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05-10-2008, 04:15 AM | #1 |
Banning Thread Dictator Donating Member | How poor are you? I saw this topic on another forum and wasn't sure what to think of it at first. The OP started out by saying that, hey, the economy sucks, gas prices are ridiculous, a lot of us are struggling. How about sharing a story about the times in your life when you've struggled? Laughter is the best medicine. On the other forum, everyone loved it. I thought it was worth a try here. It doesn't have to be about now. Just any time in your life when you've struggled. In my 20s, I lived in a house in Truckee, Calif., with three roommates and five dogs. We were all relatively broke, but I was the moocher of the house. I was always "borrowing" stuff out of the fridge and promising to pay them back later. I hit my begging worst one week when we had a 3-foot snowstorm and I was snowbound in the house alone for three days because all the roads were closed. And there was almost no food to be found. I starved for much of the first day, but on the second day I noticed an onion. Hmmm. Onion rings! Only I was a terrible cook. I ended up finding some flour to roll the onions in. I heated up some oil in a frying pan and gave it a whirl. They were horribly soggy and bland, but I ate the entire onion. It wasn't until a week later that I admitted it. A roommate who could cook was suddenly missing an onion she knew she had. I'll never live that one down. "You ate my onion?????" What can I say? I was hungry. And poor. And the onion was what I needed at the time. C'mon, YTers, fess up. __________________
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05-10-2008, 04:29 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member | HAHAHA.....I'm surprised with the onion breath you must've had, your room mates weren't aware of your thievery Gosh, I have tried to forget the bad parts about being young and so broke. But I do remember a time period of about a month when my sister and I ate instant rice and packaged gravy mix (we weren't cooks then either,LOL). It came time for us to move, we had very little in the kitchen......nothing was in the refrigerator
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05-10-2008, 04:36 AM | #3 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| Ive been so poor we rolled up the change for gas and grocery money. My Husband has a small business and we have definitely had lean times in the past
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05-10-2008, 04:39 AM | #4 |
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| I remember I thought I was frown and married at 14 got pregnant right away, moved to his home state of TX away from ALL my family and while we waited for his checks to start from his new job we were soooooooo broke, All I had to cook was noodles with tomatoes sauce w/black pepper and strawberry koolaid w/no sugar......YUCK! I told him he could stay or come, but I was going home and I did! Angie |
05-10-2008, 04:53 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member | 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.
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05-10-2008, 04:58 AM | #6 |
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| When I was married to my first husband, we used to work in a restaurant, so we ate dinner there everynight (we both worked 7 days a week). We finally grew up got 9-5 jobs, and hubby started night school; money was so tight that one night we were down to a baked potato each...no toppings, not even butter!
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05-10-2008, 05:20 AM | #7 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: tuscaloosa
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| Well let's see I moved out 3 weeks after turning 18. First place I moved to was a friends trailer that let's just say wasn't in the best of shape but all I had to pay was the electric bill and what I could of the rent. I was only making like 200 a week if I was really lucky and going to high school.so let's just say 10 cent noodles became very familiar. Well got of school and moved out of the trailor and became a bit of a bum when it came to where I was sleeping. I worked full time but in Al you have to be 19 to sign a legal document plus I was about to ship to basic in less then 6 months. Well there was this pool hall I used to hang out at with my friends and one day the owner found out my living situation. So for awhile there I living in a storage room in the back on a couch. 3 had a fan and a DVD player I bought myself and ordered out a lot(no kitchen) but the place did have a shower. But you know I was having a lot of fun being able to take care of myself. Plus I could play pool for free all I wanted! Weird to think that was only 2 years ago! Lol now I have my babies and a hubby and am still working pay check to pay check but I can say one thing. I had a lot less bills then! |
05-10-2008, 05:23 AM | #8 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New Hampshire
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| Im always broke, day in and day out, but never been poor... but I didnt move out young or marry young or have children young, nothing like that. Thankful for that! The onion story is pretty darn funny though!! I hope times are better for you!
