Thursday, January 19, 2012

The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor

Remember that time you were cleaning out your wallet and found an extra $5 bill stuffed inside one of the pockets? Poor people are laughing their asses off right now because I might as well be asking if they remember the time they found an extra minotaur in the kitchen. When you’re living check to check, there is no amount of money that isn’t accounted for, right down to the last penny. You don’t have “about 70 bucks” in the bank. You have $68.17.

You think in exact numbers because, at any given point, you have to know if swiping the debit card for gas will put you into overdraft territory. You have to be able to figure on the spot how much you can spend versus how much you need to survive until the next payday, and even the numbers after the decimal point are important. The simplest miscalculation could mean the difference between an actual dinner or a bowl of McDonald’s ketchup packets at the end of the week.

Posted at 11:09 PM 90 notes Tags: i know all too well

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  1. zaiatzgeist reblogged this from starline
  2. donteatacowman reblogged this from paradiscacorbasi and added:
    Read this yesterday. Only now do I realize that maybe this is part of where my mom gets it from.
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  4. bardowlatry reblogged this from bookling-stormborn and added:
    I still struggle with several of these. Number 3 is especially difficult to avoid.
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  8. sianori reblogged this from lunainvidia and added:
    wow I can totally relate to this, I have all of these stupid habits because of the way I grew up
  9. lunainvidia reblogged this from starline and added:
    this article is so true, it makes me really sad. :
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    “People who have never been poor love to point out overweight people in the ghetto and sarcastically exclaim, ‘Yeah, it...