I Grew Up Poor

I grew up dirt poor.  For a while I payed the bills instead of my parents.  For a short while I was homeless.  It was bad, but I'm actually kind of glad it happened.  I've always wanted to be the best person I can be...

i grew up poor..my father was a gambler and would constantly put us down financially by gambling everything we had. i still remember not eating because i wanted to give my food to my mom. what a terrible thing to feel and experience at...

my dad always tried his hardest to provide for me and my sister. But having twins is hard, if i got a new toy so did she! If we went into the shop my dad would be all 'you don't look at it, you don't touch it and you don't even dare to...

I have been wanting to post in this one for awhile but couldn't find the words.  I didn't want my story to come off as a cry for others to feel sorry for me or as me throwing myself a pity party.  I hate pity parties and I don't...

Growing up we didn't have much money and I didn't have many toys, but that never stopped me from having a good time. When I was 10 my Dad got me my first pocket knife, and I'd go out and find the perfect fallen tree branches to carve...

I remember eating a lot of eggs when i was younger - we lived by a convenience store that would give me the out of date eggs, my dad had bought a giant jar of honey and that was the only constant in our cupboard, it was like 2 litres of...

I'm not going to come here and write one of those cry me a river stories. I was a poor kid. So what. I learned from it. I grew, I have bitter memories as well as sweet. Being poor at any time in life is hard but I'd rather be a poor kid...

Poor is a relative word.  It all depends on what you put it up against. I have a few oddities from most Americans because of my upbringing.
- I have no issues with sharing toothbrushes.  My brother always hides his whenever...

I grew up with my Mom and her brother, my Uncle John , in my grandfather's farmhouse. My Mother was in her 40's when I was born and everyone in the house was older than that. The house was paid for, but it was falling apart. My Mom...

I don't remember many memories as a child. I remember bits and pieces here and there. Some kids always said I was spoiled.. The truth is, I really wasn't. My grandma had always bought me toys and even my clothes. My parents couldn't...

I grew up in Perfectville USA, a quiet town with great schools and neighborhood after neighborhood of beautiful houses with manicured yards and pretty cars parked safely out of sight in their garages. Now drive past all those...

Poor not in a very devastating way...

I am rich though with my family's love and support

I grew up in a poor "Irish ghetto" section of Boston. Think where Matt Damon lived in Good Will Hunting and you'll have a pretty good idea. Third floor of a tripledecker. My folks both immigrated from Ireland in the 50's. My father...

Having to lie because of my poor, unhealthy and unstable financial situation.
Feeling dirty because we don't have access to warm water in this dirty dumpster home full with hoarder stuff (books, newspapers) (boiler broke) and have to...

We were poor but we didn't know it is one of the biggest lies ever. Trust me if you really grew up poor you knew it.
Signs you grew up poor
You didn't have heat in the middle of a Midwestern winter
Your power or water was shut off...

A friend of mine asked me to share this story again.  Growing up poor is not necessarily the worst thing that can happen to a person.
I am writing this story after reading a moving story about growing up poor.  Because I...

When I was three years old, my mother decided to run away from my father due to him cheating on her and how he was an alcoholic. For the first few years, we were on welfare. Then, she got a job. I'll never forget how much of a deal it...

We poor because my mom is a single mother trying to raise her to kids on her own damn it. It's hard for us plus she's on welfare.

My Dad worked hard and tried his best to give us what we needed but there really wasn't extra money for luxuries that I saw other kids getting and I had to go without things that kids I knew had. I never had money to go to movies or...

As a child, me and my family were financially poor . We were officially homeless in the beginning and at first moved to a bed and breakfast and to various other places.
My dad was in between jobs and on minimum wage but every penny he...