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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High school - I had two pair of second hand jeans and two second hand sweaters to start the year. It was hot and I wore those ugly sweaters anyways. I was so mortified.

No toilet paper - we would use an old towel. No feminine pads - I would roll up toilet paper at school.

Wouldn't eat all day or eat a hot dog for breakfast and come home and find NOTHING.

Junior high - My first bra was from Goodwill. I was mortified and cried and refused to wear it. I got a new one eventually.

If you lost a jacket, which I once did it was gone. I got a garage sale replacement - a handsewn jacket that people teased me for. To this day I can't bear to buy second hand things for my daughter. Kind of irrational, as I accept hand me downs. But I just can't.

Elementary - I would panic when we had to bring a lunch for a field trip. We did not have extra money to buy extra food.

I would panic when I needed a book cover. I would have to beg for DAYS to get it.

Having to bring soda for a schoolmate's party and CRYING at the register because I only had $2, not enough for the tax. I had already begged desperately for that money. The cashier took a quarter out of his pocket and paid it. It was $2.13.

Living on liver, oatmeal, government cheese, peanut butter, "yellow brand" bread, and ramen. [b]People would put things I hated in the free boxes like lima beans and creamed corn. [/b]

So many things....

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After seeing and having to eat what is donated for canned food drives, I buy the best/high quality canned food I can for food drives.[/quote]

Ditto. I donate the best I can afford and always include canned food meat items. That's what I was always hoping for.
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Refusing things and crying would get me a beatdown. [/b]:roll:[/quote]

For some reason, the bra was one thing my mother had sympathy for. That thing had to be from the 70s and this was the late 80s. It was gross. Believe me, other things I got screamed at for wanting or needing. They stopped hitting us once we got kind of big, I guess.

After writing this I realize a lot of the most humiliating moments were related to clothes. I don't have a ton now, but I am always wearing something that I feel good about.

I haven't really donated canned goods, I never really keep that much food in the house. But I donated all the very best and cutest clothing my newborn had to a pregnant mother through an organization for Latino immigrants. Nothing bad or stained or broken goes to donations. I can't believe a lot of people don't know that.[/quote]

There are other threads on this (what to donate) but I wanted to say that the organizations that accept clothing donations employ a lot of people who are poor and they also sell stained or torn clothing for scrap cloth to groups in other countries that employ women to make them into rag rugs.  Not to say that you should donate a bunch of trash to a clothing group, but there are a lot of people employed for the work of sorting that clothing out, both here and abroad.[/quote]

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