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Yes i have been very poor- like negative bank account, no money at all, no car, no food, and wondering if wed have an apartment to stay in for much longer.
You guys aren't poor until you have to manage a cup of cook rice, a pinch of salt, and three thai chilli pepper for your meal for the DAY. Sometimes, instead of thai chilli pepper, I substitute it with ginger and salt. That is what I use to do when I was under 5 yrs old back in my old country. And most of you grown adults can't even handle 1 thai chilli pepper. LOL.
Yeah I've been poor ie stealing groceries just to eat, sleeping on a floor in a rented room, didn't have a bed or money for a bed so would sleep on the floor, after a while I started getting giant bruises on my entire side as the floor was not padded carpet, after that I slept on a pile of dirty clothes. It was rough but wound up getting some help from family and got into a better situation.
I come from generational poverty. I have always been poor. I have been poor in the projects, the trailer park, the city, the country and the suburbs. The only time in my life I wasn't poor was in high school I made a lot of money selling drugs and robbing people but I lost it all. I grew up taking showers in public restrooms, using the bathroom in plastic bags and stealing from grocery stores to feed myself. Growing up we never owned a car with heating , air conditioning or a radio. And we never owned a car that wasn't at least 15 years old. We usually didnt have A car period. When we were not homeless we often didn't have electricity and had to use stuff like sheets for curtains the only time I ever slept on a matress up till high school was at other peoples houses or in shelters. We also never bought condiments or toilet paper we would steal them. On christmas I would usually get socks, underwear, and white tees and on my birthday every year I would get one pair of shoes. A bike was never bought for me. I got my first one from my cousin when it broke and I robbed a nother kid for my 2nd one when I was 13.
My first videogame system I stole from a yard sale and I used to beat up weak kids for there pokemon cards in the bathroom in elementary school than sell them at card shops. I would also bring lunch bags to school and extort weaker kids out of there free lunch so I would have something to eat for dinner. Every summer sense elementary school till I was old enough to get a job I would be in the streets stealing, robbing, and selling just to survive. The first time I paid the rent by myself I was 11.
I grew up an only child I never met my father and my mother was on drugs most of my life. I also grew up seperated from the rest of my family constantly moving so I learned to be completely self sufficient and do whatever is nessessary to survive before my childhood ended. Really I never had a childhood. I never had any fun growing up I had to start making adult descions around the age of 6 every day.
To me not having anything but having family that can bail you out is not poor. Poor is when there is no hope, no one to turn to in times of need other than a church or shelter. I grew up poor and still am meaning my entire family is poor. If I fail there is no support system but it has made me strong. You can't defeat me the worst you can do is set me back. I wont give up no matter what and what some people consider the worst case scenario is a walk in the park to me. I would never kill myself but I am not afraid to die or go to jail. I've been shot at and it didn't scare me I've been to jail and it was much easier there than my childhood ever was. I dont like being There cause its detremental to my future but i feel very at home and comfortable incarcerated. I never have had anything to lose an still dont. Even when I escape this poverty I know my mentality will never change I just don't want my children to go thru what I've been thru so they end up having no feelings and being a cold robot like me unable to fear anything. I really wanna escape this and live a nice normal life with a nice normal woman who isn't from where I'm from and be a soccer dad but its so hard to come up when you can work so hard for years to come up than one thing happens that's out of your hands that ruins everything and your back at square one again with nowhere to turn for help.
I'm 25 and still poor. Sometimes I get really angry. I've never really been able to live my life or do anything I ever wanted to do. I left the life of crime years ago and now I feel so lost. My record is so long its so hard to find work and I feel very uncomfortable and insecure when I'm not surrounded by criminals and criminal activities. Normal situations make me so nervous and I can't sleep. How can I be good at anything but hustling stealing and robbing? I'm only 25 but that's the only field I have experience in an I have damn near 20 years experience in it. I want a normal life but everything normal is so foreign and intimidating to me. I'm just starting to even realize the life I always had that I thought was normal was actually very disfunctional. I'm really starting over psychologically right now. Growing up poor really can give you all sorts of emotional scars that are difficult to even recognize in yourself.
The above 10 month old post, which I just read for the first time, is one of the most moving posts I have ever read during my four and a half years on City-Data. I noted that it is also that poster's last on City-Data, and I can't help but wonder what has happened to him since.
I remember posting in this thread quite some time ago about having been poor while going to college, but of course I wasn't really poor at all compared to the above. Something reminds me, "Judge not, lest ye be judged."
The above 10 month old post, which I just read for the first time, is one of the most moving posts I have ever read during my four and a half years on City-Data. I noted that it is also that poster's last on City-Data, and I can't help but wonder what has happened to him since.
I remember posting in this thread quite some time ago about having been poor while going to college, but of course I wasn't really poor at all compared to the above. Something reminds me, "Judge not, lest ye be judged."
Yes I remember that post well. I responded with a long post to him, but as you said, never heard from him again. I too often wonder about him. I wish he would have stuck around to talk a bit. It bothered me for some time.
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