People Who Grew up Poor, What Is Something That “Rich Kids” Will Never Understand?

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[coacobird]

You know, thinking of this, I have only been on one family vacation in 17 years. And this is only because mom got a different job that paid more. It was nice, though. Got to see relatives and see the ocean for the first time.

[rochellethundercloud]

Growing up beyond dirt poor, food pantries are a life saver.

[TsukiNaito]

I worked with a very woke girl who came from the richest family of farmers in S. Dakota. Her and her boyfriend owned multiple houses to rent out--but she's poor! She insists she's poor! The location we were working in California (archaeologists) was on fire and she was concerned about losing her $200 tent at the campground being a season ender because she couldn't afford a new one and she'd have to ask her daddy for a new one--you can get a tent for $50 at Walmart. My tent was $50 from Walmart. But she's so poor!

I grew up lower middle class, definitely not poor, and the ignorance of my wealthier peers astounds me.

[rufusgoatman]

"If i want to treat myself with this slightly nicer food i might need to skip lunch tomorrow." And trying to explain to some friends that just because i have money does not mean that i have money to spend on restaurants and movies.

[wahid]

The mom not eating is so real. My mom still does this even though there is more than enough. She still feels the need to let us and/or guests eat first

[therealopaartist]

Classmate in fifth grade invited everyone in the grade to go roller skating, but they had to pay their cover charge.

I couldn't go because I couldn't afford it and the present, so I just stayed home. Not going that one party ostracized me for the rest of my school years. Kids are horrible to each other.

[SandraSine]

I wasn't weary rich I can always relate to some of these stories, but it reminded me how I once was in a charity group for my school, we organized donations of items for families in need, I always imagined those families in need being like mine, parents with kids that are just weary poor, so that means no food, and no new toys, so did many other kids from school, we would get a lot of things like pasta, juice boxes, snacks for kids, canned foods, soap, toothpaste, etc., and when the day came that we would give out those gift bags, I was there for a little bit and I remember one little old lady coming up to us in an old coat whit walking cane and asking if we had washing detergent in any of those bags, we didn't, she picked one bag and left, that was my first reality check. the real people in need where most of the times elderly whit medical problems, I still hate seeing those commercials collecting money for kids or animals in need and meanwhile there will be an old person buying cabbage and bread to feed himself for 3 days living across your street, he wears the same clothes from 30 years ago and doesn't heat up his apartment, and is on a medicine that just makes him more ill than well. those people have no voice and it saddens me.

[sttv]

Feeling guilty about eating, and always considering the price of anything you eat.

[dwybewo]

They'll never understand why I never ate lunch.

[Rebelartist]

Saving your bacon grease when you can afford bacon but saving it for pinto beans and rice and saving it for frying potatoes when you can afford potatoes

[doradennis]

Not getting your own car from your parents when you're in high school. We had to bike or take the school bus.

[lorettalynn]

I'm not poor but middle class. My nature is saving money. I would get angry if my sis turn on the AC in the middle of the day

[nastyachernomorchenko]

Collecting glass bottles to exchange for money to use on stationery for school.

[quino]

In the late 80's early 90s my parents would go out and collect cans and sell them at recycling plants. If they didn't have enough cans my dad would go fishing. I am grateful that my parents sacrificed so much and did so much just to feed us.

[markiusgalfordii]

They would never know when your teacher has to explain to your classmates and their parents that you go camping a lot that's why you don't take a shower that often and you take showers in the school. Have to start working before the state allows you by age so you work with supposed family members and all the money you make your parents take so you never see it anyways. That's when I learned how to hustle at school and get all the rich kids and the kids that had money to give their money to me. I would leave school with anywhere from 20 to 80 bucks a day.

[JustAnzia]

My family has never been poor but lower middle class, but was told many times that we were poor due to not having a house... and living in rented apartments instead of owning a house, today this person who kept saying that is divorced and living in the same apartment complex we used to live in...

[tpk]

bussing tables as a homeless teen and literally lunging to stop a man from throwing away his childs mostly full tray of food so i could eat that day :D

[cemeterywether]

my mom grew up not very well off, with two sisters. her dad was the sole breadwinner, as he didn't allow his wife to work. my mom would tell me about how they'd only get a new outfit once a year (i think?) and she primarily wore her sister's hand-me-downs. along with that, they could only take a bath 1-2 times a week, and they never went to the doctor's / dentist's.

[polishfox]

I had to do favors for my friends just so they could buy me a snack at lunch time.
An example is if I did 3 questions of their homework I would get a crackers or juice.

[Nylak-Otter]

My parents were very well-off, but most of my friends weren't. All of my friends knew how to swim, ride a horse, properly camp, and manage boats under motor or sail and kayaks by the time we graduated high school.

I never thought of myself as particularly blessed, but now that I'm living on my own I realize how freaking lucky I was as a kid. I was also very fortunate that I had to work as soon as I was 12.