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Prior poster here.  I just wanted to thank the posters who grew up really (truly) poor, without the basics - and are sharing their stories.

Maybe, just maybe, it might shed some light on what it truly means to be poor.  For those who complain about not being able to get their hair done.   Wow.  This really burns me up, to know there are people who are so clueless.

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This is not a competition for who was the poorest.

People struggled in different ways.  Not being able to have a decent haircut or having decent clothes, especially at a time when you wanted to be liked by boys, really had an effect on me.  Oh, and the lousy food we were eating made me overweight.  I felt unattractive, unworthy of someone's attention and hopeless.  [/quote]

I just posted (long post - said this thread inspired me to volunteer again). I remember my grandmother (the "rich" dad's mom, who had a moderately stable life) helped us so much. This was a lifeline for us and helped me in so many ways. Anyway, I remember her telling me once, years and years after my poor days were over, that my mom's mom was once at her house, while my dad (her son) and my mom were still married. And she said my mom's mom began to mess with her hair, and went to the bathroom, and came out with red eyes. My grandma (dad's mom) asked her what was wrong, and my mom's mom said she felt so embarrassed of her hair. She apologized for showing up looking so tattered. She had been hoping to have her hair done, but there just wasn't enough money left over. My grandmother (herself, I realize now, working class at best, but with steady income) said she was flooded with sympathy for this woman, and of all the hardships she knew the other grandma had suffered, could not get this one out of her mind, because it was such a stark contrast to her own life that she could hardly imagine what it must be like not to have even enough money to have her hair washed and curled (which is what the ladies did back then - it cost so little, like a dollar maybe). And these are two women who grew up in the depression.

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