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[quote=Anonymous]My stepdad thought work was beneath him, so he never kept a job for more than 3 months.

He was my hero for awhile, and I used to believe his stories about quitting his job because his coworkers were mean to him or stole his ideas, when in fact, he really didn't like to work.

So anyways we were poor.  My mom worked 2-3 jobs, including a nursing job, housecleaning, and babysitting.  Ii also started working when I was 12.

My memories are this:
- the principal calling me to the office telling me my parents would be late picking me up from school because they ran out of gas or didn't pay their insurance
- I remembered some sort of public program where we got free food in the form of free bread and flour.
- from the time I started working, my dad would "borrow" money from me. I was never paid back a cent.
- my dad yelling at me because I dared to spend $20 (of money I earned) on a diary for myself instead of giving the money to him
- cars that broke down all the time
- my dad scamming a dealership into fixing his car by pretending to buy a car (oh and he was proud of it by the way)
- my dad taking me, my mom and my boyfriend out to dinner but only ordering one entree (though he got himself a glass of bourbon)
- shopping at thrift stores
- not getting christmas presents
- not ever having a birthday party
- being on my own for lunch at school. I was not given money and there were no groceries in the house.  I used to hide in the bathroom because I didn't want my classmates see that I didn't have lunch.
- on some occasions, I would scrape $1 in change to buy "salad" at school which was basically lettuce with dressing.  Some of the skinny, popular girls in high school did this.  They did it because they were borderline anorexic - I didn't realize this until later. I did it because it was the cheapest thing my school sold for lunch.
- my dad dumpster diving[/quote]

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