"You never brought the field trip permission slips home because you knew better than to make your mom feel guilty she couldn’t pay the $5–20 fee to let you go."
"Never fill up the gas tank all the way. You don't want to be in a situation where you have gas in your car but no groceries."
"Hide money or it will be 'borrowed.' Also, don't get attached to anything, because if it's any good it'll be sold in a yard sale, and if it has any value it will be pawned. I got the same CD player for three Christmases and birthdays in a row...out of pawn for birthday, pawned again a month later, out of pawn for Christmas, pawned again by March, etc."
The shame of wearing my sisters best panties to gym class still haunts me to this day
..and you are male. Just kidding. :) As a child with older siblings I always wore hand me downs. Bought my first brand new jacket at 23yrs. Still got it.
Canadians as well.
"It is included in your taxes" - which are astronomical.
No. They are not.
I remember a TV special about how hard some poor person living in DC had it...they had Coke in their fridge. I had never had one.