“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.”
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Laura 5 month s ago
A lot of these guilt-fueled, self-deprivation rules and anecdotes were common with those of us from older generations. Especially, if you had a mother that survived the Siege and subsequent Famine of Leningrad, the guilt trips never ended. 
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Virdie 5 month s ago
Laura,
These are not about the parents, these are about the kids. My mom grew up eldest of a middle class family and never learned to do chores, and never worked a real job in her life to date. Meanwhile I had 6 siblings and lived winters with no water, toilet paper, and had to cut our own wood for fires, and give her half our paychecks because she spent all her money on her hoard of garbage because she would buy garbage like 40 on sale Easter buckets because they were just a dollar and she could "use them to grow food", or other "projects" she had zero skill or knowledge to Don and never did.
These are not about the parents, these are about the kids. My mom grew up eldest of a middle class family and never learned to do chores, and never worked a real job in her life to date. Meanwhile I had 6 siblings and lived winters with no water, toilet paper, and had to cut our own wood for fires, and give her half our paychecks because she spent all her money on her hoard of garbage because she would buy garbage like 40 on sale Easter buckets because they were just a dollar and she could "use them to grow food", or other "projects" she had zero skill or knowledge to Don and never did.
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Virdie 5 month s ago
Growing up poor... clothes came from black bags people dropped off, food came from free school lunches with no breakfast or dinner at home most days, your responsibity was to raise all younger siblings, any paychecks go to mom and you got to keep a little for school materials or projects to try and get a grade rather than an F for not having it... oh and my favorite, no water or electricity because it's not legally required to maintain them.
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George 5 month s ago
Wah, wah! Someone has to say this, so I will. In my day we had to walk 10 miles to school, butt naked in 0 degree temp., and it was up hill both ways. 
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Gilbert 5 month s ago
That was rude and un-called for, George, and no, you didn't HAVE to say it...you did it because you enjoyed it.
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Liza 5 month s ago
#9 Isn't it great to live in a developed country?
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Noel 5 month s ago
Liza,
yeah, with minimum wage, welfare, healthcare, and so on:)
yeah, with minimum wage, welfare, healthcare, and so on:)
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Lanna 5 month s ago
Liza, This doesn't have anything to do with living in a developed country - this person is scared of Doctors.
These are not about the parents, these are about the kids. My mom grew up eldest of a middle class family and never learned to do chores, and never worked a real job in her life to date. Meanwhile I had 6 siblings and lived winters with no water, toilet paper, and had to cut our own wood for fires, and give her half our paychecks because she spent all her money on her hoard of garbage because she would buy garbage like 40 on sale Easter buckets because they were just a dollar and she could "use them to grow food", or other "projects" she had zero skill or knowledge to Don and never did.
yeah, with minimum wage, welfare, healthcare, and so on:)