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05-10-2008, 05:39 AM | #9 |
Living My Yorkie Dream Donating Member | Well, I guess my poorest days were back when I was a young married, with 3 young kids, trying to work, pay for their school needs, paying for daycare, and just all the normal bills and such that young families have to deal with. I surely remember a time or two (or three) having to borrow money from my mom just to get by. I always hated having to ask, but she always graciously helped in any way she could. Now I'm playing the reverse roll, I'm the mom that the kids come to when they need help. I am by no means rich ($monetarily$), but having learned from the best (my mom), I too graciously help however I can.
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05-10-2008, 05:45 AM | #10 |
YT 500 Club Member | When my first husband and I were newly married, he went back to college. He worked as a bar tender pretty much full time, and I had a full time job, but times were tough. He loved hunting, and one year, he got a dear that we eat for the entire winter. I made dear steak in every way possible. He was from a big family, and he also taught me to make SPAM casserole.
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05-10-2008, 05:54 AM | #11 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Riverview, Florida
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| When I was 24 I lost my mom to cancer. I worked as a finacial aid counselor and the money allowed me to live alone but definately paycheck to paycheck! I helped young people get money to further their education and finally I decided I would help myself! So at 28 I quit my job and lived with my sister for a year and was 'nanny" to her three small children. This allowed me to study and not have to work. I watched her kids after I got out of college and the kids got out of school. I had a previous degree so I only needed a few classes to get into nursing school but the waiting list was long. So at 29, when i was accepted to nurising school, I decided since the school was so far away I would just bite the bullet and MOVE IN THE DORM! Yep. I was known as the dorm MOM I listened to their party and sorority stories, I hemmed and ironed ball gowns and even made cookies for them. By second semester I was their RA (which was great because this was a paying job). I sucked it up for 2 years to accomplish my dreams. The nurses had given us so much during my mom's 8 yr struggle with various forms of cancer that I knew I had to do what I needed to do to give back to society. So now I make a pretty decent living. And although there are many days I want to cry, overall... I love caring for others!! |
05-10-2008, 06:41 AM | #12 |
My Four Sweet Babies Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Jersey near Philadelphia
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| DH and I were so young and so broke. I could go to CLOVER (anyone remember that store?) and they would let me cash a personal check. I figured out that if I cashed the check on Wednesday after 3 it wouldn't clear my bank until Friday when DH got his paycheck deposited. We never, ever could get caught up because we were always behind. We had one credit card. I would make the minimum payment on the CC and then I could charge another $5 or $10. I'd charge cans of tuna fish and mac and cheese, stuff like that. It was horrible, so finally I had to hock my beloved guitar. I never did get my guitar back - but I did buy DH a brand new guitar last month for his birthday.
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05-10-2008, 07:02 AM | #13 |
No Longer a Member | My mother was a single mom for a long time when I was a child. I know that at one time, we must have been extremely broke because I remember living in an apartment with no phone service, and I remember her car broke down. I remember we walked to the grocery store to get food, and we lived on Kraft macaroni and cheese and those little individual frozen pizzas (hey, I loved it! ) The thing about it is, though...I never in my life felt poor. Looking back, I know we must have been, but I have never known hunger. At many times during my life, there have been things that I have wanted, that we could not afford. There have been times that I remember my step-father being out of work, and we even had to use food stamps at one time in my life when I was a kid, but somehow, we always had a roof over our heads and food to eat. When I look back on that and other times in my life, I never think of is as being poor. And while, now, we're not exactly rolling in money, we have a home, wonderful friends, relatively good health, and a loving family. And for those things, I feel very rich, indeed. |
05-10-2008, 07:25 AM | #14 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: South Florida
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| post Misty...I could have wriiten the same post. I am 62, lived through all kinds of different levels of economics...I am sure many would pity me, but we all lived the same back then...one pair of shoes for Sunday and one pair for school...I can not remember going without anything we really needed, but what we wanted was saved for a special occasion like Christmas...I have so much stuff now it is embarassing and I have majorly decluttered and downsized my life lately... For some people a time comes in their life when they like to see just how little they can own and be happy....but if you have the money to buy what you want, doing without is different then not having the money and doing without...those two need to blend more in a persons life. |
05-10-2008, 07:43 AM | #15 | |
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