Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they’re what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there’s not an $800 car in America that’s worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.
Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends’ houses but never has friends over to yours.
Being poor is going to the restroom before you get in the school lunch line so your friends will be ahead of you and won’t hear you say “I get free lunch” when you get to the cashier.
Being poor is living next to the freeway.
Being poor is coming back to the car with your children in the back seat, clutching that box of Raisin Bran you just bought and trying to think of a way to make the kids understand that the box has to last.
Being poor is wondering if your well-off sibling is lying when he says he doesn’t mind when you ask for help.
Being poor is off-brand toys.
Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house.
Being poor is knowing you can’t leave $5 on the coffee table when your friends are around.
Being poor is hoping your kids don’t have a growth spurt.
Being poor is stealing meat from the store, frying it up before your mom gets home and then telling her she doesn’t have make dinner tonight because you’re not hungry anyway.
Being poor is Goodwill underwear.
Being poor is not enough space for everyone who lives with you.
Being poor is feeling the glued soles tear off your supermarket shoes when you run around the playground.
Being poor is your kid’s school being the one with the 15-year-old textbooks and no air conditioning.
Being poor is thinking $8 an hour is a really good deal.
Being poor is relying on people who don’t give a damn about you.
Being poor is an overnight shift under florescent lights.
Being poor is finding the letter your mom wrote to your dad, begging him for the child support.
Being poor is a bathtub you have to empty into the toilet.
Being poor is stopping the car to take a lamp from a stranger’s trash.
Being poor is making lunch for your kid when a cockroach skitters over the bread, and you looking over to see if your kid saw.
Being poor is believing a GED actually makes a goddamned difference.
Being poor is people angry at you just for walking around in the mall.
Being poor is not taking the job because you can’t find someone you trust to watch your kids.
Being poor is the police busting into the apartment right next to yours.
Being poor is not talking to that girl because she’ll probably just laugh at your clothes.
Being poor is hoping you’ll be invited for dinner.
Being poor is a sidewalk with lots of brown glass on it.
Being poor is people thinking they know something about you by the way you talk.
Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise.
Being poor is your kid’s teacher assuming you don’t have any books in your home.
Being poor is six dollars short on the utility bill and no way to close the gap.
Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.
Being poor is knowing you work as hard as anyone, anywhere.
Being poor is people surprised to discover you’re not actually stupid.
Being poor is people surprised to discover you’re not actually lazy.
Being poor is a six-hour wait in an emergency room with a sick child asleep on your lap.
Being poor is never buying anything someone else hasn’t bought first.
Being poor is picking the 10 cent ramen instead of the 12 cent ramen because that’s two extra packages for every dollar.
Being poor is having to live with choices you didn’t know you made when you were 14 years old.
Being poor is getting tired of people wanting you to be grateful.
Being poor is knowing you’re being judged.
Being poor is a box of crayons and a $1 coloring book from a community center Santa.
Being poor is checking the coin return slot of every soda machine you go by.
Being poor is deciding that it’s all right to base a relationship on shelter.
Being poor is knowing you really shouldn’t spend that buck on a Lotto ticket.
Being poor is hoping the register lady will spot you the dime.
Being poor is feeling helpless when your child makes the same mistakes you did, and won’t listen to you beg them against doing so.
Being poor is a cough that doesn’t go away.
Being poor is making sure you don’t spill on the couch, just in case you have to give it back before the lease is up.
Being poor is a $200 paycheck advance from a company that takes $250 when the paycheck comes in.
Being poor is four years of night classes for an Associates of Art degree.
Being poor is a lumpy futon bed.
Being poor is knowing where the shelter is.
Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so.
Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor.
Being poor is seeing how few options you have.
Being poor is running in place.
Being poor is people wondering why you didn’t leave.
*Being poor is your kids getting excited on Dumpster-hunt day, because that’s the only time they get to eat “real food” like cookies, fresh fruit and desserts.
*Being poor is staying with a man who beats your kids because you can’t afford to keep them out of foster care without his salary.
Being poor means making decisions like “is stealing food a sin” outside of an ethics class.
*Being poor is scrambling under the car seats to make up enough change to get two happy meals to split between a family of 4 - and everyone is ecstatic when you do so.
Being poor is realizing that heating and eating will probably be mutually exclusive this month.
*Being poor is find that your landlord has tied $20 to your steering wheel out of pity.
Being poor is fighting with someone you love because they misplaced a $15 dollar check.
Being poor is stealing wood from Wal-Mart parking lot because it’s cold and you have no money to buy some.
Being poor is a sick, dreadful feeling of your stomach dropping out when the phone rings, because you know it’s a bill collector and you know you’ll pick it up anyway on a one in a million chance someone does want to hire you.
Being poor is laying down because it hurts to breathe and you are pregnant, but you can’t afford to go to the hospital.
Being poor is crying when $50 bill you didn’t expect gets taken from your paycheck.
Being poor is knowing exactly how many hours and minutes you’ll have to work extra to make up for that bill.
Being poor is knowing that no matter how hard and how much you work, you still can’t cover it all.
Being poor means never forgeting that the bills aren’t paid.
Originally posted by jlillyrec'd
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they’re what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there’s not an $800 car in America that’s worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.
Being poor is knowing your kid ...[text shortened]... have.
Being poor is running in place.
Being poor is people wondering why you didn’t leave.
Originally posted by smw6869Exactly. We can also close down all those military installations that are in other countries pumping money into their economies. Re-open US bases, naval ship yards and army forts and lets start pumping all that money back into the US economy.
Good reason to bring our military home from everywhere in the world. Lots of money wasted in trying to police the world. Screw the rest of the world.
GRANNY.
Originally posted by EladarTime we start admitting we don't give a rats ass about most of the other world. If s*** hits the fan, let 'em take care of it. Sorry(not), but my house is on fire and i'm not putting out their fire when i should be saving my own family. Sorry(not), but that's the way it is.
Exactly. We can also close down all those military installations that are in other countries pumping money into their economies. Re-open US bases, naval ship yards and army forts and lets start pumping all that money back into the US economy.
GRANNY.
Originally posted by jlillyBeing poor often means that you are so far in debt that all your money and resources go to trying to pay it off.
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they’re what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there’s not an $800 car in America that’s worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.
Being poor is knowing your kid ...[text shortened]... have.
Being poor is running in place.
Being poor is people wondering why you didn’t leave.
Being poor means that you look to others for hope you no longer seem to have.
Being poor means you no longer have any power in the world, rather, only an illusion of power.
Being poor means always having a task master tell you how you should live.
Wouldn't you know it, I've described the American tax payer to a tee!!