Did you grow up poor or wealthy?

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I grew up poor lol. Like getting our electric/hot water shut off, not being able to afford food, type of poor 🙃

my mom has always been selfless though. Even though she didn’t have much, she wouldn’t hesitate to give me her last $20 so I could go out with friends.

I want to provide my daughter the childhood I didn’t have. I don’t need to be filthy rich or anything but I at least want to be one of those parents who surprise their kid with a car on their 16th birthday. Yanno? 😭

I’ve seen parents have this stupid ass mentality where they say “well I struggled as a kid so my kid should know what it’s like to struggle too” why would you wish that on your kid? 😭 I don’t want her to be a spoiled brat but I want her to be comfortable. She shouldn’t know what it’s like to get your hot water shut off and have to get a job at 16 to provide for the house, like I did 🥴

Chazmatazz269 · Accepted Answer

We were poor, very poor. I used to say “dirt poor”. Learned that from my mother. Then one day i had a random memory that forced me to spit that term out. There was another poor family in our town, and they were kind of family friends. They literally had dirt floors in their home. It wasn’t a thing for me as a kid. I just liked going there because they had a son about my age and i wasn’t fussy about my playmates.
Also, we were kind of fortunate in other ways. We didn’t need as much money as others because we had a garden, grape vines, apple trees, pear trees, mulberry trees, blackberry bushes and red & black raspberry bushes. Also, my dad was an excellent outdoorsman. We usually had a freezer full of venison, fish, rabbit, squirrel, and various stews. I even remember turtle soup once. Between those and the ADC, my parents could spend most of their money on rent and utilities. So i don’t recall ever not having electric and gas, for lack of money to pay the bills.
The property where i grew up was 247 acres. So not having a lot of toys wasn’t an issue. I would usually rather be out exploring the woods, fields, swamp, and the neighboring properties anyway.
I really only felt poor in skool. I was really blessed. Even some of the rich kids didn’t have what i had out there.

Ευδεμονια · Accepted Answer

I grew up middle class, so not poor but not rich, my parents couldn’t afford a car for me when I became adult, I bought myself my car with my money…
I’m sorry you’ve been poor and had to grow up in such uneasiness, I admire your purpose to give your daughter a comfortable growth so she doesn’t suffer any loss or lack, despite being you not rich!

Blackcosmo · Accepted Answer

I'm sorry you had to go through that and your mother is truly admirable. The way you think of your daughter is so beautiful. I'm glad you're doing a lot better now.

I'm growing up in middle class although around 10 years before I was born (during the childhood of my eldest sister) my dad moved provinces so they had to live in a shelter for awhile till he could get a job.

Being poor is truly a scary thing and I wish no one has to go through it. Imagine having to worry about the things many people take for granted. I always feel as though I should always remember that I'm lucky because I can get up and eat breakfast and go to sleep with a full belly on a comfortable bed.

msmissydc · Accepted Answer

So the thing why its hard to answer. I grew up upper middle class I would say. Not wealthy, but deffinetoy not poor (compared inside our country) BUT my father was the only one working in our household and we had arround the same income (its a guess but you can see it roughly by living standart) as my friends where often both parents worked. So I alllways had my mom at home when I came home from kindergarten or school. If I would take a guess about world population average than wealthy.

_deeznuts · Answer

I grew up poor too lol. the water and electricity got turned off all the time so we would sleep at my dad's store. lmao the whole thing was just generally not comfortable and I wouldn't wish that on any of my future kids either.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

I grew up in a depressed and poor part of Newcastle, England.

we never really knew if we would get fed that day or next.

if you missed a meal, it was not kept for you, you just went hungry until next day.

no car or anything like that or holidays unless it was visiting a relative locally.

Apple1996 · Answer

I grew up super poor but my parents always tried their best to get me all that I needed. I'm definitely not raising my kids the same way but I think a car at 16 is spoiled brat stuff so not something I'd do for them especially since I have so many kids. Buying all of them a car or paying for their college just isn't a option. They want that stuff they need to pay for it.

exitseven · Answer

I probably was considered lower middle class. It was hard at time s but I never went hungry and always had clothes that fit even thought designer brands were out of the question. I had to drop out of college twice because i could not pay the tuition./

i made sure my kids had everything threy needed to succeed.

alice55 · Answer

I grew up pretty wealthy, I had everything I wanted and even more, I was quite spoiled rotten and was the preferred child too. I was also the one to decide which restaurant we ate at during the week end, like if my mother wanted to go to one and I wanted to go to another we would go to the one I wanted.

I also had computer and video games while I was just 5 years old.

PamelaRivers · Answer

I don't want my future kids to suffer, not in the least. I think they need to learn the lessons from the past that may have come from what others have gone thought.

RobT312 · Answer

I suppose I can’t complain and should be thankful for everything given to me. Not rich but not poor either.

TonightYouu · Answer

I grew up without parents very poor sleeping in alleys and under bridges i ate food i found in parking lots and my mom didn't even go to jail for abandoning me they just sent me to a foster home

Adronicus · Answer

I grew up very poor, raised by a single mother though she did the best she could, never brought guys around us & always working 2-3 jobs.

HippieVeganJewslim · Answer

Quite poor. The only thing I wasn’t lacking was money. Still like that.

Anonymous · Answer

My family was very poor, but we made the most of it. Taught me a lot about money too.

softhoney · Answer

i grew up middle class

MountAverage · Answer

Middle class.

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