anybody here legitimately poor or have some poor stories?

[Adolph Coors]

would love to hear some poor stories

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

When I was in college I had like $5.71 in my bank account for a week. I only used a debit card back then so I couldn’t go out with my friends or anything until I got paid. But who wasn’t poor in college?

 

[LoudHogRider]

When I was in college I had like $5.71 in my bank account for a week. I only used a debit card back then so I couldn’t go out with my friends or anything until I got paid. But who wasn’t poor in college?

Terrific training grounds for learning how to play the "float" game on your checking account.

"Let's see - I get paid on Friday, so I can write a check today and have my paycheck deposited before the check clears. Hell yes - beer and grub are in the house!"

 

[Jim14510]

Terrific training grounds for learning how to play the "float" game on your checking account.

"Let's see - I get paid on Friday, so I can write a check today and have my paycheck deposited before the check clears. Hell yes - beer and grub are in the house!"

My roommate and I never really learned. We would eat like kings for 3 days and then have a week or so of ramon. A few times I had a can of green beans for dinner.

 

[Toe]

We would eat like kings for 3 days and then have a week or so of ramon.

 

[Havoc34]

Raised by a single mother who raised 3 kids on her own. We had 1 bathroom and only 3 bedrooms. I slept in the living room, and pissed outside most of the time because having 2 sisters and a mom they took up the bathroom all the time. Starting junior year I had to leave football and wrestling practices 30 min early every night to get to work because I helped pay the bills. We routinely had our power shut off, ate mostly microwaveable food and ramen, and lived next door to a guy who sold meth out of his basement. I was taking the trash out once when I was 11 and there was a swat team in my front yard preparing to raid his house, that was pretty cool haha.

 

[jaihawk]

would love to hear some poor stories

Not poor now, but when I married my first wife, we ended up in a pretty tough financial situation. She was still in college and I was working my first out of college job at a regional CPA firm. Back then you still had the whole "waiting period" for bringing people onto health insurance, so we had 90 days from when she fell off of her parents' insurance and before she could go onto mine. About a month after we were married, she woke up in the middle of the night screaming in pain because her stomach hurt so bad. We tried a few things ourselves first, but eventually had to take her to the emergency room. They did about every test imaginable (x-ray, ultra sound, barium enema, etc...). Never did figure out what in the world it was. Muscle relaxers were the only thing that made it stop. I didn't know any better, so imagine my shock when about a month later, we started getting bills for everything. In total, it amounted to close to $15k.

We didn't have that money and I was too proud to ask for help. I took a 2nd job working at a cashier at a natural foods grocery store, where the people managing me made less money than I did at my regular job. I opened up every 0% credit card I could find and used the checks to pay the medical bills. I then kept a calendar because it was always 0% interest for three months, so after two months, I would open new 0% cards, write the checks to pay off the ones that were set to expire, and then cancel those. It took about a year and a half of working two jobs, but I finally got it all paid off and never paid a penny in interest. It was tough though. We would literally go to the grocery store with a calculator, adding up the items as we went along and inevitably having to make decisions between whether we needed this or needed that.

It wasn't all bad though. Because we had no money, we got creative with out time together and our marriage was at the best it ever was. Of course eventually we both started making decent money, she ended up being an unfaithful whore, and that was the end of the marriage. In hindsight, I should have just slipped some underpaid tech a couple of hundreds and had them push an oxygen bubble through her IV or something. Would have saved me a ton of money in the end! 🙂

 

[HCFord1]

In college I was so poor that I didn’t poop for three full days just to win a free case of 24 Corona bottles in a bet.

 

[Cash68847]

would love to hear some poor stories

I grew up in these houses when I was young. My parents were dirt poor until my dads business took off when I was in high school. They went from the poor house to multi millionaires. I guess the American dream is true.

 

[David Webb]

I was in the Marine Corps with twins from Western Nebraska who would spend the last few days before each payday searching ashtrays for cigarette butts with enough left to smoke.

 

[RedSeaRising]

Once when I was in college right before payday my account balance was like ($37.68). I was gonna get paid the next day so I wanted to grab something to eat because I was starving. I forgot Mac's Drive In doesn't take credit cards but I stopped for lunch and ordered food anyway. When they bring it out I panic a little bit and tell the gal I need to run inside.

Literally wrote them an IOU for like $9, and left my debit card with them to prove to them that I would fulfill my promise of coming back the next day and paying my debts.

 

[...TrueColors...]

