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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many of your stories are familiar!  We were really poor, and get bags of clothes from relatives with older kids.  The shirts had big pit stains, rips, worn out.  Now when I donate clothes, if I wouldn't put it on or have my kid wear it, I use it for rags.  I donate the clothes she grows out of, but are still in perfect shape (thankfully she isn't tough on clothing).  I feel it's really disrespectful to think that just because someone is poor that they should take your garbage stuff.

My best friend as a kid - she wasn't poor but her dad was a notorious cheapskate.  the rule for toilet paper was - 1 square for pee.  2 squares for poo.  IDK how he regulated.  LOL.

Now I used odds and ends for cooking (utensils) and my husband will say - why don't you use X (like spatula, for instance) and I say I don't have one.  He says - well buy one!  It doesn't occur to me because I always had to make do.

Another thing was I got my first job in 8th grade (delivering newspapers), then I worked in for the city (there was a poor kid program) at 14.  As soon as I started working my mother made me pay "room and board".

My child has everything she needs, and then some.  Lots of underwear, socks,  bras.  Sheets that MATCH with their pillowcases and even the blankets!

I remember we needed to bring a watercolor set to school in 5th grade.  I didn't ask my mother, because I knew we didn't have the money.  Every day the teacher would ask why I didn't bring it in.  I was the only kid in the class without it.

it never leaves you.[/quote]

Yes, same.

Grateful for all the teachers in my life with enough SEL/EQ to know the answer after the first time questioning, or the second, then to have the object in question, perhaps not new or maybe only a rough semblance, show up in my desk or in the pile with my name on it. [/quote]

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