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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not what I spend money on, but the things I buy and don't even need. 
I grew up in Soviet Union and the stores had bare minimum when it came to stuff. You were able to find winter boots if you got really lucky ad ofcourse you had to go to the city for that. Local store had mostly milk, bread and meat products. We were not short of money, we were all short of stuff to buy. Most people made their own socks, scarves, sweaters. Clothes were patched up, reused or handed down. Shoes were always too big, too small or had holes in them. Some parents were better than other chasing down new winter boots. Many fights in the stores. Amazing how little we needed and at the time we didn't even recognize that we were poor because everybody was the same and we always had food.
We were shown a lot of conflicts all over the world with tanks rolling down the street. This put it all to respective- we had a good life. Unless it was cold, we found the hole in the shoe a funny thing. Well, once we got home at least. My kids don't want to listen to my "Russian stories".[/quote]

Same, but without holes in shoes. There was so little to be had, even if you could. And treats were really "treats."  And being poor immigrants was tough too. I am still baffled that I don't have to reuse paper towels or wash ziplock bags or use my teabag several times over and that I can take an uber without thinking twice instead of walking for over an hour to save bus money. [/quote]

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