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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up poor. But we were farm poor, which raises different issues. We always had food to eat, but we had to work at hard labor from an early age. I was in charge of carrying firewood for our stove, our only source of heat, at age 5. I was also working in the garden for hours a day by then. My grandma had an outhouse until 1896. I remember the smell. And doing our wash with a washboard, hanging on the line to dry. Waking up in the morning to the water in my sugar crystal science project frozen solid next to my bed. Driving by the welfare kids, who always had so many more toys than we did. They used to make fun of our clothes and my speech impediment. I do worry my son is spoiled but DH, who grew up UMC, says we are strict. I don't know but I roll with it. He just has so many fewer responsibilities than I did, not sure it is enough. [/quote]
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