| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/12/2008 4:43:56 PM | 1. You know that McDonald salt and pepper packets you swipe have more in them than the Wendy's salt and pepper packets.
2. Your shoe repairman's name is "Duct Tape"
3. A date is starting to get expensive if you have to take a bus instead of walk
4. Pan handlers give you money
5. Your toilet paper comes in big giant rolls that look eerily like the ones missing from office storage.
6. You re-use your coffee filters until the disintegrate
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/12/2008 7:01:01 PM | | I'm going to have to do a draft or two first . . . . if I have the paper. Hope the mice in the wheel keep the current going . . . | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/12/2008 7:08:12 PM | | You're living on speggettie, you walk or take a bus to not use gas, you drink kool aid, when you work more hours than the rest of the world, ..... it goes on and on | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/13/2008 1:42:54 AM | Your entire wardrobe has gone in and out of fashion three times.
You buy grape DRINK instead of grape JUICE.
In OJ Simpson's case: You know you are poor when you have to play golf on a public course. | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/13/2008 1:47:41 AM | | You give someone their favorite book as a birthday gift and say, "Be sure to have it back to the library by Tuesday." | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/17/2008 11:26:06 AM | You know you are poor when:
1. You water down your koolaide even more and put less sugar in to make it (and your sugar) go further.
2. You don't open your mail. It's only going to stress you out more than you already are and you can't do anything about the situation anyway so it goes in a pile of other unopened bills.
3. You stop answering your door because it might be your landlord | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/17/2008 3:35:03 PM | 1. you no longer worry about your landlord because your cardboard box doesn't have a door.
2. When you refer to your "wheels" - you are talking about a schwinn bike.
3. You vacation at Meijers.
4. Ramen noodles start to actually taste good. | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/17/2008 4:10:36 PM | It's scary how many of these things sound familiar lol.
1. You can not afford donuts, just the holes
2. Squeegee kids seem to have a pretty sweet career
3. You order the free pop for designated drivers at bars so you can spike it with that pint you shoved down your pants
4. You move in with your aging parents so they can support you on their meagre pension, you just tell dates you are there taking care of them.
5. Shopping for new household items consists of roaming the neighbourhood the night before trash pickup.
6. You won't win the lotto to solve all your problems because you can't afford to buy a ticket. | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/17/2008 5:04:45 PM |
Your turn....
You live in a mobile home without running water.
Your idea of a gated community is having to open the junkyard's rusty gates to drive back to your pickup camper home in the junkyard.
The second thought to run through your mind after you are granted credit is: "They don't know who they are dealing with do they.."
To cool off in the summertime you go to the freezer aisle of the grocery store.
When you complain that 25 cents for a shirt is too much at a garage sale.
When you not only know that beans and rice is a complete protein but rely on it.
Ground Turkey is your idea of eating fancy.
When adding real milk instead of powdered milk to your mac n cheese is a special occasion.
Your roadside assitance plan is a piece of cardboard and a magic marker.... | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/17/2008 6:48:48 PM | You live in a camper, and it's an improvement!
Your truck's value varies directly with the amount of diesel in the tank.
You know which blood bank pays the most for plasma.
Ditto for whole blood.
You curse not having a rare blood type that pays more.
Going to IHOP is "living large"
Funny, and all have been applicable at different parts of my life.
Okay, the camper is still applicable.  | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/17/2008 10:31:15 PM | YOu have to take your pacheque to the bank, because it's too small to go by itself.
You're too broke to pay attention.
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/18/2008 7:51:37 AM | You know your poor when the kids get excited because dinner is a pot of beans tonight instead of more romain noodles.
When your first in line at the bent can store so you can get the best cans first and you pay with your food stamps.
When you walk with your head down but only because your collecting partially smoked cigarette butts and squeeze out what little tobacco is left, to roll your own smokes but instead of buying rolling papers your use paper from your kids notebook.
When you have a special drawer full of condiment packs, straws and napkins that you help your self to when you do eat out.
When you have christmas wrapping paper thats been reused for 3 seansons now and your proud of it.
You know your poor when you dilute the milk, dishwashing detergent, laundry detergent, and shampoo just to make it stretch further. | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/18/2008 7:52:20 AM | | You use bags of the lowest form of change to buy the cheapest bread from the discount section | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/19/2008 8:28:01 PM | You not only know which brand of Ramen is cheaper by 1.1 cents per package, but you actually care.
You get all giddy when a charity sends you return address labels because you can save ink.
You shop at "Hal's Thrift" because you think Goodwill and the Salvation Army are too pricey.
You buildt a solar oven because you aren't paying good money to boil your 6cent ramen when three mirrors you picked up on the curb work just fine.
You call your poor co-worker, "Rockefeller," because he buys ramen in the styrofoam. | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/20/2008 9:44:10 PM | The grass in your lawn reaches half way to your roof because you can't pay for enough gas to fill the mower.
Your idea of a night on the town is digging through public trash cans for aluminum.
The only thing keeping you from being a vegetarian is a rifle, some cheap shells, and a forest full of squirrel and rabbit (my dad actually grew up that way)
You work at an exclusive country club and the members are constantly calling security to eject the drifter.
You volunteer in a soup kitchen and the drifters give you handouts.
You've had to sell your vehicle for gas money.
The last movie you saw in theaters was The Goonies.
And you had to sneak into that.
After hitchhiking to the theater.
Your idea of the high life is having enough money to buy a Betamax from a pawn shop.
You're posting to this thread from a Commodore 64.
The only way you can call up your friends is to stand in their front yards yelling through their windows.
20 miles is "walking distance."
You know which wild plants are edible and use that knowledge daily.
Your ideal first date is anything that doesn't require gas, cover charges, or food you can't get for free from your back yard.
You've ever bought a $10 movie on layaway (I am ashamed to say that my first girlfriend has actually done that).
You drop a penny in the feed trough and ride backwards on your mule watching the ground.
Then you realize that you may have swallowed the penny before your mule could get to it.
Your idea of fancy lodging is a barn with a loft.
You're at a yard sale and you try to talk a $10 item down to two Washingtons. You're asked to leave when they realize that the Washingtons you're talking about are quarters.
You ask guests not to flush their toilet paper. Not because it will clog the stool, but because it can be washed. | |
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/21/2008 5:14:57 AM | When you're a kid, you know you're poor when you're jealous of your best friend... because his parents worry if he gets hurt when he breaks something expensive.
You buy sports apparel from last-place teams, because they're priced to move.
You and your significant other are spooning in front of the TV, and you fall through the display window.
You say, "If the bugs can't live on what we live on, let 'em starve to death."
You go into a store and see one of your checks on the wall as the reason the store no longer accepts checks.
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| You know you are poor when....
Posted: 5/21/2008 6:36:13 PM | | ...The only way to get a bean out of Ma's soup is to use a flour sifter when scooping out of the pot. | |
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