Originally Posted by
austinatalie
I was so broke I would climb in the neighbors doggie door and steal their quarters out of their change jar, but nothing else.
In elementary school sometimes my teacher would refuse to loan me lunch money because i already owed her so much, and my parents couldnt pay it back.
I ate ramen and macaroni and cheese made with powdered milk for weeks on end.
I wore secondhand grandma glasses for a year- you know the huge kind with the rims made of swirly brown and pink and clear plastic?
For a couple of years when I was younger we had christmas on Dec. 26 or 27, so that my parents could buy things on sale. In addition, christmas dinner was PB&J. I didn't care that much and I knew what they were doing (i was about 8 ) but my little bro was always so sad about it that I would pray and pray and pray that santa was real and just once would we please get a real christmas?
We lived in a house that flooded EVERY time it rained just a little bit, so much thaat walking around the house the carpet would go slush, slush, slush as you walked. It wouldn't dry out for days. Also, this caused a horrible mold smell and flea problem. You had to walk around the house with shoes, pants, and your highest socks, and we were still covered in flea bites everywhere.
And then of course there was that one time that I was so broke that I hadn't paid my rent in 25 days and my car payment was that late as well, in addition to my maxed out credit cards, so I started stripping!