

I was raised in an nomadic family, with my dad carting my mother and me off to weird places, mostly practically uninhabited islands where we had to live off the land and the sea (in the midst of nature you're never "poor", at least not in the way city dwellers would be). My father made a meager income selling our produce and fish.
Thus we had to be resourceful and self-sufficient. It stays with you all your life.

So I went through the list, and as a matter of fact found that as many as 28 "habits" related to common sense (at least to my own understanding of what constitutes common sense). I am not rich, not poor, but I WILL fix something if it is within my capacities instead of just tossing it out. I also avoid restaurants, due to my conviction that there's no place like home and that each and every meal, be it ever so simple, tastes best at your own table.

Why would I walk the treadmill of the consumer society if there is no need to do so.

 

[hedgerow]

I was raised in an nomadic family, with my dad carting my mother and me off to weird places, mostly practically uninhabited islands where we had to live off the land and the sea (in the midst of nature you're never "poor", at least not in the way city dwellers would be). My father made a meager income selling our produce and fish.
Thus we had to be resourceful and self-sufficient. It stays with you all your life.

So I went through the list, and as a matter of fact found that as many as 28 "habits" related to common sense (at least to my own understanding of what constitutes common sense). I am not rich, not poor, but I WILL fix something if it is within my capacities instead of just tossing it out. I also avoid restaurants, due to my conviction that there's no place like home and that each and every meal, be it ever so simple, tastes best at your own table.

Why would I walk the treadmill of the consumer society if there is no need to do so.

so your dad was a journalist who lived on un-inhabited islands?

 

[Amata]

so your dad was a journalist who lived on un-inhabited islands?

Lol!

He was a journalist, then... he decided the entire family needed a big change and that's when the "carting off" began. Eventually all of us ended up in a very densely inhabited city and he went back to journalism plus writing books... can you guess, about life on the very sparsely inhabited islands.

 

[hedgerow]

Lol!

He was a journalist, then... he decided the entire family needed a big change and that's when the "carting off" began. Eventually all of us ended up in a very densely inhabited city and he went back to journalism plus writing books... can you guess, about life on the very sparsely inhabited islands.

okay that's it, now i'm watching Mosquito Coast tonight

 

[ib4error]

I really want to view whats on this page to see if I relate to anything but my Malwarebytes extension is showing 100+ items trying to blast my browser.

I'm not entirely sure because I can't see the list, but I grew up very poor. I met my wife in 2012 and she comes from money. I learned many things I hadn't previously thought about on my own. I was 23 at the time and jsut got out of the USMC.

Being with her I learned about properly styling my hair with quality products instead of Walmart gel, tasteful choices in restaurants(as oppose to thinking Applebees was "great"), men and women's fashion or at least good clothing brands, dos and don'ts with give giving (i had a friend who gifted his girlfriend an appliance on their anniversary and didn't think much of it till my wife said something about it), and many more.

Some of these may seem stupid or obvious, but I grew up with no tasteful influences. I was very happy to learn all the things I did from her and have since reflected embarrassingly on some of this things I did before and fully realize they are "i was once poor" behaviour!

 

[Amata]

okay that's it, now i'm watching Mosquito Coast tonight

I just consulted Wikipedia about this film, looks like something I might like - spotted some matches (!)- found the full movie on Reddit - I'll watch it between acts!

 

[Bender41]

Having to go to work every day

 

[hedgerow]

Superman had a boss, Batman had a butler. Different classes.

 

[mellody17]

having young kids who look unkempt. if you’re going to have the children you need to brush their hair, teeth, bathe them ect. if you cannot take care of the young child because of work obligations (to afford rent for example) then you should not have children.