When I was playing soccer for the Des Moines Menace, I couldn’t afford to live in the apartments without taking out a loan and it was too far for me to stay at home 2 hours away and commute every day to the facility. One of the assistant coaches owned an indoor soccer facility called “The Soccer House” that he had made out of a horse barn. So he rented me and another guy the old living quarters. It was about half the size of your average dorm room. The same assistant coach had a fund raiser where your entry into this indoor soccer tournament was x amount of canned food items the Christmas before and he had just never gotten around to donating the canned items. So we lived off of all of that. There wasn’t a shower in the place. So we had a hose we set out in one of the old horse stalls and showered in that.

Was it rough? Maybe. But it was a blast.

 

[lee_carvallo_12]

Raised by a single mother who raised 3 kids on her own. We had 1 bathroom and only 3 bedrooms. I slept in the living room, and pissed outside most of the time because having 2 sisters and a mom they took up the bathroom all the time. Starting junior year I had to leave football and wrestling practices 30 min early every night to get to work because I helped pay the bills. We routinely had our power shut off, ate mostly microwaveable food and ramen, and lived next door to a guy who sold meth out of his basement. I was taking the trash out once when I was 11 and there was a swat team in my front yard preparing to raid his house, that was pretty cool haha.

that’s hard times, daddy.

 

[Husker_in_OK]

A buddy of mine, after college, moved to Omaha and was a sales flunky and had no income. He knew which places he could write bad checks that would delay the process of being found out, which he did several times for low amounts to buy gas, food, beer. He probably wrote close to 50 bad checks in Omaha for over 6 months. $2.21 for Pop and beef jerky, $10 for gas, $8.64 for a case of Old Mill, etc etc .. , but he never ended up having to pay back anything or serve time. He left Nebraska shortly thereafter and was notified to pay penalty fees for the bad checks, was later contacted by the authorities to pay up or be arrested the next time he entered Nebraska. 25 years later, the dumb fuck has never entered the state of Nebraska to date. Pretty funny, actually .. but he always knew how to survive.

 

[slattimer]

I gave plasma like a machine in college. $65 a week. Nothing like a $1.50 drink night on thursday night after giving plasma and getting bombed on $10.
But basically grew up dirt poor. Single mother. Cut hair for a living....

 

[Jim14510]

Ramen*

 

[Jim14510]

I gave plasma like a machine in college. $65 a week. Nothing like a $1.50 drink night on thursday night after giving plasma and getting bombed on $10.
But basically grew up dirt poor. Single mother. Cut hair for a living....

I had a friend that did that. The time I went they pushed the needle through my vein and my arm started filling up with blood when it was going back in. Looked like I had my arm smashed by something for about a week.

 

[dsbigred1]

I once paid less than $150 for an escort...
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[God is a Husker]

my Father in Law lives in a million dollar home on an island in Columbus Nebraska (Christopher's Cove)

he was born in Nyasaland, British Empire. (when he was 4 years old they got independence and became the country of "Malawi")

first pic he is 5 years old

Dropped out of school in 4th grade to work full time


next pic is him at the age of 42, owns a factory and ranch in Africa and owns a sugar cane and Mango plantation in India

moved to the USA, bought shit hole hotels and worked 24/7 on making them a success (literally would buy a new hotel, move there and live at the hotel working 24 hours a day everyday with my mother in law)


we have forced him to sort of retire but he is a Type A micro-managing never stop moving guy.... probably still works 60 hours a week



Hungry Dogs Run Faster











PS: smokes a pack of Marlboro Golds a day, drives a Silverado 2500 and is a YUGE Trump guy. If you see a 5'6 Indian guy wearing a MAGA hat while he smokes a cig filling up with gas... thats my FIL. @Woodrow F Call as my witness

 

[...TrueColors...]

my Father in Law lives in a million dollar home on an island in Columbus Nebraska (Christopher's Cove)

he was born in Nyasaland, British Empire. (when he was 4 years old they got independence and became the country of "Malawi")

first pic he is 5 years old

Dropped out of school in 4th grade to work full time


next pic is him at the age of 36, owns a factory and ranch in Africa and owns a sugar cane and Mango plantation in India

moved to the USA, bought shit hole hotels and worked 24/7 on making them a success (literally would buy a new hotel, move there and live at the hotel working 24 hours a day everyday with my mother in law)


we have forced him to sort of retire but he is a Type A micro-managing never stop moving guy.... probably still works 60 hours a week



Hungry Dogs Run Faster











PS: smokes a pack of Marlboro Golds a day, drives a Silverado 2500 and is a YUGE Trump guy. If you see a 5'6 Indian guy wearing a MAGA hat while he smokes a cig filling up with gas... thats my FIL. @Woodrow F Call as my witness

My job has taken me all over Nebraska and I can say I have seen this man.