Never so poor I ate an onion...ate a lot of cheap 4 for $1 mac n cheese though. Course..you had to be able to afford milk and butter to make it correctly...sometimes WATER would have to do.
Not quite as amusing as your story...but what I distinctly remember...I liked antiques...usually to buy a piece I'd have a yard sale and take my profits to the antique store. So one time dh and I are up in WV...go into an antique shop...and there is a huge oak armore (sp?) Price $1500.00
Oh man...did I covet that. At the time...my GROSS salary was around 300 bucks a week...no way in heck could I ever buy that thing. So the man owning the shop...says...you want it? You can take it now and send me payments. WHAT?!?!? Are you fricking kidding me? This guy didn't know us...good Lord...we were 22 year old kids (sorry 22 yr olds)...and we lived a good 5 hours from this place. Any way...we gave him all the cash in our pockets...put that thing in our truck and sent him 50 bucks a month...FOREVER it seemed like. Btw, even remember his name...Robert.
