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Dusty Slay is a Nashville-based stand-up comedian with a baritone voice so smooth it’s like champagne in your ears. Dusty has been seen on Netflix, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central, Lights Out with David Spade, and on the Grand Ole Opry. Slay can be heard on The Bobby Bones Podcast “BobbyCast” and on Sirius XM.

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[ktm]

I grew up poor, no lunch for school, no food at home, clothes out of the garbage, no lies and I'm probably taking the edge off so I don't get depressed. Respect for the folks with those kind of memories and they try not to let it get them down. ✌️

[tacotacotington]

This one had me dying laughing. Growing up poor stories are always the best when you grew up the same way

[michaeljmccurdy]

We were so poor, our power and water were always getting shut off because we couldn't pay the bills. One time, when I was about nine, the last food we had in the house, to feed our whole family of eleven, was a can of creamed corn. We didn't have power to heat it up so we used a Coleman stove. Then, one of my brothers blurted out that I had been saving money in my plastic, fire-dog bank so, they all went upstairs to get the eighty eight cents in there. I remember seeing one of my older brothers leading the procession; a candle in one hand and a knife, reflecting the candle-light in the other. They cut the bank open, while I was crying my eyes out, took my eighty-eight cents, and bought a loaf of Wonder bread so, we had bread with the creamed corn. I have MANY more such stories.

[jeremypsmith]

So, my mom was very creative. I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, but this particular Halloween was in the mid 80’s if im remembering correctly.. We didn’t have the money to get costumes, (which we never did), but my momma came up with some of the best costumes! I wasn’t sure why she put a long pair of white socks that came up to my ass cheeks, painted my face purplish, and put a black trash bag on my torso and stuffed it with paper bags from the local Shop-Rite.. That was the year that the California Raisins made it to the Box Office, 😂🤣… My costume was way better than any other store purchased costume that year! I’ll never forget what my momma done for my brother and I growing up on a measly teachers assistant/ school bus drivers salary… She could make anything out of anything! Kinda like the McGuyver of female stuff.. She and other women like her is what Pinterest based their format on I’m sure..

[mathewlanier]

I love this guy! I grew up so poor that we got food for Christmas from the church my mom joined 😂 I didn’t realize how poor we were until I made friends that got their groceries the regular way

[thomasc]

We had our water cut off so the the neighbors let us hookup the hose at their place and we rigged it up on a broken basketball hoop to take outdoor showers in the yard lol

[TristenHernandez]

I can’t breathe. Someone called me in an ambulance.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[wedin]

In the 70s, the costumes were vampire, Frankenstein, ghost, werewolf, hobo

[vertical]

I remember wanting to be a clown and my mom used Desitin for the white face paint. If you don't know what that is, it's ass cream for babies. And like the trans-pire I was also wearing her makeup for the rest.

[hmooney]

My mom and her boyfriend at the time both bought me a basketball for Christmas and didn't know until they gave them to me at the same time 😂 I had to choose which was awkward because I liked his basketball better. It actually made my mom happy because she could take hers back to walmart to get her money back lol. Phew! Glad I didn't hurt her feelings 😂❤

[shawnafisher]

That was a fantastic mom, made do (flour, crisco, lipstick…etc). with what they had to try and make her son happy. Poor but loving. Beautiful.

[jasonparker]

We were so poor, in the summer I walked around with a 105 degree goat milk mustache.

[brasshouse-fireball]

It was the first day of second grade. The teacher was going around the room and asking everybody to say their name, and tell the class something about themselves. When it was my turn I said my name and then she asked me what my favorite holiday was. I thought for a minute and said “income tax day” thinking it was a real holiday. Teacher died laughing, I had no idea what was so funny.

[captainorangesburner]

I remember in second grade Mom sewed me up a burlap sack ET costume that year. There were 3 other ETs in my grade and one even had a light up red fingertip but I was the only one itching and scratching all day in that mess. She was so proud of it too and thought it was the best. It wasn't. 😂😂😂

[tonyhamilton]

The costume story reminded me of all of the thrown together costumes. I was a hobo for about 7 years straight... The best story though was my cousin. My aunt used green food coloring to dye his skin so he could be the incredible hulk. Needless to say, he was green for a good week after Halloween... Good times!

[cod-the-creator]

I remember going school shopping one year and came away with 5 Atlanta Braves t-shirts that were on sale. I was ecstatic.

[Im_Breezi]

Where can I get that hat???😂 Fucking amazing!!

[joeb]

We were so poor when i was a kid, i went to a birthday party at the skating rink. All the other kids had on speed skates. I asked my dad for some at the counter. He looked at the price and said, "Hell no. You can get you some brown skates a speed on them"

[bsdnfraje]

When I was in fifth grade my dad smeared My face with Granny's lotion, then melted wax and lipstick to make me Freddy Krueger. We used to pawn my .22 semiautomatic and my 20ga single shot to make rent every month .

[americanrusticworks]

I remember going to my friends house before 4th or 5th grade and looking through their old shoe bin to find a new pair of school shoes 😂😂. Glad I grew up poor, I don’t ever get out worked.