We Were So Poor

[Rondy]

Some mates and myself were talking about how hard it was for those of us born just after the war!
My family was very poor. So poor the woman next door had me. The mice used to bring us pieces of cheese as we had nothing to eat. My father would steal potatoes and turnips from the farmer's fields and my mother would take the bone out of her corsets to make soup!
I never knew my dad to have a job. They used to say one of his insurance stamps was worth more than a penny black!
For my first ten years I couldn't leave the house as I had no clothes. Then my father gave me a cap so I could look out the window!
When I was twelve, I had to go to high school, so my father got my uniform from the Army and Navy stores.
I was the only Japanese admiral in the class!

[Patsy33]

Lol!..

[maggiebee]

Love them Rondy. Our neighbours lived in a cardboard box - they were lucky, we only had a hole in the road.

[Patsy33]

We were so poor when I was growing up, that my mother made us clothes out of the offcuts my dad would bring from home from work at the sandpaper factory.
It was rough.

[ToraToraTora]

you had cheese? Looxury!

[johnny.5]

nudge nudge
wink wink
say no more
saaay no more
a nods as good
as a wink
to a blind donkey

[maggiebee]

We were so poor when I was growing up.....
That my dad bought me an air guitar for Christmas.

My friend was even less well off. He asked if he could have my old one!!!

[Khandro]

A black American comedian I saw, talking about how poor they were, said, "One day my dad answered the door & shouted back down the hallway to the mother ' It's the garbage man ' mother shouted back, 'I'll take three bags'

[Patsy33]

I was so poor growing up, we only had a calendar to use as toilet paper.
Now those days are behind me…