5 Signs That You Grew Up Poor
Check out these 5 signs to see if someone grew up poor. If you had a tough upbringing, did you do any of these?
5.Hoarding
Here are some comments from a few people.
“Odd hoarding behaviours of things you probably should have gotten rid of out of fear you won’t be able to replace them easily. I keep a stack of boxes broken down because there’s still this fear in the back of my mind that I’ll have to move again at a moment’s notice. I make a decent salary now and have lived where I am for nearly 7 years, but I still can’t part with those boxes despite the space they take up. Under the bed, behind the chest of drawers… Yeah. I still have ‘em.”
“Hoarding is very much a poor persons go-to psychosis. Just like the concept of minimalist living is the pipe dream of the well off. I’d love to feel like I could exist in a minimalist space, the ability to get whatever you need when and as you need it instead of keeping every extra screw just in case you ever need one like it again?”
“I have a wool coat I’ve had for FORTY FIVE YEARS. I just had it re-lined for the fourth time. I’m not getting rid of it till it falls apart at the seams. Which might be the next decade, it’s looking pretty worn lol. I’m substantially well off, I could afford any coat I want. Nope, this is the one.”
4.Cheap Dining Options
“I was invited to go to Disney World with my best friend in high school. I did that for the first part of the week in every restaurant we went to, usually ordering a cheeseburger while my friend and his parents were ordering big *** steaks and all sorts of seafood. My friends dad stopped me when we were walking back to the hotel and asked if I was a picky eater. I told him no. He asked why I kept ordering the same thing every time we went out. I said well, that’s what I usually order when I go out to eat and didn’t want to order anything more expensive because it wasn’t my money. He kinda chuckled, assured me that he wasn’t going to run out of money and permanently banned me from ordering a cheeseburger when i was on a trip with them unless we went to somewhere that specialized in burgers. I spent the rest of that trip eating lobster, crab and steak.”
Another person mentioned the following:
“Scanning the menu for the cheapest options possible when at a restaurant. “It’s ok the soup is really enough for me.”
3.Clothing at a Discount
“I only buy Ralph from an outlet (I’m too poor to buy it full price not that I would regardless). There’s also a store in Canada called Winners and they sell extra stock from other stores for much cheaper. You can get crazy deals on brand named items there! I’m sure they have polos there too.”
“If I’m buying clothes, there’s a 99% chance that I’ve waited for a sale or am only searching the clearance section.”
2.Poor Dental Health
“In the US I’d say poor dental history or teeth – dental work is a luxury. Overall, I’d say many hoarders grew up poor because they are so afraid of not having something if they’ll need it so they keep everything.”
“This one hits close to home. I’m paying out the *** as an adult (in my mid-30s) because dental care is so expensive. As a kid, my dental health was okay, but I didn’t get braces and some other things done when I should have and that has led to problems. As an adult, even with health insurance for a large majority of adulthood, it was too expensive to get anything done. Now I’m stuck in a loop of paying exorbitant amounts to fix emergency problems, having nothing left to deal with fundamental issues, then having to do it all again a few years later. It’s one of the things that affects both my mental health and physical health the most. But there’s very little I can do about it because of how costly it is.”
1.Won’t Waste Food
“Will eat all of the food on their plate, even after feeling full because they can’t waste food.”
Second person said this:
“Yes, thank you. Every single grain of rice or piece of vegetable no matter how small! And my husband will have a couple or several bites worth still left and just scrape his plate off and put it in the sink.
My daughter does this too and I try so hard not to say ‘there’s still a couple bites left there if you scrape around the bowl’ because I don’t want her to have a complex or think I’m weird or pushy. She has never gone hungry and I make damn sure of it. It’s ok for her to leave a few bites if she’s full. But it’s not ok for me even though now I know I can always have food.”
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