You know this if you grew up poor 😂

[jamesnubz]

Bro deadass. It's why my mother always had me and my sister tear up every, single box we had and she would hit us with that classic line "ain't nobody needa know our business or what we got going on here"

[shadowthesi]

As Chris Rock said: “People who live next door to you will break into your house and then come over the next day like ‘I heard ya got robbed’”

[aliuniversal]

My parents used to chop that box up and throw it out in the trash in pieces like it was a body instead of leaving it out at the end of the street

[mainegardenguy]

College students need to learn this, too. I always put my boxes a block away in front of the cops house. Lmao

[geeblanco]

I live in a decent neighborhood but I'd still never leave a high value item's box anywhere near my own house.
Old habits die hard, especially sensible ones.

[JaxLittles]

Yes!!!! I just moved to Utah and I was covering up everything valuable with gross looking towels and garbage bags. My husband was like... "we don't have to do that anymore." I was like... "right and soon you'll be saying I don't need to razor my registration sticker. Piff." I still only move nice things in at night while waiting in my car for a while to make sure the neighbors aren't outside. And for reals though... my neighbors are legit nice people. Just got that guard up still

[johnhogan]

I worked at a Best Buy for 7 years. I had a couple of folks ask for bubble wrap so they could get their tv home without the box for this same reason. One dude said it was cause he knew he had tweakers digging around in his trash. It was pretty sad

[beckiejani]

Didn't grow up poor, but had a hard-ass mother who taught us well. Didn't even want us counting $ in public.

[mrbusdriversir]

My parents told me, “you don't go out there telling people what you have or don't have at home.” As I grew older, I realized how wise my parents were.

[chmchn]

My aunt puts here new appliances boxes in front her neighbors house. She claims they have bigger bins, but I see her diabolical ass plotting.

[leogetz]

Absolutely nailed it!! People be cruisin neighborhoods Christmas night seeing how many big boxes are out by the curb for the garbage man

[nickvillano]

My dad grew up rough, and I always wondered why, when we got something nice, the first thing he would do is cut the box up as small as he could before packing it into a contractor bag.

[demetriusbrown]

Leaving that box out front is like putting a billboard behind your house that say "ROB ME " Lol

[shondawilliams]

Exactly! We bringing the TV in late night early morning and we breaking that box all the way down to the ground and we burning it in the backyard, ain't nobody about to know what we got up in here.

[SinisterArucard]

Used to let my brother use my bike to get to work. He got home one day and I noticed it wasn't in the front porch. Asked where my bike was, he said he left it out front. Told him he better like walking because that bike is stolen. Checked out front. No bike, he was home for 15 minutes.

[HaShomeret]

"and I'm glad for you" serving some bless your heart energy, love it.

[williamdavis]

Anyone else remember bringing that kind of stuff in after dark so it was even less advertised?

[rookiefloridasportsman]

Took me a while to realize but my mom made me tear up the box enough to fit in a bag. Shit was fun as hell ngl.

[ryanmac]

Man, I remember the first Christmas I was married, we lived in a pretty decent neighborhood, and I got a new tv as a gift for my wife to go in our living room. I had to go to work and when I had gotten home 12 hours later, all the boxes, including the tv box were on the curb, and I lost my ish. She had no idea why I was so mad.

[chuckles]

I didn't live in the nicest area growing up, but we could leave television boxes outside. Right next to the "ammo is not cheap, there will be no warning shot" sign.