Fascinating Earth Finds

[shortkut]

I grew up poor to parents that grew up poor to people that had survived the Great Depression. Hot dogs and sauerkraut was a regular meal we had. Every time I see somebody say that their grocery costs are "kill them" and they show that look at what few things I could afford and every freaking time one of those things is bottled water. People don't know how to drink the water out of their faucet. If I'm going to spend money on a liquid, there better be a flavor to it. People never taught how to shop at a grocery store, blows my mind. That was something that was taught to me at such a young age.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were a common dinner for me. Money was tight for my family growing up: 3 kids, in a 1.5 bedroom apartment in NYC. My parents slept in the living room on a sleeper sofa. My dad is a social worker and my mom is a teacher. Because my mom took care of my grandma, she only worked 4 days per week and her salary was only 80% of the low teacher’s salary

 

[Christina]

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were a common dinner for me. Money was tight for my family growing up: 3 kids, in a 1.5 bedroom apartment in NYC. My parents slept in the living room on a sleeper sofa. My dad is a social worker and my mom is a teacher. Because my mom took care of my grandma, she only worked 4 days per week and her salary was only 80% of the low teacher’s salary

I feel you. For a few years of my childhood our 5 person family lived in an RV. Not an RV with slide outs. Just normal small RV. There were a few months before that we stayed in tents before we got the RV. Honestly though, had a lot of good childhood memories from that time.