I have never been without food or shelter so I guess I never really was "poor". Now there have been several times in my life that I did not have any money to spend. Almost all of my childhood was without money but we always had good meals. Now my Mother had to pinch penny's for many things. We eat a lot of dried beans and corn bread because she had some ham so it got cut up in the bean pot. We had many a meal in the summer that was all out of the garden so there was not much "meat" showing. LOL
My first wife grew up truly poor. Her father was a drunk not the fancy alcoholic just a MEAN drunk!!! They had a rocky farm that had been farmed to death and it would not even raise a very good garden. Her Mother raised some garden but it never yielded much. I know my wife went to bed hungry on a regular basis as the oldest child. She and her Mother would eat "light" so the younger kids would have enough. She was shocked when we got married and had a full cellar of food an a freezer full of meat. She would make larger meals to take the "left" overs to her Mother. We NEVER talked openly about it. She was embarrassed to have been that poor. So I just made darn sure we never where without food. It did get close in the mid 1980s so I went to work at the dealership. Her growing up without anything hardly drove her to have a "better" life.
I am with many on here in that I think growing up a 'little" poor is better for kids than growing up with everything handed to them.
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